Tom can't believe what he is hearing. She is already there? How can she be?! He runs through the school until finally he reaches the portrait of 'the mother and the child' the baby crying and screaming as usual.

"Password?"

"Pure-blood." Tom pants. She doesn't swing open like the fat lady, she slides. Like the compartment doors on the Hogwarts express. He sprints in. He stares at the door creating an obstacle between him and her. He walks towards it cautiously. He knocks on it, waiting. He hears the door knob turn and his heart leaps. She opens the door.

"Tom?"

"Er-I-er hi."

"Hi Tom." She stands in the door way.

"So, i-er hear that you're the new head girl."

"Yeah…."

They stand in silence for quite some time. Tom panting for another minute and then just staring at Johanna, Johanna simply running her fingers up and down the door hinges.

"I think I'm going to get changed now." Says Johanna after about ten minutes. Tom smiles at her. She closes the door.

"I'm an idiot!" He says. He collapses onto the green leather sofa in the middle of their shared common room. He can just imagine himself like this in ten years. Alone, with nothing to look forward to. How is he meant to tell her about how he feels? Tom has never felt like this about a girl before. He doesn't know how to tell her, he is scared he is going to ruin it all. The next Hogsmead outing is months away but Prefects can go to Hogsmead whenever they want so Tom decides to ask her if she wants to come with him. He takes a few deep breaths. He knocks on her dormitory door again. She opens it, this time in a blue silk dressing gown that goes above her knees. He feels like his knees are going to buckle.

"Tom? Is there something you wanted to say?"

"Yes-er…..wouldyouliketogotohogsmeadwithme?"

"What?! Look say it again, but s-l-o-w-l-y."

"Would-you-like-to-go-to-Hogs-mead-with-me?" Tom is scared that she is going to reject him. "Just as mates, of course." He adds quickly with an uneasy chuckle.

"Of course. Tomorrow?"

"Yeah, why not." Johanna gives him a quick goodnight before closing the door. She doesn't want to go 'as mates' she wants to go as a couple. She lies on the bed and punches the soft bed in frustration.

"I-wanted-to-go-as-a-couple!" "Wait? No I don't! I hate Tom Riddle...don't I?"

"She isn't going to come!" He says after ten minutes of waiting. He begins to pace when he sees her running towards him.

"I'm so sorry!" She says her eyes pleading.

"Yeah well don't do that again!" He says his eyes turning red.

"Sorry…" She mutters, his expression softens and his eyes take their normal colour. "Shall we go?" She takes his arm as they walk out of the school and towards the village. "So, were here-as friends. Nothing like a-erm boy and a girl on a date or anything I mean that would just be silly-no I mean I wouldn't mind going out with you but I'm not… Stop smirking!" He says looking hurt.

"Sorry Tom, but you just make me smile." Oops, she didn't want to tell him that.

"Wh-wh-what?"i

"Well, I suppose you do make me smile. I don't like like you or anything, just you make me…smile."

"Am I the first boy who has made you 'smile'?" She doesn't answer his question. She is deep in though, she just bursts into tears. Once again Tom doesn't know what to do.

"Jo? What's wrong? Maybe we should go back?" He doesn't wait for her answer; he grabs her wrist and walks quickly back. She keeps crying, she doesn't care who sees or what they think. Finally they reach their shared common room. Johanna tries to go back into her own dormitory but Tom pushes her onto the chair, not aggressively or forcefully. He sits on the chair opposite her; he waits for her tears to stop. He hasn't looked anywhere but at her, the girl whose tears kill him. She sniffs.

"What's wrong?"

"N-nothing."

"I'm not stupid-

"I said nothing!"

"Jo" he says, with a softer tone "What is wrong?"

"You will think I'm stupid for doing it."

"Doing what?" She looks scared.

"I can't tell you." She begins to cry again.

"You can tell me anything we are…friends."

"You won't want to be mine after I tell you."

"Nothing can make me not want to be your friend."

"That weird necklace with the snake on it." Tom's eyes turn red again.

"What have you done with it you stupid bitch?!" She looks even more scared.

"You said it was your mothers-I just wanted to look at it I swear I never meant for it to happen." She takes out the broken necklace. "Sorry." Tom takes the necklace in his hands. It is broken down the middle.

"You were being so nice and I felt so evil."

"How could you go through my things?! He gets up and throws the necklace at her. He storms into his dormitory.