"So what, Emmett can have a fling whenever he wants, and I sleep with Leo and it's a huge issue?" Isabella yelled as she got ready the following morning, shifting through her cupboards for a pair of shorts, she left clothes here and it made her life easier.

"Who said anything about Emmett? What I wanted to know as why you were with Leo? I thought you didn't like Leo?" Emily asked, holding her hands up, trying to ensure her best friend stopped yelling at her.

"Yeah, well, Leo notices me," Isabella said in a totally defeated tone. She looked at Emily with wide eyes, full of every emotion under the sun. "Leo thinks I'm beautiful and that I'm sexy… He wants me Emily, and isn't that brilliant? Emmett finds a girl after being away for three weeks, and completely forgets me, it's my birthday, and he barely talks to me… but Leo, he's always around."

"But you can't do that to Leo, just because he's there," Emily said, not quite wanting to say it, because she didn't want to upset her friend. "Before that would have been me, with a guy, not caring that someone walked into the room… Not you Izzy."

"Maybe I've changed," Isabella replied, getting to her feet now wearing a pair of shorts she had gotten out.

"But I know you better then that!"

"Isabella Potter, get in the damned shower now!" Hermione Potter yelled as she looked at the state that her daughter was in, it was summer, and hardly muddy, and yet there her daughter stood, dripping with thick, sludgy mud.

"I am mum!" Isabella gritted out, walking towards the bathroom, slamming the door loudly behind her. Almost instantly Hermione picked up a small muggle mobile and dialled a number.

"Emily, what happened to my daughter?" Hermione asked politely.

"Well, there was a bit of an argument, and it all got a little out of hand…"

Isabella was sitting on the wooden rails that lined the walkway down to the beach, laughing as Emily leaned beside her, taking in the sunlight, and hoping to get a decent tan.

They were waiting for some of their friends to either wake up from their various positions sprawled out on the living room floor, or to drag themselves from their own homes, and back to the beach.

It did not take some that long to arrive and Isabella found herself smiling at Leo Finnigan as he leant on the railing beside her, grinning to himself as he felt her looking at him.

"So how was your night Finnigan?" Isabella asked teasingly.

"Meh, it alright," Leo replied smirking as Isabella pulled a mock hurt expression; Emily rolled her eyes, smiling at the pair, and wondered if her best friend could actually sustain a relationship with this moron. Not that Isabella even mentioned anything along the lines of a relationship…

Suddenly there was another person standing there as well. Almost instantly the tension around the small group sky rocketed and clearly nothing good could possibly come of this as Emmett practically growled at Leo.

"What's up Malfoy?" Leo said, his boyish grin still firmly planted on his features, and perhaps Emmett had thought, in his clear rage, that Leo was trying to provoke him, and that was probably the reason he punched him.

"EMMETT!" Isabella yelled, shoving him aside as she crouched over Leo, carefully taking his face into her hands and inspecting the damage. "What's your problem?"

"What's my problem? Seriously," Emmett demanded of Isabella as she stood before him, hand on hips, looking thoroughly pissed off.

"Yeah, what's your damned problem?" Isabella snapped at him, it was unlike her to get this angry, especially with Emmett, they had been friends for far too long, and yet here they were.

"You, you're acting like a slut! And him! Of all the people…"

Isabella did not say anything, she had to bite her lip to stop herself from spitting something out that she may just regret. She looked away from him, and she saw Callie standing in the doorway of her beach house… Watching the scene unsurely, and Isabella felt awful, because Callie was a nice girl, and she had be drawn into this by accident really.

"Be with your girlfriend, it's not fair you leave her alone all the time."

It looked like for a second he was actually going to do what Isabella had said to him, but there was still too much fury in his eyes for him to just leave it now… So instead he turned back around and punched Leo again, until a full fight broke out.

"STOP IT!" Isabella and Emily screamed, only at some point, a fist struck out, hitting Isabella in the stomach, and she found herself tumbling to the floor, and

SPLAT!

She heard Emily gasp, and scream at the boys, but as she picked herself up, and fell back under the slippery patch of mud that now covered her shorts and top, and probably was stuck in the necklace her mother had gotten her for her birthday, she found herself not listening to what was going on.

Instead she crawled towards the sand, wincing slightly as she scraped her knee over a rock, before finally getting to her feet, and simply walking away.

"You idiots!" Emily screamed once more, before rushing after her friend, leaving behind Leo and Emmett, and completely forgetting to tell her boyfriend she was even leaving.

Emily managed to skip the bits about the sex and other things that perhaps Isabella didn't want her mum to know.

"Oh," Hermione said pathetically, what else was she to say? She was sure her daughter would be devastated by the turn of events, because she had just wanted to have a laugh now that she was officially seventeen, a legal adult.

"Yeah, pretty much."