Persuasive

three

You may not know it Avalon but you were my everything.

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"Avy...wake up!"

I opened my eyes to the sight of Draco pushing me around so harshly that I nearly slid off my bed.
"It's time for our first classes!" he cheered as he jumped on my bed and got ready to attack me. "Get up right now or i'm elbowing you in the gut."

"What time is it?" I grumbled as I looked over to my alarm.

"7:30. Now wake up you numbskull and get ready. I don't want to get scolded from father for letting you miss our first day."

He hurried over towards his side of the room, by the mirror in our dorm.

"Now how good do I look in this robe?" he gloated at himself as he brought up his arms and flexed his boney muscles.

"Terrible." I chuckled as I slowly sat up in bed.

"Shut up."

My brother and I shared a dorm together, and this was the only exception for boys and girls sharing a dorm because my father made Dumbledore allow it.

-

My hands were trembling and my knees felt like they were going to collapse at any moment, I was so nervous for my first classes that I felt like puking.
Draco and I got ready and left our dorm to come down to the Great hall and eat breakfast with everyone else.
It was announced by Professor Dumbledore that we would all get a personal tour around Hogwarts from a second year student.

As I was trying to find a seat at the Slytherin table, my eyes came across Tom Riddle eating alone in a corner.
I trudged over to the edge of the table where he was sitting, and sat across from him, studying his unreadable face.
"Are you alright?"

His face jolted up and his eyes met mine, shortly glancing back down and continuing to eat his food.

"What are you eating?" I questioned, trying to find a subject to talk about.

"Why do you care?" he questioned, toying around with his food. He stabbed his porridge with a fork and nearly snapped it in half.

"Well, I saw you here alone so I thought I'd come talk to you-"

"I sit alone for a reason. I don't want to be disturbed."

I started fidgeting with my fingers, and my back straightened.
"Do you want me to leave you alone?"

He hesitated for a moment before answering. "Well now that you've sat here I suppose you can stay."
He took a small bite of his cold porridge while I sat there glaring at him.

"How old are you anyway? You look like you could be a second year." I questioned as my eyes burned into his dark, coffee-colored ones.

"I'm a second year." he went on. "I'm 12.. and I suppose you're 11?"

"That's right." I answered.

He nodded, his face expressionless, and continued eating his food until Dumbledore finally announced it was time for the first years to explore around Hogwarts.

"Now I know you kids should've gotten a chance to explore Hogwarts the first day you got here. But there were some slight difficulties. Anyways.. now you all have a chance to explore! Second years, go around and pick any first year student to show them around." Dumbledore voiced.

Tom quickly glanced up at me as he chewed on his food.
"Want me to show you around?"

I grinned and nodded my head, my heart thumping out of my chest.
I was highly strung and skittish, and I wasn't sure why. This was my first time being alone with a boy, but not just any boy, a second year. Tom was strange, but maybe sometimes being strange isn't so bad.
I guess i'll have to see.