"Hello, Riddle."
"Why is it that you're always alone during free time?" A voice asks from behind him, Tom turned his head away from the book he was reading to look up at the girl who stood behind him, her hair was a mess and it looked like she had been rolling around in the grass.
"You're never alone when you're reading books, you are always accompanied with the voices of your thoughts." He says arrogantly, tilting his head up before turning back to his book.
Though, he expected for her to walk away after his response, she just sat down next to him and looked at him curiously, "And what do your the voices of your thoughts say?" she inquired, leaning closer to look at the pages on his book.
Annoyed, he glances at the girl and pulls the book farther from her so she wouldn't see, "That you're annoying my free time." He narrowed his eyes at her, causing her to just blink and stand up, running back into the orphanage.
With a huff, he turned back his focus to his book, continuing to where he had left off before she had bothered him.
But it was only a moment later that she came back and sat next to him under the tree so that the sun wouldn't have bothered him while he was reading, when he turned his head at her in annoyance, he had seen that she brought a book with her, of course, the book being that of a simple fantasy story from the orphanage's small library.
"Then...if I read quietly..they won't tell you I'm annoying anymore, right?" She gave him that toothy grin, despite missing quite a few of her teeth.
"...Only if you read quietly."
"Great! I'm Y/n L/n!"
"....Tom Riddle."
"Hello, Riddle." There was her smile again, did she not lose the energy from all this smiling? She looked quite silly, if you had asked him, looking at him with such bright looking eyes, it was annoying...
But despite his contradicting thoughts, he let her be, letting her read beside him that afternoon, even though she stopped being quiet and started humming in the middle of her reading, it was unpleasant, so he said nothing of it.
Out of all the children out there, she wasn't as hesitant to approach and befriend him, like the rest who was taken aback by his odd behaviour and the things that would happen around him.
In fact, she was also quite a useful tool for him during their younger years, because they were friends, the caretakers in the orphanage were much more less strict with Tom, seeing that maybe if he continued being friends with the girl, he'd be influenced by her attitude and become normal.
Not knowing of the plan he had come up with in his head to use the girl, not like she was that much of a bother, she was loud, yes, but it was a necessary sacrifice he had to make...
Is what he thought...
"Tom! Are you okay!? You're..kind of lagging behind..." Y/n looked back behind her to see that Tom was leaning against one of the fences that surrounded the orphanage while he panted, deciding to humor the girl and join her on her made up games..he just didn't expect it would require this much moving and running...
When he looked up at her, she didn't even look like she was even having any difficulties! Well...he could convince himself that she's been playing this game so many times that it doesn't phase her as much as it did him, since he wasn't this used to the rigorous movements trying to keep up with her.
"Don't worry! We'll play like this everyday and you won't be like this after!" She exclaims, running up to him and pulling him away from the fence to continue their game.
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