"Well my name's Tara. Tara Witts."

"Well, hello Tara Witts. My name's Cedric Diggory."

With that, he walked up the stairs to the boys' dormitories. She went to hers and put Midnight away. She sat in the bay window nearest her bed and looked out over the grounds. She saw the lake. It's surface looked dark and murky, not glassy and perfectlike it had outside. It didn't reflect the moutains anymore. After about ten minutes, she got out a piece of parchment, and quill, and some ink and began to write a letter to her sister Amy. She thought this would pass the time until dinner.

About an hour later Susan Bones, a girl who also was in her dormitory, left and went to go have dinner. Tara finished writing her letter and began heading towards the owlery. After about fifteen minutes of aimlessly wandering around and having no success in asking older Hufflepuffs were it was, she turned a corner to walk down another hallway, and she was relieved to run into a familiar face.

"Tara?" asked a voice.

"Cedric! Oh thank god! I'm so lost. Do you know the way to the owlery?"

He laughed a bit and said, "Yeah. I was just heading there myself. Sending a letter to my dad. I told him about being sorted into Hufflepuff, my first day of classes. The stuff parents always seem to nag about. How 'bout you?"

"Just sending my sister a letter."

"It looks more like your sending her a book. How much did you write her?" he asked looking at the fat envelope in Tara's hand.

"Well, just about my time here. What's happened so far," she said as they climbed the stairs and entered the owlery.

"Am I in that letter?" he asked.

"Maybe. Maybe not," she said mockingly.

"Well that's no fun," he said making the best pouting face he could. Tara began to laugh hysterically. As she was laughing, he tried to grab the letter out of her hand, but her grip on it held and she ended up falling over, her face mere inches above owl droppings.

"CEDRIC DIGGORY!" she screamed throwing a nearby pebble at him.

As she was getting up he said, "Oh, I'm sorry Tara!"

"Well I'm still mad. I almost had a face full of owl droppings thanks to your curiosity," she said looking angry.

"Well, you have to admit, it was a bit funny," he said, a sly grin appearing on his face.

"No it wasn't," she said abruptly. "Well okay…maybe it was just a little bit funny," she said as she was beginning to smile. They both began to laugh again. They both picked the cleanest, and best smelling school owls to deliver their letters. Then Cedric showed Tara how to find the Great Hall.

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The next day Tara got up rather early, got dressed in her house robes, got her books ready for her first few classes, and went down to breakfast.

When she pushed open the doors to the Great Hall, she saw how many people had come in before her and had started eating already. She had planned on reading before her first classes. She abandoned this idea when she heard the amount of noise already filling the hall. As she walked over to the Hufflepuff table she saw a boy sitting by himself near the middle of the table, so she went to go sit beside him.

"Hey Cedric!" she said, startling him.

"Oy! Tara!"

She giggled and said, "sorry Cedric. So how's the breakfast?"

"Good I guess. How good can breakfast be? It's the morning, and anything in the morning is just mean. Evil in fact." Tara smiled at his poor attitude towards morning. It reminded her of her sister.

"Well I guess your right then Cedric."

She ate some toast and grapes, while Cedric read the newspaper. She looked around the Great Hall and her eyes met with a boy. She figured that the boy was about her age. She saw that he was wearing glasses. Behind the glasses she was that he had brilliant green eyes. His hair was a brown mess on his head, yet it wasn't bad looking. She was very surprised when he waved at her. Doing the polite thing, she waved back and resumed eating her grapes.

After Cedric and Tara were done with breakfast, they walked down towards the dungeons for their first class: Double Potions.

"I don't like the dungeons. They bug me," Tara said.

"Really? I don't fancy them much them either."

They walked the rest of the way in silence. When they opened the door, the saw that they were having class with the Gryffindors. As she sat down, she saw the boy from the Great Hall again. He was sitting at a table with a boy who had bright orange hair, and was looking rather confused. She was about to wave to him, when Professor Snape smacked his hand down on her table.

"Good morning, class.Today we will be researching the 5 main things every potion possesses. You will need a partner. I want a full piece of parchment, from each of you, by the end of class," Professor Snape told the class.

"Tara, will you be my partner?"

"Of course!" she said. They got to work looking up information in their books the rest of the class.

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The rest of the week Tara and Cedric were inseparable. They were in all the same classes and were beginning to become great friends. Tara was always polite towards Cedric, and in turn. Cedric made Tara laugh with his funny mentality.

AN: Cedric, Tara, and the boy are all the same age: First Years. I hope it's okay. please R&R so i know what to do better in the next chapter!
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Rockin The Tweed