Chapter 40.

                                    

                                          
╔∘₊✧═══════╗
MARAUDERS.
Chapter 40.
╚═══════✧₊∘╝
  The castle is abuzz with rumours about Sirius Black for what seems to be weeks. Everyone has a different version of what happened to Lorenzo Berkshire on the night of the break in. Ranging from Lorenzo secretly being the one that stopped Voldemort, and Mattheo is just a front man, to Lorenzo working with Sirius Black and got double crossed by the maniac. 
  "I think people are staring at me more now than when I turned into a werewolf" Lorenzo tells his friends as they walk to the Great Hall for breakfast. 
  "Don't be silly. They've always thought that you're a freak" Iris, as usual, doesn't sugarcoat her opinion. 
  "Don't listen to Iris. I am sure that people are just worried for you, since you came so close to a murderer" Artemis offers a nicer outlook on Lorenzo's problem.
  "That makes me feel great" Lorenzo doesn't like to think about being so close to being sliced to bits. "Maybe he'll murder Tom instead now?" Lorenzo suggests. 
  Mattheo rolls his eyes. "I don't know why he's getting so edgy with me, I barely sleep in my room anyways" Mattheo mutters. He spends most nights in Artemis' room. 
  Artemis shakes her head. "You just couldn't wait to tell everyone that couldn't you?" Artemis asks of her boyfriend. 
  Artemis slips her hand into Mattheo's. "Yeah. I really did want to brag about that. Not that your screams don't tell everyone" Mattheo loves it when he can make her scream out his name. 
  "We're about to eat" Theodore complains to the couple. 
  "Jealous?" Mattheo asks. "I'm sure we can find someone to love you, teddy bear" Mattheo mocks the boy. 
  Theodore moves to make a rude hand gesture, but Lorenzo holds his hand. "Just let it go. He's feeling himself now that he has the girl of his dreams" Lorenzo is feeling the insufferable part of Mattheo and Artemis dating openly.
  "It's Valentine's Day this weekend, of course we get to be happy and coupley and all in your faces" Artemis tells all of her friends. 
  Artemis and Mattheo spent a quiet evening in the Room of Requirement last year, both of them stating that they didn't enjoy Valentine's Day that much. This year they're both excited, it just took the right person for them to spend it with to get them in the spirit.
  "What are the two of you doing?" Iris asks. Mattheo smirks and Artemis pushes him slightly. "Other than...that" Iris cringes at the thought of Artemis and Mattheo together. 
  "Bells has organised a double date on Honeyduke's love train for us. We will be spending the entire day with Frey and whichever boyfriend that she chooses to bring" Mattheo jokes, earning chuckles from Lorenzo and Theodore. 
  "I really hope that she comes with Luca. I don't like that she's hanging around with that Caleb guy. He's bad news" Artemis tells Mattheo. "And I don't think either of us will be in much of a romantic mood if there's a boy around that wants to kill my entire family" Artemis offers an innocent smile. 
  "Bells, you have your big, strong and hard as fuck boyfriend with you" Mattheo points to himself dramatically. "I wouldn't let that boy near you" Mattheo promises her.