Being an only child was hard, especially if you're a pureblood child. You had more than the traditions pinned on you, you had many high expectations that made you doubt yourself and your actions with every passing minute. Your parents telling you every minute of every day that you had to do this or that you had to do that, it was frustrating. Not to mention that when you went to Hogwarts, you received letter after letter that all state the same thing everytime. Everytime he got a letter since his fifth year, there was never anything about how he wad doing, no, it was always about his relationship with the girl he never even crossed words with even though they were in the same house. He never responded to the letters, which only caused his parents to think something was wrong and then they would just harass him about it even more. But still he didn't answer them, his trunk was only being filled up with unread letters that later on he just threw into the fire in the common room after curfew.
Now after three continuous years where while he was at the school he never sent any letters to his parents, they would finally be getting some news. Just not the news they would expect from him, from their sin who never disobeyed their orders once before even as a child. The pre-planned wedding, his fiancee, everything, it was all to be forgotten. He wasn't going to go through with his parents wishes anymore. He was going against everything he had been taught by them, and he knew full well that he would get in trouble somehow, but to him, none of that mattered anymore. As she agreed to ve his girlfriend, his eyes brightened and he embraced her tighter, planting a kiss on her cheek gently. "I have to tell you something though." Atticus said, with guilt in his voice.
He wanted to be honest with her, though he wasn't sure how she was going to take everything he was going to tell her. "Well, there's actually two things." he started softly. "The first thing is that, at the end of this year whether I graduate or not, I have be married." he said. He wasn't exactly sure if he would graduate this year, but soon he would he eighteen and that was the age where all the Bletchley's got married. If he had any say in it, he wouldn't be getting married at that age, but of course he didn't have a say in it. He was like a puppet that had to do whatever he was told, with his parents as the puppet masters. Atticus bit his lower lip and hesitated a bit before telling her the second thing he had to say. "The second thing is that, I'm betrothed to another pureblood in my house." he said quickly and softly. "But, after today, I won't be anymore." With that he figured it was very clear what he was trying to say, but he continued anyways. "I will send a letter to my parents and tell them that I will not be married with her." he said. Atticus looked down at her hands and took them in his. "Because I want to be with you." he ended, bringing her hands up to his lips.