Back to you-Mattheo Riddle x OC

18

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March had come around quickly, it was a month since Elizabeth had been laid up in the infirmary. A month since Mattheo had slept at her bedside.

After that night, she didn't see much of him. Not as much as she would've liked. Brief passings in the halls and longing looks in class but that was it all it was.

He seemed different somehow, happier. His laughter could often be heard in the common room but Elizabeth didn't have the guts to ask him why. She didn't have to guts to talk to him at all. If anything, it was her avoiding him. Simply because she couldn't help but want to kiss him every time she saw him.

So as she awoke on that Saturday morning, it dawned on her, that today was her eighteenth birthday.

It hadn't been a priority, not with all of the studying she had to do. Not with her plans to distract herself from Mattheo.

"Happy birthday!" Pansy ran out of the bathroom, squealing as she wrapped her arms around Elizabeth's body.

"Thank you pans" Elizabeth chuckled slightly as she stood up, making her bed before going over to her trunk and grabbing out a white tennis skirt and a grey cropped jumper.

"Get ready and come down to the common room!" Pansy smirked before disappearing from the room. It would seem, Elizabeth herself was the only one who had forgotten.

With a soft sigh, she brushed out yesterday's curls, deciding they were worthy enough to see another day. She applied a thin coat of mascara and some lip gloss before getting dressed.

Her beat up converse were her shoes of choice and paired with her tennis skirt, she thought they looked great. The air wasn't really warm enough for a skirt yet, but Elizabeth didn't care, she was over the dark and gloomy winter.

Her wand was shoved into her waistband before she left her dorm, shutting the door behind her and taking on the stairs in a slight jog.

Her eyes widened when she saw all of her friends on the sofa's. Smiling up at her with gifts littered around them.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" they all shouted at once, making the girls nose screw up slightly.

"Thank you guys, but you didn't have to do this" Elizabeth smiled softly.

Mattheo's face dropped as he realised she wasn't excited. Elizabeth had always loved her birthday, claiming that being born in march, was the best thing ever. So he wasn't sure why it was different this year.

"Here! Open ours first!" Blaise and Enzo shoved the box into Elizabeth's hands as soon as she sat down on the old armchair.

"Okay" Elizabeth looked at them questionably as she ripped the wrapping paper open. Her eyes narrowed as she looks at the boys but when she pulled the lid off the box, she smiled widely.

"I love it! Thank you" a brown leather satchel, rested inside. The initials 'EM' sunk into the leather. It was the perfect gift.

"It was my idea" Enzo raised his eyebrows.

"No it wasn't!" Blaise hissed, shoving his shoulder lightly.