Chapter 21: Home Again and the Talk
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 a few thousand dollars maybe as much as a million, but she is our only little girl and she needed stuff."
Severus screamed and said "Lily, when I said that I know she needs things I did not think you would spend a million dollars 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 day 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, 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. As Draco thought of it he remembered, "it was the Yule Ball and while I knew that Hailey was my sister thanks to my parents (Narcissa and Lucius) Hailey did not know anything about it at that time, and to top things off I watched as she asked every boy in school to be her escort and not one of them would actually answer her they simply laughed in her face rather than answer her or even have the decency to say "no" but I know it still hurts her."
Hailey turned and saw a perplexing look on her brother and Draco said, "Hailey we need to talk and I think this is something you want to say to me as well. So why don't we go upstairs and say what you need to say?" Hailey sighed and nodded thinking that Draco wanted have a conversation with her of what happened and truthfully she had questions about why?
Hailey entered her room slightly ahead of her brother and said, "can I ask you at the Yule Ball why did you ask me to go to it I mean you are my brother and all and I know you lied to me when at the time you said there was no girl you were remotely interested in?" Draco sighed and sat down in the chair at her desk and said, "I thought that was obvious and it had nothing to do with the fact that Seamus rejected you it was every boy in school doing it even Ron Weasley laughed in your face like you were not good enough to be with him, and let's not forget that you were a champion and would have to open the dance."
Draco said, "OK so I wrote my parents "the people that raised me" and after they told me you were my sister and everything about how you were struggling to find even one boy to go to the dance with and that I wanted to help, but I did not know how to help or approach you because as you might remember the first 3 years of our Hogwarts time you and I hated each other so I did not want to approach you as if I was wanting to date you that would have made it really bad for both of us later when you found out we were brother and sister." Hailey interrupted and said, "when did you find out that I was your sister Draco?"
Draco sighed and knew a fight was about to happen but also knew that Hailey had the right to know this information and said, "I knew before our 4th year of Hogwarts but only a few days before it started, and my parents said that you would not know and that it would be best that before I told you I have time to wrap my head around the information they gave me, and that is why it took me a while to decide to tell you and that is why my parents were there when I did tell you so you would not be alone in facing it."
Hailey exploded in anger and screamed, "Why the hell did you not tell me, and if you knew since then why did you take me to the Yule Ball if you knew before the year began that I was your sister. I mean that is kind of messed up that you would date me considering we are fraternal twins?" Draco nodded and said, "OK yes i know that you are angry about the Yule Ball thing, but try to remember you asked every boy going from 3rd year all the way up to 7th year with the exception of me (which considering you did not know I was your brother I would like to know why you didn't ask me) and everybody either said a flat out "no" or they went so far as to laugh at you for asking them. Also remember you were a champion so you had to open the dance and with no escort or anything I spoke with my parents and they said that as the older sibling it was my responsibility to do what ever I could to help and protect you, and if that meant I had to be your escort than so be it."
Draco nodded and said, "and no offense sis but you know that was a few years ago. Why are you asking about this now?" Hailey said, "well I did have a lot on my mind that last few years and I did not think I would like the answer you gave me. I thought you had some feelings for me, and I did not love you."
Draco visibly retched and said, "no way even before I knew you were my sister I did not find you romantically attractive." Hailey smiled and said, "Thanks you were deemed attractive by a lot of the girls in school, but I am sorry to wound your ego but just not me."
Draco laughed it off and the two turned to other task that needed to be done.
