Disclaimer: See Chapter One.

A/N: Hey there people! I hope that you are enjoying this fic, and I promise to update when I can. Many thanks to my beta enb2004 who had two great Harry Potter stories of her own! Thank you and here is Chapter Two as promised. Enjoy!

One night later, Lily Evans was pacing around her flat and throwing dirty looks at Remus Lupin.

Lily was an unusual girl for she was a witch and also happened to be best friends with several boys. Being a witch was not that uncommon in the wizarding world, although her sister Petunia might beg to differ, but being best friends with several boys was highly unusual.

Lily had never really gotten along all that well with her dorm mates and had quickly become close to the Marauders in their first year. As such, Lily was used to male behavior but at the moment, Remus was truly being of no help to her.

"Remus! Quit laughing at me and help me pick out something nice to wear," Lily demanded.

Remus was wiping tears away from his eyes. All of the Marauders, with the exception of James, had gone through this many times with Lily since she had started dating James.

Since Lily wasn't really all that close to any of the girls in her year, or any other year for that matter, she turned to Peter, himself, and Sirius for advice on what to wear for a date.

The result always proved to be the same. The boys would look at each other in puzzlement and simply point at the closet article of clothing, which was precisely what Remus had just done.

"Honestly Remus! This is James and mine third year anniversary of getting together! You don't really expect me to wear a pair of jeans and a tank top?" Lily asked incredulously.

Remus could only shrug his shoulders. "I don't know anything about what clothes a girl should wear for an important occasion Lily. You should know that by now," he said while laughing.

"Uggghhh! Moony you're impossible. Really you are. I don't know how I put up with the lot of you," Lily said throwing her arms up in exasperation.

Sighing and shaking her head at the male sense of fashion, or rather, the lack of it, Lily turned back to her closet.

She had narrowed it down to two choices, the problem was, which one she wanted to wear.

One was a beautiful deep emerald dress robe that flowed to the ground, while the other was an elegant black spaghetti strap dress that came down just above her knees and clung in all the right places.

James had said that they were going to a very nice restaurant, but he had failed to mention if it was muggle or wizard.

Deciding to be safe, rather than sorry, Lily chose the black dress. "Okay Remus, you wait out here while I go change. Once I come out, you can give me your honest opinion. I mean it, no jokes," she warned him, her emerald eyes boring into Remus.

Remus gulped and nodded. He knew that Lily was being deadly serious. When she was in that kind of mood, you listened to her. One did not want to be on the bad end of Lily's temper.

Remus had only experienced Lily's temper once, and that was one time to many. It had left a permanent mark and he had vowed then and there to never get on Lily's bad side.

Seeing that Remus had agreed, Lily nodded in satisfaction and walked into the bathroom to change.

Lily wouldn't admit it to anyone, but she was very nervous about this dinner for some reason. Somehow, she knew that tonight, her entire life would be changed forever.

"Stop being silly Lily. Nothing is going to happen tonight. It's just a nice anniversary dinner with James," she told herself.

Lily looked at the clock and realized that she had been in the bathroom for five minutes already, and that James would be there in fifteen minutes.

"Oh god! I have to get ready," she thought in a panic.

Quickly, Lily slipped into the black dress and her high heel shoes and applied her makeup and then did her hair.

Critically, she looked herself over in the mirror. "Not to shabby," she thought.

The black dress clung in all the right places and had a particularly low neckline, and the high heel shoes accentuated Lily's long legs in just the right way. Her red hair was up in a fancy bun with two wavy tendrils framing her face, and her makeup was just enough to highlight her features.

"Not bad at all," she thought happily.

"Lily! James is going to be here any second and if you want my opinion, you had better get on out here right now," she heard Remus yell from the living room.

"Coming Moony, just hang on one second," she said while quickly putting her jewelry on.

Once she had the jewelry on, she walked out of the bathroom and back into the living room.

"Well? What do you think?" Lily asked Remus.

Remus turned around startled. He hadn't heard her coming. Upon seeing her, he felt his mouth drop open in shock. Lily was always gorgeous, but that dress made her more look more elegant than he had thought possible.

"Lily you look wonderful, gorgeous!" Remus said somehow managing not to stutter.

If that dress didn't knock James of his feet, well, then James clearly wasn't a male of any species that he knew of!

"So you think I look okay? It's not to over the top is it? James didn't mention if we were going to a muggle or a wizarding restaurant so I chose this one," Lily said nervously.

"No, you look absolutely fantastic! Oh and the restaurant, it is muggle. Sirius was supposed to tell you but I guess he forgot," Remus said, making a mental note to scold Sirius the next time he saw him.

Lily laughed. "That sounds like Padfoot all right. Don't worry about it Remus, even if we were going to a wizarding restaurant I probably would have chosen this dress anyhow," she said laughing.

"Is that my Lily flower I hear," Lily heard James say from her kitchen.

"I'm in the living room with Moony, James!" Lily said.

James and Sirius had apparated into Lily's kitchen and heard her talking to Moony. Unfortunately, Peter was rather busy with his job, and couldn't come with them tonight.

James nervously ran his hand through his hair without even realizing it. This was it. Tonight was the night that he would ask Lily to be his wife. How in Merlin's name he would ask her, he didn't know, but somehow he would.

Sirius elbowed James in the ribs, and tilted his head toward the living room where they could both here Lily and Moony talking.

"Is that my Lily flower I hear," James asked.

"I'm in the living room with Moony, James," he heard her reply.

James froze for a second but continued on when Sirius gave him another nudge to get moving. Swallowing nervously, James stepped out of the kitchen and into the living room, only to freeze once more.

This time though, he froze because of the incredibly gorgeous creature that was standing in front of him. Apparently, Sirius too was overcome by the sight of Lily for he didn't he nudge James to say something.

Lily laughed at the look on James and Sirius faces. Remus had made a similar face when she had come out of the bathroom.

Seconds later, James came to his senses, and walked over the Lily and hugged her.

"Lils, you look absolutely gorgeous! You always look fabulous but tonight.... wow, that's all I can say," James said grinning.

"Oh James. You look incredibly handsome yourself," Lily said looking at the white tux with an appreciative eye.

"We must be going someplace very fancy if you're wearing a tux," Lily said approvingly.

"Well we are my Lily flower. Didn't Sirius tell you?" James asked, looking suspiciously at Sirius.

Sirius blanched and then looked down as he realized he had forgotten to tell Lily about what to wear and where she was going.

"Padfoot, it's all right. I'm wearing the right thing anyway," Lily said reassuringly, squeezing Sirius's shoulder.

"Thanks Lily," Sirius said grinning at her. She was always far to nice to him sometimes. Unless he played a prank on her, then she got downright nasty and usually pranked him ten times worse than he had pranked her.

James and Remus scowled at Sirius but couldn't keep it up for long, and before they knew it, they were grinning as well.

"Well, I don't know about you two, but Lily and I have reservations. Shall we sweetie?" James asked, holding out his hand for Lily to take.

Lily laughed and accepted his hand. "Of course James. I can't wait to see where we are going," she said giggling slightly.

"We'll be going now, don't stay up to late," James said mockingly to Sirius and Remus.

Lily slapped his arm, and dragged James to the door. "We'll see the two of you later and say hi to Peter for me!" she said while she dragged James out the door.

"See you guys later!" James said before they saw him disappear out the door.

Remus and Sirius turned to each other and grinned. Both had the same idea.

"Moony, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Sirius asked grinning.

Moony grinned. "If you're thinking that we should follow them and record the whole night, you are thinking what I'm thinking," he said laughing.

Sirius laughed and nodded. Together, both he and Remus grabbed their coats and wands, and hurriedly followed James and Lily toward their destination.

One thing was for sure. There were going to be fireworks that night and they had no intention of missing out on the show.