“I’m not being ridiculous, I’m doing what a big brother is supposed to do,” Eli mumbled a bit exasperatedly because in his mind he wasn’t. He was just trying to look out for her and quite frankly save himself a headache later, although something told him he was gonna end up doing something stupid for her regardless of his efforts to, not stop this necessarily, rather, take a more rational approach to it and continued to listen to her as she spoke and although he knew she was joking did frown when she called herself dumb. He had a habit of using self-deprecating humor on himself, but something about her doing it seemed wrong. “You’re not dumb, you just lack impulse control, there’s a difference.” He interjected quickly needing to reassure her of that cause there was, in fact, a difference and she was very smart she just occasionally made dumbass decisions which he was positive was a running pattern in their shared DNA. “You should explore that, no one’s saying you shouldn’t, but if I am gonna help you and put my professional reputation out there to do it it’s reasonable to make some rules.” He reasoned. “They’re just simple agreements really. One, I just need you to take it seriously. Two, I need you to be professional and not purposely try to embarrass me for your own amusement cause that’s not a good look on me or on you.” He pointed out. “Three, I will help get you to a couple of the right people, make the introductions, but it’s your job to follow through with anything that comes from it. You earn it yourself and work hard to get what you want. You can’t just skate by and manipulate yourself into stuff and expect people to give you everything. It doesn’t work like that. So if you get a no, you don’t just quit. If this is really what you want, you don’t just get to quit without a real reason. Are you fine with all that?”
Jenni knew, deep down somewhere, that she was lucky to have a brother that looked out for her, that worried about her maybe dumb, mostly lacking in common sense moments. She knew that a lot of people didn’t have that and so there should’ve been some appreciation for what he was willing to do for her, for what he was willing to go through for her. That was all nice, honestly and truly, but mostly he was being kind of annoying at the surface of it all. She appreciated him, in her own way, of course, but mostly she found authority in any form frustrating, even if it was a brother who was consistently going out of his way for her. “Yeah, I don’t think before I act, or speak, or anything, really.” she agreed because, well, how could she not? Her track record wasn’t great. She listened to him list all of the rules, and she understood that this was important, that if she was going to pursue this, that she needed to take it seriously. She was a brat, she was manipulative and her work ethic was lacking, but she also knew that when she put her mind to something she got it, always. There was never really anything she saw and wanted that she didn’t get, though her ways of going about that may have been morally ambiguous. She might need to work a little harder for this, but if her brother believed in her? Maybe she could make it work. “Okay, I promise” she began, and eyed him “but you have to promise to trust me, and try not to be so overbearing, okay?”
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