Borrowed time; Mattheo Riddle

Chapter 34

Bellas pov

I woke up peacefully in Mattheo's arms, feeling safer than I had in a long time. My back was to his front and I tried to turn around as sneakily as possible to not wake him... that failed. "Good morning" he said with his eyes still closed. I nuzzled my way closer burying my face in his chest before responding. We laid in bed a while longer as he grazed his fingers up and down my back almost making fall back asleep.

A hard knock sounded on the door before a well to known voice spoke, "Get up sleepy heads, someone just went in for a shower and your not gonna wanna miss this" she spoke excitedly thru the door. "Oh and I really hope you're in here but just in case I will go and yell thru Mattheo's door too".

I moved back a little so that I could look at him. "We should get goin" I said, studying the futures of his face. "Is it really that funny that we need to get up?" He said trying to drag me back towards his chest. "Yes, you're definitely not gonna wanna miss this, trust me" I pulled back from him giving him a peck on the lips before walking over to the bathroom.

"Hey do you have a pen?" I heard Mattheo ask from inside my room.

"Yeah? There should be one in my nightstand, and if not there is on my desk" I responded. I heard him begging to open drawers and quickly realized my mistake. Quickly making my was out of the bathroom without seeming suspicious a came to a halt as I saw him holding one of the potions, the drawer wide open.

"Whats this?" he asked looking over at me.

"Oh that's just some headache potion Snape gave me" I tried to sound relax but my insides were screaming. He looked at me suspiciously turning the flask around "Whats in it?.

"Huh?" I held my hand behind my back hoping he wouldn't see how much they were shaking.

"I have never seen a potion for headache this color, whats it made of?" sense when did he become an expert on headache potions?

"Oh just some dittany and feverfew and probably a few other thing, Severus makes them for me so I don't really know the exact recipe" I think I played that of pretty good. Although he still didn't look convinced.

"You have a big stash" he glanced down the drawer were probably about 15 potions was sitting.

"Yeah I get a lot of headaches, runs in the family" I walked over to my closet to try and distract my shaking self and seem somewhat normal.

"Well I guess you wouldn't mind if I take one then, I have a bit of a hangover from last night" he began opening the bottle and I quickly turned around screaming no, a bit more dramatically then I had planed.

His gaze turned mad, he knew I was lying. "I mean they're quite strong and I don't think it would be suitable for a hangover" shit I was talking absolute nonsense right know and there were no way in hell he would buy it, I wouldn't even buy it.

He looked at me for a few second, in which I did not breathe, before he closed the lid and put the potion back in the drawer and closed it. "Okay" was all he said as he walked over to me kissing my forehead before going in to the bathroom.

I was left speechless. How the fuck did that just work, did he believe me? No he's smarten then that, but why did he just agree and... Im so fucking confused right now.

Deciding it was for the better I entered my walk in closet and got changed, when I reentered the room Mattheo was dressed and ready by my desk. He folded a bit of paper and put it in his pocket as I approached. "What was that?" I asked a bit curious. "Nothing" he said getting up and grabbing my hand as we exited the room and headed for the common room.

The others were already there and Daphne and Pansy was definitely on edge. "Omg, finally. She should be here any minute" Pansy said as we took a seat in the couches. The room had been rearranged by the elf's to is usual state, probably sometime during the night or early morning.

After sitting around for a while listening to Theo complaining that he was hungry we finally heard it. The loud scream echoed in the halls before angry footsteps could be heard approaching. A furious Astoria came in to view and it was better than we could have even imagined. Her hair was bright blue, her face and neck purple and the rest of her body was green. The boys was shocked for a moment before they all burst in to laughter, I tried to hold mine back but it was impossible. Daphne and Pansy both gave in as well and Astoria just stood there fuming as she looked at us.

"Which one of you whores did this?" She directed her question to us girls. I mean it not hard to figure out, were basically the only people here except for the teachers, and Pansy did threaten her yesterday...

"Be careful who you call a whore Greengrass" Blaise said regaining some composure. "From what I can see they're only one here and she's gonna run out of business looking like that" he tried his best to hold back his laughter.

I don't actually think it would have matters if we skipped the face cream, her face would have been read enough on it's own. She sent a deadly glare around the room until she landed on Mattheo. "You gonna let them get away with this Matty?" she put on some disgusting puppy eyes as she looked at him, hoping he would side with her. Oh boy was she wrong...

"You're right" he said getting up. Astorias face lit up with happiness as she thought he was standing up for her. I won't lie, I was a bit concerned when he got up, until he turned back around to me and pick me up, throwing me over his shoulder. "My girl is gonna need to be rewarded for that" he said smacking my ass while he slowly walked backwards towards his dorm, I couldn't see it but I knew there was a smug grin on his face.

A furious sound was heard from Astoria before her angry footsteps reiterated back to the dormitories.

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Let's just say Mattheo definitely know how to rewards someone, it took every ouch of strength in me not to show how much my legs were wobbling as we made our way down to breakfast. The others were already seated, some done with their food while others seemed to have just started. Seems like I wasn't the only one who got rewarded for our little prank...

"You really took your time didn't you?" Enzo said as we joined the table.

"Good things take time Berkshire, maybe if you tried it you wouldn't be eating breakfast alone with Zabini" Mattheo responded with a grin.

We left the subject and instead talked about the upcoming year. Pansy tried to convince everyone that we should take a trip after we graduate to celebrate and Theo up offered his families vacation house in Italy. I stayed quiet eating my food while they planned out the entire summer with vacations roadtrips and partying.

The hardest part was knowing that my death was probably gonna put a stop to their plans. Maybe if I just disappear after graduation they won't suffer as much and they can live their lives thinking I just ran away.

Mattheo's hand on my thigh brought me out of my thoughts. "You good?" he whispered, not wanting to draw the attention of the others. I just nodded in a response before putting on a forced smile and pretending that I was listening to the summer plans.