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Now and Forever
1. Will you say yes?
James stood nervously trying in vain to smooth down his hair.
Okay, he thought, everything seems to be perfect. The room of requirement has never looked this stunning. He had spent almost three hours getting it right.
But James was still freaking out; tonight he was going to propose to Lily Evans.
He left the perfect room of requirement and made his way back to the common room where he promised to meet Lily. Outside the fat lady's portrait he saw his best friends Sirius and Remus, waiting for him.
'You better hurry up mate, she's in there waiting for you' grinned Sirius.
'Good luck James, you'll do fine, and she loves you' Remus assured him
'Yeah' James managed to croak out. He nodded toward them and said the password to the Fat lady, (Goulash), and entered.
Lily who had been sitting in one of the big red armchairs near the warm fire, stood up as James entered. He saw she was wearing the black and white tartan skirt he helped her choose in Hogsmeade, with a long sleeved plain white top and a white head band pulling her dark red hair out of her eyes.
'Hi' Lily smiled.
'Hey, you ready?' James smiled nervously.
'Sure, where are we going?' A slight frown in between her eyebrows appeared as James helped her to her feet.
James grinned mischievously. 'Close your eyes Head Girl'
'James, what is going on?' Lily said after closing her eyes.
James was holding her waist from behind and was leading her towards the portrait hole.
'It's a surprise' he whispered in her ear.
Sirius and Remus had gone to the library as they had pre arranged with James, so all Lily could hear was the sound of their footsteps and James' soft breathing next to her ear.
'Nearly there' He was leading her up the marble staircase, and then he stopped suddenly.
'Stay here' He whispered. She giggled as his breath tickled her ear.
'No peaking' he warned as he hurried off walking past the wall three times concentrating.
'James, are we outside the room of requirement?'
'Mm-Hm, come on in Miss Evans, but don't peak...now you can open your eyes'
Lily did so, and gasped.
The room was draped with soft purple velvet curtains, on the floor were huge purple and red cushions on the side of the room was a red fluffy hearthrug in the shape of a heart. In the middle of the room was a square table with two seats. It had a purple tablecloth on it with two red candles on it which were lit. The handkerchiefs were red and folded up so that they looked like roses. In the middle of the table was a glass vase with two red roses in it. James took one of the roses and fitted it in Lily's hair, who stared in awe.
'It's beautiful' breathed Lily.
'Happy Valentine's day' James said as he kissed Lily's hands.
'But you took me to Hogsmeade, you bought me that beautiful charm bracelet and we had lunch in –'
James interrupted with a fierce kiss that took her breath away
'Shut up'
Lily smiled, which made James want to kiss her more, but controlling himself he lead her to the beautiful table.
'Have a seat Lils, now what would you like to eat?'
'Oh James, what –'
'Listen – Treacle Tart.'
Treacle tart appeared on James' plate. Lily simply stared. James motioned for her to follow in his lead.
'Ok…um…cheese and tomato salad, please' her order appeared on her plate.
'James, how did that happen?'
'Houselves,' replied James shortly, 'what do you want to drink?'
'Iced pumpkin juice.'
'Me too.'
Two goblets of iced pumpkin juice popped up in front of each of them.
'Dig in'
Eating silently, Lily noticed a magical record player in the corner, so she went to investigate. She found a record entitled "slow songs", which she slipped into the record player as she felt James' hands around her waist, his head on her shoulder.
'May I have this Dance?' He smiled as a slow song came on,
Lily nodded turning around so that she was facing him. She placed her hands at the back of James' head, whose hands were on her waist. They revolved slowly around the room.
Nobody's
going to love me better
I'm going to stick with
you
Forever
Nobody's going to take me higher
I'm going to
stick with you
You know how to appreciate me
I'm going to stick
with you
My baby
Nobody ever made me feel this way
I'm going
to stick with you
At this note, James leaned in and so did Lily, and they kissed passionately. Lily pulled away gently and laid her head on James' chest.
'Lily,' James whispered
'hm,' Lily lifted her head and looked at James, who stared deeply into her eyes
'I love you, and have always loved you ever since I saw your sorting in the great hall. I thought you looked so cute back then with the huge hat on your small head. Now when we are finally together, I feel like nothing can go wrong. I know you love me as much as I love you, and I appreciate that. You love me even when I'm being a total and complete idiot. So I just want to hold onto you with ever fibre in my being. I want you to know how much I love you.'
James knelt on one knee, took a small velvet box from his jeans pocket and flipped it open. Inside was a gorgeous diamond ring. It was a gold band with a diamond in the middle and two smaller green jades on either side.
'Lily Rose Evans, will you make me the luckiest man in the entire world? Will you marry me?'
Lily had tears in her eyes, but she still managed to choke out a 'yes.'
James beamed as he took the ring out and slipped it in her left ring finger. Lily burst into happy tears, as James stood up and hugged her.
'I love you' she whispered.
'I love you' He whispered back, and they carried on dancing to the rest of the song.
So
don't you worry about
People hanging around
They ain't bringing
us down
I know you and you know me
And that's all that
counts
So don't you worry about
People hanging around
They
ain't bringing us down
I know you and you know me
And that's
why I say…
The lyrics used are from the pussycat dolls song, "stickwitu"