𝑆𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔， 𝑅𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒 || 𝑇𝑜𝑚 𝑅𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒 𝑋 𝑂𝑐

five.

"Vivian, are you coming?" Abigayle shook her friend awake. "Coming to where?" The girl stirred awake, her eyes in a kaleidoscope.

"Hodgemade. It's saturday!" Abigayle continues to apply her mascara. "Oh, right. I forgot." In a haze, Vivian quickly began to get ready.

After she was finally ready, she, Abigayle, and a few other girls who she hadn't much ever spoken to began to walk down to the common room.

"Someone's got their eyes on you." Abigayle giggled and nudged Vivian. The girl looked around the room, and her eyes landed on one tall, brunette boy.

Vivian groaned in annoyance. "Give me two seconds." She began to approach Tom. "What?" She crossed her arms and looked up at him.

"Someone's got an attitude today. Did you happen to wake up on the wrong side of the bed?" Tom teased, a small smirk creeping onto his lips.

"Just tell me what you want, Tom. I'm going out with Abigayle." Vivian looked over to her friend, who was watching her.

"Actually, we have plans."
"What? No, we don't." Vivian argued with him. "No one will be at Hogwarts. Today is the best day to teach me. Tell your friends you're busy."

"Tom, you can just cancel my plans for me." Vivian snapped at Tom. "No?" He began to walk away and towards Abigayle.

She could lightly hear their conversation, but not much.

Abigayle then began to frown before walking away from the boy and catching up with her group of friends.

"Tom! I wanted to go with them." Vivian approached the boy angrily. "There's always next weekend. This is far more important than whatever girls get up to anyways."

"How is teaching you about Horcruxes important? Why am I doing it at all? It's not like you're going to make one anyway. Plus, I don't see how you didn't understand the book anyway. I got half way through, and I know so much." Vivian rambled on and on, frustrated as she wanted to go out with Abigayle.

"Listen, you just need to explain to me what I didn't understand, and then you're fine to take your leave." Tom began to walk out of the common room, Vivian following.

"Can't you ask a teacher? or someone else?" The girl groaned. She had a bad feeling about teaching Tom these things. He was too insistent on this knowledge.

"See, teachers wouldn't exactly feel..." He tried to think of the right words to say without throwing her completely off.

"Comfortable teaching a student this expanded knowledge of magic."

Vivian crossed her arms. "Because it's dangerous." She followed behind him still. "Well, I assure you that I'm not going to become a danger." Tom stopped in his tracks, becoming agitated with her.

Vivian fumbled over her own two feet as she bumped into him. "That's exactly what someone who is going to become a danger would say. " She muttered quietly under her breath.

"Speak up." Tom turned around and gave her a downward glance. "Well, I-" Vivian stuttered. "Don't say something if you know that you won't repeat it when asked." Tom's cold voice sent shivers down her spine.

Vivian pushed past him and continued their silent journey to the library. The silence was comfortable yet awkward at the same time.

It was a silence she could live in forever, but a silence she also wanted to fill with words.
"So..." Vivian awkwardly said. She couldn't live in silence forever.

"What were you doing in the restricted section that night?" Asked Tom. "Returning a book." She popped the b.

"A book about dark magic." Vivian nodded. "I was only curious, of course." Tom furrowed his eyebrows in disbelief. "Is that true?" He asked curiously.

"I suppose." She shrugged. "What do you mean, you suppose?" Tom snapped at her before gaining his composure again.

"Why so snappy?" Vivian teased the boy. She stayed silent for a second before finally answering his question.

"Well, sometimes I like to use the magic instead of just studying it. It never ends well, though." She frowned as they both entered the library.

"How come?" Tom continued to query the smaller girl. Vivian looked up at him, wondering why he was so curious as to her use of the dark magic.

"It destroys lives, Tom. It ruins things, takes things. And worst of all, you always feel so grim afterwards." felt herself shiver at the sentence that had just left her pink lips.

"You might have used the magic incorrectly." Stated Tom, as if he knew. "No. I'm very well knowledged in dark magic, Tom." Vivian defended herself.

"Then prove it. Teach me what I couldn't understand." Tom pleaded with the girl. "Maybe it is a sign that you should not learn it."

Tom took a seat at a small table and began to ponder his thoughts. Tom began to grow petulant with Vivian.

"Don't tell me what I should and shouldn't learn." Tom seethed through his teeth. "I'm not! I was just simply suggesting that maybe it's not for you."

"You don't understand what's to come, what I am capable of, Vivian. There is no magic that I cannot take control of."

Vivian grabbed a Horcrux book from the shelf, as Tom had said that. She looked over at the engimatic boy. He was so strange, so difficult to figure out. It was like a difficult riddle.

Vivian was going to solve this riddle, but to do that, she had to help him.

She slowly walked back to Tom with the heavy book under her right arm. "I don't know too much as I couldn't finish, but I'm sure I could educate you slightly."

A smirk befell Tom Riddle's face. He looked like he had just won't the lottery.

"Then we shall get started."