persuasive [t.r]

10

Y/N'S POV:

"So you just let him kiss you? And you kissed back?" Neville asked after I had explained everything to him. "Yeah," I said quietly, I knew Neville wasn't very happy with me, especially after everything I had told him that Tom had done to me.

"Merlin y/n, I thought you were smarter than this," Neville shook his head. "I thought I was too," I said in the same quiet tone. I hadn't told Neville that I fancied Tom, only Draco knew that, but I decided to come clean.

"This may not be a good time," I started, causing Neville to look at me. "But I wanted to come clean, tell you the truth." "What truth is there? Have you been lying to me?" Neville asked, I could tell he was clearly upset, I felt terrible. "No, I haven't lied to you about anything, but there's one thing I haven't told you," I said honestly, looking at him.

"Well go on now, tell me," He said, motioning his hand for me to go on. I sighed, I really hope he doesn't hate me for this. "The reason why I kissed Riddle back, it was because I fancy him Neville, I have feelings for Tom," I muttered, looking at my hands.

"Merlin," I heard Neville sigh. "Why?" "I don't know okay? There's just something about him-," "Something about him? Y/n he's hurt you multiple times! He's an absolute psychopath!" Neville exclaimed, cutting me off. He almost sounded like Draco when I had told him how I felt about Tom. But Neville didn't fancy me, did he?

"Can we just be done with this conversation? Oh, and look, there's Draco, I need to talk to him real quick, I'll be right back," I said, getting up from the bench and running over to Draco before Neville could say anything else.

"Draco!" I shouted, causing him to look at me and start to walk faster. I'm not letting him get away. "Draco get back here, I need to talk to you!" I shouted once more, but he didn't stop.

I started to run faster, I then caught up to him, grabbing his arm. "Draco, what is your problem?" I asked, causing him to turn around. "What's my problem? What's your problem y/n? What was that at breakfast?" Draco asked irritatedly. I sighed, I knew that was probably why he was acting like this.

"It wasn't like that-," "It wasn't like that? Don't play dumb with me y/n, you kissed back, you didn't stop him, you didn't try to push him off, you kissed back," Draco said, cutting me off. Why did people like cutting me off so much? "I know you fancy him and all but you know I don't like him." "It's not my fault you fancy me Draco, I can't just not kiss anyone in front of you because you fancy me, that's absurd," I scoffed.

"I know, I just-," He cut himself off, looking behind me. I turned around to see Tom walking towards us, again.

"Shit," I whispered. "He's probably going to try something, let's just go, come on let's go to Neville, walk," I said, grabbing Draco's arm and starting to walk towards the bench where Neville was at. The snow crunched under our feet as we sped towards Neville, we tried not to make it obvious that we were trying to get away from Tom, so we didn't run, we just sped walked.

"Neville, start talking about something, make conversation," I said as me and Draco sat down on the bench. "Why?" He asked. "Just please, I'll explain later, talk about plants or something, please," I begged, which he nodded.

"Well, I got this new plant a while ago, Luna gave it to me as an early Christmas present," Neville smiled. "That's nice, Luna Lovegood right?" I asked in which Neville nodded. "Cute, you guys should definitely date," Draco smirked at Neville.

Neville blushed a bright pink, he clearly liked Luna and it was adorable.

"Uh, y/n," Draco tapped my shoulder. "Yes Draco?" I turned to him, he was pointing ahead, I looked to where he was pointing and Tom was walking towards us. "Act normal, don't interfere with anything," I told Neville and Draco. "But y/n-," "Don't, interfere," I cut Neville off, pausing between my words to make myself clear. The two nodded as Tom approached us.

"Y/n," He said as he stood in front of me, he's never said my first name before. "Riddle," I said in the same tone as him. "I've heard that you're staying here at Hogwarts for some time during winter break, as am I," Tom said, looking into my eyes. "Oh great," I said sarcastically. "I just wanted to inform you that I will not bother you during that time, as for I would be busy," Tom said. "And of course, I wouldn't like to talk to you anyways." "Not like I'd mind, I don't want to talk to you either Riddle, so go along now, stop talking to me," I waved my hand for him to leave.

He clearly got mad at what I had said as he went closer to me, putting one hand on my thigh and another hand on my neck, our faces inches away from each other. "I'll stop talking to you when I want, you don't tell me what to do y/l/n, I do what I want when I want, understood?" Tom said in a dark tone, narrowing his eyes at me. Neville and Draco looked terrified, but they kept their word on to not interfere and stayed quiet.

"Mhm," I hummed, I didn't want to talk to him or be near him anymore, but I honestly didn't mind him touching me. "Words," He demanded. "Yes," I said clearly. "Good girl," He whispered in my ear as he smirked, shivers were sent down my spine, minus the fact of it being around thirty degrees outside.

And then, just like that, he was gone.

a/n: early chapter bc I wanted to talk to my mum abt a tom x reader I'm reading and I take forever when I explain things and knew I probably wouldn't post on time so.. yeah. I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. -ace 🖤