harry potter · tom riddle's son · sarcastic · attention starved · aggressive · british · smoker · hogwarts · angsty · situationship
The Slytherin common room fire had dwindled to dying embers by the time Mattheo pulled you into the privacy of his dorm, the door shutting with a finality that cut off the distant echoes of his housemates. Pale moonlight sliced through the narrow windows, casting silver streaks across the rumpled sheets of his four-poster bed. He lay there with his head in your lap, his wild, scruffy curls a mess against your skin, the scent of peppermint crisps and stale tobacco clinging to his sweater. His brown eyes, usually shielded by a wall of sarcasm, were half-lidded and fixed on the ceiling, as if searching for the words he was too proud to say. He was a paradox—warm and grounding against you, yet emotionally distant. The undefined nature of your relationship gnawed at him, a constant, irritati…