Chapter 11: The Wedding
"Sarah...You need to Just CALM DOWN!" Lily said grasping Sarah by the shoulders. Sarah was dressed in her pjs and had on her veil and her hair all fancy. Her wedding dress lay draped over a chair.
"Everything is going to be fine. Nothing is going to go wrong. I promise." Lily said and flashing a quick smile. There was a knock and the door opened.
"Lily." Faith whispered.
"What? Is something wrong?" Sarah asked turning around.
"No! Stop worrying. You just get your dress on. Faith and I will do the same." Lily said remembering that she and Faith still had not gotten dressed.
"Just...Don't worry." Lily said smiling as she backed up and out of the room.
"What is it Faith?" Lily asked spinning around.
"We have a SERIOUS problem." Faith whispered. Lily's eyes got big, and Faith nodded. Quickly the two ran down the hall (still in thier pjs mind you). There was a series of whistles from the workers that were setting up chairs outside as they ran outside and across the ceremony area. They ran across it and through another hall before bursting through a door.
"We have a problem." Faith shouted. James and Sirius turned around with looks of confusion. They were much better dressed than the girls, they had managed to get on everything but thier jacket and had the sleeves rolled up. Sirius crossed his arms and said with a smile.
"What did Faith break this time?"
Faith smirked and said
"For once, it is not my fault."
"Well...whats the problem?" James asked leaning up against the door frame.
"The muscians...you know the people who are supposed to play at the reception...they're not coming...but not that that matter because THERES NO FOOD!" Faith hollered.
"What?" James and Sirius asked shocked.
"No! None! Absolutely nothing! I went to check on it all and all thats there is the tables and eating utensils. No food...nothing to even make food with. No cake...no caterer. NOTHING." Faith said speaking a lot with her hands.
"This...is..not...good." Lily said.
"Whats not good?" Remus asked coming into the room as he adjusted a cufflink.
"I can't find my cross necklace anywhere and I was wondering if anyone had seen it." Faith lied quickly.
"Hmm...Does anyone know where I can find the musicians?" Remus asked.
"Why?" Lily asked worridly.
"Because. Sarah wanted me to give them a copy of our song we wrote for them to play." Remus said taking a piece of parchment out of his pocket. Faith snatched it out of his hands.
"We were just getting ready to head that way. I'll take it for you." she said smiling and turning around to leave. Sirius followed directly after he.
"We're with them." James said as he grabbed Lily's hand and followed her out. The two couples raced through the hall and then across the ceramony area. The ceremony took place on a small hill that overlooked a lake, whereas the reception was at the bottom of the hill at the base of the lake. The dance floor was magically suspended on the lake.
"See. Theres no one hear. I talked to them. They're not coming."
"Well...we will just have to fix this. We'll run out and get food and quickly whip something together...and for music.."Lily started.
"How? You guys aren't even dressed yet." Sirius said crossing his arms and leaning back agains the wall. Faith and Lily looked down at themselves and Faith laughed.
"Ok...can you two handle it? Please don't mess it up." Lily said pleadingly.
"Yeah..Of course we can handle. Who else is better for the job?" James said with a smile and giving Lily a quick kiss.
"Just..don't ruin anything." Lily said before leaving.
"And don't burn the place down." Faith said as she handed Remus and Sarah's song to Sirius. She gave him a quick kiss and ran after Lily.
"I hope the boys got everything under control." Lily said nervously, wringing her hands.
"Have a little faith in the boys." Faith said handing Lily a bouquet of roses. The dresses were a light blue color and they cut down low in the back. They were strapless and looked awesome with the white roses and blue roses.
"Ready to go see Sarah?" Faith asked. Lily nodded and the two knocked lightly on the door.
"Awww Sarah." Lily said with a huge smile. The top of Sarahs dress was held up with two thin straps. It didn't cut down terriably low and had a glittery front. The bottom was silk and had a good sized train with the hem looking fantastic with blue and white gems on it.
"I don't think I'll ever be more nervous ever again." Sarah said with a goofy grin.
"Sure you will...tomorrow on the honeymoon." Faith said. Sarah blushed a deep crimson and Lily laughed. There was a knock on the door and Mrs. Weasley came in.
"You all look beautiful....Sarah...you ready to get married?" she asked. Sarah gave a small nod and couldn't seem to be able to wipe the goofy grin off her face.
"Here goes something." Faith said leaving the room. She was quickly followed by Lily and Sarah was the last to leave.
Sarah's heart hammered in her chest as she moved down the aisle.
After the ceremony, which Sarah and Remus both cried in, the photographer wanted to take lots of picture while the guests went down to the reception. He started with pictures of the entire wedding party, and then moved on to just the bride and groom. Faith,Lily,James and Sirius rushed down to the reception.
"We managed to get a bit of food." Sirius said as they burst into the kitchen.
"We went down to a muggle shop....and this is what we got so far." James said. Faith and Lily looked at it all.The boys had managed to get a great deal of wine which they were going to need if they were going to pull of this little charade. They had also grabbed about 25 loaves of French bread, about 20 things of fish.
"Think this will be enough?" James asked hopefully.
"James...there are about 100 people in there. This will feed probably about half." Faith said putting her hands on her hips. Lily quickly put on an apron.
"I think I'll be able to make this work."
"We have no waiters though." Sirius said.
"Take off your jacket and roll up your sleeves." Faith said moving to take off Sirius's jacket.
"Your kidding?" Sirius said.
"Nope. Take it off." Faith said taking away his jacket as Lily busily got to charming knives to cut up the bread and fish. Faith then disappeared as the boys set to opening wine bottles and pouring them. Faith came back a short minute later. She had quickly thrown off her dress and found a white button up shirt and a black mini skirt. Sirius whistled and Faith gave him a subtle wink as she grabbed wine glasses and went out to serve them.
As she served the Weasleys table they all gave her odd glances. The Bill and Charlie gave her toothy grins while Percy looked confused.
"Faith what are you doing?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"Nothing miss. Don't worry about a thing. You just enjoy yourself." Faith said with a smile and walking back to the kitchen.
"I will kill the person that invented heels!" she exclaimed as she walked into the kitchen and grabbed another tray.
"ohhh...but you look so cute in them." Sirius said teasingly as he followed Faith out with a tray.
As James served a table he saw the photographer, Remus and Sarah just finishing up and preparing to come down.
"We've gotta hurry up...the bride and groom are coming." he said as he returned to the kitchen.
"What have you made?" Sirius asked as he and Faith returned to the kitchen.
"A soup...and the bread has been buttered and cut into 4th's" Lily said spinning around to charm a series of bowls and spoons onto the trays.
"While they're all eating thier soup we can go get more food." Lily said.
"Genius Lils." Faith said as soup began pouring itself in the bowls and pieces of bread laying to the side. There was a sound of cheering coming from the guests.
"There they are. Remus will calm them-" James whispered just as Remus started to try and settle the crowd.
"Tell them that they're going to eat first-" Sirius whispered. There was the muffled sound of Remus's voice wafting through the kitchen. Faith opened the door a crack so they could properly hear.
"After we've got a spectacular dance floor prepared with a band-" Remus said.
"The band! The Band! WHAT DID you do for a band!?" Faith whispered through gritted teeth as she gripped the collar of Sirius's shirt.
"Chill darlin'. WE've got it all under control." Sirius said slyly and running his hands of Faith's arms. Sirius kissed her forehead, grabbed a tray and then left to serve the crowd.
Remus and Sarah both had looks of shock as they saw Sirius giving them a tray of food.
"What...ARE...you...doing?" She asked through gritted teeth.
"Just eat your food and keep on smiling and don't worry about a thing." Sirius said with a wink. Sirius and the others served the tables with mutters coming from the guests like 'wasn't he in the wedding party?' or 'why is he serving us?'. He just smiled and kept on serving the good folks.
"Sarah will owe us big time for saving her wedding." Faith said jumping up on the counter and kicking off her heels.
"Honestly, I don't see why you didn't just put a charm on your heels so they wouldn't hurt." Lily said crossing her arms.
"Um...maybe because I was serving everyone and didn't get a moment to." she responded. Lily just rolled her eyes.
"All right...we need...more food and a cake." James said coming into the kitchen, followed by Sirius.
"Yup. You two get the cake ingrediants. James and I will get the main course meal." Lily said grabbing her wand and using it to put up her hair (you know how some people do with pencils).
With a popping noise they all aparated to a small muggle town near the lake. Quickly the four all ran to the closest grocery store, Lily looking a little ridiculous running in a dress. Sirius grabbed a cart and gave it a forceful push while jumping on it. A muggle cleaning fruit hollered
"Slow Down! No running!"
"This wedding stuff is crazy." Faith said as she dumped bags of flour into the cart.
"We're going to have to do it again real soon." Sirius said. She just gave him a perplexed look as she piled cake mix into the cart.
"James gots a ring." He said with a wink and a sly smile. Faith's face erupted into a smile.
"That'll be just perfect. Whens he plan on doing it?" Faith asked.
"Don't know...he won't tell me. Hes kinda worried though...you know with all this Voldemort stuff happening." Sirius whispered.
"Yeah I guess that makes sense. This wars getting more brutal as the days pass. Just last week we lost 4 members of the Order." Faith said as she scooped up tons of vanilla frosting and dumped it in the cart.
"Sirius! Faith! James and I have to get back now....you guys finish up and bring the stuff to the kitchen." Lily said passing by the aisle with James close in tow with a full shopping cart.
"Yeah...I could see those two married." Faith said smiling as she turned the corner into the next aisle.
"How about us getting married." Sirius muttered.
"Hmm? Ya say something?" She asked turning around.
"Nope." He said grinning. She gave him a look that said 'I don't believe you. What did you say?' but Sirius just kept his cool, no matter how fast that face of hers made his heart go.
Lily charmed the steaks they had bought onto the stove. James charmed plates to start setting up as a skillet fried up vegetables.
"What did you do for the band?" Lily asked.
"Well..do you remember in our 6th year at the New Years party-" James started.
"You didn't." She said turning around.
"We did." He replied with a huge grin.
"But James….how…Peter isn't here and Remus will be with Sarah." She said giving him a confused look.
"You told me that Faith can play the electric guitar, and Sirius can take over for Remus's bass." He said smiling.
"What about the drums?" Lily asked.
"We can perform a spell so that the drums practically play themselves." James said as Sirius and Faith apparated with the cake supplies. They then got to serving the main course. Directly followed by the cake, which was absolutely magnificent. Then with the stars above a candles floating in the air, and much persuading of Faith into playing the guitar, the bride and groom walked onto the dance floor. As they started playing the beginning notes to Remus and Sarah's song, Sarah belted out the first few lines:
We all have our inner demons
I understand completely
Others who could never see
What I've found in you.
Honey I don't know why I
Listen to the words
The words they say.
The words say aren't true
As the song went on Remus soon began to sing:
We all may have our problems
I can understand that now
The way that I was then
You know I am now
Nothing has changed me love
Except for your trust.
The trust you have shown
That I've never known
"It was a beautiful wedding wasn't it?" Lily said, as Sirius and Faith were in the kitchen charming dishes to wash themselves. They said that Lily deserved and break and James had managed to sneak out of the kitchen and outside on the dance floor with Lily.
"It was." James said. Lily smiled and looked up at the moon.
"We could have our own beautiful wedding." James said. Lily looked at him shocked. James carefully James pulled out a black box and opened it. James got down on one knee as Lily stammered and looked at him in disbelief.
"Lily, will you marry me and make me the happiest man that ever lived?" James asked.
Faith and Remus turned to see a black cloaked figure standing there. Carefully it raised it's wand, but Faith was quicker.
"Expelliarmus!" she shouted. The figures wand flew across the room and the figure stumbled backwards and fell over. The hood of the cloak fell backwards reveling shiny straight black hair masking a pale face with violet eyes that were slowly turning blue. Faith gasped and Remus stood there frozen, open-mouthed.
"S-Sarah?" Faith stammered.
(A/N: I must say…I'm loving all the reviews…the more I get, the faster I want to put out a chapter.I did not write the song, that was all compliments of heartsong17. I will need someone to write more songs for future weddings. Can anyone do it?)