Spirals || Mattheo Riddle

? Chapter 5 ?

The teachers voice interrupted my thoughts, her words about planet alignments catching my attention instead. The boy next to me spent the lesson playing with his wand in his fingers, spinning it round and round. He seemed to have little to no interest in the lesson at all. At one point I noticed the Ravenclaw girls giving me hateful looks, Mattheo looked at me strangely as I tried not to laugh at the irony of the situation. Have him, honestly. Take him away, I beg you. 

The lesson dragged on endlessly, only getting interesting when the astronomy teacher lost it at the Ravenclaws for not paying attention. How easily intelligence was forgotten when an attractive member of the opposite sex sat on the other side of a classroom from you. The professor used a different choice of words but that's basically how it translated. I watched Riddle's eyes dance with delight at the commotion.

The moment the class was dismissed, I grabbed my things and bolted as fast as I could. To both avoid some comment from Riddle, and to get back to the common room as fast as possible. I had decided I was going to go to that party, possibly get alcohol poisoning, and probably hook up with a random guy because life had been a bit too simple for myself. 

Pansy still had one more class left for the day so I showered and styled my hair the muggle way to pass the time. Still in a towel while curling my hair, Pansy and Daphne came bounding into the dorm, both chattering about what to wear.

"Oh shit, there's hardly any time left," Pansy said, basically breathless.

"Pans, there's still an hour and a half left, don't freak out." Surely it couldn't take that long to get ready? The party started at 9, it was currently 7.30. We had already gone and gotten a quick bit of food from the hall.  I finished my hair up while Pansy showered and Daphne started her makeup.

"Raven, why don't you don't just charm your hair?" Daphne asked.

"I kinda like doing it the muggle way, my Mum used to do it like that when I was a kid," I replied fondly. "She was a pureblood but she had this weird obsession with the non-magg world." I smiled a little at a memory touching the little burn scar on one of my ears from where her hand had slipped with the curling iron when I was smaller.

"Why do you say that in the past tense ?" Daphne inquired. It wasn't uncommon knowledge but I never liked to go into detail so I told her what I told everyone.

"She's not really around anymore."

She gave me a sympathetic look and dropped the topic, focusing on blending the shades of concealer on her cheeks.

"Right whores, who's ready to party?" Pansy announced as she stepped out of the bathroom. Her hair was in its usual shoulder length state and her face painted with perfectly done makeup. The silver spaghetti strap dress hugged her hips wonderfully and the shiny fabric stopped at the top of her thigh. 

"Holy fuck Pansy, you look hot." The witch did a little spin for us, obviously pleased with herself. I picked my jaw up from the floor, admiring my friend. 

"You right there Rave? Looking a little flustered," Pansy said as she gave me a wink. I shook my head and chuckled, reining back the number of things I could say to make the other girl blush.

Happy with the basic eye makeup I had done and colour of my lips, I slipped on my outfit for the night. I wouldn't exactly call it a dress, more of a matching skirt and top. The black fabric of the top was tight around my chest and had a piece connected by small chains which wrapped around the top of my waist. The matching black skirt sat comfortably on my hips, covering the lower half of my stomach and stopped mid-thigh.

All in all the two piece dress didn't show an abnormal amount of skin aside from the strip of waist and ribs between bits of fabric. The two other girls let out squeals of excitement as I strutted out from the bathroom door. Daphne had gotten dressed too and was wearing a cute, skin tight, pink long sleeved dress.