Safe- Mattheo Riddle

Late

Aurora

It had been three weeks since me and Theo had become husband and wife and even though we were expecting to return to school straight away, that wasn't the case.

Theo's father had sent him an owl a few days after the wedding telling him that now he was married, the Nott family manor in London had become his. Well ours. He wanted us to move there and live there whenever we were on break from school.

The move had taken a long time, we were flitting between the Decampo manor and Theo's father's manor. Collecting all of our things and transporting them to our new manor in London.

We had finally finished moving everything today and the manor had been redecorated to our tastes. It was truly beautiful and a place I could very easily call home. It was surrounded in beautiful meadows, I could watch the sunset every evening and the sunrise every morning from our bedroom window. As clear as day.

I'd still been receiving letters from Mattheo almost everyday and I had been trying my best to write back. In all honesty I didn't know what to say to him, I had so much that I needed to admit to him but it had to be in person. I owed him that.

Theo was the one that had informed Mattheo of the move. He said that Mattheo wasn't mad and understood we had to do this to keep up the facade. Except, it wasn't so much of a facade to me anymore, I had fallen in love with Theodore Nott. I hadn't told him because I'm worried he won't feel the same because Theo is good and kind and I doubt he would ever let himself hurt Mattheo like that.

"Hey mi amore, what are you thinking about?" Theo asked as he walked into the room, rubbing a towel over his wet hair.

"Um just everything, Theo I um- I need to talk to you" I swallowed harshly.

"What's going on Aurora?" He furrowed his eyebrows and came and sat on the bed next to me.

"I think um- no I know that I um- I love you" I spat it out quickly and hid my face in my hands.

"Aurora, look at me" so I did, I looked straight into his eyes.

"I love you too, I always have, it's always been you but you have to speak to Mattheo first before you really promise yourself to me. I mean I know we are already married but you know what I mean" he rambled.

"Yes I know what you mean Theo" I said with a small laugh. "Hey can you pass me, my journal?" I asked Theo with a toothy smile.

"Of course I can" he grabbed it from on top of the dresser and handed it to me. I opened it up to my calendar on the first page and as I looked over the last month, I furrowed my brows. My period hadn't come yet. I counted the days in my head from my last period and realised it had been 35 days since my last period started. Oh no, and me and Theo got married 3 weeks ago which means, I could have been ovulating when we first slept together before the wedding. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. My period had never been late since I first got it when I was 12, always a 30 day cycle. Nothing more and nothing less.

Theo was now staring at me with a confused look on his face.

"Aurora? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, yes. Of course I am. I actually need to use the bathroom" I sent him a toothy smile and jumped off the bed and literally ran away from him. When I got into the bathroom and shut the door, I slapped my hand against my forehead and muttered "what an idiot" under my breath at myself.

I opened up my side of the cupboard under the sink and reached right to the back and pulled out a pregnancy test. A gift from my mother after the wedding. She told me it was a muggle thing and even though she despised them, that it was very straight forward and the easiest thing to use. I read the instructions on the back of the box and did exactly as it said. Not skipping out on any details, I even timed how long I held it in my urine.

As I was waiting the three minutes, I was nervous. I could feel anxiety in my chest. I couldn't stop bouncing my leg up and down.

When the three minutes I'd been counting down in my head, had come to an end. I took in a deep breath and released it through my mouth. I grabbed the test and turned it over in my hands. I let my eyes flicker down to it and my heart stopped....Pregnant.

Theo

Aurora had been in the bathroom for a long time and I was getting worried, I thought it was strange when she ran away from me but it's Aurora, I just let it go.

But now that she still hadn't come out after 10 minutes, I knew something was wrong. I walked across the room and softly tapped my knuckles against the wood of the door.

"Mi amore, are you okay?" She didn't answer, instead I heard soft sniffling through the door. She was crying. I couldn't stand it. I grabbed my wand from my bedside table and muttered "alohamora".

The door clicked open and I walked in, to see Aurora sat on the bathroom floor holding something to her chest. She had tears running down her cheeks, but she wasn't sad, she was smiling.

"Darling what's going on?" I kneeled down in front of her.

She held her shakey hand out to me and I looked down seeing some sort of stick in it. I took it from her and looked at it, flipping it over in my hands, I saw the words 'Pregnant' on a small digital screen.

"W-what Aurora, are you?" There were tears brimming in my eyes.

"Yes, yes I am" she looked up at me and smiled widely.

"Come here" I pulled her into my arms and stood up, lifting her up with me. I carried her into the room and spun her around.

"You're carrying a baby right now, my baby" I spoke, still in shock.

"Shit, I shouldn't squeeze you so hard" I placed her back on her feet.

She lent her head against my chest and wrapped her arms around my waist. I placed a kiss to her forehead.

"Let's get into bed darling, let me take care of you, well both of you" I said with a smirk on my face.

"Both of me" she whispered gently, placing her hands on her lower stomach.

I watched her with a smile on my face, I had everything I ever wanted right here but the only problem was, it wasn't supposed to be mine. She was supposed to be Mattheo's, this baby should belong to Mattheo. Was it so wrong of me to want to be selfish? To not tell him and live in this little world forever?

Authors note
(1209 words) ashdyeheidiehwhsyehe, thats all I really have to say about this chapter. Angry Mattheo next chapter hehe.
Kisses xoxo
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