Heirs to Something Greater

9; Tripping and Dripping

   "George please, I need your help!" I had been thinking hard the whole night about a way to get back at Fred and my best plan required him to help me. It took forever for me to find an opportunity to talk to him when Fred wasn't around too. They were practically inseparable.

    "But why that idea? Why don't you just sneak something in his food?" Fred had been dragged off by Angelina for something and this was my only chance to get this plan out to George while he sat on the couch in the common room before breakfast started.

    "Because that's practically what he did to me. It needs to be genuine. And I also need to find a way to film it." I had almost forgotten that I even had my phone here and that I could use it to take photos and for music, it just had to be in secret.

    "Film it? How do you suppose we do that?" I hadn't told him, or anyone for that matter about my phone. He probably didn't even know what one was.

    "Uhm, I have a way. You can see later, but does that mean you're in?" I sat next to him on the red sofa urging him for an answer.

    "Okay, fine I'm in. But I've never gone behind my brothers back to prank him so he better not be upset with me, or I'm telling him you made me do it." He held one eyebrow up and gave me a questioning look.

    "Okay, deal." I shook his hand for good measure to be sure he kept the plan. "We'll do it tonight. Be sure to get me when he's getting ready for bed and then I'll come in when he's not in the room."

    I stood up off the couch and headed up to my room to put on my robe before I headed down to breakfast. Day two of classes, hopefully everything would go well.

    I saw the yellow and black robe hanging next to my own in front of the burned out fireplace. I had forgotten to give Cedric his robe back last night and would just give it to him at breakfast. I slid my own robe on over my shoulders and clasped it in the front. It was all dried out from the rain and I ran my hands over the Hufflepuff robe to be sure it was dry too, which it was.

    "Whose Hufflepuff robe is that?" I turned around to see Ginny brushing her hair out in front of the mirror.

    "Oh it's Cedrics." Her reflection in the mirror showed surprise as her eyebrows flew up and her eyes grew in size. I spoke fast so she didn't think something else,"It's not like that! We were out in the rain yesterday and they got soaked so I brought them in here before dinner to dry and then I forgot to give it back last night." She pulled her hair up into a ponytail and laughed.

    "What?" What about that was funny?

    "There's a lot of talk about you two. So do you?" She finished with her hair and turned around to look at me. Hermione walked into the room and was adjusting her bed sheets.

    "Do I what?" I had no clue what she was talking about.

    "Do you like him silly?" I looked between her and Hermione who was listening in on the conversation.

    "You mean Cedric?"

    "No I mean Draco Malfoy, yes Cedric!" Ew why would she bring up Draco. Hermione started giggling and Ginny had a smile on her face, waiting for me to answer.

    I was sure my cheeks had flushed red from the topic. "I've barely known him! How can I already like someone I've only known for three days?"

    "The chemistry between you two is obvious. Everyone sees it Adeline." I looked at Hermione questioningly.

    "What do you mean everyone sees it?" The embarrassment was rushing over me. Did everyone at school think I had a crush on Cedric Diggory?

    "It's obvious for one. The way he looks at you when you talk, how he walked you out of the hall during your laughing potion mishap yesterday, and the fact that you two were in the rain and doing whatever else yesterday for his robe to be in our dorm." Ginny had taken a seat on the edge of her bed while she spoke about all of our interactions. Did he really look at me a certain way when I talked?