Lily was standing out on the terrace of her and James' room one night when she realized that in three days she would become Mrs. James Potter. She smiled at the thought. It was everything that she wanted. To know that she was James' for the rest of their lives.
"What are you smiling about?" James asked her as he slid his arms around her waist from behind.
Lily rested her hands over his and continued to gaze at the roaring waves. "That in three days I become your wife," she told him truthfully. James chuckled, his breath fanning over her ear. "But you already are my wife in every way but one," he smiled. This time Lily laughed. "And to me that is one important way. I want to be yours by name Jamsie, and in three days I will be."
James nuzzled Lily's neck, inwardly smiling. For Lily to say that she wanted to belong to someone was . . . shocking to say the least. "I love you, Lillian," James whispered into her soft and warm neck.
"I love you too, James."
James slid one of his hands under her – well actually his – sweater and ran his fingertips over the soft muscles of her stomach. "Can I have my sweater back now?" he questioned as his other hand left her waist to tug on the overlarge sweater. "Mmm . . . but then what would I wear?" she asked coyly. James grinned. "Hmm . . . how about nothing. I must say that I prefer you to wear that," he murmured, his voice sounding musical.
Lily gasped as the cold air touched her warm skin when James lifted the sweater over her head and threw it somewhere over his shoulder. Lily turned around and became half giddy when her bare breasts touched his bare chest. "Seems like I like you that way too," she purred as her fingers knowingly divested him of his pants. "Now, why don't we continue this in our room?" she asked as she turned and with James' arms still around her, lead the way to the bed.
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The next day, Lily and James laid in bed late at night and basked in the bliss that had settled over them since they retired that night.
"Why can't I see you at all tomorrow?" James whined for the millionth time since he heard of the twenty-four hour tradition.
Lily grinned sleepily. He sounded so cute when he whined. "Because it's considered bad luck for the marriage if the bride and groom see each other twenty-four hours before the ceremony," she explained patiently.
"But we already know that we'll love each other for the rest of our lives. And I want to make love to you tomorrow night," he whined again as he caressed her side. With her curled on her side, and her head resting on his shoulder, James could think of nothing else besides lifting her astride him and –
"You can make love to me, ravish me, anything you want to do to me – after the wedding reception," she soothed. "But that is in almost two days!" he groaned. "Wait," he grinned. "Does that include taking you in the shower?" Lily laughed lightly. "If you wish," she told him.
"Oh, I wish," he said with feeling.
"Good, now, go to sleep," Lily demanded as she curled into James' heat. Amazingly enough, James did as he was told. For once.
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The next day found James in a mad mood. He wanted his soon-to-be wife. Badly. She had escaped the house before he had even waken this morning, leaving him a note in her absence saying that she promised to fulfill every fantasy and more as soon as they got to where they were spending their honeymoon. That was the one thing that James made sure that she had no hand in planning. The honeymoon was all his idea. And he knew that she would love the beauty of the Grecian Islands.
"James snap out of it!" Sirius yelled at his friend.
James jumped out of the kitchen chair and glared at Sirius as soon as he realized who it was. he hadn't even known that Sirius was here.
"Since you're back to the living now, may we please start your bachelor party?" Sirius asked impatiently. James raised his eyebrows. Sirius seemed a little . . . excited about what was to happen. "What are we doing?" James asked as he followed Sirius to the front door. Sirius grinned mysteriously. "You'll see as soon as you hurry your ass up!" he yelled. James chuckled and grabbed his jacket before heading out the door. "Finally," Sirius muttered as he grabbed onto James' arm and apparated to a club that Sirius had booked for him, James, Remus, Kyle, and some of their buddies from school.
"You brought me to a strip club?!"
"Yep," Sirius nodded. "Lily is going to kill you if she finds out about this Sirius Black. And don't you dare think that I'm going to stop her from doing it." James informed Sirius.
"What Lily doesn't know won't hurt her now will it?" Sirius commented before pushing James into the building. "The thing that I'm scared about is that she will find out," James muttered under his breath.
Truth be told, the only girl he felt like watching strip was one particular Lily Evans.
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Lily's last day as an unmarried woman was spent going back in time with her friends. She was in Ireland – where she still didn't know, in her hotel with her best friends have a slumber party of sorts.
"I remember the time that Bryan Fletcher came up to you Kayla, asking you out. I swear that that had to have been the most amusing thing that I have ever seen in my whole life!" Aria giggled.
Kayla scowled. She remembered that too. She had been balancing herself on a trimming of wood by the lake when he had popped out from nowhere and asked her out. She had lost her balance and was failing her arms madly trying to gain purchase when Bryan grabbed her by the waist and pulled her to him. She had looked up to say thank you and he had kissed her. Kayla then proceeded to levitate him to the middle of the lake and dropped him from five feet above the water surface, creating a huge splash. "It wasn't my fault he kissed me," Kayla muttered darkly. It took weeks living the taunts down. People asking if she did that to all guys who found interest in her and worked enough courage to kiss her.
"Sure it wasn't," Lily laughed good-naturedly.
Kayla scowled at Lily then smiled devilishly. 'I have been spending too much time around Sirius,' Kayla thought as she looked at Lily. "You've had worse if I remember right. 5th year, right before the end of the school year, Amos Diggory asked you to teach him Quidditch Techniques and you had agreed. It ended up that you two had different ideas of what Quidditch Techniques were, because he made a move on you and you screamed your heart out at him, not even noticing as you were stalking towards him that he was close to the edge of the field and pushed him over, making him sprain his wrist." Kayla smirked as Lily's cheeks tinted red.
"I didn't know that the edge was close! I was too mad to pay attention!" Lily defended herself.
Kayla just laughed at her along with Aria's giggles.
Lily looked at Aria. "You know," Lily said thoughtfully. "We have nothing on Aria here. Nothing at all," Lily grinned.
Kayla looked at Aria too and slowly began to grin.
Aria gulped. She knew what was coming. Just as she started to get up so that she could make her get away, Lily and Kayla pounced.
"Stop! Stop! Oh, please stop! It tickles!" Aria cried in desperation. She hated being so ticklish.
"Tell us and we will," Lily said in a sing-song voice.
Aria shook her head furiously. "Never!"
"Then we will just have to keep on tickling," Kayla grinned.
"No! Please, anything anything but tickling!" Aria cried out.
"Tell us," Lily probed.
"Okay, okay, just stop tickling me!" she screamed in surrender.
Lily and Kayla immediately stopped. Only to be hit savagely with two full feather pillows in the head. The two girls looked at each other in astonishment, and then at Aria and grinned. Grabbing pillows themselves, they began the last of many pillow fights as unmarried girls.
Gasping, panting, and giggling, the three girls sprawled on the bed in exhaustion. It was 11:52 p.m. and in eight minutes, it would be Lily's wedding day.
'In 11 hours, I'm going to be getting married!' Lily thought in excitement before falling asleep.
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Authors Note: I want to say thank you to Shewhodares for the warning she gave me. Don't worry, I'm not going to stop this story just because someone tells me that I'm should be ashamed to be writing in this particular rating. But thank you for the warning. I appreciate it.
And I would also like to thank LunaCat007 for her idea for the last chapter. I forgot to mention that in my last chapter. She was the one who came up with the brilliant idea for a fight.
I would also like to thank every one of you who have reviewed so far. I appreciate it.
I should have the next chapter out sometime with in the week. Sorry for the delay on it, but I want to think about all the details I need to put in it so that you all won't get confused.
Mistress del Mare