"Yeah..." He paused. "I say it's great but you know, it really wasn't a lot of the time. I didn't like most of the other royals, and my life was basically filled by parties that ran into each other with other Moroi I didn't even like. I don't even remember most of my teens, I was so drunk all the time."
There was the truth, even if Adrian sometimes liked to pretend that his life before had been perfect in every way.