OUTTAKE

The date

Bella POV

It was a strangely sunny and warm day for Forks. I woke up slowly stretching like a cat a few timed trying to bask in the feeling of the warm sun on my face and body. After having popped all my muscles thoroughly I got up and headed to the shower. Twenty minutes later I was dressed in a short brown skirt, a rose colored top with 3/4 sleeves and a pair of cowboy boots. I headed downstairs to find dad with Sirius both reading their respective papers (Forks daily for dad and Daily prophet for Sirius) over burnt pancakes.

'Great! They tried to cook again'

I thought and rolled my eyes making a bee line for the cupboards, opting for a bowl of cereal for breakfast.

The two had become good friends since they first met last year and even though Sirius worked as the first and only police dog in forks they managed to keep their friendship. In fact they were heading to La Push today to spend the day fishing with Billy and Harry Clearwater. I was supposed to use a portkey disquised as a snowflake necklace Harry sent me on his last letter and spend the day with him at the nearest to the school magical town called Hogsmeade.

At ten am on the dot the necklace gave a breath of warm air and after saying goodbye to the adults I grabbed my purse, a light jacket and a large paper bag, mom's care package for Harry and touched the snowflake. After feeling as if I was stretched to the limit and then pushed back together I looked around to find myself in a plaza of shorts. Definitely not Forks.

I walked the few steps to a marble fountain and sat on it's ledge. There was a discarded magazine there called 'witch weekly' and started to browse it. I was reading an article by a so-called reporter named Rita Skeeter about how Hermione was a two bitch slut doing both Harry and Viktor Krum at the same time and was laughing my hat off thinking that up until this magazine I thought Brad and Angelina had it bad by the paparazzi when I heard a discreet dry cough. I looked up to see Cedric.

"Hi"

"Hello. What are you doing here?"

"I'm waiting for Harry, we're going to spend the day together seeing as the final task is less than a month away. What are you doing here?"

"I needed to clear my head a bit. Mind if I join you?"

"won't your girlfriend have a problem with that?"

"my what?"

he looked perplexed and I rolled my eyes mentally.

"Your girlfriend. You know human, chinese origin, seeker for the ravenclaw quidditch team..."

"Oh you mean Cho"

I raised an eyebrow and he chuckled before replying

"Cho is not my girlfriend. Our dads are good friends and she's a bit loose with guys so I am keeping an eye on her"

"by dating her?"

"It serves a purpose. No girls are hitting on me anymore and it's making sure she won't be returning to her parents plus one by the end of the year. May I join you now?"

I felt a light blush on my neck and cheeks and nodded. I looked around for Harry and then looked back to Cedric taking him in and mentally comparing him to his vampire twin - more like great grampa actually. I smiled and we started talking about nothing in particular, Smalltalk mostly. I heard a few giggles and looked around to see a bunch of teens in black robes that had badges on them that changed from 'Support Cedric Diggory the real Hogwarts champion' to "Potter stinks' and felt my blood ascending to my head.

"I'm sorry about the badges. I asked my friends not to wear them"

"It's not your fault Cedric. It's just childish but what can you expect? Magical or not they are still children"

I said and Cedric nodded. Just then Harry came and I bid Cedric goodbye thanking him for waiting with me. As he left I turned to Harry who had a glint in his eye. I mock glared right back and handed him the package.

"mom sent it"

he opened it to find a few clothes, a pair of sneakers, and a bunch of child size socks and sweats and t-shirts

"I think she has the size wrong"

Harry muttered and I laughed

"You said you wanted to buy Dobby socks right? Well I may have mentioned to mom you had a younger boy under your wing and mom being mom she went overboard"

Harry laughed with me and after a tour of the shops we headed to a pub called 'The Three Broomsticks'. It was was packed, mainly with Hogwarts students (judging from their capes or robes as Harry loved to correct me) enjoying their free afternoon, but also with a variety of magical people Harry rarely saw anywhere else. He told me it was because Hogsmeade was the only all-wizard village in Britain, it was a bit of a haven for creatures like hags, who were not as adept as wizards at disguising themselves. We took a table and ordered butterbear. Not sure what that was.

We spent our morning talking and people watching. All the people in the pub looked cheerful and relaxed. Two kids were swapping some sort of cards at a nearby table; both of them sporting Support Cedric Diggory! Badges on their cloaks. Right over by the door was Cho and a large group of her Ravenclaw friends. She wasn't wearing a Cedric badge though... I could see this cheered up Harry a bit and making a split decision I leaned in and told him what cerci had told me about him and cho. Harry's face scrunched a bit mulling over it and then his inner gossipy girl came out to play as he gave me the dirt about the couple in question. I could see how the relationship would be fake.

Harry told me he felt a little jealous over the freedom the others in here had, with nothing to worry about but homework? We talked about how different it would be to be here if his name hadn't come out of the Goblet of Fire.

"I wouldn't be carrying the Invisibility Cloak"

"I wouldn't be here then. You'd have to make up more lies for me and Renee"

"I'd be here with Ron and Hermione happily imagining what deadly dangerous task the school champions would be facing on Tuesday."

His watch beeped late that afternoon signaling him he was supposed to meet Sirius to talk about the last task so I told him I'd be on my way soon. I was leaving the bathroom and met Cedric again and agreed to go for a walk with him.

"So…where d'you want to go?"

Cedric asked as we left the pub. The High Street was still full of students ambling up and down, peering into the shop windows and messing about together on the pavements.

"Oh…I don't mind,"

I said shrugging.

"Urn... shall we just have a look in the shops or something?"

Cedric looked as uncomfortable as I felt. We wandered towards Dominic Maestro's and made fun of some of the clothes that were on display. A large poster had been stuck up in the window and a few Hogsmeaders were looking at it. They moved aside when Cedric and I approached and Cedric found himself staring at pictures of the first two tasks with a banner for the last task.

"Um…d'you want to get a coffee?"

I said tentatively wanting to take our attention from the banner. I was scared enough for Harry I didn't want or need to start talking about it with Cedric as well. It was bad enough that he is the spitting image of Edward, with tamed hair and grey eyes but still.

"Yeah, all right,"

"So you know any place or ..."

I made a move to indicate the pub we were just in. He smiled and oh-so-casually took my hand to lead me to the other direction.

"I know just the place. Have you ever been to Madam Puddifoot's?"

He lead me up a side road and into a small teashop next to an interesting looking bookstore. It was a cramped, steamy little place where everything seemed to have been decorated with frills or bows. It reminded me of the girl's choice dance at Forks.

"I've never been to Hogsmeade before"

I answered careful not to make any comments about the place. We picked a table a bit away from the windows as the fact that I was the only muggle in sight, foster sister of one Hogwards champion having dinner with the other one who was in a steady relationship was a bit too much for the little town and everyone was looking at us. Cedric pulled my chair and took a seat opposite of me.

A number of golden cherubs that were hovering over each of the small, circular tables, occasionally throwing pink confetti over the occupants stole our attention and all of them started circling our table singing the theme song from Titanic. I felt myself blush even more and regretted wearing my hair up.

The couple on the next table were holding hands, much like everyone else in the teashop making the awkwardness rise up.

"What can I get you, m'dears?"

said a very stout woman with a shiny black bun, squeezing between our table and the next one with great difficulty.

"Two coffees, please"

Cedric said.

In the time it took for our coffees and pancakes to arrive the couple next to us had started dueling with their tongues over their sugar bowl.

Cedric's ears had a very slight pink tint and turned to look around the room as I stared up at the ceiling as though examining the paintwork and received a handful of confetti in the face from their hovering cherub.

After a few more painful minutes, I decided to grub the proverbial bull by its horns.

"Em Cedric how about we don't do this. You're friendly with my brother and we're simply having dinner together. Let's not over do it."

Cedric looked so grateful I wished I had a Kodak with me as he nodded and after a few moments of me glaring at our cherub it left.

"impressive"

"my dad's a cop, I inherited the glare"

I joked and just like that the awkwardness lifted. Cedric talked about quidditch after explaining exactly what it is (when Harry did it I fell asleep on him) and I told him the only sport I ever did was beach volley. How hard can you ever hit when you're paying on the sand? He had never tried it. Then he went on talking about transfiguration and how he used it on the first task. We talked about the differences between a muggle school and Hogwarts.

He told me about his parents and how wizards didn't use electronics or power or cars and I was amazed. I told him about my parents and how good it felt to know all about my brother.

After dinner we headed to the bookstore where he showed me some of his favorite books but no matter how hard I looked around I could find none of my favorite books so I promised I'd send him one or two.

We were by the fountain sharing jokes when my snowflake gave a warm feeling. I looked at Cedric who had a longing look

"I think that's my que to leave"

"I suppose so"

"I had a great time, thank you for keeping me company today"

"The pleasure was all mine"

He leaned in and I turned my head to give him a soft kiss on the cheek. Real or fake he was in a relationship and I'm not that girl.

"I'll see you around, Cedric"

With that I touched the snowflake and returned to the living room at home. Finding a note by dad to meet them at La Push I put my books away and got in my truck. I couldn't help but imagine Cedric with me and how he would look faced with my engine's loud roar