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Linette and Tom bonding over having no parents :p wc: 1.9k

The fist night at the orphanage was weird for Linette. The girls talked for hours after curfew and the matress was really unconfortable for Linette's liking. She missed her home, her parents even more. THe only friend she made was a girl named Annie.

After breakfast, the group of girls talked a lot and they had their hairs braided by the older girls. Linette's memory of her mom braiding her hair came up to her mind, she teard up a little bit. She even tried to learn how to braid even if it was loose at first. She made flowers to put in her hair when no one was watching. Her magic coudn't be known. Yet. Maybe one boy could know about it.

That boy was sitting far from the others, reading a book, under the big tree. Linette tried to look closely at him, how his dark hair was neatly kept, not a single strand falling out of it's place. His skin was even paler than the others. The orphanage coudn't keep everyone in their best health, but this boy still looked worse. Has he eaten anything? He could use a hour or ten plus sleep too.

From the corner of her eyes, she saw the older boys aproaching the raven haired one. They took away his book keeping it out of his reach. He didn't even yell or anything. He looked collected, but his eyes showed deep anger. Linette stood up from her seat, and run toward the tree.

"Give it back to him!" She yelled, but the bully just snikkered "Why? What will you do if I don't?" He laughed with his friends at his joke, but crumbled in pain, when a strange force pushed him down to the ground.

The girl was standing over him, hes eyes glowing with anger "I said, give it back to him!" He scurried away to the little boy aside giving him the book back. Then the group of bullies rushed away.

Linette looked to Tom. His face showed suspicion "How did you do that?" he asked. The girl just shrugged. "You know, some people are diffrent."

She looked deep into his eyes, and when he show a shocked expression, she held out her hand "I'm Linette Hart" the boy was a bit unsure, but then he shaked her hand "Tom Riddle" Linette smiled hearing the boys name, now from himself.

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Annie and the other girls were weirded out at first, when they had know about Linette's friendliness toward Tom, but they didn't say nothing about it. But when the bullies from before started to speak about what happend, they made distance from Linette. She wasn't sad, maybe a little for Annie, but that disappierd when she heard her talk behind her back how weird she was.

Either way she had one person, Tom. Altough Tom wasn't the friendliest person on the earth. He answered in short senteces, and most of the time his head was in a book. Linette didn't mind this, she just sat beside him and doodled on any paper she could find. Mostly about her old home. The days just gone that way for some time.

Linette was done drawing from her old life, it brought back too many memories, it just hurt her. Her new goal was drawing flowers. But the yard of the orphanage didn't have any references she could use. So she decided to make her own. From time to time she used her magic to grow roses, lilies, and daisies. She was careful not to get noticed, but when she felt a certain boy's gaze she knew the game is over.

She turned to Tom with inocent eyes "What?" "How did you do that?" he asked with suspicion. "Do what?" Tom had enough of her. "You now exactly what I'm talking about. The flowers. They just appear in your hands. I thought you were ripping them from somwhere but you cant fool me. I saw everything."

She just smiled, which made Tom even angrier. He knew the girl was strange, but this had no explaination. Like the way she pushed the bully. If she didn't went there he would have done the same, but still. They had something in common, and unlike Tom, she knew what it was.

"Does it make you scared?" she asked and when the boy shaked his head no, she continued "I can do things. But I know you can too. The girls told me. But it olny happens when your out of control." Tom was shoked. He expected the others to tell the stories about him, but the way she said it, it was like she felt the same. "But the things you make are controlled..." "Not always, but yeah. I've leard to do simple things like this"

With hope in his eyes he asked "Can you teach me?"

"I can show you some things. But its not me who will teach the most of it." So they sat beside each other, with the now their, new secret.

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After Mrs. Cole found out about the incident with Dennis, the bully from earlier, she assigned Linette to a new room, separated from the other girls. She had seen this type of children and she didn't want her to influence the others

To her luck, Linette's room, with the number 28, was beside Tom's, so they could easily sneak to each other, this way Linette could show some more magic to Tom or while he read his books, she doodled on a paper again, but they did that together in silence. They were both comfortable in each other's company. It was finally silent, they had a break from all the yelling that happened in the orphanage.

Tom was battling inside. All his life the people who surrounded him were all strangers to him, even though he knew them for years or since birth. And then here comes this girl, she was here for like what, a month? And Tom had to accept the fact that the girl was now part of his daily routine. Breakfast with Linette. Reading with Linette. Sneaking down to the kitchen, because she is too tired to get up for a glass of water. And he foolishly did it. He finally had a friend. Someone who understands him.

Tom's thoughts kept him awake at night, thinking he should bury her somewhere in the garden, because she must be crazy to willingly be friends with him. That's when he heard a loud thump and screaming from the girl next door.

He quickly got up and opened the girl's door. The little girl's hair was a mess, her eyes opened a gate to so many tears. Her head was buried into her knees, Tom didn't think she noticed him either, so he coughed a little, catching the girls' attention.

"What happened?" He asked softly. He wasn't good at comforting people.

"I just... I just had a bad dream." Linette said, still sniffing. She started to braid her hair with not much success.

Tom just stood there awkwardly like a stick, watching her struggle. After the third time she started over, he had enough.

"Here, let me" The girl was unsure at first but then she put her hands in her lap, and waited patiently. Tom was a real perfectionist, he tried to learn whatever task was available, braiding was one of many. While he worked on her hair, Linette had successfully calmed down, but now the silence wasn't as comforting as it was when they hung out other times.

"I dreamed about my parents. They died in a car crash" She started, and when Tom didn't say anything, she continued "Sometimes... Sometimes I wonder if it was really an accident. That it was planned by someone. I fear that someone will come after me." Tom didn't say anything to that either. He only spoke when he finished with the hair.

"Here" Linett looked in the mirror and her face turned into a shocked expression. Her hair looked flawless. She didn't know how anyone could, moreover Tom braid like this. At 6 years old.

"Thank you." The boy just nodded, but examined her face for any sign of sadness that could still be there. When he didn't find anything, he bid her goodnight, and went back to his room.

Linette knew the boy wasn't good with his words, so his way of conforting her made her heart warm. Now she felt asleep knowing her friend was sleeping just a few meters away.

Linette still got the nightmares from time to time, but she wasn't scared to wake Tom up, who always braided her hair just like he did for the first time. It was his way to comfort her. He didn't know any better solution. Sometimes Linette would tell what happened in her dream, Tom only humming once in a while to show, he was listening. It worked, so...

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One morning, as the girl started to put on her clothes, a moth flew from her drawer. She looked through her clothes, to find any holes, to her luck she didn't find any. But we all know what to do to prevent moths, put lavender beside the clothes. So she spent the day growing lavender around the garden. She left some for the others to see, but most of it went to her room. Into the drawers. Over the bed. She even put it into the melted soap, so now even she was smelling like lavender.

"What is this smell?" Tom skunked his nose, when he stepped into her room, with his book in his hand. "You don't like it? It's lavender" The boy probably never smelled one, but that didn't mean he would find it bad, right?

"It's not bad, but a very strong scent. I'm sure my heads won't handle it for a long time."

"That's too bad, it's practical, and I like it." Linette shrugged. Tom just sighed, but he sat down on her bed indifferently.

"I already read all the books in here. It's really boring" Tom sighed again but still opening the book at the page the mark was. The girl sat beside him, her head against the wall. "Can you read it to me?" Her big green eyes was boring to his dark brown ones. Tom was confused "Why?"

Linette looked away in shame, not knowing how to anwser without sounding like a total idiot. "Well... I can't... Well I can't read." She looked up again, only to fint the boy's confused stare turning into a suprised one.

"Oh."

Linett waited in horror, when will Tom stand up and walk away, out of her room, but then the boy cleard his throat and begin reading to her.

The girl coudnt help but to drift to sleep of the calming sound of the reading boy, her head falling to his shoulder.

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From that day, all they did was eat, sleep and teaching other. Tom learnd little magic tricks, and in return he teached the world of letters, words and sentences. Even though Linette struggeled at first, she qickly caught up, and by the end of the summer she read her first book.

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