Chapter 29, "It's Here! It's Here!"

On the morning of August 30th, Lily ran around the entire Manson at 5 o'clock in the morning screaming "It's here! It's here! I'm getting married today!"

"LILY!" everyone stuck they're heads out of their door, and yelled in a groggy voice, "GO BACK TO BED! IT'S 5 IN THE MORNING!"

Lily blushed a very beautiful shade of scarlet and squeaked a "sorry" as everyone closed their doors.

"Sorry Lily, but please, We are happy for you. We just don't appreciate being waken up at 5 in the morning," Rin told Lily as she walked to her door. "Try to go back to sleep. You'll need to be wake for the honeymoon, if you know what I'm saying…" Rin shut the door softly.

Lily went to her room, but she found it incredibly hard to fall asleep, so she just watched the sun rise through her window. Thinking of all the happy and bad things that happened, and will happen.

At nine o'clock, everyone was doing something. Lily was having her hair done by Scarlet's mother, who was an amazing hair stylist. Rin was tring to get some for of transportation that could bring them to the Hogwarts castle. Stuart was attempting to keep a straight face as he saw all the commotion, since all he had to do was put on a suit.

Eventually, at noon, everyone residing in the Sugarsweets Manson made it to Hogwarts. The place where the ceremony was to be held was still being set up. 'Luckily it doesn't start for another three hours,' Lily thought as she looked at the mass of people making their way, trying to set up things.

"C'mon Lily, everyone still needs to get dressed!" Rin spoke over the noise, and walked inside the castle, holding Lily by the wrist.

Two and a half hours later, Lily was standing in the center of the room, being admired. Her dress was the most elegant thing ever. A few days after Rin made it, she decided it needed tweaking.

Now, as Lily looked at it, the sleeves and the top were still the same. The bottom changed a lot. It flowed like water, and shined like the sun's light hitting the surface of many tiny, tiny diamonds. It didn't drag on the floor like it ha before, it just touched the surface. The necklace James had given her was still on, and like she told herself when she first got it, she had never taken it off.

Lily's dress wasn't the only thing that was the center of attention. The bridesmaids dresses were perfect too.

Blue, long and graceful, without sleeves. People always complained how the bridesmaids would have to wear horrible dresses, but in the end they always come out just as beautiful as the next.

After a whole series of complements, especially form Sirius and Remus about her dress (and the bridesmaids too). They started to do the pre – wedding ritual. The handing out of 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.'

Scarlet's mother was first.

"Something old," she held up a scarlet lily, "I know that my Scarlet would just love to see the day that you get married. She would have loved it more if she could be here in person. But this is as best as I can give you. The first scarlet lily that you and Scarlet left behind when you did your first prank ever." She placed it by her ear, with tears forming in her eyes.

With tears forming in everyone's eyes.

Rin was next.

"Something new," she began, reaching in her purse, "I made this little veil, I hope you like it," Rin placed it on her head, careful not to cover the scarlet colored flower. The top part was see through, but the bottom looked like it was made of white silk.

Stuart was came up to Lily, and gave her, her something borrowed.

"Here. It's my lucky rabbit's foot. This little thing has done more for me than it can be repaid for. I want you to have it during the wedding." He gave her a kiss on the cheek. "May it bring the best of luck to you."

Just then, Sirius and Remus came in, sort of out of breath.

"Wait, we- have- the - something – blue," Sirius walked into the room. "We had the hardest time convincing James to let us come here. We had to play hide and seek. He's paranoid you're going to leave him at the alter or something. Anyway, here's you're something blue," Remus explained, while Sirius held out a blue garter.

"I tried to get him to et something else blue, but he insisted…." Remus went on, more to himself, but no one noticed. Lily slipped it up her leg.

"Well I like it," Lily told Remus to calm him down. He's was just too innocent, either that or a tad too shy. Lily went with the shy theory.

Just then, Mr. and Mrs. Potter, came trough the door, and announced that the ceremony is beginning and that people should take their places.

This was it. There was no turning back now.

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