New beginings...where to start..tbd

I raised my eyebrow slightly, "That would definitely cross my mind as well." I agreed. I smiled at my brother, he knew just the right thing to say. "And I you Draco, and I you." I was so glad we had each other, I tried to imagine what my life would be like without him and always came up blank. I knew he could survive without me, just as I knew I would die without him.

I smiled, happy to know that at least someone is okay with the real me and not the me I am portrayed as by Father.  "Even when I'm a jerk?" I asked, knowing that was the side that was most commonly seen by everyone.

I gave a small laugh, "That is still part of you so, yes, even when you are a jerk. At least I know why you act that way." I hated that Father forced us to be perfect in his eyes when he was anything but.

"Alright, I just had to make sure.  I'm a jerk a lot," I said, as if she did not already realize that.  Sometimes it was entertaining, sometimes I wish I could be the nice guy.  Either way, I was always the jerk.

"Not a lot," I assured him, "just when you have to be for Father's sake." I turned to him with a smile. "Beside if you were nice to everyone, I wouldn't feel special." I knew I wasn't really special, Father made sure I knew that, but sometimes, Draco had a way of making me feel like I actually belonged here. Like I mattered to someone.

"Which is a lot.  Don't lie," I pointed out with a slight chuckle.  "And, to be honest, some people you just can't be nice to.  They're too annoying to be nice to... they need to get the hint to back off.  The only way to do that is to be mean sometimes."  I had to make that point.  I was sure Juniper would not agree with me on it, but maybe that was where we differed from each other.  Or maybe that was where Father was influencing me so strongly that it was becoming my actual way of thinking.  "And I like to make you feel special anyways.  Why bother making anyone else feel that way?" I teased.

I rolled my eyes, "Like Harry, Ron and Hermione?" I asked with a slight raise of my eyebrow. Of course I tried to see the good in everyone but that was what got me in trouble most of the time, so I was sort of happy that Draco could be mean to the right people. I didn't like it, but at least I knew he would never get in trouble for hanging out with the wrong crowd. I looked over at him, "Other people are more special then I am." I said simply with a small shrug, answering his last question.

"Oh Merlin... you call them by their names?" I said, shaking my head. "Better not do that around Father."  Even Crabbe adn Goyle did not get graced enough for me to call them by Vincent and Gregory.  I did not think I could handle that.  I looked over at her. "You're special to me, June.  No one else can even come close to you."

I rolled my eyes at him. "Father won't hear me talk about them at all or he would have my head." I told him. "I'm not stupid." I sighed, "If you say so." I didn't think I would ever believe him that I was special, no matter how much he tried to convince me. I figure it was sort of like how Draco felt like he was so much like Father because it had been drilled into his head so much. I had been told I wasn't special or wanted so much that, eventually, I start to believe it.

"You could've fooled me," I teased, though being slightly serious since she had gone and talked with them and whatnot.  But I at least listen to her point of view about it adn realized that she was lost.  She needed help.  Father would just wring her neck if he found out even just a whisper of what had happened.

I rolled my eyes at him again, "We both knew better then to say things like that in front of Father, 'professional witches and wizards talk like this so you should too'." I put up one handed quots around what Father always told us and did my best impression of him.

I smirked slightly.  "You do an excellent Father impression," I teased, though I understood exactly what she meant.  I had to talk that way nonstop while at school... it was getting to the point where it was hard for me to turn it off when I was wiht Juniper.

"I know." I gave him a huge smile and pretended to flip my hair back with my free hand, causing myself to laugh. I gave a slight sigh, "What do you think Mother and Father are doing right now?"

I grinned, but it faded away slightly when she mentioned our parents.  "Probably conspiring against some sort of revolting news they heard in The Prophet or something," I said.  Father was never happy about anything and Mother seemed to just always go along with him.

I gave a laugh, "That true, Father can never just let himself be happy with anything can he?" Mother usually just followed his lead. It was probably better that she did anyway, we didn't need to worry about her getting hurt or anything.