Written for - The Pairing Boot Camp Challenge of the HPFC
Prompts - (word) cheat
Summary - Something bad happens.
Word Count - 368
Notes - Sorry it's been so long. I haven't had access to a proper computer in a Hot Minute, so I couldn't really post. I'm gonna drop a couple chapters of this one after the other, so anyone who follows this be prepared for that. Thanks for putting up with my shitty schedule :). Sorry this is the first thing I'm giving you after literal months :)
"Then cheat on us, Harry," Cho said, her normally perfect hair frizzing at the seams, her eyes hard and piercing, unlike the regular tears that came with her anger. Cedric stood behind her with eyes downcast and hands crossed over his torso. "If you're so pissed off, if you want more," she shouted, pointing to the door roughly. "Fucking go! Cheat! Leave! Go pay some hooker! I don't care!" She took a heavy step forwards, her nose only an inch or so from Harry's. "Just leave us the fuck alone."
"Cho," Harry said, pleading, begging. "Cho, I didn't mean to."
"Yeah, alright," Cho said. "Fuck off. I'm not friends with liars, Potter."
"I'm not lying," Harry said, blinking quickly to avoid tears that were threatening to spill. "I'm not-"
"Yeah, but you are, though," Cedric said lightly, his voice tight and rough, either from a lack of use or a distinct non-lacking of tears. "You should have told us, you should have told her, you should've done something." He gave a sad little chuckle. "But you didn't. And now you expect us to forgive you, as if it's something forgivable."
"I'm sorry," Harry said, his voice breaking. "I thought-I don't know what I thought. I guess I thought that this was too good to be true, that it was too good to be happening to me."
"So you went and fucked it up," Cho said sharply, her voice lacking in sympathy. He nodded, mutely. "Well, if you think you're own self-worth problems also weren't things that we could've talked about rather than being a cheater, then you've got another thing coming," she said. She ran her hand through her hair, flicking it back over her shoulders and out of her face. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
Harry nodded again, walking towards the door with his head bowed. "I really am sorry," Harry said, not looking either of them in the eye. "For everything."
"You should be," Cho said, and Harry walked out of the door.
Before the door slammed shut behind him, he could distinctly hear Cedric saying, "It's alright, love, it's ok," and the telltale sniffs that came with Cho bursting into tears.