𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐄 | 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞

13| Nail Cutter

I woke up to a sharp pain in my hips. Theo was asleep, but he was having a night of terror. He dug his nails onto the side of my hip. How the hell is it so deep, he doesn't even hall long nails. I bit my lip trying to pull his hand.

"Stop" he whispered and his nails dug deeper, I was bleeding.

"Theo" I called. And he kept muttering something as his nails dug in deeper.

"Mattheo!" I yelled and he woke up breathing heavily and he finally removed his arms. He runs his hand through his hair but then sees the blood on my fingertips. He looked confused then looks at me and then my hip.

"Did I do that?" he asked.

"No, it's fine," I say getting out of bed to his washroom.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to," he said following me.

"I know, its fine Theo," I say while soaking some toilet paper and cleaning the wound. After I clean the wound I go back to the room to find Theo waiting anxiously. I sigh.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" I ask.

"I just want to sleep," he says, kindly. I get in bed and lay my head on his chest as he wraps his arm around me being careful not to touch the nail marks. I place a kiss on his cheek before falling asleep.

Why do I keep forgetting to close the curtains?

"Stupid fucking sunshine" I said getting off his chest as he chuckled just waking up to.

"We have school in an hour" Mattheo groaned getting up. "You can shower here if you want?"

"Ok" I said leaving to get my stuff. I came back showered after Mattheo and came back to see him in uniform.

"I hate these skirts" I said annoyed, why was I so grumpy. Maybe that time of the month.

"Really? I thought this was a great excuse for girl he whores" he joked, I hope he did. I took a comic and threw it at his face.

"Ow, what was that for?" he complained.

"For being a dick" I said walking out with my books and he followed.

"Should I pretend I didn't see you walkout of Riddle's room?" Pansy said aloud while hooking her arm around mine and Daphne stood beside her.

"Sure" I smiled.

"How did you end up with that asshole anyway?" Pansy asked.

"I'm right here" Mattheo said.

"And you wouldn't be if you hurt her" All hail Pansy. I laughed as riddle rolled her eyes.

.............

After a long day of school I went to my room and flopped on my bed. There was a knock on my door and groaned annoyed walking towards it to open it.

"Theo?" I said surprised he's at my door.

"I got the key to the forbidden sections, might as well start out research" he said and I walked out with him.

"What do you mean by 'got' the key?" I asked.

"Meaning I knocked out someone and stole the key" he said as if was normal. We both arrived to the library and I landed my eyes on Lorenzo making out with Granger.

"I think I'm gonna be sick" I said.

"Me too" Riddle said right after. Lorenzo saw me and so did Granger and embarrassingly waved at him. I sent him a sarcastic smile before me and Riddle snuck into the Library.

"I spent the whole day looking for something in the library but found nothing, so maybe the forbidden section had something." He said.

"Curse of the princess and Frog" I mocked pulling out a book.

"The cure of the noseless man, what are the chance this is about my father?" Riddle joined along.

"Oh look, the vengeance of the maiden's Step sister and cruel mother" somewhere else I have heard different versions of these stories. Suddenly a book falls out its place and I pick it up.

"Ok I found a book of forbidden transformations, I check this out" He said taking the book and taking a seat.

"Hey look, The Legend of the curse on arcane – girl on the battle field." I chuckled to myself. The cover had a women a gold amour and a fiery blade sword and she stood on the battle field filled with dead men as a black dragon stood behind here, eyes the same fire as her sword, blue flames. Wait, gold amour.

"What are the chances did this relatable" I asked tossing to him.

"It's a fairy tale" he says.

"Yes, a fairy tale in the forbidden section and has no author" now that statement got Riddle interested.

"Fine you read that while I look through the others" he said and I sat parallel to him opening up the book. Yes I love reading, but this was a history book and I was getting bored. Once again my ADHD kicks in.

"Found anything?" I asked him.

"Nothing yet, you?" he asks.

"Not really, just some girl who wants to be a knight and messing around with some boy who is from an orphanage and happens to be a pureblood wizard." I say bored.

"I found something on your vision of the creep come for you" he says. "It says that its Empathy projection – where two people with the gift or excellence of in empathy are able to project emotions, feelings, and thoughts and glimpse of themselves without being in front of you"

"So that means he is trying to communicate with me and he is an empath" I say.

"In order to project yourself you must have a memory of the person, good or bad, strong enough to project yourself to right person." He continues. "I'll look for more information" and with that he continued reading and so did I.

...........

After staying in the library for 3 hours I finished the book.

"Holy shit" I say closing the book and keeping it.

"Well, what it's about?" Riddle asked.

I start "The story takes place Scotland, 1835...