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♡ cedric . 

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he wants to tell her here and now. he wants to help her understand , to see that there is in fact a method to his madness , and nothing about this is a mockery of their current situation. because he knows now , and she’s his best friend , and he tells her everything , so he should certainly tell her this , RIGHT ?!?! that he can’t be with cho because cho isn’t betty and betty isn’t cho —or in cho’s position— and that isn’t okay. not for him. not anymore.

“ oh , i don’t think cho will mind. or it won’t matter if she minds seeing as i’m about to — ” but he cuts himself off at the registry of her words. although they don’t register so much as they TEAR THROUGH HIM. like icicles being thrust into his chest and abdomen , a chill chasing the thud of his heart until everything is too slow to be functional. “ oh ? oh , you - uh , you do?  oh , i - you didn’t mention it. “ 

not that she owes him anything. he’d been distant long enough to have earned this. still , he’s pale as a ghost and just as empty now. looking down at his hands , he struggles to mask it. ” uh , who - who is it then? someone i know ? “

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           What was he about to say? CURIOSITY briefly overlaps the part of her brain that’s madly scrolling through everyone in their year for someone without a date. It’s not easy; the yule ball is in a bloody week. “ Oh- ” Betty forgets to ask him what he was going to say, and instead attempts a loose shrug that looks more like interpretive dance. “ I didn’t think it was IMPORTANT. I mean, it’s just a date. It’s not like a date date, or anything. ” 

What is the point, she has to wonder, of pretending, when she turns around and says things like THAT?! 

“ Uh… let’s keep it a… surprise. Yep! A surprise!  ” Yes, a surprise, like a cake flavor you hate but have to pretend to like. Or a heart-attack. Some surprise it’d be when she showed up with no one on her arm. Plus, what about whatever poor sap she’d manage to wrangle into this convoluted plan? He’d have no idea he’s being used. What if he really liked her? Should Betty disclose that she’s IN LOVE with her best friend, or save that for when the butterbeer starts to flow? “ I still have to get my dress and robes anyways. It’s really no big deal. ” 

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