Falling for a Riddle ( Mattheo Riddle ff - fanfiction)

House ghost

Mattheo walked out of the showers with a white towel wrapped around his torso, his wet hair sticking to his forehead. His abs now held collected droplets of water as he fell face first in to the bed. He groaned in to the pillow before turning to his side. His tranquility was disturbed when a figure stalked in to the dorm making Mattheo sit upright.

Theo looked at Mattheo and smiled softly before going to his bed to re arrange his drawers.  " Theo " Mattheo acknowledged him with a small nod. Theo returned the notion, " Mattheo ", he said before turning back to his clothes. 

Mattheo pondered whether or not to ask Theo the question and he decided on yes, " Theo, is Amelia, you know... with someone ?" he asked unsurely. Theo scrounged his face and shook his head, " no, I don't think so... " he trailed off reading the label of a spray bottle while Mattheo's heart skipped a few beats. He had a chance to ask Amelia, the most wonderful girl in the world, to be his date to the end of the year ball. But would she even consider him after what she saw. Mattheo attempted to look unfazed as he looked back at Theo, " oh okay... I just wanted to ask " he said before standing up and going through his own drawers for clothes. 

He noticed Theo perk up and turned towards him. He shrug his shoulders as if to ask, ' do you have anything to say ? ', Theo being Theo of course had something to say, " is it because you want to ask Mia out ?". Mattheo could feel the heat rise in his cheeks as he shook his head. Droplets of water fell down from his curls as his head came to a abrupt stop. Theo shrugged but immediately composed himself and looked towards Mattheo, " actually... Oliver Wood's been in Hogwarts for the past week and he's been talking Mia a lot lately ". Great. First Mattheo feared Draco was going to slither in ( no pun intended ) and steal Amelia but seems as if his chances would be ruined by some ex Gryffindor. 

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Amelia and Pansy walked down the corridor looking in to the courtyard and noticed the Slytherin Quidditch team playing. Draco flew highest among the team as he was the seeker. He soared over the sky before looking down and noticed Amelia's face and gave a small wave at her. Pansy noticed and assumed the wave was directed at her. She let a small sob escape her lips, " how dare he.... after what he did ", she said before grabbing Amelia's hand walking her away from the location. 

They didn't walk even two steps away when a sandy brown haired boy appeared in front of them. He gave her a sideways smile and looked to Pansy with the same smile, one which Pansy down right refused to return unlike Amelia. " So Mia, excited for the big event ?" Oliver asked smiling. Amelia nodded, " yeah.... maybe a little. Will you be there ?", she asked hopefully. Oliver shrugged and looked far in to the distance, " with or without a date Dolohov, with or without " he said smirking at his own joke. Before Amelia could give in her own quip about it Pansy pulled her forearm, " that's sweet but we need to go now. Amelia, come " she said dragging Amelia away. 

Amelia mumbled a 'bye' and she swore she heard Oliver give off a small bark making Amelia smile.  Amelia walked past the winding corridors as Pansy let out a loud breathe of air, " I wish Draco would just ask whoever he wanted to the ball, just so I know who this girl is " she said exasperatingly. Amelia bit her bottom lip in hesitation. She assumed the guilt of kissing Draco was non existent but she could never bring herself to tell Pansy about it. Not that she was the girl Draco liked but all the signs did point to her. 

" Do you think Mattheo will ask you ?" Pansy asked suddenly making Amelia choke on air. She shook her head as she let out a few coughs, " uhm... I don't think so, and I won't be saying yes anyway ". Pansy looked at her confused before dropping the question. She continued along with Amelia before abandoning her in front of the DADA class room. 

" I'll see you after class Mia " Pansy said disappearing behind the door. Amelia walked ahead to the transfiguration class. As she took a turn she came face to face with the Harry Potter. " Mr. Potter ", she said with a posh accent. Harry smiled before giving her a benevolent look, " Ms. Dolohov ", he said whisking his robe. Amelia smiled, expecting him to be done with her, but Harry instead put his book bag down and struck a conversation, " so.... how did you like Hogwarts till now ?" he asked leaning on the wall. Amelia, slightly annoyed, answered through gritted teeth, " it's okay I guess.... sad to think I'll never see you after this " she said. Harry gave off a mischievous look before leaning closer to her. " I need to talk to you, do you mind ?",  before Amelia could answer Harry grab her arm and concealed the both of them under the winding staircase.