their friend being
your valentines...
(crushing) part one!

• 𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 •

I blush, scrolling through my gallery and seeing some photos I took with Draco today.

I sigh quietly, why lie to yourself, Y/n?

I don't even like Draco. I just... wanted to get over the fact that Tom didn't ask me to be his valentine.

Hogwarts had made a small tradition that anyone with a valentine could have a slow dance at the end of dinner.

I wanted nothing more than my dance to be with Tom, but if he didn't feel the same, that's okay too.

I flinch a little, surprised at the sound of three sharp knocks on my door. I get up, lightly brushing my fingers through my hair before opening it.

"Tom?" I say softly, honestly a little surprised.

"You're going out with Draco?"

"Huh?"

"Don't act clueless. I saw you two with my own eyes." He says, crossing his arms and his biceps flex against his shirt.

"He asked me out. So what?" I say, trying to act...nonchalant.

"Nothing. Just asking."

"Okay. You wanna come in?" I offer, trying to be polite knowing that we were meant for more than him asking if I'm going out with one of his best friends.

"Nah." He says, already turning around and leaving.

-

"I lied." I turn around, surprised by Tom showing up unexpectedly for the second time today.

"Huh?"

He had probably traced me down to the library where I was enjoying my own company.

"I didn't think this would irritate me this much, but it does. I hate seeing you with Malfoy."

"To-"

"Shit, Y/n. That should've been me."

• 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐟𝐨𝐲 •

"You're dating Blaise?" Draco pulls me aside after our only class together and I struggle against his grip on my wrist.

"Since when?" He says when I don't respond.

"Since today. How did you know?" I say, feeling him abruptly let go of my wrist and clench his jaw.

"I saw you two together."

"Really? Where? I didn't see you. We didn't want everyone to know..." I say, a little worried.

"When you were walking back to the castle."

I nod. I wasn't lying; I didn't see Draco there. I didn't want him to see me and Blaise.

Blaise and I were dating, but not for the reason Draco thinks we are. Blaise wanted nothing more with me other than to make Luna jealous.

I'm just helping him. I only have eyes for Malfoy.

I wanted Draco to ask me out, but when he didn't... and Valentines neared, I agreed to help blaise.

"You looked so happy." Draco says softly and my heart breaks a little.

"Yeah, I had fun." I try not to make my lies obvious.

"I wish I was the reason behind your smile. I should've been."

My lips part and I bite my lip, upset with the situation. What now?

• 𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 •

"You had fun with Mattheo today?"

I look at Lorenzo, picking my pencil up to write back to him.

He had threw me a paper note while the teacher wasn't looking... typical Lor8enzo.

Normally his notes were all kind of flirty but now, it was different. Mattheo had probably told Lorenzo that me and him had gone out.

Riddle had asked me to be his Valentine and I had only accepted to be poilte. Which is why we had went on a small date.

I don't respond to his note, signalling for him to meet me after class instead.

Me and Berkshire have always had... a little something going on and it felt wrong to talk to him about his friend through a paper note.

When it's him that i want to be with.

-

"It was very last minute." I explain, Lorenzo towering over me even from a good metre away.

"Really? I thought you liked to have things prepared like, a month in advance."

"Well... I was waiting for someone to ssk me." I say, smiling softly.

"Now I'm curious, Y/n. Who?" He smiles.

"You."

• 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐢 •

"Never thought I'd be competing against my own bestfriend." Blaise says, finding me in my little corner in the common room.

I probably blush a little, Blaise's voice alone makes me go wild. We had been talking for a while and I couldn't help myself.

"You two doing something stupid again?" I say, closing my book and looking up at him as he sits next to me.

"Nah. I wouldn't call this stupid."

"Hm?"

"Did you have fun?"

"You're making no sense, Zabini." I say, chuckling.

"Your date with Theodore." His face gives off no emotions as he interrogates me.

Valentines say was approaching and Theodore had asked me out. I didn't want to delude myself with Blaide, so I accepted.

"Oh. Yeah. Theodore's a good guy." I force out. Leaving out the part that I rejected him at the end of the date.

"But... but, so am I. Y/n, so am I. " He says, in a way that makes my heart break.

• 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐭 •

"Is Tom hitting on you?" Theodore says, an eyebrow raised as I shush my friends who are still giggling away.

"Yeah." I say.

Theodore and I have been all about eachother. On the low.

So of course poor Tom didn't know that I was seeing his best friend when he came and asked me out for Valentines.

"Yeah, I mean... I believe he just asked me out."

Theodore frowns, jealously radiating from his person.

"And what did you say?"

"I said yes." And I did. Theodore - the guy I wanted to ask me out - was taking too long to grow some balls and I shouldn't be expected to wait.

His jaw clenches and I break eye contact with him.

"Oh. Okay, yeah." He says, sliding his hands into his back pocket.

"Something wrong?" I say, fidgeting around and kinda nervous.

"Of course not. Just can't believe I lost you to Tom of all people. Didn't think Tom was talking about you when he asked me for advice."

"W- Huh?"

• 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 •

"How long have you and Berkshire been dating?" Mattheo says as I start to get up.

Breakfast has just ended and the great hall is empty other than us two. My first class is a free period today and I was planning on staying in my dorm.

"Cause I've never seen him be so... touchy with you. I hate it." He says and I raisr a brow.

"He just asked me to be his Valentine." I say.

It was true; Lorenzo had spent the whole of breakfast with an arm around me and I don't know how I felt about it.

It did feel good to be wanted. But I wanted to feel that from... someone else. Guess who?

"You said yes?"

"Obviously." I chuckle a little.

This didn't feel right. It will never feel right if not with Mattheo.

"Why?" I say quietly.

"I thought I would be the one taking you out tonight." He whispers, searching my face.

"You never asked." I say, my eyes sad and my voice almost longing. For him.

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