Draco and Anisha both winced when they heard the doors slam shut simultaneously on opposite sides of the house.
"You would think that they would at least try not to fight on Valentine's Day." Anisha mumbled to her twin brother.
"I don't think that one day is going to stop over a month of arguments Annie." Draco replied straightforwardly.
"I know that. But I would've thought that they would at least hit the pause button or something." Anisha sighed and leaned back on the couch they were sitting on.
Both Draco and his sister were getting pretty tired of the constant fighting going on between their parents. They had been watching them slowly drift apart for a while now, starting off with them just not talking to each other very much, to them just avoiding one another whenever they could but now it had escalated from small insults to full on screaming matches in a matter of weeks.
Annie sighed solemnly and rested her head in her hands. She was really hoping that today they would finally make up. She had tried to be the secret match maker, planning their date, picking out nice clothes for each of them, even telling them what to talk about with each other to fix things. And the result of all of that planning and manipulating ended with Lucius and Narcissa bursting through the front door while shouting at each other, shouting at each other for an extra ten minutes, a little magic which ended up destroying a few things, five more minutes of screaming, then Narcissa secluding herself into their bedroom while Lucius took their spare guest room.
"Well, how are we going to fix this?" Anisha said out loud, more to herself than to her brother.
Draco looked over at her and rolled his eyes. "What do you mean 'we'?" He said condescendingly.
She sat up straight and looked back at him. "Come on. I know you care just as much about them getting back together as much as I do."
He just rolled his eyes again and scoffed. She was right though. He always tried to be the tough guy, and often pulled it off, but Anisha knew that her brother didn't want their parents splitting up.
When he didn't reply, she continued. "Draco, we have to do something. Do you have a date for the rest of tonight?"
Draco raised his eyebrow. "No. What does that have to-"
"Well then that means you have nothing better to do for the rest of the night, doesn't it?"
He stared at her for a bit, considering it, only to see her put on her classic puppy dog eyes. He hated it when she did that. It didn't always work on him but this was one of those special occasions when it did.
Draco took a breath and stood up. "Fine, I'll help try to make them not hate each other. But only because I have nothing better to do."
"I know that." Anisha said cheerily as she jumped up herself. "That's what I said. Now, how about I go talk to father and you go talk to mother. That sound good to you."
He nodded. "Yeah, I guess." He shrugs and runs his fingers through his hair before heading upstairs towards the master bedroom.
Anisha takes a different route at the top of the stairs to get to the spare room at the end of the hall.