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Chapter Seven: Depressing Dressing
James
I pounded on the door.
"Hurry up!" I whined.
"Shut up" Lily called back.
"Is it like a universal rule that women take forever in the bathroom?" I asked Sirius who was leaning against the wall beside me.
"Evans if you don't get out you'll force me to have to pee in the sink" Sirius said
"Just ten minutes" Lily said. He groaned and let his head fall against the door with a thud.
"What are you doing in there that takes ten minutes?" I asked
"Masturbating" she snapped making Sirius snigger. I looked at him
"You don't think…"
"No you idiot! It's Evans… her God would strike her down or something…" Sirius said with a smile. He smacked his head on the door again
"Seriously Evans…" he called.
The door flew open and Lily stood glaring at us wearing nothing but a towel.
"You just need the toilet right?" she asked, we both nodded. She stepped aside and Sirius rushed in slamming the door in my face.
I sighed and leant on the door while Lily shivered near by.
"You can go get changed in the bedroom"
"I'm not done" she said pointing to her hair. I noticed it still had conditioner in it.
"Wow"
"I go to this effort for you" she said I smiled and looked her up and down as she was preoccupied with glaring at the closed door.
"I haven't shaved my legs yet stop perving" she said not looking at me but obviously aware my eyes were taking in her nice shapely legs. I let my eyes roam back up to her chest.
"I'll poke your eyes out" she said but I didn't remove my eyes. She turned to glare at me but I just stared back. She took my glasses and then pulled a face
"Look now"
"I'm short sighted" I said she stepped back a bit and laughed.
"I need those back"
"Oh you'll get them back, when I'm wearing clothes" she said.
There was the unmistakable sound of running water.
"Oi!" Lily cried
"Sorry but I have a date" Sirius said
"I'm going to piss in your cereal" I said he just laughed. I sighed and leant against the wall.
"Crap!" Lily said and walked off to the kitchen.
I headed into my bedroom and got changed. I came out into the kitchen and found Lily washing her hair in the sink, her towel riding a little to far up her leg causing me to crash right into the dining room table.
She looked around wildly her hair dripping wet as she stared at me.
"How's it going?" I asked casually.
"Fine" she said and bent back over the sink. I looked away and began to make some cereal.
"Can I trust you not to look or do I have to walk all the way to your room?" she asked standing up straight. Leaning forward slightly, letting her hair drip into the sink.
I nodded, she smiled and twirled her finger indicating for me to turn and face the wall. I did so continuing to eat my cereal.
We'd been living together for weeks and I still wasn't used to her presence. Especially pretending I didn't like her as much as I really did, I felt like I was back in school trying to play hard to get.
"Ok" Lily said I turned around and saw she'd wrapped the towel she'd been wearing around herself around her head and was wearing a blue bra with matching panties and that was it.
"Uh…" was all I could say. She looked up at me.
"Oh… clothes… right"
"You're doing this on purpose aren't you?" I asked her she nodded enthusiastically.
"Why?" I asked
"I have a really big favour to ask…" she said
"No" I said immediately.
"You haven't even heard it yet" she protested.
"Still no" I said she pulled the towel from her head roughly drying her hair before tossing it aside and stepping closer to me.
"I could make it worth your while" she said taking my hand in hers.
"If you have to ask me wearing nothing but underwear it's obviously not going to be anything enjoyable for me" I said she lifted my hand to her lips and kissed it softly.
"Please…" she said I groaned and shook my head.
"I got a letter from my parents yesterday" she said putting my hand on her hip and holding it there. Her skin was nice and soft and I had to exercise a lot of self control to not grab her hip and pull her close.
"And… well my sister is getting married" she said moving my hand up a little so it sat on her waist.
"That's good for her"
"They want me to go to the wedding" she said moving my hand a little higher.
"Mmhmm… uh…" I couldn't think to clearly as my hand was mere inches away from her breast, I'm positive she knew that. "Don't you hate her?"
"Of course. But my parents really, really want me to go. It'd mean so much to them, and I've already disappointed them so much I couldn't do it again" she said moving my hand a little higher.
"When is it?" I asked with a sigh. She moved my hand to her breast and I stared at the ceiling taking calming deep breaths.
Damn you Lily.
I continued with my calming breaths and tried to focus on anything but my hand and what was under it.
"September twenty-two"
"That's my dad's election day" I said
"I know. But it'd mean so much to my parents"
"That's my dad's election day" I repeated looking down at her. She nodded staring at me with her eyes wide and adorable.
"No, no, no Lily. No, no you can't just tempt me with your… goods" I said
"You haven't taken your hand away" she said
"Shut up. You have no idea how important this day is to my family… it's the reason I'm not dead yet. Child deadness puts a huge dampen in your campaign" I said.
"It's my sisters wedding"
"You hate her!"
"Why do you want to go to your dad's election? Isn't he a jackass?"
"Well yeah but he's family"
"And so is my sister. And now that we're married, and will stay so for a while, my family is your family. We can just go for the ceremony… or a bit of the reception but I have to go" she said.
"We can't be in two places at once!" I said she looked up at me desperately. She stepped a little closer to me.
"I'm freaking cold" she said I hugged her tight and she snuggled closer appreciatively.
"Please… we have to go… I can't have my parents hate me, I don't think I can take it" she muttered.
"We'll go…"
"Really? You'll get us in two places at once"
"I'm a Marauder I'm sure I can think up a brilliant plan" I said
"Thank you" she said giving me a squeeze.
"Can I put some clothes on?" she asked
"No" I said she laughed.
"I'm quite serious. I'm going to get murdered by my own father so you have to be very thankful" I said she pulled out of my grip with a small smile on her face.
"Oh I will be… I'm so horny right now. Let's go" she said heading down the hallway
"You coming or what?" she called. I didn't need asking twice so I quickly ran after her.
She flopped down on the bed and stared up at me looking as gorgeous she always did. She gave me a look which was enough indication for me. I quickly climbed on top of her leaning down and kissing her softly. She responded immediately, trying to quicken the pace. I kept it slow knowing it'd irritate her. She moaned trying to roll us over so she was on top but I simply took her wrists in one of my hands and held them over her head while the other rested on her hip.
"Whoa hello!" Sirius said. Lily and I looked over at him. I looked back at Lily curling a bit of hair behind her ear.
"So this mean…?" he trailed off
"That I really need sex and James was the closest dick yes" Lily said glancing at me.
"Oh… that's less cool" Sirius said
"You leaving?" Lily asked
"Oh… of course…" he said and left. There was the dull thud of the front door closing and Lily leant up and kissed me.
"You really want to do this?" I asked.
"No" she said I nodded and sat up staring down at her. She made no attempt to move.
"I keep making things complicated" she sighed. Yes she did…
"Which is why I'm constantly asking if you're ok with this" I said
"You're awesome" she muttered
"Don't forget it" I said she kissed me softly.
"I'm going to go put on some pants" she said. I climbed off her and let her sit up.
"You just kissed me" I said
"Yeah… well… I've done it before…" she said I stared at her. "Oh… why? I dunno… I kind of think of you as a boyfriend… is that weird? Did I make things weird? I'm sorry, pretend I didn't say anything"
"No… I mean yeah it's a little weird but you are weird" I said she smiled and stood up leaving the room.
I sighed and stood up heading into the bathroom for a shower. When I came out into the kitchen Lily was sitting on the table. Yes on it reading the paper.
"What are you doing?" I asked
"Rat" was all she said and continued to calmly read the paper.
"Rat?" I asked "you look pretty clam right now"
"That's because I'm safe on the table"
"Rats can climb" I said she stared at me
"I know that… look I can't kill it… and I don't wanna touch it" she said.
I sighed "Where?"
"This is why I'm glad I live with a boy… last I saw over by the sink" she said.
I headed over to the sink and began to look around for a rat preparing myself for a sudden attack. I glanced down and saw the rat sitting in the sink staring up at me innocently.
"Ah Wormy" I said picking the rat up by the tail.
"Why am I surprised, you name the mouldy sandwich why not the rat…" Lily muttered.
The rat squeaked as I stared at him
"This is low" I said and walked out into the small backyard studying the shrubs lining the back fence.
"Guys…" I said
"What is it?" Lily asked standing up and walking over to me. She was wearing one of my t-shirts I gave her an odd look.
"I'm not wearing another dress ever…" she muttered.
"I assume those are my pants as well" I said
"No Sirius' he likes tight pants and tight on him are snug on me" she said "so what's with the rat?"
"Just a really long running Marauder thing…" I said she nodded slowly.
I ran over to one of the shrubs as quickly as I could and pulled the invisibility cloak off Sirius and Remus then dragged them by the collar of their shirts over to where Lily stood.
"We had the cloak" Sirius said frowning.
"What are you doing?" I asked
"I had to make sure you didn't kill her…" Remus said Lily and I frowned at him.
"They were empty threats" I said to Lily who stared at me.
"And I think I've thought up a solution for your two places at once problem" Sirius said
"You heard that oh my God!" Lily said putting a hand to her forehead.
"Yeah, by the way I'm free after this I think I can fulfil your needs"
"Fuck off Black"
"Only if you come with me" he said.
"What was your solution?" I asked stepping in before Lily knocked him out.
"Polyjuice potion" he said. Lily and I raised our eyebrows.
"Yeah Sirius? You gonna walk around as Lily in front of her family?" I asked
"Don't be ridiculous… Moony will" Sirius said grinning.
"What?"
"Hey for the first four years of school you were the only Marauder she would talk to and as Prongs is my best friend and we're practically brothers I think I'd make a better him then you would" Sirius said.
"Take Peter then" Remus said with a frown.
"No" Lily said glaring at Sirius "I don't want him seeing me naked"
"Again"
"You didn't knock!" she snapped.
"Look you've got until September twenty-two and it takes a month to make and it's almost August" Sirius said
"Two days till August" Remus said "We have to start making it by the eighteenth at the latest…"
"Be a bigger nerd" I said
"I can't do it… my parents will know…" Lily said
"How? They've barely spoken to you in the past month, didn't even come to your graduation and before that you didn't see them at Easter or new years making the last time you actually spent time with your parents a year ago" Sirius said "Prongs man it's fool proof"
"How? You're involved" I said
"Do it…" Lily said
"Seriously?" Sirius asked.
"Yes but Remus is me" Lily said
"For the last time just because I don't date girls doesn't make me one" Remus sighed
"Sorry but I just don't think you'd wank while you were me" she said Sirius raised his eyebrows.
"Really?" he asked she nodded. "Ok she's so right but look you will not regret this"
"Why do I doubt you?" Lily asked
"No man, why do I doubt you?" I asked making Lily laugh.
It was going to be a weird few months.
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Lily
"No, you sick fuck don't do it" I said
"Such language" Sirius said.
"It's your fault" James muttered.
"Put me the fuck down!" I ordered. They were both holding me up off the ground trying to get me out of the house.
"No way Lily… come on you have to go" Sirius said
"And please don't sware in front of my mother" James said.
"This is the worst day of my life" I muttered still struggling in their grasp.
"No… wait till you have to actually pick out the dress" James said
"I'd love to look at dresses; do you even know what your mum and my mum are dragging me along to?" I asked James glanced at Sirius who shrugged.
"No" James said looking back at me
"Fabric shops! So I can look at what different whites work with what ever the fuck my colour scheme is" I said "I wasn't even aware there was more then one version of white but your mum found it"
"Just go!" Sirius said
"No! This sucks… and my mum is going too. Planning two daughter's weddings in less then a year. This is terrible" I said
The boys managed to force me out of the house and put me down quickly hurrying me over to the car.
"Don't do it Potter. I will have sex with you right now. Right now if you make me not go!" I said
"Yeah you tried that before didn't really work" James said
"I'm serious this time. And I won't even talk… I'll just rock your world" I said
"Yeah you're not sexy when you're trying to be sexy" he said. I frowned at him.
"Don't make me do it" I pleaded
"Lily, it's your mum… you'll be fine…" James assured me
"Hey at least your sisters not going" Sirius said with a smile
"You idiot! You jinxed it!" I snapped.
They pulled open the car door keeping a tight grip on both my arms so I couldn't bolt like I'd planned.
"Lily!" Petunia cried and hugged me. I glared at Sirius who shrugged with a small smile.
"See you later" James said
"Oh good luck with your interview" I said
"You remembered" he said sounding surprised.
"How could I forget? You were running around the kitchen for an hour while Sirius quizzed you" I said
"Bye" he said hugging me. I sighed and climbed into the car.
"Hi Elle" mum said hugging me. I smiled.
"So… both your daughters getting married. Thank you for only telling recently… I appreciate that" I said
"Technically you're already married dear so I'm planning a real wedding and your sham one" mum replied. Ok guess I deserved that…
"Why don't we stop for a drink?" Mrs Potter asked trying to lighten the mood.
"Yeah I think we could all go with a drink or five…" mum muttered.
"For this awful day I'll need a gun" Petunia sighed.
"Awesome" I said.
After a few drinks one for me and nine for my mother we set off to a bridal store for Petunia's dresses. When we finished with all Petunia's stuff we were then going to go look at fabrics for me, it was this part of the day I was dreading. Actually I was dreading all of it, spending time with my family… not high on my things-I-really-want-to-do-with-my's-time list
"What kind of dress do you have?" I asked Petunia. We watched mum and Mrs Potter scurry about the store holding up different things and comparing them with various colour samples Mrs Potter had gotten a few days earlier.
"It's got these nice thick straps to distract from my weird neck, and I'm also going to have my hair down again for the neck…" she replied
"You do have a long neck" I said she nodded in agreement.
"Still no idea for the dresses?" Mrs Potter asked me. I stared at her… I never really saw the point of fancy dresses, so long as it was white and covered my weird knees I was quite content…
"Well I figured maybe book a church first, reception hall and honey moon stuff before thinking about dresses" I replied.
"No you silly girl, you must have the perfect dress then everything revolves around it" Mrs Potter said.
"What? No Lily pick out your colour pallet before you do anything" Petunia said
"I'm sorry Tuni I think she's going to go with the advice of someone who's been married" mum said.
"Worst day of my life" I muttered.
"So I'm getting married in a Gurney Park" Petunia said.
"I thought you'd get married at St Pauls… like your Nan and me and Petunia" mum said
"Mum, I'm getting married in Gurney Park!"
"What? No your not… you said you booked St Pauls…" mum said staring at her.
"Well Vernon didn't want to get married in a church and I agreed. Think about it… the birds and the scenery, it'll be fantastic" Petunia said with a smile on her face. She walked over to look at some of the dresses in the window. Mum followed still trying to persuade her.
"Here try this on" Mrs Potter said handing me a wedding dress.
"Uh… I thought we'd just think about what kind of dress I wanted" I was in no way ready to actually wear the dreaded dress… I'd just accepted I would be married to Potter for the rest of forever. Trying on the dress would like… I dunno lock it in or something.
"Well while we're here may as well" Mrs Potter said I sighed and took the dress from her heading off into the change room. She had good taste, there was no denying that. She was great at picking out clothes for me as well.
I pulled on the thin halter neck dress and then stepped out to show her.
"Wow… stunning…" she said "it's a nice shade not to much shine on it, goes with your skin tone better but it's far to thin… highlights your thinness"
"That's good" I said
"Of course but you look like a toothpick" she said. I looked down at myself
"I'm not that thin…" I muttered
"Do you trust me?"
"Yeah"
"Then listen when I say you're too thin… but we can use this… you've got nice shoulders so halter necks and off the shoulder dresses are good" she said and handed me another dress. I sighed and went to get changed. I came back out in the off the shoulder beaded tight dress that flared at the bottom.
"It looked good on the rack…" Mrs Potter said. I stared down at it and looked back up.
"Hmm…" she grabbed another dress and handed it to me.
I took it and got changed again. I walked out wearing a halter neck dress with a very high waist with a gathered tulle skirt.
"Nice… but puffier. You need puffier" she said
"Why?" I asked
"It'll look good…" she assured me before beckoning me to follow her. I followed still wearing the dress
"So what colours do you like?" she asked
"For wedding dresses?"
"For bride's maid's dresses" she said waving her hand at all the brightly coloured dresses we now stood in front of.
"Oh… uh… I like blue…" I said
"Blue…" Mrs Potter repeated I nodded with a shrug.
"Is blue not good?" I asked as she handed me a dress.
"No it's fine, it's just Jimmy doesn't look good with blue"
"He's not going to be wearing a bride's maids dress" I said Mrs Potter laughed. We headed back over to the change rooms and she handed me another wedding dress.
"Well the groom's men will be wearing similar ties to the bride's maids and Jimmy will be near them…" Mrs Potter said as I changed. I came out staring at her.
"Oh that is gorgeous…" she said I looked down at the long train of the dress and held up the front so I could see my feet.
"Bit long, I'll trip"
"The sleeves aren't that fantastic either…" she muttered. I stared down, it was off the shoulder again but with lacy sleeves that ended with a v on the back of my hand.
"What other colours do you like?" she asked as I walked with her around the shop.
"Uh… purple" I said
"You don't seem the girly type and here you're saying colours like blue and purple"
"They're not that girly. My sisters having a bright pink for her bride's maids" I muttered.
"Bright pink? That'll look terrible on you, it'll bring out the pink in your cheeks to much, make you look like you have a fever and clash with your hair"
"Well I'm not a bride's maid so…" I said quietly.
"I wouldn't worry to much, are you making her one of yours?"
"I don't know…" I muttered "I have to have the same amount of bride's maids as he does grooms men and I'm assuming he'll have three"
"Right, right got a date set?"
"Uh… February"
"But that's winter; it'll rain… or snow" she said.
"James said the same thing…" I said as she handed me another dress.
"So he doesn't like the idea?"
"No he liked it, he just likes to poke holes in all my ideas" I said with a small smile.
"I'll talk to him"
"No it's fine… it's kind of like our thing" I muttered. She handed me yet another dress and I went to go change.
"Ok this is terrible" I said stepping out.
"It did look awful on the rack but you never know with these things" she said I stared down at the dress.
"Why can't we just go to a court and get married?" I asked
"That doesn't look very legitimate. Now I know my husband is a little more then crazy about his career and it's hard for anyone to understand. But your mother is happy about it too…" she said I looked over at my mum who was still talking with Petunia she smiled and waved.
"All a mother wants is for her child to end up exactly like she did" Mrs Potter said.
"Huh?" I spluttered just staring at her
"They want you to get married young, have no career and simply make babies"
"What?"
"That's what I'd want if I had a daughter"
"Really?"
"Well yes, and as your mother is a strong catholic she's clearly set in the old ways where women are seen and not heard"
"Well… yeah… I guess but that doesn't mean she likes me marrying a stranger" I said Mrs Potter just gave me a look reminding me a lot of her son, the very familiar are-you-kidding look.
"Lots of people had arranged marriages. I did…"
"Really?" I asked startled by this sudden admission.
"Yeah… so no I don't love Francis. But he's a nice man and I have a wonderful home and a son that I do love…" she said. I stared at her for a few moments then I hugged her. Maybe that's what I need… so what? I don't love James, he's still a nice guy and he makes me smile…
"I just need someone to understand" I muttered.
"I do" she said
"Thank you…" I said letting her go.
"Want to go look at bride's maids dresses? I have to go check on mine, see how they're coming along" Petunia said.
"Sure… just let me get changed" I said and then came back out wearing my jeans and t-shirt.
We all headed out to the car and drove down to the shop Petunia was using for her dresses it was a very nice swanky dress shop.
"What do you think?" she asked us holding up one of the dresses. We all stared at the thin pink dresses that stopped just below the knee. They had a lighter pink ribbon running along the top of the dress and shone with a green tinge when under direct light. They didn't actually look that bad.
"They're fantastic" I said she smiled
"Not as great as my dress though…" she laughed.
"So they're all like that?" I asked she nodded
"Of course, the whole point is that they match, otherwise anyone would walk up and pretend they were a bride's maid"
"No, of course but I've seen sometimes they've got different collars or something" I said
"Well you could have it but again if someone came up with a halter neck version of this security will know they're not a bride's maid, it's just easier" she said I nodded glancing around the store. And that's when I spotted it. The most perfect dress I knew would just look gorgeous on anyone. It was a strapless gown with a floor length gathered skirt and a light ribbon tied to the side. It was a nice silver colour with a silvery green coloured ribbon. I almost cried when I saw the price tag.
"It's gorgeous" I said knowing how amazing it would look on Hannah and Bec.
"Silver?" mum asked coming to stand beside me.
"Yeah…" I said looking at her with a smile.
"Four thousand pounds!" mum cried I looked at her
"I really want them…" I said
"Well how many do you need?"
"Just three" I said "or four, I don't know…" I would like one for me, it was so pretty.
"Lily…" mum said "why not just have one?"
"I'll pay for it Amy" Mrs Potter said
"Though we do appreciate the offer your family is already paying for the reception hall, the band, and the caterer the least I can do is buy a few dresses" mum said.
My mother was a very proud woman and liked the fact that my dad made enough money for her to follow her house wife dreams.
"I insist" Mrs Potter said.
"No I do!" the four of us turned to see James standing in the door of the shop a huge grin on his face. I didn't even bother questioning how he found us; his mother had planned this trip weeks in advance…
"Hi" I said
"I got the job" he said sounding a little too enthusiastic.
"Really?" I asked he nodded
"Oh congratulations" I said he pulled me into his arms. I squealed in surprise when he lifted me up and spun round.
"Definitely… we are going to celebrate. Anything you want" he said
"Let me go?" I suggested as he stopped spinning.
"Not that. Want that dress? You can have seven" he said.
"Wasn't it for an internship?" Mrs Potter asked
"Yes the best one. I'm not going to be training with Dwyer Towns finest no I will be going to train under the one and only Alastor Moody at the ministry of magic" James said "oh yeah I rule"
"Is that good?" I asked as he finally put me down.
"It is unbelievable is what it is" he said kissing me I squealed in surprise and stood dazed as he pulled away and beamed at him mum
"Sorry I'm just really excited" he said as I glanced at my mum and Petunia who stared at me wide eyed. I shook my head and shrugged. I couldn't even begin to explain.
"So… which ones did you want?" he asked turning me to face the dresses.
"Uh… well how many groomsmen are you having?" I asked
"Three" he said
"Oh ok… so I'll need three… there four thousand pounds each" I said.
"Perfect" he said I looked over to mum waiting for her to step in and insist on paying
"Well he can pay if he wants to" mum muttered as James walked off to pay.
"Your mother is very sexist" Mrs Potter whispered I smiled. "All right now clear your schedules for this weekend we can go start looking at venues…" she then headed off to stand with her son leaving me with my family.
"Did you want me to come too Ellie? Because I'm going away with your father this weekend" mum said
"Oh then don't bother. I will pick a church wedding don't worry…" I assured her she smiled.
"Aw, my two girls getting married" she said putting an arm and around Petunia and I. We both gave her looks. She released us beaming proudly.
"Now that you've got marriage out of the way you can focus on a career… perhaps, if your husband wants you to have one…" she said.
"He doesn't" Petunia said
"He can bugger off" I said Petunia smiled.
"Well I'm sorry to cut this short ladies but I have to take the wife home" James said returning from ordering the dresses. He picked me up effortlessly and held me in his arms.
"Hmm. What?" I asked staring up at him and looking to mum.
"Why?" she asked
"Don't worry… off you go dear" Mrs Potter said waving a hand airily.
"Yeah, I still need to finalise some things for my wedding which I assume you'll be attending also" Petunia said to James
"I will be" he said politely.
"Great now I have to go to the caterer too… nice seeing you again Lily" she said before heading out of the shop.
"Oh… Nina if you wanted to come…" mum said
"Don't you worry, I have some doting to do, Jimmy put that girl down and hug your mother" Mrs Potter said mum nodded and left while James did as his mother said keeping his arm around my waist. I didn't mind so much.
"I'm so proud of you… I'm sure your father will be too… why not come around for dinner next Friday? We can have a nice catch up…"
"Sure thing mum, sounds great" James said and watched her leave the store.
"Now Miss Evans how was your day?" he asked.
"Great actually. I learnt some new things" I said with a smile.
"Yeah?" he asked I nodded. "Something good?"
"Very good" I said
"Great lets go home so I can gloat more" he said I laughed.
"Hop on ginger" he said I leapt up and let him carry me piggy back.
"Are you planning on walking us home?" I asked after we'd walked for about thirty minutes.
"Nope…" he said.
"Good because it'd be a lovely two hour walk" I said he laughed.
"Here we go" he said and stopped. We were standing in front of Susannah's Bridal Wear.
"I don't like this idea, but I'm curious so I'll allow it…" I said as he set me down. He took my hand and eagerly pulled me into the store I laughed at his enthusiasm.
"Susie" James said
"Jimmy!" a bright woman in her early thirties said sweetly.
"How is my favourite designer?" he asked she giggled sweetly. "How's the dress?"
"Dress… what dress?" I asked looking at him.
"Your wedding dress" he replied
"What?" I asked.
"Your mum came by earlier… dropped off these suggestions. I think we can find the right dress. Is this her, the bride to be?"
"Yes Lily, the one and only Susannah Grey. Best bridal wear designer… ever" he said.
"James I don't need fancy clothes or wedding dresses" I said quietly.
"Every girl is supposed to feel like a princess on her wedding day" Susannah said brightly. "And I think I have just the thing"
She hurried away.
"Don't do this" I said looking at James.
"I paid for those other dresses…" he said.
"My mum used to say, never let a man buy you clothes until your married, for what he puts on you he can take off" I said James frowned at me then laughed.
"Here we go" Susannah cried triumphantly. "If it doesn't work we can make the dream dress you want just as easily"
But it was perfect, with a gorgeous square neckline and puffing out just the right amount from the waist. I stared at it, just awestruck by its simplicity… still managing to look so fantastic though.
Those Potters were amazing…
"Lily…?" James waved a hand in front of my eyes. "You kind of spaced out…"
"Do you like it?" Susannah asked.
"I love it…" I said and remembered what it was like with these expensive places, if you have to ask you can't afford it. So I casually glanced at the price tag.
Thirteen thousand pounds for one dress. That was ridiculous, it was more then ridiculous, it was outrageous. I actually screamed when I saw the price.
"We'll take it" James said after hearing my scream, I stared at him. Susannah smiled and went to finalise it.
"No we won't" I said to Susannah making her stop, she turned back to us.
"I don't like it that much" I said to James
"You said you loved it"
"Well I don't"
"No you don't love the price tag" he said "we'll take it"
"Fine buy it, waste your money I'm not going to wear it though"
"You're going to wear it" he said
"And your going to make me are you?" I asked
"You really don't want me to buy it?"
"Of course she does she's just being polite" Susannah said
"I don't think you should spend so much on a dress" I said shooting her a glance before looking at him.
"Try it on…" he said
"You're not supposed to see the bride in her dress…" I said
"But you can go see how stunning you look" he said. I took the dress from Susannah and headed over to the change rooms. Leaving my jeans on underneath, I took off my shirt and slipped into the dress. I did look stunning, I stared at my reflection it wasn't fair. The dress fit perfect and looked amazing. Oh it was such a great dress but mum had raised me to believe material things didn't matter and I'd much rather James kept the money. I could probably talk him into maybe donating some of it to a charity.
I pulled open the door and walked over to him. He just stared at me.
"I really love it" I said flaring out the bottom before looking back up at him.
"I know you do" he said I looked down at myself then back up at him.
"I really love it" I said he smiled obviously enjoying my dilemma.
"You want me to donate something to something don't you?" he asked
"Just think of how many people it'd help" I muttered.
"Lily… think about you…" he said taking my shoulders in his hands. "I'm going to get the dress…"
I nodded
"If it makes you feel less guilty I'll go donate thirteen thousand to a charity" he said
"It would" I said he smiled and kissed my forehead.
I went and got changed standing once more in my jeans and t-shirt as James paid.
"Have a great day Francis" the girl behind the counter said. I frowned at James as we left the shop.
"Francis?" I asked
"What he doesn't know won't hurt him" he said and laughed making me smile.
"I love you" he said. He'd said it before… but this time my heart did a little jump when he said it. I smiled. "You don't have to say it back…"
"Thank you" I said kissing him softly. Mrs Potter was right… he was someone I liked. Someone that I liked a lot… a whole lot. Like an unbelievable amount. What comes after like? And likes a whole lot…?
Love…
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Just a short thing here, its 1:09a.m. and I'm a little more then tired. I have a student free day tomorrow so will be writing more then but I had to get this finished just for you guys. Leave your thoughts and comments, thanks Penny.
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