"Where were you at today?" Candice asked as soon as I walked into the common room.

"With a friend, no big deal. You wouldn't know them anyway. Someone I know from Oliver," I lied but she didn't need to know where I was. She isn't my mum.

"Whatever," she spat at me. Candice was still mad at me about the engagement. Everyone else seems okay with it, so I just don't understand why she has a problem with it. She wouldn't be so quick to get mad if I told her the truth, the whole truth. However, that would be impossible. There is probably only one person that I can trust to tell.

I woke up early the next morning and went down to the Great Hall for breakfast. I sat with Hermione; we sat and chatted while we ate.

"Where were you yesterday Mace? I missed you."

"I went an saw some old friends, no big deal." I smiled. "I'm dreading DADA so early in the morning," I whined.

Hermione laughed at me and said "Could be worse, could be Professor Snape first thing in the morning."

"I like Professor Snape, I mean aside from the fact that he favors Slytherin; he's not a bad guy." I knew more about Professor Snape then most people knew. Severus Snape is another one of my mother's best friends. He has been since Lily Evans abandoned him for James Potter.

Hermione of course looked at me as if I had gone mad but she knew that even though I was Gryffindor he seemed to favor me even over Slytherins.

"I'd better get going to Muggle Studies," Hermione smiled and got up, she walked out of the Great Hall with her dozens of books.

I sat alone for a few minutes. The morning round of owls came swooping in. I wasn't expecting Snoopy to come and bring mail but there he was. Smiling, I gave him some treats and took my letters. One from mum, one from Fred, one from Oliver, one from my favorite friend, I usually call him Keeper & he calls me Seeker.

Letter from mum was just scolding me for not seeing her at the train. Letter from Fred was just about when we were coming to Hogsmeade and visiting. Oliver was writing about boring wedding details and saying that he wouldn't be able to see me when we went to Hogsmeade next because he had to work. An Keeper said it was nice to be able to hang out since it so rarely gets to happen anymore. Quickly I pulled out pieces of parchment. I scribbled a note back to mum, Fred, and Oliver. Then I wrote back to my Keeper.

"Keeper,

I'd like to go for a walk tonight with you, if you are available. I have a secret that has been weighing on me and I feel you are probably the only person I can talk to about it.

-Seeker"

I tied the three notes to Snoopy and sent him off. Than I folded my note to Keeper, up into a paper airplane and sent it sailing across the Great Hall to its intended person. I smiled at them and got up, leaving the Great Hall.

DADA, Potions, Transfiguration, it all went by slow. I just wanted classes and everything to be over so I could go on my walk. Classes were over but I still had to wait until after dinner. So, I went up to my room and laid on my bed. I fell asleep unexpectedly, although I woke up just in time for my walk.

Outside it was cold and snowy but I honestly didn't mind. I'm more of a summer girl but I do love the snow. Its fun to play in it and it can be quite beautiful. I went and sat under a willow tree, our meeting spot, and I sat down and waited. It wasn't too long before I heard footsteps coming up from behind me. I stood up "Hey, Kee… Oh, Oliver, what are you doing here?" I could believe whom I was seeing.

"What no hello?" he smiled, gosh how I loved that smile.

"Hi, hun. I'm a little shocked to see you here."

"Well I got your letter a little bit ago and you just seemed a bit down, I guess. I just figured that maybe you missed me."

"Of course I miss you Oliver!! I haven't seen you in a few days, I miss the days when we were in school together and I could just come down to your dorm and get in bed with you and sleep." I smiled as I walked over to him and hugged him.

"I miss those days too. Maybe we could go inside and find the room of requirement and sleep together tonight, since you can't leave the grounds." He smirked.

"Or, we could sneak into my dorm and make a night of it," I bit my lip.

"What a brilliant idea," Oliver leaned down and kissed me.

"Oi, what the bloody hell is going on here?" came a voice.

Oliver and me broke apart and looked over at the person interrupting.

"Draco, what do you want?" I asked.

"Oh, it's you two, Wood what are you doing here? You graduated from this bloody place already. Why would you want to come back?" Draco spat.

"Not that it's really any of your business Malfoy, but I'm here to see my soon to be WIFE," Oliver spat back.

"Yea, that's real likely, Wood."

"What's that supposed to mean Malfoy?"

"Okay, boys, that's e- bloody-nough! Draco, shut your bloody mouth and go about your business, Oliver, come on let's go on inside." I grabbed Oliver's hand and started to pull him away.

Inside Oliver and me carefully snuck down to my bed and for a while we just snogged, talked, and touched. At some point, it got really heated and even though I had never shagged Oliver and he knew I had wanted to wait, I willingly gave into him and our desires. It's not as if it was long until the wedding.

The rest of the year flew by and it was already spring; only about three more weeks of classes left and then I would officially be graduated & a legal witch. I still hadn't gotten to tell my secret and it was still weighing on me quite a bit. With the wedding approaching I was getting more and more nervous about my situation and I was finally starting to wonder if this wedding was the right thing to do or if maybe me and Oliver were rushing it I was all torn up about it. Candice was not making it any easier, she had started to finally speak to me and be nice again but then she found out about the night me & Oliver spent together in my room & then on top of that Fred accidentally slipped about me & him when we visited him and George in Hogsmeade. That put her over the edge and she is no longer speaking to me, in fact I am not even sure she is going to be in my wedding anymore. It was getting to be way too much and I had a lot of decisions to make. I needed help.

I was sitting in my potions class making a highly potent sleeping draught. Professor Snape had partnered us together and lucky me I got to work alone. I figured that was probably best though, I could go at my quick pace and get it done my way and not have it screwed up by some idiot who isn't actually any good at potions but happened to have lucked into the class. When I was done, I had just enough time to write a note.

"Keeper,

I absolutely must talk to someone, I'm starting to flip. No surprises this time, meet at our willow tree in the forest?

-Seeker"

I made sure that no one followed me this time and I quickly went into the forest and went to our willow tree. It was a big magnificent tree. There waiting was my Keeper. He truly was a keeper, if only I had known that when I dated him. Yes, my secret friend/Keeper, is Draco Malfoy. Everyone need a true friend and that's what I am, Draco's true friend. Probably his only true friend. I tell him things even if he doesn't want to hear them and I'm there to take care of him when he's sick or he is having problems at home. Anything he needs I'm there.

"What's wrong, Mace?" Draco asked.

"Oh Draco, I don't even know where to start." And at the end of that sentence I burst into tears, Draco was really the only person I would cry in front of other than Fred.

Draco showing his soft side came and wrapped me up in his arms and held me. "Shh it's okay Maci, when you're ready you can tell me, start where ever you want." He consoled me.

I finally settled down and thanked Draco for always being there for me and that's where I began.

"Okay, so my first problem is, I slept with Fred during winter break, that's when I came over to your house. Then that night that me and you were supposed to meet but Oliver showed up, I gave into him and we slept together. I feel like a whore, now that I'm saying it out loud. So, I cheated on Oliver, it's a wretched thing to do. I wouldn't want him to do that to me!"

"You are not a whore, you just made a mistake. It's okay. Oliver will understand, he might be a little mad but don't worry."

"And right now I'm not even sure if I want to get married but I can't just call it all off, and if I do everyone is going to be super mad at me and I will have no where to go. I could probably stay with Fred & George but if I tell Fred about what happened with me and Oliver he is probably going to be atleast a bit upset." I rambled on.

"Yea, Fred will probably be quite upset, he truly seems to love you, although I think you seem to doubt that and that's why you still want to marry Oliver. As far as a place to stay goes, I have my own flat, you can come stay with me."

"But Draco, your father would have a fit! My family would worry but they would never say anything, they know you aren't as bad as a lot of people think, but that's because they aren't the judgmental type. Lucky for you."

"Actually, as much as my dad hates your family, he didn't hate you. He almost liked you. Well maybe not anymore since you are marrying Oliver Wood."

"Yea, well I don't exactly think I have much of a choice, come to think of it."

"Why the bloody hell do you think you don't have a choice? If you don't want to marry Wood than you don't have to. Don't let the fact that everyone will be mad stop you from being happy." Draco spat in frustration.

"That's not it. Oliver won't let me out of it. Draco, I've tried to break up with him before." I spilled for the first time ever.

"What do you mean, he 'won't let you out of it'?"

"Well you see the thing is, Oliver is actually quite possessive of me. He refuses to let me break up with him and when we are alone, if I do something wrong, he hits me. And I don't mean like playful little taps, I mean like when Hermione punched you in the face kind of hits." I blurted out all to easily. I'd had this secret for so long I just needed to get it out.

Draco nearly hit the sky when I told him that. He was ready to walk off grounds and find Oliver to kill him. I calmed him down though, but he did make me promise that if I decided that I didn't want to marry Oliver that I would break it off no matter what and that I would come stay with him if I needed to. I agreed.

I was going crazy because really what the hell was I suppose to do? I'm seriously not the girl that lets a guy bully her around and hit her, but yet I'm doing just that. It was over between me and Oliver, I don't love him, I'm starting to question if I ever really did. I honestly can say I loved Draco and I of course love Fred. Wait, again I just said I loved Fred Weasley!? When did all this manage to happen? Why is it so bloody difficult? The only thing I know I have to do is break up with Oliver. But it has to be in front of everyone so that he can't try to hit me & so that he can't act like it never happened.

Classes were getting ridiculous. They weren't hard, they weren't overloading me with homework. Then again me and Hermione pretty much just slammed through any homework they ever gave us. I was ready to take my tests and graduate and go on with my life.

It was our last trip to Hogsmeade for the year and I walked down by myself. I told Hermione to go have her date with Ron. While I was just walking around I happened to see Oliver, but he wasn't alone. He was with a girl from his year at school, Jenny Johnson. I was about to walk over and see him when he put his arms around her waist and leaned down and started kissing her. I couldn't believe Oliver was cheating on me. This just solidified my decision to break up with him. I wasn't sad or upset, I was just steamed! I stomped off in the other direction to visit Fred & George like I had planned. I walked into their shop and walked up to them.

"Morning gorgeous!" George smiled.

"Morning handsome!" I replied with a small smile.

"Oi no hello handsome or hello my extremely amazingly hott friend?!" Fred called as he walked up to us.

"Hello my extremely, amazingly, hot friend!" I giggled with Fred & George.

"Maci, we have to talk to you about something," George said as Fred went to the front of the empty store and put the back in 10 minutes sign up.

"Okay, go for it!" I jumped onto the counter and sat swinging my legs.

"Umm well, you see the thing is," George started.

"That bloody prat Oliver is cheating on you!" Fred blurted.

'Oh I know," I said casually, they didn't need to know any of my plans just yet.

"YOU KNOW!?" they both shouted.

"And you are still with him!?" Fred yelled at me clearly more angry at me for the moment then at Oliver. He turned bright red with anger and walked out before I could say anything.

"I wouldn't have excepted something like this from you Maci. You're so calm and okay with it." George said confused.

"Well really what am I to do? Better for him to get it out of his system now then while we are married!" I countered.

"You still plan to marry him!?" George was baffled by this. "I think you better go now Maci." George was mad at me now too. Which it hurt but it had to be that way.

I walked out of the store and when to the empty pub up the street to meet Draco. I sat down with him, ordered some butter beers, and told him about what had just occurred. He was just as mad as Fred, maybe even madder. But he knew that I had plans and that's why he didn't go kill Oliver.

It was finally time for me and my friends to graduate. It was such a good day that even my sister gave me a hug and talked to me for about 30 seconds. The ceremony was nice and mum cried and so did Maxi but she was always crying lately with her hormones all crazy and such. Afterwards I was on the train ready to go back home.

When we got home we piled into the house and waiting in my room was a note, from Oliver.

"Maci, I know we were going to wait a bit for the wedding but I talked to our mums about it and we decided to move it up to this weekend. So you only have 4 days to get your dress all fixed up and such. In the meantime, tonight we are going to dinner. Be ready at 6 or else. –Oliver"

Even the note was bloody demand with no feeling whatsoever. This had to end. I didn't care about dinner but it was 3 by now so I showered and got ready to go. I was ready an waiting by 5:30.

Dinner went by quick, I listened to Oliver drone on and on about Quidditch and the wedding and things that in general I just didn't care about. When we were done he took me back home and thought that he was going to come inside and stay the night with me but I refused him. Lucky for me that Justin was waiting up for me and told Oliver it was time for him to leave. When Oliver left I gave Justin the biggest hug in the world he had no idea how big he had just saved me.

For the next couple of hours I stayed up in my room with Justin talking. I told him everything that I had told Draco only weeks ago. Justin was all in favor of him and Draco kicking Oliver's ass. (Not that I wasn't for that plan, it just had to wait.) Justin promised not to tell anyone and I trusted him. He also told me that he supported whatever I decided to do. Justin was the only one of my siblings that didn't hate Draco. Luke wasn't a fan, but there was bit of Quidditch rivalry there.

It was the day of the wedding and I wasn't the least bit nervous. I peaked out at the crowd of family and friends that were there. Even though they were mad at me Fred & George were there. I don't doubt for a minute that Mrs. Weasley made them come though. I was in my wedding dress but I didn't intend on staying in it. It was about time for everything to start. So I ran back into my little room and told everyone go get ready to start. I was left all by myself now. That's when there was a little knock on my door. I opened the door and smiled.

"Hey Draco." I kissed him and let him in.

"Hey," He smiled. "You ready to do this?"

"Never been more ready in my life." Quickly I changed into some street clothes. Tight lowrise, dark rinse jeans & a Slytherin green tank top. Just as the music started to play I hugged Draco and smiled.

"I'll be right here waiting for you and then we can leave."

"Okay, be ready to make a mad dash though, I expect plenty of people to chase me down for this dramatic exit!" I kind of giggled.

I walked out and walked down the aisle in my street clothes with everyone gapping at me and wondering what the bloody hell was going on. As I reached Oliver he grabbed my wrists quite hard and asked me "What the bloody hell do you think you are doing Maci? We are getting married. NOW. So go put your little dress on and get your ass back out here and say I Do. Understand?"

"No, Oliver." I said and then I turned and looked at everyone. "I'm sure you are all wondering why I am not in my wedding dress. Well that's because I will NOT be getting married today. I'm sorry for any sort of inconvience but I am going to explain why I won't be getting married and you will likely understand." I started. "Everyone this man, if that's what you even want to call him, is an abusive cheater! If I do something wrong or just don't do something the way Oliver likes it to be done, I get beaten. I am truly not the girl that puts up with such antics and I won't continue to do so. Also, he has been cheating on me for atleast a month, maybe longer. Infact he invited his little girlfriend to the wedding, she is right there, Miss Jenny Johnson please if you would stand up! Show everyone who you are. You filthy little whore!" Before I continued on I looked over at Candice who was so incredibly happy that I wasn't marrying Oliver but at the same time incredibly pissed off that all of this had been happening and she had no idea. "So everyone thank you for coming out today, but there will be no wedding. Have a nice day. But I really have to go!" I finished, looked at Oliver and punched him in the face. "Asshole." And with that I ran down the aisle and outside into Draco's waiting arms.

I wasn't dating Draco but he was the one who I trusted to be there for me this whole time so of course he was the one I ran to! I didn't see it but I later found out that Fred, George, & Candice had followed me but saw me in Draco's arms and had assumed that I was dating him and that made them all pissed off at me all over again. (Too bad they didn't know the truth, but it's their own faults for not just asking me or saying something to me!)

Draco and I went back to my parent's house and he quickly helped me pack my things and then we used the Floo Network to go to Draco's flat in Hogsmeade. This is where I was going to be happy and make a new life at.