Safe- Mattheo Riddle

Same old shit

Aurora

After all the arguing on the train, I had no energy left to even join in with the conversation my 'friends' were having, so after we got off the train, I walked ahead. I'd forgotten just how tiring it was to be around them this much.

We all made our way to the Slytherin common room, located in the dungeons, one of the many reasons I loved being a Slytherin. It was dark and cold just like my soul. As I approached the entrance I spoke the word 'Pureblood' and waited as the door slid open and I walked straight in and up to my dorm. I was really hoping my roommate would have changed this year but that hope was destroyed as I opened the door to see Pansy Parkinson unpacking her trunk. "Aurora Decampo, so very nice to see you again" she spoke in her well known sarcastic tone. "Parkinson, I couldn't say the same unfortunately" i spoke and let a fake smile fall upon my face. I must of pissed her off because her next words were ones that I would surely kill her for. "I see you're still being a slut, three boys at once? Disgusting" she spat at me and with that I turned around and grabbed a handful of her hair and dragged her out of the dorm and into the common room. I didn't really feel like getting blood all over my bed.

As I reached the bottom of the stairs, still dragging Parkinson behind me by her hair, I saw 'my three boys' all sat on the sofas talking, or they were until I threw Pansy onto the floor.

Mattheo

We were all interrupted from our conversation by a loud thud. I spun my head around to see Aurora stood over Parkinson. I should have known it would be her, it always is.

"Decampo, what the hell are you doing?" I shouted as I got up and rushed over towards the girl. "What does it look like Riddle? Parkinson thinks it's okay to call me a slut for hanging around with you three so she needs to be taught a lesson" she said as she smirked at me. Next thing I knew, I'd blinked and she was on top of Parkinson throwing punches, she didn't miss once. That was until Parkinson threw a few back and Aurora got hit to the side of her face, that was definitely going to leave a bruise, this only angered her more and that's when Draco decided to finally speak up. "Riddle, get her off now, that's enough" he spoke as he nodded his head towards the two girls. 

I leant over Auroras back and wrapped my arms completely around her and lifted her up into the air. "Riddle put me down now! I'm not finished, put me down!" She screamed as she thrashed around in my arms. "Malfoy, Nott, see that Parkinson gets to Madame pomfrey" I said quickly before rushing out of the common room with Aurora. I dropped her to the ground before turning her around to face me and lifting her up over my shoulder instead, surprisingly she stopped fighting it and just let me carry her away. When we finally made it to the top of the astronomy tower I put her back on her feet and expecting her to punch me in the face I braced myself for it but instead i opened my eyes to see something even more shocking. She was crying...

Aurora

I let the tears fall without trying to stop them, I didn't care that I'd let down my facade, I didn't care that Mattheo was staring at me. I didn't care about anything.

I sunk down to the floor and pulled my knees to my chest and rested my head on top of them, I expected Riddle to leave but he didn't, instead he sat down next to me and wrapped his arms around my shaking body.

"Hey Decampo, it's okay, shhh it's okay" he spoke softly. I could feel his breath on my neck. It was warm, he was warm. "Aurora, look at me" I could tell the use of my first name felt uncomfortable to him, probably because he expected me to kill him for using it, but he was the only one I would never kill for speaking it. I slowly lifted my head and looked into his eyes, his face was covered in worry, he slowly lifted his hand and rested it on the side of my face as he wiped away a stray tear. "Are you okay?" He asked. That question, that damn question, I'd been getting asked that for years and my answer was always the same 'yes, I'm fine' but somehow in this moment, I knew I couldn't lie, not to him at least. "No Mattheo, I'm not okay" I sobbed "I'm broken, I'm damaged". I felt him sigh, as he pulled me even closer to him, "Aurora, that's not true, you hide behind a wall and it's not good, you can't keep all of this in all the time otherwise eventually...you'll burn out". He whispered the last words as if he didn't want to even think about it, as if saying them would mean it was true, but I think he already knew they were true.

I don't know how long we'd been sat there, it felt like minutes but it had probably been hours. We'd surely missed dinner and Dumbeldore's oh so mighty speech, but I didn't care and neither did he. It was as if we were the only ones left in the world.

Mattheo

I kept my grip tightly around her body, afraid that if I let go she'd crumble. For the first time since I'd met Aurora, I'd seen her cry and although it broke my heart, I felt as though there must be a part of her that trusted me.

I finally spoke for the first time in a long time "hey let's get you up okay?" I said softly into her ear. I felt her shiver and I don't know if it's because it's cold up here or because of my close proximity. I stood up and gently took a hold of her hands to pull her to her feet, I brushed away the hair from her face that was stuck to the wetness on her cheeks. She tilted her head upwards to look at me and I swear I'd never seen someone so beautiful. I pulled her back against my body and wrapped my arms around her waist, as she wrapped hers around my neck and buried her head into my shoulder.

I brushed her blonde hair back behind her ear and whispered softly "you're safe with me".
"How do I know that, everyone else has let me down" she spoke as her voice broke. I pulled away slightly so that I could see her face and looked into her eyes "not me darling, I never will".

Authors note
1171 words :) ahhh second chapter, I'd just like to say this isn't really an enemies to lovers, so things will move slightly faster, in terms of them admitting their feelings for eachother at least. Also, you might recognise something in this chapter from the description ;) hope you're liking it so far!!
Kisses xoxo
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