New beginings...where to start..tbd

I rolled my eyes and sighed. "No, I meant if they knew the whole truth, they would be swooning over you even more." I gave him a suspicious look when he started talking about the boys talking about me. I thought he might be keeping something from me. "That's just you nice way of saying they don't talk about me." I said, as sarcastically as I could manage. I looked down and shrugged, "Why would they? Although you did say anymore." I was attempting a joke but I knew I wasn't special, I was just the disappointment.

I held my chin up a little bit higher, appearing a little cocky.  Well, I was cocky.  "I like the sound of that," I joked, smirking.  "Er... whatever you want to think.  I know I won't be able to change your mind."  I was not sure if she would get angry with me for protecting her from students I viewed as scumbags and not good enough for her.

I rolled my eyes again, "Of course you would like the sounds of that." I said, accepting his cockyness. "It is whatever I want to think, because you know it's true, no one would want talk about me." I said. "No one would want to talk about the disappointment."

"You'd be surprised," I muttered, shaking my head.  I glanced over at her.  "Alright, look.  They don't talk about you in front of me anymore because I - er - sort of threatened them not to.  But I dunno if they took it as stay away from you completely or if they just took it as don't be near me when speaking of my sister that way."  Personally, I would prefer if they stayed away from her, but that was not fair to Juniper.

I closed my eyes and sighed. "Of course you did Draco, of course you did." I knew he would do something like that. He would do anything if he thought he was protecting me. I opened my eyes but looked away from him for a few moments, hoping he would be nervous about how I would react. Finally, I turned to him with a smile, "At least there's three other houses with guys who haven't heard your threats." I pointed out, "But if I'm still alone when I'm 50, I'll know who to blame." I tilted my head to the side slightly, "What had they been saying about me to cause such a threat?"

I was relieved to see her smile and I let out a breath I did not realize I had been holding.  "Oh, they'll hear the threats if necessary," I warned her playfully.  "And, the funny thing is, is that I scared older guys... I was quite proud of myself for accomplishing that one."  I chuckled slightly.  "Oh, I'll let you marry someone... at like... thirty or something.  That way the poor bloke has years to prove to me that he deserves you."  Of course she had to ask that.  I shook my head at her.  "I'm not repeating a word they said.  We're guys... we don't say nice things like 'she has a great personality' or anything like that."  I had used a high pitched fake-girl voice for the part I had held up one handed quotations around to prove my point that only girls said things like that.

"Of course they will." I said as I rolled my eyes. I turned to him, "The older guys too? Come on Draco, some of them were cute." I winked playfully at him and gave a laugh, "Any poor bloke that gets through you deserves to marry me, I can only imagine what you would put the poor guy through." I continued to laugh at his last comment, "We do not talk 'like this'." I said mimicking his fake-girl voice. "What kind of things do they say then, 'she's hot'?" I also put up one handed air quotes up and made my voice as low as I could, mimicking a guys voice. I knew no one said that about me, but I still liked to poke fun at Draco.

"You can believe he will have to prove his worth," I pointed out.  There was no way she was going to just marry anybody; he had to be good enough for her.  And, thanks to my parents, I would prefer pureblooded, too, but I was not going to tell Juniper that part.  I sighed and shook my head.  "I am not discussing this any further, June.  Just know that they listened to me and I've got your back when ti comes to blokes who are only thinking certain things."

"You don't think I can handle myself do you?" I put my free hand on my hip and tilted my head slightly, showing I was joking, but only slightly. I wish I could be like my brother, tell some of the other girls that they aren't good enough but I knew nobody would listen to me anyway. Draco would go out with whoever he wanted. I just hoped he wound know if someone wasn't good enough for him. I just didn't want to see him get hurt.

"Oh, you can handle yourself.  But I try to keep you out of as much trouble as possible," I pointed out to her.  She did not need to be on Father's bad side any more than necessary.

"I know you do, much to my dismay." He was always looking out for me but I hated when he took the heat for me. He was the golden child and I was fine being the disappointment and being blamed for everything, even if I didn't do it. If I could help Draco anyway, I always tried too. "I wish I could help you stay out of trouble but you get in more trouble from protecting me then anything else."

I grinned at her.  "You are the root cause of most of my problems and trouble making.  Thanks for pointing that out... i feel like I should do something about it now," I teased, pretending to really start thinking about how to take care of this.

My face fell, I hated that Draco always got in trouble because of me. I knew he was trying to lighten the mood so I forced a smile at him but could only manage half a smile. "Maybe you should get rid of me." I attempted a joke but knew it fell flat.

I shook my head at her.  "Oh, stop it," I said lightly.  "Life wouldn't be fun if there wasn't a bit of trouble involved... right?" That may not necessarily be true, but it was what I had to tell myself most of the time.

I raised my eyebrow slightly, looking at him. "I think it's more then a bit of trouble we've been in." I didn't think he was right about this but I wasn't going to say anything.