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Strangest Friends
Chapter 16: Je t'aime

"Aw, Lily, you look beautiful," Jamie said, putting yet another bobby pin into her friend's hair.
Lily just smiled, and turned a slight shade of green.
"Don't puke, that wouldn't be a good thing," Jamie joked.
"Don't make me talk or I will," Lily said, forcing a smile.
"Hi!" said Kassidi, Lily's friend from work and a bridesmaid, as she entered the bride's room. "Woah, Lily, you better not get sick."
"Yikes," Mary, Lily's other bridesmaid and her cousin, said walking into the room. "Want a bucket?"
"You guys probably aren't helping her," said James's young cousin Brianna, who was the flower-girl.
"Thanks, Bria," Lily said, picking up the girl.
"Why are you so nervous? Isn't this supposed to be a great thing?" Jamie asked, smoothing out her own dress.
"Oh, you just wait," Lily said menacing, looking out the window at the people entering the church. "It's not very easy to get in front of a bunch of people with a big white puffy dress that's really uncomfortable to get married to a guy."
"Not just any guy, though," Jamie said. "THE guy."
"Yeah," Lily said, smiling again, her greeness lowering a few notches.
"After all," Jamie said, "I'm sure James isn't as nervous as you seem to be."
"Oh my, God, Sirius, I'm really nervous," James said to, duh, Sirius in the groom's room on the other side of the church. He was pacing around the small room.
"Yo, dude, chill," Sirius said, looking in his mirror and smoothing out his hair.
"Chill?!" James practically shrieked. "That's easy for you to say! You're not the one going out there to get married!"
"Yup," Sirius said, setting down the mirror and turning to his friend. "But, I'm not planning to be anytime soon."
"Oh, really, does Jamie know that?" James said, crossing his arms.
"Well, it worked," Sirius said, turning back around.
"Huh?"
"It got your mind off the fact you're getting married in five minutes," Sirius said. "That was the whole purpose of the remark."
"Thank you, oh dear, Best Man of mine," James said, rolling his eyes. "For the next hour I'll think about that one solitude remark, and maybe, just maybe, I'll forget that I'm getting married in front of a bunch of people."
"Fine," Sirius said. "Now, what do you want me to say?"
"Isn't there supposed to be some infamous Best Man talk right about now?" James asked, rubbing his temples.
"Why do you keep on using the phrase 'Best Man'?" Sirius asked.
"Black, remind me again why you're that phrase?" James growled.
"Fine, Jamsie-poo," Sirius said. "Now, a pep talk. Think of this as a Quidditch game."
"What?" James asked, giving Sirius the "What-The-Hell-Are-You-Talking-About" look. Oh yeah, you know the one. "This is serious, Sirius, oh man, that was good..."
"No, look at it like this," Sirius said, ignoring James's remark. "You're going up there and here comes Lily, the Snitch-"
"Right..."
"Shut up! I'm doing my best here! Ok, Lily's the Snitch, right? Well, you keep on trying to grab the Snitch, and you get closer and closer-"
"You're just babbling now, aren't you?"
"Hey, what did I say about you talking? Now, the priest dude says, 'I now pronounce you man and wife,' or whatever and then you have it! The Snitch is yours for the taking and you win."
"Ok... that doesn't help me in the least bit," James said, although he seemed to go down a bit on the green tint.
"James, Sirius, five minutes till she comes down," said Remus, sticking his head in the door. Next to him was Peter.
"Wormtail, long time no see!" Sirius said as they left the room.
"Um, hi, Sirius," Peter said nervously.
"Come on, everyone," James said, "I get the privilege of standing in front of everyone."
James walked into the church, leaving Sirius at the door and Peter and Remus, who sat in the pews. There were far to many people there, and we tried to sink into the surroundings. The Scotts were there, Dumbledore was there, the Black family was there, almost everyone was, it seemed. The only Potter there was him, though, but there would soon be two. He smiled slightly. He even saw Lily's sister, Petunia, scowling at him in the back or the church. Next to her was her husband, Vernon. They made a very scary couple, in James's mind.
He tried to think about the remark that Sirius said before, but was unsuccessful, since he was a bit preoccupied trying to keep his puke in his stomach. It was the longest five minutes in his life, pretty much.
Just when James was about to ditch the whole idea, and run down the aisle screaming, the organ began to play. James sighed as he watched his little cousin skip up the aisle. She was throwing flowers every which way, and James couldn't help but join everyone else in the giggling.
"Good job, Bria," James whispered to her. She beamed up at James.
James looked back at the aisle to see Mary and Kasidi walking down. They were smiling widely and looked pleased with themselves. Kasidi winked at James when she walked past him, which made him shiver slightly. He looked back and saw Jamie and Sirius walking up the aisle, arm in arm. James had to smile at them. Sirius stood next to James and smiled.
When Lily came up, with Dumbledore, James's heart melted. She was beautiful. She seemed to be glowing.
'My Snitch,' James thought, and then practically slapped himself for thinking it. It gave Sirius far to much credit.
Lily came up to him, and he whispered, "You look beautiful."
"You look pretty good too," Lily whispered back.
They faced the altar, and the pastor did his spiel. When they were doing the candle ceremony, Lily almost spilled hot wax on James and the pastor. When they got to the 'I do's,' James said I do without hesitation, and Lily had to clear her dry throat before she squeaked it out.
"And I now pronounce you," said the pastor happily (James wondered if they were paying him to act that way), "man and wife! You may now kiss the bride!"
As their lips met, Jamie burst into tears, which made them laugh. They turned and went down the aisle, hand in hand. Sirius went to aid Jamie and they walked down, Jamie crying tears of joy and happiness. (A/N: Corny, I know...)

"We're driving, we're driving," Jamie said, getting to drive the car for once.
"You know, maybe I shouldn't have allowed you to drive," Sirius said, his hands gripping the dashboard, his knuckles white.
"Sirius, chill," Jamie said. "I'm going the speed limit, and stopped weaving in and out of people five miles ago."
"You... scare... me..." Sirius said.
"I love you too," Jamie said, pulling into the reception hall.
After she parked and got out of the car, she saw that Sirius was still in the car.
"Cut it out," she said, opening his door.
"That was the scariest-"
"Shut up," Jamie said, punching him in the stomach.
"Oh, that hurt," Sirius said and pretended to be in imense pain.
"I know, I'm a strong one," Jamie said.
"Ha," Sirius said, rolling his eyes.
"Shut up."
"You say that to much."
Jamie whapped a snow ball at him, which hit him in the side of the head.
"Ha, ha, ha," Jamie said and ran into the hall, just barely getting hit by the snowball.
Jamie walked into the hall and walked to Lily.
"Hi, Jamie," Lily said.
"3... 2... 1..." Jamie said. At one, Sirius ran into the hall, his hair full of snow.
"You little," Sirius said, going by her and hoisting her over his shoulder.
"Sirius, let me down," Jamie said. "Help..."
"Shall you go meet the snow?" Sirius said, walking to the door.
"No, Sirius, this dress was really expensive, please," Jamie protested, starting to kick. "And my hair looks really really good today, please!"
Sirius flipped her back to the floor. "Fine, but I'd be on the lookout."
"Yes, sir," Jamie said and saluted him, running back to Lily.
"What you see in him..." Lily said, looking at Sirius with a look of complete freakiness.
"I know," Jamie said, rolling her eyes.
"Hi, Jamie!" Briana said, running up to her, twirling around. "I've been practicing my ballet! How'm I doing?"
"Oh, wonderful!" Jamie said, clapping her hands. Jamie had been teaching some ballet in the basement of their house. It was huge and had a lot of rooms in it. She had taken the advantage to do what she loved. She had a class of 25 girls of all ages. Some were Muggle, some not.
"Look, Lily, I can do a piro- piro-" Briana said, trying to say the word.
"Pirouette?" Lily asked her.
"Yeah, that's the word!" Briana said, pirouette-ing away.
"She's so sweet," Lily said, laying back in the chair.
"Yeah," Jamie said.
"Jamie?"
"Hm?"
"Thanks for being here," Lily said. "I don't know what I'd do without you being here all the time. Throughout school, and all that, you were always so great. Thanks."
Jamie smiled and said, "No problem, Lily."

It was later the night, and most of the people had already gone home. Jamie and Sirius were about to leave.
"See you," Sirius said, waving.
"Bye!" Jamie said, smileing widely. "Have fun!"
"Jamie!" Lily said, shaking her head.
James and Lily watched them drive away.
"Lily, I want to tell you something," James said, turning to Lily.
"Yeah?"
"Je t'aime."
"Come again?"
"It's French," James said.
"That's informative," Lily said sarcastically.
"It means I love you," James said.
"Oh, James," Lily said, walking towards him. "I love you too."