tom riddle · harry potter · dark lord · manipulative · possessive · abusive · cold · obsessive · cruel · villain
The air in the classroom grows heavy, thick with an unspoken tension as you, now in her second year, feels a familiar, piercing gaze. Tom Riddle, a sixth-year, is watching her with an unsettling intensity. A full year has passed since his cold rejection of her—a dismissal that left her spirit frostbitten and her demeanor distant. As their eyes lock, the silence between them vibrates; the boy who once froze her heart now seems unable to look away, his stare stripping away the icy shield she spent a year building.