with Mattheo laying against your chest, his hands gripping your waist almost painfully and his voice forming choppy sobs into you. You stared forward with your hands intertwined in his hair.

“It’s okay..” you whispered though you were trying to convince yourself that at the same time. “he’ll turn up.”

Mattheo choked on a sob and clung tighter to you. You’ve never seen him like this, besides the time he accidentally elbowed you in the face and was in absolute hysterics.

He can’t handle his loved ones hurt. That’s the one thing that’ll break down Mattheo Riddle, the toughest boy in Hogwarts.

“What if he doesn’t.? I need to look for him.” Mattheo tried to calm his tears but it only gave him a painful hiccup. He continued laying on you for comfort but turned his head and looked at the framed pictures on his dresser

one of them was of him and Theodore. You took that photograph that day. Though you could’ve never imagined that would some day become possibly the only valuable left of yours and Mattheo’s best friend.