Dear Juliet,

Hope Pig didn't bother you to much, little gint. I've named a gnome after you and I smile every time I through it over the fence because I think about you. Mum a bit upset, Percy didn't come home for christmas, spending the holiday with his new work family up in the Ministry. Stupid gint. You'd hate him, you'd absolutely hate him and I wouldn't blame you for it.

I told her about you, after she calmed down a bit. I left out the part about you throwing me against the wall. She likes you, from what i've said anyways. Dad too, though I can't blame them. They want to meet you soon, if that okay, also sending love to your Mum and cousin.

I miss you, Jules.

Love, Ron.
(Ron Weasley by the way)

"Juliet!" Cedric gasped as the girl squealed after reading the letter out loud, "You've got yourself a boyfriend and couldn't bother to write me about it?"

"Oh, I wanted to so bad Ced! But I couldn't tell you in a note, I had to tell you with my words!" Juliet said as she grabbed hold of his hands while the two spun in a circle, "Isn't he just lovely? And on the train he let me sleep on him, and he rubbed my back! Ugh!"

"Julie, how'd this even- I was gone a week!" Cedric said with a laugh as the two fell onto the grass, "He should be here rather soon, should he?"

"Yes, it's only been a week since i've seen him but I miss him, Ced. He's so odd and so weird but I like that, I want some odd and weird." Juliet smiled so hard that her face hurt, her nerves shot at the fact that Ron was on his way back to Hogwarts while she spoke, "You approve don't you? You have to approve or it will not work."

"Of Ronald Weasley?" Cedric laughed as Juliet nodded, "Goofy one he is but he's making you quite happy."

"Oh, I need to stop, i'm gonna get annoying.I've never even had a boyfriend, this will ware off, oh maybe not." Juliet ranted as she paced around the yard, "I just like him so much."

"So i've noticed." Cedric laughed as he sat up from where he laid on the grass, looking at her with serious eyes now, "Why didn't you tell me about your Mum? I would have gone with you."

"I didn't want to worry you." Juliet said as she sat down with him again with a sigh, "With the tournament going on, figured you had enough on your plate."

"I always have room on my plate for you, you're my best friend." he said with throwing a arm around her in a tight side hug, "How'd Nate react to Ron?"

"Poor thing stuck out like a sore thumb with that red hair, Nates just suspicious, sure he'll send me a howler about it soon." Juliet said with a half smile, propping herself up on her elbow as she smiled, "You think he really liked me, don't you?"

"Oh completely, it's very obvious." Cedric said with a booming laugh as Juliet rolled onto her back with a smile, "Do you like Cho?"

"She's lovely, we shared a butter beer." Juliet smiled as she looked at him with a knowing look, "You fancy her that much?"

"I think so." Cedric nodded with a laugh, the same giggly and blushy features Juliet had, he'd mimicked.

"Ced!" Juliet said as she pushed him, "You're in love."

"Oh, don't go there." he said as the two laughed, before the Hogwarts express train rang. Cedric and Juliet shared wide eyes at the other, faces serious as ever with shocked features.

"They're here!" the two shouted in sync, shooting to their feet and taking off through the Great Hall, out the doors to find groups of students walking toward the castle, all talking lively about what had happened or what they got over Christmas holidays.

"Don't get shy now." Cedric nudged her teasingly as Juliet nudged him back.

"Think it'll be awkward?" Juliet asked with a clear of her throat, cutting him off before he even had the chance to speak, "If I let him take the lead and be in control then it'll definitely be awkward, I should take initiative, wear the pants."

"See, you've got it." Cedric said, knowing he hadn't done any help before he hurried toward Cho who was walking before the large group. Juliet nodded to herself, starting to worry. She attempted to convince herself that they were the same as they were before London, but she knew that was far from true. There was too many emotions, too many words that needed to be spoken without actually saying them, it was far from the same way it was before London.

"Ron! Hi." Juliet smiled as she moved through a group of people, finding him walking along side his usual duo of friends, the clan of redhead family members behind him.

"Juliet, I was just-" Ron began in a large, boyish smile at the sight of her. Juliet cut him off with a large, hard kiss to the lips quickly.

"No way." the twins said in sync as their mouths dropped.

"Told you he couldn't be lying, when has he ever thought of a story so detailed in his life?" Ginny asked with a knowing look, a faint smirk on her lips at the sight of Ron's flushed face when Juliet pulled back.

"Blimey, hi." he smiled at her as Juliet did the same, a joyful giggle coming from the two of them.

"Told you it wasn't a dream." Hermione said knowingly as they set off toward the castle once more, Juliet grabbed hold of Pig's cage, talking to him quietly.

"Juliet, have a good christmas?" Fred asked as Ron gave him a knowing look over his shoulder.

"Oh, sure. The Hufflepuff ghost is quite nice to me, talked to me about flowers in the lake i'm gonna go diving for." Juliet said with a smile back at one of the twins, looking back as Pig as she walked close to Ron.

"How do you feel about that, Ronnikens? Dangerous lake your girls gonna go diving in." Fred went on, only attempting to mock Ron and watch his face flush. Juliet smiled when he did, rubbing his forearm in the slightest.

"She's good at swimming." Ron said back to his brother, George laughed and patted Fred's shoulder.

"What flowers are you going for, Juliet?" Harry asked politely as Juliet took a breath before discussing the three she'd learned about over the past week and had been longing for.

Juliet let out a yell when she was suddenly lifted from water, panic setting in as she threw herself around.

"Juliet! Julie!" Cedric yelled as he tried to hold her in place in the lake while the Hufflepuff stand cheered for them.

"Why am I here?" Juliet asked with a crazy expression, hanging onto her best friends shoulders as he kicked his legs toward the stands.

"Second task, bloody insane if you ask me." Cedric said while helping her up first, Professor Moody yanking her onto the dock and giving her a towel before doing the same to Cedric.

"You're the first here!" Juliet announced with a cheer as she hugged Cedric, feeling as though pins and needles were all over her skin from the freezing lake. Hermione and Victor came up in no time, Flur did as well but without her token.

"Neville, was Ron up there?" Juliet asked as she let her mind wonder for a moment, if Hermione was with Victor, the only possible person Harry would have was Ron.

"Not that I saw, Juliet." Neville said to her kindly as Juliets eyes widened, yelling out for Ron into the lake as she dropped her towel and went to jump until his red hair and pale skin was seen coughing, coming up from the water. Juliet let out a cheer much like she heard the twins doing, running down the dock along side Flur, the blonde grabbed hold of her sister while Juliet yanked Ron up.

"Bloody hell, what was I doing down there?" he asked in shock while looking at Juliet who laughed while wrapped her towel around him.

"The tournament is a joke, are you okay?" she asked, picking a few leaves from the pond out of his red locks before the two stood.

"Yeah, a bit." Ron nodded while pulling her under the towel along side him, the two hurrying up the steps to join Harry who was being praised by Fleur for saving her younger sister.

"And you! You helped!" Flur explained as she stood up to gushed after Ron, Flur turned to Juliet for permission as the dark haired girl cracked a smile and nodded, Flur pressing a kiss to Ron's check and causing him to flush.

"Go, go." Juliet urged Ron to be with Harry and Hermione, letting the Weasley boy kiss her forehead before she joined Cedrics side, getting a new towel considering she'd left hers around Ron.

"Attention! Attention!" Dumbledore yelled loudly as people held their years. "The winning is Cedric Diggory!"

The Hufflepuffs cheered for the boy as Juliet smiled along side him, the camera flashing brightly as his arm was thrown into the air while Dumbledore continued to praise him over the cheers.

"However seeing as Mr.Potter would have finished first had it not been for his determination to rescue not only Mr.Weasley but the others as well, we've agreed to reward him second place!" Dumbledore announced as Gryffindor cheered, Juliet and Cedric did as well for the small Potter boy the two both had became rather fond to recently.

"Congratulations Harry Potter." Juliet gushed as she gave him a kiss to the forehead, fixing his glasses for him before join Rons side once again.

"What a day that was." Juliet said with a look when Ron gave her a cup of pumpkin juice, joining her side by the fire in the Gryffindor common room after sneaking her in with Harry's invisible cloak.

"Yeah." Ron said with a laugh at her words, pressing into her side while setting his own cup down infront of him.

"You don't think Dumbledore would have let us died if they didn't get to us, do you?" Juliet asked, Ron going to speak before she cut him off, "Reckon he'd be a bad egg if he did."

"I don't think he would, he's not that bad of a egg." Ron said, no clue what her words meant but going along with it, sucking in a breath when Juliet rested her head on his shoulder.

"Sometimes I think this school is a joke." Juliet admits to Ron as she took a sip of the hot liquid, "Hogwarts."

"Why do you say that?" Ron asked, snaking his arm around her waist, still feeling as though her skin was freezing even after the hot bath she took in the Prefects bathroom and the many layers of clothes she'd piled on.

"It's a bit pathetic." Juliet went on with her words, her eyes tired but refusing to shut, "There's a lot of things I believe they could do differently here to make us better."

"Like what? Longer lunches." Ron said as Juliet laughing, shifting her body to face him, grabbing hold of his hands that were much warmer.

"For starters if Dumbledore cared about his Gryffindors he'd have a talk with Snape about his not so subtle abuse, I should poison his tea for knocking you upside the head." Juliet said with a knowing look as Ron giggled at her words, holding onto her gloved hands, becoming rather comfortable with the fabric, "And why do we need so many Defensive Against The Dark Arts professors? I wish I could have met Professor Lupin."

"You would have liked him." Ron said to her, knowing well that she would, "He would have liked you too."

A comfortable silence fell over the two, the sound of the fire crackling enough to keep the two warm. Juliet could feel Ron's gaze on her, looking over and finding he was staring at her gloved hands. Juliet hid them under her legs quickly while Ron lifted his gaze to her face quickly.

"I don't mind." Ron spoke to her with a nod of his head, "All of it."

"What do you mean by that?" Juliet asked him, a slight panic setting in her heart.

"Seamus told me a few things." Ron said as Juliet looked away, "I don't mind."

"You should have came to me, it's not any of his business what I..." Juliet trialed off, she couldn't say it out loud, not without feeling ashamed and scared.

"I wanted to I just wasn't sure." Ron said as he put his hand on her knee with a subtle run of his thumb against her ice cold skin.

"It's my story, Ron, he probably didn't even tell it right." Juliet spoke annoyed with the irish boy she knew had it out for her, she'd wanted nothing more then to give him a icy glare just to scare him a bit.

"You can tell me now, i'm listening to you." Ron encouraged her in a low voice, thankful no one was around considering night fall came quick. Juliet scooted closer to him, holding his hands in her lace covered one.

"A few years ago my dad went to work, he helps build houses for the poorer people in London." Juliet spoke as she avoided eye contact, hesitating before she turned away quickly so she didn't have to look at him, leaning back onto him, "A fire started there, he didn't get out."

Ron rubbed small circles on her upper thigh, his head leaning against hers, attempting to look at her but the angle they'd been in was difficult to.

"I felt it, like something bad was gonna happen." Juliet spoke after a moment, after the week she'd had the last thing she wanted to do was cry again, "I knew he was gonna die."

Juliet went silent again, Ron thought that maybe she didn't want to talk anymore, her body shaky, causing the Weasley boy to pull her against him more.

"And I had no control over it, I just started screaming, I couldn't stop. It made my ears bleed, like I was in pain of something. And I just started running to the house he was in, I couldn't stop screaming even though I wanted to." Juliet spoke as her chest heaved in the slightest bit as she shut her eyes for a second, "The fire started at the house my dad was working in, I tried to save him, no one stopped me because I was yelling so much. But he was gone, completely gone."

"I'm sorry, Jules." Ron mumbled in her ear, his hot breath making her turn, snaking her hand up to hold the sides of his face.

"Does that scare you? What I am?" Juliet asked, holding eye contact with her lover as she let her hand toy with the ends of his long hair.

"A bit." Ron admired to her with a nod as pain flashed across Juliets eyes, "But I can deal with it."

"I really do like you." Juliet said with a sad smile up at the youngest Weasley boy.

"I really like you too." Ron gave her a smile, watching as she turned her body to wrap her long legs around his hips, grabbing the sides of his neck to hold while she kissed him once more.

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kylie speaks

i'm dreading the
end of goblet of
fire so much,
y'all know she's
gonna be able to
predict that.