Borrowed time; Mattheo Riddle

Chapter 31

Mattheos pov

Sense Pansy had set us on house arrest until 7pm we decided to all get ready together in Enzo and Theo's dorm while doing some pre drinking. 

We were all in suits, Blaise in a light beige one, Theo in a dark blue and the rest of us in black.

"Whats the time?" Enzo asked as he fixed a few loose strands in his hair.

"6.55pm" Blaise answered after looking at his watch. 

"I hope they prepared some bomb as food cause I'm fucking starving" Theo said as he walked out of the bathroom buttoning his suit jacket. 

"Knowing my girl it will be" Draco spoke before downing his whisky and heading for the door. We followed him out as Blaise gave me a reassuring pat on the back. They all knew it was gonna be a hard night with the resent events between me and Bella. I don't really speak with them about it but I haven't been able to think about anything but her and how to fucking fix this mess, not that the constant reflecting and self hatred has made me any wiser in the matter. 

We entered the common room that had been thoroughly decorated and rearranged for tonight's event. Draco went straight for Pansy who was standing in the middle of the room awaiting us. 

"Damn baby, you really outdid yourself tonight" he said as he kissed her. It would have been cute if I didn't already feel like ripping my heart out. Daphne approached us in a light blue dress, kind of on theme with Theo's dark blue suit and I could see the smile on his face as he realized. 

My eyes wondered around the room seeing her angelic form as she was lighting the last candles on the dining table. Her back was to us but as soon as she turned around it felt like all the air had left my lungs. Her dress was absolutely stunning, hugging her body in all the right places and her face was as beautiful as ever, but her hair... She had colored a big strand of it white and it suited her perfectly. I don't think a single breath left my lungs as she walked over to us. She could probably feel me stare at every inch of her as I admired her beauty but I really couldn't care less. 

"Damn girl, who the hell are you and what happened to our Bella?" Blaise noticed her hair snapping me out of my dreamy state.  

"Well I felt like doing something new.. What do you think?" she asked trying to sound confident but I could her the uncertainty in her voice as she asked. 

"Well I think it looks sexy as fuck" Blaise responded earning a stare from me to which he did not seem to care about. 

Everybody else agreed that they loved it and her mind seemed to ease a bit. Pansy lead everybody over to the dining table, as I stayed put to walk last I noticed she did too. 

"You look beautiful" I said grabbing her attention "and the hair really suites you". 

She looked at me for what felt like eternity before a soft thanks left her lips and she followed the rest of them to the table. 

A 3 course meal was served and and it sure was delicious. Theo was causally flirting with Daphne the whole time barely paying attention to the food he was bitching about earlier. We surprisingly had a good time laughing about life and the year that had passed and when we were done with our deserts Pansy tapped her glass and got up. 

"I would like to make a toast" she said raising her champagne. "First of all I would like to say thanks to Professor Snape for bringing this little devil in to our lives" she began as she looked over at Bella who laughed at it. "And secondly I would like to thank you all for this past year, it has had it's ups and downs but I think we all made it out quite alright. And lastly cheers for our last year at Hogwarts, it had been hell living with you all for the past seven years but I guess I will  miss this" her eyes were turning glossy as she spoke and Draco raised his glass finishing for her "Cheers to us". Raising our glasses we all toasted. 

The alcohol was hitting pretty good and we moved over to the couches, Bellas who had been sitting opposite me at the dinner tormenting me every time my eyes cough sight of her did ones again seat her self opposite me. I tried to not be a creep who constantly stared at her but it was physically impossible to tear my eyes from her. Everything about her was just fucking perfect and I don't know how I could have been so stupid not to see it before, the way her hair falls in lose curls and how her eyes glimmer when she smiles. 

Her dress showing of her round breasts and the curves from her hips, I bet if I got the change to look I would be able to see her ass bounce under the light fabric of her dress as she walked. 

She was talking to Blaise her plump lips almost moving in slow motion as I watched them, longing for the feel of them colliding with mine ones more. God she was driving me insane. 

"So I think we should go and prep the fire works, I mean it's only and hours till midnight and we have A LOT of fireworks to set up" Enzo said as she rubbed his hands together. He had Blaise had been in charge of buying a few fire works but as Enzo had explained earlier in their dorm a few has different meanings to everyone and about 50 was apparently a few for him... 

Pansy was too drunk to actually register what Enzo had said but both Daphne and Bella had heard  and was looking at eachother with concerned looks. Pansy got up and the rest of us followed. As we were walking the corridors Pansy turned around inspecting us, "Ooo, even numbers, that's great" she said happily. We all looked at her confused while Draco held a steady grip around her guiding her as she walked backwards to look at us. Noticing our confused looks she continued "You know, even numbers mean we'll all have someone to kiss when it hits midnight" she explained it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Blaise let out a scoff at her, "Unless Enzo magically turns in to a girl I'm not kissing anyone during midnight". 

"Who said I was gonna kiss you?" Enzo retorted. 

"Well Theo's obviously gonna kiss Daphne" who's cheeks turned bright red as Blaise spoke, "Draco is gonna eat up Pansy's face" yep that was most likely gonna happen "and well you know" he looked between me and Bella as the awkwardness grew.  

"Easy solution" Bella spoke sending an innocent but at the same time evil smirk at Blaise, "I'll just kiss Enzo and you can cuddle up with Riddle instead". 

My face dropped at her words, not only did she not want to kiss me at midnight but she was gonna kiss Enzo? No fucking way in hell was that gonna be happening. I gave Enzo a stern look telling him that if he touched her he was dead but he was earthier to drunk to register or just completely ignoring me as she walked over to Bella with a smile wrapping his arm around her and sending a wink to Blaise "Though luck mate". Bella laughed as they walked away following Pansy and Draco who was moving with clumsy steps towards the exit and down to the black lake.