The Villain's Son ~ Mattheo Riddle

Chapter 26

It was hard to keep my eyes open the next morning. Cho even asked me if I was sick. The tiredness was worth it though. During breakfast my eyes searched for the curly haired boy, but I couldn't see him. I suppose I would just meet him at DADA, but first I unfortunately had astronomy.

"Today we are going to look at the meaning of the positions of certain stars." The professor introduced us.

I didn't fully believe in it, but I did find it interesting. There were a lot of stories about stars, saying things about the future or someone's personality. Personally I didn't believe it had anything to do with either of those things, since it could always change. Nevertheless, Athena and I started the assignment.

"The position of the stars on your birthday are a sign  that you'll bring light to the darkness." Athena said whilst trying not to laugh at the stupidity.

She also didn't believe in the 'mythical' side of astronomy, but the difference between us was that she wasn't even interested. So we spend most lessons laughing at the things we said or did.

"Yours say that your the most stupid person in the world."

"Fuck off." Athena laughed.
"What does it really say?"

"Ehm... you'll wander off the road before meeting your true way." I said.

"What does that even mean?" Athena asked in confusion.

"I don't know, maybe you'll know when you're on your true way." I laughed.

I was looking out to DADA the whole day. I believed that me and Mattheo had taken a step forward in our... knowing-each-other-ship? Weirdly I hadn't seen him in any of the hallways nor during lunch. It made me wonder if he was even attending school. If so, where was he?

For the second time I arrived earlier to DADA than Mattheo. Because of this Athena took a seat next to me. Of course I would prefer Mattheo to sit there but I didn't say anything about it. Seconds and later minutes passed until the lesson was over. Mattheo hadn't walked through the doors of the classroom. He didn't sit next to me. He wasn't in the class.
Was it because of yesterday? Did I ask too much? Was it too personal? It couldn't, right? Where was he? Did something happen?
Many questions went through my mind, but mostly I was worried.
Yes he was good in DADA, and pracaly every class, but that didn't stop the fact that he could be in danger too. Heck his father was Voldermort for Merlin's sake. 
I thought about asking his friends, who I had seen. But maybe that would only make things worse, or weird, so I decided not to. Even though I sat beside him, we weren't friends. We had only had one real conversation. Mattheo probably didn't even think about me, maybe he had already forgotten my name. So it was better for me to leave him alone and wait it out.
Because he didn't attend DADA I paid even more attention to the people in the hallways, hoping to catch a glance of his curly hair. Unfortunately luck wasn't on my side.

When I didn't see him at dinner either I decided to ask my friends about him. Maybe the knew something, considering the fact that Harry's group could have done something.

"Have you guys seen Mattheo today?"

"Are you two already on a missing-each-other type of level?" Athena teased.

I sighed. "Never mind."

"We haven't killed him, if that's what you're asking." Cho said, ignoring my comment.

"That's not what I meant. I know you would never do something as horrible as that."

"Yeah, we know." Cho brushed it of.
"But why did you ask?"

"I haven't seen him the whole day..." I explained.

"Do you really care that much about him?" Athena asked, this time more surprised.

"I don't know. He's just really noticeable, because...well he's his son. But because of that he's also not the safest person.

"So what I'm hearing is that you care about him, right?"

"No tha-"

"THE DARK LORD! HE IS HERE! THE MORSMORDRE (the skull in the sky)!" The astronomy professor screamed in panic and fear as she was running into the big hall.

This one sentence was enough to turn a place full of order and peace into chaos. Many people were screaming, yelling and asking for help. Here and there I saw muggle borns praying to their gods.
I, myself was panicking too. I was afraid for myself, my friends, other kids, the live that I had build up here and the truth. Eventhough I had tried not to judge, I couldn't ignore that there was a big chance that Mattheo was somehow involved or even responsible for this. I looked at my friends who too had panic in their eyes.

"SILENCE!" Dumbledore demanded.
It amazed me how he managed to make everyone listen, even in moments like this where everyone was going crazy.

"The morsmordre doesn't have to mean anything about anyone being here. Remember that there are many skilled wizards teaching at this school who will protect you all and the school itself is also really well guarded. We have to be calm at moments like this. Chaos is what will make us become weak, we have to stand strong." He spoke calmly and clearly.

I noticed how the tension in the room became less and less. My heartbeat was also slowing down, but my mind was still in chaos.
Were my friends right all along? Was this the reason Mattheo hadn't been attending classes the whole day? Where was he now? Would he really attack the school? What did yesterday mean?
It angered me how many questions I had and how little answers I had. It angered me how I thought me and Mattheo could maybe become somewhat friends. It angered me how this situation brought all my doubts back up. Everything was making me angry at this moment. But the fear was even bigger.

"A few professors and I will search the school property. In the meantime you will be waiting here together with the remaining professors." Dumbledoor announced.

My eyes watched the headmaster and a group of professors leave the great hall. The chaos didn't return but was replaced by silence. The atmosphere was filled with fear. People didn't dare to make a sound, afraid of being heard. Heard by something or someone evil.
Under the table Cho, Athena and I were holding hands. We might have problems within our friendship but at this moment we were together.
I held up a thumb, this was as a way to ask whether my friends were ok or not. Both of them nodded, but I knew that we were all feeling anxious.

After what was about half an hour the doors of the great hall opened again. The professors who had gone on 'lookout' all returned to their previous seats. Dumbledore stood in front of his seat and cleared his throat. I stopped breathing. My mind was more focussed on what was going to be said. It could be bad. Bad news ment we could be in big danger. Or it could be good. Even though I wasn't a believer, I still prayed.

"We haven't found anything or anyone on the property. All the protection spells have been checked and seemed perfectly fine. I can assure you all that it's safe."

The whole room sighed in relief as if it had been planned. Cho smiled at us and squeezed my hand. I gave a smile back in return and brought my attention back to Dumbledore. The big news had been spread, but he would surely tell some more relevant information.

"You can choose whether you want to stay here or return back to your dorms. I do expect everyone to be in their own house at ten o'clock. Students who want to leave now will get brought back by the head of their house." Dumbledore explained further.

"What are we going to do?" Athena asked.

"I'm really tired." I admitted. Besides that I also didn't want them to bring up the previous conversation. There was a 99 percent chance they would blame Mattheo for what was going on. The hard part about it was that I don't know if I could blame them. I was getting doubts too myself.

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