Erased But Not Forgotten
Chapter 1
Problem Solved and the Three Mrs. Evil Jenyuses
Day before the last day of the school year…
Rose stood at the edge of the lake, watching the giant squid wave its tentacles around aimlessly. The breeze played with her long dark chestnut hair as she looked down at her watch.
'He's late,' she thought. She had been waiting there for fifteen minutes, searching for a certain pair of emerald eyes. Finally, she saw him walking towards her. She smiled.
"You're late, Mr. Potter," said Rose.
"I know," Harry, replied before giving her a sweet kiss, "But it took forever to get what I needed. I accidentally walked in on Ron proposing to Hermione in the common room."
"He finally asked her?" Rose asked with a sigh. "Good gosh! It took him long enough! What'd she say?"
"I think yes, from the way she jumped him," Harry laughed. "And then James was proposing to Liz in the Room of Requirement, so I couldn't use that." He rubbed a spot on the back of his head, "I found that out the hard way. You know, Liz has a really good aim, she should try out for Chaser." Rose giggled. "But she had the same reaction, she jumped James and they started making out in front of me. Very…awkward…moment."
"So now we have two weddings to go to! And we'll probably be in both of them! Ha!" Rose replied laughing. "So why did you need the Room of Requirement?" she inquired, gazing up into his emerald eyes.
"I needed to get a couple things," his eyes had a mischievous glitter in them. "What did you want to talk about?" he asked her, momentarily changing the subject.
"Well," they started walking around the lake, "You know tomorrow's the last day of school."
"Yeah," Harry replied, unsure where the conversation was going.
"Well, tomorrow I have to go back to the U.S." said Rose tentatively. Harry looked into her smoky green eyes, at those amber sunflowers like he had so many times before. "I can't stay here, Harry."
"Why not," he asked almost angrily as the realization kicked in.
"My visa expires tomorrow, I have to leave. Unless I got married or engaged or something," she ranted. "Then I guess I could stay, if we decided to live here."
"But what about us?" he inquired fiercely, with a sad look on his face that pleaded to be proven wrong.
"I don't know," her gaze shifted a bit. "I love you, Harry. And I don't want to go, but what are we going to do? I'm not very good at long-distance relationships, but I just don't want to let you go."
"Then don't," he answered simply, an epiphany hitting him, one that would tie their separate situations together.
"How?" her eyes searched in his for the answer.
"I think I have a way," he said, never taking his eyes off her.
They both stopped walking. "What?" Rose asked, a glimmer of hope shining in her eyes.
"You could marry me." Harry pulled something out of his pocket. It was a ring. It had a large teardrop-shaped, Neptune's Garden topaz in the center with little diamonds dotting around it in the silver band. Harry had seen her stare at it in a magazine.
Rose's eyes opened wide. "W-what?" she breathed.
"Rose, will you marry me?" Harry asked again, kneeling down.
"Yes," she said quietly. "Yes!" she exclaimed, smiling, "Yes, Harry, I'll marry you!" she threw herself into his arms. They fell backwards onto the grass, laughing and kissing.
"Here," Harry said as he slipped the ring onto her finger. Rose looked and on the inside of the band, where the inscription read: To my Sleeping Beauty, I'll love you forever.
"Let's go tell everyone!" Rose said eagerly. Harry stood up and helped her to her feet.
"Of course, future Mrs. Harry Potter," Rose grinned and kissed him.
"So, now what are we going to do?" she asked as they walked back up to the school, hand in hand.
"Well, first, I'm coming to Iowa with you. I want to meet your family before we do anything else. We can decide the rest later," Harry concluded, wrapping an arm around her waist, pulling her closer.
"Let's have our wedding in August," Rose suggested.
"Sounds perfect," he commented, kissing her softly. "But no more details at least until we talk to your parents."
"Grr! fine," she pouted slightly, so Harry kissed her again, bringing a grin back to the surface.
As they entered Rose's common room, they were instantly jumped on by their friends, Liz and Hermione. Rose noticed the glitter on both of their left hands.
"Rose! Oh my gosh! James and I are getting married!" Liz squealed, jumping up and down while trying to show Rose her ring.
Then Hermione squealed too. "Rose! Ron and I are getting married too!" She also tried to show Rose her ring while jumping up and down. Both girls' rings were simple but elegant diamonds on silver bands. Liz's was a square cut and Hermione's was a classic-cut diamond.
"Oh my gosh! We aren't the Three Evil Jenyuses anymore!" Rose cried, pretending to be sad. But then she smiled and shouted, "We are the Three Mrs. Evil Jenyuses!" She squealed and held up her left hand to show them her ring.
"Ahhh!" they all screamed in joy, all in a tight, jumping group of hugging girls (their fiancés had retreated slowly from the mass raging hormones).
"My gosh, it's beautiful!" Hermione exclaimed, looking at Rose's ring.
"It's gorgeous! I've never seen anything like it!" Liz added, looking at the ring too.
"I have, it's the same stone that I saw in that one magazine. But this is much better!" Rose concluded, holding her hand out so they could all see it at once.
"Where'd our fiancés go?" Liz asked looking around them.
"Probably the kitchen, you know, to escape the giggly girl stuff," Hermione guessed. As usual, she was right.
"So when are the weddings? Do you have any ideas?" Rose asked her best friends.
"Nope," Liz replied automatically.
"Not winter," Hermione stated.
"Yeah, definitely not in winter," Liz agreed.
"Well, Harry and I want to get married in August and Harry agrees," Rose said.
"See, Rose, you give us ideas. Now I want to get married in August!" proclaimed Liz, a bit distressed.
"Yeah, now I do too!" Hermione seconded.
"We could have a triple wedding?" Liz suggested.
Rose just looked at Hermione and Liz. "That would be absolute chaos…and then it would be so much fun!" They were all beaming as they waked into the kitchen.
Each girl walked straight up to their future husbands and asked at the same time, "Could we have a triple wedding?" When the guys looked uncertainly at each other, the girls each sprang into action. Hermione kissed Ron (more like they began making out), Liz whispered something (apparently pleasurable) in James' ear, and Rose began the puppy-dog pout.
Eventually the guys agreed. Harry took the longest (and not because of the effectiveness of the puppy-dog pout, he was just being stubborn and looking away) but finally gave in.
"Where are you going first?" Ron asked Harry and Rose.
"The U.S., Harry's determined to meet my family," Rose answered, scrunching up her nose.
"You better believe it," Harry said, scrunching his nose back at her. She giggled, just like every other time. Everyone else was used to it and just rolled their eyes, smiling at the innocence of their newly engaged friends.
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