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𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐍 ─── Faye Maxine Potter has spent fifteen years learning how to fade into the background. Being Harry Potter's older sister means everyone notices him first-his fame, his bravery, his chaos-and somehow, Faye has always been invisible. Except to herself. Because there's always been one boy she couldn't ignore. One boy who made her heart stutter from the very first train ride to Hogwarts.
Cedric Diggory.
Golden, kind, unshakably confident, and entirely out of reach. Faye has loved him quietly, hopelessly, for as long as she can remember-and never once thought he would notice her.
But then Cho Chang comes along, and Cedric's brief, dramatic fling ends in disaster. And thanks to a careless remark from Harry, suddenly Cedric Diggory is standing in front of Faye, asking the impossible:
"Because I'm a gentleman, we can pretend to be dating. It's a win-win."
Pretending is supposed to be simple. A hand held in public, a few meals together, a smile shared in the hallways. Nothing more. Nothing real.
Except Cedric isn't just pretending.
He warms her hands on cold mornings.
He waits for her outside classes.
He defends her from whispers she never thought mattered.
And the way he says her name-Max-like it's the most important word he's ever spoken... it makes her question whether this arrangement is a lie at all.
Faye always thought she'd spend her Hogwarts years watching Cedric from afar, quietly loving him and quietly hoping. But now, with the Triwizard Tournament looming and danger at every turn, she realizes that pretending might be more dangerous than anything else. Because love doesn't care about plans, rules, or agreements. Love has a way of revealing itself in the smallest touches, the quietest glances, the moments you least expect.
And Cedric Diggory? He's no longer just the boy she's loved. He's the boy who chooses her, every day, in ways she never imagined.