A/N: Well, pure fluff, only the beginning even though its short I don't know if I'm going to continue it so I thought I'd write a few parts and see what kind of reviews I get
Taming the Lily
Part One:
'Cling' the soft metallic sound broke into Lily Evans' thoughts. It was The sound of her best friend Arabella Black putting a can into her shopping cart.
Lily Evans was shopping around. At least that was what she'd told Laleo Finnegan the night before when he'd proposed to her. She'd really liked Finnegan but he'd gone and messed it up by proposing. She always broke up with guys the second they proposed. There'd been seven including Finnegan. Her motto was, although she only said this to her closest friends Arabella Black and James Potter, was 'once the ring has rung the fling has flung,'. Don't get her wrong though, she was a nice person, and everyone liked her. How else could she get seven guys to propose. No, Lily Evans just didn't want to get tied down.
"Didn't you like Laleo, I thought you did?"
"Yeah, I liked him, but you know my rule. Once"
"yeah, I know it's just." Arabella turned around to face her friend. "Lily, well, did you ever think that maybe you should, well... make a commitment." Arabella saw Lily's face begin to darken. "Come on, your twenty seven years old when are you going to grow up. Arabella turned around again, so she wouldn't have to see her friend's eyes after those words. But she didn't have to see to know the mixture of hurt, and anger present in those eyes. Slowly the hurt disappeared leaving only anger in its place. Lily pulled Arabella's arm, to turn her around.
"Oh no you don't Mrs. Black, you said it and now you must face it. I have grown up."
"No you haven't," Arabella said, finding the courage to say what she'd been thinking for years. "You're still a little girl, playing with these boys like they are you dolls, fearing commitment and fearing attachment. Fearing abandonment."
Arabella's last words stung into Lily's brain. Denial flooded through her, but she felt to dumbfounded to voice it.
"Bitch!" Was all she could say. Arabella softened, but wasn't hurt.
"Lily, you just sent a guy to Ireland. He moved to avoid you. Please." Lily walked out of the aisle no one to get in her way at all. Lucky for them the store was virtually empty at that our. Towards the end Lily turned
and spoke again, eager to get the last word. She always got the last word.
"You married the first guy you went out with. You feared being alone all your life. You didn't even wait for love!" Lily left Arabella sputtering. She did love Sirius. She always had. Then why did Lily's words sting so much.
