persuasive [t.r]

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Y/N'S POV:

Me and Tom entered potions early, Snape greeted me with his usual grumble but perked up when he saw Tom, of course. "Riddle, how are you doing?" Snape asked as me and Tom sat down. "Fine sir, and you?" Tom returned the question, putting on a smile. "You already know the answer to that Riddle," Snape rolled his eyes, students started to flood into the classroom which caused Snape to grumble once more.

"He's such a suck up," I mumbled, rolling my eyes. "Pardon?" Tom said, turning to me, Snape was Tom's favourite teacher, this wasn't going to end well. "I said, he's such a suck up," I repeated myself. "And who do you think you're talking about?" Tom asked. "Snape, of course, he treats everyone else like rubbish while he treats you like absolute royalty," I scoffed, crossing my arms. "I'm head boy as you know, I deserve to be respected and I get my respect, along with everything else," Tom narrowed his eyes at me. "And I'm head girl, I should get as much respect as you, everyone else treats me with respect besides Snape," I stated which caused Tom to glare at me.

"Just admit it, people are only suck ups for you because of your 'charms', oh how you're so charming," I said the last part sarcastically. I could tell I was pushing Tom over the edge, his fingers were wrapped around his quill tightly, it looked like it could break at any moment, his jaw was also clenched quite tightly, so tightly some of the veins in his neck looked like they were about to pop out any second, he was so hot whenever he was mad.

"You're just jealous because people actually like me, multiple people too, not just four pathetic boys you call your friends," Tom rolled his eyes, four boys? That would mean Draco, Neville, Seamus, and Dean, but what about him? He likes me right? "You mean five?" I asked hesitantly, scared for his response. He looked at me with a confused look on his face for a second, then his eyes went wide.

TOM'S POV:

Y/n was talking my ear off about how Professor Snape is a 'suck up' along with everyone else in the school, it was really taking the piss out of me. "You're just jealous because people actually like me, multiple people too, not just four pathetic boys you call your friends," I said, going back to my work. "You mean five?" Y/n asked hesitantly, I looked over at her, confusion written all over my face, who was I missing? She looked hurt, my eyes widened as I realised, she was talking about me, I'm the fifth person, of course I didn't know that as I didn't have feelings for her or like her in any friendly way, but of course she didn't know that, and didn't need to know either.

"Darling," I started, but she cut me off. "Do you not like me?" She asked me. "Of course I like you darling, why wouldn't I?" I asked, taking her hand in mine. "How do you forget about yourself? You're the number one person that fancies me, of course my other friends don't besides Draco, but how do you forget?" She asked. "I didn't forget about myself, I perhaps just forgotten that Dean Thomas was one of your friends," I lied as I shrugged slightly, she has to believe me. "Are you sure?" She looked at me. "As sure as I can be," I smiled, kissing her soft lips lightly. She smiled after we kissed, persuasion.

a/n: i hate this chapter so much but i hope you guys enjoyed it. -ace 🖤