For the next weeks, Ron had been not himself completely, but was really close.

He started to eat loads again, but not as much as before, he had even lost some weight, he talked with everybody again instead of just staring, but he kept on disappearing some days.

Bella and Ron had become good friends, nobody knew though.

She would go to the black lake with Draco, and when Draco leaves Ron would take his place, and talk to Bella for hours.

It had been barely more than 4 months since they met, but you could call them best friends. Ron even said he lost the train to go home on Christmas and stayed at Hogwarts with her.

Bella had told him almost everything, she could trust him, she knew he wouldn't say anything.

She told him about her abusive father, her crazy mother, the death eathers, her horrible childhood, how she missed Sirius, her arranged marriage, and Ron had the chance to listen to the most recent conversation between Draco and Bella, and Bella thinking he didn't hear them, told him every detail later.

"I sent a letter to my father last week" Draco commented.

Bella just nodded, not really caring.

"He thinks it is a good idea for us to get married at the end of this school year".

"What? No, remember I have until the last day of my seventh year to find someone and marry him".

"Look, even if we wait another year, you won't find anybody, and if you do he won't want to get married that soon. And I didn't want to tell you my main reason why I want to do this fast".

"Well tell me".

"You will get mad" he said looking at the ground.

"If you don't tell me I'll get furious" she said not looking at the lake anymore but at Draco.

"Well, uhm, I don't know how to say this but, everybody thinks the war will be next year, and many people will die, we can die and…".

"Draco, what's the point?"

"If I die, there would be no heir…".

"I don't understand Draco, what are you talking about?".

"Ok, listen, my plan is that we get married in 7 months, in August, around February you get, you know, pregnant, and you give birth around November, so we are out of school".

Bella couldn't say anything, she was so shocked, she couldn't believe what she heard. You could notice Draco was really uncomfortable.

"So, all of this is about the Malfoys, the last name, what about what I want?" Bella asked Draco.

Ron was shocked as well, he knew she didn't want to get married, she didn't want to have a baby, less a baby Malfoy.

"You will see, this is the best and it's perfect…".

"Perfect? So next year everybody will call me slut, because I got pregnant, the entire school will stare at me, or worse, I will be kicked out of school. Yeah, that sounds perfect".

"Since when do you care what people think about you?" Draco asked me standing up.

"Since I will be criticized for something I am not" she shouted.

"You know what? Think about it, and we'll talk about it another day" Draco said starting to walk away, leaving Bella behind.

When Ron heard Draco, he wanted to jump on him for make Bella do things she didn't want to do, when Bella told Ron the story, Ron felt the same rage he felt the same time.

Bella told him not to get angry or anything, because she'd try anything to not get married or having a baby with Draco.