Lisa: Okay…. Okay…. Five months, five long horrid months but I'm back. I can't say for sure if the next update will be quick but I'll keep workin' on it. See the problem I ran into was I had so many ideas for later on in this story but none for right now. It became a real problem. But here we go, it's not as long as some of my chapters but it's something, or maybe it is as long... I dunno.

Reception

The guests piled into the reception fairly quickly and took their seats. They were all given a delicate glass of champagne for the toast, at each of their tables. The six marauders of course had their own table not far from Lily and James's. Once everyone was seated and talking softly amongst themselves Sirius stood up and tapped his fork against his glass, mocking the polite way to get everyone's attention. This did nothing.

"Hello? Attention… please? … C'mon guys I said please."

Still this did nothing. So being Sirius he cleared his throat summoned his voice and screamed at the top of his lungs. "OI! LOOK ANDY TOOK HER TOP OFF!"

The whole room went silent and all eyes were on Andy who sat in her seat looking dumbfounded. "Why do none of you look surprised?" She asked shrugging her shoulders and looking at them. "Seriously, what's wrong with you guys?"

"Okay let's all look at me now." Sirius said with a grin. "Good, now that I have all of your attention I would like to begin this toast if you don't mind." He cleared his throat. "I met James when I was eleven at Diagon Alley; I met Lily when I was eleven in the Great Hall. I've witnessed a lot between these two through my seven years at that school, and never, in a thousand years would I have thought they would hook up. She hated him, with a passion, and he loved her with a passion for some time before she even gave him the time of day.

"But I'm making Lils seem like the bad guy here, Jimmy was a great git, he really was I don't know why we were best mates and I still don't." He smirked looking to James who was glaring playfully. "However, I'll never forget that day in our seventh year when Lily was forced to go on a date with him. You see our dear Andy here, the one who took her top off –" Andy promptly reached up and punched him in the arm. "She made a bet with Lily that James wouldn't win the midnight race, and for those of you who don't know it's a rule breaking fiasco at Hogwarts, done at a secret time and place for all seventh years so professors wouldn't find out. But Andy made a bet with Lily saying if James won she had to go on a date with him.

"Needless to say James won and Lily had to date him, one date turned into two dates and two into three and so on until we're here where we are now, a wedding, a glorious wedding with an open bar, you know I love you lot right?" He asked looking to James and Lily. "I can't imagine anyone more perfect for one another then these two are, I hope they live a long and happy life together, and I'm sure they will. To Lily and James!"

"To Lily and James!" The rest of the room chorused right before they drank.

"Now, me and the rest of my maraudering friends have put together a bit of a slide show for the happy couple, put up the projector Moony!" he called out to Remus who quickly apparated over to the projector and slide the film on to plan the slideshow.

The first picture was one of a hazel eyed black haired baby who was chewing on a teething ring. A series of awes came from the group of people. The next one was of a young toddler with flaming red hair and brilliant green eyes; a bigger series of awes rang out.

The next few slides were similar, baby pictures of the couples, some contained Petunia and even one of James's held a picture of Laura, they were second cousins after all. Some more pictures includes Lily's first bike ride, James's first broom ride, Lily in a flowery Sunday dress and James in a clean cut set of dress robes, of course there were Halloween costumes as well, that was one thing Muggles and Wizards shared a love for.

Soon they got into a new age, a picture of James with his letter of acceptance to Hogwarts, a picture of Lily with her truck preparing to get in the car to go to King's Cross. Soon pictures of Hogwarts came into play. A picture of the Marauders in their dorm room, all making silly faces, and another one of the three girls, Andy had not yet come to the school.

Several more pictures past by, of birthday parties, Christmas's and the like until they reached a point that looked like their sixth year. By now the two groups had intertwined and a few pictures featuring James featured Laura and Andy as well. Many of the pictures that were displayed reminded the groups of the pranks they would pull, the musicals, the mirrors, the flooding, so many pranks that caused destruction, but funny destruction.

Soon they reached their adult hood, or what was considered their adult hood despite the fact they had yet to leave their teenage years. There were pictures of the group underage drinking in various Muggle and wizard pubs and clubs, to the distaste of the some of the older wizards and the parents in the room. Also pictures from Frank and Alice's wedding were included; one of them showed Laura clearly drunk in the background, she blushed deeply. Finally they all built up to a moving photograph of James and Lily on the day they were engaged.

When the slide show was over Sirius stood back up as everyone clapped. "Well that was lovely wasn't it? Brings back old memories, eh?"

There was a cheer from all of the people who made appearances in the show.

"Yes, well, I think I've talked long enough up here, shall we get on with the celebration? Yes I think we should, but before we get down and funky, I think a nice slow song to start off the happy couple."

Through magic a slow song appeared, it seems to flow around them and come straight from the air. Lily and James were first on the floor as they began to slow dance and a minute or so later Sirius and Laura were on the dance floor and after then Andy and Remus along with the rest of the bride's maids and groomsmen. Soon everyone was up and dancing.

Lily and James were silent as they danced they just held each other in their arms as they gently rocked back and forth. The rest of the couples in the room were not so quiet.

"I hate slow dancing." Andy mumbled as she and Remus swayed.

"It'll soon be over." Remus responded with an amused smirk.

"What's the point of dancing if you're not out of breath when you're finished?" She asked heatedly.

"To get close to someone else." Remus replied.

"I leave that to the bedroom." She smirked.

Laura sighed as she tried to do anything to avoid the gaze of Sirius as she danced with him, it wasn't hard, there height difference she was looking more into his chest then anything else.

She felt him poking her head and she shook her head to try and be rid of him. "Oh come on." Sirius said quietly. "What's got your panties in a twist?"

"Nothing." She said stubbornly.

Sirius chuckled. "You love me." He drawled out in a sing song voice

Her head shot up to look him in the eye. "I do not."

"Do too."

"That would be madness."

"Madness?" Sirius asked. "This isn't madness this is love." He drawled out again with a goofy grin.

"Shut up and just dance." She growled.

Maureen and Benjy were dancing, her head rested comfortably on his chest. They weren't arguing with one another or complaining, they were like Lily and James, dancing happily and gratefully. "Hey, Maureen?" He asked softly.

"Mm?" She answered too wrapped up in the moment to form words.

"I think James has the right idea, get close with the ones you love before this war destroys everything."

"Oh… Benjy… I don't wanna talk about the war."

"No just listen, he's right, get with the ones you want to be with before it's too late, I believe in that… so Maureen, would you go out with me on Saturday night?" He asked.

She took her head away from his chest and looked up at him with wide eyes. "Oh Merlin… Benny… yeah, sure Saturday night is great!"

"Great." He breathed and took a deep breath as if he had been holding it in.

On the other hand two of the 'couples' were dancing further apart then the rest. Heather and Peter who just happen to get stuck with one another, no one could be more unhappy then Heather about the arrangement. It wasn't the fact that it was Peter, but if it were up to her, she wouldn't be dancing with anybody, just sitting at the table drinking some fire whiskey and getting a head start on getting hammered.

Peter wasn't all too happy about it either, he would much rather be with James's second cousin Amy. James invited her almost completely out of obligation, he enjoyed her parents more then her, and he knew he had to invite them. He probably had only spoken one on one with Amy three or four times in his life and they were at family affairs. But when Peter met her at the wedding he seemed to take a shine to her. James was glad; Peter wasn't exactly the type of guy who had girls falling at his feet, he was shy and timid. He only hoped Amy could return the feelings.

In minutes the first dance was over and the music changed to more upbeat dancing music. Some of the couples immediately pulled apart such as Heather and Peter and Laura, much to Sirius's displeasure but others stayed together to dance weather it still be a slow loving one or a crazy fast one.

Lily and James stayed together and continued to dance as if they were dancing to a slow song; only thing that changed was they sped it up a little bit more. Andy and Remus were one of the couples that began dancing with a faster pace, it was obvious that Andy had given him a few dance lessons, where she learned to dance no one was too sure, they remembered when they first saw her dance she wasn't like this, but then again, she was only twelve at the time.

Heather walked away from Peter and over to the table, she was never one to dance. She liked to watch other people make fools of themselves and have it get caught on camera, not herself. She sat down and sipped her goblet of wine and watched as people fell over and ran into each other in their pathetic attempts at a beat. She laughed a few times as she caught sight of Andy trying to get Laura out on the dance floor and teach her a few new moves, moves not suited for one as innocent as her.

She grabbed her goblet and reached across the table to reach the elegant bottle of wine when she saw Chris sitting next her. She furrowed her brow and momentarily forgot the alcohol. "What's going on?" She asked as a greeting.

He chose not to respond, but instead reach forward and pull her into a kiss, his lips latching solidly on hers. Her eyes widened, not used to such boldness, normally she would have pulled apart and hit him. But she found herself liking this new kid more and more everyday, and she was a bit drunk so that made everything a little bit easier.

The music continued to blare through the room at an amazing level, no one was quite sure if they would be able to hear the next day or not. But no one cared, it was a wedding and a fun one at that, if they had to take a few days off work because of a hangover or ringing ears or maybe even if they muscles would not permit them to move past the edge of their bed, so be it. And most of the people in the room had the feeling that they would have to be owling, or calling in "sick" the next day.

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Andy wandered away from the dance floor about half way through the night, Remus was tired, but as always she was still at the top of her game in the middle of the party. She sashayed over to the record player that magically changed records when needed. She reached into her bust and pulled out a small pouch, she opened it and took out a small record. Using the wand that was hidden in the small wand holder that was concealed on her thigh under her dress she enlarged the record she took out and placed it on the pile of records that were next in line to be played. The one playing was one of James's favorites; she knew it only had one song left before it was done. Now all she had to do was wait.

She walked back over to the sidelines of the dance floor where she saw Maureen standing with Laura, waiting for her. "What was that all about?" Maureen asked shrugging her shoulders.

Andy smiled innocently. "Just wanted to see the line up of songs I have to dance to for the next two hours."

Laura scoffed. "Well I don't believe you, but at this point I don't really care anymore."

The girls walked over to the open bar and grabbed a few drinks before they would go out and dance again. "So, I saw you and Benjy gettin' awfully close over there." Andy grinned. "Somthin' we should know about?"

"He asked me out." She said barley containing her excitement.

"Well it's about bloody time." Laura laughed as she took her delicate champagne glass from the man at the bar, it was very different compared to Andy beer goblet and Maureen's shot of bourbon. "We were about to make bets on when this would finally happen."

"About to?" Andy asked appalled. "Heather owes me four galleons now."

Maureen rolled her eyes and walked away from the bar. "As insulted as I am about the fact you're betting on my love life, nothing in the world could possibly bug me right now."

"Oh I'm sure I could find somethin'… here comes somethin' now." Andy said with a smirk as she spotted Sirius walking over with a drunken swagger.

"Oh God." Laura mumbled and covered her face with her hands. "Why can't he just leave me alone?"

"He loves you." Maureen said and then turned to Andy. "How much you want to bet we catch them tonguing in the closet later."

"Hey." Laura said.

"Now how does it feel to have people betting on you?"

"In my defense I wasn't part of their bet."

Sirius had made his way over to the three girls and was grinning like a Cheshire Cat. "'Ello ladies." He slurred.

Andy scoffed as she looked him up and down. "You're hammered." She stated. "How much did you drink?" She asked with a laugh escaping her mouth. She quickly used her hand to cover up her mouth to prevent herself from spitting out her own drink.

"Uh… this is my… uh… pffft… um…" He said with a confused look displayed across his face.

"Do you remember what happened last time you got really hammered, and I mean really, really hammered?" Andy asked.

He thought. "Uh… no."

"Exactly, every time you get really drunk to the point where you forget stuff somethin' bad happens, especially when I get really drunk too, one of us has to stay remotely sober." She explained.

"That's highly unlikely." Laura said rolling her eyes.

"What?" Andy asked turning to face her. "Ya think I can't stay sober for the night?"

Laura walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Andy, I love you like a sister which is why I get to be the one to say this, you can't. You can say you'll stay sober all you want but you'll end up getting drunk off your ass in an hour I would put my money on it, look at yourself now. I wouldn't trust you to ride a broom back to your flat."

"I am completely sober."

"'Ow much did ya 'ave 't drunk?" Sirius asked slurring his words and swaying violently.

She sighed. "I dunno."

"See, your intoxicated, now go find Remus so you don't get yourself in trouble." Laura said pushing her away and to the other side of the room where Remus stood talking to James.

Maureen had left the group to leave them alone, she knew the old couple still had feelings for each other and maybe a drunk Sirius wouldn't prove it now, but soon she would discover it and maybe the two would become a couple once more. That is if Sirius could keep civil for a while and not get a new girlfriend every week which for Sirius would be a challenge seeing how much he frequented clubs.

"S'Laura…" Sirius said leaning against the wall. "Wha'cha think of the party?"

"It's interesting." She said sipping her glass of wine as she smirked, amused at his drunken attitude. "I can't say I approve of your drinking though, you're liver will fail you at twenty five."

"I can get me a new l'ver…"

She scoffed. "Sirius I swear you are one of a kind." She said before turning and walking away to where she sent Andy. She now saw her childhood friend hanging on Remus's shoulder with James laughing, Remus could use some help with her.

"Is zat a good t'ing or bad t'ing?" He asked a nearby man who innocently walked over to get himself something to snack on.

The man shrugged and walked away leaving Sirius very confused.

The record player stopped playing music for a couple seconds while the record changed and a song came on that James and Lily had certainly not put on the playlist but Andy seemed to know all about it. The second the upbeat tune came on she began jumping and led Remus out to the dance floor. No one had no idea what to make of this music but the energetic couple seemed to know how to dance to it. In fact they not only seemed to know how to dance to it but they appeared to have a whole routine for it.

It had to be Andy's doing for this song, after all, why would James and Lily request a song by an American singer? They didn't even know who Charlie Daniels was and his apparently popular American hit 'Devil Went Down to Georgia'.