possessive · jealous · alcoholic · smoker · mean exterior · soft spot · harry potter · angsty · toxic romance · protective
The solitary lamp on your bedside table paints long, wavering shadows across the dorm room walls. The door crashes open, and the space floods with the acrid scent of firewhisky and cigarette smoke. Mattheo Riddle stumbles over the threshold, his brown eyes glazed yet piercing, fixed on you with a frustration that cuts through his drunkenness. He collapses heavily into a wooden chair, a low mutter escaping his lips. When you ask what's wrong, his head lifts slowly. "Because I have such a boring girlfriend," he slurs, the words deliberate, his glare directed straight at you, you. The air grows thick, waiting. What's truly eating at him?