enigmatic |t.r.|

2.

she saw him everywhere after that.

she saw him at dinner, near the lake, in the mirror when she looked herself in the bathroom. he was nowhere or at least he wasn’t there so his location didn’t matter like all not-things don’t matter.

she saw him in the slytherin common room that night. this wasn’t an illusion.

he was with olive, laughing at something she said.

it seemed fake and genuine at the same time, like his own self couldn't decide if he had to pretend to like it or he actually did.

she was sitting on his lap, her eyes staring deep into his own and her fingers slowly going up and down his arm.

he whispered something in her ear and her eyes were suddenly full of admiration and lust.

someone should definitely compliment the way he lies

meredith thought and she almost felt jealous because lies always leave a sweet taste on the tongue and all she seemed to taste these days was blood.

as if he heard her, tom took his eyes off olive and stared right into her soul,

or whatever was left of it anyway.

they stayed there for a few seconds before olive realised that she didn't have his undivided attention anymore.

her eyes wandered around and stopped on meredith, and she immediately looked disgusted.

she wanted to scream at tom about the way his eyes were stripping the girl's clothes away and she wanted to slap the other girl for letting him.

but instead, she took his handsome face in her hands and kissed him.

his attention was completely on her once more, his tongue dancing with hers, lies getting mixed with love, both words had four letters, starting with the same letter, ending with the same cry.

meredith was silent in the other corner of the room, starring right at them with her empty eyes, eyes like mirrors.

olive felt proud of herself because she was the winner of his heart, ignorant to the fact that despite the beating in his chest, tom riddle didn't really have a heart.

what she didn't know was that tom was looking at meredith during the kiss and meredith dedicated all of her pains to him after that night.

olive offered him love and meredith void, but the void had the shape of her heart and tom riddle took it gladly.

all of his life he knew empty shapes and spaces and meredith offered him just that, the empty shell of herself, just for him to break.

olive couldn't offer him anything but love and tom riddle had little respect for things he didn't understand.