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Here goes...

A light summer rain pitter-pattered on the roof of the almost empty muggle bus. Cho Chang sat, dressed completely in black, holding two fresh daisies in her lap. She was taking the bus to the town where Cedric Diggory had lived, so that she may visit his grave. She hadn't wanted to bother her parents to take her there again, and anyway she didn't want them to comfort her when she cried. She needed to just let it out.

The radio was playing, and for some unknown reason, an American song came on suddenly: "There is always that one person who will always have your heart. You never see it coming 'cause you're blinded from the start..." Cho gasped and looked up, not seeing anything, but for Cedric's smiling face in her mind's eye.

The bus stopped and Cho wanted to hear the rest of the song, but she needed to get going before the bus took her to who-knows-where, and anyway this wasn't really Cho's type of music, she was merely interested in the lyrics.

The rain, coupled with the fact that it was early morning, created a freaky sort of mist in the graveyard. Cho walked through it, barely disturbing a wisp of the shining substance, on the familiar path towards the plot were her former boyfriend was buried.

At sixteen, a year after his death, she still couldn't bear to read the inscription on his headstone, "A life to live, not yours to give, you were ours and ours and ours." Cho didn't understand this, but apparently it was from a poem Cedric had written when he was eight and his mother's owl had died.

Cho sat in the mud and placed her daisies in the soil over Cedric's grave. She could remember when the daisy became "their flower"...

Fourteen and just starting to really like each other, Cho and Cedric snuck out of their dorm rooms, out of their houses, and met in the Entrance Hall at Hogwarts. It was early in the school year, mid October, and the leaves of the Forbidden Forest were just beginning to turn: crimson, violet, silver, azure... A magical forest is really something to behold in the fall. As the young couple walked around the lake, full moon shining above them surrounded by thousands of stars, Cedric took his hand from behind his back and produced a single, somewhat squashed, daisy. "For you," he said, handing it to Cho.

"But a daisy is so... so plain..." Cho had said, extremely disappointed and nearly ready to cry at the fact that Cedric only liked her as much as a common, non-magical weed.

"Exactly. That's what makes it so special. It took me hours to find one, they're not normally found in such a magical area. Professor Sprout says there're only two on all the grounds, both in Greenhouse Four. I told her it was for someone really special. See, outside of Hogwarts it may be common, but in here, daises are really rare, and because they aren't magic, that makes them even more special." Cho threw her arms around him and they held the embrace for an eternity of bliss...

Back in the present, Cho smiled tearfully. She loved the side of Cedric she had known... not "pretty boy Diggory" as many knew him, but kind, sweet, sensitive... her soulmate.

Reaching out a trembling hand, she placed a hand on the cold, smooth headstone. It was almost reassuring. It may have represented the harsh truth that Cedric would never again hold her in his strong arms, but somehow it was calming just the same. She may not have him, but she had her memories. And the sweetest memory of all was the nice boy Cho had met in her third year...

Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs, and a few Gryffindors, all in their third year, were outside in a circle one sunny Saturday. They were in a clearing at the very edge of the forbidden forest, and there were several smaller clearings just nearby. Cho was standing across the circle from Cedric. They were both looking at each other, pretending not to, and pretending they didn't notice the other staring. Cho had a few spots, and was very self-councious, being one of the "smallest" girls there, if you catch my drift. She was larger only than Marietta, who at the time was in one of the side clearings making out with a rather ugly Ravenclaw boy.

The game was Seven Minutes in Heaven. Cedric Diggory had a reputation for being very good at the game, and God (a Gryffindor this time) had just picked his name from her hat. "And..." she announced mischeviously, knowing every girl (and perhaps a few of the guys) wanted their name to be picked next, "Cho Chang! Go, girl!" Everyone was smiling and patting her on the back, but Cho didn't even want to be there. Marietta had dragged her there, then left her atleast a half hour ago.

She walked numbly to the clearing that had been vacated moments before. Cedric arrived just after her, but it seemed to take a long time. "Well," he said, seeming eager to be there with Cho, "Let's do this."

He began to walk towards her. This was a nightmare. Cho was terrified. She had never kissed a boy, and couldn't believe Marietta had gotten her into this. 'Anything happen, please save me! Something, anything...' Cho thought deseperately.