Chapter 21: Home Again

Lily came bursting through the door and said "Severus and Draco can you get your butts out her and help us carry in your daughter (Severus) and sister's (Draco) clothes and everything so that we do not have to make 5000 + trips into the house."

Both men went out to assist them and stopped dead in their tracks on the steps at the site of a massive 18-wheeler loaded from top to bottom with clothes and various other items.

Severus sputtered for several minutes and said "Lily, how much did you all spend?"

Lily smiled and said "oh Severus not much only $10-$20,000."

Severus screamed and said "Lily, when I said that I know she needs things I did not think you would spend $20,000 in one trip. My God that is entirely too much for one lone girl to need and this truck does not look like it has $20,000 of stuff in it." Lily stood listening to her husband rant for a few minutes and then said "Severus, we have another truck on the way full of stuff so I need you and Draco to get busy."

Severus crossed his arms over his chest and said "and if we refuse to do as you ask?"

Lily smiled and said "ok Severus if you want to play hardball that is fine but, I have a father's kryptonite with me and it is standing to the side of that truck."

Severus moved down to the truck and saw his daughter standing there both looking very beautiful and sad that her father was saying no and then Hailey having spent a whole week with Alice and her mother threw herself into her father and begged like a child begging for a brand new toy for her father to please help, and let her keep her new things.

Severus stood there and tried to fight the fact that he did not want to spend this much money in one trip but after much fake tears from his daughter he finally broke and said "ok, ok Draco and I will start unpacking but while we are doing that what are you two evil women going to be doing?"

Lily smiled and said "well we are going to help just because we are women does not mean we can't help our men with this but any heavy lifting you two will be doing ok."

Severus merely nodded as Draco approached his little sister and said "you look good sis."

At that Hailey merely blushed not use to hearing boys say she looks good.

About an hour after they got started the foursome were interrupted by Alice driving up in the other truck and hopping down from the cab to unlock the last of Hailey's new things. Alice smiled at Mr. Snape and Draco and said "I got the last of your things Hailey in the truck I must say though you have excellent taste once we found the right sizes of clothes for you it was all so easy."

Alice smiled and said devilishly "Hailey, what are your measurements again just so your dear old dad and brother know if they have to buy you clothes?"

Hailey flushed scarlet at her new friend and made inarticulate sounds to hide the embarrassment she was feeling at the hands of her new friend and said quietly "36d-32-38, but Alice I do not plan to let my father or brother shop for me they are men and have absolutely no sense of what I would wear from my room to the bathroom let alone what I would wear outside the house."

Lily smiling said "just think baby all you need to complete being a true blue teenager is get yourself a boyfriend and then you will be all set."

Hailey suddenly had a mental flashback.

Flashback:

…well Potter you want to go out with me? One you are too tall. Two you are too skinny. Three you are not at all sexy I mean you are plain as the day is long on a scale of 1-10 with ten being a bombshell you are lucky to be a -5.

Hailey gaped as her friend Seamus said this to her and her brother Draco stood cracking his knuckles that this so called friend would humiliate his sister by saying such horrible things to her.

Hailey merely stood there with tears in her eyes as at 14 years old her best friend humiliated her in front of everybody by refusing to go out with her.

End Flashback:

Hailey smiling said "I seriously doubt that will happen anytime soon mom I am in no rush to get my heart broken."

Draco sighed also remembering the one time he had see his sister crash and burn on the romantic scene and even now 2 years later it still hurt to think about it.