"𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝓌ℯ𝓃𝓉 𝓉ℴ 𝒶 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓎, 𝒾 𝒽ℯ𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝒻𝓇ℴ𝓂 ℯ𝓋ℯ𝓇𝓎𝒷ℴ𝒹𝓎"

- taylor swift, now that we don't talk

𝑝 𝑎 𝑟 𝑡 𝑦 | 15

𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟏, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔
𝐟𝐚𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧

this is new. should i be scared?? 
today, pansy and astoria waltzed (not literally) into my room and announced that they were bringing me to a party.

hmm.
i actually don't know why i accepted, but i guess a part of me is curious.
astoria and pansy helped me pick out a dress. i quite like it, to be honest. the girls might not be the type of friends i would share everything with, but they certainly have a good sense of fashion and are supportive enough, even when you don't have a voice.

something, as i found out, most people don't seem to be able to do.

anyways, i haven't been to a party before, other than the overly formal ones i snuck into at beauxbatons. something is telling me that hogwarts will be different.

is it wrong to be excited?

___

𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟏, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔
𝟏𝟎:𝟐𝟕 𝐩.𝐦.

FAYE ANDERSON WALKED through the doors nervously, fidgeting with her hair. before getting ready, she'd worried. a lot. 

even though it was just pansy and astoria she was meeting right now, she wasn't used to getting attention, preferring to hide against the wall the way she'd done at beaxbatons. yet, here in hogwarts, her muteness wasn't received with ignorance, but rather unwanted notices.

astoria was first to nod her approval. "you look good, faye," she said with a small smile. 

"stop stressing!" pansy added, linking hands with faye.

the blonde tried not to flinch when pansy's hands made contact with hers. the memories of tortured she'd been receiving were getting worse, which made her even more sensitive than before.

"astoria was just about to tell us her cru-ush!" pansy continued in a sing-song voice, oblivious to faye's troubled mind.

astoria flushed. "if i tell you mine, you're namedropping yours," she warned. the brunette shrugged, staring at the greengrass until she relented. "fine.. it's theodore."

pansy stared. "theo nott?"

faye's heart beat faster.

astoria rolled her eyes. "who else? theodore riddle?"

"WHAT? riddle has a sibling?"

"no, gods! i was being sarcastic."

___

i wouldn't say it was a problem that astoria liked theo...
except i'm pretty sure he likes me.
tell me, how is it possible that every sort of trouble in the universe seems to find me?

___

𝟏𝟎:𝟒𝟗 𝐩. 𝐦.
𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞

MATTHEO'S EYES FOLLOWED anderson's path through the bustling crowd of slytherins the way everyone else's did. they hadn't spoken to each other for months, and mattheo knew it was what he'd done, but his mind still lingered on her.

"some nerve she has, showing up to a party," he heard someone whisper to their friend.

his boys, who were next to him, seemed to be debating whether to try and talk to her or not. "she looks pretty tonight. i mean, she was always pretty, but she looks pure amazing right now," theo said. "i'm going up to her."

"theo, wait," enzo said, sticking out an arm to prevent his mate from moving. "what if she's on a mission and wants to bait us one by one just to kidnap us then interrogate us in a secret base underneath the astronomy tower?" (reference: heartless by mxriariddle) 

"for gods sake. enzo, now is not the time- wait, you were serious?" theo retorted, frowning at his straight-faced friend.

"that's... oddly specific," draco added from his spot at the table next to the rest of them.

"i mean, she could kidnap me, and I'd thank her," blaise said, raising his glass in a casual toast. mattheo's brow lifted, and he finally intervened.

"boys, stop making fun of enzo. and theo- you can talk to her if you want, but no weed until you're done with her." theo immediately pranced off, leaving mattheo to attempt to ward off the pang of jealousy that coursed through his body.

___

𝟏𝟎:𝟓𝟐 𝐩.𝐦.
𝐟𝐚𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧

FAYE TURNED AROUND when she felt a hand on her shoulder. her eyes found the green ones of theodore nott, and she tried not to visibly sigh. 

it wasn't that she didn't enjoy his company, it was the fact that astoria liked him, and that she would rather not screw things up with friends for around the fiftieth time.

"hey... is everything alright?" theo asked, a small smile playing on his lips. 

faye nodded, shifting uncomfortably from foot to foot. theodore noticed, and his smile dropped. "if you don't want to join me tonight, it's perfectly okay. i understand. should i go?"

faye knew that it was wrong to say no. she understood that it was a betrayal of her newfound friend, and yet, no one had cared about her this way before. and... she liked it.

blushing in embarrassment, faye shook her head. "aww, is someone blushing? am i making you nervous?" theodore said teasingly.

faye shook her head again, this time in exasperation. 

theo grinned. "come on," he said, guiding her towards a crowd of slytherins, his hand resting on her waist. "let me show you what a real hogwarts party looks like." 

___

"𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓁𝒾𝓀ℯ 𝓈𝓁ℴ𝓌 𝓂ℴ𝓉𝒾ℴ𝓃, 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇ℯ 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓎 𝒹𝓇ℯ𝓈𝓈"

- taylor swift, the moment i knew

𝑑 𝑎 𝑟 𝑒 | 16

𝟏𝟏:𝟎𝟏 𝐩.𝐦.
𝐟𝐚𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧

fuck.
i was stupid. why did i join truth or dare?
in a crowd of slytherins, no less. 
stupid girl, i should've known.. i got dared to sit on theo's lap.
it's like i can feel astoria's stare on me right now.. but a dare is a dare.

___

ASTORIA GREENGRASS COULDN'T believe it. 

well, neither could faye. she turned to theo, the boy with a kind enough heart to walk up to her as she stood, unsure of what to do. if he hadn't, she wouldn't have been in her current fix, but she was going to try to stay, for his sake.

not wanting to be center of attention for too long, faye carefully sat down, basically on heo's knees. 

all of a sudden, she felt gentle hands guiding her closer to his chest, accompanied by whisper in her ear. "i hope you'll excuse this behavior, but my knees are hardly my lap, are they, darling?"

faye's heart began pounding again as she turned to face him and his sparkling eyes, so different from the dark ones that flashed through her mind time and time again. she felt an inkling of longing for the boy in front of her, so beautiful, so fleeting, so brilliant. 

she tried to convince herself otherwise. there was astoria. and mattheo, with the times he'd held her at the astronomy tower, the way he'd seen all the darkest parts of her. their childhood together.

the way i both of them can fuck themselves right now.

faye's eyes widened as the involuntary thought crossed her mind.

but oh, to be with theodore nott.. 

___

"𝒾 𝒽𝒶𝓉ℯ 𝒾𝓉 𝒽ℯ𝓇ℯ, 𝓈ℴ 𝒾 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 ℊℴ 𝓉ℴ 𝓈ℯ𝒸𝓇ℯ𝓉 ℊ𝒶𝓇𝒹ℯ𝓃𝓈.."

- taylor swift, i hate it here

theodore nott,
in one night, you have treated me more humanely than anyone in the past seventeen years of my life. your own secret garden.. your hand in mine. how my dress fluttered in the cool wind as we stood in your beautiful 'safe haven'.
i like that little world, even if it's been yours for the past six years and has been mine for around six minutes. it makes me feel timeless.
it makes us, you and i, feel timeless.

with love, faye

___

"𝒾'𝓂 𝓃ℴ𝓉 𝓎ℴ𝓊𝓇 𝓅𝓇ℴ𝒷𝓁ℯ𝓂 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓂ℴ𝓇ℯ.. 𝓈ℴ 𝓌𝒽ℴ 𝒶𝓂 𝒾 ℴ𝒻𝒻ℯ𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓃ℴ𝓌?"

- taylor swift, exile

𝑘 𝑖 𝑠 𝑠 | 17

𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔
𝟏𝟐:𝟎𝟑 𝐚.𝐦.
𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞/𝐟𝐚𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧

MATTHEO RIDDLE WAS drunk. very. 

unlike most people, when he got drunk, he became harsher. colder. 

and most importantly, more reckless.

___

faye anderson, on the other hand, was on top of the world. 

she returned to the party holding hands with theodore nott, pushing back the panic attacks. blocking out the whispers. blocking out her childhood best friend, even as he was storming up to them.

___

mattheo knew it was only a matter of time before he did something stupid. 

he knew he had to get out of here before it was too late. 

it became too late the moment he saw faye walking in with nott.

walking up to the couple, mattheo pushed theodore a little bit too hard to be casual. his tone was a little too cold to be joking. "hey, i see you've beaten me to something, at last."

faye's, serene face quickly transformed into a frown as theodore pushed back. "what do you mean, mate?" theodore said, forcing out a laugh, a little too loud to be real.

"what i mean is- you got to her first. you win. and i bet you were the first to do this to her, right?"

 without hesitation, a furious and unsteady mattheo pulled faye in by the waist. and before she could stop him, he kissed her on the mouth.

ami !!

oOOooOooOOOh !!

to specify, there was a huge timejump in which they simply avoided each other, thanks to mattheo