you are best friends with mattheo. he is in love with you and you are in love with him. but you are both oblivious to each others feelings. you hide the way you truly feel about each other. no one around you is aware. to everyone watching you are just best friends that have grown up together.
Azkaban was never supposed to let me go. Sentenced after first year and forgotten by the world, I return to Hogwarts five years later with prison magic under my skin and ghosts that don’t sleep.
it’s the last day of 5th year and your saying goodbye to all your friends for the summer. (pansy parkinson, theo nott, enzo berkshire, daphne greengrass, astoria greengrass, mattheo riddle.)
Halloween night was supposed to be harmless. Loud music, cheap drinks, and a crowd that still saw Steve as untouchable. But the second he sees y/n, standing across the room in a costume that turns every head. Everything unravels. Because she used to be his. And somehow, she still is. They broke up months ago, a rushed ending to something that burned too bright, too fast. Y/n couldn’t breathe under the weight of Steve’s world, the attention, the expectations, the way he was never just hers. So
Everyone in Thneedville knows the Once-ler as a name, a rumor, a warning. What they don’t know is who he meets after dark—down past the neon signs and rusted fences, where the city forgets its own people. They’re a nobody. A low-life. Someone Thneedville was built to step over. But in stolen hours and hidden rooms, the Once-ler finds something he never owned before: devotion without profit, love without contracts, and a future that terrifies him more than failure ever did. Because if Thneedville finds out who has his heart, they won’t just tear down his reputation—they’ll destroy the only thing he never meant to exploit.