Summary: A short fic/drabble in whichAce takes notice of how lenient his dorm leader is with you...
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Playing Favourites
Riddle Rosehearts was doing better. That was something Ace could definitely confirm. Since his overblot, he had been far more lax on the rules, even exempting the more ridiculous ones.
Of course, he was still strict. Rules, while not the be all end all anymore, were still important to him.
Ace knew it was because Riddle cared and wanted Heartslabyul to succeed, but it was annoying when he was often a victim of aforementioned strictness.
What annoyed him even more was that, for all of Riddle's sterness and nagging, it all completely fell apart when it came to you.
Whenever you got into trouble or broke the rules or did something that had him turning red in the face, Riddle's spine turned to jelly.
It was, in Ace's eyes, a blatantly obvious and- dare he say- shameless case of picking favourites. Riddle didn't let you just do whatever you wanted, but he was... softer with you. More lenient.
It was, to be perfectly honest, because he had a huge crush on you. Not that Riddle himself knew this of course. According to the redhead, all he knew was that his heart beats like mad and his brain turns to mush when he's around you for reasons be could not understand.
Ace was going through this in his head as he looked at you, the two of you (plus Deuce and Grim) making your way to class for the morning. He wasn't entirely sure what had his dorm leader so smitten with you. It really was something he never understood.
Speak of the devil. Ace rolled his eyes as Riddle marched up to Deuce, Grim, you and him.
"Ace for the Queen of Hearts' sake fix your uniform!" The redhead sniped, voice bordering on a snarl.
Yes, he was getting better, but had yet to try out any anger management to curb that vile temper of his.
"Honestly, walking around with such shameless disregard for neatness that that! Disgraceful! And you-"
Riddle's gaze fell on you and almost immediately those harsh steel grey eyes softened.
"Your tie is a mess, prefect." He said carefully, voice dropping from a shout back to normal volume. His cheeks pinkened and he reached out and fixed it. "There. Much better."
Great Seven, seeing him being so painfully whipped made Ace nauseous. It was good that he had a passion for literally anything outside of studying, but really? Being all mushy while he's standing right there? Ew.
Riddle pulled back and cleared his throat before saying his goodbyes and leaving, face getting redder and redder by the second.
"Oh come on, now that's just unfair." Ace groaned once he was out of earshot. Deuce covered his mouth, but Grim didn't bother to stifle his laugh.
"Maybe if you weren't so terrible you would get special treatment too."
"Whatever." Ace shoved his hands and his pockets and scowled. "Never thought having a crush would make him lenient."
You looked at him in confusion and he froze.
"Riddle has a crush on me?"
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A/N: This is just a quick fic I wrote,I'm not too happy with it so I'll probably rewrite it sometime later, so forgive any errors and the shortness.