Hello! I hope people are reading my story and I'm not just wasting my time here, because I don't have any reviews . Aw well, maybe my story just sucks P. Well, here's the latest chapter.

When the Truth Comes Out

The first week out of Hogwarts, everybody was extremely busy. James and Lily were moving in together, Ashley and Sirius were moving in together, Ashley was trying to start her job, Sirius, Lily, and James were looking for work. Remus was sleeping in Ashley and Sirius' basement while he looked for a place. Alaina too was looking for a job, and had been acting paticularly odd lately.

One day, the six of them were eating dinner at Ashley and Sirius' house when Alaina started randomly crying. That was the last straw for Remus. He looked confused and hurt that she still hadn't bothered to tell him what was going on. "Alaina-What's been going on lately? Do you not trust me enough to tell me whatever it is that's making you this moody?"

"It's not that, Remus! I swear! I just can't tell you because-because you'd get mad," Alaina replied in a tone just above a whisper.

"Alaina-I won't be mad. The only thing that could ever get me seriously mad at you is if you lied to me or betrayed my trust. Did you do any of those things?" Remus asked her cautiously.

"No-Not really," Alaina said after a moment or so of contemplation.

"Then just tell me, Lainy," Remus prodded softly.

"Fine Remus! I'm pregnant! Happy, darling?" she said helplessly.

"I-I'm going to be a father?" Remus said, not quite daring to believe his ears.

"Yes, Remus. In seven months or less," Alaina replied, looking at his face. She seemed to be trying to read his expression, but it wasn't possible. Nobody at the table could tell what his feelings were at the moment. "Please say something, Remus."

"F-Funny you should say that, A-Alaina because I was-I was going to ask you to be my wife tonight," Remus said in a distressed tone.

"Was?" Alaina asked looking crestfallen. The other four had quietly excused themselves from the dining room and ran toward the sitting room.

"Wait-No, that didn't come out right. I'll be by your side for this, Alaina. I love you, and I want to be in the baby's life. Here." Remus pulled out a little velvet navy blue box and popped it open. "Will you marry me?"

"Of course, Remus. I-I'm so glad you're okay with this. You're the best, I love you."

Aside from Remus and Alaina getting engaged, the rest of the month was quite boring. Ashley had managed to get her job up and running, she had already hired five people, and had about twenty more interviews that week. Lily and James were in the process of training to become an auror. Sirius had decided he didn't know what he wanted to do in life. He was looking at different job oppritunites with no luck. Alaina had landed a job in the Magical Law Enforcement squad at the ministry. Remus was deciding whether to become an auror, when he decided that he would like a job as a healer. After a month, Ashley was ready to start making wedding plans.

It was a sunny Saturday morning when Ashley, Alaina, Lily, Jessica, and Mrs. Benedettis started shopping for the wedding. Their first stop was flowers for the big day. They entered Cliffhart and Curry's, which was a desserted flower shop in Diagon Alley.

"'Ello there, Madam. Something I can help you with?" asked a short man, who looked to be in his late fourties.

"Hell, Mr. Curry. My daughter, Ashley, is getting married, so we're searching for flowers for the big day," Mrs. Benedettis replied, looking around the shop.

"Ah, we have a section for wedding flowers, just follow me," Mr. Curry said, leaving the front desk and waddling to the back of the shop. "See then, the flowers all have a distinguishing magical effect. For example, all the lilys glow a specific color. What's one main color you'll be having in the wedding, Miss?"

"Well, it's going to be a winter wedding hopefully, so blue," Ashley replied, planning out the time in her head.

"Right then," Curry said as he opened a freezer door and picked out a bouquet of lilies, all of which glowed blue. It was really beautiful. Ashley smiled at them, and said. "I want those."

"The roses come with hovering hearts, and you can get those in any color you like," Curry went on, happy to have made a sale.

"Really? Can I see them in blue?" Ashley asked excitedly.

"But of course," Curry said as he went back into the freezer and pulled out the roses which all had hovering blue hearts circling them.

"Okay, so we'll go with the lilies and the roses, right Ashley?" Mrs. Benedettis asked her daughter.

"Yeah," Ashley replied with a smile. They had already crossed one thing off the list. This was going quite well. Five minutes later, they were outside Cliffhart and Curry's, ready to do what was next on the list.

After a funfilled day of shopping, Ashley was happy to come back home and hang out with her husband-to-be.

"Hey stranger," Ashley said walking up to him and giving him a kiss.

"Hey, Ash. How was shopping?" Sirius asked as they walked into the living room.

"It was good, we got a lot of stuff done," she replied. "How was your day?"

"It was all right. Moony brought Alaina over, and she's off her rocker. Those bloody moodswings are taking effect," Sirius said with a sigh.

"I wonder when they'll be having their wedding?" Ashley wondered aloud.

"They said they're going to wait until after the baby is born, so maybe in a year or so," Sirius replied with a shrug.

"I can't believe they're having a baby. It's just so incredible. A year ago, they rarely spoke and now look at them," Ashley marvelled.

"Yeah, I know. It really is incredible," Sirius agreed.

"We really have to set a date, Sirius," Ashley said, bringing up the topic for the third time in a week.

"Yeah, I know. I had two dates in mind," Sirius told her, happy to have something to contribute to the wedding.

"Really? And what dates are they?" Ashley asked interestedly.

"January the first or...Valentine's day," Sirius said, which made Ashley giggle.

"I'd like having a wedding on the first day of the year. It'd be like starting over together. And plus, if we do it early enough in the day, we could be in the Prophet, for first wedding of the year," Ashley joked.

"Thank god you didn't pick Valentines Day," Sirius said, obviously relieved.

"Are you kidding me? To me, Valentine's Day is just a stupid Hallmark holiday that is used to make money. There's nothing really worth celebrating behind it," Ashley shrugged.

"What's Hallmark?" Sirius questioned curiously.

"Haha. Nothing to worry about, Sirius," Ashley said with a grin.

The next couple of months mainly consisted of Ashley working and shopping for the wedding, Lily and James getting closer and closer, and Alaina and Remus making baby preperations. Ashley and the girls had finally finished shopping for the wedding in September. On September 12th, Alaina and Moony headed to the hospital for a check-up.

"Ah. Good to see you, Miss Donahue. And you, Mr. Lupin," Healer Jaycott said kindly, making a note on her clipboard. She peered at them over her black square-rimmed spectacles.

"Thank you. So what are we checking out today?" Remus asked nervously.

"Well, I'm just going to have a look and see how the baby's doing. I'll be writing down the sex of the baby and the due date too," Healer Jaycott told them with a small smirk.

"You know the sex and date? Can we know?" Alaina asked excitedly.

"Sure. Let me just have a look in there," the healer replied. She tapped Alaina's stomach, and wrote something on her clipboard. Then, she tapped it again, and then tapped a small projection screen off to the side. "This is your son," the healer told them, pointing to the baby within Alaina.

"How the the hospital?" James asked as soon as Alaina and Remus walked in the door.

"Well...The baby is healthy," Alaina replied.

"And?" Lily continued.

"And it's due on January 11th," Remus replied.

"And?" Sirius pressed on.

"And what?" Alaina asked them knowingly.

"Oh please. You both know what we're waiting for. Is it a girl or a boy?" Ashley questioned, dropping the game and getting down to business.

"Aw, what fun would it be we if were to tell you?" Alaina asked with a giggle.

"So what do you propose? A game?" James asked, rolling his eyes.

"Ooh, that sounds interesting!" Alaina said merrily.

"Er-What kind of game, Lainy?" Lily asked cautiously.

"How about everyone puts one galleon on the kitchen table. You all get one minute to decide what it is. If you're wrong, we get the money. If you're right, you get to keep it," Alaina said, happy to have thought of a game so quickly.

"Ugh, fine, have it your way," Sirius muttered and they all put one galleon down. He put a silencing charm over them so they could discuss things privately

"It's a boy," Ashley stated flatly.

"How do you know?" James asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Because I just do. I can tell by looking at her. Just trust me on this one," Ashley told them, looking at her watch. 35 seconds.

"I dunno, Ashley. I think it might be a girl," Lily said indecisively.

"It's not. Look, I don't know how I know, but it's a boy, I'd bet anything on it. Even this one," Ashley said, nodding toward Sirius. They all laughed for a second. 23 seconds.

"Come on, let's just go with a boy, Lily. If not, it's really only six galleons. Big deal, right?" Sirius pressed.

"I'm kind of scared of being correct. If Alaina gets angry that she lost-," Ashley didn't need to go on. Sirius nodded, knowing what she meant. Alaina was a bit on the scary side lately. "Ten seconds. We're going with boy, right?"

"Er-I guess," Lily mumbled. Ashley smiled, and removed the silencing charm.

"And your guess is?" Alaina said excitedly.

"Boy," they all said in unison.

"That's not fair! You-You cheated or something!" Alaina shouted angrily.

"Are you kidding me, Alaina? Who in their right mind would cheat? And how, anyway? It's not like any of us are healers, except Moony, but he didn't exactly share the sex of your son with us," James told her, rolling his eyes.

"James-Lighten up, she's pregnant," Ashley scolded in a whisper.

"Ugh, You all think I'm just some horrible monster, don't you? Wait until you're pregnant!" Alaina cried, pointing at Ashley and Lily. With that, she stormed out of the room in an angry rage. Remus gave an apolegetic look, and followed her.

"That was the worst game ever," Sirius mumbled, shaking his head. Ashley smiled and wrapped her arms around him.

"You know, we haven't seen Peter in almost a month," Lily realized.

"Let's keep it that way," Ashley muttered to Sirius. James walked over to them and mumbled, "I have to tell Lily."

"Tell her what?" Sirius and Ashley asked.

"About...the future. I can't hide it from her anymore," James told them.

"Well, if you think you have to, go for it, mate," Sirius replied, patting James on the back.

"Would you rather do it alone, or have us there?" Ashley asked him nervously.

"Er-I'd rather have you guys there if you don't mind," James said, looking at the floor.

"Of course we don't, Prongs. Just-Just have her sitting down first," Ashley warned, and James nodded. He whispered something to Lily and she followed to the sitting room. Ashley sat on Sirius' lap in the recliner, and James and Lily sat on the love seat.

"So-Uh-What's going on?" Lily questioned, scratching the top of her head.

And so they all took turned recounting what Ashley had seen and told them. Lily was completely speechless, and then she started awkwardly laughing.

"Lily-Um-What's so funny?" Ashley asked, looking at her as if she were nuts.

"You're not serious...Ugh, You are, Aren't you?" Lily asked, her eyes getting wide. Then, her emotions switched to anger. "And why didn't you tell me?" she asked James furiously.

"Well-I-,"

"I told him not to, Lily. I didn't want to worry you, I'm sorry," Ashley told her, shaking her head.

"Did you think that I couldn't handle it or something? Am I too dumb to understand this?" Lily questioned. She left in just as much of an agry rage as Alaina did.

"That couldn't have gone worse," Sirius said.

"She's not mad. She just uses anger to hide her real feelings when she's scared or upset," James assured them.

"Go home. Talk to her," Ashley said, nodding toward the door. James nodded and went out after Lily, who had probably found somewhere to apparate. Ashley and Sirius collapsed together on the couch and slept like that for hours and hours.