Y/N has never dated anyone. Not because she hasn’t had the opportunity. She simply has no interest in men—or relationships, romance, flirting, or anything else that comes with them. She’s perfectly content being single, and after years of watching her friends get themselves tangled up in romantic disasters, she’s more than happy to stay that way. Unfortunately, her closest friend group contains five boys. And one of them is Mattheo Riddle. Mattheo is everything Y/N dislikes about men rolled into one person: arrogant, cocky, shamelessly confident, irritatingly charming and far too aware of how attractive he is. He’s dated enough girls to have earned himself a reputation, and Y/N has spent years making it perfectly clear that she has absolutely no interest in becoming one of them. Their relationship has always been simple. They annoy each other. They argue. They insult each other. They laugh at each other’s expense. They’re friends because somehow, despite everything, they genuinely enjoy being around one another. But sixth year begins to change things. Not dramatically. Not all at once. There is no sudden realisation that they’re secretly in love. No instant attraction. No moment where everything changes. It starts with little things. A conversation that lasts longer than it should. Y/N voluntarily sitting beside Mattheo. Mattheo discovering that he actually enjoys talking to her when he isn’t trying to annoy her. Y/N laughing at something he says instead of telling him to shut up. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, she begins giving him something she’s never given him before: her attention. And nobody is more surprised by it than Mattheo himself. The problem? Just as Y/N begins letting herself become comfortable around him, Aurelia Rosier suddenly starts appearing everywhere. Aurelia has never really been part of their circle. She’s always been someone they knew, someone they occasionally saw at parties or around Slytherin, but never someone who