Albus realised how much he loathed weddings when Andrew Moss's horrible mother came over for dinner. He was about two nasty comments away from unleashing one of Fred's fireworks on her. She would look lovely with a load of sludge on her head he thought darkly.

"Are you okay?" Donna asked.

"Just peachy," he said scowling.

She sighed. "Don't worry about my mum," she said rather more kindly than he deserved since he had been very rude the whole evening.

"I'm not," he said unconvincingly.

"You're very wound up," she observed.

"I know," he said through gritted teeth. The events of that afternoon were playing on repeat in his head and he kept seeing Lillian kissing her boyfriend again and again. Rose's slightly harebrained schemes to get him laid weren't helping the situation at all.

"Well calm down then," she said. "I've repaired your glass thrice already because you were gripping it so hard."

"Thanks for that,' Albus said grudgingly.

"Well what are sister-in-laws for," she said with a smile.

Albus took a second to look at Donna Moss. Like properly look at her. He realised that he hadn't actually looked at a girl in ages. She was pretty wasn't she? And she seemed nicer than all of Lily's bridesmaids. Well maybe except for Ariana Longbottom. Al smiled as he remembered their brief but rather happy romance in his last year at Hogwarts. He had put her on his Quidditch team and a couple of one on one practices led to something he could remember without wanting to shoot himself in the head. Why had it all gotten so complicated the minute he left school? Ariana had been so nice and warm and sweet. And then he fell desperately in love with a woman who he could never really have. Because there was always guilt attached to their relationship. She felt guilty for sleeping with her employee, with someone who was so much younger than her.

"Are you okay?" Donna asked, waving her hand in front of his face.

"You're pretty," he said, blurting out the first thing he could think of.

"I think you're pretty too Albus," she said, amused. He cringed. She probably thought he had brain damage now. By Morgana he wasn't used to talking to girls. He didn't know how Rose planned to hook him up with anything.

Rose looked over from across the table and grinned at them. Albus blushed. He almost preferred it when she had no interest in his life.

"Down Badger!" Lucy shouted as her slobbery lab jumped up to greet Dominique.

"Well at least someone's happy to see me," Dominique said dryly.

"Hey Dom," everybody chorused.

"Dommy," John shouted, reaching out for her.

"Hello baby," she said, scooping him up into her arms.

"Long time no see loser," she said to James.

"Ah Dom how I've missed you," James said getting up to give her a hug.

James and Dominique had been joined at the hip in school. She had been the token girl and only Slytherin in a group full of rowdy Gryffindor boys and had served to both curb their excesses and help them pull off subtler pranks.

There had been eight of them; James, Fred, Dom, Arnav Corner, Daniel Wood, Henry Smith, Martin Thomas and Xavier Black. Out of the lot Lily liked Xavier Black the most. A distant cousin on her mother's side, Xavier had been the only one of James's friends who treated her like she was an actual person and not just some strange being that happened to share DNA with one of his friends. That's why he was the only one invited to her wedding (and of course her annoying relatives were there too but she had no choice about that).

Dominique sat down next to James and they were soon wrapped up in memories of happier times.

"And then you idiots went and drenched everyone in that pink gunk," Dom said.

Everyone roared with laughter.

"That was brilliant," James said.

"No I was brilliant," Dom said. "You were so dumb there's no way in hell you would've been able to pull off half the crap you did without me."

"I still don't know how you managed to get those canaries to follow Henderson around," James said. "They kept pooping on him."

"You have to come home more often fatface," she said affectionately.

"You come visit me," he said. "You'd like America, Dom. And I'm thinking of transferring to the New York City Nifflers."

"What?" his wife asked sharply.

"They offered to pay a shit load of money for me and the All Stars are considering it," James said almost defensively.

"And you didn't think to mention it?" she snapped. "I'm used to Texas now James. It's my home."

"Bull fucking shit," he said. "You hate it there."

"Shut up both of you," Dominique said. "Merlin people in this family just love ripping each other apart."

Rose stiffened. She knew Dom was talking about the blowout at Celeste's.

"Well that's because we're all so passionate," James said, sounding slightly sardonic. "It's how we show our love for each other."

"I'm sure Malfoy appreciates all that passion," Dominique said, a small smile on her face. "He seems to have gotten off with half this family."

"I'm straight!" Albus protested.

"And boring," Louis said, under his breath.

Lily shifted uncomfortably.

"Well then he must have a thing for redheads," Dominique said, her smile getting a little nastier.

"Shut up," Lily said, unable to help herself. "Just shut up."

"What's wrong Lil?" Andrew asked looking lost. "What does she mean?"

"I was fifteen!" Lily said angrily. "Will everyone stop talking about it?"

"Stop it Dom," Rose said, unexpectedly defending her cousin.

"Upset you got Lily's sloppy seconds?" Dom asked with a laugh.

Rose became bright red with rage and sputtered a bit.

"You? Malfoy?" Al asked, a little lost for words. "When?"

"A long time ago," Lily said, firmly pushing the passionate kiss they shared a couple of days ago to the back of her mind.

"Fuck," Al swore. "He needs to keep it in his pants."

Andrew had stiffened up. "It was nothing," she said quietly. "I promise. It was so long ago."

"Then why didn't you tell me?" he said, his voice low.

The whole table was now listening to their conversation.

"Can we talk about this later?" Lily asked, uncomfortable.

Andrew just nodded without looking at her.

a/n: So now everyone knows :P Anyway I'm going on holidayy :) But that means no updates till the 10th probably :( I'll try but I don't think it'll be possible. But please tell me what you think of this chapter. All that's left now is the rehearsal dinner and wedding. But that's the best part so maybe eight more chapters? I'm not sure :P Anyway thank you for sticking with this story for this long :)