Always || Tom Riddle

Wedding Preparations

With my uncle now dead everyone could just concentrate on the wedding,which was tomorrow and meant that I was being bombarded with questions that I didn't know the answer to.I cringed as Isabelle's distinctive high heeled shoes clicked on the wooden floorboards in my room where I had been happily sat away from everyone in a pearl white nightgown in the windowsill.

"Clara?"At the sound of her high pitch girly voice I looked up,I had been staring out the window at the preperations of the garden being all trimmed up,unfortunately it meant I had be trimmed up too,my hair was to be pulled at and pinned up,my face was to be covered with makeup I didn't want to wear and my nails were to be manicured to perfection.Isabelle's face was caked in make up and her smile was fake but in hand she held my wedding dress which I had chosen with Penelope a while back.

"I hope it still fits me with the baby bump growing everyday."

"Oh come on,don't you want to see what you look like in it?"Hesitating I stood on my bare feet and took the dress from her.A few minutes later I had managed to get into the a-line floor length lace dress,I had to admit it looked better than I thought it had back in the shop when I had tried it on.Walking back into the bedroom I opened the bathroom door revealing a stunned Penelope and Isabelle who had her jaw dropped.

"What?"

"You.Look...."

"Amazing!"Penelope squealed finishing for the gobsmacked Isabelle who looked like someone had just slapped her round the face.

"Now we just need to figure out hair and makeup"Isabelle continued walking across the room to the mirror and gesturing to it for me to take a look.I had already seen what I looked like in the bathroom but why not do it again in a full length mirror.I stepped in front of the mirror to see someone who I perceived as unrecognizable,my hair was falling to just below my shoulders in shimmery waves,whereas my lips were a soft pink, and my were eyes a sparkling sea blue in the sunlight streaming in through the nearby windows.A familiar knock came to the door and before anyone could answer Tom was walking in.

"Clara,I was just wondering what we were going to do about the flower arrangements is there anything you want done to them particularly?"In less than a minute he had stepped over the threshold but was thankfully not looking at me but at the piece of paper in his hand,of which he held lazily so it looked as though it might slip out of his long elegant fingers at any given second with the slightest breeze.When I didn't say anything he looked up and utter shock and awe replaced his concentrated expression.I smiled back at him only for the moment to be broken when Penelope squealed and ran at him turning him round so he couldn't see and was facing away from me.

"What are you doing in here?!"She panicked looking from me to the back of Toms head several times.

"Your not supposed to see each other until tomorrow morning its bad luck!"Penelope squeaked looking completely petrified.

"Well then we will have bad luck because we have already seen each other"I tried hard to hide the smile that was struggling to get out and take form on my lips because of how serious Penelope was being,she really believed in this stuff.

"DID HE SEE THE DRESS?!"Now it was Isabelle's turn to panic she had this perfect image of how tomorrow was going to go and now all that was going wrong because Tom had just seen me and in her eyes everything would go downhill from now.

"I did,you look lovely darling!"Tom mimicked her high pitch posh voice causing me to let out a laugh and thank him.

"Go before I swat you like a fly!"Isabelle exclaimed as Penelope attempted (yes,attempted) to shove Tom over the threshold and out of the room.

"Not until I get an answer or your perfect wedding will go even more horribly wrong"

"Do what you like with the flowers,by the looks of it you are doing a great job out there anyway"I replied with a smile on my face,how lucky was I?

"Does that mean I get a kiss?"I rolled my eyes and hid behind the bathroom door and peeked my head out so he couldn't see anymore of the dress.

"Yes"Taking long strides past Penelope and Isabelle Tom was in front of me in a matter of seconds,giving me a quick loving peck on the lips and forehead before quickly exiting so that Isabelle didn't follow through with her plan with a cheeky grin on his face,he was such a kid sometimes.