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A/N: Just want to say thanx to all you people who reviewed. I feel so loved!!! I hope this chappie is even longer than the last one. That one was the longest yet!!! I'm so proud of myself. Hey just a quick question: Can I join anyone else's cheerleading squad. The people on mine suck. Not as cheerleaders, but as people. Pleaz let me know if I can join yours. J/K.

The next month: December

Lily twisted her engagement ring around her finger. James had given it to her a few weeks ago. He had said that it would make them look like they were actually engaged. She remembered their entire conversation.

"Look Potter, I'm *not* going to take this ring," Lily said vehemently.

"Hey! You want people to believe we're engaged or not?" he replied.

"I'm not going to take it."

"Yes you are. My parents already think it's strange that I haven't gotten you a ring already," James said.

"That's you problem, not mine, Potter."

"Hey remember, I didn't ask you to marry me. *You* asked *me."

"Ugh! Potter, you're impossible," Lily exclaimed.

"Well, so are you!"

They had argued like this for a few more minutes, It had ended with Lily saying she'd take the ring.

"Fine, Potter, you win. I'll take the ring. We *do* actually want this engagement to be believable after all," Lily acceded.

"Good. Now about our wedding. We need to set a date. Mum wants to send out invitations by about March," James said.

"Great. What fun," Lily said sarcastically. James just glared at her. "Fine. Umm, we agreed on June, right?" James nodded. "So what about June 4th?"

"Fine. Sound fine," James answered. "I'll tell my parents."

"And I'll tell mine," Lily said. She turned to walk away, but stopped as James grabbed her arm and turned her around.

"Just remember Evans," James said, "We have to act like a happily engaged couple. That means that we will both have to do things that we find repulsive. We'll just have to grin and bear it." With that statement, he let go of Lily's arm and walked away to go somewhere else.

Lily's thoughts returned to the present. She kept replaying the last part of their conversation, but didn't know why the last two sentences bothered her so much. It was just great that he found her so unappealing, she was thinking. Not that she wanted to be thought attractive by James Potter.

Lily sighed and headed downstairs. Her mother and she were heading to Hogsmeade to meet James' mother, Anna, and his sister, Kaithlynn to start preparing for the wedding. She had already acquired a portkey for her mother and her.

Lily came into the kitchen and sat down at the table. She grabbed a couple of pieces of toast and began eating. Her mother was sitting across from her, eating breakfast also.

"What's this place we're going to again?" Rose Evans asked.

"Hogsmeade, Mum. It's a wizarding village," Lily replied.

"That's right. We're meeting the Potters there too right?"

"Yes. We're meeting James' mother and sister, then we're meeting James later," Lily answered her.

"Well then, we'd better hurry if we want to meet them in time."

Lily and Rose finished their breakfast and went to get the portkey. They both grabbed a section of the portkey and felt a tug as it pulled them into Hogsmeade. They felt a little disoriented, but that quickly cleared up. They turned around and saw Anna and Kaithlynn Potter heading towards them.

"Hello Anna, Kaithlynn," Lily greeted them, " This is my mother Rose. Mum, this is James' mother Anna and his sister Kaithlynn."

They exchanged niceties all around. Kaithlynn then asked, "Well, where should we go first?"

"Oh there's a bridal shop down the street. Lily can get her dresses there," Anna said.

"Sounds fine," Lily said. They all walked down the street and headed into the shop where they were greeted by a cheerful-looking witch.

"Hello all," The witch said. "Are you looking for bridal dresses?" she asked.

"Bridesmaid dresses and a wedding dress," Lily answered.

"All right. Which of you is the bride?" the witch asked.

"I am," Lily said.

"All right. We'll start with you first,: the witch said. The witch told Lily to get up on a stool and Lily did so. The witch then pointed her wand at Lily, muttered a few words, and suddenly, a dress appeared on Lily.

"Well, what do you think?" The witch asked.

"I don't think that it looks right on you," Kaithlynn said.

"I agree," replied Lily.

This went on for quite a while. There was just something wrong with every dress. While they were going through all this, Lily turned to Kaithlynn.

"Kaithlynn, I'd like you to be my maid of honor," Lily said.

"What! M-me? Why? I thought you had a sister. Don't you want to ask her to be your maid of honor?" Kaithlynn asked dumbfounded.

"My sister and her husband probably won't even come to the wedding," Lily replied darkly. "They don't like magic much and they reacted very badly when I told them I was marrying a wizard."

"But surely you have friends you'd like to ask," Kaithlynn said.

"Kaithlynn, I really want you to be my maid of honor,: Lily replied. She honestly liked Kaithlynn Potter, which she found surprising, considering the fact that she was a Potter, and wanted her to be her maid of honor. She was going to have Nayaliye be a regular bridesmaid. Nataliye couldn't be there today, but they had a magical way to take her measurements and were going to pick out the bridesmaid dresses today anyway.

"All right Lily. I'll do it," Kaithlynn said.

"Great!" Lily said, smiling.

After about an hour and a half of trying on dresses, Lily finally found one that she liked. It was an off-the-shoulder white dress with beads across the top and along the hem. Then they started on the bridesmaids' dresses. They spent about a half of an hour trying to pick out a dress. They finally picked out one, well two actually, that was a pale purple in color and was strapless. They made it to fit Kaithlynn and Nataliye's measurements.

They paid for the dresses and headed out of the shop after thanking the saleswitch. They walked around Hogsmeade for about an hour, showing Lily's mother all the sights in Hogsmeade. After that, they went into a restaurant and got to know each other better as they ate. After they left, they headed to a flower shop, where they were meeting James to pick out flowers for the wedding.

As they walked into the flower shop, they were bombarded with the scent of literally hundreds of kinds of flowers. They spotted James in the back of the flower shop, looking decidedly uncomfortable. As they walked towards him, gingerly avoiding the flowers and pots on the floor, they saw a young-looking wizard heading towards them as well.

"Ah, hello. I'm Dean. Can I help you look for something?" The wizard asked them.

"Yes you may," Anna Potter said pleasantly. "We're looking for wedding flowers."

"Ah. So you'll need a bridal bouquet, flowers for the place of the wedding, bridesmaid bouquets, boutonnières for the groom and best man and ushers, and flowers for the reception hall. I'm just guessing here, so help me if it isn't what you need or want."

"Um. I think that'll be fine." Rose Evans said.

"Well, if you'll come with me, I'll show you some of our more popular flowers."

As they walked to a wall on the right-hand side of the shop, Dean was telling them about some kinds of flowers that they had.

"We've got bouquets that change color and scent with the holder's mood, flowers that sing, flowers that dance, flowers that rearrange themselves into different arrangements on their own, and of course, just some plain Muggle flowers," Dean said.

"Well, remember, my family will be there and not a lot of them know that I'm a witch, so just to be safe, we should probably just have Muggle flowers," Lily said.

"Well then, that kind of limits our choices, but we'll have to work with it," Anna said.

"Well then have a look at these," Dean said, picking up some flowers and showing them to them all.

James and Lily looked at each other with raised eyebrow at some of Dean's color choices. They decided against neon orange and yellow bridesmaid bouquets, electric green boutonnières, and other hideous choices. When Dean had found out Lily's name, he started suggesting different types of lilies to them, especially tiger lilies, for some reason.

After they had decided on some nice, pleasant colored flowers, they left the shop to all go home. The Potters all walked Lily and her mother to where they had left their portkey. Kaithlynn, Anna, and Rose walked ahead of Lily and James, which left the two enemies to try and get along with each other. James kept his arm around Lily the whole time. She glared at him a few times, but he just looked pointedly back at her.

"So," James began, "This wedding's coming closer, isn't it."

"Yeah," Lily said dully.

"Nice to see you're wearing your engagement ring, at least"

"Like I had a choice."

"You can always back out, you know."

"What! Don't tell me you don't want to do this anymore. NOT after all we've done so far," Lily started in on James.

"No, I figure we might as well keep on going with this mockery to the end," James said without much feeling.

By this time, they had reached the portkey. Lily and her mother grabbed it and appeared at home. Lily tried to keep her mind off James as she headed to her room and flopped onto her bed. She did *not* want to think of him at all.