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If it's short…. Get over it. TeeHee. The song below is the song that goe swith this chapter/. I'm a member of a dance competition group… all of the songs we do will be chapter titles with an exert from the song.

"Come on everybody and snap your fingers now

Come on everybody clap your hands real loud

Come on everybody take a real deep breath

And repeat after me

I love my baby

I love my baby

Hey, hey, hey and my baby loves me

Come on everybody and whistle this tune right now

Come on everybody and stomp your feet real loud

Come on everybody take a real deep breath

And repeat after me"- Elvis Presley

She Made The Blind Boy See

Chapter 4

Repeat After Me

Cedric's Point of View

"Don't cry Cedric," I heard Hermione hick-upped as she tried to regain herself. It wasn't manly to cry. I shouldn't be crying! Why was I crying over Cho? I'm glad she didn't love me. I was glad! "You're crying Cedric because you don't know how to possibly go on with your life. You don't know what to do or mentally which way to go."

"Neither do you," I thought quietly to her. "You don't know what your life will become. At the age of fourteen, your life is already dedicated to someone else."

"I don't know if I'm ready for this." Her voice wavered slightly. It was the voice of someone who was accepting the reality of the future. I could feel her smile in the air. I just knew. I don't think I had ever seen her smile. I wish I could now. I bet it's beautiful. "But I know what we're going to do now. You're going to speak again…. Before the summer, before next year, you'll be talking."

"Hermione, I just almost died, came back to life and a beautiful girl I hardly know can hear my voice inside her head and I'm condemning her to a life no one should have. I'm not ready, besides it's impossible."

"I never recall a time when you ever thought anything was impossible. Cedric… I know your self-esteem is bruised, anyone's would be. But you're stronger than most. You can learn to speak again. I promise you. I'll teach you. Come on. You can hear, and you know what everything is supposed to sound like so I see no issue."

"Say da….it's a baby's first word because it's the easiest sound to make. Try." I took a deep breath. I opened my mouth for the first time sense my close encounter with death. I opened my mouth to say it, and nothing came cut, just a deep choke. I gasped for air as my dead vocal cords admitted nothing.

"It's alright Cedric, breathe. Try again. Da. Just repeat after me. Da." Her voice got quiet and slow to pronouns the short word slowly and clearly. I opened my mouth again, a small almost a squeak escaped my dry mouth. I could feel my face flush deep red.

"No, no Cedric! It was wonderful! You can do it, repeat after me, Da."

"Ah….eh…ah, eh," was all that came out of my mouth. I had somehow gained the strength to sit up against the backboard of the bed. My hand gripped my sore throat and I cringed my eyes from the effort of trying to speak again. She took my hand away from my throat.

"That was wonderful! You're doing great. I know it hurts, just try it one more time for me." No. No more. It hurt to much. Everything hurt to much.

"Hermione, I can't. it's impossible. I'm less than a man now Mione…"

"No you're not, please. You can to it."

"No I can't! Merlin, Hermione! Why do you try to remind me of what I can't do! What I'm unable to do! What I'll never be able to do again…."

"But you will! Cedric, you can't just give up like this."

"I almost died yesterday!"

"I nearly died watching you're lifeless eyes! You were spared death! The least you can do is give a chance at life!"

"I can't HERMIONE!" I heard me shout her name. It rang through the room with a booming masculine echo.

"Say it again."

"Her…Her…"

"Go on." Her voice was shacking with anticipation and wonder and astonishment. I touched my hand to my burning throat. I don't know how much more of this I could take. When I felt her reassuring fingertips on my bare arm, the pain disappeared. I needed to do this. Not for me… for her.

"Hermione…."