Love of my life

Chapter 6

A/N back to Clarie's pov ✨️

I walk into transfiguration class and see Professor Dumbledore. We make eye contact and there is that mysterious twinkle in his eye yet again. I look around to see Atticus. I decide to sit in between him and Dune. Valentine is next to Atticus while Mulciber, Riddle, and Lestrange sit behind us. I can feel Riddle's cold gaze on me, I bet he is glaring daggers at me but I don't turn around. I won't give him the satisfaction of turning around.

"Hello students, today I want to pair you into groups for a project. The project will be transfiguring an object into an animal. You will be able to choose what object and animal but I will be choosing your partners," I see some people roll their at at the idea of him choosing their partners.

"First we have Mr. Avery with Mr. Nott, Mr. Mulciber with Ms. Black, Mr. Rosier with Mr. Lestrange," Lestrange interrupts him.

"Can I please choose my partner? I have another person in mind," I know he's looking at me.

"No Mr. Lestrange, and that's final." I glance back at Lestrange and see him roll his eyes.

"Next we have, Ms. De la Fontaine with Mr. Riddle," no. No no no. I can't be.

"But professor," Riddle interrupts but Dumbledore is not having it.

"No if, ands, or buts, who I pair you with is my final decision." Dumbledore looks at the both of us sternly. Riddle shuts up so he can keep his little image. I turn to face him, he's glaring at me. I decide to glare back. This is going to be hell. I turn to Lestrange, he has his hands in fists. His nails are digging into his palms. His face looks a little contorted, like he's trying to hide his emotions.

He turns to Riddle to whisper something that I can't hear. Riddle turns his glare away from me and onto Lestrange. He looks like he's about to say something but refrains from it. I zone out for the rest of class. I don't care if I'm missing notes. I can always ask Atticus, Dune, or Valentine later.

Maybe this won't be too bad, I can get to know him this way. If he doesn't try to kill me of course. I just have to be prepared for when we meet for our project.

I'm pretty good at transfiguration if I do say so myself. I get this coin out of my pocket and as unnoticeable as I can, turn it into a dagger. I looked around to make sure no one saw what I did. No one is paying attention to me.

I decided to put my dagger on my thigh. No one will notice it there unless I grab it. Before I knew it the bell rings. Now I have to talk to Riddle. I actually have an excuse instead of just being nice now.

I get up from my seat to see Riddle heading out the door already. I jog to catch up to him. He takes big strides with his long legs. I'm not as tall as him so I have to jog until I finally meet up with him.

"Riddle! We have to talk about the project!" He glances down at me for a second but doesn't stop walking.

"I will do this project all on my own if it means you will leave me alone,"

"Um no, I actually do my work Riddle. I'm not just going to leave the hard work to you"

"Well I work better by myself"

"Well I don't care, you're my partner, we are working together" he rolls his eyes. That's one of the only things he can do when he's around me.

As I continue to jog to keep up with him, I look around the room. I see Lestrange and Mulciber standing together. Mulciber is looking right at me. What the fuck. I turn to Lestrange but he's not just looking at me, but at me and Riddle. He looks... jealous? No he can't be. Can he?

"Fine, you want to work, we will work" he scoffs.

"We have time before dinner, we can work now. Better to get it over with, right?" I put on my nice fake smile that I'm sure he can see straight through.

"Fine." He starts heading to the common room. I guess we will be working there.

The walk there is silent, well his walk, my jog. He refuses to even look at me. As we get to the common room entrance, I turn around for a split second. I see Mulciber, staring at me. Again. That's strange.

We walk in the common room to see no one there. Perfect place to get this project over with.

"Do you even know how to do 1st year transfiguration?" Riddle rolls his eyes.

"Actually I'm pretty good at it, I don't know about you though" it's my turn to roll my eyes.

"I'll have you know I'm always top of all of my classes De la Fontaine"

"And I'll have you know that I was the best student in my old school Riddle"

We are going to get nowhere. I just know it. We are bickering too much.

"Well De la Fontaine, maybe you should shut the fuck up. I don't really care about your pathetic life at your old school"

"Pathetic?! Well Riddle, I could say the same about your pathetic excuse for a life"

"What did you just say to me?!"

"You heard me Riddle, you may think my life is 'so pathetic' but in reality it's your life that's pathetic." At this he takes a few steps toward me. I stand my ground and don't move.

"You should really watch your mouth sweetheart,"

"How about you watch yours" he's so close to me. It's disgusting. He points his wand at my throat. My heart rate increases.

"I'd watch what I was saying if I was you, people get killed with a mouth like yours" he looks at me with disgust and hatred.

This is my chance, I grab his arm and twist it. His surprise helped me grab his wand straight out of his hands and throw it across the room. I pull out the dagger.

"Same could be said for you sweetheart" I put the dagger to his neck. He stumbles back a bit, caught off guard. He tries to push me away but I just hold the dagger closer to his neck. So close that if I pressed hard enough, I would draw blood.

"Do it" he says to me in a stern voice. The hatred mixed with disgust look was gone. It was just pure hatred. Pure burning hatred.

"Do it, you wouldn't dare" I stared at him intensely. I could. I could kill him right here, right now. But I can't. That's not smart. He probably has horcruxes. I need to be smart and learn about how many horcruxes he has.

I just press the dagger harder to his neck. It draws blood, he winces a bit but only for a second.

"Believe me, I want to. I should. But I can't, at least not now." He raises an eyebrow at that.

"Oh really? Then bring it sweetheart" at that he pushes me away, grabs his wand and storms out the room.

What did I just do?