Chapter Thirty-Four: The Dragons
Later on, that night everybody arrived at the reception hall. They all got their meals at the buffet table and just like usual Sarah was refusing to eat anything and having a temper tantrum about the whole entire ordeal, so Lily told her that she wouldn't be having any cake if she carried on and so eventually she settled down and ate her supper.
After everybody was finished eating Petunia agreed to go change Sarah's diaper while Severus and Lily shared their first dance together as husband and wife. It was at this point of time that Stevie decided to get a bit of fresh air and she watched them through the glass door of the balcony before Chase slowly pushed it open and came outside.
"Hey, what are you doing out here?" He questioned her while she glanced back up at the starry sky.
"Oh, I was just thinking about going for a ride is all." She replied with a rather large grin.
"On a broomstick?" He inquired as Stevie just simply rolled her eyes at him.
"No, on a horse." She replied sarcastically.
"I thought that you weren't allowed to do magic outside of school though." He said with a slight shake of his head.
"Technically I wouldn't be performing any magical spells as the broomstick is the thing that's doing magic." She told him. "Want to come with me?" She asked him when suddenly he looked rather nervous and apprehensive about the whole entire thing.
"You mean me? Fly?" He questioned her back while glancing back up at the sky and gulped. "I'm not a wizard though." He pointed out while looking back down at her.
"You don't have to be as I'm going to be the one who's flying it not you." She told him while smiling rather warmly and lovingly at him and then placing two of her fingers in-between her teeth she whistled for her broomstick that came soaring straight towards her. "Oh by the way, I'm learning how to perform more magic without a wand. Although I'm studying that by myself since I won't actually start learning it in school until this year." She told him while mounting her broom.
Chase didn't do or say anything and he just simply looked at her. "Come on, I promise that I won't let you fall." She assured him and that's when suddenly he reluctantly swung his leg over and sat down behind her. "Now just hold on tightly as I'm the seeker on the Slytherin Qudditch team so you already know that I have to be fast." She told him although he didn't have the slightest clue on what she was talking about.
The next thing that Chase knew was they shot up in the sky like a rocket. Stevie giggled and squealed with excitement and even Chase couldn't help but smile as he looked down at all of the streets and buildings that they were flying over and all of the clouds that were slowly drifting by. "It's remarkable isn't it?" Stevie whispered while turning her head back over to smile at him.
"Yeah, it really is." He whispered back before leaning in to give him a quick peck on the lips. As she rapidly pulled away from him and continued smiling at him and started to blush, they both closed their eyes again and this time leaned in for a more passionate kiss completely unaware of the fact that they were being watched from the balcony.
"If she doesn't stop and turn around and watch where she's going they're going to crash." Severus said with a roll of his eyes.
"Oh don't worry Severus, I'm sure that they'll be alright." Lily reassured him. "I just hope that they're going to be back in time for Carly's big surprise. She's going to flip when she meets The Dragons." She told him.
"Yeah, but now that Stevie has a boyfriend I just hope that she'll be able to control herself. Otherwise Chase isn't going to be happy." He said.
When Chase and Stevie came back from their romantic broomstick ride, Carly was amazed that they were able to pull it off without landing themselves into even bigger trouble. Afterwards, four wizards started walking towards them. One of them had light-brown wavy hair, baby-blue eyes, peached skin, and a glistening smile. Another had light blonde hair and even lighter blue eyes with a rather long nose. The third one had short black spikey hair just like Chase's but only lighter, and the final wizard had rather long bleached blonde hair and emerald colored eyes.
"Stevie, Chase, I would like to introduce you to The Dragons." Carly said as Stevie started squealing excitedly and jumping up and down while Severus just simply rolled his eyes again.
"They don't look like dwagons." Harry said as Lily giggled.
"Oh honey, of course they're not really dragons. It's just the name of their singing group." She told him.
"Oh." He just simply replied with a nod.
"You must be Stephanie Wilde, Carly's told us an awful lot about you." The first wizard began as he smiled at her with his glistening smile. "I'm Aaron Parker." He told her while taking her hand and kissing the back of it.
"Actually she prefers to be called Stevie and I'm her boyfriend Chase Donaldson." He told Aaron while narrowing his eyebrows and glaring at him. However, Aaron just simply chuckled.
"It's alright, relax I know. I'm just being friendly with the lovely lady is all since Carly and I have been officially dating for the past several weeks now." He told him while wrapping an arm around his own girlfriend.
"You're dating Aaron Parker!?" Stevie cried while looking at her friend in complete and utter shock and bewilderment. "Why didn't you tell me!?"
"Cause for one I didn't think you would believe me, and for two,.. you weren't speaking to me remember?" Carly questioned her back as Stevie went silent for a few moments.
"Carly I'm sorry. I shouldn't have let some guy,.. no matter how cute he is,.." Stevie began with a shake of her head.
"Hey!" Chase snapped.
"Sorry Chase, I'm just trying to make a point here." Stevie told him before she continued on. "Anyways, I shouldn't have let that come in-between our friendship since we've been friends since we were around Harry and Sarah's age." She said as Carly just simply nodded at her.
"You're right Stevie and I'm sorry too." She told her.
"So, then, are we friends again?" Stevie questioned as Carly grinned at her.
"I don't see why not." She replied as Stevie stifled a giggle and then the two girls embraced each other tightly and Lily smiled at them as she watched them from a distance.
"Something tells me that they're going to be friends for a really long time and possibly forever. I sure hope that Harry will find a friend like that one day." She said.
"I think he already has." Petunia told her as she tugged on her sleeve before they both turned around and smiled at Harry and Ashley fast asleep together in a chair with their heads resting against each other's.
"Well I'll just have to see if I can move him without waking him. It's way past his bedtime and I better be getting him home." Lily said.
"Don't worry about Harry, I'll go ahead and take him and you stay here with Severus and everybody else. I probably should be fetching Dudley and Sarah as well." Petunia told her while quietly walking over to where her nephew was sleeping and scooped him up inside her arms and his head resting on top of her shoulder.
"Well alright, give the children a kiss from me and make sure that you change Harry into his pull-ups before you put him to bed." Lily told her as Petunia nodded, told her goodbye, and then started looking for the other children so that she could take them all back to the car to leave.
