Chapter 29.

                                    

                                          
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MARAUDERS.
Chapter 29.
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  It's the best morning that Mattheo has had in a long while, he doesn't have the sickening feeling that he has to pretend to be with Imelda anymore so he won't feel lonely, he isn't sick with worry that Artemis might not wake up, and he still has the memory of those kisses on his lips from the night before.
  Mattheo rests with his arms behind his head in his bed, and he just grins up at the ceiling of his dorm room.
  Mattheo's door bursts open and Lorenzo and Theodore come spilling onto his bed.
  "Why didn't you wake us up and tell us?!" Lorenzo chuckles as he jumps up and down on Mattheo's bed, sock-clad feet only just missing landing on Mattheo's body.
  "You were both asleep, and it was pretty late" Mattheo laughs back to his friends.
  The news that Artemis was awake spread through the castle like wildfire, and it didn't take long to get to the group of Slytherins.
  "That's a lame excuse. You should have woken us up" Theodore sits on the edge of the bed. "Will you stop fucking bouncing, you're not a toddler!" Theodore shouts up at Lorenzo.
  "Don't be so grouchy, Grandpa Nott, you wish that you could see the world the way that I see it" Lorenzo continues to bounce and chuckle his head off. He really is the world's oldest toddler.
  "Hey, guys, Artemis is fine and knowing her she's going to be diving right back into classes" Mattheo tells them. 
  Mattheo isn't going to tell them everything that happened last night, he wants to keep that secret between himself and Artemis for now.
  And Mattheo cannot help but grin at the memory of last night once again.
  "What's with the big dorky smile, I thought that you and Artemis were argue-city at the moment?" Lorenzo questions his best friend.
  "We...talked a lot of things out once she woke up, and I think that we're good, better than good" Mattheo grins to himself.
  "You talked about a lot of things? Did you talk about the most important thing?" Theodore demands of Mattheo.
  "Ooh, you told Theodore?" Lorenzo sings happily. Lorenzo bounces down into a sitting position. 
  "He was there when I found out" Mattheo tells Lorenzo. "You and Delphini are the only people that I've actually told" Mattheo promises Lorenzo.
  "Of course, you only really told your best friend" Lorenzo says pointedly so that Theodore catches his meaning.
  "I know you're his best friend, Berkshire, you don't need to wet yourself over it" Theodore snipes at Lorenzo. "Stop changing the subject and start speaking, Riddle" Theodore tells Mattheo.
  Mattheo grumbles to himself. "No, I didn't tell her" he tells his boys through gritted teeth.
  "Mate, you are such a pussy" Theodore laughs at the situation that Mattheo has put himself into.
  "You really should have told her. Maybe you can convince her into thinking that you did tell her, and that she was just a little dizzy and confused from a coma?" Lorenzo's manipulative side rears it's dark head.