Author's Note: Hey all, thank you sooo much for all of your replies, they mean so much to us! This chapter is pretty long so yeah, lol, again nothing alllll that important in this chapter, but we hope you like this one, oh and…The next chapter should make everyone happy, lol
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Hailey walked down the hall, her pace increasing as she saw Cedric rounding the corner.
"Hailey!" he exclaimed and she stopped. She looked at him suspiciously.
"You said you wanted to talk to me?" she asked. He nodded and motioned toward the library.
"Yeah...let's go in here so we won't be overheard," he said and they both walked in.
They took a seat towards the back of the library, "So what did you want to talk about?" Hailey asked quietly so that Madame Pince wouldn't get angry.
"I'm not giving up," he whispered. "I know she's keeping something from me and I need to know what it is."
"Cedric, it's really none of your business and by pushing her to tell you, you're only driving her away!" Hailey replied quietly.
He sighed and ran a hand through his hair in frustration. "I don't know what to do...I gave her space, I didn't even talk to her for over a month...what am I doing wrong?" he asked.
"You're still thinking about her...you just need to completely forget about her Cedric...let her come to you, let her talk to you first...she'll come around...I hope. How about this, if she hasn't said anything to you by next Hogsmeade, which is February 5th I think...thats 4 days after the 2nd task, then ask her to go to Hogsmeade with you, and I'll make sure she says yes," Hailey told him.
"You promise?" he asked.
She nodded. "She still has it really bad for you...she came crying to me after you asked her to the Ball," she said quietly. "Don't worry about it. I'll take care of everything."
With that Hailey got up and smiled at Cedric before walking out of the library before anyone could see her.
One month later
"You are so going to the Ball!" Hailey exclaimed but Faye stubbornly shook her head.
"He's gonna be there with her," she complained.
"Well now if you had just said YES to him we wouldn't be having this argument would we? Anyways I bought you a dress and I reaaallly reeeeeally want you to wear it and go with me because Lissa is so going to steal all the attention away from the guys if I have to tag along with her," Hailey said in one breath.
Faye sighed. "Fine," she said. "BUT if he comes near me I'm totally gone!"
Hailey smiled and pulled Faye off of the bed. "You got it...but I doubt he'll even glance at you...he hasn't talked to you for a whole month."
"I know..." Faye said miserably, pouting as Hailey went over to her wardrobe, taking something out before returning to Faye.
"Put this on, and then I'm going to glamify you," she told her, brushing a piece of lint off her blood red velvet gown.
"Oh, my god...Faye McGuire you are gorgeous!" Hailey exclaimed an hour later, staring at Faye in awe.
"No I'm not," Faye told her sternly, smoothing out a piece of the silvery blue material. She frowned as she looked at her reflection in the mirror.
"Yeah, yeah you are," Hailey insisted, shoving things around in her trunk before appearing a second later, grinning from ear to ear.
"Last touch," she said, pulling out a small diamond tiara from behind her and putting it in the crook of her curly up do. Faye smiled slightly and adjusted it before sighing. She supposed she did look good.
Hailey had outdone herself with the silvery blue silk dress, whose sleeves hugged her shoulders tightly, the neckline allowing just a smidge of cleavage, almost too much in Faye's opinion. It hugged her body down until her hips, where is flowed out.
"Are you ready?" Hailey asked and Faye nodded, following her friend out of the dorm. When she walked downstairs, every male eye was on her and she blushed slightly.
"I can't believe I let you do this to me!" Faye urgently whispered. Hailey smiled and held up a mirror to herself, fixing her lip gloss. She then reached out and fixed the light blue glitter on Faye's eyes and applied another coat of lip gloss to her.
"Well you should be glad. You look hot and every girl is going to be jealous of you," Hailey told her.
"Believe me, by the end of the night, all thoughts of Cedric Diggory will have completely vanished," she finished as they left the common room.
Faye sighed and followed Hailey slowly to the entrance hall, not wanting to trip over the gown and make her look like more of a fool than she already was.
Again, every male eye was on her and she smiled a little and stared at her feet. Hailey scanned the crowd and found Cedric gazing at Faye and smirked. "Mission accomplished," she mumbled.
"What?" Faye asked and Hailey smiled again.
"Oh, nothing," she said.
Faye sighed and walked down the steps, pulling her skirts up a little so she wouldn't fall. "Oh my god Lee, I feel like a fool in this thing," Faye muttered as they stood in the hall.
"You don't look like a fool, believe me," Hailey mumbled. "You need to learn to relax! Have a little fun!"
Faye frowned and followed Hailey into the Great Hall as Professor McGonagall told them all to, standing next to her, in the front of the crowd.
All the champions entered with their dates. First Fleur and Roger Davies, then Viktor and Hermione Granger then Harry and Parvati Patil then Cedric with Cho Chang. She still couldn't believe he even asked Cho Chang...she so wasn't his type.
She clapped nonetheless as they passed by her, Cedric looking down at Cho intensely. Maybe he loved her though...she didn't know. Hailey caught her glancing at them and placed a hand on her friend's shoulder. "It's alright," she said softly.
The champions started dancing and Faye couldn't help but feel jealous as Cedric twirled Cho around...it could have been her.
She pushed that out of her mind as a boy from Durmstrang came up to her, asking for her hand. She glanced at Hailey, who nodded eagerly and looked back at him, smiling softly as she took his outstretched hand.
She laughed as he lifted her off the ground and spun her around. She couldn't remember when she had been so happy.
"My name is Faye by the way," she told him as they continued to waltz along with the rest of the school.
"You have a lovely name, my name is Christophe," he told her, smiling.
She blushed. "Thank you," she mumbled. They finished the song and a faster one started.
Christophe led her over to everyone was going as the Weird Sisters started singing their latest song. She laughed as they danced, probably both looking like fools, but for once, she really didn't care.
When the song finished they went over to one of the small tables and ate dinner. "You are from Hogwarts?" Christophe asked. Faye smiled and nodded.
"Yeah...not great but beats muggle schools," she said, taking a sip of her drink.
Christophe smiled and continued, "I had to ask, because your beauty rivals that of the Beauxbatons ladies," he told her, causing Faye to blush.
"Thank you," she said, smiling at him. "So, what's Durmstrang like?" she asked, glancing around the room and seeing Cedric staring at her. She immediately averted her eyes and turned her attention back to Christophe.
"It's good, I mean how can you describe a school?" he said, laughing. She joined him and they continued their dinner, Faye laughing now and again as he would tell her jokes, until finally they were finished and got back up to dance.
Soon, a slow dance started to play and she saw Cedric walking toward her and Christophe. She turned to Christophe and mumbled, "Can we...get out of here?"
"Why?" he asked her.
She was going to tell him why but then closed her mouth as she saw Hailey darting over in their direction at the last moment, grabbing Cedric and dragging him away, "Never mind." she said, smiling.
"What was that?" Hailey asked furiously once she and Cedric were out of the Great Hall.
"I'm sorry, but I didn't know she'd be dancing, and laughing, and slow dancing with one of the better looking Durmstrang guys," Cedric told her angrily.
"Cedric! Cedric, Cedric, Cedric!" she exclaimed, shaking her head. "What happened to 'let her come to you'? Or 'waiting until February'? I did mention those things, didn't I?"
"I know, but really, this is killing me," Cedric whined.
"Well try feeling how she feels, seeing you with Cho," Hailey told him, crossing her arms.
"Cho doesn't mean anything to me!" he exclaimed. "I needed a date and she was available!"
"Sure didn't look that way Cedric," Hailey growled, "If you could've seen how you were looking at her, then you'd know what I meant."
"Look, you wanna make this work? You want Faye to be with you? Leave her alone...and let her have tonight, you know she deserves it," she continued, going back into the Great Hall.
She smiled as she saw her friend slow dancing with the Durmstrang boy, looking purely happy for the first time in, well she didn't know how long.
At about three in the morning, Faye and Christophe were walking in the newly decorated grounds, his arm around her shoulders and hers around his waist. She was laughing at a joke he had told and they both sat down at a nearby bench.
"You are so beautiful," he told her softly. Faye smiled and gazed at him, her eyes growing wide though, as he started to lean in to kiss her.
"Wait," she mumbled. He looked up at her.
"What's wrong, Faye?" he asked, confused.
"I...I'm sorry but I can't do this," she told him softly, smiling apologetically, "I had a wonderful time tonight...the best time I've had in a long time, but I'm afraid I have to go now."
He gazed at her for a moment before nodding sadly. "Can I at least walk you back to your dorm?" he asked, standing up and offering her his arm.
"Yes, I would like that," she said, accepting his arm and walking slowly back to the Hufflepuff common room with him, "Goodnight," she said, hugging him tightly, "Thank you for the wonderful time."
"It was my pleasure," he said, kissing her cheek. She smiled and walked into the common room.
Her smile brightened as she saw Hailey sitting on a chair, "It's about time you got back!" she exclaimed, "So, did anything happen?"
"I don't think I've ever been so happy in all my life!" Faye exclaimed twirling around and letting her dress flow around her before landing in a chair.
"Again...did anything happen?" Hailey asked, standing up and walking over to her.
"No...Almost but I stopped him," she said, sighing and fingering the tiara, "I'm going to go to bed now...I'm pooped."
She jumped up and practically ran upstairs, humming happily as she went.