Trouble; an inconvenience to anything and everything. This is what describes Adriana in her home, and everywhere else for that matter. Why is she such a bother? Simple. Her mum is gone at some muggle business most of the time, and her father is always down in the basement, practicing spells. He doesn't accept one moment of interruption, let alone let her down there. So what does she do? She improvises. Adriana causes as much racket and distraction as possible, just to hear someone's voice speaking her name, though she knows she'll get punished for it.. How else would she remind herself she's still here and people just don't acknowledge it?

Obviously Adriana's father is a wizard, though she doesn't exactly know what he does for a living other than the fact he works in the ministry..she thinks. all he says is that he's downstairs so you could guess he goes out using Floo Powder. Her mum use to be a witch, but was expelled her 5th year; therefore she only works in the muggle world which the father deeply disapproves of. Everything's changed since he found out about her mum being a half blood two years ago; he believes in perfect blood and despises anyone or anything that isn't. So his solution to Adriana being a half blood is to use her as his anger management, which works pretty well she reckons.

"Adriana!" Her mother, Laurel's, voice flooded up to her room, interrupting her new experiment's construction.

Adriana inspected a missile of hers, which came from Filibuster's a while back, and then placed a tiny instrument on the front which gave the missile a sort of vision and destination of what it was doing; She gently turned a knob on it and on the top it read "explosion", turned it again saying "kill the lights", and was about to turn it again when it suddenlly shot off to do its business. "No!" She shouted, jumping after it but missing the catch.

The missile shot into Adriana's light bulb, shattering the shell and plunging her into darkness. It zoomed thoughout the house, bursting every light until it finished and self-destructed.

"ADRIANA!" She heard her father yell as his footsteps echoed up the stairs. He angrily grabbed hold of her shirt and threw her against the wall, "I tell you every time! Don't-"

"Interrupt your work, cause a racket, make a mess, go downstairs, go in the kitchen, or make myself known while you're working." she recited verbatum, having been told this a million times.

He raised his hand and struck her cheek so hard she hit the ground and quickly placed a trembling hand on it, feeling a deep stinging sensation. "DO NOT mock me!" he shouted, grabbing hold of her hair and pulling her to her feet again.

"Dad!" Adriana screamed as she tried loosening his grip so she could get away from the wand he was now pointing at her, "I swear I didn't mean to set it off on purpose!"

"But you were meaning to some day and you had the odacity to interrupt me!" he said,"And it still did damage, didn't it?! DIDN'T IT?!"

"Y-Yes but-"

"Then you deserve punishment!"

Adriana quickly grasped his wand and held it away from him, enduring all the hits he was now throwing at her until she couldn't handle it anymore. He grabbed it and shoved her at her bed. Raising his wand, he was ready to shout a spell; but Adriana thought quicker and jerked her wand off her desk before running downstairs. "Get out of this house!" he shouted after her as another blast shot out of his wand.

"What's going on?!" Her mum shouted from the front door as she saw the exasperated girl running for her.

"Dad's gone over the top again!" She cried, panicking at what she should do.

Laurel glanced up the stairs and took out her wand as she headed up. This was very rare for her.. Usually she'd sit back and watch; she's not exactly an expert at magic, but then again Adriana's never seen her use it. Not 5 minutes later the father's voice died out, and her mum came back down, " This cannot continue.. You need a place to run off to when this happens; I'm not always here and you know that." She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair, "I'm glad I already forewarned her.."

"Who?! What are you talking about?! You mean you actually told someone?!" the girl couldn't believe her.. This was something personal that she had no right to tell.

"Adriana! Be quiet and let me explain. You will die sooner or later if you don't have a chance to get out of here during these fights. Now just do as I say. Allright?" She said sternly. Adriana slowly nodded and followed her to the fireplace, allowing her to place Floo Powder in her hand.

" The Burrow. Say it Clearly."

Adriana hesitated and took a deep breath. This was going to change everything.. But for the better or worse? She didn't understand why everything was going so wrong nor why anyone would be okay with taking her into their home for a while. She closed her eyes with a wish that things would change for the best and that she could be happy for once, wherever she was going.. and then let the Floo Powder fall out of her hand," The Burrow."

She shot around, twisting and turning as she watched fireplace after fireplace come into view and then appeared with a sudden jerk into a tall, dark, ashen covered fireplace. She coughed, feeling suddenly sick.

"Oh Fred! Give me that!" A woman's voice could be heard from upstairs.

"I'm not Fred, Mum, he is!" A boy laughed.

"No I am not! But what does it matter? We both made it!" came the same voice.

"Just hand it over!" The woman said.

"No way!" Running footsteps were heard clunking down the stairs.

"If you want lunch you'll listen to me!" She too seemed to be getting closer.

Suddenly there was a flash of green flames, and Adriana hurried out of her hiding place to find her mum taking her spot.

Two boys came to a halt at the bottom of the steps, "Mum! There's strangers here, what do you want us to do with them?!" They both looked at Adriana with small grins; their hair was a bright red and freckles dotted their cheeks. Dressed in grey T-shirts and slightly baggy blue jeans, they seemed to be about 10 years old, her age, and for a moment, she thought she was seeing doubles.

A red haired, plump woman came behind them and snatched something out of one of their hands, "You'll do nothing but stand here with them, and don't move!" She called up the stairs several names, "Ron, Percy, Charlie, Bill, Ginny!" the woman came up to the girl's mum and hugged her, "It's nice to see you, Laurel."

"You, too" Adriana's mother smiled.

"And this must be your daughter, Adriana. It's a pleasure to meet you dear; I'm Mrs. Weasley, but you can call me Molly if you'd like."

Adriana nodded and watched as several red heads came downstairs. "Weasley... Weasley..." she thought, "I've heard that name before.. Oh THEM. They're that poor and unkempt family my dad's talked about; blood traitors that don't know right from wrong and wear nothing but hand-me-downs. My mum sent me HERE? What was she thinking?"

"Now all of you stand still so I can introduce you." Molly ordered.

The twins ran to the front of the line in time for their mother to give Adriana their names," This is Fred and George; You can never really tell them apart.: The two of them waved and then whisperd something in each other's ear. "This is Bill, Charlie, Ginny, Percy, and Ron and-" Molly placed her hands on her hips; the twins had moved to the end of the line now to try and mess her up, "Now hear me." She waved her finger at them, " If you two don't stop messing around and driving me crazy, I will come down hard on you!"

"Listen, I have to go make sure everything's okay back home; I'll be back for you in a little while." Adriana's mum whispered to her, going back in the fireplace and grabbing floo powder. "Take care; I don't know how soon I'll be back." She vanished when the green flames consumed her.

Adriana stared at the now empty area and then suddenly just realized something: she left her alone.. in a house full of strangers..