𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭 ; 𝐂𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐲

Chapter 5- Strawberry and Vanilla

Cedric's pov

When she fell into my arms her hair hit my face. The smell of strawberry and vanilla filled my head. Now I'm sitting in history of magic and all I can think of is her pretty hair and the way her eyes glisten when she smiles. God, I have known this girl for a day I need to get a hold of myself.

"Mr. Diggory, are you feeling well?"

"Oh yes Mr.Binns please go on." Mr.Binns nods and continues his lecture.

My eyes start wandering the classroom and they land on Katie Bell. Chaser for the Gryffindor team and former fling. I don't remember much about what and who I did in third year, esspessially at party's but I remember Katie. Don't get me wrong shes pretty but nothing special. Definitely not someone that I can talk to about much.

My mind trails off for the rest of class and all of a sudden I'm walking to the great hall. Zacharias Smith, chaser of the Hufflepuff team pats my back.

"Aye ya hear about the start of the year party? Everyone's talkin about it." I send him a confused look.

"Why? there's one every year, nothing to talk about." A smirk plants on Zach's face.

"It's your girl. She's throwing the party."

"Slytherin let a new student throw a party? She must've given a good impression on Malfoy." I say.

"He sure swooped in at the chance to talk to her, eh."

"I don't think it's like that. They're just friends." Zach raises his eyebrows. Zach was the one who spread that lie about y/n. He loves a good story and can create one out of nothing.

"You know whatever you think happened with y/n isn't true. All we did was talk. She asked me to teach her quidditch and that was it. If you wanna know what we talked about on the train you can ask Fred and George but it wasn't anything. So I would appreciate if you denied the rumors from now on." I usually never try to be assertive but I needed to respect y/n's wishes.

"Ok sure." Zach shrugs,

"You really like this girl don't you?" Zach asks.

"I don't even know her yet."

"Yet?" I ignore him and we walk into the great hall. Lunch is an important time for me. I have quidditch practice Monday through Thursday every week and Sunday every other week. The guys on my team call it fuel time. Lunch can be stressful. So many people want my opinion or want to talk to me, which I know sounds stupid to complain about but I just wish I could sit on the Hufflepuff common room couch and eat in peace.

After I get a plate, I look around for y/n. I notice that she's not at the Slytherin table and I look to see if she's with Fred and George and there I see her, laughing, shoving George in the side.

"Whatcha looking at pretty boy?" Elsie Moore whispers behind me. She sits down across from me and turns around.

"Give it up Ced."

"What-why?" I break my focus on y/n and Elsie laughs.

"I know that you think you're hot shit but look at her. Every guy at that table is looking her way." I lean back.

"That's just because she's talking to them." She shrugs and starts getting food. Was she right? I guess this is how it is. A shiny new toy for people to talk about.

"HELLO earth to Ced!" Zach takes me out of my head.

"What Zach?"

"Are you really going to help y/n play quidditch?"

"I don't know, it doesn't sound like a big deal." Zach  groans.

"People already think Hufflepuff's are weak enough we can't go help a Slytherin. No matter how hot she is." Suddenly the only thing I could hear from the sentence was that Zach thought y/n was hot.

"You think she's hot?" I had never been this jealous before.

"Not really my type but she's pretty. You know who is my type?" The jealousy fades.

"Who?"

"Elsie." Now that he's said that I notice Elsie is gone.

"Really?" Elsie never seemed like Zach's type. He would fantasize about the blonde americans that you see in magazines. But Elsie had black short hair and her style was often compared to a vampire.

"Do you think you could talk to her for me?" Zach's eyes glimmered.

"Sure. But you have to talk to her at that party your self after." He nodded excited.

After lunch I went to herbology and potions. Quidditch season hasn't started yet so I went to my dorm after school. Just as I'm about to change I see an envelope with cursive writing that says my name on the back.

Meet me in the astronomy tower at 7:30
-y/n

I smile at her handwriting. I walk down to the common room to make some tea and I see Elsie sitting on a chair reading.

"Did you see the note? She asked me to put it in your room."

"Yeah I saw it." She puts down her book.

"What are you going to wear?" She starts fiddling with her necklace.

"I don't know. What I usually wear." I shrug.

"No no no. Your sweatpants and Hufflepuff shirts might work for other girls but I have a feeling this girl has actual standerds."

"Okay, then what should I wear?" She runs up to my room and I follow her. She goes up to my dresser and starts throwing my clothes everywhere.

"Hey!" I yell in protest.

"Now this is good." She places a pair of light wash baggy jeans that have rips in the knees from playing quidditch at my dad's house and a smiths band tee. My dad bought it for me when we went to the muggle world last year on vacation.

"I'm going to look homeless!" I protest and she crosses her arms.

"This is what muggles wear." She flops on my bed.

"Fine! I'll wear it." I go into the bathroom and put it on. I don't hate it but it's definitely not what I usually wear.

"You look hot." I roll my eyes at Elsie. I style my hair in the mirror and flop on the bed right next to Elsie. Then I remember what I promised Zach.

"What do you think of Zach?" She looks up at me.

"Why?"

"He fancy's you. But don't tell him that I said that." She props herself on her elbows.

"I don't know, I've never thought about him like that but his whole nerdy thing really complements me, right?"

"Sure, so you should know he's going to try to talk to you at that party on Friday."

"I wasn't sure I was going to go but now getting a chance to witness Zach try to flirt I got to." She giggles.

"Please don't make fun of him, ok. This is the first girl he's ever told me about."

"Okay I guess I won't be a total jerk." I turn on my back.

"I can't believe satanic Snape gave us homework on the first day." I complain.

"Lemme see." She makes a grabbing motion and I get my notes and give them to her.

"We have to recite what ingredients were in ten different potions we did the last quarter from 3rd year."

"This is why I save all of my notes. I'll go get them."

"You're a life saver!" I call when she leaves.

We work until 7:20, give or take an hour of us messing around. When I notice the time I  put on my sneakers and a jacket. I go up to the astronomy tower. I'm three minutes early and I don't see her so I sit at the balcony.

"Hey Ced."