planning

"Tom Riddle is charming, intelligent, sophisticated, and not to mention unbelievably handsome. He's the embodiment of a perfectly interesting, well-behaved little schoolboy. Tom always finished top of his class, right next to Marlowe, captivating each and every single one of his professors.

But while most of those things remained to be true to others, they weren't to Marlowe. She'd studied and observed the boy since their first year at hogwarts together-she watched him from the very moment he sat only a few spots down from her at the Slytherin table.

She saw him.

And apparently he saw her too, as it wasn't long before he returned the favor."