Our Past ; Mattheo Riddle

back to hogwarts

"Valerine. Get up right this instant." Her father called to her from her bedroom door. Now Valeria usually didn't get hangovers but today was something different, she had a pounding headache so she quickly got up and took some pain meds to help with the feeling while also opening her window so that she could light a blunt to ease some of the pain. She got dressed back into her school robes and decided to wear her hair natural because she couldn't bother to straighten her hair at the moment. She finished her blunt and packed her bag of the things that she had brought home for the week, then went down to the first floor to leave for Hogwarts. She couldn't wait to get back, even though she knew she was going to have to face the sorrow of her friends seeing her presence, she just wanted to see her family and get away from her father and Marissa.  

"Valerine, before you leave." Her father trailed off as she turned around from facing the door, now facing him, "If I get one more call from the school about you misbehaving, I will send you to Ilvermorny in America." "Yes father." She answered him and quickly left the house getting into her car. Her headache had now passed over and she was happy to hear her car engine roar to life. She smiled at the sound and quickly drove out of the driveway before her father could change his mind. She drove the longest route she knew to get back to Hogwarts, which was also the most scenic route, it went through beautiful lengths of trees and flower fields that she loved seeing. She had music playing as loud as it could go, and was driving as quickly and recklessly as possible. 

She soon arrived back in the underground garage at hogwarts and decided to give her car a wash since it was saturday, she went to the shelves that she had installed to put all of her cleaning supplies on and started to clean the car, getting every single detail spotless, spending a lot of time on the rims which she loved. They were beautiful black rims with purple accents around the edges. Her favorite color had always been purple because of the many variations of it and she saw that it had a different shade for each of her emotions. She thought that the car perfectly represented herself and her mind and that's what she loved about it. 

"Valeria, you're back." She heard a very familiar voice echo through her ears as she slowly stood up and turned to look at Mattheo. "Hey Mattheo, yeah I am. I got suspended for the week because some fucking hufflepuff prefect caught me sneaking out of the astronomy tower after the party. But the good news is that Dumbledick asked me to join Hogwarts again and I said yes!" She told him trying to sound as enthusiastic as she could, and somehow he had bought it, at least for the moment being. "Oh my god, that's amazing Val!" Mattheo yelled, running up to her and pulling her into a tight hug, pulling her off the floor and spinning her around. As he set her back onto the floor, they stared into each others eyes and Mattheo could tell that she looked different, her face was even more hollow and emotionless than before. "How's Blaise and Theo?" She said sincerely trying to change the subject as she saw his face start to fill with worry. "They're doing ok. Still a bit in pain as it just happened last night, but doing a little better." He answered her stepping back so that he could take in her full appearance a little better. "That's good. Um, Im just gonna finish cleaning her up and then I'll be up there to check on them." She told Mattheo, turning her music back on and a little bit louder than before so that she could pretend to ignore him if he tried to bring anything up. 

"Val... Val... Valeria please answer me." Mattheo tried to speak to her and turned her music down so that she would have to listen. "Look, Enzo's gonna kill me if I don't find out what happened during the time at your home. You look... different." He said, sounding sincere in his words. "Look Mattheo, I don't know what to tell you, yeah i got a couple hits and scratches here and there but everything's fine, I'm ok, I promise." She told him trying to sound as confident as possible. "Ok, Val. I'll see you soon, yeah?" "Yeah!" She answered him and turned her music back up. She could feel his eyes still on her back for a couple seconds longer and then his footsteps walked away. 

Mattheo

Mattheo slowly walked away from Valeria. He knew that something was up because she looked a lot different and more broken than before but he couldn't get himself to say something since they only just had made up, and she didn't want to add the extra stress onto her. He walked back into the slytherin common room seeing his friends on the sofas near the fireplace so he went to sit with them. "She's back." He spoke up. "Where was she this whole week, she only just got back." Blaise asked concerned about his best friends whereabouts. "She got suspended cause some dumbass hufflepuff prefect caught her sneaking out of the astronomy tower at like 3:00 in the morning. But good news is that she's back to Hogwarts for good." Mattheo answered his question excitedly at the news. "Oh my gosh my girlfriend is back for good!" Pansy stood up excitedly and started jumping up and down. "Well let's just say yes Valeria is back, but not Val." Mattheo spoke, his voice getting lower. "What the fuck do you mean Mattheo." Enzo spoke up, knowing that something happened, "Enzo, I need you not to freak out, and especially not when she gets back up here." "What. The. Fuck. Happened. Mattheo." Enzo said, standing up getting angrier by the second. "All I know is that something happened when she was home during the week and we need to keep an eye on her, she looks absolutely numb inside." "Fuck." Enzo says under his breath as he starts thinking of the possibility that she might not have been eating. He has been working with her on that for years, and she finally got better for a really long time. Eventually everyone kind of spaced out into their own worlds as they waited for her to get back up to the common room. None of them knew what they were going to see or what was going to happen but they knew 100% that something was up.