Our Past ; Mattheo Riddle

dumbledoor

Valeria and Mattheo got ready for their classes and headed down to the common room to meet with their friends. As they walked down they saw Enzo and Theo on the couch holding their heads in their hands, Pansy was drawing in her sketchbook with bags under her eyes and gagging in her mouth every couple minutes, Draco was laying on the single arm chair with his eyes closed and head falling back, and blaise was sitting in front of the fire staring straight into it. "Well look who finally decided to show." Pansy smirked at the two of them who were walking down the stairs, "How the fuck are you guys not dying right now?" Draco groaned and leaned his head back down onto the back of the armchair. "You guys need to learn how to hold your alcohol." Valeria giggled at the look of all her friends, "Easy for you to say Val." Blaise took his eyes off of the fire to look over at her, she looked perfectly fine with not even a hair out of place, even Mattheo looked like a wreck standing next to her. "Ill make you guys a hangover potion during my free period don't worry." She smiled and with a flick of her hand, everyone had looked very put together and without the eye bags under their eyes'. They all stood up wobbling a little bit back and forth until they all were seemingly ok to head to breakfast. They made it to the great hall and as they walked in, all eyes went to them and as they stared around the room, they could see almost the entirety of the Slytherin table and some people from other tables looking absolutely horrid. The party last night was a big hit and for most people at the school, these parties were the only time they were able to drink because they were too good of goodie two shoes' to do it at home or in their own common rooms. They knew that at every slytherin party, they always had people in the halls and outside of the common room on lookout so that they could distract teachers or other houses' prefects from finding out what was happening on the inside, and if there ever was a teacher that was able to get in, Valeria was able in a split second to stop everything going on and disguise it as a study session in the common room. It was very easy for her to use her special magic to help people in muddy situations, and it took a lot out of her, but she would much rather save the entire house than let everyone go to shit including her.

Everyone sat down at their specific spots at the slytherin table, they had all always sat in those places ever since first year and that would never change. Everyone started piling food on their plates as Valeria just decided to grab a cup of coffee, she knew that at least one person would call her out on it but she decided not to care at the moment and just do her thing. She looked up from her coffee and saw mattheo staring straight at her and mouthing 'eat something' but she couldn't get herself to do it. Val had always had problems with eating starting from the age of eight when her mother had made a comment that she was looking to heavy in her ballgown getting ready for the christmas ball. Valeria had always loved her mother but that was the one thing that she had an issue with. Her mother had always commented on her weight and kept her from eating some nights which soon lead to an eating disorder and she was able to get rid of it for a little bit but ever since she started drinking and smoking again, it had come back. Enzo used to always be the one on her ass about her eating habits and telling her she needs to eat. And whenever she was in the dumps, he would help her through it but Enzo at the moment was too caught up in his hangover to notice. The only one noticing it being Mattheo, but she was saved when Dumbledick started making his speech.

"Now, the moment you've all been waiting for, the champion selection. The Durmstrang champion is.. Viktor Krum!" Valeria was so excited for Viktor as he was her best friend when she left and moved to Durmstrang, " The champion for Beauxbatons, is Fleur Delacour. The hogwarts champion, Cedric Diggory! But in the end, only one will go down in histroy. Only one, will hoist the challace of champions. The vessel of victory, the triwizard cup!" Everyone started cheering but most of the slytherin table could not be bothered to do so with everyone so focused by their hangovers, and since none of them got picked, they couldn't care less about the stupid tournament. Until the goblet turned red and another name flew out of the cup. "Harry potter... Harry Potter!" Everyone started mumbling words about him not being 17 yet and about how he cheated but this particular group of slytherins knew that something else was up. Being brought up in pureblood slytherin families surrounded by death eaters, they all knew, that something else was happening, and it wasn't going to be good.

After breakfast as Theo, Enzo, and Val were walking to DADA together, professor Mcgonagal walked over to them clearly searching for someone, "Professor, what can we do for you." Valeria spoke, the other 2 clearly not being able to talk to anyone right now with their pounding headaches. "Actually Ms. Payne, Professor Dumbledoor has asked to speak with you and you need to be in his office by 10 minutes. You are excused from you classes for the entirety of the day." She spoke in an odd manor. "Ill make my way there now?" Valeria answered her in a questioning manor, nervous about what he would want from her. They hadn't spoke since he kicked her out of the school and he was very rude about it towards her. The boys gave her an odd look and she simply just shrugged her soulders, "Val, Please be careful. And don't think I didn't notice what happened at breakfast, we will be talking later." Enzo walked up to her and gave her a hug, whispering the last part in her ear. She nodded and gave Theo a quick smile before making her way into dumbledoors office.

"Please come in Ms. Payne." Dumbledoor spoke as he was waiting for her outside of his office portrait. She walked into the office sitting down in one of the chairs in front of his desk. "Now, I wanted to speak with you because I have some news. Now for the first part, we would like to welcome you back to hogwarts. We got told that it was just a rumor, from the person who spread it himself, who im sure you know who." With this news, Val could do nothing but smile. All she has wanted was for her to be able to come back and finish her classes here with her family. "Now for the second part. Mr. Payne, please come in." Valerias heart sank as those words left dumbledoors mouth. All she could think about was why he was here and what was going on. She knew that it was not going to be good, but she was hoping for the best. "Now Mr. Payne, Ms. Valeria. We had heard that there was a party last night in the slytherin common room, and then one of our prefects from the Hufflepuff house had reported seeing you leaving the astronomy tower last night, which you know is off limits to any students in the school. Seeing that you had just gotten back, I thought that it was just a coincidence that you had not remembered about the rule. But then, our prefect had reported that multiple times before we expelled you, he and others had seen this happen multiple times. Now with that information, we are going to have to suspend you for the week to go home and clear your head. Please make your way to your dorm to pack some things for the week and as soon as possible leave school grounds." Valerias heart sank and was pounding in her chest, she knew her father was going to be absolutely pissed, but at least she was now able to come back to hogwarts for the rest of the time in her school years. She was taken out of her thoughts when she felt her fathers hand tightly grasp her arm and drag her out of the room. "Father I can explain." Valeria started to try and explain herself when her fathers hand swung out and slapped her face, she took a few steps back looked down at the floor, "I have had a peaceful life without you for the last year and all of a sudden a get called to your school because your acting out, and now I have to deal with your ungrateful ass for a full week. Go get your shit and drive home yourself, I will not be responsible for apparating you home. Go now." "Yes Father." Valeria started to walk away and head towards her dorm to pack her things. And without saying a goodbye to anybody, she walked to the secret underground painting, going through the tunnel and into the garage. She got in the car feeling a sense of releif wash over her as the engine started, the smell of gasoline running through her nose. She started driving out of the garage and heading home, driving as fast and as recklessley as she can, feeling empowered by the power her engine is giving her car. She has always loved driving, it was a getaway for her and it was her favorite thing ever. She had music blasting out the speakers with the subwoofers giving extra bass to the music. The windows were down, her hair flowing everywhere and she loved every part of it. All of her thoughts were gone as she was driving going 190mph down the road listening to music. Until she finally made it home and all of those horrid thoughts came back to her.