For The Game of Life Challenge (Character: Lily Luna Potter, Prompt: Get engaged), The If You Dare Challenge (Prompt #668: Once Upon A Time), The Greenhouses Competition (Azalea: Write about a female character).

Prologue:

Everyone thought her life should have been a fairytale.

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Lily Luna Potter. Her mom was a famous Quidditch player, and her father was the hero of the wizarding world. The little girl herself was very pretty, with fiery red curls and bright brown eyes. She was kind and helpful to everyone, very smart, and was good at everything she did. Everyone loved her. She went to Hogwarts, met the man of her dreams, and fell in love. They got engaged soon after they graduated, then married, had a few kids, and lived happily ever after.

Here's the thing. It wasn't.

If her life was a fairytale, she would have been the pretty one in her family, with the amazing looks and the picture perfect smile. Instead, Victoire was.

If her life was a fairytale, she would have been a Hufflepuff because of her kind, cheery, helpful nature. Instead, Lucy was.

If her life was a fairytale, she would have been the smart one, the one who always had the answer to any question, the one who could solve any problem, the one everyone came to for advice, the one graduating top of her class. Instead, Molly was.

If her life was a fairytale, she would have been good at Quidditch, good with boys, good with school work, good at everything she could ever possibly think of trying. Instead, Dominique was.

If her life was a fairytale, she would have been the girl always surrounded by friends, boys, well wishers and admirers, the one who everyone loved, the popular one. Instead, Roxanne was.

If her life was a fairytale, she would be the one getting engaged to Scorpius Malfoy, the kind of boy every girl dreams of, a mere two years after she had graduated, planning her big white wedding and coming up with names for the children they were sure to have. Instead, Rose was.

If her life was a fairytale, Lily would have been all these things. Instead, she was rather ordinary in appearance, with messy red hair and dull brown eyes. Instead, she was a Slytherin, with her cunning, ambitious, sly nature and manipulative ideas. Instead, she had to study for hours and hours to scrape up the grades she needed to become an Auror, her lifelong dream. Instead, she was the girl who couldn't play Quidditch well to save her life, who had had a measly total of two relationships in all of her eighteen years. Instead, she was the girl whose best friend until she was fifteen was her god brother, Teddy Lupin, eleven years her senior, because she didn't have any other friends to give that title to. Even after that, her friendships were strained at best, no one in Slytherin wanted to befriend a Potter, and no one outside it wanted to befriend a Slytherin

If her life was a fairytale, Lily would be the one getting married to Scorpius in eight months time, riding off into the sunset and living happily ever after. Instead, she was the maid of honor, trying to help her cousin plan her wedding to the man she was in love with.

So maybe her life should've been a fairytale, but the truth was, it wasn't.