𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣|| 𝙏𝙤𝙢 𝙈 𝙍𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙡𝙚

Neuf

Tom was strolling around the courtyard. Soon he went to the girls bathroom and started to look everywhere. Avella came out the cubicle as the two stared weirdly at each other

"I thought I was alone." He gathered his things

"Obviously your not. Why are you here anyways?" She folded her arms going to the sink and washing her hands

"Nothing. Just..curious" he tried to cover up

"Curious about what?" She interrogated

"The bathroom. It's different to the boys" he replied

"Well spotted, I never knew" she rolled her eyes sarcastically

"Get out before anybody sees you and thinks your a weirdo. Oh wait they already think that" she is ushered him out.

"I beg to differ Lessie. People find me most attractive. Believe it or not" he smiles

he knows he's hot.

"It's Lestrange!" She huffed.

Soon she saw Lucretia and her cronies along with Lupin and Dorea tagging along.

"Quickly. Kiss me." He asked

She turned around

"What? Kiss you, I'd rather kiss a snake." She scoffed

Lucretia kept her eyes to her friends

"Please." He pleaded

"Why should I?" Sue seethed

"Just get here" he grabbed her wrist, much to her discontentment he pushed her up the wall, sighed and braced himself, laid gently his lips onto hers. They both heard Lucretia cry out of shock, but the fact Vella got her back made it sweeter, so she deeper the kiss more. They both heard the footsteps of them running down the hall.

She pushed him off and wiped her lips.

"You seemed to enjoy it." He merely says

"I found it horrendous." She picked her bags up

"This doesn't mean anything. Okay?!" He blushed before running down the hall, her watching him swiftly. She didn't make what to feel about the kiss  but shook it off and went to dinner.

From that moment something shifted. It never meant anything but she couldn't bring herself to look at Tom, who she knew was looking straight at her.

They didn't speak for months. Lucretia and Dorea thought the two had gone off each other.

But they were wrong, Avella and Tom were confused. Confused about their feelings. Should she allow to feel something after all this time?

No. She thought, she can't be deluded by that one thing, but she didn't know he was.

He felt himself totally utterly tranced by his enemy. He did admit it before but never this intense.

"Check it out, Lucretia is looking at you again" Rosier nudged the boy

"I don't care. Rosier." He replied shoving him back

Octavian Nott came and tried to console Lucretia, but Lucretia only had eyes for Tom. And Tom only.

He had gone off her, for once Lestrange was right. He only used her for the book, which he had neglected because of her.

He had never known the feeling to love somebody, but he felt uncomfortable thinking of love or any means of it.

"Tom, why'd you look at Avella like that? You don't normally do. It's only in these past few months you have." Abraxas coughed

"Shut up. I'm not staring, just looking. Can I not look Abraxas? But the only thing I'm going to look at is your mangled body." He threatened

"S-sorry." Abraxas cowered

Avella caught his eye. She stared at his face, differently from how she used to perceive him. He was most handsome in her eyes. More enchanted than ever. He thought her almost too pretty for a human.

After Avella couldn't take it no more and took Tom down to the girls bathroom, she was surprised Mrytle Warren wasn't there to cry about Olive Hornby.

"Why'd you drag me here, Lessie?" He toyed

"It's Lestrange! You've been doing this for ages stop with the name!" She sighed

"I will continue to carry on the more you say stop" he laughed

For the first time she saw a smile escape his vicious and venomous mouth. Which was rare.

"Tom Riddle, smiling? Are you really Tom Riddle?" She taunted

"Avella Lestrange being civil? Are you really Avella Lestrange?" He sarcastically replied

"Are you trying to trifle with me?" She asked more sterner which made the mood drop entirely

"How so? You think I am to trifle you, Avella?" He asked

Avella..she almost forgot her name when she heard her name out his mouth.

"I think you are, stop the act" she spat

"What act? Was I supposed to act?" He looked confused

"Your not acting?" She asked

"What are you saying? Lessie?" He asked looking into her eyes

"Do you love me?" She asked enthusiastically

He looked taken aback by the sudden outburst

"What? Love a Lestrange?! Love you?! My enemy?! As if Lestrange. I'd rather run back to Lucretia." He replied lying

But to her, it wasn't a lie.

"Liar. I know you do. I've read your thoughts when your not noticing. I know everything. And I know what your looking for. But until you man up and admit your feeling I won't" she replies

His face grew pale

"What do you know?! Tell me Avella what do you know?"

"What do you cleave? Knocked you off your broom there, Riddle" she smirked

"What is it" he got agitated

"The chamber of secrets." She replied smiling

His face dropped

"Avella I need to know where it is, if you tell me please!" He came closer

"Not until you love me. Not until you admit fully you do. And all my homework. Or I'll get Dumbledore to destroy that book of yours"

"Are you blackmailing me?"" He gasped

She had Tom wrapped around her finger. So the whole school, mostly.

"No..how about, negotiation." She smiled sinisterly

Manipulation at its finest, when two manipulators clash, they can go one way or the other.

"Funny seeing you so weak." She laughed hysterically

"Funny seeing you so strong" he shot back

"You know I'm the only one you can't tackle." She whispered in his ear as his blood ran cold in his veins.

Was it his destiny to love Avella? Or was it going to end fatal.

She knew about his scheme about the chamber. She heard his cronies gossiping about it. How heroic Tom was, but they had one problem. Where to find it. So she priced it together, he was in the girls bathroom, looking around the sink. So that was where she started and to her surprise it was the opening. According to the books.

It was too funny to see Tom obey her.

She wanted more. More of the power

—————————
Hope you all enjoyed thank you for reading I love you all and the support <3

———-MINKSS