The three of us went up to my room and played a memory game with Ezekiel. Hours had passed and still nobody has came home, we were all alone.
I tried to get my mind clear and just have fun with them but I kept questioning is something happened to them.
Mia told me it was nothing, that they were just off doing a task they were set to do. But it still didn't seem to bring my worries down.
Ezekiel yawns and I smile at how adorable this kid is. He doesn't even have to try he's simply adorable in every way. "I think we should end the game?." I look at Mia so she can see how Ezekiel reacts.
"Uhh no." Ezekiel says angry in his baby voice.
Both of us couldn't help but chuckle. "You sure? You seem really tired to me." I look over at Ezekiel rubbing his eyes and yawning even more.
The sliding doors open and Jacob walks in. "Sorry. Mia they need you down stairs." He looked worried and out of breath. Mia gets up quickly and leaves.
Ezekiel sprawls out on the floor and sleeps. I smile at the sight of this I can't get over how adorable he looks like. I pick up the game pieces and put away in the box, I slide the box underneath my bed.
I walk over to Ezekiel and pick him up carefully. "My are you heavy." I whispered to him. I place his head on my shoulder and hold him tightly making sure I don't drop him. I'm not sure where his room is so I'll just wait her until Mia comes back.
Matteo walks in such a rush inside my room. I put my finger above my lips, "shh." Matteo then noticed that I have Ezekiel in my arms.
"What happened?!." I whispered shouted to him. Matteo is stained in blood but it's not his.
Matteo sits down at the chair and ignored my question. Instead he just watches me walk around the room with Ezekiel in my arms. "You know you would make a good mother." Matteo whispered.
I turn around and gave him a disgusting look. I shake my head letting him no that I don't agree with that. I feel like I just don't have enough patiences for a kid. I look down at Ezekiel as he snuggles up to me. I can't help by smile.
"Okay Im bac-." She stops talking when sees that her little brother is asleep.
Mia comes over to get Ezekiel off of me. "Thank you." She mouthed. I smiled at her and she walks off.
I look over at Matteo and my smile fades. "Geez okay all the sweetness went away." I roll my eyes at his comment.
I crossed my arms, "so what happened?."
Matteo sits up straight. "Ahh so you do care about me."
I roll my eyes and walk over to my bed. "I asked what happened not what happened to you." I place the pillow on the other side to get ready to go to sleep.
I reach for the other pillow and feel Matteo's hands on both side of my hips. "Nothing important." I got up and froze. I felt really intimidated that he's very close to me. Matteo spins me to come face to face with him, he caress my cheek with his knuckles.
Matteo starts leaning in and I move my head to the side before it goes even further. "Very well then if it's nothing important then good night." I get away and walked to the closet to grab my pjs.
"Good night." I hear Mateo say before walking out of my room and closing the sliding doors.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I grab a black pj shorts and walk inside the bathroom to change.
I walk out and decided to keep on Matteo's hoodie since it's been warmed up all ready. I turn off the lights and walk over to the bed. I yawn and get underneath the sheets. I close my eyes as soon as my head hits the pillow.
A couple second later I hear the closet door open. I didn't know if it's just my imagination or if someone is inside my room. I felt a bit hesitant to turn over but I did it anyways.
I sit up and someone jumps onto the bed making me lay back down. "Boo!." I look up to see Matteo.
I push him off me just enough for me to sit up and turn on the lights. "What the hell is your problem?!." Though he says nothing and Matteo laughs.
Matteo looks down to see that I'm wearing his hoodie and smirks at me. "I wonder if I'll ever get it back." He pulls on his hoodie and falls next to me.
"What are you doing?." I push him lightly.
"I'm sleeping." He placed his arm around my waist and pulls me down to lay next to him.
"Uhh no your not." But he didn't care what I had to say and just fell asleep.
I reach over to turn off the lights. I push him so he can give me some space and I turned over so I don't have to face him. But he's stubborn and turns me over to face him.
Matteo doesn't say anything he just looks and me and plays with my hair. I look at him awkwardly but I don't think he noticed. It's weird that he's acting this way with me and I'm starting to think that whatever happened tonight is bugging him.
I didn't feel like asking him what happened when I know exactly he will just ignore me. Instead I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. His lips brushed over mine and I flutter my eyes open.
He brushes his lips over mine again. Almost as if he's teasing me. I don't know what to think of it, he's the person I hate the most for various reasons. Yet I'm right here want to kiss him. So I decide to turn over to avoid anything else.
But in the small movement his lips touch mine and press down lightly. He bites on my lip begging for a kiss in return. When he sees that it doesn't work he tickles me and I laugh out. Our lips mold together and I let myself go along with it.
It didn't last that long but it was just enough for me. I close my eyes and snuggle into him. Matteo wraps his arms around me and pulls me closer to him.
The next morning I wake to alone in bed. I get up and look over the nightstand to see what time it is. But my eyes land on a note instead.
I guess that's one way to get information out of him.
-M.F.
I'm wonder how Micah is able to get these notes through without anyone noticing. I also feel embarrassed that he might've seen what happened last night.
I get up and throw the note inside the toilet and flush it down. I go over my closet and pulled out my outfit for the day, a blue crop top and black jeans. I slip on my shoes and walk out of my room.
I run down the stairs and when I get to the bottom I bump shoulder with Max. "Watch it Grindelwald." He growled at me.
I grab his wrist tightly and snapped at him, "it's Rosier!. Asshole."
"Is there a problem?." Matteo said from the bottom of the stairs. I let go of Max and keep walking down the stairs.
Matteo grabs my arm and pulls me close to him, "is everything alright?." I look back at Max and see him continue walking up the stairs.
"Yeah everything's fine." I look back at Matteo and smile to cover up my anger. Matteo holds my hand and we walk to the dinner table.
I let go of Matteo and take my regular seat with Asher. I pull the chair, "hey." Asher looks up and smile.
I lean into him, "how did the note get to my room?."
Asher looks at me, "what note?." and winks at me.
I smile and we continue eating our food. Asher and I made small talk here at there. But every once in awhile I noticed that Matteo wouldn't take his eye off Asher. "I think Riddle is jealous." Asher nudges me.
I chuckle a little, "he has nothing to be jealous about." I raise my eyebrow to look at Matteo. Asher picks up his cup and pretends to drink and looks over at Matteo, he finally looks away.
I lean into Ashers ear, "matter of fact I'm jealous that he keeps looking at you and not me." Asher spits out his drink and laughs. I pull my shirt to cover up that I'm laughing and turn the other way.
"I'm so so sorry Ryan." Asher hands the boy across from him a napkin to clean his face.
We continue eating and I noticed Asher keeps clearing his throat. "Your arm!." He whispered at me worried. I knew what arm he was talking about, the one with my mark. I put my hand underneath the table and kept eating.
I finish my food before everyone else and I excuse myself. I walk up my room and I'm starting to get annoyed that this is what I've been doing the same thing the past few days.
I go inside and close the door behind me. I open the sliding door and enter my room. There's a bunch of papers laid out on my bed.
I walk over and see that it's pictures of my siblings and I in a group picture during Christmas. There's red x's crossing off Jackson and Andrew's face as well with mine.
Off to the side is a picture of my sister and I with my mother when we were little. They we both crossed off just like Jackson and Andrew. All around the floor there are copies of newspapers explain the story of the attack. In the center is me walking out of the house we were attacked, holding my fathers hand.
I felt angry for how someone could do something like this. I only had one person in mind who could do this and that's Max.
"Ash I'm free for to-." Matteo stops talking when he sees the mess of papers in my room.
I quickly pick everything and put them inside the drawer try to keep it out of sight from him. "What is that." Matteo asked.
I smile, "Oh nothing Ezekiel game in playing the the newspaper and left a mess." hoping to convince him. I pick up the rest that are laid out on the floor and throw it away.
Matteo looks at me strangely not really convinced by it, "well I'm free for today, do you want to do anything?."
I shrugged my shoulder, "anything is fine."
Ezekiel comes running inside my room and yells, "it's snowing!." He grabs my hand and pulls me out to the balcony. The sight of snow falling is very breathtaking.
I pick Ezekiel up to so he can get a better look. "Did you know that when it snows, muggles make a snowman and angels." Ezekiel looks at me strangely not knowing what I was talking about. "It's fun I'll show you."
Matteo crossed his arms and walked towards us, "Ash the boy isn't supposed to like muggle things."
I roll my eyes at him and put Ezekiel down. "Go grab a sweater and I'll see you out there in 5 minutes." In that exactly moment I finished telling him what to do he sprints out of my room.
Matteo laughs and shakes his head. "He's lucky my father isn't here, by now he would've gotten rid of him for doing something muggles do."
"Matteo!." I look at him sternly. I didn't find his comment to be funny.
Matteo raises his hands in defense, "I'm just saying."
I open my closet door and grab a sweater. "Well I hope you join this muggle thing." I walk out of the room and rush down the stairs.
I find Ezekiel waiting for me at the last step. "Ready?." The boy nodded and we walk out through the back door.
Ezekiel runs to the snow but isn't exactly sure what to do now. I put on my sweater and walk over to him, "lay down." The little boy looks at me strangely but does it anyways.
I lay down near him, "now watch what I'm doing." I start moving my legs and arm to creat a snow angel. The little boy breaks into a huge smile and starts doing the same thing.
I sit up and see Matteo looking at us from the balcony, shaking his head at us. I flip him off for judging us and this makes Ezekiel laugh.
Matteo laughs and looks up to see the snow falling. I put my finger above my lips to let Ezekiel know to stay quiet. "Watch." I whispered. Ezekiel and I stand up, I lean down and cupped some snow and formed it into a ball.
"Matteo!." I throw the snowball at the exact time he turns his head to look at me. The snowball hits his shoulder instead of his face. But either way I still aimed at him.
Ezekiel gasped to see that Matteo wasn't very pleased about me throwing a snowball. "Uh oh your in trouble." The little boy says. I look over at him to see that he's scared for my life.
"It's fine he won't do anything." When I look back up to the balcony Matteo was gone.
Someone whistles and I look to see Matteo throwing a snowball at me. I turn and the snowball hits my back.
"Hey! You can't do that." Ezekiel got mad at Matteo. He was so mad that he grabbed some snow and threw it at Matteo. I stick my tongue out to Matteo and he laughs.
Mia comes out to see all the commotion, "what is goi-." By then Ezekiel threw a snow ball at her.
Mia whips off the snow and laugh. She gives Ezekiel a mischievous smile and chases him around the yard.
A snowball hits my shoulders and I look over at Matteo, "it wasn't me." He points to the door and I see Asher winking at me.
Asher walks over to me, "I'm surprised this hasn't broke into a snowball fight."
I shake my head. "Don't even try that, but can we talk?."Asher tilts his head signaling me that Matteo is looking at us. "Just follow me." We start walking away and I turn to see Matteo sending daggers to Asher.
Two days later-
"So what is it?." Asher looked behind me to see Matteo.
I grab him shoulder to stop looking at Matteo. "I found a picture with my siblings with Jackson's and Andrew's faces crossed off." Matteo looks at me surprised but confuse. "Then there's another one with my mother and newspapers of what happened." I look back and see that Matteo is nowhere in sight.
"So Max is behind it." I'm glad Asher is able to catch on quickly.
We stop walking and turn to him, "I just need you to get those things out of my room. They are in the top drawer." Asher nodded. "It's best if nobody finds out about this not even Matteo."
Asher rubs the back of his head, "I'll try but just know that I won't always be around you." Asher pulls me close to him and pulls out a dagger from his coat. " I can't give you a wand but this will do if he ever try's something. Nobody can know you have this with you."
I take the dagger and slide it into my jeans. "Well let's just hope we don't get to that point. I already have enough blood of his family on my hands."
"So you where behind it too?."
"Yes. But that's another story for another time."
Asher nods. "Well I gotta get back to work."
I stop him before he can walk away. "What's gotten you so busy?."
Asher looks around and then leans in. "Voldemort knows that your friends are out destroying his horxeus." Now that wasn't a good thing.
"So what now?." If I couldn't get information from Matteo then I would have to get it out of Asher.
Asher hesitates to say anything. "In a couple of days Matteo is going to take you to the Malfoy Manor. From there you will go with Voldemort to pay your dad a visit. He will use you to get information out of your father."
A bit of anger rose over me that Matteo will just hand me off to his father like that but this isn't a good time to confront him about that. "I believe it has to do with the Elderly wand." Micah gave me orders to get him informations and that's what I'll do.
Asher looks up to the balcony and from the corner of my eye I can see that Matteo is watching us. Asher puts his hand under his nose as if he's cleaning his nose, "yes."
I hook my arm with Asher and walk back. "Yeah those were good times but sadly I won't be spending Christmas with my siblings." I changed the subject to try and cover up.
"Just hang on, you'll be back with them soon." Asher caught on quickly and said it loud enough for Matteo to here. Asher walks away.
Ezekiel runs up to me, "let's play."
I kneel down to his level. "Tomorrow right now I'm not really in the mood buddy." Ezekiel smiles and runs back to Mia.
I walk back inside and see Max down the hall. He waves at me and fakes smiled. I continue walking down the hall and turn to go up the stairs.
I walk inside the room and see Matteo out in the balcony smoking. I walk past him quietly and go to my room. I open the first drawer and put the dagger inside.
I lay out on my bed and slowly fall asleep, when Ezekiel barges in my room. "I came for my game."
"It's at the bottom of the bed." I sit back up and Ezekiel pulls out the game board. He shakes the box trying to convince him to play a game.
But Matteo walks, "alright buddy let her take a nap."
Ezekiel pouts and waves goodbye. I look at him in awe and wave good bye too. Matteo walks into my room and I shake my head. "That was mean."
"You now what else is mean?." I tilt my head not sure what else could it be. "That you reach out to Asher when you can just talk to me." So this is the big dilemma.
I'm gotten going sit here and applaud his jealousy issues. "Asher is a friend from school, and I'm definitely not going to talk to you about my things. I don't even trust you enough." He looked hurt and walked out of my room.
The only reason why I haven't escaped is because I really want to figure out what happened to Ryker. But Matteo won't ever say anything to me.
"Fine you really want to know what happened to Ryker." Matteo said while barging into my room. I look at him strangely wondering...oh wait I forgot that the riddles can ready people's minds. "Yes I know what your saying in your mind." He snapped.
Matteo takes a seat in front of me on the bed. " I had him here locked up in the dungeons . With the help of Max-."
"Wait Max is behind this too?!." What kind of twisted game is this.
Matteo looked at me annoyed, "let me finish!." He whispered shouted. "Max thinks he's dead too. I only told him to help me use something against you, so you could hand over the Elderly wand."
So Max thinks his cousin is dead too, but does Matteo know Max wants him dead?. Not just him but his family and me. "And what is that something you tried using against me?."
"Well I used your relationship with Draco to get him mad. But Ryker was far more upset than mad at you. I thought that if he saw how happy you were with another guy he would betray you by giving us information on the wand." Matteo stops talking and looks a bit hesitant to continue. I tilt my head and try to read him out. "Then we threatened him with his family..."
"I'm assuming that didn't work either since he's not very close to his family." I state. Matteo nods and looks off to the side. "I just don't understand why out of nowhere Max showed up."
Matteo looks at me for a couple second and then looks away. "Spill." I know he has something to say but keeps holding back.
Matteo sighs, "Max wanted Ryker dead awhile go because their grandpa left a will. Everything that once belonged to that man is for Ryker to keep. So the day he found out that I was behind Rykers death he came to me. I gave him the same version my brother Theodore gave you two." Just remembering that day makes me feel terrible.
"There's this girl, Lydia my...friend." He looked uncomfortable sharing that with me.
I know Sebastian warned me that Matteo tends to sleep with a lot of girls. "Why so hesitant?." I really don't care what he does with his life.
Matteo rolls his eyes, "Anyways... she would bring Ryker food and as time passed Lydia fell for him. He only used her to get a way out of here and get back to you." So this entire time he...he still wanted me. "But he gave up when I showed him pictures of you and Draco at the beach with your siblings." I didn't know if I should sock Matteo in the face before letting him finish. "And he settled for Lydia..."
I grab a pillow and smack him repeatedly with it, "THIS. IS. ALL. YOUR. FAULT!." I felt completely furious at him. He's very lucky I don't have a wand to just torture him.
Matteo snatches the pillo away and throws it at the other side of the room. He launches towards me, "he doesn't like you anymore." He spat.
"No!." I squirmed underneath him. "You made him forget me." The more I fought him the more weight he was putting on me. I began to cry. "He doesn't even know who I am anymore." My voices cracked at how broken I felt.
"He's a married man now so get over it." Matteo got off of me. I slap him across the face and he reacts quickly by pining me down. "I did it for us." He added in a low voice.
"No you did for yourself! And your stupid obsession." I fighting to get him off me but is of no use since he has me fully pinned down.
"I did it because I love you!." He yelled out and slowly got off of me. I sit up straight and look at him strangely and if he thinks I'm going to buy that he's so wrong. But the way he looks, disbelief that he got himself to admit it. Something about that tells me he's saying the truth but I'm more mad to even acknowledge his feelings for me.
I chuckle and he looks at me strangely. "You don't love me." I muttered. Matteo sits up and try's to get close enough to me but I push him away. "I'm not stupid...your father can't love and neither can you or your brothers." I said while whipping off my tears.
His face turns red. "Yeh your right, but if I feel like I care for you then I think that's the closest thing I'll feel to love." Matteo walks out of my room. He closed the sliding doors and locked them.
I rush over to the door, "open the god damn door!." I pound on the door multiple times. "Open the door!."
"I can't until you understand that I did this for you..for us. It's not fair that I fell for you, do you know what my father will say about this?." Matteo said from the other side.
"Open the door!." I barked. I don't care what Matteo or his father or anyone else has to say. "Open the door!." I pounded on the door even harder. But still the door wasn't unlocked.
I slide down the door and sob, "This is your fault! It's your fault he doesn't remember me." I cry even harder than before. I didn't care if he's hearing me cry, I want him to hear how much in pain I am. "You ruined my fuckin life. I hate you MATTEO RIDDLE!."
But I still wasn't going to give up yet I rushed to the drawer and pull it the dagger. I insert it between the doors and slide it down to create some space on the lock and fully open it. But I struggled and gave up. I threw the dagger across the room. "Matteo please let me go. Please that's the least you can do." I begged him but still no answer from him.
More hot angry tears run down my face. I pound on the door even harder and start yelling out for him. "Matteo if you don't open this door right now I'll hate you for the rest of my life." I slide down the door and rest my head on the door hoping that in any moment I fall backwards when the doors open.
"I'm...sorry." Matteo mutters from the other side.
"Then I hope you and Lydia go to hell!." It was silent for a moment until I heard him rush out of the room and slam the door.
I rush over to grab the dagger and slide it down my back pocket. I go into my closet and stuff in a couple of clothes. I whip the rest of my tears and clean my face with water. I look at myself in the mirror and see how red my face is.
I walk out and hear the sliding doors being unlocked. I rush out to the balcony and put my foot up on the ladder. Right when I was about to put the other one I get pulled back to the balcony. "Im sorry but your coming with me." Jacob looked upset that he had to stop me from running away.
Mia walks out and pulls the backpack off of me, "i need to leave please." I begged them but they didn't listen. Jacob pushes me out of the room and Mia follows.
At the bottom of the stairs I sees beat up Micah kneeled in front of the death eaters. My heart pounds that somehow he got caught. In the exact moment Asher is thrown to the ground by Max. I knew that this is it, the three of us got caught red handed. "Explain yourself." Matteo looked at me in disgust.
Jacob and Mia left my side and joined the rest of the deatheaters. Each of them looked like they want to tear me up into pieces. Matteo punches Micah in the face and I run down the stairs to pick him up. "I won't ask again." Matteo growled at me.
Micah leans on me, "Rosier don't, it's an order."
I pull Micah closer to me and he hands me a green tube that's filled with poison. He pulls out another for him. "Micah no." I take the poison away from him.Max snatches the tube of poison from me.
"Take them away!." Matteo snaps at everyone. Micah is taken away from me and Asher is pulled back up by Max.
Jacob walks over me and pulls me up. I start holding back to stop from being taken to the dungeons. I look over at Matteo to see him furious that I betrayed him. "Fine! I'll help your father get the Elderly wand but let them go." I knew that Matteo wouldn't turn down this offer since his father ss been asking for it.
"Take her." Matteo looked at me emotionless and walked away.
This time I didn't bother to fight Jacob. He pulls me back up and takes me away with Micah and Asher.