Safe- Mattheo Riddle

A new day

Aurora

Waking up was hard, my eyes were burning and dry, not used to spilling so many tears. I felt exhausted, like I could sleep for days, but I couldn't. I stood up from my bed and made my way into the bathroom, thanking Merlin that Parkinson was still asleep. I looked at my reflection in the mirror and didn't recognise the girl staring back at me. Red bloodshot eyes, a puffy face, tangled hair but today I didn't care about my appearance, so I quickly brushed through my hair and scraped it up into a messy bun on the top of my head. I debated using a small amount of concealer but in all honestly I didn't have the energy.

Once I'd pulled on my uniform, I put my robes on over the top, I didn't want any attention today, i was used to being stared at by every boy in the corridors. None of them ever brave enough to say a word but I could see them all looking. The only boy whose attention I did want, was the one I was most nervous to see. Mattheo had walked me all the way to my door last night, pulled me in for a hug, kissed my head and told me things would get better and I swear I could feel my heart warm up slightly at his words but I was worried how things would be with us today, did he only do and say all of that because I was crying and he didn't know what else to do? Would he hide his feelings like he always did?. My thoughts continued to run wild as I walked to potions, but they were thankfully interrupted by Theo shouting at me down the hallway.

"Decampo, hey, where were you after your bitch fight yesterday? You didn't come to the feast?" I took in a deep breath at his words, because Mattheo obviously hasn't told him, unless he just hasn't seen him to tell him yet? So do I lie or tell the truth?. I was snapped out of my thoughts by a hand on my shoulder, "Aurora, are you okay? You don't seem like yourself?" Theo asked me with worry in his voice. "Yeah, yeah...I'm fine. Just tired, um I was in the astronomy tower last night" I spoke back quietly and gave him a small smile. "Okay um, let's go into class yeah?" Theo said with a smile, "yeah sure" I spoke and walked into the room in front of him and that's when like always, all eyes were on me. Usually I'd say something along the lines of 'take a fucking picture it will last longer' but today I looked down at the ground and walked straight to my seat. Theo sat down in his seat which was behind mine and I already knew he was wondering what the fuck just happened and why I didn't say anything to anyone.

I could hear people whispering, I could hear them saying my name and it would normally make me so angry that I could kill everyone but today it didn't. Today it made me sad, Mattheo was right, my walls have started to break down and I could feel every emotion I've put off flooding in. I felt a cold tear roll down my cheek and if I lifted my head up right now, everyone in class would see me crying, which i didn't want and luckily no one had sat in the seat next to me, which wasn't at all surprising. Until I felt the presence of someone next to me and I damned myself for jinxing it but then I felt a hand on my thigh and I looked down and recognised it immediately. I lifted my head and was met with the worried expression of Mattheo Riddle.

"Darling, you're crying, what's wrong"

His voice was in my head, I always forget he can do that so easily.

"I'm okay Mattheo, I promise"

I lied.

"Darling, I'm in your head right now, I know you're lying. We will talk after class and don't think I didn't notice you weren't at breakfast, you have to eat Aurora"

Aurora, I loved the way he said my name.

"You love how I say your name, huh?"

I looked at him to see he had a massive smirk on his face.

"Wipe that smirk off your face and get out of my head"

And with that professor Snape walked in and told us all to get our books out.

~after class~

As soon as we left the classroom, I had Mattheo, Theo and Draco on my tail. I stopped walking and turned around to look at them "what's going on why are you all following me?" I asked with furrowed eyebrows. "Mattheo told us about last night" Draco said quietly knowing that if anyone else heard him say that, I would kill him. I took in a deep breath and let it out with a sigh "boys I'm okay, I swear" I tried to force a small smile onto my face but it didn't seem to ease their nerves. "Aurora, you're not okay" Theo said and placed his hand onto my shoulder. "Theo I promise, I am, I'm just not doing so good with all these emotions" I smiled at him, "d-did you just call me Theo?" He stuttered. "I always call you Theo" I said with a huff. "No no, you don't, you always call us all by our last names, damn Mattheo you really did a number on her last night" Theo exclaimed way too loudly and that earned him a punch in the arm from me and a scowl from Mattheo. "Shutup you idiot! Don't be so loud" I said in a low angry whisper, "OW you didn't have to punch me Aurora" he whispered back. I let a small chuckle fall from my lips which caused all the boys to look at eachother questionably. "Now, Malfoy, Nott, fuck off so I can talk to my girl" Mattheo finally spoke up, my eyes widened at his use of the term 'my girl' and so did the others boys.

Authors note
(1032 words) It's going to get a lot more interesting I swear, but I need to build up the plot a bit and let you get to know the characters. I'm trying to make Mattheo soft with Aurora in this story and ruthless with everyone else, so I hope I'm getting that across right.
Enjoy!!
Kisses xoxo
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