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♡ ced . 

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IT’S THE CALM HE SHOULD FEEL GUILTY ABOUT. it’s the calm that has cho up in arms every single time they are alone together these days , but what is he to do ? yes , he likes cho well enough. in fact , he likes cho very much. they talk about classes , quidditch , and kissing —each one more than the last— and they share common stories despite vastly different upbringings , and yet … she’s just not betty.

and it clicks then. he knows what is wrong , and he nearly swallows his tongue as it hits him. the color drains from his face so fast that he has not a moment to blink , and then he’s looking at her as though she’s just manifested from thin air. because that’s it. cho isn’t betty , and betty is … everything. more than cedric thinks she’d ever want to be.

and still the words are out of his mouth before he can clip them.

“ how about we solve that problem right now , and i ask you to go to the ball with me ? ” is it liberating ? is it panic - inducing ? he isn’t sure. he’s still NUMB from the first revelation , and this one slips off the tongue so easily that he doesn’t even feel them BANG AGAINST HIS TEETH on the way out. marvelous.

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              Why he’s looking at her like that? Like she’s just grown a second head. Does she have chocolate on her teeth? Self-consciously, she presses her tongue flat against her teeth and wipes them clean, but still –– there’s something to the way Cedric full on STARES at her that makes Betty feel, suddenly and completely NAKED before him. Like he can see through skin and down to every secret she possess, to the one she’d just DIE if he ever knew about. 

Without rhyme or reason, she finds herself remembering the day Cho and him got together; how she’d felt like everything was going to change, with a certainty she couldn’t explain, and a fear she didn’t want to. nd they did, no matter how hard Cedric works to make sure it doesn’t. She smiles, but its lacklustre and without its usual radiance. “ Nice try. Cho likes me, but I don’t think she’d continue to if we went together. ” And then, because she has no control over her own mouth and because she can’t stand the sad pit opening at the bottom of her stomach, she adds, “ Besides, I um –– I already have one. A date. ” Who said Hufflepuffs were supposed to be HONEST, again? 

She doesn’t feel any better. If anything, now there’s pure panic filling that same cavern as it continues to yawn open. Great. Now she has to find a so-called date. 

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