After losing her parents only days ago, Y/N feels like she's slowly becoming a stranger to herself. As grief begins to consume her, people around her start noticing she's changing — but can anyone help her before she completely falls apart?
For years, Y/N was Hogwarts' favorite target. Ignored by everyone and bullied by both girls and boys, she learned to suffer in silence. But when the Slytherin boys finally begin noticing what's happening, concern turns into protection—and protection turns into something much deeper. After all, it's hard to watch someone break and not want to save them.
A group of close friends—Jen, Y/n, Mattheo, Alex, Alison, and Daphne—navigate friendship, loyalty, and unspoken feelings as their bonds begin to shift in unexpected ways. At the center of it all, Y/N and Jen’s long-standing friendship starts to blur into something deeper, forcing everyone to confront emotions they’ve been avoiding (WLW!!)
After being slowly pushed out of her friend group, Y/N finds herself spending more and more time with a group of Slytherin boys who actually seem to care. What starts as concern turns into something neither side expected. The more time they spend with her, the more they want her around. Now, Y/N must navigate losing the people she once called friends while growing closer to the ones she never thought she'd need.
Y/N has a reputation around Hogwarts for her explosive temper — slammed doors, sharp words, broken quills, and arguments that burn too hot and too fast. Most people think she's just difficult, but what scares Y/N is how familiar it feels. Every outburst sounds like her mother: the same anger, the same loss of control, the same fear in other people's faces afterward.
Y/N has always carried a quiet emptiness that nobody really understood. Growing up with an absent father left her constantly searching for something she couldn't name—attention, reassurance, protection, someone who would stay. She develops habits she doesn't even notice: getting attached too quickly to people who show her the smallest amount of care, seeking approval from others, acting tougher than she feels, and hiding how badly she wants someone to choose her.
ʚɞ Mattheo Riddle had spent his whole life missing a warmth he never had. But after Y/N cared for him after a fight, he felt something unfamiliar settle inside him. Now he couldn't stop wanting her closeness, her care, and the warmth only she seemed to give him.
A rumor spreads through Hogwarts that Theodore Nott and Y/N are dating. Neither of them bothers to correct it. What starts as a simple misunderstanding quickly becomes something far more complicated as feelings, secrets, and years of unspoken emotions begin to surface.
In the middle of the school year, Hogwarts receives an unexpected transfer student: Y/N. The moment she enters the Great Hall, conversations slowly die out. She’s beautiful in a way that almost doesn’t seem real — elegant, quiet, and impossible not to notice. Nobody knows much about her. Where she came from, why she transferred so suddenly, or why the professors seem to exchange strange looks whenever her name is mentioned.
Everyone thinks Theodore Nott hates you. Including you. So when he's suddenly assigned as your detention partner for an entire semester, the last thing you expect is for him to be the first person who notices you're falling apart.