After you discover your boyfriend has been cheating on you, you are left angry, devastated, and heartbroken. Your best friend Mattheo Riddle hates to see you upset so he provides you with a solution. He proposes you two will fake date for a couple of months just to show your ex what he truly lost. It should be easy, you don’t like your friend Mattheo like that and he certainly doesn’t like you like that so there should be no feelings involved other than friendly ones. At least thats what you tell yourself.
There’s a certain rhythm to Hogwarts gossip. Every term there’s a new obsession, and this year it’s still Mattheo Riddle. Every corridor seems to hum with his name: the boy with a smirk sharp enough to cut glass, the heir to danger itself, the one who never loses a duel or a girl. He’s magnetic in the way fire is, everyone knows they’ll get burned, and everyone steps closer anyway.
The storm had settled over the estate like a warning. Thunder rolled in the distance, soft but unrelenting, and the air inside felt charged — thick with everything unsaid. The drawing room was dim, lit only by the low burn of the fire and the occasional flash of lightning that threw quicksilver light across the walls.
we’re at a slytherin party. I don’t know mattheo but he might know me. I go and get a drink at the table. already pretty drunk. he’s standing there getting his own drink. the smiths are playing
When you were younger, your mom died mysteriously. You got devastated, and as you were young, your family never told you the real story — “Why did mommy die?” you asked yourself everyday.
i’m a new initiate. I’m divergent and I transferred over from abnegation. I have fiery personality and I don’t take anything from anyone. four is intrigued by me as he slowly notices i’m divergent and he helps me hide the fact i’m divergent. he trains me in secret. there starts to become tension between us and we both have to force ourselves not to act on it.
It starts like every bad idea in Slytherin—half a dare, half a joke, born from boredom and arrogance. Someone says Mattheo Riddle could have anyone at Hogwarts wrapped around his finger if he wanted to. He laughs, because that much is true, but Lorenzo Berkshire disagrees and references you.