"Lily?" James asked as he knocked lightly on the door to the bathroom. Running water could be heard through the door. "Lily are you okay?"

"Yes James, I'm okay."

"Can I come in?"

"Sure, one second." The sound of shower curtains drawing around the bath tub could clearly be heard. "Okay your good." James opened the door cautiously and hopped on the counter.

"Why is the water still running?"

"Because it's still too hot."

"What do you 'still'?"

"I mean that it's just as hot as it was ten minutes ago. Hence the word 'still'."

"But its not even steamy in here. And you always run your bath water so hot that it gets steamy."

"What can I tell ya? Its hot water."

"Can I feel it?"

"You want to feel my bath water?" Lily raised an eyebrow skeptically.

"Yes. Yes, I do."

"Okay. Knock yourself out." James walked over and reached a hand through the back of the curtain before withdrawing it quickly.

"HOLY SH!"

"What's wrong?"

"First of all that water is freezing!"

"What else?"

"Huh?"

"Well you said 'first of all' which means there must be a second of all.

"Oh. I was gonna say that your foot was pruny but I thought you would already know that." Lily sighed and rolled her eyes.

"So what if the water is freezing? It feels hot to me."

"You're going to catch pneumonia!"

"No I am not."

"What if you do?"

"Then I get sick. Big deal."

"Very big deal! You're pregnant! You can't get sick while you're pregnant! You'll kill the baby!"

"But I want to take a bath!"

"I don't care! You are not going to endanger the life of our child just because you want to take a bath!"

"Fine." She pouted but pulled the stopper out of the drain none-the-less. "Are you happy?"

"Very." He pulled a lilac towel from the towel rack, unfolded it, and held it out in front of him.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm waiting for you to get out."

"You're going to dry me off?"

"No. I'm going to make sure you get out. Now come."

"Fine." She adopted another pouty face and got out of the tub. James wrapped the towel around her and led her into their room.

"Thank you."

"No problem. Anytime you want to ruin someone's bath you can call on me."

"Stop being so pouty."

"I am not pouty!" Lily cried from the closet.

"Whatever you say."

"Good. Now since you apparently have nothing better to do we can go get your tuxes now!" She said brightly, appearing from the closet in jeans and a tank-top. James groaned.

"Fine. But you are not wearing that."

"Why not!"

"Because you are four months pregnant!"

"And?"

"You'll catch cold!"

"Its September!"

"And?"

"I like this shirt!"

"I know you do. But could you please just wear something a little bit warmer?"

"You're evil you know that?" She stepped back into the closet and digging through her clothes.

"Yes I know. It's one of my more appealing traits."

"Ha ha."

"I know I'm a riot. Now thats better." He said when she came back out in a 3/4 sleeve.

"Thank you. Now change."

"Why do I have to change?"

"Because the people at the shop would not appreciate your attire of black robes of a pair of quidditch boxer shorts."

"Oh..."

"Yeah."

"Is this better?" He waved his wand and appeared suddenly in the same black robes but black pants under them instead.

"No. Try this." Lily flicked her wand and he was in a pair of black slacks and a dress shirt.

"What!"

"Yes!"

"But, Lily!"

"Get over it James." She dragged him from the room and down the stairs where Remus was reading a book.

"Where's Sirius?" Lily asked. Remus nodded towards the kitchen without looking up.

"Thanks. Get ready to go Remus. We're going shopping."

"Okay."

"Why can't you be so agreeable, James?" She said as she pulled him into the kitchen to get Sirius.

"Because then I woldn't be me. And I'm the one you fell in love with."

"Sometimes I think that you put a spell on m-SIRIUS!" Sirius looked up from the package of oreos he had been eating.

"Whuf?" He asked, his mouth still full.

"Get out of my oreos and go get dressed! We're going shopping!"

"Awwwwwww! Lils! Do we have to?"

"Yes! Now go! And my name is not Lils!"

"Fine!" He stalked off muttering as he went. "Damn hormones..."

"I heard that!" Lily screamed as the door slammed behind him. "You have the most infuriating friends!"

"I know." James smiled.

"Lily do I have to where one of these things!" James complained three hours of trying on various tuxes.

"For the fiftieth time. Yes James."

"But its uncomfortable!"

"Your only going to be wearing it for about five hours."

"FIVE HOURS!"

"Shhhhhhh! Will you keep your voice down! Yes! Five hours! And you are going to wear it the whole time!"

"Fine." James sighed resignedly and walked into the dressing room.

"This one makes me look gay!"

"You're way too handsome to look gay. Let me see."

"No way!"

"James I've seen you after 3 straight days of no sleep. I think I can handle this." The door handle turned slowly and James poked his head.

"Do I have to?"

"James! Get your butt out here and show me the tux" James did his best to walk out with dignity but ended up tripping over a rug and falling on his face.

"This isn't funny." He mumbled. Lily clutched her hand over her mouth to keep from bursting out laughing.

"At least she's not yelling anymore!" Sirius cried from a dressing room a little ways down.

"He does present a good point."

"Shut up, Remus!" Lily took a few deep breathes to regain her composure.

"Stand up ,James." James complied and pulled himself from the ground. Lily laughed outright when she saw him from the front. The tie was tied wrong, the vest was on backwards, and the collar on the shirt was pulled up.

"I see why you thought you looked gay."

"I feel so loved."

"Shut up and come here."

"You know I don't think that is the most appropriate place to be doing this." James commented when Lily took off his jacket to fix the vest.

"Ew! Are you crazy! I'm just fixing your vest!"

"Ohhhhhh!" She undid the tie quickly and tied it correctly, buttoned his vest, and pulled the collar down over the tie.

"There!" She said as she turned him around to face a mirror.

"Hey. I don't look half bad!"

"Of course your don't. You look very handsome."

"Wow Prongs. You clean up nice." Sirius walked out wearing only his boxers.

"Sirius! Get back in there and put some clothes on Now!"

"I thought you had stopped yelling?"

"Grrrrrr..." And he retreated back into his dressing room.

"Is it safe to come out?" Remus asked timidly.

"As long as your wearing clothes, yes."

"Good." He stepped from the room.

"You look very nice, Remus."

"Why thank you, Lily."

"How come he gets a compliment but I get laughed at?" James complained as he straightened his tie.

"Because he is dressed properly and didn't fall on his face after taking one step. Now go change again so we can get out of here."

"Thank God!"

"Okay!" Lily said as they walked through the front, the men laden with garment bags. "Now you three take those up to your rooms and HANG THEM UP. If I see one wrinkle on those during the wedding I will personally skin you alive. I have to go get Rose and Sasha. We have to go dress shopping. James, by the time I get back I want you to have picked out perspective flower arrangements, at least five, and I need you to find someone in your family that has a little girl, preferably the age of 5 but at the most 7. Got it?" James nodded absentmindedly. "Good. I'm going now and DON'T EAT MY OREOS, SIRIUS." With that she gave James a quick peck on the cheek and flooed to Sasha's apartment in London.

"Do either of you have any idea what she just said?" James asked.

"Something about Oreos."

"Okay."

Lily fell gracefully to the ground as she reached Sasha's living room.

"I hate flooing." She mumbled to herself as she dusted herself off. "Rose? Sasha? I'm here!" They both can running down the hall into the room when they heard Lily's cry.

"Lily! I haven't seen you in ages! We've missed you!" Sasha exclaimed, hugging Lily.

"I missed you, too! Now we must get going if we are going to get the dresses. Where's Rose?"

"She's in the other room. Rose! Lily's here! GET OUT HERE!" Rose came suddenly from the kitchen and hugged Lily as well. They got to the shop a little while later and immediately started trying on dresses. Since it's inappropriate to wear white to a wedding they decided to go with red dresses. Two hours later they had two red, crushed velvet dresses and matching shoes.

"JAMES HAROLD POTTER!" Lily furiously stomped back and forth across the room not bothering to hide her anger. "SIRIUS BLACK! GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!" she called again, her anger increasing with every second they kept her waiting.
"I'm coming! I"m coming!" They cried as the two men stumbled down the stairs, followed by an interested Remus, and cautiously approached Lily, who was now putting her weight on her right leg while tapping her left foot impatiently.

"Do you know why I'm angry?" Despite her calm appearance James knew that she was boiling with anger beneath the surface. They both shook their heads timidly. Lily's eyes turned from their usual soft emerald color to a dangerous red as she pointed to the settee behind her. They leaned to the side to see behind her. There, lying in a heap on the settee, was a white garment bag.

"Whose is it..." Her voice dangerously quiet.

"How do you know it's not Remus'?" Sirius asked, for once his voice was absent of all sarcasm.

"Because Remus is responsible." Remus smiled haughtily at hid friends.

"And we're not?" James' face adopted the puppy dog eyes that usually got him what he wanted. "I'm wounded."

"You'll be more than wounded if you don't tell me whose it is right NOW!" They both looked at each other and got mischievous glints in their eyes. Turning around Sirius whispered something in James' ear causing him to nod before turning to face Lily again.

"It's mine."

"It's James'" They both said at the same time. James turned to his friend, an appalled look on his face.

"You traitor!"

"Hey, it was either you or me. She'd kill me."

"She'll kill me, too!"

"No she won't."

"You don't know that!"

"Enough!" Lily's face became commanding. "Take that garment bag and hang it up in its respective closet right now." James and Sirius scampered up the stairs leaving Lily and Remus.

"You do realize that it was mine don't you?" Remus asked her, a smile playing on his lips.

"Yeah. But its so much fun to mess with them."

Three months later Lily woke up from her restful sleep, turned towards her alarm clock, and hopped up with sudden excitement. Or at least she tried to hop up. Her belly had increased to a considerable size, giving her the appearance of someone holding a watermelon under their shirt. Her increase in weight had hindered any sudden movements that she may haved like to make. However, despite her inability to hop about the room, she was still excited. Today she was getting married. James had been sent to the other side of the house with Remus and Sirius, who had been given strict instructions to not let James see Lily at any and all costs. Lily rolled her feet off the side of the bed slowly and carefully stood up, holding her back for support. Just as she stood up there was a knock on the bedroom door.

"Come in." She called, huffing and puffing as she rested her arm against the nightstand. Rose appeared in the doorway, followed by Sasha and Cordelia.

"I'm too fat to get married!" Lily cried as she stood up straight and made her way to the bathroom.

"You'll be fine." Sasha cooed, her voice soft and reassuring.

"Fine? We're already late!" Cordelia cried, she was poring over a piece of parchment, occasionally scribbling something out. "We only have 20 minutes for breakfast so hurry up. Then we have an hour to get our hair done. Thank God we have magic otherwise it would take forever! After that we have 30 minutes to do our makeup, then 15 minutes to get dressed!"

"Calm down ,Cordelia. We'll be fine! Lily's been losing sleep lately so she probably needed to sleep in. We'll probably have time to spare since we're doing everything ourselves." Rose reasoned. Lily emerged from the other room and quickly threw on some clothes. Sasha helped Lily down the stairs, as she had difficulties getting down them by herself. In the kitchen Cordelia had eggs, bacon, toast, and an assortment of jams and jellies laid out on the table. After taking about 7 minutes to ease herself into one of the tiny chairs around the table, Lily barely had time to grab some toast with strawberry jam before having to begin to get up again. Sasha helped Lily up the stairs and then they went to her room to do their hair. After changing the hair many, many times Rose and Sasha both decided on just leaving their hair down in loose spirals curls. Lily's hair had been done into large, bouncy curls that we're tied up in a complicated bun. They then crowded around the counter in the bathroom to do their makeup.

"Your left eye is bigger than your right, Rose." Cordelia said, stepping in fron t of her and applying the eyeliner for her. Afterwards the retrieved their dresses and flooed to the hotel in Switzerland where they were having the wedding. It was beautiful. The hotel had a large garden with a gazebo in the center. A stone path snaked it way through the garden and then stopped at the steps of the gazebo, which had been decorated with sparkling icicles and tiny blue lights. They changed into their dresses when they arrived and stood by where the path curved, leaving the gazebo just out of sight. Lily's heart began to race was she clutched her bouqeut of red and white poinsettas. James had arrived sometime in the morning and was now standing in the middle of the gazebo, wringing his hands nervously.

"Do you have the rings?" He asked, turning to Sirius.
"Yeah. It'll be fine."

"What if she jilts me?"

"Shes not going to jilt you. She loves you. You love her. Its all good." Just then the music started. James turned and watched the path anxiously. His little cousin Casey came around the bend slowly. Gently placing red petals on the ground, one by one. A few seconds later Rose and Sasha followed. James took a deep breath as he saw Lily put her foot forward and come around the bend, James' father accompanying her. She was wearing a simple, ivory wedding dress. Over it she wore a red velvet cape with a white fur trim. It started to snow quietly. As they approached the bottom of the steps Harold kissed Lily on both her cheeks and took his seat next to a crying Cordelia. Lily slowly climbed the stone steps. James smiled at her as she reached his side. She gave her bouquet to Sasha and turned to take James' hand. They both turned their heads to face the priest as he began to speak.
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to see the joining of this man and this woman in the state of holy matrimony. Marriage is not a state to be entered into lightly, but only after much thought and consideration. If any man or woman has any logical reason why these two should not be wed, speak now, or forever hold your peace." Every remained silent. The old priest nodded and turned to James. "Do you, James Harold Potter, take Lillian Isabelle Evans as your lawful wedded wife, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, from this day forward, until death part you?"

"I do."

"And do you, Lillian Isabelle Evans, take James Harold Potter as your lawful wedded husband, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, from this day forward, until death part you?"

"I do."

"Do you have the rings?" Sirius gave the rings to the priest who handed them to Lily and James.

"Lily, I give you this ring as a symbol of my love, as this ring has no beginning and no end my love has no beginning and no end." With that he gently put the ring on her finger.

"James, I give you this ring as a symbol of my love, as this ring has no beginning and no end my love has no beginning and no end." Lily placed the ring on his finger.

"By the powers invested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride." They smiled at each other before kissing.