Lily woke up the next morning, feeling numb and tired. She wasn't sure what woke her. When she looked at the clock on her bed side table it only read seven AM. granted she usually got up that early but she was dead tired.

She groaned at a tapping on the window. The hell was that? It tapped again. And again. That must be what had woken her. She looked up through heavy eyelids to see something flapping angrily outside. James's owl.

That bastard.

He ran out on her last night and now he had sent his bloody owl to wake her up? At seven in the morning, too. Because that was going to make her forgive him. She rolled over and tried to ignore the tapping, but it just kept going.

She told herself to stick it out and she was mad at him, dammit.

Finally she couldn't take it anymore and groaned loudly. She threw the blankets off and stood up from her bed so fast she nearly got tangled up in them and tripped. She fell half way before she caught herself and angrily untangled her foot from the mess of her comforter.

She threw the window open with a loud slam that she was afraid would wake Petunia. She wasn't afraid to wake Petunia out of courtesy, it was more like she was already pissed and didn't need a bitchy blonde in her room yelling at her at seven AM.

The owl flew in and honestly Lily had never seen an owl look so angry. It was almost like he had a low hanging unibrow. At least there would be no conflict of interest between them. They understood each other.

Lily took the scroll tied to his leg and it felt heavier than a usual letter. She unrolled it and was confused to see that there were no words on it. Just blank parchment. She became annoyed very quickly and unrolled it faster. She muffled an angry scream inside her mouth but something fell out of the scroll and hit her foot. It bounced off into the carpet of her room, silencing her pathetic lament to whoever the fuck was listening.

She looked down and her breath caught in her chest. Was that-

She leaned down and- yes. Oh merlin. Merlin. It was a ring. She carefully picked it up and turned it. It was small with a rose gold band and a oval diamond in the middle. There were two smaller ones on the sides of it. It was beautiful. Lily hated extravagant rings and James had taken that into consideration. It wasn't just beautiful, it was perfect. She reached back up for the note and unfolded it all the way. Directly in the center it had two words scribbled on it.

Marry me?

Lily couldn't believe it. She had to be dreaming. She had to be. This was too good. She slipped the ring on. It was a little big, but it looked perfect. Definitely too good. She held her hand out to examine it. This was real. She was engaged.

Lily closed her eyes and barely even noticed the horrible knot in her stomach when she apparated out of her house. Before she knew it she was in James's bedroom.

"Lily-" he started to say but lily cut him off. She didn't even care that Sirius was in the room. She was going to snog her fiance whether his "room mate" liked it or not.

James broke away with the biggest grin Lily had ever seen on him "is that a yes?" he asked, breathless.

"No, i'm just letting you down easy." she laughed and buried her head in his chest. James hugged her to him and for the first time in forever Lily felt safe. And she was overwhelmed by the knowledge that she was going to have this forever. She was going to have james. Until the very end.