Disclaimer: I am using whatever I can from the Harry Potter books so I am really just playing around with the characters, and their lives.

There is a high rating because I can't guarantee that I can control my swearing, or the planned love scenes.

Ravenclaw. It is a good house, really it is. You just don't hear too much about it. I'm not to upset about it, I mean why would you when the golden trio is in Gryffindor. No I don't hate the trio, nor am I their best friends. Being in Ravenclaw means that you're neutral. I like to think of it as being too rational, and objective to hate or love someone based on others opinions. Nobody really notices Ravenclaw kids because everyone is too interested in what ridiculous stunt the Gryffindor are pulling, and what the Slytherin are planning on doing to get them back. Hufflepuff, well they are nice people, almost too nice...but they tend to keep to themselves for whatever reason. They probably have it the worst out of all the houses, Hufflepuff gets the middle child syndrome.

Well I will tell you a bit about myself. I am a pureblood witch, from a very prominent family. Old money would be the best way to describe it, but I'm not in Slytherin, but no one in my family was so that isn't anything new. We are friends with most of the pureblood families that live in our little section of England, and most of the UK I suppose. I love when people talk about the wizarding world being so small, because it's really not. The world is only small when you make it that way. Everyone runs in their own circles whether they want to admit it or not. Being from the same circle and being around the same age means that most of the children of privilege have all grown up together.

Now this is the way things work around here. One of the families will throw a party, it doesn't really matter what the party is for, and it usually doesn't have a reason. It's keeping up with the Jones to the highest level. Well more like keeping up with the Malfoys is more accurate. Everyone will get dressed in their best, and brag about the things they have. Of course the children are not expected to join in on the conversation, we were usually all at the other wing of which ever house we were at. We are all really good friends of course, mostly because you spend almost all of your childhood with the same people. There was always a lot of drama in our group, like there is in any group. Drama that really only matters to you and your group, but at the time it happens, it is the end of the world. The problem of course always revolves around dating. It's like an unwritten rule that you have to date in your own circle. That normally wouldn't be a problem, but there are only so many people that are in our little pureblood privileged circle. Now being the Ravenclaw that I am, I'm not usually at the center of these little dramas, most of the time I am trying to calm everyone down. But we not only had to deal with our own problems that hormones have caused, but we also have to deal with the problems that our parents throw in. The story really begins at another one of these parties.

I was waiting in the lounge for my mother to finish getting ready. I was sipping a cup of tea looking at my new dress. It really was beautiful, cream colored silk hand beaded, and tailed to me by my mother's flavor of the month designer. We were going to a party at the Malfoy's tonight, so I was to look perfect. The usual primping of course, but we weren't going to the Watson's here, we were going to the Malfoys...that meant that my normally flowing red hair was to be done in the most pompous looking up do that was possible. My hair and make-up artist that I use for everyday outings where accompanied by about 3 other stylist just for tonight. So now you know why my mother is taking so long. Anyways I don't really have to impress anyone tonight, everyone that is going to be there tonight is already my friend. But I would never say that to my mother she would just say what she always says "Alana darling, this is the Malfoys we are talking about here. We wouldn't want them to think we where living on the streets like beggars." Because me wearing my hair down to one of their parties would be social suicide.

While I am waiting for my mother I will tell you about the people that will be there tonight. Well of course there will be the Malfoys...Lucius is, well, what can you really do about him, he absolutely adores me though. Mostly because before I went to Hogwarts I attended the world's best young witches finishing pre-schools, Vander Tulip. It wasn't about magic at all, like I was told, it was really a boot camp for pureblood witches. It taught me how to be a snooty pureblood wife, which of course it the most important thing that will happen in my life... Yes well anyways, of course that is the kind of thing Lucius loves, his wife Narcissa went to the same school. Narcissa is, well I won't lie she is very beautiful, and is a great wife and mother, a little superficial and elitist but it was the way she was raised. She looks down upon most people, and of course spoils her son Draco into a rotten prat. Ha ha, it's funny because that's what a lot of people would use to describe Draco. Well that's the nice words they would use anyways. Draco and I have known each other for a long time. Draco is a nice guy, really he is...just in his own weird way. I just think that people don't understand him or his humor, which gets him in a lot of trouble and loses him a lot of friends. He is a bit of a girl in a lot of ways he pouts when he doesn't get what he wants, he hold grudges forever, and it takes him hours to get ready because he has to look perfect. If I hadn't known Draco for as long as I have I would probably hate him too, anyways enough about the Malfoys. Some of the other families that are going to be there are the Watson's, who are uber rich, but new money. This is a problem for most but they are learning fast how to behave themselves like old money, most people don't even know that they are new money, which believe me is a good thing. There is the Parkinson's, Pansy is really the only one that you need to know. They have money but not as much as my family or the Watson's. But what they lack in money they more then make up for in heritage, and in this world that can get you a long way. Pansy of course belongs to our little circle and is the same age, she is kind of on again off again with Draco. It's been that way for years really, most of the drama in our group is caused by their bickering, but nobody really seems to care, we're pretty used to it. They actually seem to hate each other so none of us are really sure why they are still together. Hell they probably don't even know at this point. Pansy and I are pretty good friends, for a Slytherin she is very loyal to her friends which is an odd trait for her to posses. Then of course there will be more prominent families that I will tell you about later because my mother is finally ready.

"Wow mom could you take any longer getting ready?" I asked my mom is my bored sarcastic tone.

"Alana darling, this is the Malfoys we are talking about here. We wouldn't want them to think we where living on the streets like beggars."

She replied sounding slightly offended. Wow didn't see that coming...by the way I'm rolling my eyes.

"Is dad meeting us there or do we have to wait for him as well?"

See my dad worked a lot, he worked for the ministry in the department of unequal power distributions. I have no idea what he does...but I'm told it is a super important job, not that I would care anyways.

"No we do not have to wait for him, he is already there, Lucius and your father wanted to discuss some urgent ministry business before the party."

She was looking at her watch, I could tell she couldn't wait to get there so that she could start bragging. Don't get me wrong now, I love my parents, and my life...it's just that sometimes I just want to act like a bratty teenager. But I can't too much so I usually just keep my snide remarks to myself. I have been described before to have that 'cat that ate the canary' look about me. Well anyways we are off to the party. We Apparated there because I finally got my license, in case you didn't know it's summer right now, and I just graduated from my 7th year of Hogwarts, it's really odd to be finished school, I'm not quite sure what to do with myself really. Anyways, we Apparated to the Malfoy's foyer where our coats were taken by their house elves, we were then lead to the main stairs where we were to be announced at the top while walking down into the ball room.

"Mrs. Sofia Adams, and Ms. Alana Adams of London."

The man at the top of the stairs bellowed. Most people turned to watch us as we entered the room, most people did that simply because my mother was so captivating, she isn't part Veela or anything along those lines, she is just very intriguing and she has a presence about her that no one else can match. When we got to the end of the staircase I knew from previous experience that this was where we went our separate ways. She went right towards the other mothers that had gathered, whereas I went left to where the children were seated.

"Hey Alana, did you know that you have an impossibly large animal growing on your head?"

Asked Draco as he lounged on a chair drinking his usual whiskey on the rocks.

"Ha ha Draco, you're so hilarious. Maybe you should finally take your act on the road?"

I said as I walked over to him but leaned down and whispered so that only he could hear me say,

"Remember I still have that picture of you in your mom's bra, Mr.Quidditch Captain."

Draco smiled knowing full well that I would never show anyone the picture. He finally got up and hugged me because he knew if he didn't I would nag him until he did. I smiled and sat 'delicately' on the couch.

"So have your parents said anything about what you are going to be doing now that your out of school?" He asked rather excited

"No, not really they keep saying that I will really like it, and that they have been working out the details for years." I said as I looked around the room noticing some familiar faces, and waving to a few.

"Yeah, my parents pretty much said the same thing..." Draco said as he watched our mothers talking animatedly to each other.

"Do you think maybe we are going to be working together?" Draco asked getting excited again.

"I don't know, I guess anything is possible"

I wasn't really in the mood for talking about what we were going to be doing after the summer so I tried to change the subject.

"So have you got a reply back yet from that quidditch team in Ireland?" I was hoping this would distract him enough.

"Yeah I did..." He looked downcast as he said this.

"Oh no Draco, did they not want you? Well it's really their loss anyway." I said while stroking his head softly because I know it makes him feel better when he is upset, even though he would never admit to it, because it wasn't very 'manly'.

"No, they wanted me on the team. It's just that father said that, "No son of his was going to be lowering himself to entertain others for money. You might as well be a clown."

He was really upset about this I could tell, but for some reason I couldn't hold in my laughter.

"ahhahahhhahahaha..a clown...ahahahahaha..."

After about a minute of me laughing at the thought of Draco as a clown with red nose and all I finally calmed down enough to speak to him again. But at this point he was pretty upset with me. He was looking at me with anger written all over his face. He sneered at me and said,

"I can't believe you some times Alana, why would you laugh about something as serious as this?"

He got all huffy and started to stand up. I grabbed at his sleeve and said

"Oh Draco come on you know I didn't mean anything by it." Unfortunately I was still smiling and that didn't seem to help, so he left me at the couches alone and walked over to Vivian who had just appeared at the steps. Vivian was a gorgeous blonde from France that was related to the LaDane's. Very wealthy in her own right, although not as wealthy as most in attendance at this party, anyways most of us figure her to be the girl that is betrothed to Draco, no one really knows who it is, he was told a few years ago that everything had been ironed out, but his parents wouldn't tell him who it was that he was to be marrying. They said that the surprise would be more fun. They though if he didn't know who he was to marry that he could experience his youth and not feel like he missed out. I think Lucius had described it to my father as sowing his wild oats. His parents are just crazy that way.

By this time all of the guest had arrived the parents where shooing the children into the other wing. There really wasn't much need though because most of the children were already out the door trying to escape. I walked into the kid's area with Eileen Watson, one of my best friends well, at least my female best friend. We were busy gossiping about the couples that had fallen apart already, even though the summer had really just begun. That was we were until we noticed how Draco had decorated the room this year. Well to be honest, the room was exactly the same, the only difference was that there was alcohol everywhere. Emily and I walked around looking at all of them, half of them we had never even heard of.

"Dragons Tooth Rum?"

I read while giving Emily a quizzical look. She in turn just looked at the bottle and shrugged.
"Ew, is that a dragons tooth in the bottom? That can't be sanitary."
I took the bottle back.
"And who said subtly was dead?" I was in the process of unscrewing the lid when I heard,

"Woooohhh, Whhhhoo, there Alana, don't be drinking any of that! No need for a repeat of your drunken singing"

I turned around to see none other then Erik Matterson. He is 3 years older then me and had graduated from Durmstang. He comes home for the holidays as often as he can, he works in Scotland doing god knows what. I stare at him for a while and then jumped on him giving him a huge bear hug and said

"Oh my word! Erik I haven't seen you in forever!"

Although I hate to admit it, I shrieked like the girlie girl I am. I could see Emily laughing as she walked away. Erg, she would have done the same thing, jerk. I continued talking to Erik for the rest of the night, just catching up and dancing when the opportunity arose.

Then around 1 in the morning most people had filtered out and all that was left was our core group. Which included Draco, Emily, Erik, Vivian, Pansy, Blaise, Keith, and I, Vincent had already left, and Gregory was visiting Family in Germany. Once everyone else had left our group started to slowly congregate around the couches, just so we could lounge.

"So..."Draco started to say, as everyone turned to look at him.

"Does anyone want to play truth or dare?" He of course said this with his ever popular sly smirk on his face.

"You can't be serious Draco. Truth or Dare is the stupidest game ever. It's just an excuse to make out with all of your friends without having to face any repercussions." I said not really feeling like being a wet blanket, but being one anyways.

"Wow Alana I never really liked playing truth or dare, but now that you put it that way...maybe it's not such a bad game after all."

Erik said as he put his arm around my shoulder and grinned and wiggled his eyebrows at the girls. I gave him a soft nudge with my elbow though still, just for good measure. Oh and of course glared, you can't forget my oh so scary glare...well it's actually a weak glare. I think the reason why I don't have an acceptable glare is because I don't have a long enough attention span to keep it going. Unlike Draco who seems to put his entire being behind trying to burn a hole threw your head.

"Alana, just because you're in Ravenclaw doesn't mean you have to think all the bloody time, about everything you do!"

Keith said rather annoyed. You see I have known Keith for about, oh I don't know 4 years maybe. We pretty much have the same sense of humor, so we get along really well. The stupid prig is a Slytherin like Draco, Pansy, and Blaise, so he usually does whatever he can to bring up the fact that I'm a Ravenclaw.

"Well Keith, maybe if you thought about what you did more often you wouldn't have broke your arm."

Keith just glared and shook his head. But of course had to turn his head to hide the smile, Keith is notorious for his daredevil antics, he is constantly doing something he shouldn't and getting hurt. Actually that's how we met, he jumped off the roof of the greenhouse on a flying Humbertubber and landed on me while I was leaving Herbology.

"What Alana, are we upsetting your delicate sensibilities?" Blaise sniggered immensely amused, I on the other hand was not. You see Blaise and I had…dated, for a while in 5th year and it was of course an unmitigated disaster from the start. Apparently I made 'googly' eyes at Theodore Nott at all times so we fought like Kneazles and Goblins. So we are both still sore with each other from time to time.

"No of course not Blaise, I just figured you wouldn't be able to handle 4 women and was trying to save you the embarrassment."

Everyone broke out into uproarious laughter, when it finally subsided we decided that it was probably safe to retrieve our parents and go home before Blaise and I really started in on each other. Oh, yeah remember when I said that I didn't cause any drama in our group because I am a wise Ravenclaw? Well ok I was lying I'm just as bad as the others, so you can stop giving me the stink eye I admitted it.

As I walked into the ballroom I spotted my parents. My mother was with Mrs. Malfoy as usual, they looked like they were in a very heated discussion about the curtains. Kill me before I get to that stage. My father was with Pansy, Emily, and Draco's dad, it was probably about business because they all worked together to some extent. I figured it was my best option to approach my mother, she was easily distracted and could persuade dad to leave.
"Oh, Hello pumpkin! What do you think of Narcissa's new drapes? They were just shipped from Italy."
Oh no.
"They are absolutely beautiful, Italian silk is always perfect for summer galas."
Queue charming smile…and hook line and sinker, they fell for it.
"It is such a pleasure to have such a refined young lady in the manor, I really wish that some of the other women would have had the foresight to have sent their daughters to Vander Tulips. Maybe then there would not be so many undignified purebloods married to lower class hooligans."
Uh oh, I had better nip this in the bud before it starts them on a gossip fest on which families have been disgraced by marrying into muggles and mudbloods.

"I could not agree with you more Lady Malfoy, it is so unfortunate that the night is ending so soon I have had such a lovely evening."
My mom looked slightly surprised as she look to the clock and gasped.

"Oh. Look at the time, we had best drag the men away from their boring political talk and bring them home."
Yes. I amaze myself sometimes that took almost no effort on my part. We walked over to the men who were actually speaking about trading policies in France, because that is so much more interesting then politics…Once we finally said our goodbyes and Disapparated home it was 3 in the morning. As we climbed to the second floor my parents turned in the direction of the east wing while I kept walking towards the west wing. Once I was old enough to speak I was allowed to pick my own room. I of course being the age where I refused to be called anything other then Princess Rainbow picked the room on the highest level that happed to have a large private balcony and a torrent. Just incase some prince came by to beg for my love I would be ready. Well it hasn't happened yet but I might as well keep it…you know, just in case. Or whatever…

This is just the beginning so the meatier parts of the story come later. Feel free to review and say whatever you like. If you find some mistake feel free to message me about it because I hate seeing them myself, and it is hard to find them in your own writing.