Unexpected | Mattheo.R

VII

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As I'm leaving the field, I hear Mattheo shouting:
" Oh, and tell your little friends not to mess with the Slytherins again or they'll always end up in hospital. " he said with a laugh.

" What did you just say? " I asked, getting more and more angry.

" You heard me, next time they won't fuck with Blaise," he replied more seriously.

" What's wrong with you, I'm the one who called them to help Neville," I replied angrily.

" Why would you snitch on Blaise like that? " he asked shouting.

" Why would Blaise hurt Neville - no, you know what, it doesn't matter, I wasn't going to stand there and watch him get hit," I shouted back.

" You don't know what you're talking about," he said.

" Whatever, Mattheo," I just replied when I realised how people were staring.
I turned around and left in a huff.

I went straight to the hospital wing and found Fred and George sitting in a bed talking.
Fred had a busted lip while George had a bloody nose, what the hell happened?
When they saw me they got up.

" What happened to you guys? "

" The usual, Slytherin assholes happened to us, I swear if..." George replied angrily before I cut him.

" Stop it, it doesn't matter, what matters is that you and Neville are all right - he is, isn't he? " I asked a little worried.

" Don't worry, he's fine," Fred replied with a reassuring look.

" Thank Merlin. "

Later that day I knew that Mattheo and I had to finish the project, but he obviously didn't want to finish it with me after what happened this morning, so I just finished it alone and handed it to Professor Snape.

It was finally time for lunch and I sat down with my friends Rose and Liam but I could feel that something was wrong, you know that feeling when you can tell that the atmosphere is tense and it makes you anxious, well that was it and I couldn't take it anymore.

" Okay, what's going on with you two, why do I get the feeling that you want to tear each other's throats out? "I asked suddenly.

They both looked at each other, daggers in their eyes. This was so unusual for them, Rose was the energetic friend and Liam the sweet one, what could have happened between them?
Liam was tense, like he was about to explode, and Rose looked like she was about to jump on him and strangle him with her bare hands. But after a long silence Liam finally spoke with a cold tone I didn't know he could ever have, especially towards Rose: "Rose is dating Flint."

I froze, this was the worst case scenario for their friendship, I knew Rose had a thing with Flint but I thought it was over, especially after meeting Liam and becoming his friend.
It was during Rose and I's second year at Hogwarts, Rose was becoming more popular while I was becoming the opposite, I was terrified of people's opinions, I just wanted to be off the radar of everyone in this school, so while I was hiding, Rose was going to Quidditch matches, parties and being surrounded by so many people. During this time I felt a bit neglected, although it was not Rose's fault, so at night when nobody saw me I would sneak out of our dormitory and meet my only friend apart from her, Liam. He was always on the Quidditch pitch admiring the stars and every night we would meet there and talk about astronomy, one day I saw him crying, his face had that horrible look that still turns my stomach, he seemed defeated. I sat down next to him, he took my hand and held on to it as if I was his lifeline, he cried even more, and as a few sobs escaped his lips he finally said it: "Mia im being bullied".
I didn't know how to react at first, this had never happened to me before, so how could I sit there and tell him that everything was going to be all right, when I couldn't know that, so I didn't say that, I just pulled him closer and hugged him, holding him as tight as I could, as if my body was a shield, as if I could protect him. He told me all about how Flint started to make fun of him, at first it was just harmless jokes, but then it became harmless taunts and then harmless hits. He couldn't take it anymore, it was too hard, too much, he was afraid to go to school, afraid to see him, and I didn't know how to make it better, how to fix it, and it felt terrible. Something I learnt in France was that even the worst bullies will leave you alone if you have a friend it might seem stupid but if you have people around to support you they will go away so I thought if Liam started hanging out with me but also Rose, especially Rose, Flint would leave him alone, which worked as soon as they were introduced they hit it off like they were made to be friends and Flint probably because of Rose's popularity backed off.

I look at Rose, she must have a reason, something we don't know.

" Rose, what's going on, talk to us, tell me that we're missing something, that we don't know the whole story, please," I said pleadingly.

But she looked at me and said: "This is the whole story, Mia, I like him, OK, it's not something you control - " she started before being interrupted by the loud sound of Liam getting up and walking away angrily, not even able to look at her.

" Rose, you're right, you can't control your feelings, but you can control your actions," I replied calmly, trying to reason with her.

I hated to see my best friends fighting like this.

Rose shook her head and said something that sounded treacherous:
" I just thought off all people you'd understand, but clearly you don't ," and she walked away, leaving me alone in the Great Hall.

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