"Come on Lily let's get this party started!" Lonna exclaims from the comfort of Lily's living room.

"Just a few more minutes. I want to make sure weather or not she'll be here."

"It's Holly, if she hasn't owled you by now saying she's running late, she'll never be here." Jenny said sitting on a chair her legs swung over the arms.

Jenny and Lonna were some of Lily friends from school. Lonna was loud, outgoing and extremely daring. It puzzled Lily why James and Sirius didn't throw themselves at her. It did, however shocked her when Lonna and Peter started dating. Jenny was extremely sarcastic and wild. About a week after Lily and Holly had gone dress shopping, Lily realized that she need another bridesmaid otherwise one of James' men would be going down the isle alone. So she made Jenny part of the party. For old times sake.

Five minutes later Lily received an owl from Holly explaining she'd meet them at the restaurant. Lily chose an old muggle restaurant not to far away from where she grew up. The four of them always had met there during the summer, just to hang out and talk about the normal things girls talk about. Lily thought this would be the perfect place to spend her bachlorette dinner. After that she had no idea what Lonna and Jenny had planned. Frankly she was a little scared. It was like giving James and Sirius the liberty to do whatever they wanted, with no legal restrictions, for 24 hours. But hey, this was her last night out without being married to James. But hey, why not enjoy the evening. She was sure that whatever James did last night was probably worse, so no big deal.

The three girls had just ordered the bottle of wine when Holly showed up.

"About time." Jenny said taking a sip from her glass.

"Sorry, I got tied up at work." Holly said apologetically.

"Hey, no big deal. With your job, it's completely understandable. Were glad you're here." Lily said smiling.

"Oh yeah, you're a big Auror now aren't you. So I guess we should change some of tonight's events so we don't get in trouble." Jenny continued. Holly and Jenny never really saw eye to eye. But Holly put up with her for Lily's sake. Jenny had transferred from Beuxbattons in their fourth year.

"I'm an Auror, not your keeper, so there is very little that you could come up with that I could get you into trouble with because I'm not in that division." Holly played coolly.

Sensing the tension between them changed the subject. "Well, I'm glad you could make it Holly. It was nice to hear that you came back. Did you meet any men, in your travels. Any that would make us plan another party for you soon?"

"No. I'm afraid not."

"Oh, come on Holly. There wasn't one?" Jenny asked bitterly. "If it were me in those countries I would have bagged me a rich one.

"I saw a guy for a while, but we broke up. But let's not spend tonight talking about me, this is Lily's night and we should be enjoying it. So? In two days you're going to Mrs. James Potter. How can you be so clam?" Holly said turning to Lily.

"I don't know. I'm so excited. I guess it's kind of surreal."

They sat and they ate wonderful food, and talked about everything that had happened in the last three years. Mostly about Lily and James, and once in a while Jenny would throw her two cense, normally in Holly's face, but they ignored it.

"So what are the boys up to tonight?" Holly asked, once again changing the subject from yet another sly comment from Jenny. It was like Jenny was leaving hints to everyone that she knew something about Holly that everyone else didn't.

"I don't know. They had their big night last night for some reason. He came back around four this morning smelling like smoke. I figured that they probably sat around playing cards, drinking beer, watching porn, and smoking cigars."

"What did it smell like?" Jenny asked.

"I don't know, it reeked, it was kind of tangy, but sweet at the same time. I don't know that doesn't even make sense." Holly choked a bit on her wine, she knew exactly what the boys had been doing that night. But she be damned if she told Lily the truth.

"Is everything ok Holly." Lonna asked.

"Yeah, just went down the wrong way." Holly said recovering.

"You sure?" Jenny asked raising one eye brow.

"Yes. I am." Holly suddenly realized something. Jenny had been there once in their seventh year, when she and the boys were out having a good time. She returned the glare she was receiving. "Ok, what's next on the agenda?" Turning to Lonna. Holly was sure she was in for a long night.

It was sometime around 3:30a.m. when Holly crawled into bed. She was thankful that even though she had to go to work in three hours, her boss had given her permission to take half of Friday and all Saturday and Sunday off.

They had a wild night. Complete with several bottles of wine, a few hours at a strip club, and fun games back at Lily's. It had taken almost all of her strength not to smack Jenny all night. But she did it. She was proud of herself.

Work sucked the next morning. Besides the massive hangover she had, everyone in her department was acting like they had massive hangovers too. Everyone was really edgy, and you didn't talk to anyone if you could help it. She got snapped at by one of the veterans of the business for making coffee to loud. She knew she shouldn't take it to heart, but in all reality she had a really crappy night, and all she wanted to do was sleep.

However when she returned to her desk with a large cup of coffee, she found a single daisy, with a note attached lying on top of the wood desk. The note said:

"'I'm sorry for everything I said and for anything I forgot to say too, when things get so complicated I stumble at best muddle though. I wish that our lives could be simple I don't want the world, only you.' I'll see you soon."

This made her smile the first genuine smile in over a week. Finally when the clock stuck noon, Holly apperated home and took a long, deserved nap.

Holly finally awoke the sound of someone stumbling down her hallway. She looked at her clock. It was five thirty in the evening. With a slight grown, she climbed out of bed to see what all the commotion was about.

"James what the hell are you doing?" she asked when she found him sitting on the couch looking at one of the photo albums.

"Looking at the pictures."

"Really?" she said rolling her eyes. "You made that much noise getting a photo album?" She paused for a moment, as she scratched her head and released a yawn. "What are you doing here?"

"Lily kicked me out of the house. Something about it being bad luck to see the bride before the ceremony on the wedding day or something. Apparently I'm not even allowed to sleep in my bed before the wedding either." she laughed a bit.

"So why aren't you at Sirius'?" To Holly that would make a lot more sense.

"Not home. He's at work."

"Annnddd why aren't you at work?"

"I was, then I got off work, went home, Lily kicked me out, man is she pretty when she gets angry, then went over Sirius, he wasn't home so I wanted to see how the two of you were doing. Remus was sitting in bed and said he'd be out after he took a shower, and you were sleeping so I decided to look at this."

"Ookaaay."

"Don't worry, I'll only be here for a while, I'm going to crash at Sirius' tonight."

"Sounds like you've got everything under control."

"Yes 'mam!" He said a bit too enthusiastically.

"Sooo…how was your bachelor party?" She said sitting next to him.

"Great! Sirius got a whole bunch of…well, you know" his voice got low when he said "you know" " and it was just like in school. Except you weren't there, and Peter didn't pass out this time, and Remus actually got giddy, it was a good time."

"I bet."

"How was Lily's party."

"They had a great time."

"What about you?"

"Do you remember Jenny?"

"Was she the one from France?"

"Yeah. Well, she was there."

"I'm sorry."

"Me too. All night she kept making references to what a horrible person I was, and alluding to what we did in back in school."

"How would she know?"

"She was there that one time in seventh year, when you and Lily were fighting, and she ended up making out with you, Peter, and Remus, in the span of what, six, seven hours?"

"Oh yeah. I think I remember being disappointed that you two wouldn't make out."

"I would have rather thrown myself out of the astronomy tower." she said flatly. "I was about to too."

"What?"

"Never mind. It's not a big deal."