Blood is falling | Slytherin boys

Friends?

It's been a few days since the party and the incident with mattheo in my dorm and he hasn't said a work to me since. He hasn't been sitting next to me in class to torment me, not even a word at lunch or in the common room, just a few seconds of eye contact every now and then. But why do I kind of miss him? The useless name calling, his rude tone, the devilish stare. I want him to talk to me, I want him to call me names so I can laugh at them, I want him to speak so I can roll my eyes, I want him to look me harshly in the eyes, he's cute when he's mad. Fuck. I need to shut up. He's not cute. I don't miss him I dont know what I'm talking about.

~Mattheos pov~

I haven't spoken to y/n ever since the party. I think she's mad at me and I don't want to make things worse. I miss her rolling her eyes at me and her sarcasm everytime i say something. It was funny, and cute. I might as well try to be friends with her. She's apart of my group now and she's gone through a lot. And I'm not gonna have any chance with her unless we're friends for a while at least. No, I just want to be friends, I don't wanna date her what am I saying? Fuck it.

I enter our potions class and sit next to her.

"How are you?" I ask her

She scrunches her eyebrows in confusion.

"What's the matter" I laugh at her cute confused expression

"You haven't spoken to me for days" She replies

"I can say the same for you" I smile

She rolls her eyes with a smile and opens her book. There's the eyeroll I was missing

"Sooo how are you?" I ask annoyingly.

"I'm fine" She says hesitantly trying to shut me down. I could tell you wants to talk to me, she was all smily before, I know she's just trying to shut me down cause she probably thinks i dont actually care about her.

"Today we are going to be making a liquid luck potion, we will not be drinking it, just brewing it"

The class sighs in dissapointment, as well as myself as we don't get to try it, but oh well.

I open up my potions book to the correct page, it was quite a difficult potion to brew. I go up to the front of the class to grab the correct ingredients I need, y/n following slowly behind me. I go back to my seat and sit down and start making the potion.

"Fuck" I hear a distressed voice harshly whisper from beside me and a loud clatter. I look to y/n and I see that she had accidently cut her hand while trying to cut the anemone for the potion and had dropped the knife onto the table. The cut immediately runs red with blood.

"Shit are you okay?" I grab her hand and ask.

"It's okay, I just wasn't paying attention" She replies quietly

"No it's not okay, let me help you." She lets me wipe the blood off and wrap it up with a bandage from the first aid kit at snapes desk, him giving me a deadly glare as I get it.

And about 30 minutes later, snape comes around and tests everyones potions, finally he gets to mine.

"Very good mattheo" He says

I smirk with pride. He moves over to y/n and tests her potion.

"What have you done here?" He asks her, staring into her eyes

"Sorry Professor, some of my blood dropped in it and it ruined the potion" I hear her apolagise.

"Not acceptable, mattheo help tutor y/n this afternoon" Snape looks at me

Did he just say what I think he said? Tutoring...y/n? I mean really it was just the blood that ruined it but hey I'm not complaining, maybe we can get to know each other a bit more.

I see y/n glance at me with an embarassed face and flushed cheeks.

~y/ns pov~

Honestly, i'm not that upset about mattheo tutoring me, maybe he might be nice? if not I can easily just get up and walk away.

~after classes~

I go to the slytherin common room and wait outside mattheos dorm, holing my pen, my notebook and potions book. I hear a few footsteps approach and I see mattheo, he smiles and I smile back. He opens his dorm and I walk in, taking in my surroundings.

I sit down at his desk and he pulls another chair over for him to sit on.

"I just have to go to the bathroom" He gets up and I nod

I open my notebook up and I hear his alarm clock suddenly ring. The alarm blarred in my ears, I look at the clock with the corner of my eyes and use my energy to turn it off, just as i turn it off mattheo steps out of the bathroom and sees me staring down the clock, I quickly break my gaze and smile, trying to shrug it off.

"Oh, I guess it turned of by itself." he shrugs

Good, he didn't think anything of it. He sits down beside me and he start teaching me a few things. He's actually got some quite helpful tips, I will give him that.

After helping me study for abit, he writes down a few questions for me to answer, a few minutes late after I finish answering, he checks over it.

"Wow, you got all of them right, good job, I thought you were dumber" He laughs

I laugh back and nudge him in the ribs "Hey don't call me that you piece of ass"

"Piece of ass? That's a new one" He chuckles

"Shut up" I smirk, nudging him in the ribs once more.

We joke around for a bit more until he puts a serious look on his face.

"Y/n I need to ask you something, and I need you to tell me the truth okay?" I nod my head in curiosity.

"Did you cut yourself because of me?" he asks, i can feel my cheeks blush from embarrassment

"No, I mean yeah you upset me a few times but the reason was because of jackson, seeing him again just kind of made me snap, I was already going through a lot and I guess that was just it, the last straw before I finally just...cracked." I say, not realising I kind of just ranted.

"I'm gonna murder that son of a bitch" He mutters under his breath

"What?" I ask, even though I heard him.

He ignores me "Listen, I'm sorry for being a prick when we first met, I really don't know why I was so rude, it just came out, so I guess I just went with it" He says

"I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have retaliated the way I did, but I will admit, the whole thing was kinda funny." I say back to him

"Yeah it was" He lets out a small laugh

A few seconds of silence follow shortly after until he speaks again

"Friends?" He looks up at me with his hand out

"Friends." I smile and we shake hands jokingly.

Finally, I knew he wasn't all bad, it was just a mask he had on, but I still wonder why he was wearing that mask. Why for me?