CHAPTER ONE: The tower
It was fifty years since Voldemort has walked the earth. The wizards and witches live in isolation, and only the really poor, or orphans go to Hogwarts anymore. Our story begins on a surprisingly cold night for autumn, as we focus on two beautiful sisters, living in a run down tower.
The wind screamed and howled around the empty bottom floors of Euchrid tower. The bottom floors had been abandoned years ago, and now, the only inhabitants, the Euchrid sisters, Glossolalia and Illuminatra lived in the highest reaches of the spire. They were from a proud pureblood family, famous for its beautiful and dangerously powerful witches, but their mother had frittered away their immense fortune, leaving the two girls practically destitute. As the older sister, Illuminatra had hoped to home school her younger sister, but they simply had no money left. Glo, as she preferred to be called was nearly 16 but it seemed as if she would have to enter Hogwarts.
"I cannot BELIEVE that you're sending me to school, with those, those…cretins! There's not a decent one among them! I may as well hand in my brain and ask for a refund, as attend that so called school." Complained Glo, her glorious azure eyes gleaming with passion as she spoke. She refused to wear the school uniform, instead choosing to wear a white leather bustier with red edging, a ground length black silk skirt spilt up to her hip on one side, with black fishnets, and thigh high red leather boots with lots of buckles. She wore one red fishnet fingerless elbow length glove and she tied her thick luxurious black tresses up so that random locks fell in natural waves and framed her face. She had naturally milk white skin, which she accentuated with rich red lippy and thick black eyeliner. She didn't care what anyone said. She would dress and act the way she wanted. she tied the traditional sign of her family, the raven's feather on a silver chain around her neck.
Her sister sighed. Illuminatra loved her sister, and thought she was right, of course, but there was nothing else to do. She would have to attend Hogwarts. Though the Euchrid family had always been home taught, money was too tight, now.
"Just you shut your mouth, Glo. You're lucky. At least you go to school….I have to become Archeron Malfoy's mistress…." Growled Illuminatra. Glo looked very sorry.
"I'm very sorry, sis. I know that we all have to make sacrifices. And the Malfoy's are our families ancient enemy! It's so sad that we have become this poor… Well I swear to you, I will NEVER love a Malfoy, never!" Glo shouted, and Illuminatra smiled, then swore under her breath as she saw the clock.
"Are you ready, cos we have to go, right now! We're gonna be late!" Illuminatra shouted, and she pulled Glo out to the stairs and down to the fireplace, or as they called it, F central.
"What are you talking about, sister? That bloody train's not leaving for two hours!" Glo grumbled. Illuminatra looked sheepish.
"Well, I kind of promised that we'd pick up another transfer student on the way….It's someone that you know." She said, and Glo paled, which didn't really seem possible, but apparently was.
"Oh, no fucking way." She said, and then yelped as Illuminatra backhanded her across the face.
"None of that language here, miss! Your cousin is a lovely, happy girl, and she's family, and we support family!" Growled her sister, and Glo sighed, rubbing her nose.
"I hate her. She and I are total opposites. Plus, she's high, she's always high." Glo mumbled, and her sister sighed again. They had gone through F central and were walking up to the steps of the house where her dreaded cousin, a girl the same age lived.
What could they expect inside?
---(end chap1, more to come!)
Author's notes: Did ya love it? Review and tell me! Sorry to leave you on a bit of a cliffy, but Ii promise it's worth the wait. In the next chapter Glo's gonna meet her cousin, and finally come face to face with the boy who lived, and her supposed arch nemesis, Draco Malfoy. Is romance in the air? And what is the mysterious gift that Glo's cousin wants to give her? Just wait for the next chap and you'll see!