"I remember you, I remember you.
Every other touch runs as cold as ice."
-Emilie Autumn, "Remember"
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She tries to care for Harry the way she had for Cedric. Maybe she could learn to love him. Maybe, if she really were to try, they could have a future together.
Cho wipes her tears away and forces a smile even though she's still breaking inside. She lets him kiss her, but it feels wrong.
Cedric hadn't kissed her like that. Cedric had been calmer, nervous but still so poised.
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When they break up, it's almost a relief. Maybe she'd been waiting all along for a reason to explode, to push him away.
It isn't right with Harry. It could never be right.
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Cho tells herself that Michael will be the right one, even though she knows it isn't true. They are both using each other, both recently out of relationships with the wrong people.
They are unstable, volatile. But she doesn't care.
She lets him hold her and whisper promises in her ear that he will never keep.
Cedric had intended to keep his promises. She's sure of it.
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When Michael decides that he can't handle her baggage, Cho wonders if maybe that's exactly why she had given it to him in the first place.
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She lays beside her sleeping husband, insomniatic eyes fixed upon their bedroom ceiling.
Some nights, Cho wonders if she really does love him or if she's only with him because he doesn't remind her of Cedric.