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Seems Like Forever by pInQuiLLus
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Last time on 'Seems Like Forever'
"Sorry," muttered Lucy and Sirius as they began to dust off dust that wasn't there.
They were blushing! How cute! Lucy was helping Sirius get some of that lipstick that was stuck on his cheek while Lucy was holding on to him. They both laughed. Everybody laughed.
'What a cute laugh,' thought Sirius.
'What a cute grin,' thought Lucy. She was still trying to wipe off that lip mark on his cheek.
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Chapter 7: 2-Day
It was Friday morning and Lily, Lucy, and Bella were at the Great Hall eating their breakfast. Just then Professor Lovegood came up to the front of the Great Hall for an announcement.
"Attention students!" hushed Professor McGonagall. Everybody slowly stopped talking.
"Hem hem. Yes, this message goes to all 7th years. I don't know if I confused any of you with the dates of the wedding ceremony but some students thought it was today and some thought it was tomorrow. This announcement is to inform you that the wedding is on Saturday. It will be in the assembly place of the hotel apartment. It's specially enlarged because the whole school will be attending your special wedding!" said Professor Lovegood sweetly.
"Oh! Fun…" muttered Lucy unhappily.
"Yes, and I would like to also remind the ladies to already choose their flower girl/bridesmaid and the men to choose their ring bearer or a best man with the engagement rings. These applicants may not be in the same level as you, of course. We extended the wedding to be at 6 p.m. since some lazy people haven't got the time to shop. If you are one of those people, you would have a chance to choose your attire tomorrow in Hogsmeade. It will take around 2 hours for the ceremony to end and then at 8 p.m. the reception will begin but the 6th years and lower will remain in the Great Hall for dinner except the Prefects," explained Professor Lovegood.
It was entirely confusing for the students even if Professor Lovegood was speaking in a profound but whiny tone.
"Well that's all I got to say and I expect that everybody will follow it," sighed Professor Lovegood as she walked off.
"Have you gotten your dresses already?" asked Lucy.
"Yep," answered Bella.
"No," cried Lily.
"What? Well Luce and I will be happy to help you!" said Bella giddily.
"Yeah! And after we go shopping tomorrow, we'll go get ready with Heather, Christy, and Linda -" suggested Lucy but was interrupted by two 'men' behind her.
"Tsk tsk, Evans. Being Head Girl means you must be organized and responsible -" explained James.
"Speak for yourself!" said Lily quite exasperated. "And would you stop tsking for heaven's sake! It's driving me crazy!" shouted Lily.
"Well, in that case: Tsk tsk…" continued James mockingly as Lily was getting up to try and strike him (but was shoved down by Bella.)
"And you say I need Anger Management…" muttered James to Sirius, the other 'man' behind Lucy.
"You still do, Prongs," cheered Sirius while he took a seat next to Lucy. "Anyways Hayden, just
dropped by to ask you 'what's up?'" Lucy looked up at him strangely.
(A/N: Sorry but I just couldn't resist some LH/SB action here!)
"What's your problem? Asking me 'what's up?' There's something to this and all I got to say is to shove that up you ass!" challenged Lucy.
"Okay, okay, you caught me," kidded Sirius. Lucy looked at him suspiciously.
"Well, just wanted to remind you that there is a special place just for you in the M Girls Club…well mine anyway," reminded Sirius.
"I rather drop dead than join that ironic 'club'. God knows that death is better than that horrid cult," spitted Lucy angrily.
"Excuse me but they are my ladies -" said Sirius.
"You mean whores?" corrected Lily. Lucy grinned.
"No! A better term would be mistresses, it's more elegant than whores," continued Sirius. Lily, Bella, and James were just watching in amusement, they looked like such a cute couple.
"Whatever! Just know that I am NEVER going to join to be your 'mistress'. It's disgusting! I rather date Snape to show you how disgusted I am with you," said Lucy coolly. She was cool about that except the part with Snape, like honestly, she didn't want to be seen that desperate to kiss that grease ball.
"Oh really!" smirked Sirius as he lifted up Lucy to place her on his lap.
"Get me off! Get me off! Get me offffff!" yelled Lucy in mercy.
"Well if you really want to date Snape, I would be glad to hook you up with him, I know he won't refuse," said Sirius as he was trying to wrap her up so she wouldn't escape. Lucy stopped struggling after she heard that and plastered on a bigger smirk and looked straight at him.
"If you want to then go ahead. But I must warn you, I mean wouldn't it seem bad for you that *gasps* Snape would have succeeded to get a date with me instead of you! Now, now Black we wouldn't want anything to happen to your reputation, now would we?" reasoned Lucy coolly while fixing Sirius' collar. Sirius glared at her angrily.
'Damn! She has a point; I thought she was going to bail! Smart one' thought Sirius angrily.
"Bitch. You know you are one," stated Sirius randomly.
"Well you know," said Lucy as she crossed her arms and plopped her elbows on Sirius' broad shoulders carefully, "that you really do not know what a bitch stands for."
"Uh, yeah, I do," said Sirius like it was the most obvious thing in the world, "it's a female -"
"Nope! It stands for BEING IN TOTAL CONTROL of HIM!" stated Lucy simply.
"That's silly," grinned Sirius childishly (because Lucy was actually touching him) and also because what Lucy stated to him, did not make any sense at all to him.
"That's silly because that would abbreviate to BITCOH!" said Sirius (cutely). Lucy dropped her arms.
"You are so stupid!" cried Lucy.
"I'm stupid? You don't get even know what that word meant? And you call me stupid?" said Sirius faking his sad tone.
"Oh shut it and YES, YES, YES to your question," said Lucy (who, may I add, is still mounted on Sirius…of course she forgot about that.)
"Well, I will look it up in the dictionary to prove it to you," said Sirius quite seriously (no pun intended).
"Do you even know what a dictionary is?" asked Lucy lazily.
"No…but I saw it in the movies and I thought it was intelligent to say…" pouted Sirius sticking out his bottom lip. Lucy, of course, found that incredibly cute, but she didn't go overboard to kiss him or anything…
"Aww…did I hurt your feelings?" cooed Lucy. Sirius nodded slowly, faking his sadness. Bella, Lily, and James were hardly succeeding to hold on to their laughter. Those two seemed like they were flirting since they were both grinning and smirking and smiling…
"Keep that pouting gesture and girls would just go crazy pinching your cheeks." Sirius gasped to the horror and placed both his hands on his cheeks firmly as a shield. He smirked.
"Even you?" said Sirius as he wiggled his eyebrows sexily.
"Keep dreaming," said Lucy simply as she turned around to continue eating her breakfast.
"Dream about you pinching my cheeks? Now, I had better dreams…" said Sirius.
"Good for you, but it's none of my business, so you can keep that to yourself or share it with your buddies," said Lucy, scared to know what he actually dreamt about.
"Maybe not! But you're sometimes in my dreams, doing…ahem…unspeakable things…" smirked Sirius while wiggling his eyebrows again. Lucy gasped horrified and tried to get away from him when he wasn't looking but Sirius had a fast mind, hugging her ever so tightly.
"Black! Let go of me this instant!" ordered Lucy throwing her head back in frustration.
"Not until you say, 'Oh Sirius! You are the most desirable man living on Earth and I want you to kiss me,'" mimicked Sirius giddily.
"I rather eat fish!" challenged Lucy.
"You don't eat fish?"
"No I do not!"
"Well, I'm not letting you go!!!" grinned Sirius. Lucy then stopped and crossed her arms to pout.
"Now, look who's the cute one? Doesn't she look adorable, Jamesie?" asked Sirius while moving Lucy's chin in every direction. Of course, James couldn't answer to the question since he just exploded into fits of laughter, followed by everyone around them. Lucy blushed.
"Get your filthy hands off me, god knows where those have been," said Lucy as she slapped off his hands. "Classes will start soon…Bella, Lily would you stop cackling, it's really scary!"
Just then Sirius came closer and whispered to her ear, "You know you should laugh more, all that frowning is distorting your face." Lucy hmphed and raised her nose.
"I do to laugh, but your presence really doesn't help, does it? Well I guess when you're making a fool of yourself, which is by the way, all the time…then yes, I do laugh at you," said Lucy certainly. Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Evans, is she ticklish?" asked Sirius curiously, but we all know his curiosity leads from one thing to another.
"What makes you think I'll tell you?" asked Lily standing loyal to her friend.
"Sirius…" started Lucy, "keep your hands down to where I can see them," warned Lucy. Sirius backed down but then started tickling Lucy lightly on the neck and just went crazy with the tickling. (A/N: Sirius is not sexually harassing her, just a little harmless fun!) Lucy, a very tickling person, was bursting out with laughter; unable to control herself, caught the attention of most of the students, particularly Sirius' female fans, who in turn, were bubbling with anger and envy. Sirius finally stopped and Lucy relaxed. Her stomach hurt from all that laughing.
"Black, I really need to get to classes!" pleaded Lucy.
"Why don't you call me Sirius!" whined Sirius.
"'Cause I don't wanna!" whimpered Lucy.
"Say my name, say my name. If no one is around you, say baby I love you, if you ain't runnin' game. Say my name, say my name, you actin' kinda shady, ain't callin' me baby, better say my name…!" sang Sirius rather croakily, yet his fans love it.
"Okay, okay!" shouted Lucy. Lucy gripped his collar and looked at him and whimpered, "Please Sirius, let me go, I beg of you!" and she hugged for more dramatic exposure. Sirius stopped and unleashed Lucy who quickly ran as fast as she could. Lily and Bella followed suit. When Lucy almost walked through the doors, Sirius called out, "Hey, Luce? Remember, dreams come true!" Remus and James snickered. Lucy came up and slapped him once more and really left after that. Then they left altogether for classes.
"She digs me, alright!" commented Sirius.
"It shows too much, Padfoot, it shows right too much," agreed Remus patting him in the back.
Sirius smirked, "I'm going to have a great year, making her year, a living hell."
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The next day was Saturday, 'the day when two souls become one. So these two people will become one, do things as one, act as one, and to share each other's feelings as one…' (A/N: Okay, Professor Lovegood was going to say that anyway and I didn't know what to really write…Shhh!!! I don't plagiarize…At least I don't think so anyway.)
The day started like when a dance or a ball was going to be scheduled that day, but no…it was worse, even the guys were chewing their nails.
"Sirius, stop biting your nails! It's driving the rest of us crazy!" shouted James. (A/N: Okay, maybe just one…)
"Hey! You're doing it too!" whined Sirius annoyingly. James immediately withdrew his fingers from his mouth. (A/N: Maybe two…) The wizards were just as about nervous as the witches. Of course, the guys didn't really care about their image since they already considered themselves beautiful…I mean handsome. They were just nervous because they only found out the previous day to do a little 'vow' to their future wives. Of course, they all went ballistic, especially the most charming wizards.
(In the boys' dormitories…)
"I can't believe I have to compose and recite two ridiculous sentences to Miss Haten. What am I suppose to say and make everyone believe I wrote it? Huh? Like all that mushy stuff, it doesn't go with Hayden! She does not deserve those two ludicrous and preposterous sentences," shouted Sirius angrily.
"I seriously think that Professor Dumbledore is denying the fact that Lovegood is or always has been crazy. You just can't fix her up. It's impossible! I wouldn't be surprised if she had a granddaughter named Loony Lovegood! For heaven's sake!" spitted James.
"It's just so sudden!" said a boy.
"I know! All the girls have already done their vows! Apparently, while we're thinking up what to say that won't make us look like complete idiots, Remus here, wanted, and I repeat, wanted, to actually vow something to Miss Arabella Figg!" half-shouted James.
"Would you stop exaggerating the pronunciation!?" said Remus annoyed.
"Not until you hook up, snog, and dump her, so you can stop acting so – so nice," said James disgusted. Remus stared at him with his eyelids three-quarters closed lazily. "You have to be manly! We mature wizards – or men, don't cry, beg, or vow. It's just not how we work! We're gentlemen!"
"Gentlemen, my arse," said Remus feeling hysterical. All the wizards in the dormitory gasped. "What?"
"You said, arse," cried Sirius in horror. Remus looked up at them unbelieving.
"Anyways, she deserves it, she's -" started Remus gently.
"Oh no!" cried James.
"What?" said a boy.
"I think Remus is gradually turning into Sirius! Moony's going to give that 'She's Different" speech, as we have all heard Sirius," explained James. Everybody groaned. (p.s. no girls are in there)
"She is!" said Remus rising up his voice.
"I've got it!" eureked (A/N: not a word, but I couldn't find a verb that would describe 'Eureka')
Sirius.
"What?"
"I know! They always put something sensitive in the Muggle romance novels! But where are we going to get -" started Sirius then smiled mischievously and fluttered his eyelashes, "Of course! Oh Moooooooony, may your best buddy -"
"As long as you get off my back! Sirius! Get off already!" shouted Remus. Sirius hopped off. "And! I want all of you to get off my back about Bella, crystal clear? There is nothing between us!" asked Remus seriously. James muttered 'yet' and both him and Sirius crossed their fingers behind their back and nodded like the rest…well, they mostly just bobbed up and down rapidly.
*
"I can't believe Muggles actually say these things," said Sirius as he flipped through the book while everyone was huddling over his shoulders.
"Muggles are people, just like us! Wizards and witches say these things too, but usually people mean it!" said Remus.
"Like look over here!" started Sirius, ignoring Remus' comment, "'You'll make me the happiest man in the world if you would just be my wife. You make me become what I am today and I'm proud of it, and without you, I lose everything…'" repeated Sirius from the book. "Now, isn't that sweet?" Everyone snickered.
"You know what? If you're not taking this seriously, I'm taking back my book!" said Remus attempting and succeeding to pull his book away from them.
"Okay fine!" surrendered Sirius frantically as Remus handed back his book.
**
Of course, the ladies were much worse, there was the dress, the shoes, the hair, and the makeup to worry about. Nothing's ever too good even if they were goddesses, which by the way, is what all the girls look like. It was 11:00 a.m. yet 72% of all the 7th year females already started getting ready for the wedding.
"Like Oh My Gawd!" shrieked Christy while trying to apply nail polish on her toes (which will be covered, mind you, by her shoes) but failed to do so properly when someone, pulled her hair.
*
"I'm boooooorrrrrreeeeeeeeeeddddddd," whined Sirius when everybody was gone except the other members of the Marauders.
"I can't wait to see the ladies! We all know they are trying to impress us," said James. Remus cracked a smile. "Even you think so! If Remus agrees, we have to be right"
"You want to see Lily, Prongs?" asked Sirius raising his eyebrows. James jumped in shock.
"Are you joking? That pig? Sirius, where does your imagination -" asked James before realizing that Sirius' imagination can go beyond borders sometimes. Remus chuckled at James and Sirius, "Don't answer that…"
"I'm booooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeedddddddddddd," repeated Sirius a little louder.
"What do you suggest we do?" squeaked Peter.
Remus laughed, "Like we know them Wormtail, they might as well come up with a plan to dress up as women and pose as them to get into the girls' changing room…" Remus chuckled and sat down reading a book.
"That's it!" piped Sirius brightly.
"Heh, heh heh, I thought I heard…WHAT?!?!?!? I was ONLY joking!" boomed Remus surprised.
"That's a nice plan! Remus you wanna join?" asked James innocently.
"NO!" shouted Remus.
"Chill! Peter, do you wanna join?" asked Sirius before looking over to a sleeping Peter.
"Guess not," concluded James. "What do we need?"
"The Feminizer Potion, a nice dress, a bouquet, and new platform shoes," answered Sirius.
"We can't make a potion! It's 11: 23 a.m., and we need to get all the other accessories, maybe it's not a good idea after all," said James. Sirius went up to his night table and took out a little vial of a light lavender color liquid.
"Don't worry I got some left," said Sirius as he shook the vial.
"You mean you've tried this before?" asked Remus and James.
"Well I was, but I forgot to, it was for last year's Christmas Ball, and you know that I needed to somehow go up to the girls' dormitories without sliding off the stairs," said Sirius.
"Okay, then since that's settled, let's go buy our girl stuff," suggested James.
"Remus, you have to come with us to Hogsmeade!" whined Sirius.
"Well, I guess it's better than to stay here and listen to Peter snore all day long…" said Remus.
"And you might even see the future Mrs. Remus Lupin there too, if you're lucky," said James.
"I thought I told you not to make fun -" started Remus.
"We were crossing our fingers! So it doesn't count! Na Na Na Na Nah," shouted James sticking out his tongue mockingly. Remus sighed and got up.
"How long will this take?" asked Remus.
"I don't think we'll take that long, I mean we're not like those women, after all we are going to get a couple of things for the both of us," said James.
"You mean for you," corrected Sirius.
"I thought we were doing the plan together," said James.
"We are,"
"Then?"
"Well I got all my stuff here in my closet," said Sirius opening up a wall and unlocking his own section marked 'Some Sirius Stuff'. Sirius poked his head in the closet and pulled out a few things.
"Ah, I found it! Oh! Prongs buddy, I found three more dresses," said Sirius sounding a little distant. "Here" Dresses were laid on the four-poster beds with a couple of pairs of shoes. James raised his eyebrows.
"And um, why, may I ask, do you have this kind of attire locked up in your newly-found closet?" asked James curiously.
"Well, some of the dresses were from girls I slept with along with their shoes and I had a very difficult time choosing these two dresses because of -" explained Sirius as he laid down two more dresses of the same color. "the differences in color, so I bought them both,"
"But they are exactly the same everything! You just wasted your money on dresses instead of joke supplies, you know!" shouted James.
"No they aren't. Look, this one is more of a violet periwinkle blue raw silk, while this one is a royal blue chintzy flower pattern on linen! You cannot compare linen with silk, a baby could tell the difference!" explained Sirius. James narrowed his eyes.
"You have to be kidding me! Anyways, I'll choose the one with the linen and since it's embarrassing to be identical, you can choose the light flowered one with the blue borders along the trim and that little lace there," said James as he divided the dresses.
"No, no, no, no, no!" cried Sirius. "That blue trim lace thing on the flower dress was so last season! I can't wear that, what do you think all the girls will think of me? And those shoes do not match at all! These grey so-called flip-flops do not match with the peachy texture on the dress! How can you put grey and orange together! You have a major fashion problem," concluded Sirius. James and Remus' jaws dropped.
"Padfoot, you are my friend, and I am yours, we share things right, so um, are you gay?" asked James as he patted his Sirius' back.
"Gay?"
"You know? When a guy likes a guy and when a guy knows about color combination and brands, etc…? You know I have no problem with that if you are," reassured James.
"Uh James, I know you love me and all and I know we're close and everything, but I don't intend to get that close to you. Sorry buddy, but I'm just not interested in guys or you in that way," joked Sirius seriously.
"What?!"
"I'm joking. But why would you think I'm gay?" asked Sirius curiously.
"Well, we men don't know about fabric combinations or patterns, etc…" said James.
"Would you stop with the 'we men'? Honestly, you've watched too many movies, stop being so stereotypical or act so superior! We are all unique human beings, we are all different but the same," stated Sirius.
Remus stared at him and muttered, "Look who's talking," James raised his eyebrows at Sirius.
"This is not happening, this is not happening," muttered James to himself.
"That's it! Who are you and what the hell happened to our friend Sir Sirius Black?" asked Remus.
Sirius started to cry, "Don't you get it, Kyle and Gloria should've been together, why did he have to act so selfish towards Gloria! If he hadn't care about his reputation so much, they would've gotten married!"
Remus stood up and walked over to Sirius' night table to pick up a book, "I knew I shouldn't have bought this book,"
"What?" asked James.
"I bought this book at Flourish and Blotts the other day, apparently, it had one of those emotional reflections charm on it to make the reader learn a lesson from it. This," said Remus as he pointed to Sirius, "is the symptom, but it will last only for another…6 seconds, if he was acting odd today, it was because of the book,"
"Oh…" said James. After 6 seconds, Sirius suddenly shook his head.
"Hmm, I feel strange…oh well, not anymore. Anyways yeah, I'm not wearing that dress with those flip-flops!" said Sirius.
"Remus! You said!" cried James.
"What? Look, I've been wasting my time listening to Twyla about how some girls' wardrobe was all out of order. Honestly, I didn't care, until after I shagged the particular girl she was criticizing, it all made sense to me…I've already dumped Twyla, though. You should've seen her bawl, it was so hilarious. And you know what, she tried locking her eyes with me, to show how 'in pain' she was, isn't that just pathetic?" said Sirius mindlessly.
"That might have been the wisest thing you've accomplished in this lifetime," said James.
"Okay, I'm just going to get everything else, right now, let's go!" said Sirius as he dragged James and Sirius out of the common room all the way to pInQ's (ßexplained later).
*
"Okay Lils, so yeah, we are going to go shopping! Isn't this going to be fun?" cried Lucy giddily.
"Loads fun! Maybe I'll find matching bracelets! Like Oh my Gawd!" shrieked Lily in fake bliss. (A/N: I know how to spell God) Of course, Amber, Bella, and Lucy knew her too well to consider that she liked shopping.
"Come on Lils, shopping is like the funnest thing in the world!" reasoned Amber.
"You mean, apart from snogging or shagging with the man of your dreams," suggested Lily meaning James.
"Well yeah there's that! But for now, it's time to spend precious mon-ey!" squealed Amber along with Bella and Lucy. Lily whimpered in fear of her friends' slight obsession. The next second, without warning, Bella grabbed Lily's hand and hastily dragged her out of Hogwarts, followed by Amber and Lucy. They walked giddily to Hogsmeade, all smiley and feeling flirtatious, well, minus Lily, who was scowling, frowning, and muttering incoherently to herself. Sure, Lily was grateful for the help and things but it was all ruined when Amber exaggerated the time she will be spending to shop. Of course, exaggerating it is just half the time she will be actually spending.
'When you go shopping with the LAB (Lucy, Amber, and Bella), it is one of the lamest escapades, it's 97.32 % possible that whoever is accompanying them can die of sheer boredom even if you ONCE liked shopping!' thought Lily. The LAB and Lily stopped. They were staring at the shops.
"Oooh! Let's go to Dashh!" squealed Amber as she stuck her nose in the window staring at those practically glowing shoes.
"Nah! Let's concentrate on dresses first, then shoes and yes Amber, Dashh is the best place to go," reasoned Bella.
"Alrighty, where to? Oh! Let's go to A True Princess, or maybe pInQ's, no eNYCe, wait how about cLOVE^0, no, no, no, aQuiLLus! (A/N: LOL, these were some brainstorming on my pen names...=D, I don't mind at all, I would actually kind of be shocked but flattered. But they ARE weird, so I don't really expect anyone to actually take it anyway…), hmm what do you think Lils?" asked Lucy mindlessly totally oblivious to the many shops.
"Pick a shop already or better yet let's just leave and I'll just wear some of my own dresses," suggested Lily hopefully.
"Nonsense!" boomed Amber.
"Well then just pick a shop!" cried Lily. Bella shook her head and entered pInQ's.
"But that's the shop with everything…PINK!" shouted Lily disgusted with the color pink. (A/N: Pink and Silver are my favorite colors!)
"Ugh, Lily pink is pretty, besides the pink stuff are only in the front," said Bella.
*
Lily was plopped onto a very comfortable couch sleeping. She fell asleep 5 minutes flat since she walked into that store.
"LILY!" shrilled Amber, "Wake up!" Lily reluctantly opened her eyes in fear of damaging her hearing.
"Okay, try on this one!" suggested Lucy. Lily glared at her and then at the dress. The dress was long and grey with lace around the top and a not so long cut to show legs. It was beautiful no doubt. But it wasn't fit for her or so Lily thought. The style was just not what she was used to. The size was a bit larger than those of what her friends wore. Lily gave a small smile to show her appreciation.
Lily got up and took the dress and entered a small room to try the dress on. Lily looked into the mirror intently. The dress looked wonderful on her. Lily turned around to take a better look at the dress in different angles but then caught site of a white dress with greenish turquoise patches on it. Some patches had shimmering borders, but had a longer cut meant for long slender legs to show. Lily, a non-liker for dresses, was just awed at the beauty of the dress. Of course Lily wanted to try it on but the size was too small for her. Lily wanted to take a seat down on a bench or something but realized there wasn't any when it was too late.
"Are you okay, Lily?" panicked Bella.
"Yeah…I'm fine, just wanted to sit but there wasn't really anything to sit on," assured Lily rubbing her butt. "Oh and I wanted to show you this gorgeous dress I found. I like the grey one Luce but this one is really nice,"
Lily opened the door and displayed it to her friends.
"Wow, it's so gorgeous, Lily!" squealed Amber, Lucy, and Bella in unison.
"I want to wear this dress but I need a bigger size," sighed Lily.
"We'll get it for you," volunteered Amber and Lucy and walked up to the counter to ask a lady.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here…" snickered Narcissa and her little gang. "Trying to impress Potter by losing some weight I see? My, my, I didn't think that was ever possible… you're actually fortunate to find a big size like that here. Little suggestion, why don't you try the store you usually visit? Miss Muffy's perhaps, it's around the corner, I'm sure it's not that hard to miss…"
"Stuff it Dung-Brain!" called Bella. Narcissa hmphed and walked away with her friends trailing behind.
"She's just ticked off because Nuite Zabini rejected to go with her at the Christmas Ball," explained Bella. Lily looked down sadly, "What's wrong, Lil?"
"Even the foulest creatures like that," started Lily, pointing at Narcissa, "has a point. She might be brainless but she's pretty except the part that she sometimes look like there's dung under her nose…" Bella laughed, "Yep, but I got to come up with better names than Dung-Brain, although it suits her pretty well, don't you think. I actually caught her snogging with Danny, you know my ex…"
"Oh I'm sorry, Bella!" hugged Lily.
"Well, that was yesterday, didn't know she actually would go near guys outside Slytherin," said Bella showing no hurt whatsoever. "Anyway, Lily, I never noticed though, you have lost weight! Good -" congratulated Bella.
"No I haven't!" reassured Lily.
"But it's true -" tried Bella.
"No…I haven't," assured Lily slowly.
"Okay…"
"I'm not trying to impress anyone," explained Lily quickly.
"Huh? But I didn't say that! I said that you lost -" started Bella quite loudly.
"Shhh! And NO I haven't lost weight. Because if I did, then it would mean I want to look good to impress someone!" said Lily.
"Uh, okay…there are other existing reasons," said Bella quite confused looking at the racks of dresses.
//Lily's POV\\
Lily might've wanted to be more attractive for her own self-respect. You would have to agree that Lily was under-appreciated for the good person she was.
Especially when you're looked under the Marauders' eyes, they only respect what they see if it's satisfactory. It's funny how people never bother to know who you are if everyone accepts what you look. What you are outside is what you are inside. It's the other way around! I can't let those bastards get to me. I am strong and I have to show them that. One way to shut those kind of people up is to look good?
Well, everybody sees what you are outside, because you don't know them, that's all you can judge. Just because I'm not the best-looking girl, I'm suppose to be unworthy to live a respectable life? That I can't reach my potential?
//End Lily's POV\\
"Yes, do you have a larger size for this dress?" asked Lucy and Amber as they handed the store manager the dress. The store manager took the dress and went in the storage room. Lucy tapped her perfectly manicured nails on the counter, turning her head wondering cluelessly and spotted two people shopping here.
"Change of style, Black?" asked Lucy as she walked up to James and Sirius who were examining the dresses.
"Actually -" started James until Sirius jabbed him in the stomach.
"Well, you see, we're finding dresses for my sister Nicola and she didn't have the time to shop, so I volunteered to do it for her!" said Sirius. "And James here is er, helping me find another dress," Lucy raised her eyebrows suspiciously.
"Who in their right mind would leave that up to you two, is she insane?" asked Lucy.
Sirius put on the saddest face he ever wore and answered near to tears, "Yes, she is…"
Lucy looked horror-struck, "Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to -"
"It's ok," said Sirius bursting out in laughter IN HIS HEAD but kept a straight face.
"He needs a hug," whispered James to Lucy. Lucy didn't need to be told twice. She hugged Sirius by surprise, who was still looking for a nice dress. Sirius was taken aback but returned the hug. Although it was all a joke, Sirius was still so grateful for the hug. No one ever soothed him with a sympathetic meaning. He almost wished he had an insane sister so he wouldn't have mocked Lucy like that, if he had a sister that is…(Not that he wanted to have an ill will for a sibling…).
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(A/N: This chapter is a little confusing. I know. Flames are acceptable. This chapter was going to be long so AGAIN, I divided it. But I'm doing the other part now, like RIGHT NOW. I don't want to sound demanding but I want to ATLEAST see the number 73-75 reviews on THIS STORY. That means to say 10 more reviews. This chapter sucked big time, because like my friend said, it was mostly disses. But I still want reviews *cries*. Next chapter is called A Trip Down the Aisle and chapter 9 is called 9 Days of Pain, Misery, Woe, and Fatness)
My beta-reader is gone on vacation! *cries again* and I have to correct this *sighs*. I feel hopeless these days. After about 3-4 chapters of Seems Like Forever, I'm going to start a new fic. I am most certainly not finished with this fic! Well I finished it in my head but not in writing! Oh yeah, I'm going to start 5 other fics after that LOL. Too much too handle? Yep.
Review and make me happy. Chapter 8 will be up in the next week or so.
I'm kind of stalling to write the more interesting stuff. Can you guess what the next two chapters are about?