A/N Sorry about making you wait again… I had decided to take a break from writing for a while but then I really missed it. Check out my new story "London Calling" for more excuses (and I'm totally in love with that fic. Even I can't wait to see what happens :)).

IMPORTANT! MUST READ THIS BEFORE CONTINUING WITH THIS CHAPTER! As you know, this fic is a giant flashback, this chapter, however, is in real time to show how Seven is doing now. Enjoy!

P.S. I'm giving you a hint of a new pairing. See if you can guess!

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Seven smiled at the picture of her parents and their friends before turning the page in her photo album. The next page showed pictures of herself and Cedric at the Yule Ball, dancing to the music and sometimes waving to the camera. Under that picture was one of them kissing underneath randomly placed mistletoe, which Seven still thought Ginny and Hermione had something to do with.

"GIRL!" Seven sighed when she heard her Uncle calling for her. It was only her second day back from Hogwarts and already she was in trouble for something.

She placed the album under the lose floorboard under her bed. She was just putting the board back into place when someone knocked on her door. The only person who knocked before coming into her room was her cousin, Dudley. Seven smiled, springing up from the floor and ran to the door to open it.

Standing there was her best friend of two years. She flung her arms around Dudley, now able to reach all the way around him and grab her own wrists.

"I missed you!" Seven exclaimed into Dudley's shirt, before looking up at his not-so-boyish face, him having a good foot of height on her.

"I missed you too, Sev." He said back, giving her a tight squeeze. "Sorry I wasn't here yesterday, I was staying at a friends house and I completely forgot you were coming back this weekend." He told as he let go of her and steered her back into the bedroom.

"That's okay." Seven assured him with a smile. "Oh! I want to show you something!" She then got her photo album back out and sat on the bed with it in her lap.

"Well?" She said when Dudley just looked at her. "Sit!" She patted the spot on the bed next to her and he sat. "Good boy."

Seven opened the album to the page she had been on and pointed to the one of her and Cedric dancing.

"That's me and Cedric at the Yule Ball on Christmas." She told Dudley, who smiled softly before turning his attention to the picture under the couple dancing and raised an eyebrow at her. "Oh, yeah…" Seven's cheeks heated up before turning the page and pointing to the next photo.

"These are my friends." She said, indicating the person as she named them. "That's Hermione, Ginny, Seamus, Dean, Neville, Blaise, Susan, Terry, Parvati, and Padma."

"Ginny's pretty good looking." Dudley muttered as he leaned in to get a closer look.

"Don't even think about it." Seven warned. "She has six older brothers who are very overprotective, not to mention her father, though, he's not that bad… to me at least."

"Six?" Dudley exclaimed when Photo-Ginny blew a kiss at him. Seven just nodded before moving on to the next picture.

"This is my Quidditch team." She said, pointing to the persons as she had the other photo. "This is Oliver, he graduated already, my third year was his last. He was the Keeper. And that's Katie, Alicia, and Angelina; they're the Chasers. That's Fred and George, the Beaters. They're two of Ginny's brothers, so they have bats… And, well, that's me." She finished, turning the page again.

"This is Cedric." She said while looking at the full page photo of the boy who was smiling at her with his hands stuffed in the pockets of his jeans.

"You sure know how to pick them." Dudley said right before the bedroom door banged open.

"GIRL!" Vernon Dursley shouted, his face turning purple. Be it from anger or coming up the stairs… the world may never know.

"Yes, Uncle?" Seven asked sweetly, carefully closing the picture book and handing it to her cousin.

"I've been calling you for the past hour!" He fumed. "What in the blazes have you been doing?"

The large man grabbed her by the back of her shirt and pulled her out of the room and down the stairs, into the kitchen.

"Clean!" Was all Vernon said to her before turning away to watch the television in the den. Seven rolled her eyes before turning her attention to the sink full of dishes and was suddenly thankful the Dursley's had a dishwasher. As she started putting the clean dishes away, Seven let her mind drift back to the night of the Yule Ball…

Seven and Cedric had agreed to meet at the bottom of the Grand Staircase at eight o' clock that evening for the ball.

Now, however, Seven, along with her roommates, was getting ready for the big night. She just finished putting half of her pin straight hair up in a messy bun with her long, uneven, fringe falling into her eyes.

"Hey, Hermone?" Seven called the girl from across the room. "Could you zip me up?"

"Sure I can." Hermione walked over and was about to close the zipper when she saw the tag. "You're a size two?(1)"

"Yeah. Zip me up, will you?" Seven said uncaringly.

After Hermione did, Seven turned around. "How do I look?"

Her dress was teal and was fitted around her torso and had a poof skirt that reached the floor. The sequins that were scattered across the upper portion of the dress glinted in the torch light of the room as Seven spun around for Hermione to judge her appearance.

"Wow…"

"Good 'wow' or bad 'wow'?" Seven asked nervously while tugging at her silver bangles on her left wrist.

"Definitely good. "Hermione told her with a smile. "You look amazing, Seven."

Seven smiled back. "You don't think it's too low cut?" She asked as she looked into the mirror of the vanity and smoothed down the dress.

"No, it's perfect." Hermione said, reaching around her friend to grab the perfume. "Cedric is going to love it."

Lavender walked out of the bathroom then, looking very pretty in her pink satin dress with her long blonde hair cascading down her back in bouncy curls.

"So girls," She said happily. "Are either of you planning anything with your dates for after the ball?"

Seven blushed and applied more lip gloss to avoid answering while Hermione sputtered a hearty "no!".

Lavender laughed. "Wow Hermione!" She exclaimed, goggling at her roommate's dress. Hermione was wearing a pale purple, Greek draped dress with a plunging neckline that looked great on her. "Where did you find that?"

"Oh," Hermine said, looking down at her dress. "A Muggle shop in London. It has fantastic dresses."

Just then, Parvati came into the room. "Are you guys ready yet? The Ball starts in fifteen minutes."

Cedric was at the bottom of the staircase looking even more handsome in his dark blue dress robes. He turned around when his friend, who he was standing with, nodded his head in Seven's direction. Cedric's jaw dropped a little when he saw Seven walk down the stairs.

She smiled to herself, happy that she could make Cedric look at her like that.

"You look gorgeous." He told her when she reached him. Seven smiled brightly up at him. Before she could reply, however, Professor McGonagall called for all the Champions to gather in front of the Great Hall doors as the rest of the students went on in.

Cedric held his arm out to Seven so that she could rest her hand in the crook of his elbow as they walked over to stand next to Hermione and Viktor Krum. Hermione turned to them and gave her a wink before the doors opened and the Champions and their partners walked through a cleared path between the students.

Seven waved at Ginny when she saw her standing with Neville in the middle of the crowd. Ginny grinned and tried to wave back, only to smack a fifth year Ravenclaw girl in the breast. 'Only Ginny…' Seven giggled to herself as she and Cedric reached the Judges/Champions table at the head of the room.

"What's so funny?" Cedric questioned when they sat in their designated seats a couple down from Dumbledore.

"Nothing." Seven told him whilst looking through the dinner menu. "Tonight's going to be a fun night."

Cedric smiled at her and grabbed her hand on top of the table. "Yeah, it is." He gave her hand a squeeze and gave her a kiss on the cheek before he, too, went over his menu.

"How do we get our food?" Seven whispered when it became clear there were no waiters anywhere in the hall. As if to answer her question, Dumbledore said very clearly to his plate "lamb chops" and a moment later, they appeared on his golden plate, steaming and delicious looking. "Show off…" She muttered so that only Cedric heard her. He snickered and had to hide his smirk behind his menu.

After reading through every item on the menu before her, and finding nothing she cared for, Seven decided to see what exactly she could order.

"Peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwich and vanilla soy milk." Cedric looked at her strangely before Seven's food appeared before her then his expression turned to an approving one before he set his menu down next to his plate and ordered a grilled cheese sandwich with a Coke.

During their meal, they listened to Dumbledore talk about a room that sounded strangely like the Room of Requirement and talked amongst themselves about whatever came to mind.

Finally, Dumbledore stood from his seat. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen!" He said cheerfully. "I hope your meal was to your liking. It is now time for the dancing to begin! Do enjoy the rest of your evening!" The students stood from their seats and the chairs and tables disappeared as a stage appeared at the end of the hall and the Weird Sisters stepped on to it and started a slow waltz for the Champions to open the dance to.

"Ready?" Cedric asked Seven quietly.

"Yeah." She replied as she took his outstretched hand. He led her to the dance floor and twirled her to face him when they reached a good spot and began their dance.

It was now an hour into the dancing and Seven and Cedric decided to take a break for a while.

"I'll go get us something to drink." Cedric offered before kissing Seven's cheek and leaving for the drink table across the room from the stage.

"Hey, Seven!" Ginny called as she ran up to her friend.

"Hi, Gin!" Seven smiled at her. "Are you having fun?"

"Oh yeah!" Ginny answered, a little out of breath. "This is the best dance ever! Who would've thought Neville was such a great dancer?"

Seven laughed with the younger girl.

"Hey, Seven…" She turned around to see Cho standing behind her, looking a little sheepish.

"Hi…" Ginny looked between the two girls before saying: "Well, this is awkward… bye!" and leaving to find Neville.

"I just wanted to say… I'm sorry. I never meant for things with Jason to go so far…"

"I'm sure…"

They stood there awkwardly for a moment before Cedric came up behind his date.

"Here's your drink, Sev." He said as he handed her the golden champagne glass full of some alcoholic beverage.

"Thanks, hun."

"I'll see you around, Seven…" Cho told her and left to go back to the dance floor.

"What was that about?" Cedric asked as Seven took a sip of the drink.

"She just wanted to apologize. C'mon," She said, grabbing hold of his hand. "Let's go somewhere."

He chuckled. "And where are we gonna go?" He questioned as he laced his fingers between Seven's and followed her out of the Great Hall.

She turned her head to smile at him and said: "It's a surprise."

Seven smiled as she put the dishes to washing.

A/N A surprise? What ever could it be? tehe

So im totally just posting what I wrote like 2 years ago haha its short but I like it ^_^ and it gives you guys something while I write more.

Love,

Jessica

1- Apparently a size 2 in England is a zero in America.

P.S. Incase you're interested in what the girls dresses look like. Take out the spaces.

Seven-http: /www. cbslimited. com/alyce- designs-prom-dress-6014. htm

Hermione- http: /www. cbslimited. com/me-prom-dress- SR1193. htm

Lavender- http: /www .cbslimited. com/joli-prom-dress-8107 .htm