Chapter 9
A.N. Thank you so much for your reviews! I've replaced this chapter with different content because before I led myself into a dead end if you get my meaning. By the way would you like me to make this story slower as some people are saying this is going really fast, so please tell me if you review.
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Lily and James apparated back to England when Lily suddenly said
"Oh My God James! We haven't arranged a date for our wedding!" James looked at her and sighed
"Why is it women even the most sensible mature women lose their heads over weddings but I say this Lily, it should be simple. Date wise what about in New Year, that's in 2months and it would start off everyone's year with a bang!" Lily looked at him then squealed
"YES, THAT'S THE PERFECT DATE! AS FOR THE WHOLE WOMEN THING, IT'S A CHANCE TO GO OVER THE TOP AND WATCH A COUPLE MEANT TO BE MAKE THEIR VOWS!" James winced slightly and then said
"So that's us is it, meant to be?" Lily looked at him clearly unsure how to answer. James laughed at her and then picked her up
"I didn't mean it you silly goose." Lily and James laughed and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. They were in love and nothing else mattered. They apparated to the Potter Mansion to break the news to everyone about their marriage but they decided to keep the whole pregnant thing quiet and seeing as Lily was only in the very early stages of pregnancy she wouldn't begin to show till after the wedding.
Everyone was overjoyed for Lily and James and Lily was instantly led away by James' mum, Melissa, Ashleigh and Elle. It was non-stop chatter about trousseau's, where to hold it and the dress oh and the bridesmaids.
"Hey Lily, who is going to be maid of honour and who is going to be bridesmaids?" Ashleigh asked. Lily looked at her and then sighed
"Well I think and please don't get mad at me but you, Melissa and Elle as bridesmaids and Sophia to be my maid of honour." There was a silence then Elle asked, speaking for the first time ever to Lily.
"Who is Sophia?"
"She is a friend of mine that lives in Rome, but she's a muggle. Hang on a minute that means seeing as most of my friends are muggles, it can't be a magical wedding."
"Oh Lily, it has to be. Couldn't you put a memory charm on them or something?" James' mum asked.
"No, I don't want my friends forgetting the day their friend gets married. No I guess I'm just going to have to tell them about me being a witch and hope they will accept it." There was a silence and everyone looked at each other.
"Anyway, Elle I wanted to catch up with you, can you believe we haven't had a proper conversation in ten years?" Lily asked trying to break the silence.
"Sure, when are you free?" Elle asked swishing her hair a little.
"What about tomorrow and meet say at the Five and Dime, it's not a trashy restaurant however it may sound"
"Oh I know that, that's where Sirius proposed." Everyone stared at Elle and Ashleigh stuttered
"He-he did what?"
"He proposed but you can't tell anyone, we want to have a summer wedding, we were going to announce it at your wedding Lily, you don't mind do you?"
"Why would I mind? One of my best friends is getting married!" Lily yelled and everyone laughed. James, Sirius and Remus who had become friends again heard the noise and shook their heads
"Women!" they all said, James then asked Sirius
"So Padfoot, who is the lady in your love life?"
"Elle and I asked her to marry me, we are getting married in June." Remus and James whooped and wolf whistled and gave their congratulations. Once they got over the fact that Sirius was also getting married James rounded on Remus
"And you Moony, my friend who is the lovely lady in your life, I know you had the hots for Ashleigh in 7th year, still happening?"
"Yeah we have been dating virtually since we busted Lily, Elle and Pierre - sorry I guess that must have been Jean out of Beauxbatons and I'm going to propose to her in your wedding if that's ok?" James whistled under his breath and congratulated him. Sirius then asked James the exact same question Elle was asking Lily next door.
"What's going to happen to Lily's jewellery business?" James looked uncomfortable.
"I don't know, see she works in Rome and refuses to work anywhere else, she says Rome is her inspiration. So I guess she just apparates every day."
"Um hello James she will get really worn down, you have to be really good at magic to be able to do that, I mean apparating from one country to another."
"Well I suppose there is flooing, and a portkey so I'm sure it will be alright Oh and those weird aeroplane things that muggles use." James said
"Well mate who is going to be your best man?" Sirius asked trying to act subtle but failing miserably.
"Well, Moony I'm really sorry but I think I choose Sirius to be best man but I was wondering if you would give the speech?" there was a pause and then Remus smiled
"Sure, I better get my writing cap on!" James smiled
"I would have thought after all these years of hanging round certainly Padfoot you would be able to better one-liners by now!" They all laughed. It seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
The next day Elle woke up sleepily and pushed back her covers with Sirius next to her protesting.
"Elle, come on five more minutes." Sirius pleaded not even opening his eyes. Elle smiled down at her fiancé
"Its alright, you can stay in bed, I'm going to meet Lily." Sirius opened his eyes at this
"But why at whatever the time is now?"
"Because it is 11 o'clock in the morning and I promised to meet Lily at noon."
"You need 1 hour to get ready?" Sirius asked puzzled
"A woman's friends are usually the harshest critic's of what their friends are wearing." Elle said and began to run the shower. Sirius closed his eyes again and went back to sleep.
45 minutes later Elle was ready and Sirius opened his eyes again. He then did a double take.
"Wow!" was all he could say and Elle grinned. She was wearing a black skirt with boots and a blue three quarter length top with a ballerina neckline with a black pattern on it. She had a black coat on as well to finish it all off.
"Thanks, anyway gotta go, love you!" Elle said and she disapparated. Sirius said love you too then decided to go back to sleep.
"Hi Lily." Elle said and Lily span round she was wearing an emerald green skirt with boots and a white top with a thin green belt over the top of the top. She was also wearing a green coat.
"Hi Elle, have you had breakfast?" Lily asked
"No, you?"
"No, shall we sit down then and order?"
"Sure." They sat down and there was an awkward silence.
"So what have you been doing over the last 10 years?" Lily asked
"Well I started dating Sirius and I began to work at the Ministry and for 1 year I was the Ministeress for Magic but it wasn't my ideal job so I began to set up a fashion business."
"You were Ministeress of Magic? Wow, so what's you r fashion line like?"
"Great actually, we have almost doubled in profit, do you want to see some of my clothes in a magazine?" Elle asked
"Sure, oh my god, I have a great idea! You're a fashion designer, I'm a jewellery designer what if you did a muggle line and you joined it onto mine?" There was a pause and Elle seemed to concentrate on the glass in front of her.
"So what do you think?" Lily prompted
"Well I'll give it some thought, can I get back to you?" Elle asked.
"Yeah sure, right now onto other stuff." They chatted for three more hours and returned to their apartments. Elle found Sirius sitting on the sofa and reading the Daily Prophet.
"And what time do you call this missie?" Sirius asked
"3.15pm on the dot well now it's 3.15.42. That's what time I call it." Elle said and Sirius smiled
"We are going to annoy the hell out of each other when we get married." Sirius said and put his arms around Elle's waist. Nothing seemed wrong until Elle found a letter in the post…
A.N. Okay what do you think will happen? Elle isn't going to have that de-generative disease because I just didn't know anything about it. Please review!