Chapter 4

Clarissa's POV

After the incident in potions, I didn't see Mattheo much. He didn't turn up to any of the detentions we were meant to do but I wasn't complaining. I tried with everything to avoid him. If he was walking down the corridor I would quickly go in the other direction. If we were in the common room, I would avoid looking at him even though his glare would burn into me.

It wasn't like I was scared of him, well maybe a tiny bit, but I was scared of the person I was becoming around him.

Our small group had really become like a family to me. It wasn't like I was just a new student; they had accepted me as a part of them straight away and I loved them all for it... apart from Mattheo.

Reid and I had become closer, not romantically but he really was becoming a good friend. We would flirt harmlessly together but had the mutual understanding nothing would come of it. Most of the time it was at the weekends whilst our group was having quiet drinks in the common room. He would be sitting on the sofa and I would sit beside him for him to pull me closer. Sharing a blunt (that I had now got used to smoking) then having a quiet giggle.

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It was a week before Halloween and we were celebrating the twins eighteenth birthday. All year sevens from the other houses had come to join us. Drinks were flowing around the common room and the music was loud. Thank God for the silencing charm because I was certain we would have all received detentions for the amount of noise everyone was making.

I danced for what seemed like hours with the girls until Draco took Pansy's hand and led her to the sofa. He pulled her down onto her lap and she kissed him gently before calling Darcy and I over.

"Time for spin the bottle?"

"That didn't end well for me last time." I laughed as I sat down next to Reid and rested my legs on his lap.

Blaise held out his arms for Darcy to sit with him and she obliged, sinking into him. Mattheo had some random blonde from Gryffindor sitting on his lap. Poor girl didn't know what she was getting in to. She did look quite happy with herself though and that kind of annoyed me a bit.

"Right, we remember the rules don't we?" Darcy spoke up. "If the bottle lands on you, you have to do the dare. If you refuse you have to do a worse one."

The game began and the dares started of pretty tame. One person had to keep taking shots until the bottle landed on them again (that person soon passed out), a girl had to remove her bra without taking of her top. One boy had to wear a girls underwear. Nothing too over the top.

Eventually the bottle landed on me and I didn't like the evil smiles my so called friend was giving me.

"I dare you to kiss Reid." Darcy grinned.

Mattheo eyes shot daggers at me as I smiled at the dare.

"Ok." I shrugged.

Swinging my leg over his lap I straddled him. My hands slid over his shirt towards his neck then I leaned in, pressing my lips against his lightly. I felt him grin as his kissed me back. The kiss was only fleeting but when I pulled away his mouth was still slightly open expectantly. A passion shone in his eyes that I really wished wasn't there.

"Just friends." I whispered with a nervous smile.

"Remind me of that again in the morning." He murmured, pulling my head back down to kiss me harder this time. His other hand skimmed down my waist and rested on my lower back. Something hard pushed against my thigh and I pushed myself away from him, chuckling lightly.

"Umm, before you get off do you want to pass me that cushion."

I laughed louder as I reached across, subtly moving the cushion between us both before I climbing back off and sitting down beside him again.

"Do you need to go to the bathroom mate?" Blaise shouted before roaring with laughter.

"Naa, but I might have to tug one out later." Reid grinned shamelessly.

"Ew, Reid!" I laughed, slapping his arm.

"Well... that was definitely something." Darcy muttered, leaning over so only I could here then subtly glanced at Mattheo.

I followed her gaze. The blonde was still sitting on his lap but he wasn't touching her. He was glaring at me like he wanted to kill me. His fingers dug into the arms of the chair like he was trying to control whatever he was feeling. Not going to lie I felt slightly intimidated but I wasn't about to let him know that. Instead, I gave him a sickly sweet smile that I was certain I would regret if we were alone. Especially when his eyes darked even more.

I spun the bottle and it landed on Mattheo. Fuck. Why did I have to be the one to give him a dare. I sat back thinking for a moment. I may not have known him long but I knew for sure he was the kind of person that wouldn't back down from a dare just to spite me.

"Make her blush." I said, nodding towards the blonde.

Something simple but it would also mean that he would have to say something nice to her. Something he definitely wasn't capable of.

His mouth tipped up at the sides ever so slightly and I instantly knew I had made a mistake. He leaned forward, taking hold of her head and whispered something in her ear. As he leaned back again, he gave me a wicked grin. I looked at the girl and sure enough she was blushing. She got up off his lap nibbling her bottom lip and made her way towards the boys' dorms. I looked at Mattheo confused.

"What did you say to her?" Draco asked, sounding impressed.

He didn't take his eyes off me when he answered. "I told her to hide and when I find her, I'll make her forget the name of every other boy she has ever been with."

Blaise cheered and leaned across to give him a high five but Mattheo left him hanging. Darcy and Pansy both looked at me for my reaction like they were expecting me to say something. But what could I say. There was nothing between Mattheo and me. It was a game of push and pull. Get a reaction out of each other and that was how we were going to keep playing.

He wasn't going to see my reaction though so to keep the look of disgust from him I grabbed the bottle of fire whisky and took a few large mouthfuls.

Next the bottle landed on Darcy who was dared to spend 7 minutes of Heaven in the cupboard with Blaise. While they were in there we carried on playing but did simple dares like taking however many shots and share a kiss between each other.

Blaise reappeared after several minutes and Darcy followed closely, her hair looking a bit messy. She silently pointed at Blaise and mouthed 'coffee' to me. I looked at her confused for a second. What the hell did she mean by coffee? Then it hit me and I sprayed my drink across the table. She smelt coffee in potions class. He was her coffee man.

Pansy clicked on too and the three of us laughed hard causing the boys to look at us like we were crazy. Maybe we were.

Pansy spun the bottle for the last round. It landed on me.

"I dare you to kiss Mattheo." She said, flashing me her sadistic grin.

"What's the forfeit?" I asked without hesitation. Hopefully it would be to down a bottle of fire whisky again. That I could handle.

"You have to fuck him." Draco smirked. Both Mattheo and I looked at him with the same expression.

"What the fuck Malfoy." He said, equally as pissed off as me.

"One or the other mate." He shrugged, pulling Pansy closer to him for protection.

"Last time I had to drink the rest of the whisky. Can't I just do that again?"

"Times change and now it's kiss or fuck. What will it be?"

"Let's just kiss and get it over with." I groaned, finally looking a Mattheo.

"Fine but I'm not moving." He scoffed.

"Ever the fucking gentleman." I glared as I walked over to the chair that he was sitting in and stood in front of him pausing.

"It's your dare, I'm not coming to you." He growled quietly.

Bending over slowly, I balanced myself by holding onto the arms of his chair, brushing his fingers with my own by accident. Huffing out a sound of annoyance, he grabbed my thighs, pulling them towards him hard enough that I fell onto his lap. I gasped lightly but quickly shut my mouth again at the sheer look of frustration and anger on his face. He probably wanted this less than I did.

As I adjusted myself so my knee wasn't almost preventing from having children ever and I was straddling him properly, he moved his hands back to the arms of the chair. The leather groaned under his grip. The tension between us was excruciating. I couldn't tell if he just wanted this over and done with or if he wanted to slit my throat and was trying his hardest to keep control.

Leaning forward, I paused just before our lips touched. The smell of his cologne filled my nose. And cigarettes. It wasn't as unpleasant as I truly wanted it to be. It was intoxicating.

Merlin no, that was the alcohol talking.

I glanced at his lips and then into his eyes. He had the same dark desire in them that I had seen in potions class.

"For fuck's sake."

He grabbed the back of my head and crashed his lips into mine. The sudden pain shocked me at first. There was no doubt my lips would be bruised after. But my eyes still closed a second after our lips touched.

My fingers threaded through the hair at the back of his head and pulled him closer, making our kiss harder. If we were doing this then may as well do it properly. His tongue ran gently over my lips encouraging me to open them. I did and my tongue fought against his for control. Of course he didn't allow that though.

Any doubt that I had about doing this dare vanished as soon as his hands slid down to the small of my back, wrapping around my waist and pulling me closer as he leaned forward, eliminating any distance. Fuck, at that moment I wanted him and by the way he held me closer, I had a feeling it was just one sided. Unless I was being delusional. That this craving I felt was just my alcohol fuelled mind.

Mattheo was the first to pull away. His deep brown eyes glowered into mine but he didn't seem angry with me for once. There was some kind of resentment there though that I couldn't quite put my finger on.

"Umm..." I climbed off his lap and looked down at the floor. "I'm going to bed, the drinks gone to my head a bit I think." I tried to brush my sudden wariness off with a soft chuckle but it was obviously forced.

"We'll be up in a bit too." I heard Darcy call before shutting the dorm door and running to my bed.

Hopefully everyone was too drunk to remember anything in the morning. I definitely wanted to forget.

Mattheo's POV

I watched as she straddled Reid and kissed him. It was just a fucking peck but I could tell the cunt was enjoying it. When she pulled away she said something to him. I couldn't make out what it was but when he said something back and kissed her again, all the ways I could cause him pain ran through my mind.

When she finally got off they were both laughing. He even tried to cover up how much he had enjoyed it by placing a cushion... there. I wanted to slit his throat and wrap my fingers round hers. They would both suffer for what they had just done. But why? Why was she making me feel this way?

Digging my fingers in the arm of the chair I just glared at her whilst she looked at me smiling. Bitch! She was trying to antagonise me. She was playing a with fucking fire.

Clarissa spun the bottle and it landed on me. She gave me a small calculating smile.

"Make her blush." Nodding towards the blonde on my lap.

I couldn't help but return the smile as I leaned forward to whisper in the girl's ear.

"Hide. If I find you your arse will be mine. If you're lucky, I'll feed you my cock. Now get the fuck off my lap."

I saw her cheeks burn and she squirmed a bit before getting up and heading towards the boy's dorm. Fucking idiot was probably heading for my room and hoping to hide in there. Not that she knew I had my own room so would end up in to the boy's room instead. One of them was going to be in for a surprise later.

I grinned at Clarissa as she watched me, wondering what I said. Draco asked the question that she really wanted to know and I told him while watching her. She tried to hide her disgust behind the bottle but it was clear as day. I had pissed her off.

The next few dares were boring, only bit that warranted a reaction was Clarissa soaking the table with her drink and the girls laughing like twats. When it was time for the last dare the bottle landed on her.

"I dare you to kiss Mattheo." Pansy said. Here we go again. I waited for her to choose the forfeit until Draco came up with it.

"You have to fuck him."

"What the fuck Malfoy." I spat.

Whatever they said after was drowned out by my blood beginning to boil. He would fucking pay for that.

My thoughts of all the ways he could die were interrupted by Clarissa standing up. "Let's just kiss and get it over with."

"Fine but I'm not moving." I stayed motionless in my chair.

"Ever the fucking gentleman." She truly had no idea.

I watched as she got closer, visibly annoyed. She stood in front of me expecting me to get up.

"It's your dare, I'm not coming to you."

She rolled her eyes and the urge to wrap my fingers round her throat again had my hands flexing. As she leaned down slowly, her fingers brushed my own.

Fuck me, why was she taking her fucking time. Hurry the fuck up. I grabbed her thighs, pulling her on top of me. Instantly I knew that was a bad idea. Moving herself into a better position, she got closer again then stopped, looking at my lips. For someone that wanted to get it over and done with she was definitely taking her time.

Her eyes flicked back up to mine and I couldn't handle the wait anymore.

"Fuck's sake." I grabbed the back of her head and pushed my lips against hers. She tensed at first then released, running her fingers to the back of my head and pulling me closer to her. I kissed her deeper, running my tongue over her bottom lip. Strawberry chap stick. That taste was going to become addictive if I wasn't careful.

Fuck, she would become addictive if I wasn't careful. Her lips, the feel of her hands gripping my hair, the way her body leans into me without even trying. I wouldn't be able to deny myself off it if I wasn't careful.

I couldn't think of how I wanted to kiss her neck, work my way down until I could run my tongue over her nipples. I couldn't think about lifting her off this chair and taking her to my bedroom so I could hear my name being screamed from those perfect lips.

Shit! I wanted her but I didn't want to want her.

I broke away and looked into her beautiful eyes, they were wide with shock. What was wrong with me? Was she doing this on purpose? Did she know what effect she had on me?

She climbed off and made some pathetic excuse to leave. I watched as she went through her dorm door and shut it.

"What the fuck was that?!" Blaise shot at me like I had done something wrong.

"The dare." I shrugged, taking out a cigarette and lighting it up.

"I actually thought you was both going to take up the offer of the forfeit. That was some fucking sexual tension right there." Draco scoffed.

I gave him a sarcastic smile before rolling my eyes. As much as I wanted to bite back I couldn't because whatever it was, I knew I had to forget about it before it became a problem and she became a distraction.

"Come on, we're already late." I stood up and walked out of the room, followed closely by Draco, Blaise and Reid, the only one who avoided eye contact with me since I had just kissed the girl he was secretly in love with.

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We walked into the room where my father was holding the meeting. The table was already full of our extended death eater family. My friends joined their families and I went to sit beside my father.

"You seem to be making a habit out of being late Mattheo." My father said quietly as he leaned closer to me.

"Trust me, I would have rather avoided doing what I was doing but it was the twins birthday celebrations."

He nodded like he understood but he had no clue. "Well, you have missed the boring bit as you call it." He looked at the rest sitting around the table. "Now for the last bit of news, the annual Halloween party at Malfoy Manor with be held here this year."

"What, why the fuck would you have it here?" I shot at him, clearly pissed off with this little surprise he just threw at me.

"I have my reasons Mattheo." Father looked at me with raised eyebrows.

Even though I was the only one who dared to question my father or argue against him, he still didn't like me doing it in front of people. Made others question his authority, he had told me one time when I argued back. I doubt that very much though when he had no qualms with murdering his supporters if they so much as blinked at him the wrong way.

"No excuse not the come this year now." Draco smirked at me.

"Shut the fuck up Draco." I growled and leaned back in my seat. I was still pissed at him for that little stunt earlier. "Fine, but I'm not putting on a fucking costume." I crossed my arms, aware of how petulant I looked but didn't care.

Everyone began talking amongst themselves, excited whispers being passed around about having the party here. Fucking pathetic.

Father turned to me. "I've found out who her parents are." I brow rose in interest. Finally, something good. "Bring her to the party and I shall introduce them."

"The girls have already got their costumes sorted so no doubt she will want to go with them anyway father." I sighed, forgetting that she was going to be attending too. I didn't help that I was still pissed off that I would have to endure the stupid thing.

"Ahh so she is already quite close to some of you." He looked round the table at Draco, Blaise and Reid knowing that we were all a tight knit group with Darcy and Pansy.

I nodded in response. "Who are her parents, father?"

His thin lips curled into an unpleasant grin as he told me exactly what he had found out.