Chapter 27, Positioning

It had been a few days after Rin had made Lily's wedding dress when they decided to announce who the Maid of Honor and the Best Man would be at the wedding.

"Hey!" Lily greeted all the marauders and Rin, when they walked through the door of the Leaky Cauldron.

"So we ordered you here to tell you something important," James announced in a business like way.

"Obviously, you hardly ever order to do anything Prongs," Sirius spoke gruffly toward James. He looked oddly disheveled, with a sock on his head.

"What we wanted to tell you, or rather ask you, is: Padfoot, will you be my best man?" James spoke up smiling at how childish Sirius could be.

"Oh, I don't know mate. Do you really want someone who slimed you and everyone in the vicinity when you proposed to Lily?" Sirius laughed.

"Now that you think about it-"

"No! I'll do it! I was only kidding," Sirius spoke up fast, cutting James off. Everyone was laughing by now.

"Well, that's one thing. Rin?" Lily began.

"Yes?"

"Well, I really wanted my sister to do this, but seeing as how she blames me for my parents death I don't think it's going to happen. So… do you want to be my Maid of Honor?" Lily asked hopefully.

"What, you look like I'd say no. Of course I would be your Maid of Honor. And I'd be honored!" Rin went over to Lily and hugged her.

"That takes care of that, Moony?"

"Yeah Prongs?"

"We thought that you could be the Usher. And Peter could be the flower girl," James joked. "No Peter, you could be the Usher with Remus."

"Okay then…." Peter said, sort of downcast. Somehow he was going to screw something up.

Lily got up and announced: "I have to go, I still need two more bridesmaids. Rin, do you think you could help me?"

"Yeah, coming," Rin said in a sing song voice following her out the door.

"Okay, I need to go to America for a while, and get in touch with a very old friend. Do you think that you could watch over everything while I catch up. Then when I come back I've got two more people I want to invite. And since you're the bridesmaid, you can come up with the dresses you want to wear to the wedding. I have complete trust, especially after you did my dress," Lily told Rin when they got out the door.

"Sure, but when are you leaving?" Rin asked her, as they walked down the street, toward the Surgarsweets mansion.

"Tomorrow. That is if I can't make the phone call tonight. Either way, I'd be glad to see him," then seeing the look on Rin's face she added, "No, it's not like that," and pushed her playfully.

"Anyway, that's my plan. All that I need you to do is watch over things. I should only be gone for a day or two."

"Okay, but tell me what America's like when you get back. 'Kay?" Rin started giggling, Lily assumed it was from the sugar in the cookies she was eating while they were in the Leaky Cauldron.

"Definitely!" Lily giggled because Rin giggled.

Soon they couldn't stop giggling, and were laughing hysterically at nothing. When they finally reached home, out of breath from laughing so hard, Lily thought, 'This is what friends do, laugh with you for no apparent reason.'