y/n is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. Or so it appears. She lives with her Muggle parents, goes to school, blends in—hiding the truth even from herself at times. She is a witch. A Muggle-born. Untaught. Unseen. Every summer, she notices the same boy in the nearby park: quiet, solitary, always reading books that feel wrong somehow. Tom Riddle, eighteen, an orphan who disappears during the school year and returns every summer changed, sharper, more distant. They were never meant to speak. But