"Happy Valentines Day Frank!" Catherine shouted obnoxiously at the breakfast table. Everyone near the trio groaned.
"Hi," Frank mumbled sleepily taking his seat next to Lily. "Why are you so happy? Usually you're very sullen on Valentine's Day?"
Catherine smiled, "Oh, no reason!" Lily noticed how she glanced down the table to where the Marauder's sat, her expression dreamy.
"Mails here," Lily told them taking a bite of her eggs. She didn't even look up to verify her statement; the owls were making such a racket.
A rather large owl landed in front of Frank. The owl looked as if it knew it was of importance. It held in it's beak a scarlet red envelope that was steaming around the edges. The letter was addressed to Frank.
Just as Frank was going to take the letter for the bird, his girlfriend, Alice Prewett, walked into the Great Hall, her brown hair and dark eyes worried and wild.
"Alice!?" Frank exclaimed in utter disbelief, "What—?"
"She knows!" Alice ran to him. Frank looked at the envelope in his hand and then back to Alice, putting two and two together.
Cursing, he fled the Great Hall so fast that he looked like a blur, Alice at his heels. Only seconds after he had passed through the doors did the floors shake with fury as Frank's mother's voice echoed through the castle. Lily tried not to listen, but Mrs. Longbottom's voice was so loud with fury that it was hard not to hear her.
Lily caught the phrases, "Engaged!? You are too young! You haven't even left school!" and "Were you ever planning on telling your own mother? I am coming down there first chance I get, and put some sense into you!"
"Bad day for Frank…" James sighed, standing up.
"You're telling me," Remus slung his bag over his shoulder.
"More like bad day for us, we have double potions today," Sirius whined as they left Peter to his breakfast. James gave one last fleeting look over his to where Lily sat a little ways away, and when he noticed that she caught his eye, he winked and left with the others. James smiled to himself as he thought of spending the whole evening with Lily, later that day.
"Frank!" Catherine shouted in suprise when she and Lily walked into the Head's common room after dinner that night. "What happened?" He was lying on the couch, slouched over, massaging his temples, completely exhausted.
Frank's hair was a mess and his face held an expression that neither of the girls had ever seen before on his face. It was a mixture of anger, frustration, fatigue, and happiness.
"My mother happened," was all he could muster the strength to groan. "D'you know, she came to the school. I didn't think she actually would come to Hogwarts, but she did. She was raving. I was honestly surprised she wasn't foaming at the mouth. Alice was seriously frightened, and I've never seen her frightened before."
"Oh, no… Frank," Lily put her arm around his shoulder.
"If Dumbledore wasn't there, I think she just might have killed us all. She was absolutely off the wall about the engagement, saying things like, 'we're too young to know what we want still' and whatnot," he continued.
"I don't think she really would have minded the engagement if we had told her in the first place though," he sighed continuing on. "She kept asking why we didn't tell her in the first place. Then when Alice apologized for asking me first, she really lost it. She called her a 'temptress' and just a whole bunch of wicked names."
"Poor Alice," Catherine exclaimed, "Where is she now?"
"She went home," Frank sighed, "She was trying desperately to calm my mum down, to explain, but she wouldn't even hear her voice without becoming cross. Alice was hysterical by the end of it."
"So the engagement's off?" Lily gently asked.
Frank shook his head as a smiled erupted on his face, "No. Mum wanted it to end, but I refused, point blank. Even Alice was ready to call it off she was feeling so horrible, but I wouldn't hear it. I couldn't…" he shook his head. "It's so strange… Even though it was Alice who proposed to begin with, I just can't help but feel like its right. I just have this feeling in the pit of my stomach that's telling me it's her I want to see every single day for the rest of my life."
Catherine and Lily wrapped their arms around him. "It's going to be okay Frank," Catherine consoled. "She won't be able to stay angry forever."
"Yeah, your mother will come around," Lily tried, "It's not like she's going to disown you."
"I would not be surprised if she did," Frank muttered, his head in his hands. "I should have just told her from the start!" Frank groaned, "Then maybe it wouldn't have bitten me in the ass so hard."
"You can't change what you've done, so there's no point dwelling on it," said Catherine.
"Just give it some time, she'll cool down. Everything will be back to normal by the end of the school year," Lily squeezed is shoulder.
"I hope so," Frank sighed. Then he cracked a joke: "Well, at least neither of you are keeping secrets," he chuckled, then added, "Or at least from your crazy mothers anyway."
Lily and Catherine blushed and looked away from each other, but Frank didn't notice. He laid back father into the couch with his eyes closed and tried to bring his headache down to something that resembled the pounding of a jackhammer at least.
Lily couldn't slip away from Catherine and Frank that evening to be with James. But the night wasn't a complete waste. Lily had a lot of fun with her two best friends, eating junk food and laughing over the insane shadow puppet play that the three of them put on. James would just have to understand that Frank needed her to be there for him as a friend tonight; but she promised herself that she would make the night up to James another night.
Aww... Frank's mommy cares about Frank...that's so cute!!!
anyway... this is why i like alice... because i guess she made Frank grow up and not need his mommy so much which made mrs. longbottom very sad... so that's why she's all 'civil'/polite, but still a little mean, to Alice in OotP.
Alice stole her little Frankie away... :'(