𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 ★ mattheo riddle

001, the bet

chapter one
001, the bet

THE group of slytherins sit in the corner of the common room with bottles of beers in their grips. Most of them tipsy.

"My turn, Mattheo truth or dare?" Theodore Nott questions with a smirk as he twidles the cigarette in between his fingers.

The said boy chugs the last of his beer before answering. "Dare." Theo's smirk only grows wider.

Theo stubs his cigarette out against the ash tray placed on the coffee table. "I dare you to make a girl fall in love with you then break up with her." He challenges, raising an eyebrow.

Mattheo chuckles. "Easy." He replies confidently. "I'll give you two months."

"Which girl? Your dare so you choose." He leans back in his chair smugly.

"Isabel Hart."

Theo answers after a moment of thinking. Pansy shakes her head in disaproval. "You shouldn't play someone like that. Especially Isabel. She's a sweetheart." Enzo and Blaise nod in agreement.

"She's a ravenclaw right?" Mattheo questions. Theo nods curtly. "What do I get if I win?" Mattheo quirks an eyebrow.

Theo chuckles as he lights another cigarette. "Five hundred Galleons." He wears a teasing smirk.

Mattheo grins. "I'll be five hundred galleons richer and it's only first term!" He boasts confidently.

Enzo chuckles lowly. "You can sure try. Isabel is very bright and is very good at playing hard to get." He informs them proudly.

"How do you know that? Have you tried before?" Mattheo retorts.

Enzo rolls his eyes and shakes his head. "She rejects almost every boy who asks her out." He comments before sipping on his beer.

"Except Cedric Diggory." Theo speaks up. Pansy and Blaise shake their heads in disbelief. "You shouldn't speak of him. He was innocent and died for no reason." Blaise snaps.

All eyes fall on Mattheo. "Don't look at me like I did it. You know better than anyone how much I hate my father, just like everyone else!" He defends even though he doesn't feel hurt.

He is always reduced to the dark lords son. Deatheater in the making. Untrustworthy scum. However, not even he could answer if that was true or not.

Enzo decides to change the subject. "All I'm saying is she won't let you find a way in her life easily."

"You know so much about her already? Do you like the ravenclaw?" Draco finally speaks, finally looking up from the floor.

"Of course not, but you like her friend, right? Gracie Howard?" He mocks.

Draco flushes pink and avoids eye contact immediately. Their conversation is interrupted by Snape storming into the common with a scowl on his face. Followed by the drunken slytherins scattering.

The next morning is the first day of school after arriving yesterday. Nervous and excited students filling the great hall with loud chatter. Isabel and her friends among the teenagers, sat at the large ravenclaw table.

Isabel scans over her new timetable, unamused. "First lesson?" One of her friends, Nathan Matthews, asks with a mocking grin.

She rolls her eyes. "Potions with Snape." She replies curtly. Lucy laughs. "Unlucky!" She teases.

"Fuck you." Isabel begins to gently tickle the black haired girl sat beside her. Lucy instantly starts to laugh and squirm in her seat.

London glances around until she catches sight of a certian boy practically burning holes in Isabel's head.

"Izzie! Izzie!" She gasps, attempting to get her attention as she tickles Lucy. She briefly looks up with a cute smile, asking "What?" politely.

London checks he's still staring, which he is, before leaning into whisper. "Slytherin table, nearest to the doors."

Isabel curiously begins to look until she makes eye contact with Mattheo Riddle. The son of the man who murdered her ex boyfriend.

Honestly, she didn't hold any of what happened that year, against him. He didn't choose his father. But it definitely put her off him.

His stare sent a shiver down her spine. "Seems you've got a secret admirer." Gracie quirks an eyebrow.

Isabel laughs. "He seems creepy. Never looked at me until today. Even after Ced died. It's weird. Something's definitely off."

The group smiles slightly falter from the mention of the huffelpuff boy. It was years ago and they have all gotten over his death. It's what he would've wanted. But it still hurt sometimes.

"If he even tries to talk to you, I'm going to jump him." Nathan declares. The four girls instantly burst out laughing.

"What?" He questions. "More like jump on him. Maybe you'd prefer if it was Blaise instead?" Isabel mocks. Nathan can't hold back his smile at the mention of the Zabini boy.

"This is going to be an interesting year."