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"Im thinking tomorrow night, Slytherin party?" Theo says as he takes his seat on the couch the next day. Mattheo not paying attention and avoiding eye contact didn't seem to bother Theo, or anyone else for that matter. "Yeah sounds good mate, I'll get the drinks and that." Draco says. "I'll get the snacks and weed" Blaise says. "I could bring the green lights out from the last play." Tom says.

Olivia walks into the room and sits adjacent to Mattheo. "Why is Tom going to bring green lights out?" She says, her words lift Mattheos head and brings his eyes to hers. "Party" Mattheo says. Olivia shifts her view to Mattheo "Sounds good.When?" She asks. "Tomorrow night." Mattheo smiles.He's planning something.But what? Olivia tilts her head at his quick replies. "You coming?" Theo nudges her, knocking her line of view from Mattheo to Theo. "I might make an appearance." She says, Theo smiles and pats her back.

The group splits to continue their day, Olivia is now in DADA with Mattheo across the room from her. She focuses heavily on the work, still having a fiery passion for her academics. She finished the worksheet earlier and decided to scan the room, in doing so she catches Mattheos gaze burning into her. She meets his eyes and smiles. He smiles back and finishes his work.

The class ends, and Olivia roams the halls with her free period. The second she hears another pair of footsteps she turns around and sees Cormac. "Hello sweetness." He says, making her confused. With furrowed brows Olivia says "Excuse me?". He steps closer to her, "You going to that party tonight?" He asks, reaching his hand out to her hair, tucking it behind her ear. She recoils at the feeling of his hand. Not just because she doesn't like him, but because it wasn't Mattheos. "Yes." She lifts her hand and pulls Cormacs off of her hair.

He steps closer again, placing a hand on her waist and beginning to rub his fingers along the waist hem of her skirt. Her face is full of disgust "What do you think you're doing?" Olivia swats his hand off her, only for him to place both aggressively pushing her back to the wall and push his body closer to her. "I see how you look at me, Nott" He says, finding the zip on her skirt. Cormac is suddenly ripped off of the girl and brought to the floor.The contact of Mattheos fist to his face could probably be heard throughout the castle. Olivia stands there still in shock and she screams "Mattheo get off!" She runs to him to pull him off but he pushes her back , blinded by adrenaline.

She stands there, knowing he's not fully here. "Mattheo please" Olivia's voice now breaking.Mattheo holds his fist in the air, coming to his senses. He had done it again, he knows this is going to make his reputation worse so he rips himself from the boy. "Fuck" Mattheo wipes his face, getting blood on it. His senses now clogged, not focusing on anything else as he sinks further into realisation of what he just did for Olivia. His broken out of it by Olivia's soft hands grasping onto his shoulders. Her gaze rescues him and he turns his body to her, pulling himself into her arms.

She pulls him closer into the hug, bringing his back to face Cormac, who is now standing up and walking away stroppy. She rubs his back as his body twitches, crying. "I'm so sorry Via" Mattheo said, burrowing his head into her neck."It's okay." She reassured him. She pulled away from the hug, holding her hand in place on his back and leads him to his dorm.

They enter and she pulls him onto his bed, where she lays on her back with his head on her chest and she rubs her fingers in circles in his curls. His breathing now calm, steady she knew he wasn't crying anymore. "Thank you Matt.I don't know what would have happened if you didn't save me." She says, eyeing the ceiling. He sniffs "Ill always be there. You don't have to worry about anything like that anymore." He says. "Can we not go to lessons tomorrow?I don't want to face anyone." Mattheo says. Olivia thinks, then decides thinking was useless, because she already knew the answer. "You want me to stay here then? We can just study in here tomorrow" She says. They both sat up in the bed and faced eachother. "Yeah" He says.

Olivia pulls the first aid box from under his bed, and takes his hand in hers as she wipes the blood off of his knuckles. He avoids eye contact, ashamed. As she gets the last few spots of blood off, she admires him. Noticing smaller things, the way his curls fall perfectly over his eyes, not too much so he can't see but enough to add shape to his hair. "I've always liked your hair" She tells him. "Really?" He says, turning his head and meeting her eyes. Olivia nods and places the box back under the bed, "I just think I like brunettes" She shrugs and Mattheo rolls his eyes as he pulls her to lay with him.

"How are we going to tell people?" Olivia asks. "Tell people what?" Mattheos reply makes Olivia confused. "Uhh that we're not going tomorrow" , "We won't." Mattheo pulls her closer and shuts his eyes. Olivia rubs her thumb in circles on his shoulder blade before eventually closing her eyes too.