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:: Chapter Four the Garden

There was a long silence after Lily kissed James. They were both in major shock and had no clue what to say. "Um… ya, I'm going to go and change." Lily turned scarlet red for some strange reason.
"Ok, then meet me back here. I have to show you something," James had a bizarre smile upon his face.
Lily walked down the hall towards the bathroom, gazed at the beautiful dress James had given as a gift and wondered how he could possibly claim to love a girl like her. But he couldn't love her right? She took the beautiful black dress off and laid it back in the pink box James gave it to her. "Ok, I'm ready, what is the thing you have to show me?" Lily was so curious it wasn't funny, "If it's another present, I can't accept it. You've spent way too much on me."
"No, my pet, it's not another present, I have to show you something outside. Follow me, please." James took both of Lily's hands in his and guided her outside and onto their patio. "It might take a while for us to get through our garden maze." Looking at Lily's face it seemed to get the exact effect that he was hoping for on the garden.
"WOW James, this looks AWESOME!! Look at all the pretty yellow, pink, blue, red, and purple flowers! Goodness gracious it must have taken your mom forever to make this. Well then again, maybe not because she's a witch. Oh just this!" Lily started to crack up laughing. She couldn't stop. James looked confused for a second, but then started laughing with Lily. Lily lost her balance and fell over-top of James and made him fall down on his back. Thank god he fell on grass, though. Both of them didn't realize where they were and Lily just laid her head on James' chest and both laughed for like fifteen minutes. Lily's brain kept telling her to get up, but she felt so safe that she couldn't, just not yet anyway.
Both hadn't realized but at that instant, Sirius walked into the backyard and just stood there watching the two. "Lily don't you think you are going a tad bit fast for hating the bloody brute for your whole life? Gosh, and this whole time I thought you were some goody-two-shoes." Both stopped laughing.
"SIRIUS BLACK!!! You weren't supposed to be home for another…" James looks at his watch, "forty five minutes!! Gosh! And for your information we were just laughing not… um… well what you were thinking."
"A goody-two-shoes?!?!? Sirius, I can't believe you thought that I was a goody-two-shoe!!!" Lily's face was a deep red shade, almost like a purple-ish color.
"Well… let's see… sucking up to teachers, not liking my best mate, doing ALL of your homework, and not liking my best mate… sounds like a goody-two-shoe to me." Sirius said hotly.
"She isn't a goody-two-shoe and just leave us alone Sirius!" James was almost the same shade as Lily.
"Oh no James if he wants to think I am a goody-two-shoes let him, but I don't think he will think it after I do this," Lily grabbed James's shirt and started to snog him senselessly. James totally shocked at Lily's sudden movement and went along with it.
"Ok Lily I take it back, just please go get a room," Sirius said turning around and walking to the glass door, but he was stupid and forgot that he closed the door and slammed right into it. "James does your mom wipe her bloody windows with bloody Windex?!?" He said walking out of the garden.
Lily pulled away from James, "Um, I'm sorry; I'm just tired of Sirius telling me that I am a goody-two-shoes."
"It's fine, I enjoyed it and anyways Sirius can be a bloody brute sometimes! Gosh, if you weren't here right now and I had to show you something, I so would go and kill Sirius. But, you are and I still have to show you something, so I won't. Follow me, me lady." James had that mischievous smirk on his face.
Lily couldn't help but follow him into the circular maze. It was an on-going spiral of tall dark green hedges with yellow, gold, and orange flowers poking out everywhere. Round and around, and around, and around until they finally got to the middle of the maze. There, there was a single white stone bench which seemed to be ancient. But, there seemed to be a change of flowers; they weren't orange, gold, and yellow, there were these star-like looking flowers of all different colors; like pink, red, and peach. "Wow James, this is beautiful!! But I have to ask, what is the surprise?
"Sit down my pet," James commanded, "And wait right here while I get something." He escorted Lily to the stone bench, sat her down and walked over to the prettiest pink and white lily and drew it out of the hedge. Walking back over to the bench it looked like he was stumbling over something, almost like he didn't know what to say, for once. "Lily," James sat down on the bench next to her, "Do you see this Lily?"
"Yes James," Lily was so confused right now it wasn't funny.
"This whole garden, this maze my mother made, is an eternal-living garden. It will never die."
"But what does that have to do with us?"
"Everything, I really don't know how to say this but… We are exactly like this garden. Different is so many ways, but joined together by the green hedge. I guess what I am trying to say is that the day this garden dies is the day I stop loving you, which I might remind you is never." James stopped and looked into Lily's eyes; they were full of tears just waiting for her to blink so they could flow freely down her face. She just looked into his eyes and him hers. James took the Lily from his hand and put it into hers. "If you ever need me, you will always be able to find me, Lily, don't ever forget that."
"I won't James." Lily made the fatal mistake and blinked, tears started pouring out of her eyes. "That was so touching," Lily was crying now.
"There, there my pet, no need to cry, James is here." He pulled her into a hug and just let her cry on his shoulder. "But, baby, we really need to get back, everyone should be coming soon."
They got up and he took her hand, led her back out of the maze and into his house.