His ( A Tom Riddle Love Story)

CHAPTER NINE

Chapter 9

Cindria's POV

For the rest of the month, I stayed close to Tom for obvious reasons. But for some reason, nobody bothered me anymore. Even the green-eyed girl from my art class disappeared.

I'm guessing Tom had something to do with it, but even when I asked, he wouldn't tell me anything.

Caleb and I were steadily becoming friends and this angered Tom to no ends. He kept on telling me that I shouldn't be friends with him and to stay away. But I couldn't help it; I was selfish and wanted to experience having more friends. I guess it's my own fault for what happened next.

I walked down the hall with Tom, who held my hand and was reading from another book.

It was Halloween day and I was getting excited about the feast Tom had told me about years ago. Over the last couple of weeks, I met some of Tom's 'friends' though he doesn't consider them as such. By far, Malfoy was the one with manners, Nott was the snarky one, and Blaise was somewhat kind. Pansy was kind of bratty; Goyle and Crabbe had this aura of darkness surrounding them.

Though there were many, these are the only ones I remembered.

They all introduced themselves with their last name, so I don't have a clue to what their first names are.

Suddenly, someone hit my shoulder and slid something into my hand. Tom looked to the side and snarled at whoever hit me.

He was probably mad that he lost his spot in reading.

"Don't touch her," He said menacingly. The person in question, who was wearing a hoodie, put his hands up in surrender and walked away.

More like ran away.

"What did he give you?" Tom asked immediately after. I looked at Tom confusion. How did he know that that person gave me something?

As though reading my mind, Tom answered the unanswered question.

"Saw it from the corner of my eyes, now let me see it," He said while closing the book and let go of my hand to reach for the paper.

I opened the paper and scanned the contexts quickly before giving it to Tom.

I frowned a bit as the words registered in my mind.

Meet me in the empty classroom next to the transfiguration class at 7:00 pm

Oh no.

From Caleb.

I looked at Tom to see him glaring at the piece of paper with hatred. The poor piece of paper burned right before my eyes and I could only stare at Tom in shock.

Did he just burn the paper ... by just looking at it?

I knew Tom was powerful with a wand, but I didn't know he could do such a thing without one.

Tom grabbed my hand and started muttering to himself while dragging me down the hall. Students moved out of his way once they saw who he was. We reached the library in seconds. Tom entered the library with me in tow; he dragged me deep into the library and pushed me gently against the bookshelf.

"You are not going to meet him," He stated clearly with both his arms resting on each side of my head, trapping me.

"But what if he has to tell me something important?" I asked stubbornly.

I didn't have any intentions of skipping the feast, but if Caleb had something to tell me then I could sacrifice a few minutes, right?

"You will not meet him, I don't care if he's dying, I don't care if he has something important to tell you, and I certainly don't care about this kid named Caleb," He snarled out.

I looked at him in confusion.

Why did he hate Caleb so much?

Now, I was just itching to go meet Caleb now, just to see what he had to say and what it felt like to go meet up with a friend.

And how it would feel like to lie to Tom.

"I won't go then," I said while looking anywhere else but him.

I looked back at Tom to see that he was giving me such a look of passiveness.

He probably knew I was lying.

"I trust you Cindria," He said while looking me in the eye.

I swallowed the big lump of guilt in my throat and smiled at Tom. He took my hand again and walked us towards our table.

3 hours Later

Tom's POV

I waited for Cindria in the Common Room and thought about what had happened earlier.

She lied to my face just to go see that bastard kid Caleb.

I would love to see how she'd try to go and see him; I won't let her get passed me. A group of giggling girls passed me and left the Common Room.

Tch, how annoying.

I waited for Cindria for another 10 minutes before I climbed the stairs to see where she was. I saw a girl with blond hair sitting on a bed across from Cindria's. Putting on my charming smile, I walked over to the girl.

"Hey, I'm wondering if you can tell me where Cindria is?" I asked politely.

The girl looked shocked to see me and I could see her getting flustered while trying to string two words together.

Hurry the hell up! I don't have time for this.

"She left, with the other girls, they left a while ago." She answered while petting her hair down.

It took me 3 seconds to process what she had just said. Cindria was with those girls.

God! Why didn't I see this coming?

She ditched me just to go see a kid she just met a couple of weeks ago. Caleb would pay for making the only person I valued most to lie to my face and ditch me.

I left the girl's dormitory room immediately without giving the girl a second glance and sped walked towards the area where that kid said he would meet Cindria.

The corridors were empty because everyone was at the Halloween feast. I stopped shortly outside the classroom and opened the door slightly.

I heard voices inside and I stopped to listen.

"I'm glad you came Cindria, it means a lot to me."

"You're my friend Caleb, but do you mind hurrying up a tiny bit, I don't want to keep Tom waiting."

"Alright, though tell me, what is your relationship with Tom?"

"He's the most important person to me in the whole entire world."

"Do you have any feelings for him?"

I didn't make a move; I also wanted to know what Cindria would say.

"I – I do, I love him more than anything."

Though I knew Cindria liked me, I didn't really quite fathom the fact that she could actually love me.

It made me feel valued.

"I guessed that, though do you think he's interested in you in that way?"

"I don't think so."

"So it's unrequited love, then?"

Like damn hell, it is.

"I think so, but I don't care. I just want to stay with him forever."

She would stay with me forever, it's good she has mutual feelings of this or else I would have forced her to stay with me.

"You're going to spend your life like this? Why not look at other people? Tom isn't the only guy in the world. Other people will have feelings for you, Cindria. I have feelings for you."

Of course, he did.

Who wouldn't fall in love with Cindria?

"I-I-I don't understand," Cindria stuttered.

Suddenly a brilliant idea flashed before my mind.

I grinned evilly and took out my wand from my robe and I pointed at Caleb.

"I like you Cindria, I like you a whole lot," Caleb said and I heard him take a step. "Imperio," I said and then I had complete control over this kid who thought he could come in between Cindria and me.

Thank you for reading.