Secrets (Mattheo Riddle x Reader)

The chosen ones

       _______Time skip_______
Today was the deadline for putting your name into the goblet of fire, and at dinner time, we were having a school assembly so Dumbledore could announce who the goblet had chosen, to represent their schools in the Triwizard tournament. No one I knew put their names in, so I wasn't very interested.
Pansy and I walked in the halls, we had just finished potions with professor Snape, and were now making our way to the hall.
"So who do you think they will choose, from our school?" Pansy asked me.
"I'm not sure, I don't really remember who put their names in." I said.
"Well I think that really big guy who basically leads the Durmstrang Institute... Oh and Cedric-" Pans began.
"Yeah?" A guys voice said from behind us, Pansy and I spun around, to see Cedric Diggory staring back at us.
"Sorry, I heard my name." He said kindly.
"Oh right, we were just... uh... talking about the Triwizard tournament." Pansy explained dragging each one of her words out.
Cedric laughed, then his eyes shifted from Pansy to me. His eyes widened the tiniest bit.
"Oh! Hi. I'm Y-"
"Y/n!" Cedric interrupted me.
I smiled awkwardly remembering that the majority of the students in school already knew a lot about me.
"I guess you saw me at the housing ceremony." I assumed.
"Actually I wasn't  here for the housing ceremony, but I did see you the other day and though you looked new because I hadn't seen you before. So I asked my friend who you were..." He began to trail off. "You don't care." He smiled.
"No it's fine. Im kinda shocked you're talking to me right now, apparently you're a big deal around here."I smiled back.
"I could say the same for you." He said, we shared a laugh.
There was a quiet moment, then pansy broke the silence
"Any way... We should get going Y/n, we're going to be late for the assembly." Pansy tugged on my hand.
"Ok, see ya!" I called to to Cedric as Pansy ad I walked away.
He waved back. He seems nice.

In the hall, we all watched as Dumbledore made a grand speech, as usual. We were sitting on our house table, Pansy and I on one side of the table, the boys on the other. I sat across from Mattheo, and Pansy sat across from Blaise, who was sitting next to Draco.
"We will now have our chosen champions! But only one will go down in history!" Dumbledore boomed.
He held his hand towards the flames, and just in time, a single piece of paper emerged from the flames.
"Victor Krum!" Dumbledore announced. Which wasn't surprising, I think we all saw that coming. That guy was pretty much built for this competition.
The boy/man stood up proudly, and walked to the front of the hall, while there was a round of applause in his honour.
Then Dumbledore repeated the actions, and yet another paper arrived.
"Fleur Delacour!" He announced. All the girls from the magic academy table clapped, and patted their friends back. She was smiling from ear to ear, with excitement.
She stood, and joined Victor.
For a second Dumbledore had his back to the goblet. He noticed the faces of the professors change, they stared at something in confusion. Dumbledore stopped in his tracks, and turned to see what they were all staring at. It seemed the goblet was acting out. Suddenly the flames turned and pink-ish orange colour. Dumbledore approached it. Then it spat out 3 pieces of paper. According to everyone else this was very unusual, and had never happened before. Dumbledore hesitantly picked one of the papers off the floor, and his face went almost colourless as he read one of them.
"Harry... Potter." He mumbled under his breath.
"Harry Potter!" He called out louder this time. All heads began to look for the boy, who was hiding in the corner of the hall, frozen in shock.
"HARRY POTTER!" He yelled in frustration. Hermione pushed Harry from his seat.
Harry slowly made his way to the front of the hall. Getting glares and dirty looks his way.
"He's not even 17!" someone called from the crowd.
As Harry walked, Dumbledore bent over to pluck the next piece of paper from the floor.
"Cedric Diggory." He announce as well. A few small cheers came from the Hufflepuff table, as Cedric slowly stood. And went to join Harry. Dumbledore picked up the final piece of paper, and once again a look of frustration, came over his face.
"Mattheo Riddle." He said. All heads shot Mattheo's way, including mine. His confusion appeared to reflect ours.
"But I didn- I never-" He stuttered.
"Mattheo?!" Dumbledore yelled.
I kicked his shin under the table. "Just get up." I whispered at him. He did as I said, and made his way to the front of the hall.
As he walked by a group of kids, one of them said a little to loudly,
"He's a cheat."
I looked in the direction of the voice, and saw that is was a boy from my herbology class who said it and replied,
"Shut up Smith."
Mattheo turned back to me with a smirk, he sent a wink my way.
Blaise, Pansy and Draco didn't see it, they were busy laughing at my comment.
"Damn, she bet me to it." Draco chuckled.
"I can see the whole Malfoy thing now." Blaise sniggered.
The three boys stood for all to see. The students murmured and whispered. Dumbledore retreated back to the other adults and had a quiet conversation.
"The... uh... chosen 5!" Dumbledore finally announced.
"WHAT!?" Many annoyed people from the crowd yelled. The students went wild.
"SILENCE!" Dumbledore roared.
"These will be our competitors, for this years tri wizard tournament." He gestured to the students at the front. Some people fake clapped, most just stared.

That dinner was pretty silent.
When Mattheo returned to his seat, the others began asking him constant questions. I remained quiet.
"What are you gonna do?"
"Did you put your name in?"
"Are you gonna play?"
"You know how dangerous it is."
"Mattheo you could get really hurt, or even die."
Their questions were interrupted by me tipping over my glass of water and spilling it everywhere.
"Oh shit!" I said under my breath.
I picked it up quickly and wiped the water.
"Hey? Are you ok?" Pans asked, seeing something was wrong.
"Yep. Fine. Perfect." I lied while shakily cleaning my mess. "You know what? Actually I'm really tired and I think I might head in early tonight." I added.
"Are you sure?" Mattheo asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure." I said.
"You don't even want to finish your dinn-" Draco began.
"Nope." I shrugged.
"As long as you're sure your ok..." Pansy double checked.
"I said I'm fine pans, just tired. I'll see you later." I said, forcefully smiling.
And with that I left.