Authors Note: The first half of this chapter has sex in it, so if you do
not wish to read it, scroll down until you see this; '~*~*~*~' .
Chapter 7 -The Wedding Date
James apparated into his study and made his way to the couch. He stopped short when he saw Lily sleeping peacefully on it. 'I wonder how long she is off,' James thought to himself as he picked her up and carried her towards their room.
"Mmm . . . James," Lily mumbled sleepily as she snuggled further into James' warm chest. "Where are you taking me?"
"To be so that you can sleep on something other than a couch," he answered with a quick kiss on her cheek. "Will you stay with me?" Lily asked him quietly. James smiled as he laid her down in the middle of the rich blue of the comforter that laid over their Queen sized bed, and turned down the sheets next to her so that she could get under the sheets. "If you want," he answered as he removed her shoes, socks and robe.
"Will you make love to me?" Lily asked, her eyes still closed.
James stopped in the act of untying the strings that held the green-blue curtains to the gleaming cherry wood post and swallowed. Hard. "If you want," he rasped as he let the curtain fall into place, obscuring the view of the fireplace incase anyone decided to call on them.
"Oh, I want," Lily smiled and opened her eyes languidly.
James looked into Lily's sleep clouded eyes and smiled lovingly at her. He raised his hand and unclasped the button that held the sides of his robe together and shrugged the garment off of his shoulders and off of his arms, leaving the article of clothing to puddle in a heap on the hardwood floor of the room. He stepped closer to the bed and let his eyes wander from her eyes and down her body, which was still clad in the tight, tan button up shirt and tight black jeans, and then slowly dragged his gaze back up her body until their gazes met again. Sapphire blue meets emerald green.
James kneeled on the edge of the bed, and lowered his head, all the while keeping eye contact with Lily. He brushed his lips softly, tenderly, against her soft, warm, pink lips once. Twice. And then a third time. As he pulled back from the brush of lips again, Lily groaned in frustration and lifted her arms from their place at her sides and wrapped them securely around his neck, and tugged his head back down for a kiss.
James smiled a small smile against Lily's lips, and parted them when he felt the tip of her tongue - the tongue that he knew would give him immense pleasure if he let her do so - against his soft, warm lips lightly.
Lily slipped her tongue inside of James' mouth and sighed happily into the warmth to the kiss. James sucked on her tongue before brushing the tip of his over the flat of Lily's tongue.
James slipped a hand slowly under the fabric of Lily's shirt, and tenderly ran his hand up to her naval and rested it there, in that position, his thumb making small, sensual circles around the naval, while the rest of his hand cupped her side. He knew that if he were to put his other hand in the same position on the other side of her naval, his hands would span the entire length of her smooth, flat stomach.
Lily arched wantonly under his hand, trying, urging his hand to move up her ribs and to cup her full breast. When James kept his hand in the same spot, she groaned in frustration. She then lowered her hands from their place around his neck, and slid them down his sides until she came to the hem of the wool maroon sweater that he had put on earlier that morning before heading off to work and tugged it up past his waist, over his chest, and waited until he lifted his arms so that she could get it over his head. Lily sighed with satisfaction as her hands touched his bare chest. She loved his chest. The hard muscle of it, the way the tanned skin rippled at the barest brush of her fingers, the way that the taut muscles would feel against her bare breasts.
She could stare at them for hours. For some reason something about James' chest always made her feel . . . hot, steamy, breathless. And if he was wet all the more better.
James inhaled sharply as Lily allowed her thumb to flick over a hard, erect nipple, and bent down to engage Lily in a hot, passionate kiss, showing her with that kiss just how needy he felt. How much he needed her. James' hand began working hastily on the buttons on her shirt. As soon as he got the piece of clothing off, he quickly ridded her breasts from their confinement of the red lace bra that Lily wore.
James broke their kiss to trail soft, butterfly kisses down her chin, on the line of her jaw until he came to her ear, and he slipped his tongue past his lips to lick at the shell of the ear, then licked a trail to her pulse point, and licked, laved nibbled, and sucked at it until he was fully satisfied that his mark would stay there. He listened to Lily's gasps, took them as a reward, and continued down the white column of her throat, kissing and nibbling at the tissue there.
"James, please." Lily pleaded, but to no avail. James begun sucking at the crock of her neck where it met with her shoulders and she moaned with pleasure.
"Please," Lily begged frantically, wanting, no, needing his mouth on her breast.
James left his current spot and slowly kissed his way down to one of her breasts, licking around the base of her nipple, but never taking the dark red bud into his mouth.
"James!" Lily cried out.
James inwardly grinned and covered the aching rock hard nipple with his warm mouth lovingly.
Lily's hands flew to his hair, and held him there, her grip tight on the silken strands of his hair. She moaned as soon as she felt the sensation of his mouth over her nipple. When his teeth scrapped over the sensitive peak, she groaned, full of pleasure. She gasped as he sucked on the bud, and let out a strangled groan when he repeated the same torture on her opposite breast.
"James," Lily moaned loudly as she felt his fingers graze the underside of her breast, where she happened to be most sensitive to touch. "I want you," she gasped, wanting what she had been too busy in the past twenty days to have. " I need you," she added.
James was sure that he heard Lily talk, but had no clue what she had said, and was too focused on what he was doing to let go of the sweet nipple to ask what she had said.
James lowered himself onto his elbows as he brought his legs onto the bed to straddle Lily's legs and he reluctantly pulled away from her plump, full, firm breast.
James looked at Lily's flushed face. It was thrown back with wild abandonment, cushioned by the pillow behind her head, her red, kiss bruised mouth slightly parted to better breathe and he grinned. He loved it when she looked like this. So . . . needy. Knowing that he was the reason she was like this, that she was needy because of him, and no one else. Knowing that he was the only one who could give her what she so needed. Knowing that no one else would ever be able to give her what he had to give her.
James saw green specks flicker behind her closed eyelids and genteelly ran a fingertip from the middle of her forehead down to the tip of her pretty, small, feminine nose, and brushed it against her lips. She opened her mouth and took the digit into it, sucking on it, running her tongue tantalizingly around it.
James groaned as he felt all blood he had left drop below his belt line. God he was hard for her.
James sat on his haunches, unbuttoned the row of buttons on Lily's pants before he sat up, and tugged the jeans, along with her panties, down her legs, with Lily's help. Leaving Lily totally, blessedly bare to James' wandering gaze as he got off of the bed and swiftly disposed himself of his shoes, socks, the restriction of his black slacks and boxers before joining Lily once again on the bed, not even noticing the appraisal that she gave his body as he stripped.
Lily propped herself on her elbows to better watch James strip himself of the remainder of his clothes. She allowed her gaze to wander down his sculpted chest, watching as the hard lines of his body shifted his every move he made, as his arms contracted. She watched in fascination as the muscles across James' chest drew tight then released, and goggled as he bent over to take his socks off of his feet and she got a very nice view of his back and the muscles in it as they bunched. It wasn't as if she had never seen this, but every time she saw him naked it was like the first time. She was so fascinated by his body that it seemed like it was new to her every time she saw it bared to her eyes.
As James straightened again, and his hands traveled down his body to his belt buckle, Lily let her gaze travel from his chest, down to his flat, hard stomach, and allowed her gaze to linger on his obvious arousal of for her, and continued all the way down to his feet before going through the same journey only in the opposite direction.
Lily looked into James' deep blue eyes until he was straddling her hips. Her eyes then dropped to his mouth, and she licked her lips in anticipation.
James moved one of his legs and nudged it between Lily's slightly parted tanned legs and bent his head to capture her mouth in a sweet kiss as his other leg also settled in between her now spread legs.
James moved one of his hands from it's place near Lily's head and starting from her collar bone, ran his forefinger down her chest, through the valley created by her breasts, down her abdomen, dipped inside of her belly- button, thankful that she didn't have a ring in it at the moment, and then slowly, tantalizingly slowly, slid a finger into her, and then out. He then added another finger and slid them both into her body. His two fingers were engulfed in Lily's sweet, hot, wet heat.
Lily's hips jerked as James slowly moved his fingers in and out of her body in a slow even rhythm. In and out. In. Out. In. And then she gave a sharp, pleasure filled cry as she hit her climax.
When Lily regained enough of her senses she realized that James had entered her while she was recovering from her orgasm. Lily groaned and lifted her still hips off of the bed to grind against his hipbone to get him to start moving.
James looked down at Lily's flushed face as he pulled himself almost all of the way out of her body before he thrust himself deeply back into her body. James paused. "Lil," he gasped hoarsely. "Open your eyes, share with me." He requested.
Lily fought to open her eyes, and when she finally managed, she was staring into two blue orbs. She then let herself go free, and allowed her magic to run free, surround them, engulf them and sighed in content as she felt the power of James' magic join hers, making them complete as one.
James locked his gaze with Lily's and started to move. Slowly at first, barely moving his hips at all. He moved in slow, controlled thrusts, and Lily's hips instinctively caught the rhythm and she moved with him.
It didn't take much until Lily was crying out James' name in utter abandonment as she peaked again, this time more forcibly, her walls clenching around James as her spasms went through her body.
The tightening of Lily's walls around James' member was too much and he followed suit, releasing himself inside of her before collapsing on top of her body, their sweat mingling, and chests heaving in harmony.
"Oh God," Lily mumbled happily, contentedly, a few minutes later as she stroked James' back in lazy motions.
Lily trailed her lightly down James' spine, making him shiver at the sensation. Lily nuzzled her face in the crook of James' neck happily and inhaled his scent. Ocean air, sweat, male, and cologne. She could always tell when it was James because of his scent. No one else that she had ever come across had ever had this unique smell that was James and James alone.
James chuckled lightly and summoned enough energy - barely - to roll over onto his back, bringing Lily along with him so that she was sprawled on top of him, her legs in a tangled mess with his, her arms resting loosely behind his neck, and her face still snuggled in the crock of his neck.
Seeing as the blankets had already been pulled back, James pulled the warmth of the covers over their quickly cooling body from the night breeze that managed to creep into the house.
"James?" Lily asked as she moved around to get comfortable on James' body.
"Hmmm?" he replied while lazily stroking Lily's back and neck, then continuing up to tangle in the auburn mass of Lily's hair before stroking back down Lily's back.
"When do you think that we should set our wedding date? We have everything else done already besides the clothes. I mean we've picked the flower arrangements, the Cathedral, the decorations, we've already gotten a contract with a catering business, and contracts for God knows what else, we've got the reception area, we've made up the guest list, but we don't have a date." Lily explained, finding it a little weird that she brought this up after just having mind-blowing sex with James.
James thought about this for a few minutes. It was true since he had asked her to marry him back in June all they had been doing was planning for the wedding, and they had been trying to think of a date before he had gotten sent away, and lately she had been too busy to even start to think of her wedding. "How about during winter? You've always liked that season. Like maybe sometime during December so that we could be back from our Honeymoon before Christmas." James suggested.
Lily pondered on that and nodded her head at the suggestion. "How about the 10th? That leaves us exactly two weeks before Christmas, and if we return on Christmas Eve, we won't miss the celebrations with our families."
"That's perfect," James told her, but at the moment, she could have said that she wanted to have the wedding in two days time and he would have said the same thing. He was just too damn satiated to be anything but agreeable.
"Mmm," was all that came from Lily as she started to fall asleep, the missing hours starting to catch up with her, that and being weighed down by the after affects of satisfying sex was too much for her, and she found herself giving herself over to the sandman.
James kissed Lily's head and whispered a goodnight before quickly falling asleep too.
~*~*~*~*~*~ A/N: for those of you who didn't read that, James and Lily had just set the wedding date for December 10.
Beep, Beep, Beep! A sound started into the quiet room.
Lily woke up, rolled out of James' arms, and over on to her back, and groped around the surface of her nightstand table and slapped the off button on the alarm clock. She then rolled back over into James' arms and nestled her head on his shoulder.
"I 'spose we need to get up," James yawned as he pulled Lily closer to his side.
"I don't wanna get up," Lily pouted and cuddled deeper into James' body. James laughed at Lily's tone and shook his head. Lily frowned, poked him with her forefinger in between his ribs, and asked him, "What's so funny?"
"Nothing," James smartly told her. "How about you make breakfast and I grab a shower? Unless, you'd care to join me in the shower, then I say the hell with food." James asked hopefully. She had never shared a shower with him before, and he couldn't help but being a little curious as to what it would be like. Making love to her as the water pounded over their heads, steam creeping around their bodies, water making it's way down their skin, Lily's legs wrapped tightly around his hips as he thrust into her time and time again, the water and soap making his entrances smooth and easier, sucking on her breasts, wet and glistening with water, the taste on her and the water mixed together on his tongue, and her wet hair turning brown from the water tangled in his fists as he anchored her to him so that she didn't slid all over the tiled wall of the shower.
James blinked rapidly, and noticed that his usual morning state wasn't so usual anymore. His fantasy had made him hard. Really hard, he corrected himself as he felt Lily shift her body closer to his erection.
Lily raised her eyebrows at the feel of James' reaction to his fantasy and looked at him. "That must have been one hell of a dream you had last night, baby," she smirked. "But as promising as that shower sounds, we would both end up being late for work if I was to share your shower with you. But who knows, I might just want another shower tonight," she winked as she got up and walked towards the closet to get her sea green robe off of it's hook in the closet.
James groaned and watched as Lily picked her robe up and enjoyed the view of her backside. And mainly her ass and legs. James sighed with displeasure as she covered her beautiful body with the silk robe. "Very well," James sighed and resigned himself to a cold shower.
Lily giggled a little and walked out of their room. Just as she reached the staircase, she heard the shower turn on. Lily walked down the stairs and then headed towards the kitchen.
''What do I feel like cooking?'' Lily asked herself as she stood in front of the open refrigerator door. Lily tapped her foot on the maroon and white tiles beneath her feet as she thought. "Fuck it we'll just have pancakes and bacon," she decided and then proceeded to pull out the makings.
By the time James had entered the kitchen, the table had been set, there was coffee and orange juice was in the middle of the table that they had set up in the kitchen so that it wasn't necessary to always eat in the large dinning room. James was dressed in loose dark blue jeans, and a white long sleeved shirt, his hair was still dripping wet from his shower, and he smelled like he always did. Lily was just finishing up the last of the pancake batter as she heard him get a cup from the cupboard for some orange juice. And as is his habit, he will have one glass of orange juice, and then change over to coffee.
"God you're beautiful, you know that?" James complimented as he set down his cup and came from behind Lily, wound his arms around her small waist, and pulled her back against his chest.
Lily had just turned the burner off, lifted a hand to his hair, and ran her fingers through the thick, wet, silken strands. "You should dry your hair, love," she murmured as she pulled away from him, picked up the plate of pancakes and bacon, and carried them over to the table.
Lily set the plates down on the tabletop, grabbed her wand from her robe pocket and with a swish of her wand she placed a warming spell on the food. Lily bent down and kissed the crown of James' head. "I'm going to grab my shower now," she said as James began to pile food onto his plate. James nodded his head, trying to hurriedly swallow his orange juice to say something as he drenched his pancakes with the maple syrup. By the time James had managed to swallow, Lily was already out the door, so James shrugged his shoulders and ate his breakfast.
Lily shook her head in amusement as she walked towards the bathroom in the Master bedroom. She slipped off the robe, discarded it on the floor, and turned the water to warm and stepped underneath the pounding rainfall of water that came from the faucet. She washed off the sweat and sex from last night quickly and turned off the shower.
As she stepped out of the shower stall, she saw James standing in the doorway leaning against the doorjamb with his arms across his chest. Lily raised an eyebrow at him as she wrapped a towel around her body and walked over to the sink, picked up her toothbrush and after applying the toothpaste, began to brush her teeth.
"I brought your food up. It's on the table in the room," James told her as his gaze was busy following the path of a single water drop and he swallowed uncomfortably as he saw it disappear under the towel. James closed his eyes and imagined the path that that drop of water would take if the towel hadn't absorbed it.
Lily just nodded her thanks and watched James watching her. Or, more accurately following the path of a droplet of water that was on her skin. Lily rinsed her mouth out, put her toothbrush away, and made her way towards James.
"May I?" she asked as she stood before him.
"For a kiss," James bargained.
Lily smiled and raised herself onto her toes and settled her lips on his. She gave his bottom lip a light nip and a lick before backing down onto the flats of her feet.
James opened his eyes and groaned. He knew that that was all that she was going to give him. James reluctantly moved out of her way, made his way towards the bed, and sat near the footboard.
Lily took a couple of quick bites from her food and walked towards their closet and threw open the doors. She walked inside and looking at her side tried to find something to wear. She decided on a pair of tight gray pants, and a dark emerald green turtle neck sweater. She really didn't want everybody to see the massive hickey she had on her throat from James.
Lily walked back into the room and laid her clothes on the dresser and taking the tube of lotion off of the long cherry dresser, applied the sharp smelling lotion to her body. Next, she sprayed herself with her perfume which smelled like night jasmine, and then she took out a silk green bra that was cut low to show off the flesh of her breast, and matching underwear. She slipped on the underwear with the towel still on, and then disposed of the towel as she clasped her bra in one go behind her back. She slipped her arms through the straps and then shook her pants out before stepping into them. Lily was aware that James was watching her every move, but that didn't mean that she was going to go slower than she needed to, or torment the poor guy. She zipped and buttoned the pants up then slipped on the turtleneck sweater before walking over one of the chairs that was around the small table in the corner of the room to put her socks and shoes on.
Lily sat up straight and then turned towards her breakfast. She ate half of it then got back up and went into the bathroom to brush out her hair and put it up into a ponytail.
When she came back out, James was still in the same spot.
Lily smiled, walked over to him, and sat down in his lap. "I love you, James," she told him.
James smiled down at her and wrapped his arms around her body. "I love you too, Lily," he told her.
"And on December 10 I'm going to become your wife."
James smiled happily and nodded his head. That means that in four months, Lily and he would be legally married.
Lily smiled and got up off of his lap. "If you want, you can finish my breakfast," she told him with a wave of her hand towards her half eaten breakfast, "but I'm off to work so that I can get a longer lunch today."
James stood up and nodded his head as he walked over to where Lily was picking up her jacket. "Okay, I'll see you tonight?" he asked as he hugged her.
"Yes, you will," Lily grinned up at him. "I love you."
"I love you too," James replied before letting her go so that she could apparate into her office.
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"Come on Kayla!" Lily Evans begged her best friend five minutes before break. "I know that you have a three hour lunch break today! Everybody except the heads of the departments do! And I want to find my dress!" Lily cried.
"Okay," the raven-haired girl finally gave in.
"Thank you!" Lily sang happily as she threw her arms around the black haired, gray eyed version of herself.
"Are we going to get going or not?" Kayla grumbled, trying to act mad, but failing miserably. Lily's good moods were always contagious.
Lily dragged Kayla into Diagon Alley and went straight towards the Bridal Dress Makers store.
Lily entered the store and began to look around. She knew what kind of dress that she wanted, but so far, she hadn't been able to find it.
"Good morning, Ladies, how may I be of service to you?" an elderly woman with graying hair and wrinkling skin asked Lily and Kayla as they walked in. Lily turned towards the lady and extended her hand. "Hello. I'm looking for a wedding dress," Lily told the lady as she shook her hand.
"Then you have come to the right place," the saleswoman informed. "Do you know what you are looking for in a dress, or do you just wish to look around?"
Lily looked at the woman with a smile. She was the only one so far who hadn't thought that they knew what would be best for Lily's figure and started to pile gowns on her. "Yes, I do know what I'm looking for, but it seems as if no one has the style that I want," Lily confided with a smile. "Well, if we don't have it, we also design dresses. So if you don't find a satisfactory dress already here in the store, we may design one for you," the saleswoman informed Lily with pride.
"By the way, I'm Lily and this is my best friend, Kayla," Lily introduced. The older woman smiled at them and with a nod of her head said, "And my name is Crystal." Kayla, deciding to finally talk said, "It's a pleasure to meet you. And I do believe that you will be seeing more of me sometime in the future." Kayla said with a rare smile.
Crystal looked at Kayla. "Are you getting married too?" she asked Kayla. Kayla nodded her head and explained, "We haven't set the date yet, and we wanted to get one wedding out of the way before we start planning the next."
Crystal congratulated Kayla on her engagement, and then began to question Lily on her gown.
"Well, about three years ago I saw this woman getting fitted for a dress in a dressmakers shop in Florence, and ever since then I've lusted after that dress. But the problem is, I can't find that particular dressmaker again.
"The dress itself is made out of ivory silk, it's sleeveless, and flows down ones body in shimmering waves. The skirt of the dress isn't too full, but it also isn't pin straight, it comes to rest maybe two inches away from the body. It has no train, but lace is attached to the skirt of the dress as a separate layer so that it drapes over the silk, and it also parts slightly in the front of the dress, but not enough to tell unless I'm moving. Did that part make any sense?" Lily paused to ask. She knew what she was talking about, but she didn't know if the dressmaker did. Crystal nodded her head, and waved her hand at Lily to continue. "Right, the top part of the dress is a corseted bodice with beads and lace embroidery."
Crystal nodded her head and made her way towards the back of the store. Lily and Kayla didn't know if they were supposed to follow her or stay where they were, so they figured that they were safer staying in one spot. "Well, are you coming or not!" the lady questioned from the other end of the store.
Lily looked at Kayla and shrugged her shoulders before heading towards the voice of the saleswoman. As soon as Lily rounded the corner she gasped. There was here dress, exactly how she remembered it! "That's it," Lily whispered in astonishment.
"If that doesn't fit, it can be sized, can't it?" Kayla asked, for once being the sensible one. Crystal nodded her head in response. "Can you get that down so that we may see what it looks like on her?" Crystal nodded her head once again and began the process of riding the manikin of the dress.
Kayla pushed Lily towards one of the dressing rooms and told her to strip, which Lily did with this sort with eagerness that brought a smile to Kayla's lips. Kayla went back into the store part and retrieved the dress from Crystal's arms and returned to Lily. Kayla helped Lily put the dress on, and buttoned up the row of buttons on the back of the dress.
"It's a little loose on you," Kayla commented as she pulled the fabric tighter around Lily's upper body to see what the dress would like when it was tight. "But it looks good on you," she commented.
Lily stepped out of the dressing room, her arm holding the top up and stood on the raised platform so that Crystal could mark where the dress needed to be taken in, and as the length was too long for Lily's body, she also made note of how much of the material needed to be hemmed.
"Is that all?" Lily asked as she was sent back into the changing room to change.
"Yes, my dear, that is all that that requires. But I'm going to need you to come back in three days so that I can fit you again with the improvements," Crystal told Lily over the privacy of the changing screen.
"Okay, I can do that."
"What's with the hickey, Lils?" Kayla asked with a grin as she indicated the slightly purple circle on Lily's neck.
Lily blushed and knowing that Kayla would get it out of her somehow decided to just tell her the truth. "James. Last night." Was all that she said before Kayla grinned knowingly. "So, did you leave him with one in return?" Kayla asked, knowing that Lily liked to leave marks on James. Lily shook her head regretfully. "I was more concentrated on him finishing is job than giving him a hickey, and plus, I didn't see it until this morning," she informed her friend.
Kayla laughed and shook her head mournfully at her friend. "Too bad," she joked as she took the dress from Lily's outstretched hands.
Kayla exited the changing room with Lily's dress in hand while Lily put on her regular clothes, and smiled as she heard Lily say something that sounded like, "I know".
Lily and Kayla walked up to the front counter so that Lily could give Crystal a way to find her.
"Thank you so much," Lily said for the tenth time before she exited the Dress store. Lily turned towards Kayla with a smile on her face.
"I can't wait until James is able to see me in that dress Kayla! Although it's going to be a couple of months before that can happen, but I just can't wait to see his face!" Lily babbled happily. "But I still need to get the bridesmaid dresses and the flower girl dresses. And then I need to drag James, Sirius, Remus and Kyle (a cousin of James' who is included in the bridal party) to get their tuxes. But other than that, I'm finished with getting everything for the wedding. Now all I have to do is write out the invitations and send them . . . I should probably do those this weekend though. What are you doing this weekend?" Lily asked Kayla, finally pausing in her rant.
"I'm going to be stuck writing invitations with you?" Kayla guessed and received a happy nod from Lily.
Lily opened her mouth to say something, but was cut short by the sound of someone clearing their throat and touching Lily's arm.
Lily looked to her other side and saw Snape standing there looking at with this dazed look on his face. "What do you want Snape?" Lily asked coldly. That seemed to give Snape this dreamy look in his eyes though.
"You looked beautiful in that dress Lily," Snape gushed. Lily's eyes got big. "You saw me?" she asked. Snape nodded his head, causing the greasy tendrils to fall over his eyes. "You were beautiful." He repeated.
Lily shook her head and dislodged her arm from his grip. "Goodbye, Snape," Lily forcibly told him.
"Wait!" he called out to her as she and Kayla started towards a restaurant so that they could get something to eat.
"What?" Lily snapped as she turned around.
Snape began fumbling around in his pockets for something and then with it clasped in his hand, walked over to Lily until he stood directly in front of her.
"You don't need Potter, Lily, I can give you everything that you deserve," Snape started. Lily's eyes had to have shown her anger caused by what he said because he started to tremble lightly. "Well, you see, I have been wanting to do this for a few years now, and I think that it is time that I do so," he continued.
Lily, thinking that he mean to kiss her, backed away from him quickly.
"Lily, will you marry me?" Snape asked.
Lily stood in the middle of the street in Diagon Alley and just looked at Snape like he lost his mind.
Kayla was doubled over holding her sides and laughing uncontrollably.
"Wait until Sirius and James hear about this one," Kayla howled, still laughing.
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Authors Note.
That is the longest chapter that I have ever written! 29 pages. I'm so proud of myself. LOL. Well, I hope that you enjoyed reading this chapter. And I have already begun writing the next chapter, but I have found that I have a problem that is called writers block on it, so I have to ask my friend to help me with ideas.
The next chapter needs to have something to do with Lily's reaction to Snape's proposal, and the passing of time until the night before the wedding. If you have any ideas on what I can do, please leave them in a review, or email them to me at mymonkeygurl21@aol.com . I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
Thank You For Reading,
Mistress del Mare
Chapter 7 -The Wedding Date
James apparated into his study and made his way to the couch. He stopped short when he saw Lily sleeping peacefully on it. 'I wonder how long she is off,' James thought to himself as he picked her up and carried her towards their room.
"Mmm . . . James," Lily mumbled sleepily as she snuggled further into James' warm chest. "Where are you taking me?"
"To be so that you can sleep on something other than a couch," he answered with a quick kiss on her cheek. "Will you stay with me?" Lily asked him quietly. James smiled as he laid her down in the middle of the rich blue of the comforter that laid over their Queen sized bed, and turned down the sheets next to her so that she could get under the sheets. "If you want," he answered as he removed her shoes, socks and robe.
"Will you make love to me?" Lily asked, her eyes still closed.
James stopped in the act of untying the strings that held the green-blue curtains to the gleaming cherry wood post and swallowed. Hard. "If you want," he rasped as he let the curtain fall into place, obscuring the view of the fireplace incase anyone decided to call on them.
"Oh, I want," Lily smiled and opened her eyes languidly.
James looked into Lily's sleep clouded eyes and smiled lovingly at her. He raised his hand and unclasped the button that held the sides of his robe together and shrugged the garment off of his shoulders and off of his arms, leaving the article of clothing to puddle in a heap on the hardwood floor of the room. He stepped closer to the bed and let his eyes wander from her eyes and down her body, which was still clad in the tight, tan button up shirt and tight black jeans, and then slowly dragged his gaze back up her body until their gazes met again. Sapphire blue meets emerald green.
James kneeled on the edge of the bed, and lowered his head, all the while keeping eye contact with Lily. He brushed his lips softly, tenderly, against her soft, warm, pink lips once. Twice. And then a third time. As he pulled back from the brush of lips again, Lily groaned in frustration and lifted her arms from their place at her sides and wrapped them securely around his neck, and tugged his head back down for a kiss.
James smiled a small smile against Lily's lips, and parted them when he felt the tip of her tongue - the tongue that he knew would give him immense pleasure if he let her do so - against his soft, warm lips lightly.
Lily slipped her tongue inside of James' mouth and sighed happily into the warmth to the kiss. James sucked on her tongue before brushing the tip of his over the flat of Lily's tongue.
James slipped a hand slowly under the fabric of Lily's shirt, and tenderly ran his hand up to her naval and rested it there, in that position, his thumb making small, sensual circles around the naval, while the rest of his hand cupped her side. He knew that if he were to put his other hand in the same position on the other side of her naval, his hands would span the entire length of her smooth, flat stomach.
Lily arched wantonly under his hand, trying, urging his hand to move up her ribs and to cup her full breast. When James kept his hand in the same spot, she groaned in frustration. She then lowered her hands from their place around his neck, and slid them down his sides until she came to the hem of the wool maroon sweater that he had put on earlier that morning before heading off to work and tugged it up past his waist, over his chest, and waited until he lifted his arms so that she could get it over his head. Lily sighed with satisfaction as her hands touched his bare chest. She loved his chest. The hard muscle of it, the way the tanned skin rippled at the barest brush of her fingers, the way that the taut muscles would feel against her bare breasts.
She could stare at them for hours. For some reason something about James' chest always made her feel . . . hot, steamy, breathless. And if he was wet all the more better.
James inhaled sharply as Lily allowed her thumb to flick over a hard, erect nipple, and bent down to engage Lily in a hot, passionate kiss, showing her with that kiss just how needy he felt. How much he needed her. James' hand began working hastily on the buttons on her shirt. As soon as he got the piece of clothing off, he quickly ridded her breasts from their confinement of the red lace bra that Lily wore.
James broke their kiss to trail soft, butterfly kisses down her chin, on the line of her jaw until he came to her ear, and he slipped his tongue past his lips to lick at the shell of the ear, then licked a trail to her pulse point, and licked, laved nibbled, and sucked at it until he was fully satisfied that his mark would stay there. He listened to Lily's gasps, took them as a reward, and continued down the white column of her throat, kissing and nibbling at the tissue there.
"James, please." Lily pleaded, but to no avail. James begun sucking at the crock of her neck where it met with her shoulders and she moaned with pleasure.
"Please," Lily begged frantically, wanting, no, needing his mouth on her breast.
James left his current spot and slowly kissed his way down to one of her breasts, licking around the base of her nipple, but never taking the dark red bud into his mouth.
"James!" Lily cried out.
James inwardly grinned and covered the aching rock hard nipple with his warm mouth lovingly.
Lily's hands flew to his hair, and held him there, her grip tight on the silken strands of his hair. She moaned as soon as she felt the sensation of his mouth over her nipple. When his teeth scrapped over the sensitive peak, she groaned, full of pleasure. She gasped as he sucked on the bud, and let out a strangled groan when he repeated the same torture on her opposite breast.
"James," Lily moaned loudly as she felt his fingers graze the underside of her breast, where she happened to be most sensitive to touch. "I want you," she gasped, wanting what she had been too busy in the past twenty days to have. " I need you," she added.
James was sure that he heard Lily talk, but had no clue what she had said, and was too focused on what he was doing to let go of the sweet nipple to ask what she had said.
James lowered himself onto his elbows as he brought his legs onto the bed to straddle Lily's legs and he reluctantly pulled away from her plump, full, firm breast.
James looked at Lily's flushed face. It was thrown back with wild abandonment, cushioned by the pillow behind her head, her red, kiss bruised mouth slightly parted to better breathe and he grinned. He loved it when she looked like this. So . . . needy. Knowing that he was the reason she was like this, that she was needy because of him, and no one else. Knowing that he was the only one who could give her what she so needed. Knowing that no one else would ever be able to give her what he had to give her.
James saw green specks flicker behind her closed eyelids and genteelly ran a fingertip from the middle of her forehead down to the tip of her pretty, small, feminine nose, and brushed it against her lips. She opened her mouth and took the digit into it, sucking on it, running her tongue tantalizingly around it.
James groaned as he felt all blood he had left drop below his belt line. God he was hard for her.
James sat on his haunches, unbuttoned the row of buttons on Lily's pants before he sat up, and tugged the jeans, along with her panties, down her legs, with Lily's help. Leaving Lily totally, blessedly bare to James' wandering gaze as he got off of the bed and swiftly disposed himself of his shoes, socks, the restriction of his black slacks and boxers before joining Lily once again on the bed, not even noticing the appraisal that she gave his body as he stripped.
Lily propped herself on her elbows to better watch James strip himself of the remainder of his clothes. She allowed her gaze to wander down his sculpted chest, watching as the hard lines of his body shifted his every move he made, as his arms contracted. She watched in fascination as the muscles across James' chest drew tight then released, and goggled as he bent over to take his socks off of his feet and she got a very nice view of his back and the muscles in it as they bunched. It wasn't as if she had never seen this, but every time she saw him naked it was like the first time. She was so fascinated by his body that it seemed like it was new to her every time she saw it bared to her eyes.
As James straightened again, and his hands traveled down his body to his belt buckle, Lily let her gaze travel from his chest, down to his flat, hard stomach, and allowed her gaze to linger on his obvious arousal of for her, and continued all the way down to his feet before going through the same journey only in the opposite direction.
Lily looked into James' deep blue eyes until he was straddling her hips. Her eyes then dropped to his mouth, and she licked her lips in anticipation.
James moved one of his legs and nudged it between Lily's slightly parted tanned legs and bent his head to capture her mouth in a sweet kiss as his other leg also settled in between her now spread legs.
James moved one of his hands from it's place near Lily's head and starting from her collar bone, ran his forefinger down her chest, through the valley created by her breasts, down her abdomen, dipped inside of her belly- button, thankful that she didn't have a ring in it at the moment, and then slowly, tantalizingly slowly, slid a finger into her, and then out. He then added another finger and slid them both into her body. His two fingers were engulfed in Lily's sweet, hot, wet heat.
Lily's hips jerked as James slowly moved his fingers in and out of her body in a slow even rhythm. In and out. In. Out. In. And then she gave a sharp, pleasure filled cry as she hit her climax.
When Lily regained enough of her senses she realized that James had entered her while she was recovering from her orgasm. Lily groaned and lifted her still hips off of the bed to grind against his hipbone to get him to start moving.
James looked down at Lily's flushed face as he pulled himself almost all of the way out of her body before he thrust himself deeply back into her body. James paused. "Lil," he gasped hoarsely. "Open your eyes, share with me." He requested.
Lily fought to open her eyes, and when she finally managed, she was staring into two blue orbs. She then let herself go free, and allowed her magic to run free, surround them, engulf them and sighed in content as she felt the power of James' magic join hers, making them complete as one.
James locked his gaze with Lily's and started to move. Slowly at first, barely moving his hips at all. He moved in slow, controlled thrusts, and Lily's hips instinctively caught the rhythm and she moved with him.
It didn't take much until Lily was crying out James' name in utter abandonment as she peaked again, this time more forcibly, her walls clenching around James as her spasms went through her body.
The tightening of Lily's walls around James' member was too much and he followed suit, releasing himself inside of her before collapsing on top of her body, their sweat mingling, and chests heaving in harmony.
"Oh God," Lily mumbled happily, contentedly, a few minutes later as she stroked James' back in lazy motions.
Lily trailed her lightly down James' spine, making him shiver at the sensation. Lily nuzzled her face in the crook of James' neck happily and inhaled his scent. Ocean air, sweat, male, and cologne. She could always tell when it was James because of his scent. No one else that she had ever come across had ever had this unique smell that was James and James alone.
James chuckled lightly and summoned enough energy - barely - to roll over onto his back, bringing Lily along with him so that she was sprawled on top of him, her legs in a tangled mess with his, her arms resting loosely behind his neck, and her face still snuggled in the crock of his neck.
Seeing as the blankets had already been pulled back, James pulled the warmth of the covers over their quickly cooling body from the night breeze that managed to creep into the house.
"James?" Lily asked as she moved around to get comfortable on James' body.
"Hmmm?" he replied while lazily stroking Lily's back and neck, then continuing up to tangle in the auburn mass of Lily's hair before stroking back down Lily's back.
"When do you think that we should set our wedding date? We have everything else done already besides the clothes. I mean we've picked the flower arrangements, the Cathedral, the decorations, we've already gotten a contract with a catering business, and contracts for God knows what else, we've got the reception area, we've made up the guest list, but we don't have a date." Lily explained, finding it a little weird that she brought this up after just having mind-blowing sex with James.
James thought about this for a few minutes. It was true since he had asked her to marry him back in June all they had been doing was planning for the wedding, and they had been trying to think of a date before he had gotten sent away, and lately she had been too busy to even start to think of her wedding. "How about during winter? You've always liked that season. Like maybe sometime during December so that we could be back from our Honeymoon before Christmas." James suggested.
Lily pondered on that and nodded her head at the suggestion. "How about the 10th? That leaves us exactly two weeks before Christmas, and if we return on Christmas Eve, we won't miss the celebrations with our families."
"That's perfect," James told her, but at the moment, she could have said that she wanted to have the wedding in two days time and he would have said the same thing. He was just too damn satiated to be anything but agreeable.
"Mmm," was all that came from Lily as she started to fall asleep, the missing hours starting to catch up with her, that and being weighed down by the after affects of satisfying sex was too much for her, and she found herself giving herself over to the sandman.
James kissed Lily's head and whispered a goodnight before quickly falling asleep too.
~*~*~*~*~*~ A/N: for those of you who didn't read that, James and Lily had just set the wedding date for December 10.
Beep, Beep, Beep! A sound started into the quiet room.
Lily woke up, rolled out of James' arms, and over on to her back, and groped around the surface of her nightstand table and slapped the off button on the alarm clock. She then rolled back over into James' arms and nestled her head on his shoulder.
"I 'spose we need to get up," James yawned as he pulled Lily closer to his side.
"I don't wanna get up," Lily pouted and cuddled deeper into James' body. James laughed at Lily's tone and shook his head. Lily frowned, poked him with her forefinger in between his ribs, and asked him, "What's so funny?"
"Nothing," James smartly told her. "How about you make breakfast and I grab a shower? Unless, you'd care to join me in the shower, then I say the hell with food." James asked hopefully. She had never shared a shower with him before, and he couldn't help but being a little curious as to what it would be like. Making love to her as the water pounded over their heads, steam creeping around their bodies, water making it's way down their skin, Lily's legs wrapped tightly around his hips as he thrust into her time and time again, the water and soap making his entrances smooth and easier, sucking on her breasts, wet and glistening with water, the taste on her and the water mixed together on his tongue, and her wet hair turning brown from the water tangled in his fists as he anchored her to him so that she didn't slid all over the tiled wall of the shower.
James blinked rapidly, and noticed that his usual morning state wasn't so usual anymore. His fantasy had made him hard. Really hard, he corrected himself as he felt Lily shift her body closer to his erection.
Lily raised her eyebrows at the feel of James' reaction to his fantasy and looked at him. "That must have been one hell of a dream you had last night, baby," she smirked. "But as promising as that shower sounds, we would both end up being late for work if I was to share your shower with you. But who knows, I might just want another shower tonight," she winked as she got up and walked towards the closet to get her sea green robe off of it's hook in the closet.
James groaned and watched as Lily picked her robe up and enjoyed the view of her backside. And mainly her ass and legs. James sighed with displeasure as she covered her beautiful body with the silk robe. "Very well," James sighed and resigned himself to a cold shower.
Lily giggled a little and walked out of their room. Just as she reached the staircase, she heard the shower turn on. Lily walked down the stairs and then headed towards the kitchen.
''What do I feel like cooking?'' Lily asked herself as she stood in front of the open refrigerator door. Lily tapped her foot on the maroon and white tiles beneath her feet as she thought. "Fuck it we'll just have pancakes and bacon," she decided and then proceeded to pull out the makings.
By the time James had entered the kitchen, the table had been set, there was coffee and orange juice was in the middle of the table that they had set up in the kitchen so that it wasn't necessary to always eat in the large dinning room. James was dressed in loose dark blue jeans, and a white long sleeved shirt, his hair was still dripping wet from his shower, and he smelled like he always did. Lily was just finishing up the last of the pancake batter as she heard him get a cup from the cupboard for some orange juice. And as is his habit, he will have one glass of orange juice, and then change over to coffee.
"God you're beautiful, you know that?" James complimented as he set down his cup and came from behind Lily, wound his arms around her small waist, and pulled her back against his chest.
Lily had just turned the burner off, lifted a hand to his hair, and ran her fingers through the thick, wet, silken strands. "You should dry your hair, love," she murmured as she pulled away from him, picked up the plate of pancakes and bacon, and carried them over to the table.
Lily set the plates down on the tabletop, grabbed her wand from her robe pocket and with a swish of her wand she placed a warming spell on the food. Lily bent down and kissed the crown of James' head. "I'm going to grab my shower now," she said as James began to pile food onto his plate. James nodded his head, trying to hurriedly swallow his orange juice to say something as he drenched his pancakes with the maple syrup. By the time James had managed to swallow, Lily was already out the door, so James shrugged his shoulders and ate his breakfast.
Lily shook her head in amusement as she walked towards the bathroom in the Master bedroom. She slipped off the robe, discarded it on the floor, and turned the water to warm and stepped underneath the pounding rainfall of water that came from the faucet. She washed off the sweat and sex from last night quickly and turned off the shower.
As she stepped out of the shower stall, she saw James standing in the doorway leaning against the doorjamb with his arms across his chest. Lily raised an eyebrow at him as she wrapped a towel around her body and walked over to the sink, picked up her toothbrush and after applying the toothpaste, began to brush her teeth.
"I brought your food up. It's on the table in the room," James told her as his gaze was busy following the path of a single water drop and he swallowed uncomfortably as he saw it disappear under the towel. James closed his eyes and imagined the path that that drop of water would take if the towel hadn't absorbed it.
Lily just nodded her thanks and watched James watching her. Or, more accurately following the path of a droplet of water that was on her skin. Lily rinsed her mouth out, put her toothbrush away, and made her way towards James.
"May I?" she asked as she stood before him.
"For a kiss," James bargained.
Lily smiled and raised herself onto her toes and settled her lips on his. She gave his bottom lip a light nip and a lick before backing down onto the flats of her feet.
James opened his eyes and groaned. He knew that that was all that she was going to give him. James reluctantly moved out of her way, made his way towards the bed, and sat near the footboard.
Lily took a couple of quick bites from her food and walked towards their closet and threw open the doors. She walked inside and looking at her side tried to find something to wear. She decided on a pair of tight gray pants, and a dark emerald green turtle neck sweater. She really didn't want everybody to see the massive hickey she had on her throat from James.
Lily walked back into the room and laid her clothes on the dresser and taking the tube of lotion off of the long cherry dresser, applied the sharp smelling lotion to her body. Next, she sprayed herself with her perfume which smelled like night jasmine, and then she took out a silk green bra that was cut low to show off the flesh of her breast, and matching underwear. She slipped on the underwear with the towel still on, and then disposed of the towel as she clasped her bra in one go behind her back. She slipped her arms through the straps and then shook her pants out before stepping into them. Lily was aware that James was watching her every move, but that didn't mean that she was going to go slower than she needed to, or torment the poor guy. She zipped and buttoned the pants up then slipped on the turtleneck sweater before walking over one of the chairs that was around the small table in the corner of the room to put her socks and shoes on.
Lily sat up straight and then turned towards her breakfast. She ate half of it then got back up and went into the bathroom to brush out her hair and put it up into a ponytail.
When she came back out, James was still in the same spot.
Lily smiled, walked over to him, and sat down in his lap. "I love you, James," she told him.
James smiled down at her and wrapped his arms around her body. "I love you too, Lily," he told her.
"And on December 10 I'm going to become your wife."
James smiled happily and nodded his head. That means that in four months, Lily and he would be legally married.
Lily smiled and got up off of his lap. "If you want, you can finish my breakfast," she told him with a wave of her hand towards her half eaten breakfast, "but I'm off to work so that I can get a longer lunch today."
James stood up and nodded his head as he walked over to where Lily was picking up her jacket. "Okay, I'll see you tonight?" he asked as he hugged her.
"Yes, you will," Lily grinned up at him. "I love you."
"I love you too," James replied before letting her go so that she could apparate into her office.
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"Come on Kayla!" Lily Evans begged her best friend five minutes before break. "I know that you have a three hour lunch break today! Everybody except the heads of the departments do! And I want to find my dress!" Lily cried.
"Okay," the raven-haired girl finally gave in.
"Thank you!" Lily sang happily as she threw her arms around the black haired, gray eyed version of herself.
"Are we going to get going or not?" Kayla grumbled, trying to act mad, but failing miserably. Lily's good moods were always contagious.
Lily dragged Kayla into Diagon Alley and went straight towards the Bridal Dress Makers store.
Lily entered the store and began to look around. She knew what kind of dress that she wanted, but so far, she hadn't been able to find it.
"Good morning, Ladies, how may I be of service to you?" an elderly woman with graying hair and wrinkling skin asked Lily and Kayla as they walked in. Lily turned towards the lady and extended her hand. "Hello. I'm looking for a wedding dress," Lily told the lady as she shook her hand.
"Then you have come to the right place," the saleswoman informed. "Do you know what you are looking for in a dress, or do you just wish to look around?"
Lily looked at the woman with a smile. She was the only one so far who hadn't thought that they knew what would be best for Lily's figure and started to pile gowns on her. "Yes, I do know what I'm looking for, but it seems as if no one has the style that I want," Lily confided with a smile. "Well, if we don't have it, we also design dresses. So if you don't find a satisfactory dress already here in the store, we may design one for you," the saleswoman informed Lily with pride.
"By the way, I'm Lily and this is my best friend, Kayla," Lily introduced. The older woman smiled at them and with a nod of her head said, "And my name is Crystal." Kayla, deciding to finally talk said, "It's a pleasure to meet you. And I do believe that you will be seeing more of me sometime in the future." Kayla said with a rare smile.
Crystal looked at Kayla. "Are you getting married too?" she asked Kayla. Kayla nodded her head and explained, "We haven't set the date yet, and we wanted to get one wedding out of the way before we start planning the next."
Crystal congratulated Kayla on her engagement, and then began to question Lily on her gown.
"Well, about three years ago I saw this woman getting fitted for a dress in a dressmakers shop in Florence, and ever since then I've lusted after that dress. But the problem is, I can't find that particular dressmaker again.
"The dress itself is made out of ivory silk, it's sleeveless, and flows down ones body in shimmering waves. The skirt of the dress isn't too full, but it also isn't pin straight, it comes to rest maybe two inches away from the body. It has no train, but lace is attached to the skirt of the dress as a separate layer so that it drapes over the silk, and it also parts slightly in the front of the dress, but not enough to tell unless I'm moving. Did that part make any sense?" Lily paused to ask. She knew what she was talking about, but she didn't know if the dressmaker did. Crystal nodded her head, and waved her hand at Lily to continue. "Right, the top part of the dress is a corseted bodice with beads and lace embroidery."
Crystal nodded her head and made her way towards the back of the store. Lily and Kayla didn't know if they were supposed to follow her or stay where they were, so they figured that they were safer staying in one spot. "Well, are you coming or not!" the lady questioned from the other end of the store.
Lily looked at Kayla and shrugged her shoulders before heading towards the voice of the saleswoman. As soon as Lily rounded the corner she gasped. There was here dress, exactly how she remembered it! "That's it," Lily whispered in astonishment.
"If that doesn't fit, it can be sized, can't it?" Kayla asked, for once being the sensible one. Crystal nodded her head in response. "Can you get that down so that we may see what it looks like on her?" Crystal nodded her head once again and began the process of riding the manikin of the dress.
Kayla pushed Lily towards one of the dressing rooms and told her to strip, which Lily did with this sort with eagerness that brought a smile to Kayla's lips. Kayla went back into the store part and retrieved the dress from Crystal's arms and returned to Lily. Kayla helped Lily put the dress on, and buttoned up the row of buttons on the back of the dress.
"It's a little loose on you," Kayla commented as she pulled the fabric tighter around Lily's upper body to see what the dress would like when it was tight. "But it looks good on you," she commented.
Lily stepped out of the dressing room, her arm holding the top up and stood on the raised platform so that Crystal could mark where the dress needed to be taken in, and as the length was too long for Lily's body, she also made note of how much of the material needed to be hemmed.
"Is that all?" Lily asked as she was sent back into the changing room to change.
"Yes, my dear, that is all that that requires. But I'm going to need you to come back in three days so that I can fit you again with the improvements," Crystal told Lily over the privacy of the changing screen.
"Okay, I can do that."
"What's with the hickey, Lils?" Kayla asked with a grin as she indicated the slightly purple circle on Lily's neck.
Lily blushed and knowing that Kayla would get it out of her somehow decided to just tell her the truth. "James. Last night." Was all that she said before Kayla grinned knowingly. "So, did you leave him with one in return?" Kayla asked, knowing that Lily liked to leave marks on James. Lily shook her head regretfully. "I was more concentrated on him finishing is job than giving him a hickey, and plus, I didn't see it until this morning," she informed her friend.
Kayla laughed and shook her head mournfully at her friend. "Too bad," she joked as she took the dress from Lily's outstretched hands.
Kayla exited the changing room with Lily's dress in hand while Lily put on her regular clothes, and smiled as she heard Lily say something that sounded like, "I know".
Lily and Kayla walked up to the front counter so that Lily could give Crystal a way to find her.
"Thank you so much," Lily said for the tenth time before she exited the Dress store. Lily turned towards Kayla with a smile on her face.
"I can't wait until James is able to see me in that dress Kayla! Although it's going to be a couple of months before that can happen, but I just can't wait to see his face!" Lily babbled happily. "But I still need to get the bridesmaid dresses and the flower girl dresses. And then I need to drag James, Sirius, Remus and Kyle (a cousin of James' who is included in the bridal party) to get their tuxes. But other than that, I'm finished with getting everything for the wedding. Now all I have to do is write out the invitations and send them . . . I should probably do those this weekend though. What are you doing this weekend?" Lily asked Kayla, finally pausing in her rant.
"I'm going to be stuck writing invitations with you?" Kayla guessed and received a happy nod from Lily.
Lily opened her mouth to say something, but was cut short by the sound of someone clearing their throat and touching Lily's arm.
Lily looked to her other side and saw Snape standing there looking at with this dazed look on his face. "What do you want Snape?" Lily asked coldly. That seemed to give Snape this dreamy look in his eyes though.
"You looked beautiful in that dress Lily," Snape gushed. Lily's eyes got big. "You saw me?" she asked. Snape nodded his head, causing the greasy tendrils to fall over his eyes. "You were beautiful." He repeated.
Lily shook her head and dislodged her arm from his grip. "Goodbye, Snape," Lily forcibly told him.
"Wait!" he called out to her as she and Kayla started towards a restaurant so that they could get something to eat.
"What?" Lily snapped as she turned around.
Snape began fumbling around in his pockets for something and then with it clasped in his hand, walked over to Lily until he stood directly in front of her.
"You don't need Potter, Lily, I can give you everything that you deserve," Snape started. Lily's eyes had to have shown her anger caused by what he said because he started to tremble lightly. "Well, you see, I have been wanting to do this for a few years now, and I think that it is time that I do so," he continued.
Lily, thinking that he mean to kiss her, backed away from him quickly.
"Lily, will you marry me?" Snape asked.
Lily stood in the middle of the street in Diagon Alley and just looked at Snape like he lost his mind.
Kayla was doubled over holding her sides and laughing uncontrollably.
"Wait until Sirius and James hear about this one," Kayla howled, still laughing.
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Authors Note.
That is the longest chapter that I have ever written! 29 pages. I'm so proud of myself. LOL. Well, I hope that you enjoyed reading this chapter. And I have already begun writing the next chapter, but I have found that I have a problem that is called writers block on it, so I have to ask my friend to help me with ideas.
The next chapter needs to have something to do with Lily's reaction to Snape's proposal, and the passing of time until the night before the wedding. If you have any ideas on what I can do, please leave them in a review, or email them to me at mymonkeygurl21@aol.com . I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
Thank You For Reading,
Mistress del Mare