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Chapter 4

Lily's POV

"This is ridiculous!" I exclaimed as I looked at my reflection in the mirror.

"Oh, come off it, you look beautiful!" Madi said as she curled my red hair.

Only half of my long hair was curled so far, it was taking forever, and I had sparkles in it. Madi said she was in charge of my looks tonight for this party that my family was invited to. My parents are making me go and I said I would, first mistake, only if Madi could go with me, second mistake.

Her idea of making me beautiful was curling my hair with sparkle hair spray. Apparently it matched my beautiful dress. I have not laid my on the dress, it's quite frightening.

Finally, she was satisfied with my hair and moved on to my face. Pale green eye shadow, pink cheeks, glossy lips, and so on and so forth.

Then it was to my dress, even I have to admit it was beautiful. The light green material shimmered with small sparkles and fell almost to the floor. The short sleeves were puffed and ruffled with cream material under the sheer pale green. All in all, Madi made a good choice.

She just left her straight and down, her dress had spaghetti straps and went down to her knees, cutting off slanted. It was cream with ruffles down from the top to the waist. She looked beautiful, as usual, and I learned she had excellent sense in fashion.

James POV

"We're early?" Sirius asked as we walked into the empty yard.

"Of course, we're helping set up!" my mom set the cupcakes on the table and went inside the back door.

"Right..." I muttered, "And you didn't tell us this because?"

"Was there a need to?" My dad smirked at me.

"Well ya! We wouldn't have to be here yet! So... what is this anyways?" Sirius walked to the cupcakes.

"Paws off," my dad growled, "and it's a dinner, dance, and mingle."

I smirked at Sirius. My dad had said 'paws' not realizing that Sirius was an Animagus. "Dance?"

"Ya, see that huge platform in the middle of the yard, that you can't really miss, and couldn't really be mistaken for anything besides a dance floor?" Dad joked.

I opened my mouth to make a smart retort when Sirius cut me off, "It's James, what do you expect, he's got someone on his mind, he can't think of anything else." I glared at him.

"Right, your the one who asked." I pointed out bluntly.

"Your point?" Sirius was hovering over the small cakes anxiously.

"Sirius!" my mom shouted when she came outside and saw him, "Do not touch those cakes! Save them for after the dinner."

"What's for dinner then?" He ran to pull the big platter from her hands.

"Food." she responded plainly.

"Obviously, but what type of deliciousness?" He lifted the lid slightly.

"Turkey." Mrs. Bartley said as she came out with another, similar, platter.

"James, honey, could you help move the tables over here in a straight line, please?" My mom pointed to the long, crooked row of tables, "and move them over here more."

I raise my eyebrows at her, she nodded. Sighing, I set to work without magic.

Lily's POV

I feel absolutely ridiculous. I can't tell Madi that though, I've said it way to many times, and she gives my the death glare every time I do.

We're in the car, on the way to the party, my mom also thought I looked beautiful, but I think I look the mall crash landed on me. Sure the dress is gorgeous, but I am no girl to go with it, and true Madi did an excellent job on curling my hair, but it's just not right! I'm not the type of girl who goes prancing around in heals and lipstick, sneakers and chap-stick is the way to go for me. If I try to walk in heals, I fail miserably, kind of like when I was practicing before we left, this was gong to be a disaster.

Not to mention, it's going to be a dance, and I can not dance for the life of me. Especially in heals. I just hope anyone who asks me knows what they are getting themselves into.

The car slides to a stop and I freeze.

"Go one Lily, you look amazing." Madi says behinds me, urging me out of the black car.

With a sigh, I open the door to the car and step out, looking up at the big house in front of me.

Madi followed me quickly and we set out to the back yard together.

"Just don't think and have fun," Madi tells me as we walk through the gate. So that's what I decided to do. Forget the dress, forget everything else, and just have fun. Not to hard, right?

As I looked at all the decorations, the food, the lights, the people, all I could say was "wow." It was amazing. One long lines of wooden tables were lined up half way across the yard, they were piled with foods of all kinds. I almost felt back at school, with the table full of food, and people everywhere. I looked around and saw a few people I knew, from my neighborhood, some even from my school before I found out I was a witch. There were tons of people there, and a lot were still arriving.

"Busy night." My mom smiled as she lead us in to meet the hosts of the party. We met them only briefly, and then went to go mingle with all the other people who were there and waited for dinner to start.

James POV

"The party's starting now, Pads, why isn't she here yet?" I was watching the entrance nervously.

"Be patient Prongsy, she'll come, no worries." Sirius patted my back, looking anxiously at the food, "When is dinner gonna start? I'm starving."

"How can you be thinking of that, when Lily is coming and she isn't here yet? What if she doesn't come and we're here for no reason?" I was pacing back and forth, hoping that that was not the case and that she would just walk through the gate.

And that's just what she did.

Her red curls sparkled, the sun set behind her, she was a perfect picture. She had a beautiful green dress that stopped at her ankles, revealing silver heals. She walked carefully, as if not steady in them, perfectly not steady in them. Her dress fit her perfectly, showing her perfect curves, swaying with every step she took. The sparkled green fabric looked perfect on her, making her hair stand out with the sparkles in it, her face shown brightly under the fiery hair, everything about her was perfect.

"Prongs...Prongsy boy...wake up in there!" Sirius was muttering, "PRONGS!" He pushed me into my mom.

"What?" I muttered, catching my balance.

"Dinner's starting," He smiled at me.

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