Tom was always a quiet man, he never expressed his true feelings. There was a school dance one and Tom usually never wanted to go.. Until this year. He wanted to ask you, to take you, but he had no idea how to ask you to the dance.

Tom was talking to his brother Mattheo in the Slytherin common room, telling him about how he wanted to ask you. You were a extremely popular girl and Tom kept overthinking that you wouldn’t want to be seen with a ‘menace’ like him.

You walked into the common room reading your book, Mattheo gave Tom a heads up then left the room, leaving only you and Tom inside

“What book are you reading?..” Tom asked, his tone was quiet and cold like normal, he was trying to make a conversation to hype himself up to ask you to the dance