Truth
A/N: Because I didn't update in like FOREVER which I'm really sorry about, you have to read the previous chapter to 'enhance' this chapter more. Even if you remember clearly what happened PLEASE read the last chapter. Thanks
"We must all grieve over such a loss. A young innocent soul killed by lord Voldemort. Sarah was a much loved young woman. With her spirit and her love for others, she was everyone's favorite. She had adoring friends, doting parents, and a loving fiancée " The priest continued, "She found Remus, her soul mate at a young age, but now unfortunately the only time they will be able to meet again is in heaven. And now, as we say goodbye to someone so dear and precious to us, I know we will all remember her forever. Remus, you may come to see her off."
Remus approached, tear after tear streaming down his cheeks. He looked at her peaceful beautiful body in it's final resting place. He then drew out a black velvet box from his pocket and placed the wedding ring that was supposed to be used in the epitome of their joy onto her pale, deathly cold finger; right above the engagement ring that he gave her not so long ago.
He leaned in and gave her rosy lips one last kiss. They were cold. His tears fell onto her cheeks. "Good-bye, my love."
Closing the casket, he began to cry with uncontrollable sobs.
Mr. and Mrs. Anix, Remus, Giselle, Lily, Alexis, James, Sirius, Peter, and the other 400 people who came to Sarah's funeral stood by her grave and watched her being lowered into the ground.
Instead of opening Christmas presents that day, Lily, Alexis, James, Sirius, and Giselle opened them a month later; their grief wouldn't allow the joy of Christmas.
After opening a large pile of presents, including Sirius' present, a book he wrote that was titled "101 Ways To Get Lily Into Bed" and a bunch of accessories for his new broom James held the final one, the one from Lily. He carefully unwrapped the paper around it.
"She got me a book!" James exclaimed to Sirius.
"Tough luck." Sirius said, still looking through his presents.
"Why can't I get her to forgive me?"
"That's what my book is for."
"She got me "The Magical Powers of A Leech".
"I guess you won't be needing my present then."
After opening her pile of presents, Lily found one at the very bottom of her pile. The card read: Happy Christmas Lily! I miss you in my life, but I feel as if your heart is always next to me. I love you. Love, James.
She carefully unwrapped the paper.
"Oh my god!" Lily exclaimed.
i carry your heart
by: ee cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never
without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by
only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are
my fate, my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,
my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and
whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest
secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of
the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which
grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this
is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
She began to cry, knowing the truth in her heart, but unable to make herself understand it.
A/N: I know this has been a short chapter, please forgive me, I have no time for anything anymore. But now that summer is here I'll be posting more often. By the way, the whole story with Remus and Sarah was based on a true story that happened to Nava Applebaum. I have the story taken form the New York Post below. Please R&R!
New York Post Sept 15, 2003
'SPRINGTIME LOVE' LOST - TEEN MOURNS FIANCE SLAIN IN SUICIDE BLAST.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2003 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc.
JERUSALEM - Hanan Sand waited more than two years to put a wedding ring on Nava Applebaum's finger - but when the scheduled day arrived, he found himself placing it in her grave.
"I put it there to be with her because I feel as if we're married after all," the 19-year-old yeshiva student told The Post.
Sand spoke as he sat shiva for Nava and her father, Dr. David Applebaum, the two U.S. citizens killed in Tuesday's bombing of a caf nightspot.
Sand and Nava met in Jerusalem 2 1/2 years ago, early in the Palestinian uprising, but never imagined terrorism would enter their lives.
"In our worst dream, we never thought we'd become victims of such an attack, even though we lived through the tragedies of others - and we knew what Nava's father did."
Dr. David Applebaum had created a model followed by hospital staffers for handling victims of terrorist attacks at the Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center's emergency room.
Sand collapsed in the same emergency room Tuesday when he learned of Nava's death.
Sand recalled how he and Nava, then 18, met while serving as volunteers helping troubled youths from poor families.
"I fell in love and asked her if I could be her boyfriend. She was my springtime love."
"But she refused and later told me she wanted her first boyfriend to be her husband," he said.
Nava eventually relented, and they were engaged.
But they put off the marriage for two years, while she spent a year in Israel's national service program, tending to cancer-stricken children, and he studied at Yeshiva Ateret Kohanim in Jerusalem's Old City.
The couple scheduled their marriage for last Wednesday and agreed, following tradition, not to have any contact in the week before the ceremony.
"We didn't talk, we didn't see one another, but we kept up a little dialogue with gestures," he said.
For example, Nava left pictures of Sand at his parent's home and also gave him a present, an aquarium, so he could "talk to the fish" when he couldn't talk to her.
On Monday, Sand picked up the gold ring Nava had chosen. Two days later, he was placing it on her shrouded body.
"After the 2 1/2 years we spent together, I felt that this would unite us as if we really were married," he said.
