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Chapter nine: Dresses, dresses and more dresses
Lily skipped through the streets and I watched in full amazement. Was this the calm and serious Lily I knew? She looked more like a little girl who was on her way to fantasyland, which a shop with only dresses probably was for her. I followed her with a smile on my face. Lily stopped in front of a shop that I had never seen before or I had blocked, which seemed quite logical because of the pink window frame.
"We're here," Lily exclaimed happily and literally dragged me inside. The shop was filled with excited girls, who were searching for their dream dress.
"Let's start with a dress for you," I said to Lily, wanting to postpone the dreadful search and fitting.
"Alright, I made this schedule," Lily said and took a piece of parchment out of her pocket. "With my red hair, green eyes and normal skin, I should avoid the colours red, yellow, orange and white."
I stared at her. There were schedules for things like this? I had never thought of myself as a girlie girl, but this made me feel like a man. I looked around, but none of the other girls were walking around, looking at a piece of parchment. Did they know it by heart or was Lily the only one who had this thing.
She seemed to understand my astonished expression. "I made it myself and it's quite useful. But let's continue. Green and black are perfect and the rest is average."
I just nodded and had no idea how she figured it out. I trusted her completely.
"You look for the green ones and I take the black side," Lily said walking away, but I grabbed her arm.
"I'd rather take the black," I said.
Lily raised an eyebrow, but shrugged and went to green dresses. I sauntered in the direction of the black dresses and started to go through them. Black was so much easier than green. With black there was only black and green had different shades. I mean, there was light green, dark green and all those colours in between. With black it was just black. There was no light black as far as I knew. How would I know which green one she wanted? I grabbed some dresses that seemed beautiful in my eyes and went to the dressing room. Lily was already waiting for me and I gave her the four dresses that I found. One was velvet, one satin and the other two I didn't know.
"Great! You can sit down and I'm going to try them on."
Apparently Lily had found eleven green dresses that looked gorgeous in her eyes and so it resulted into a horrible hour that seemed like five hours.
"Oh this one is really beautiful Rain," Lily said while she looked at herself in the mirror.
She was wearing one of the black dresses with the fabric I didn't know. It was strapless and started tight at the top and flowed around her ankles. She looked absolutely stunning, something she also did in the other nine dresses. In the end she had two dresses left. The black one and a green halter dress.
"Rain, I can't choose between them. They're both so beautiful," Lily sighed and holds them both up.
"Why don't you take them both?" I said sarcastically.
A big smile spread out on her face and she grabbed the other dresses. "That's a perfect idea. If you bring these back, then I'll leave these at the counter and we can look for a dress for you."
And with that she walked away and I sighed. Sarcasm wasn't something you had to use with Lily. I sauntered back to the middle of the store and brought back the dresses. With a smile on her face Lily walked back and grabbed her schedule again.
"You've got dark brown hair, blue eyes and a pale skin. That means no green, red and yellow. Blue and purple are beautiful as is pi-"
"Don't you dare to finish that sentence," I growled.
"Pink," Lily ended with a smirk on her face. Since when did she smirk? She definitely hanged out to much with the Marauders. I glared at her.
"I'll take blue and you take purple and only purple," I said and put the emphasis on only. "If you come up with a pink dress I'll put it where-"
"I got it Rain," Lily said and rolled her eyes. "No pink."
Like I already thought an actual colour was so much more difficult than black. I ended up with four dresses. What was it with me and four? Some shades of blue were absolutely horrible, but clearly not everyone had the same idea. Many girls were interested in blue and for some weird reason the ugly shades of blue were gone within seconds, which was actually quite good, because it narrowed down the options for me. Lily had three purple dresses which weren't that beautiful.
"I could only find these. They're still ok. But I wouldn't take them if I were you," she said while she looked at them in disgust.
We both sighed and I went to the dressing room. The first dress was a beautiful shade of light blue and I slipped it on. I stared at myself in horror. As beautiful it was on a hanger, how ugly it was when I had it on. It made my ass twice as big and not in a good way. I stepped outside and Lily almost died. The tears were running down her cheek and I couldn't help but chuckle myself.
"Clearly not this one," I said and went back.
The second one looked quite nice. It was a halter dress, again in a light blue, which reached just below my knee. The third one was a dark blue and fitted perfectly, but the colour gave my skin a greyish look. The last one wasn't dark or light blue and had some silver coloured stitches. It crossed at the breast area and again on my back. It had a split until my knee. I stepped outside and Lily stared at me in awe.
"We found the dress," she whispered.
I nodded and looked at my reflection in the mirror. The dress fitted perfectly. It hugged my curves and was almost the same colour as my eyes. Even I could see that this suited me. I paid for the dress, which was quite a lot, and bought a mask that fitted with the dress.
"The only thing we now need is a date," Lily said, while we walked back to the three broomsticks.
"You already have a date Lils. James is practically worshipping you and I think that you should say yes if he asks," I said and silently hoped that she would agree and give him a chance.
"You're right. Perhaps you can go with Remus."
I bit my lip. I didn't want to tell her about Jirina, but I couldn't lie to her. "Remus is going with someone else, so I don't believe that's an option," I answered and Lily nodded. She didn't ask further and I silently thanked her for that.
"Maybe I can go with Sirius," I said suddenly and Lily looked at me.
"I think that would be perfect, except there's the problem that he's already going with someone." Her expression was dark. "He had promised it to Hayley when you two were fighting."
I stared at her. That couldn't be true. I didn't care with who I was going, but Hayley couldn't get the guy she wanted so badly. "That's great. Just great," I muttered and Lily shot me a sympathetic smile.
I opened the door of the three broomsticks and bumped into Matt, a seventh year Ravenclaw guy, who was considered to be quite beautiful by the female population at Hogwarts.
"Hi Lily, Rain", he greeted and with a smile I greeted him back. I had never actually talked to him, but he seemed nice. "Great to bump in to you. Can I perhaps have a word with you?"
At first I thought he was looking at Lily, but then I noticed he was staring at me. Lily winked at me and quickly walked inside and sat down at the table where the Marauders were sitting. Hadn't they left at all? Matt grabbed my hand and closed the door. I looked at him and he smiled at me.
"Euhm," he started and an awkward silence followed. "Would you like to go to the ball with me?"
I didn't answer in shock. Matt Tackler asked me to the ball? The guy, who could practically get any girl he wanted asked the tomboyish, nerdy me? Why would he do that? Did he like me? The thought of something like that was too funny to be true, but I couldn't think of another explanation. We hadn't really had a conversation before. But I wasn't interested in him and I didn't want to give the wrong signals.
"I…I…I don't know," I stammered truthfully.
"No it isn't what you think. I broke up with my girlfriend recently, but I still want to go to the ball. Unlike the rest of the girls, you understand that you can be friends with a guy without being romantically or sexually involved. So I'll ask it again, would you like to go to the ball with me, as friends?" He looked at me and I smiled.
"Yes I would."
He pulled me into a hug and with a big smile on his face and a wave he disappeared around the corner. Still with a smile on my face I walked to my friends and sat down next to Lily. I winked at her and her face lighted up. Two of the three Marauders gave me curious looks. James, on the other hand, was staring into space with a smile on his face. I didn't have to guess what happened.
"So this means that we all have a date, except for Peter. Where is he?" I looked around, but didn't see him. Come to think about it, I hadn't seen him the whole day.
"His aunt is ill or something like that," Sirius said. "We all got a date? I know I do and James and Lily are going together, but what about Remus and you? Are you going together?"
Remus looked at me and his eyes shot in the direction of Jirina. A soft pink spread out on his cheeks and it turned darker and darker. I stared at my feet, wondering if I had to tell the truth or not. "No, we're not. I'm going with Jirina." The confidence in Remus's voice made me look up and I smiled encouragingly at him.
"Really? She's so nice, you will have a great time together," Lily said smiling.
"With whom are you going then?" Sirius didn't drop the subject.
I didn't know what he thought of Matt. They were both on the list of hot guys at school, the players. "Well, Matt Tackler just asked me a few minutes ago and I said yes."
James and Sirius looked at each other and then started to yell. "You can't go with him!"
"He just wants to add you to his list!"
"You can't trust him!"
"He's going to rape you!" At Sirius stupid statement I started to laugh and I wasn't the only one. Both Remus and Lily were clutching the table, while tears were streaming down their cheeks. James stared at him in despair. Sirius had made their statements useless.
"I think I'm capable enough to defend myself in those situations and it's not like that. We're just going as friends and out of all people you would understand that's possible. I'm mean; you and I are also only friends. Or at least, that's what we pretend we are," I said with a wink and bit my lower lip. James chocked on his drink.
"It's just a joke," Lily reassured him and I grinned.
"Don't worry James; I'm not cheating on you with Sirius."
James gave me a look that could kill me.
"Remus is also involved."
Lily giggled while I evaded a piece of parchment that James threw at me. During the holidays I had forgotten how much fun the Hogsmeade trips always were.
