Just an opening, since we are using two OC characters. We have ditched Hermione, we thought you just might want to know that up front. It is going to be quite crowded with two OC's as is, and neither of us have quite perfected Hermione's character. For those of you who don't know, this story is coauthored by myself and my best friend/roommate Addie. I have been up keeping most of this story as she is writing many other fanfics. For those of you who read this story before its revamping process I hope that you will be pleasantly surprised by the changes that have been made. Both Addie and I agreed that the story needed to grow up and be brought out of the dark ages of our writing. She will be keeping up with the story and keeping it from getting off track and I will be doing the majority of the technical fixes and writing. We are both going to be playing a vital role in bringing this story back and I hope that our attempts are not in vain. Well, here are the characters with a few changes, as I feel they needed more development. Once again I hope that I see an up in readers and maybe a few reviewers. Enjoy!

-Faye

Lily Kacufrakus-1/6 wizard, meaning she can trace it back, but just barely. She currently lives with her elderly grandmother, who's sanity is questionable to say the least after her parents perished in a house fire. She has one brother, who is her twin. He is not attending Hogwarts. She takes pieces of Hermione's personality (we tried combining Hermione's personality between both Lily and Alyce to make a more blended story without Hermione in it). She is intelligent and inexperienced with life in certain ways. She has the downfalls of being a little naive at times, and being too cautious, causing her to miss out on many things and to be a bit of a nag. She has her own strength (emotionally) though she doesn't really see it in herself.

Alyce Fyre: Pure blood witch. Lived with her parents until her fifth year when her parents died in a car accident leaving her with quite a trust fund, allowing her to live independently. She is not from England, but was nevertheless invited to attend Hogwarts. She is also quite intelligent. She is more experienced with life, fun-loving, and brave. She has the downfalls of being loose (some wouldn't consider this a downfall), and for not being serious enough at times. Alyce is practical, a good friend, and is the one to stand up for those she cares for.

The story takes place in sixth year at Hogwarts.

Also a few changes to that as well. Snape is still the potions teacher and the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is Slughorn even though he barely knows what he's doing.

Chapter One: The Dated and the Dateless

"You really should get out more," Alyce said to Lily while putting the last touches on her makeup.

"I am content with things the way they are, without throwing myself into the dating world," Lily snapped back while knitting a scarf for the cold holiday to come. "If you don't mind I have to get this scarf done for Harry before Christmastime."

"I still don't see why you two had to break up you were adorable together," Alyce said now turning to move a condom to her purse.

"We broke up last summer, will you never let it go?" Lily said rolling her eyes. "He dated Cho last year and I don't hear you on his case about getting back together with her."

"That's because Cho and Harry weren't a couple for two years," Alyce said. "Ah well, I guess you and Harry never really got too far in those two years anyway," Alyce said smirking.

"Anyway," Lily said trying to change to the subject. "It never ceases to amaze me that you are still dating that ferret Malfoy when as far as I knew you two had almost nothing in common. I hope you aren't planning on needing that condom tonight!" Lily said in hushed tones of exasperation. She had managed to catch a glimpse of the condom out of the corner of her eye.

"Well, someone is going to make quite a mother some day, do you have eyes out of the back of your head?" Alyce questioned. "Anyway, I don't understand why you have to be such a prude. Just find yourself a date and get laid so you can finally get off my back about my boyfriend," Alyce said with a mock glare toward Lily as she walked through the portrait hole of the Gryffindor common room.

Lily had known this year was going to be hard. She just felt it in the air. Something was not right, but her thought was interrupted when she remembered the enormous pile of homework she had still yet to start for Potions. She sighed. There was no time to think about the way the air felt. She was getting ready to get up from the couch to walk over to one of the tables to start her homework when she spotted Harry walking into the common room.

He was wearing a thick autumn sweater (seeing as it was just two weeks after Halloween) and a frown on his face. He had just gotten back from detention with Snape.

"Detention with Snape I presume?" Lily said stuffing the knitting into the common room's couch.

"I scrubbed cauldrons until my knuckles bled. I swear that man is lonely or something to think of things like this to do to detention students," Harry said.

"Or maybe he just has a thing against you Harry," Lily said laughing and remembering the five years that Harry and Snape had basically been at war with one another mentally.

"Ah well, at least I'm back in this common room," Harry said stretching out on the opposite end of the couch. "Although now I have homework I have to do for Snape now," he said sighing. "It's neverending!" he shouted throwing his hands up in the air.

As Lily and Harry worked on homework together Alyce and Draco were making out in the room of requirement. Draco and Alyce had been dating for a few months now and things were getting steamy. Though they hadn't had sex yet things were turning in that direction. Just as things began to get really heated and more sensual touching began Draco looked down at his watch on the bed and shouted, "Fuck! I forgot completely about that scroll that Snape assigned for tommorow!" "I will see you tomorrow in Potions, though, won't I?" Draco added seductively

"Damnit, that means we can't skip that class," Alyce said without thinking.

"Skip class eh?" Draco said. "And what for, might I ask." he said scooting closer to her.

"Well I hear the broom closet is free and I've always wanted to mess around pushed up against a wooden door near the unmarked cleaning supplies," Alyce said teasingly.

"Well I know we both have Defense Against the Dark Arts at the same time and that seems like the perfect class to ditch." Draco said, "Considering it's at the end of the day anyway so we can spend as much time as we want in there," Draco said sexily.

"So I'll see you at the broom closet tomorrow when we ditch Slughorn's class," Alyce said, straightening the buttons on her shirt.

"You can count on it," Draco said as they exited the Room of Requirement and to their separate common rooms for the night.

Alyce returned to the common room hours earlier than Lily expected.

"So," said Harry, looking up from his scroll. "Did you and the ferret have a fight?"

"Will you stop calling him that?" Alyce said, sitting in a nearby chair. "And no, we didn't have a fight. He did the same thing you guys did."

"And what is that?" Lily asked, adding the finishing touches to her closer.

"Forgot his scroll."

A/N: I hope you liked our chapter and our characters aren't too confusing. I promise that it will get better after this first chapter.