the perfect pair ~ T.N.

15 - get friendzoned

16:20, 3rd December

~CATALINA ROSAS~

As I go to my door to open it for Theo, I hear a half mumbled "I can't believe I'm fucking doing this." from outside my room. Great, he's in a pissy mood. 

"Hello?" I say, questioning why he's come so early. He had come at an annoying time for me, I had my hair clipped back while I was doing my makeup, and I was about to change into the outfit the others chose. 

"What?" He says more aggressively than I think both of us expected. 

"Merlin calm down, I said you could come in an hour no need to be mad."

"I'm not mad Lina," He pushes past to lie on my bed. "I'm annoyed that you have to do this."

"I'm doing this willingly," I appreciate what he's saying but, "I'm not being forced."

"I feel like a pimp."

"You calling me a prostitute?" I jokingly say.

Theo's face, clearly thinking I'm being serious, fell. "No, no God Lina I could never."

"Chill, I'm joking."

He breathes, before taking out something from his backpack. "When you meet him, I want you to wear this." He passes me a dainty pendant hanging on a chain. A necklace.

It was a fine peice of metal, an onyx stone which glistened in the sunlight surrounded with intertwining metal keeping it safely locked in. Attached at the bail, a small silver charm with an embelished 'N'. Woah.

"Is this not a Nott heirloom?" I ask. From my closeness with Laila, I have come to know that when a Pureblood gifts family jewellery, it usually mean a proposal. 

He looks panicked when he answers a curt "Maybe," He then carries on. "My mum had a lot of jewellery, and I know this seems weird but I think it would really suit you and she would want you to have it trust me, look that's not imortant. You know that movie we watched the other night? The spy one?"

"Yeah, James Bond." I respond like I'm not internally panicking that he gave me his dead mother's jewellery. Shit. 

"Well, if you press and hold onto the N, the noise around you will go straight into my ring." He says holding up his hand, showing off a ring with the same symbol on it.

"You're doing this because?"

"Because, Chielinski's a creep."

"Aww you care about me."

"Always," He gets up off the bed and looks down at me and in a whisper says. "I forgot to tell you, you look really pretty."

For a second his soft eyes pour into mine, maybe it was the sunset's reflection but his pupils shone with adoration. There is a line I hate to cross, a line which my feelings can get hurt, at this moment that line is feeling like a cliff edge, and I'm close to falling. 

"Thank you," My voice coming out in an equally quiet tone, I cough trying to change the mood. "I should really get changed, we should do something before we have to go."

"Yeah, good idea."

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~THEODORE NOTT~

Lina never knew how beautiful she is.

She got changed into the outfit that the Zabini's picked for her and is just messing with her hair.

"You look great. Stop fussing over your hair when you're going to be with that literal dickwad."

"Let me fuss and I'm hanging out with you first, no?"