A/N: Thank-you you my reviewers. Reviews really mean a lot to me on those days that I'm feeling down.

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Dedication: In memory of my Aunt, who passed away on Thursday, January 12, 2006.

"What do we need to talk about?" David said, sounding, well, actually, he was sounding kind of cocky.

"C'mon. I need to talk to you alone." I said softly.

David stood up and followed me. He gave a kind of arrogant smile to the rest of my friends, but he followed me.

"So, babe, what do we need to talk about?" He said, and I couldn't help noticing that he was sounding less and less like David, or at least the David that I knew.

I was silent. David had never called me babe before, and I didn't like it. It wasn't like David to do something like that. He was the type to think up his own nickname, not the one that everyone else used.

We kept on walking for a long time. David stopped asking me questions after awhile, since I hadn't answered any of them. We finally stopped walking when we reached a bench far out in the grounds, where there was only a few people around. The only people I could see where Claire and the rest of the sixth year Trellena's, but they were far enough away so they couldn't hear us.

I sat on the bench and David sat next to me. I looked at him, but I couldn't face him, knowing what I was about to do. I quickly looked at my hands.

"David, I think…" I said, still looking at my hands. I couldn't finish my sentence. I never thought that doing this would be so hard. We were together around eleven months… a long time.

Finally, I looked up at him. His face looked curious, and thoughtful. I took a deep breath.

"David, I think we should break up." I said quickly.

"What do you mean, you think." David said, his eyes narrowing.

I knew from the second David said that, he was not going to make this easy for me. He was going to put me through as much pain as he could.

"I want to break up." I said, rephrasing my words.

"You want to break up? YOU WANT TO BREAK UP?" David said, standing up. He looked really angry now. I cowered down slightly, but I didn't change my mind.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT TO BREAK UP? I MADE YOU! WITHOUT ME, YOU ARE NOTHING!" David yelled at me. I cowered down a little more. He was just reaffirming my decision.

"Its over David." I said softly.

"OVER? OVER? YOU BITCH! WITHOUT ME-HELL, WITHOUT ME, YOU WOULD BE DEAD! YOU KNOW ITS TRUE. YOU LITTLE BITCH, YOU OWE ME LIFE. YOU CAN'T BREAK UP WITH ME!" David screamed at me.

I was crying by now. I partly realized that he was right. Without him, nobody would have found me outside the tower and I would be dead. That didn't mean that I would have to stay with him forever.

"ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW WHAT? IT IS OVER. I COULDN'T STAND TO BE WITH SOMEONE AS SELFISH AND BITCHY AND SUICIDAL AND AS UNCLEAN AS YOU. ITS OVER. WE'RE OVER. FOREVER. YOU HERE THAT, YOU ASS? I HATE YOU, I NEVER LOVED YOU, WE ARE OVER!" David yelled so loud my ears were popping.

I was sobbing. David started walking toward me, for he had paced away a bit in his screaming fit. I thought he was going to hit me. I cowered down even more.

"Leave her alone." Said a voice from behind me. I turned around a little. Chris was standing there. He looked really angry.

"Excuse me pretty boy?" David snapped.

"I said leave her alone." Chris repeated, and he stepped forward.

"And what are you going to do if I wont leave her alone?" David taunted, and he pointed his wand at me and flicked it, and instantly I was immobile. He had used a non-verbal spell.

By now, I was so scared. David had never been like this before, and it was scaring me. I had never seen this mean side of David. Now I was glad I broke up with him, but still, I was the one who couldn't move and David was the one with the wand. I only had Chris to defend me.

Chris shouted something that I couldn't hear, and next thing I knew, David was frozen as well. Chris ran over to me and unfroze me.

"Are you okay Lily?" He asked, sounding really worried.

"I think so." I said, getting up from the bench. My legs shook when I stood on them. Chris pulled me back into a sitting position. Then he looked at me.

"Did you hear our whole fight?" I asked, and he nodded.

"What did he mean by you being unclean and suicidal?" Chris asked, and I looked away. That was exactly the question that I was afraid would come up. The one-year anniversary of the rape had came and went, I had forgotten about it, or at least almost. David saying that brought it all back into memory. Same with my little dark period of depression. He was stupid, David was… but he still made me feel like crap.

"Trust me, you don't want to know about my past." I told him, and Chris shrugged.

"Come on, it can't be worse then my past." He told me.

"Oh yes, it can. Trust me, it can." I told him.

He studied me for a moment, as if he was trying to analyze what I was thinking.

"Alright, but tell me when you are ready." He said softly. I nodded.

I had forgotten that David was frozen behind us. At least until I turned around and he was right there behind me.

"You're going to be sorry Lily. You are nothing, nothing, without me. You'll see. When you come crying back to me, saying you made a mistake, I wont be there, and then you will be the one with the broken heart." David said in a deadly whisper. It freaked me out so much that I could feel tears welling up again.

Chris pulled out his wand, but David was already walking away, back to the castle. He didn't head back to the tree where everyone was sitting.

After watching David walk away, he turned back and looked at me.

"Don't cry, Lily. Its alright." He said softly.

I just shook my head. Chris gave me a hug, and I cried into his shoulder for a minute. If I would have been younger, say, last year, I would have cried for an hour at least. I think that me only crying for a minute was showing how much older I was getting, how much more mature.

"I'm going to go back to my friends now, okay?" I told him, and he nodded.

"Are you sure your going to be okay? Do you want me to walk you over there?" He asked, actually sounding worried.

"No, that's ok. I'm fine. I'll see you later, ok?" I told him, and he nodded and walked back toward the rest of his friends, and I walked toward mine.

As I walked back to where my friends were, I pondered everything that had just happened. David and I had broken up. For real this time. I never thought that it would happen. I could never have imagined that it would happen that way. Then I thought about Chris. Chris telling me to give him a chance. I wondered if that offer still stood.

"Hey Lily! What happened?" Tyler called to me as I approached them.

"David and I are over. I really don't want to talk about it." I said, and everyone looked at me. I ignored the stared and sat down between Kelsey and Tyler.

Matt had joined the group while I was gone, and I smiled at him. Today, I noticed how much he actually looked like David. I know he is David's twin and all, but I never really thought of them as twins. At least, until now, when David was the last thing that I wanted on my mind.

I looked over at Tess. She just looked so… different. So sad. I wanted to ask her what happened, but I was afraid she would get mad. She wasn't the Tess I used to know, and I had no idea what happened. Finally, I looked at Kelsey.

"Hey Kelse, want to take a walk with me?" I asked her, and she looked at me for a second. I raised my eyebrows then jerked my head toward Tess.

"Oh! Sure." She said, and she stood up and followed me. I was getting pretty tired of walking places to talk, but I needed to know what was going on with Tess.

"What happened to her? She is and Emo-Goth freak now." I said, and Kelsey nodded.

"Well, I really don't know. You left, and she started getting kind of moody. I think that she was lonely because she really had no one to talk to. She and I aren't really the best of friends. Anyway, you've been gone three or four weeks, right? Well, about three weeks ago, a couple nights after you left, she snuck out to Hogsmade. She got a fake ID somewhere and she is going to the club there, Cauldron. She has been doing that every night for the past night, every night coming back either drunk, stoned, or sometimes both. Tucker finally broke up with her last week." Kelsey said.

My mouth was hanging open. This sounded nothing like the sweet Tess I knew. I looked over at her. We walked pretty far away, but I could see her in the distance. She looked so sad, but so angry. Like she was angry at the world. I glanced at Kelsey, who shrugged.

"So how are things with you and Matt?" I asked, trying to change the subject to a lighter one.

Kelsey shrugged. "We are good I guess. He has changed a lot from the immature little kid he was at the beginning of last year, don't you think?" Kelsey said softly, and I nodded.

"You have changed a lot to, Kelse. You have gone from being a preppy girl a lot people hated to someone that everyone likes." I said softly.

"I'm sorry Lily… For being so mean to you." She said.

"I'm sorry to." I said back, and we glanced at each other.

"Want to head back?" Kelsey said, and I nodded. I was tired of talking to one person at a time, and I wanted to be back around my old group of friends, no matter how different that some of them got.

As we approached the group of people again, I noticed that Tess had left, and Tyler had gone to sit with his Ravenclaw friends. Kelsey went over to Matt, so it left just me and Tucker. So much for being in a group of friends.

"Hey, you want to meet my other friends? The ones that I have made here?" I asked Tucker. He nodded, so we made our way over to the group of Trellena's.

"Hey guys." I said, and they all looked at me. They fell silent. I looked at Chris, and he shrugged. He had went and told them all what happened, I knew he did. I didn't mind. Much.

"Hey Lily… Hang in there, okay? That David kid was a jerk, we could hear him yelling at you all the way over here." Claire said, coming over and giving me a hug.

I smiled at all of them. Tucker looked a little out of place. I forgot that he had come with me, so I quickly introduced him. He smiled a little nervously at first, but soon he was chatting with all of them like a group of old friends.

I watched them all talking and laughing, but I couldn't get myself to join them. David had just put me in such a horrible mood that there was nothing that could make me happy.

"Hey Lily." Chris said, coming over to me.

"Hey." I said, staring off into the distance.

"C'mon, let's go inside, get something to eat. Take your mind off that scumbag." I looked at Chris.

"You know, I think that is exactly what I need." I said, and we walked off to the castle.

A/N: Please review. I'm still looking for names. I think I have a name, but if you guys can think of a better one, go for it. I'm thinking of the name Elizabeth Riley Potter. If you have a better one, please let me know.