My Love // Theo Nott

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I walked to class alone ten minutes late after cleaning myself up in the lavatory. I now had a forming bruise right under my eye and a cut from Blaise's stupid ring that he wore all the time.

It was potions and all of us had that class together. It was frustrating when I walked in and all eyes went towards me. I made my way to the table with Draco, Pansy, Elio, Blaise, and Aurora.

"What happened to your face?" Pansy was the first to ask. After Blaise had hit me he walked away before I could say anything.

"Doesn't matter." I said. Blaise scoffed.

"What's going on?" Pansy picked up on Blaise acting like an asshole.

"Why don't you tell everyone the truth, Theo?" Blaise said. I glared at him.

"Blaise hit me. Now, why is that, Blaise?" I said his name in a mock tone.

"Do you really want me to tell everyone?" He was very serious. And at that moment I realized it wasn't just because of what I said about Luna. He saw the recognition on my face. "Exactly. Now shut the fuck up before I actually do tell someone."

I sat back on my seat and started getting my textbook out of my bag as I heard people start to get up. "Theo." Aurora was seated right next to me. I knew I should've kept everything to myself. Never should have told Blaise. I'm shocked Draco still hasn't found out through his parents.

"What?" I was already tired. I wanted to go to bed.

"Do you mind going to get everything we need for the potion?" I looked up at her and realized if she were to go get everything I would be left alone with Blaise. Without hesitating I got up and walked away.

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Aurora's pov:

When Theo was far away enough I turned on Blaise. "What is your problem?" I asked him.

"Don't start with me, Aurora." he said in a bored tone.

"No. I'm gonna start with you. Why did you hit him?" I asked quietly so no surrounding tables would be able to hear us.

"Shut up and do your work." he said. He's starting to develop a problem of telling people to 'shut up' and it's pissing me off.

"Blaise." He was ignoring me and going through his textbook instead. "Blaise. What is your problem right now?" I asked.

"My problem is that he's being a shitty guy, Aurora."

"How?" I asked.

"Have you not noticed a change in him?" he asked.

"Well... yeah, but not in a bad way." Blaise rolled his eyes and scoffed.

"You're ridiculous." he shook his head at me and looked behind me. I was about to turn around, but he continued speaking very low. "I'm going to tell you this now and never bring it up again, the difference between how Theo used to act and now has completely changed. He's trying to fit so much into your relationship in such a short amount of time and soon you're going to realize the true reason."

"What are you telling her, Blaise?" Theo dropped the cauldron loudly on the table as he glared at Blaise.

"Nothing that concerns you." Blaise answered. I was still staring at Blaise when everyone returned to the table.

"Aurora." Draco called my name. I looked over at him in surprise. "What's wrong? You look like you're going to be sick." I looked around at everyone, realizing the attention was now on me.