The Bully's Sister

As the hours of the day increased Jane’s nerves grew and grew as did her excitement. As it was a Saturday she spent her whole day with Cedric and his friends around lake. They then had their second feast in two days , but Jane was so nervous she could hardly eat and she wasn’t even in with a shot of getting it she was just so scared of Cedric’s fate and she did not like being parted from him. She was sitting at the Gryffindor table with Ginny , when all the plates had been cleared away all the students looked eagerly at Dumbledore who then told them that if they were selected champion they would go into the chamber behind the staff table and receive their first instructions. Jane cast her eyes to Cedric, who was looking nervous “Good luck” she mouthed to him he nodded appreciatively. The goblet made it’s first decision and Dumbledore pulled out a piece of paper and said aloud “ The Durmstrang champion is Viktor Krum.” Jane clapped along with everyone else as the boy her brother had tried to set her up with went into the room. Another flicker of flames and Dumbledore caught another piece of paper and called “ The champion for Beauxbatons is Fleur Delacour” , Jane’s supposed look a like got up gracefully and followed Krum. ‘Just the Hogwarts champion left‘, Jane thought. She really wanted Cedric to get it but a small part of her wished he would not. She turned her head so she could Cedric’s reaction as Dumbledore pulled out the final piece of paper “ The Hogwarts champion is Cedric Diggory.” Jane jumped up and down she was so happy for Cedric and apparently so were the Hufflepuffs who were now cheering wildly. Cedric stood up and made his way between the two tables, when he came to Jane he stopped quickly. He kissed her cheek as she whispered “Well done I’m so proud of you.” He made his way up to the room where all the champions went. A smile plastered Jane’s face that she just couldn’t get rid of, not that she cared ,she was going out with a triwizard champion. Other people’s smiles soon vanished when Harry’s name was called out of the Goblet. Jane didn’t care nothing could spoil this mood she was in. She turned to Ginny as they walked out of the great hall “ Can you believe it , Cedric’s the champion” she said excitedly, but she didn’t hear Ginny’s response as her eyes had just connected with someone’s she had not spoken to in months. She just stared , it was as if no one else existed ; just her and Blaise. She made her way over to him “Hey Blaise we haven’t spoken in ages I’ve missed you” she said to him
“That’s because you’ve been busy” he almost spat , he didn’t like being angry with her but he just hated seeing her with him it brought out this jealous monster from deep inside him and it engulfed his mind, plaguing his thoughts . “I’m sorry Blaise I really I am” she said hurt
“About what?” he asked irritably
“About ignoring you , I feel really awful about it, we used to be such good friends and then whenever I get a boyfriend I just ignore you”
“Yeah you do” he said
“Blaise please forgive me , I hate that you’re angry with me” she pleaded, seeing the genuine emotion in her eyes he said “I’m not angry with you Jane, I’m just annoyed and hurt we’ve been friends for years and yet the minute a boy comes around you don’t pay any attention to me , its not fair Jane, if you really want to be my friend you can’t just spend time with me when your boyfriends busy , I’m not a second option and when I wanted to tell you something really important you just told me to shove off”
“Well then tell me now” she said desperately
“No it doesn’t matter now”
“Blaise it obviously does otherwise you wouldn’t still be mentioning it, please just tell me” she said holding his wrist , looking deeply into his eyes pleadingly. Blaise stared back , no one was around and she wanted to know , so why didn’t he just tell her? He decided he would this was it and it would change her mind about Cedric and they could be together and it would perfect. Mustering up his courage he said “Jane for a long time-”
“Janey I did it” a voice came from the other end of the corridor. Cedric ran up to her and picked her up spinning her around and placing kisses on her face. When he eventually put her down, Jane looked around for Blaise but he had vanished into thin air. “Who were you talking to?” he asked
“Oh no one” she lied. She smiled up at him to reassure him, as he walked her up to Gryffindor tower they talked of his success and when she laid in bed that night thoughts of Blaise flew into her head instead of her boyfriend.

Throughout the week Jane kept seeing Blaise everywhere and it was pure torture not being able to talk to him as she couldn’t think to imagine what Cedric would think of their friendship. Cedric was the talk of the school along with Harry who most had thought had stolen Cedric’s glory, Jane knew that her friend hated the attention and had not entered the tournament what did annoy her was every girl flirting with Cedric and asking for autographs. Jane did not like to be jealous and she trusted Cedric she just hated the thought of someone else being with him , but she did have nothing to worry about as Cedric constantly told her she was ‘ the most beautiful girl in the world’. The Saturday before the first task , the students from third year and above got to go to Hogsmeade , Jane and Ginny were both very excited as they had never been before and it would give them a chance to spend together as Jane had been constantly attached to Cedric. They made their way down to the village giggling about the recent weeks and once in the Three Broomsticks with a butterbeer in hand Jane decided to tell Ginny about Blaise “You know the day that I had my first date with Cedric?”
“Yeah”
“Well Blaise was visiting and he came up to my room and was going to tell me something but me being an idiot just told him to go away”
“Have you found out what he was going to say?”
“No on Halloween we spoke and I could tell he was angry at me for blanking him since I’ve been with Cedric and I finally convinced him to tell me and as he was about to tell me when Cedric came along and ruined it”
“What have I ruined?” a deep voice said from behind. “Oh nothing , nothing” she said smiling at him trying to cover up her embarrassment and hugged him close . He kissed her neck and whispered “I missed you”
“I missed you too.”
“So how do you like Hogsmeade so far?” he asked as took a seat next to Jane slipping his hand into hers. They spent the rest of the afternoon with Cedric and his friends and Luke to Jane’s surprise. On Monday evening Cedric came to sit with her at the Gryffindor table and said in a hushed whisper “The first task is Dragons.” Jane choked on her soup “You’re joking , please tell me you’re joking,” he shook his head “So I was wondering whether you’d come with me to the library and find a way to get battle it”
“Yeah sure I’d love to help, come on let’s go now”
“But you haven’t finished your dinner”
“Cedric this is way more important” she said not giving him a chance to argue and dragged him to the library. They spent the whole evening thinking of ways to get rid of a dragon “Maybe you could transfigure it into a snake and then I could use parseltongue on it”
“I think that’s called cheating Janey , hey hang on a minute that’s a good idea” he said grabbing a transfiguration book. “Uh Cedric I was joking”
“I know you were but maybe I could transfigure it into a dog , that way it can’t harm me”
“Cedric that’s a brilliant idea”
“I couldn’t have done it without you” he said and kissed her on the lips. The next morning Jane was so nervous she could hardly eat, at midday lessons stopped so all the students could get down to the stadium. Before she went she found Cedric looking faintly sick “I just wanted to wish you luck for today not that you need you’re going to be brilliant”
“I don’t know Janey , I’m starting to regret it”
“Hey you’re going do amazingly , just concentrate, breathe and try not to die because I kind of love you and don’t want you to go anywhere”
“I’ll try not to.” She put her arms around his neck and squeezed him tightly , she said into his ear “I love you so much and I’m already proud of you.” He nodded and said “We should probably get going.” She agreed and they made their separate ways to the first task. Jane found her seat next to Ginny and Hermione. Cedric was the first to come on and looked for Jane in the crowd and once he found her he felt immediately calmer. Jane couldn’t even watch she was scared that the dragon was going to gobble him up. She peeked through her hands to see him transfiguring the dragon to a dog to a huge round of applause , it felt like a huge weight had been taken off her shoulders and she could breathe again. Once he had collected his egg , he received his scores which were pretty good, but Jane didn’t care about his score he was safe and that’s what mattered. Once all the champions had completed the task Jane rushed through the crowd to find her Cedric. He was just coming out of the medical tent when she found him, they exchanged a loving gaze before Jane ran to him and kissed him hard on the lips , he picked her up and she locked her legs around his waist , they kissed fiercely both frantic and hungry for the other. Cedric’s hands moved their way up to her breasts caressing them gently , Jane gripped onto his hair and he trailed kisses from her earlobe down to her breasts. They both reluctantly pulled away , grinning at each other “You were so amazing today”
“Thank you , do you want to come with me to my common room for the party?”
“I’d love to.” So they made their way up to the castle and once they entered the Hufflepuff common room were met with an eruption of cheers. After several minutes of congratulations they were free to go and join in with the party. Music was playing loudly and Cedric and Jane danced closely , the talked, kissed and laughed it was the perfect evening. The weather soon turned cold and icy and all fourth years and up would be attending the Yule Ball, Jane was so excited that she would get to go with Cedric she just had to wait until he asked her. She didn’t have to wait long for her invitation , for one morning in early December Cedric came up to her and asked “Can we talk?”
“Yeah sure.” He lead the way into a broom cupboard . This was it he was going to ask to the Yule Ball , they would be the most gorgeous couple at the ball , she could spend the whole evening dancing with Cedric. “Jane I don’t want to be with you anymore” he said, “You’re too young for me, we don’t have anything in common and I don’t know whether I can trust you, you’re a Malfoy who’s in Gryffindor and you speak parseltongue its just odd.” Jane stood there shocked , she could hardly breathe , her whole world had come crashing down before her, he didn’t want to be with her , he didn’t love her. She felt sick she ran to moaning Myrtle’s bathroom and threw up. She fell to her knees sobbing uncontrollably , she loved him so much and he had just dropped her as if she was a doll. She heard footsteps and though blinded by her tears could see that her brother and Blaise were moving over to her quickly. They both hugged her tightly , she sobbed into Blaise’s chest he held her closely. “Jane what’s happened?” her brother asked worriedly
“He” Sob “He” Sob “Dumped me” she couldn’t say any more , she was so embarrassed thinking that he actually meant it when he said he loved her. Neither of the boys knew what to say , so they just comforted her. It was starting to get darker and the trio were still sat on the floor of the bathroom “Jane maybe we should take you back to your dormitory” Draco suggested, she nodded and the two boys helped her up. She supported herself between the two boys, emotionally it felt like she had been stabbed and could not go on. Physically her insides hurt , she had let another boy hurt her and her stomach was turning over and over. They reached the portrait of the fat lady who looked shocked on their arrival “Good gracious what ever has happened?” No one answered her , Draco turned to her and said in a brotherly way “Now once you go in there just go to straight to bed understand?” She nodded and he hugged her closely and said “He didn’t deserve you anyway” This caused her to cry again as she felt that she was the one who did not deserve him. “Hey don’t cry, this will all turn out fine one day I promise” Blaise said to her , “I won’t let anyone else hurt you like that again I promise” he kissed her forehead as he had often done in their childhood. She hugged them both again before going to bed. The next morning her head was pounding , she had been up all night crying and now had an awful headache. Ginny had stayed up with her all night comforting her best she could. She didn’t see the point of getting up , she had nothing to live for . Ginny had managed to get her out of bed but could not get her to eat breakfast. She didn’t need food to fill her up she needed Cedric’s love. For the next couple of days she clung to Ginny, Draco and Blaise never being apart from any of them apart from when she went to go throw up. It had been a regular occurrence that no one else knew about , sometimes she was crying a lot and it just happened but mostly she went to the bathroom stuck a finger down her throat and vomited her stomach contents out , she was disgusted with herself physically and mentally. She was in the library with Blaise a couple of days before the Yule Ball when she realised she hadn’t asked if her had a date to the Yule ball “Blaise who are you taking to the Yule ball?”
“I’m not taking anyone because I’m not going”
“Why aren’t you going?”
“There isn’t anyone I want to go with” he lied. He wanted to go with Jane so badly it almost hurt.
“Well what about Daphne?”
“She’s going with some Durmstrang guy , but I wouldn’t want to go with her anyway what about you I expect you‘re got invites flooding in?”
“I’ve had a few” She had had more than a few, every time she walked down the corridor a boy would come up to her and attempt to ask her to the ball , some if she wasn’t heartbroken she would of accepted in a heart beat, but she did not want to go with anyone , well maybe she did if only he would ask. “Well why don’t you go with one of them?”
“I don’t know any of them and I only want to go with one person.” Blaise was secretly hoping that this unnamed person was himself but he knew that it was Cedric . “Well why don’t you go with someone just to make Cedric jealous” he said , his slytherin side coming out. This caused a glint in her eyes and she seemed to be a little happier for the first time in days “You mean like show him what he’s missing?”
“Yeah exactly.” Jane suddenly had a stroke of genius “Blaise will you come with me?” His heart started pounding fast , had she, the girl he had loved since he was a child asked him to the Yule Ball? She was looking eagerly for his answer , she had immediately regretted asking him now , he would surely say no ,why would he want to go with her ? She was a Gryffindor for starters , it would ruin his reputation ,but to her surprise he said “Yes , but I’m going to ask you properly.” She was in total shock she would be going to the Yule ball with Blaise Zabini the boy she had buried her feelings for because she feared he did not love her in return. “What do you mean ask me properly?”
“I’m going to ask you properly , so for now let’s pretend that we haven’t had this conversation, good night Jane” he said leaving a confused Jane to her potions homework. All the way back to the dormitory she held her books close to her chest , thinking about her conversation with Blaise her heart doing little skips. The next morning she did her usual routine, skip breakfast , go to class , go to the toilets to be sick, repeat, but as she was making her way to the bathroom in the afternoon , she was stopped by Blaise. He took her hand and held a single red rose out to her and asked “Jane Adeline Malfoy would you do me the pleasure of accompanying me to the Yule Ball?” Jane’s mouth moved into a large smile and giggles erupted from her pink lips , she laughed for the first time in what felt like years “You’re not supposed to laugh”
“Oh no sorry I wasn’t laughing at you I’m just so happy,” at these words Blaise smiled widely . He had made her happier and he knew that the smile on his face would never vanish “So is that a yes?”
“Yes , yes , yes I would love to go to the ball with you” She said and took the rose he offered her and they walked down the corridor together , their hands brushing each others , creating sparks between the two secretive teenagers.