"Bridgette, could I have a word with you please?" Professor Sprout asked 2 weeks later when school started back up again.
"Sure," Bridgette replied, waving goodbye to Alexis before following Sprout back into the greenhouse.
"Bridgette...you are usually a...model student. I can't help but notice that in the past few months your grades have been slipping drastically," Professor Sprout told her, "I think you need to start being tutored again Bridgette, every night of the week from 8 to 10."
Bridgette groaned and rolled her eyes. "Fine," she mumbled.
"Good. Then you will meet Mr. Diggory tonight in the library at eight," Professor Sprout said.
"What? Cedric's tutoring me?" Bridgette exclaimed, her face paling a bit.
"Yes, I talked to him about it over the break and he's perfectly fine with it," Professor Sprout told her. "He's willing to help you in any way he can."
"Oh...uhm, ok. Bye Professor," Bridgette said quietly, walking out of the greenhouse. He was perfectly fine with it? He was willing to help her in any way that he could?
"What was that about?" Alexis asked.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," Bridgette said, still in shock, "Professor Sprout wants me to be tutored again...by Cedric, who is supposedly perfectly fine with it."
"Oh my God," Alexis said. "You're right, I don't believe you! He's perfectly fine with it?"
"Supposedly he wants to help me in any way that he can!" Bridgette exclaimed.
"Wow...I wonder why," Alexis mused as they went into the Great Hall for lunch.
"I have no clue," Bridgette said, sighing and sitting down, putting a little bit of food on her plate. She was slowly but surely getting back on schedule with her eating, taking it slow right now, "I guess I'll have to find out later."
Bridgette entered the library at five of 8, going to sit at their old table. Cedric wasn't there yet and she took this opportunity to grab a book from the bookcases, sticking her nose in it.
"Oh, good, you're here," Cedric said, walking over to the table about ten minutes later. "For someone who reads so much, you're falling so far behind."
"Leave me alone," she grumbled, her nose still in the book to hide her face, which was on the verge of tears.
"Look, Professor Sprout came to me and asked if I wanted to tutor you...I couldn't just say no, I mean you're failing almost every class...not to mention you haven't been sleeping or eating right," Cedric said, taking the book away from her and forcing her to look at him.
"You don't know anything about me," she said, reaching into her purse and taking out her sunglasses, something she was glad she always kept in handy.
"Apparently I don't," he mumbled. They were silent for a few moments before Cedric continued, "Why? Why did you do it?"
"What's that have to do with potions?" Bridgette said a moment later, trying to keep her tears at bay.
"Just answer me, please," he whispered, seeing Madame Pince glaring over at them.
"Why do I owe you an answer? You wouldn't hear me out back in October when I was willing to talk to you," Bridgette replied.
"I told you, I needed time to think," he answered. "It...It hurt, Bee, it hurt so much."
"But you didn't come back! I waited for you to come back to me and talk to me, but you never did!" Bridgette softly exclaimed, tears flowing freely down her face now, falling past the rims of her sunglasses and down her chin.
He reached out to brush them away but she slid her chair back. "I'm sorry," he whispered feebly.
"Sorry can't change the fact that you moved on Cedric, that you went to someone else," Bridgette said, "You told me once that you couldn't walk away from the woman you loved, you couldn't walk away from me, was that all a lie? Because that's exactly what you did that day, I was on my hands and knees, practically begging you for a second chance."
"At that moment, I didn't know what to think," he said, bowing his head to hide his own tears. "I...I thought you didn't love me anymore, I thought that I wasn't...wasn't good enough for you..."
"I still loved you! I still love you! That's why I'm failing, that's why I haven't been sleeping, haven't been eating!" she sobbed.
"Bee..." Cedric said softly, suddenly getting up and walking over to where she sat, kneeling down in front of her and pulling her face down to his.
He kissed her lips softly, feeling her tears hit his cheeks. She suddenly pulled back, staring at him from behind her sunglasses. "Bee..." he whispered. She hesitated slightly before standing up and running out of the library.
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"So are you going to go tonight?" Alexis asked the next day at 7:00, an hour before she was supposed to be in the library with Cedric for tutoring.
"No," Bridgette replied immediately. "I don't want to see him again...not now anyway."
"Ok," Alexis said, smiling a little bit before getting up, "I have to finish my homework; I'll be up in our dorms, ok?" Bridgette nodded before pulling out a book and reading it, not putting it down until about 8:00, when she decided to go to the owlery to message her parents.
Bridgette rounded a corner, groaning when she saw Professor Sprout heading towards her. "Miss Peterson, shouldn't you be in the library with Cedric?" she asked.
"Yeah…just heading there, oh my, it seems I'm going the wrong way, silly me," Bridgette said, laughing even though she was cringing on the inside.
"Well, you'd better hurry, you're nearly ten minutes late," Professor Sprout said as Bridgette turned around.
She groaned silently and walked in the opposite direction towards the library, hesitating before entering, "I'm surprised you came," Cedric said bitterly from where he sat, "but either way, you're late."
"Stop being so cheerful, Cedric," she said coldly, sitting down.
"You might as well get back up, we're going to the dungeons today to work on your potions," Cedric said, setting down his book and standing up.
"Fine," she mumbled, standing up and following him out of the library.
Most of the way there Bridgette stayed silent, simply fumbling around with her favorite charm bracelet, glancing over at Cedric once or twice.
"Are you sleeping with her?" she asked suddenly, causing Cedric to stop and turn to her.
"What?" he asked, still shocked.
"You heard me," she said. "Are you sleeping with her?"
"Oh, uhm, yeah," Cedric said quietly, "not like it's any of your business though."
"Oh," she choked out, her throat tightening as tears sprung to her eyes.
She took this opportunity to bring out her sunglasses, folding her arms after she had them on. She found it sort of difficult to see once they entered the dungeons but she didn't care.
"Take those things off," Cedric said, going over to the supply closet and taking out a few things. "You won't be able to see two inches in front of your face."
"I don't care," Bridgette said, setting down her bag and sitting down in front of a cauldron.
"You won't be able to brew the potion," he said, setting down the ingredients on the table.
"Like I care?" Bridgette said, pushing the sunglasses onto her face even more.
"You wanna keep failing?" Cedric asked, getting slightly frustrated.
"Does it matter if I fail or not? I could so ditch this place now since I'm 17 you know, they couldn't stop me either," Bridgette said agitatedly.
"Bee, you gotta stop doing this to yourself," Cedric said, staring straight into her eyes, through the sunglasses.
"What are you, my mother?" she asked angrily.
"No," he said slowly.
"And anyways, I'm not doing anything to myself," Bridgette spat.
"What are you talking about? You aren't eating, you aren't sleeping and you're failing every subject!" he exclaimed.
"We went over this last night, Cedric, now can't we just get this over with?" she asked, glaring at him.
"Fine, here are the ingredients you're going to need," Cedric growled before pointing his wand at the board, "And there's the recipe."
"Whatever," Bridgette mumbled, starting to work on the potion. Suddenly, Cedric took her face in his hands and kissed her passionately.
She gasped at his sudden action, even more startled when he lifted her up, knocking everything off of the table and laying her down on it, crawling up on the table so that he was on top of her.
He worked furiously on the buttons of her blouse, eventually just ripping it off of her.
Bridgette was still too shocked to think everything over clearly, in the end letting her instincts take over, and her instincts were telling her to stay right there.
She hastily lifted his shirt over his head before moving down to his jeans. She had been dreaming about this for about three months and she didn't want to waste any time.
She didn't care that he was with Cho. Cho could die for all she cared, "Oh, Bee," he whispered, seeing how thin she was.
"Don't...don't say anything," she replied, kissing him fiercely.
Cedric took this opportunity to reach behind her and unhook her bra with a flick of his wrists, sitting up and pulling her up with him.
She moaned as he massaged her breasts, biting lightly on his lower lip. "Cedric...Cedric, make love to me," she moaned.
Cedric groaned, kissing her once more as his hands reached to the back of her head, pulling her ponytail out so that her hair fell down.
Bridgette slid his boxers down his legs and threw them to the floor as he positioned himself above her.
All of a sudden they heard footsteps coming towards the dungeon and Cedric leapt off of Bridgette, using a spell to get his and her clothes back in and all of the stuff back on the table.
"Ceddddric!" Cho's shrill voice exclaimed. Bridgette shoved her sunglasses back onto her face and sat down.
She immediately felt tears filling her eyes as she started her work hastily. She couldn't believe she was so stupid, letting her guard slip like that.
Cho entered the dungeon and ran up to Cedric, throwing her arms around him and kissing him passionately. Bridgette bit her lip to keep from crying.
Not being able to see well, but not wanting to take her glasses off, she grabbed a bottle of what she thought to be the right ingredient, putting it in the potion, and resulting in it exploding two seconds later.
Cedric looked over and sighed before looking back to Cho. "I'll see you in a bit all right?" he said.
Cho nodded and kissed him before she left. "I love you!" she exclaimed. He smiled and nodded as she walked away.
"I'm leaving, you can go to Cho now and pretend like nothing happened, don't even worry about it," Bridgette said, picking up her bag.
"Bridgette, wait," Cedric said, grabbing her arm but she yanked it away.
"And...I'll ask Professor Sprout if I can have someone else tutor me...I wouldn't want to stand between you and Ch-Cho," she whispered before running away.