"Who
are you looking for?" She didnt look much older than me, maybe a
year or two.
"Oliver Wood, but hes-"
"Hes
here, let me go get him" My whole world came crashing down.
"Oliver,
theres someone here to see you"
I shifted quickly and took a
deep breath. I was a good actress. I had to do it, be cool, I kept
telling myself. Oliver was smiling when he came out with no shirt on
and some shorts. He looked so hot like always but when he saw me I
think his heart stopped too because he stopped dead in his tracks and
looked at me nervously.
"HI" I said uncomfortably. The
young woman was standing not too far watching.
"Hi, Ally"
He said walking over to me. "Were going to go for a walk, Katie,
Ill be back" I waited until he closed the door and looked at
him.
"Ally, what, I thought, its good to see you" He
said finally. He looked sad or something, I dont know why it was. I
felt bad because I felt like I had made him sad.
"I, I just
came back from-"
"Your honeymoon, I know, I sort of
guessed it"
"What are you talking about?" I said
looking at him and stopping right outside the entrance.
"Well,
Draco came to talk to me about a month ago to let me know that you
two were married and that you were going on your honeymoon. I wouldve
rather had you come to tell me because it was really upsetting, Draco
could only grin at me and-
"Wait a minute, he said that?"
"yeah, wait, whats going on?" I ran my hand through my
hair and groaned.
"Liar" I was talking to myself.
"What?"
"He lied, I ran away because I couldnt
remember, I told him the wedding was off and ran to, well to regain
my memories and I just came back, I never married him, I never will,
I came to see you to tell you that-"
"This...this cant
be happening" Oliver said clearly frustrated.
"Who is
she?" I asked referring to the young woman who was in his
apartment.
"Shes Katie, a friend of mine...whos my
girlfriend" He said quietly. He couldnt even look at me in the
eye.
"Wow, you were pretty sad about my wedding. How long did
it take you to forget me, oh yea, two days?"
"Thats not
true Ally, and you know that"
"I cant believe, first
you write me a letter to let me know that youre going to wait for me
and look at you, you already have someone else" I said walking
faster and leaving him behind. He caught up quickly and grabbed me by
the arm.
"Thats not fair Ally, you know that, you know that
I wasnt going to stay alone forever, it wouldnt be fair, I thought
you loved him anyway" I stopped and looked at him.
"Why
did you let me go when you had me at the hospital, why did you just
loose me like that, I dont understand you. I dont think want to, go
back to Katie or whatever her name is, forget it" I said in
anger. I was already taking notice that I was getting some major
attitude problem but I was upset, who could blame me?
"Ally,
wait, we need to talk because I-"
"Dont say it, eat it,
eat your words back up and go back to your girl," I said glaring
at him for the first time ever and walking away.
"Ally, why
cant you listen, whered you leave the sweet Ally I love?"
"Thats the stupid Ally, the one that lost it all because she
wanted to listen to her father, that Allys gone" I said and
crossed the street, leaving him far behind. And just to make
everything better, I saw the Katie girl jogging her way to him.
I
shouldve stopped him, I really shouldve, I really shouldve listened
to him since it was the only thing I couldve done. I kept telling
myself this all through the night. The next morning I didnt even go
anywhere, I just stayed at home hoping for something exciting to
happen but instead something horrible happened.
"Ally,
someones here to see you"
"Not right now, Im tired"
I said groaning and not even bothering to look up from where I layed.
"Its Mr. Malfoy"
"What does he want, I dont
care-"
"I think you should come down, he said hes not
leaving until he speaks with you and I dont want him to be here,
okay?" I looked up and glared at her
"What does he
want?"
"how should I know?" I shook my head and
stood up. So what if I was wearing sweats and nothing beautiful in
particular, nothing he said was going to make me change my mind about
his son or so I thought.
"Good morning Mr-"
"Im
going to cut through the chase since I see you didnt even bother to
dress properly. I am going to tell you only once and since I am a
very considerate man Im going to give you two days to think about
this, you either marry my son or you dont but if you dont you can be
sure that Oliver Wood will never set foot in any other quidditch
field or even be close to staying a professional quidditch player,
and Ill be sure he never gets a worthy job, and you know I can do
that, Good bye Alexia, if I were you Id think about it"
I
stayed there standing like something had just hit me so hard I
couldnt think. My jaw was so open I think I fly flew in and flew out
before I could finally close it, and by the time I regained my
composure he was gone. Mr. Malfoy was gone, but I had seen that evil
smirk as he disappeared.
Any other time I wouldve said that no he couldnt do that, but knowing Mr. Malfoy I knew it was possible. And even though my grandfather was strong enough to help Oliver he couldnt, I knew that Malfoy had a plan up his sleeve if I did say that, like killing Oliver. That I could never live with because that would stay in my conscience forever. So what I did that whole day and the next was sit there with my pjs without being able to eat or move, thinking. And it all came down to one conclusion I really did have to marry Draco, no matter if I wanted to or not.
"Why did you ask me to meet you
here?"
"Because I know what your answer will be,
knowing that you are in love with Oliver Wood then Id say you only
have one choice, my son will be meeting us in a few minutes, he knows
nothing of this and I forbid you to tell him, or our deal is off"
"You dont know how much I hate you, Mr. Malfoy"
Mr.
Malfoy smiled as I sat down across from him.
"Ive heard that
before, its not a surprise, all I want you to do is marry my son and
make him happy"
"You know youre only hurting your son by
this, hes going to live his whole life in a big lie created by his
scrupulous father"
"Sit down Alexia, because I have no
patient for stupid women" and I swear I could only glare and sit
because other wise Oliver was in danger. All of this felt like some
sort of nightmare, a nightmare or a movie, but all I wanted was to
desperately wake up and run to Oliver and tell him to forgive me for
being so mean to him.
