My Love // Theo Nott

seventeen

When I got up to the apartment I yelled out that I was back and I put the pizzas on the table. Everyone came into the dining room.

"What took you so long?" Elio asked.

"I didn't take a long time."

"Yes you did." said Draco, Pansy, and Blaise at the same time.

"I was talking with someone I ran into."

"Who?" asked Elio with his mouth stuffed with pizza and his hands full of grease.

"You're being gross, let me go get napkins." I said as I scrunched up my face in disgust.

"Trying to change the subject?" I was in the kitchen looking for the napkins because they weren't where we used to keep them.

When I found them and went back to the dining room Elio kept asking who I ran into. "I'm not sure if you know him. It was Matthew." I looked at Elio to see his expressions.

"From school?" he asked.

"Yeah. I never really talked to him when we were still attending, but he always seemed nice."

"Why was he talking to you?"

"He was working at the pizza place." I said.

"Who's Matthew?" asked Pansy.

"Someone from our old school." I said as I shrugged my shoulders.

"Is he cute?" she asked. I stopped eating and looked at her. Everyone was staring at me for an answer. Including Theo.

"No." I said. We fell into an uncomfortable silence until Elio began speaking.

"Mum called and said she'd be home in an hour."

When we finished eating we started talking about what we would do the following day. Since Theo, Blaise, Draco, and Pansy are purebloods they rarely go out to the muggle world so me and Elio thought it would be fun to show them around.

We were in the living room talking and laughing when we heard the front door open. "I'm home!" We heard our mum through the apartment. Elio got up from his seat on the couch and ran towards the door, I followed behind him.

Mum closed the door and embraced Elio in a long hug. I leaned against the wall to give them their moment. When my mum saw me she hugged me and when she let go of us she bombarded us with questions about Hogwarts and if we had gotten home without any problems.

From where we were standing still in front of the door she couldn't see in the living room where everyone was.

"Wait mum, we really hope you're okay with this, but our friends are here." said Elio. "Just for the night, they'll go back home tomorrow."

"Oh! Are they in your room?" she asked him.

"Living room." he pointed.

She walked into the living and smiled at everyone. Elio grabbed my mum's bag and coat and took them to her room. "It's so nice to meet you guys. You can stay as long as you want, you don't have to leave tomorrow if you don't want to."

"Thank you." replied Pansy for all of them.

"Mum, that's Pansy, Draco, Blaise, and Theo." I said as I pointed to each of them.

"Did you have enough money for food?" she asked me.

"Yeah." I responded. "There's still a bit of pizza left, do you want me to heat you some up?" I asked.