Riddle Me

1

I stretch in bed and lay there looking at the ceiling at the sunlight burning though the curtains, I decide to roll out of bed and start my day with getting dressed once I put on my skinny jeans and T-shirt I pull out my smokes and light one up as I grab my hair brush and start to battle the tangle of knots in between drags, once I had brushed them out I go to the bathroom and brush my teeth and wash my face. I dry my face and look into the mirror as I'm leant over the sink, taking in how I look, my (e/c) eyes starring back at me, the dark bags under my eyes were I can't sleep properly, my (h/c) hair hanging down over my shoulders I close my eyes and breathe in. I slap my hands against the edge of the sink and push myself up, I close the bathroom door and use the toilet, once I'm finished I open the door to find Mattheo sat on my bed 'morning' he says in his morning voice 'morning' I reply 'breakfast?' He asks, I nod 'how did you come in without me hearing you' I ask as I pocket my baccy tin and lighter 'you know I creep around without anyone hearing me' he smirks 'plus I remember you used to jump' he chuckles as he heads to the door 'true' I say and he links his arm with mine and we head downstairs.

We get to the dining-room table and find Draco and narcissa sitting down already 'morning loves, breakfast' she asks, Mattheo nods at her and then she turns to me 'just a coffee please' I say 'no she needs more than that, we have a lot of studying todo today' Tom junior says as he walks into the room. Narcissa gets up and walks out to tell the elves. I look up at Tom as he takes a seat next to me, he turns his head and smiles at me I return that smile and then I look down at my lap, the boys start to talk but I don't listen to them, my mind starts to go around and around with everything that happen in the war and after, I'm still trying to piece stuff together to help it all make sense but I'm still missing pieces and I'm beginning to worry that I'll never know.

I never knew that my parents were death-eaters until I got the owl to say that they had died in the war, I was at Beauxbatons when the war started but once I received that letter I came back to find I had no one, luckily Mattheo found me wondering through London and remembered me from the summers I came home and we would all see each other at family days and bbqs. I told him about my parents and that night we stayed at my family home, a home once happy and bright now dark and dull. He asked Narcissa if I could stay with them and she took me straight in, I've been moved to hogwarts and spent the last year with Tom studying and learning trying to catch up and seems like I'm right where Draco and Mattheo are and Tom doesn't see any reason I'll fail my N.E.W.T.

A hand gently lands on my hand and makes me jump, I look up and see Tom looking at me and he moves his hand back 'so studying again today, like come on we have done enough let us have a day off' Mattheo moans 'well if you don't want to study you can go out but don't moan if your lessons tomorrow are longer and tougher' Tom replies. Draco and Mattheo high five and start talking about going out, I stay quiet 'you staying or going' Tom asks 'I'm staying' I smile, I don't mind I want the best chance off passing my school exams and if I can get ahead I'll take it, I've always been a A* student and I plan to keep it like that 'eat up and today we will study in library then' Tom says.

Once breakfast was done I go outside and light a smoke up, the boys join me 'come on, come to London with us' Mattheo says as he lights his up 'it will be fun' draco says as he stands leaning against the railing over looking the garden 'nope, I'm staying I don't need anything so may as well study ready for school considering we go back in a week' I reply 'I wonder if it's completely rebuild now, I bet McGonagall had her work cut out for her' Draco says 'it is' Tom says as he walks out to join us 'how would you know' Mattheo asks as he puts his smoke out, Tom pulls out a cigarette and lights up before answering 'well I was waiting to tell you all but I'm going to be a professor at hogwarts' we all snap our heads to look at him ' you'll be the youngest professor there won't you' Draco asks 'yeah' he says 'great so my 19 year old brother is going to be my teacher and expect me to call him sir' Mattheo huffs giving Tom side eye 'that's professor Riddle to you' Tom says smiling finding it funny 'great' Mattheo huffs as he gets up stomping off indoors 'see you guys later' draco says as he walks in trying to hide his smile. Once the door closes I burst out laughing and so does Tom 'well he took that better than I thought' Tom says once we manage to stop laughing 'right get your books let's get our lesson started' he tells me as we walk indoors.

It's been 2 hours and I've managed to finish the work for transfiguration and we are now working on defence against the dark arts 'so we will be looking at more of the hexes and jinxes today, your actually going to be learning all about these ones this year' Tom says 'is this lesson your going to be teaching' I ask 'don't say anything to the other two but yeah' Tom smiles turning his head towards me 'smoke break' he asks and I nod my head, he pulls out his smokes and hands me one I go to get up but he tells me to sit back down 'your allowed to smoke in here just not the rest of the house, Narcissa doesn't come in here so she doesn't have a problem' Tom says as he holds his lighter towards me. We carry on studying while we smoke and before we know it we have finished all the work and it's only 1pm. Tom starts to pack away 'your done for the day now' I pack my stuff away and drop it back off at my room, i know I need to go back to my parents house at some point to grab my stuff for school and some other bits but I've been putting it off up until now and at some point i have to face it but I don't know if I'm ready yet, after pacing for a while I decide fuck it. I head down stairs and run into Tom 'I need to nip out so I'll be back in abit' I say as I grab my shoes pulling them on 'you ok' he asks 'umm I think so... I need to get my stuff from my.. parents house' I say as I try not let the nerves get to me 'hang on' Tom says as he runs upstairs and a minute later he come back down 'ready' he asks I look at him confused 'you think I'm going to let you go on your own' 'you don't have to' I say 'let's go' he opens the front door and we head down the drive way 'thank you' I say knowing at least someone else will be there with me. He holds his arm out and I know he's offering to apparate us to save time, I quickly push my keys back in my pocket as I had my portkey on it for home. I wrap my arm around his and he puts his hand onto of it and off we go.

We arrive in the over grown garden of my childhood home, I look at the house and it hasn't changed in the last 4 months since I've been here, we head to the front door and I pull my keys out and unlock the door. We step in and everything is dark, I go room to room and pull the curtains open letting the sun light in, Tom walks around the room and starts to look at the pictures 'I remember seeing your parents at his meetings' Tom says making me jump 'guess it's a Gaunt thing'  I say 'sorry I didn't mean that' I say knowing that Tom is apart of that blood line as well 'don't be sorry it's true, tho I'm still trying to work out how related we are and to be honest I'm having trouble finding your family line' Tom replies turning to face me 'what do you mean' I ask 'well I have the family blood line in the family history books and the gaunt line stops with ominus there isn't any mention of a blood line after him' he says scratching his head 'that's weird' I say as I move towards the stairs 'hang on come with me I think my dad has our family history books upstairs' I start to run upstairs with Tom behind me, I open their bedroom door and step in I can still smell their scents in here faintly, I freeze for a moment and I feel Tom put his hand of my back letting me know he's there, I take a deep breath trying to stop the tears from falling. I step forward to the wardrobe and slide the door open, I pull a load of the boxes out and wipe my eyes trying to make it look like I got dust in them, I stack two of the boxes on to of each other and pick them up and go to walk out of the room 'let's take them to my old room' I say and Tom quickly grabs the other two and follows me to the end of the hall. I drop the boxes onto the floor in the middle of my room and sit down next to them and Tom does the same, I get up and grab my ashtray, I pull a smoke out and start to look through the first box, I find nothing but diary's and journals when I open the first one and see the name of my great great grandmother 'what's that' Tom asks as he flicks through the papers in his box 'umm a journal I think from my great great grandmother' I say 'there's a whole box of them' I say as I click through them and put them back in 'put the lid back on and if you want we can take them back' Tom says 'I think I will' I say and slide the lid back on and I place them to once side. After half an hour we find the blood line book 'let's get everything you need and we can head back before going through this' I smile at the idea 'yeah okay' I grab three trucks from the hallway cupboard, Tom starts to load the journals and the book into one and I grab all my school stuff, as I'm finishing I see that toms moved the remaining boxes back to the wardrobe, I grab two of the trucks and Tom walks back in and takes the heaviest two and leaves me with the light one, once downstairs I quickly run to the kitchen with my truck and flick it open, I take the two fire whisky bottles  from the cupboard and the two vodka ones as well 'I'm ready' I say as I close the curtains and I find Tom already outside 'you lock up and I'll be back in a couple of minutes after I drop these back' he say and I nod my head. He apparates away leaving me at the front door, I pull out a smoke and I wait, I stand onto of the cigarette butt putting it out as Tom arrives back and walks back over to me and off we head back to our new home.