Lily's Final Answer

Chapter 15 - Romeo & Juliet

James and Lily, hand in hand, began walking to Hogsmeade. It was, about, a 15 minute walk to the village. It was a nice, sunny day with a bit of a breeze. They were chatting about nothing in particular, just enjoying the company of each other. They reached the entrance to the village and walked up the street to a shop called Madame Merkine's Costume Shop: For all Occasions. The pair walked in to find it completely deserted. Lily hit the bell to call Madame Merkine's attention. She came out from a purple velvet curtain behind the counter.

"Yes? Oh, how may I help you?" she asked.

"Well, Hogwarts is having a costume ball n about two weeks, my boyfriend and I would like to be matching with the perfect costumes please." Lily explained.

"I see. I see. Ok. Give me one moment." She said.

Madame Merkine went back through the curtain and came back with two choices. One was a cow, and the other was vampires. James really like the vampire idea.

"Umm… do you have something a little more 'couple' like?" Lily asked.

"Yes, yes, of course, my child. Be right back." She disappeared once again and came back with a beautiful renaissance style dress and a puffy sleeved male's outfit.

"And this would be…" James looked confusedly at the costumes.

"But of course, young one, it is the most well known couple. They are the tragic love-filled people, known as… Romeo and Juliet." Madame Merkine said with a dramatic voice.

"Who!" James was still confused.

"OH MY GOSH! We'll take them! It is PERFECT!" Lily squeaked.

"That will be 18 galleons, 12 sickles, and 3 knuts." She rang off the costumes.

Lily and James paid then grabbed their bags.

They walked outside and headed back towards Hogwarts.

"You called me your boyfriend!" James smiled.

"What?"

"In the costume shop, you said I was your boyfriend." James smiled again.

"Yeah? So?" Lily tried to brush the topic off as if it was nothing.

"So then, I guess its official. We are boyfriend and girlfriend now." James was in high spirits.

"I guess so. I do hope you like the costume choice. I really love Romeo and Juliet." Lily said.

"Never heard of them. Do we know them?" James asked.

"What? Oh, well, it's fictional. It's about a romantic boy, like you, falls for a forbidden love, like me." Lily explained in a dreamy voice.

"Do they live happily ever after?" James wanted to know.

"Well…uh…no, they both killed themselves." Lily stated.

"Wait, what!" James was astounded.

"They died for love…so they could be together in heaven forever!" Lily quickly explained.

"Well it's not totally like us then, now is it? We're still alive, and hopefully will be for many, MANY more years to come." James said.

"True, very true!" Lily smiled at James. "We should probably go tell Dumbledore our ball idea so he can announce it at dinner or whatever."

"Ok, let's go now." James said.

They walked back into the castle and to the gargoyle in front of Dumbledore's office. They said the password, climbed the stairs, and went inside.

"Why hello there Miss Evans and Mr. Potter; what brings you here?" Dumbledore spoke.

"We had an idea for the Welcoming Ball in two weeks. How about a costume party? We will have people dress up and come around 7:30 pm-ish, the students under 5th year shall leave at 10:00 pm and everyone else may stay until 12:00 pm." Lily explained.

"Wonderful idea you two! I will make the announcement at dinner tonight and we'll have no classes the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday before the ball."

Dumbledore dismissed Lily and James. They went to their common room to shower before lunch.

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A/N: Ya, so SOME people think I'm a horrible writer and said I should never write again and that I should just stop what I'm doing now! That's not so good! So please tell me what you think about this story and my others so I know if I should never write again or not…thanks so much…bye bye!

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