Chapter 3: Wedding Bells Are Ringing
"BRITNEY WHERE IS MY NECKLACE?" shouted Haylie. Everyone was frantically getting things ready for the wedding that was in less than two hours.
"I'M STILL LOOKING!" Britney shouted. "Merlin, relax," Britney muttered more to herself.
One of Haylie's bridesmaids ran out of the room where Haylie was getting ready. "Britney, did you lose her necklace?" asked Jen.
"No, I did not lose it! It's . . . somewhere," she said looking around in her room. "I lost it!" she said sighing and sitting on her bed.
Jen winced. "Can she borrow one of yours?"
"She's not going to want one of mine, she's going to want that necklace," Britney said, looking around her room.
"What is this necklace?" Jen asked.
"I don't know, it was my grandmothers, and I've had it, and now she wants it for the wedding." Britney said.
Lily than came into Britney's room, all dressed for the wedding. She was wearing a pale purple dress that went as far as just past her knees. Britney smiled.
"I heard you screaming," Lily said. She walked over to Britney's jewellery box, and pulled out one of Britney's necklaces. "Was it that necklace with the silver heart?" Lily asked.
Britney nodded. Lily pulled out her wand, and transfigured Britney's necklace into the missing necklace. Britney looked impressed.
"Nice," Britney said happily taking the necklace from Lily's hand. She then handed it to Jen. "Safe and sound!" Jen took the necklace apprehensively, and she rushed out of the room.
"There we go," Lily said sitting on Britney's bed. "Aren't you a bridesmaid?" Lily asked.
Britney sighed. "I don't know."
"How do you not know?" Lily asked.
"Well, one of the bridesmaids dress is missing," Britney shrugged, "and of course I get the missing one."
"Many things are missing then," Lily said smiling.
"Yeah, so is the rat," Britney muttered.
"The rat?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, I bought a rat for a wedding prank, and of course, I leave it in my room for the day yesterday, and it's gone!" Britney said.
"Well, it might be for the best, I don't think your sister would have welcomed it," Lily said.
"That was the point," Britney said quietly.
"So what are you wearing instead?" Lily asked.
"I have nothing!" Britney said.
"You have no clothes? You have that you huge walk-in closet, right there you know. Or is that missing as well?" Lily said pointing to a door, across the room.
"Well, according to Haylie, none of my dresses are appropriate for her perfect wedding."
"So, what are you going to where?" Lily asked.
"A potato sack," Britney said proudly.
"Good luck with that," Lily said shaking her head.
"Well, I don't know what else to wear," Britney sighed.
"Let's go see you sister, than," Lily suggested. Britney sighed, and they headed to Haylie's room.
Haylie's make-up was being magically put on, and Britney hesitantly walked in, and stayed close to the wall.
"Don't make any sudden movements," Britney whispered to Lily.
"She's not going to attack," Lily whispered to Britney.
"She will, she already threw a shoe at James' head this morning," Britney whispered. Lily laughed aloud. Britney quickly covered her mouth, just as Haylie whipped around.
"Hey Lily," she said smiling nicely. Britney looked apprehensive.
"Hey Haylie, good luck!" Lily said smiling sweetly.
"Thank you," Haylie said, she than looked at Britney. "Britney you're not wearing that!" she snapped, looking at Britney's jeans and t-shirt.
"I don't have a bridesmaid outfit! I have no dresses, suitable to your standards!" Britney snapped.
"Borrow one of mom's dresses," Haylie shrugged.
"No," Britney said quickly.
"Look, Britney, you're not ruining my day! I have to be at the church in 10 minutes, so please find something!" Haylie said stressing out a tiny bit.
"BRITNEY!" shouted her mom from down stairs. Britney sighed, and walked down the stairs with Lily.
"What?" Britney asked.
"I got the bridesmaid dress," said her mom smiling.
"Thank you!" Britney said.
"Get dressed quickly, we have to leave in 5 minutes," said her mom. Britney smiled and went up the stairs and quickly got with Lily's assistance.
"Good thing I did my hair and make up earlier," said Britney laughing, as she tried to get into the dress.
"It's a nice dress," Lily said.
"Yeah . . ." Britney said looking at herself in the mirror.
"Come on, everybody! Time to get to the church!" yelled one of the ushers through the house.
"How far is the church?" Lily asked.
"Not far," Britney said. "It's all being done 'the muggle' way."
When everyone was finally at the church, Haylie was getting nervous.
"Britney! Ask dad if he's ready?" Haylie asked.
"Ready for what?" Britney asked.
"Can you get anymore dense? To walk me down the isle!" Haylie snapped.
"But the ceremony doesn't start for another hour," Britney said confused.
"Just do it! Lily can you get me that?" she said nicely to Lily. Britney glared at the back of Haylie's head, and she stormed out, and in search for her dad.
She found her father sitting in a waiting room talking to the best man.
"Daddy?" Britney asked. Her dad turned around and smiled, and excused himself from his conversation.
"Yes, sweetie?" asked her father.
"Haylie wants to know if your ready to walk her down the isle," Britney said.
Her father raised his eyebrows. "The ceremony isn't for another hour," he said confused. Britney shrugged. "I don't want her to get married," said Brad as he sat down.
"You'll always have me!" Britney said smiling, sitting down beside him.
"No I won't. You'll get married soon. I just hope you save yourself until you get married, like Haylie," he said smiling, Britney snorted.
"Haylie a virgin!" she burst out laughing, she saw her dads face. "I mean…ooh yeah," she said seriously.
"Oh Brit," said her dad as he pulled her into an embrace. "It's hard for a father to watch his daughter walk down the isle," he said.
"But its only Haylie," said Britney.
"That doesn't mean anything, Brit. She's the oldest and you're the baby, and I love you both the same," he said.
"Well, it'll just be you and me this summer!" she said smiling.
"You're not going to see Dom at all?" asked her father smiling.
"Not if you don't want me too," she said. Her father kissed her forehead.
"Go," he said.
Britney smiled, gave her dad one last hug, and left to go see how Michael was doing. When she got to the hallway, (where Michaels room was) at the end of the hallway stood James with his head in the corner standing still.
"What are you doing?" Britney asked James.
"I've been kicked out," James muttered. "They threatened me with my life if I moved from this position."
"Ah," said Britney with a smile, and she knocked on Michaels door.
"If that's you James, I swear..." said Michael from the other side of the door. He opened it. "Hey Brit, come in," he said smiling.
"How are you doing? Are you being a total nut-case?" Britney asked smiling.
"Is Haylie going crazy?" he asked.
"Of course. You seem calm and cool, not crazy and mental," Britney said.
"Yeah, well, that's on the outside," he said.
"Ten minutes!" shouted an usher.
"Ok, I'll see you after the ceremony," Lily said to Britney as she headed into the church.
Britney returned to Haylie's room.
"Britney, how do I look?" Haylie asked.
"You've asked me this before, and everyone else who has stepped foot into this room," Britney said, Haylie's brow furrowed slightly. "But you look beautiful."
"Great!" Haylie said smiling.
"It's great that you're great," Britney said.
"Ok everyone! We're starting!" said the usher. Everyone got into their positions, outside the church doors. The music started, and the large oak double doors of the church slowly opened. The flower girl walked out slowly, smiling, and throwing flowers to her sides. When she reached the front, the bridesmaids, slowly walked out.
And then, Haylie walked out, with her father. She was smiling and tears were in her eyes with happiness.
"To Haylie and Michael!" said the Best Man, as everyone held up their glasses for Haylie and Michael. They were smiling happily and lovingly at each other.
"Now! For the happy couple's first dance!" they slowly got up and onto the dance floor. They started to dance, as everyone watched happily.
"Aw," Lily cooed. Britney sighed contently. "They're so cute together!" Lily said.
"Yeah," Britney said. "I remember when they first got together!" she said. "It seems like only yesterday that I made fun of them!"
"You probably did make fun of them yesterday," Lily said.
"Nah, I don't think," Britney said. They were silent for the next few minutes as they watched Haylie and Michael happily. When they next song started, everyone else soon joined them.
"I'm hungry! Let's go to the washroom!" Lily said urgently, as she stood up, and pulled Britney up with her.
"What are you doing?" Britney asked. Lily hurried down the hallway to the bathroom.
"Potter!" Lily said, as she pushed Britney into the washroom.
"You do realize, it probably looked odd, that both of us went into the one person washroom," Britney said.
"Who cares," Lily muttered. "We'll just stay here for a while, I don't want Potter to bother me," Lily said angrily.
"You must really hate him," said Britney teasing.
"Shut it!" Lily snapped.
"Lily likes James!" Britney said happily.
Lily glared daggers at Britney. "I don't!" she snapped.
"Then why are you fighting against it?" Britney asked grinning.
"Because I – shut up!" Lily said.
"Aw, ok," Britney said. "Can we leave now?" Lily nodded. She cautiously walked out, and looked down the hall both directions. "You're paranoid," Britney muttered, as she casually walked out.
Lily walked out crouching and walking behind Britney and hid, crouching and walking behind Britney was hard.
"I'm sorry that I'm so short," Britney said smiling.
"Yeah, you'll have to make up for that later," Lily said through gritted teeth. Britney laughed.
"Just dance with the desperate boy," Britney said shrugging.
"You don't understand! I can't and I won't!" Lily said.
"You can too! It's not like you have a dancing disorder," Britney said smiling. From behind, Lily gasped. "What?"
"I have a dancing disorder!" she exclaimed standing to her fullest height, then as if realizing she had, she quickly crouched down behind Britney once again.
"You do?" Britney asked.
"Don't be stupid," Lily said. "I know I don't, and you know I don't, but Potter doesn't know I don't!" Lily said happily.
"James is not that thick!" Britney said.
"James Potter's head is so thick, I don't even think there's enough room for his brain!" Lily said.
"Well then, test his intelligence right now," Britney said. "He's coming here!" Lily ducked away from Britney and under one of the long catering tables. "Oh he won't find you there," Lily heard Britney mutter.
Lily sighed, and turned around so she could crawl, and found herself face to face with James Potter.
"Potter!" Lily gasped.
"Are you playing hide-n-seek?" James asked smiling his silly grin.
"No!" Lily snapped. "What are you doing under here?" Lily asked.
"I would have to ask you that, because that's why I'm under here," James said.
"Well, I'm down here because of you, Potter!" Lily said, she was really angry with Potter for finding her, and yet she knew this was a stupid hiding place, and that didn't stop her from blaming Potter.
"Well, as long as we're together!" James said smiling, as he seated himself down on the ground comfortably.
"No, not together Potter!" Lily said apprehensively. She crawled out from under the table, as she stood up.
"Will you dance with me?" James asked her as he stood up from under the table, a few people looked at them strangely as they exited from under the table.
"No," Lily said, as she turned around and went in a direction she hoped Britney would be.
"Why not?" James asked. "I dare you," James said as he followed her.
"I don't do dares," Lily said as she looked for Britney's brown hair.
"Everyone does," James said.
"I don't," Lily said, she knew very well this was a lie, she always played Truth or Dare with her friends. "Now Potter, please leave before I gettoo close to you," Lily snapped.
"Ouch," James said putting his hand to his heart dramatically.
"Yeah, well, shouldn't you be with your little buddy?" She asked James, as she started up walking very quickly again.
"Shouldn't you?" James asked.
"Would you stop?" Lily nearly yelled. "I don't want to dance because I have a dancing disorder!" Lily said too quickly, as she re-capped what she just said in her head, she felt as if she should laugh or not.
"What?" James asked, with a repulsed look on his face. "You're lying, no one has that!" he said.
"Oh but she does!" said Britney from behind Lily, causing Lily to jump slightly. "It's quite sad actually, trying to watch her dance, while she's hurting everyone who she dances with." Britney said, hanging her head.
"I'll take that chance," James said smiling.
"No you don't want to!" Britney said quickly.
"I'm actually turned on," James said shrugging.
"Ok you know what James, she just doesn't want to dance!" Britney snapped.
"You're so touchy," James said.
"Look, Potter, I don't want to dance with you! What ever made you think that I would want to is beyond my belief!" Lily said, and she pushed past him and walked onto the dance floor.
"Why doesn't she like me?" James asked Britney.
Britney shrugged. "Maybe because you're a prat and arrogant." Britney said as more of a statement than a question.
"How nice," James muttered. "Yeah, well I'm going to find Sirius," James said frowning, as he went in search for Sirius.
James searched into the kitchen, where many of the house-elves were frantically getting more food prepared. James exited the kitchen and went into an old playroom. James looked in, he hadn't been in there for years.
James smiled slightly as he looked at all the old toys. He sighed and exited the room, and went upstairs. He decided to look into Britney's room. When he walked in, he found Sirius pulling on his jeans and James' cousin pulling on her dress.
"ARGH!" James screamed and he put his hands to his eyes.
"Hey James!" said James' cousin awkwardly. "See you, Sirius!" she said and she raced out of Britney's room.
"You were looking for me?" Sirius said.
"Do you have your clothes on?" James asked hesitantly.
"Yes." Sirius said.
"And you did this in Britney's room, because? You could have done it in any of the other spare rooms. Why you chose Britney's is –"
"No reason," Sirius said. "It made it more exciting," he said with a grin.
"With my cousin?" James asked a bit to loudly.
Sirius shrugged.
"I can't touch any of these girls, they're all probably related to me somehow," James said as he nodded to the direction of the door. Sirius got up and they walked down the stairs that led to a hallway on the ground floor. They headed to where James' parents were talking to Britney.
Britney's glance moved to Sirius and her eyes narrowed. "SIRIUS!" she yelled, Mr. and Mrs. Potter looked in Sirius' direction, as Britney stormed over to him. "My room?" she whispered outraged.
Sirius smiled sheepishly. "I don't know what you're talking about," he shrugged. Britney grabbed him roughly by the arm, and dragged him far away from Mr. and Mrs. Potter.
"You were in my room with a girl?" she yelled.
"Which girl?" Sirius asked.
"What do you mean 'which girl', idiot?" she snapped.
"I was with James the whole time," Sirius said defensively.
"Just because your depressed, that you got kicked out of home, doesn't mean you can have sex with a girl in my room!" she shouted.
Sirius all of sudden seemed to become very angry.
"I'm not depressed, and I didn't get kicked out!" shouted an enraged Sirius. James sighed and he left the two to fight.
James soon was wandering the area. There were A LOT of people. Too many. James went to the dance floor, and walked up to where Haylie and Michael were dancing. James tapped his brother on the shoulder.
"May I?" he asked. Michael smiled and moved out of the way for James to dance with Haylie. "You look beautiful," James said nicely.
"Thank you James," Haylie said. "How are you doing?" she asked James.
James sighed. "I couldn't get Lily to dance with me," he frowned.
"Still can't get her?" Haylie asked smiling.
James sighed again. "I will," he said smiling. "You'll see!"
"I bet you will James," Haylie said shaking her head slightly. James twirled Haylie around. "Are you dating anyone else?" Haylie asked mischievously.
"Not really, I'm still going around," James smiled to himself.
"Silly James," Haylie said laughing. "How's my silly sister? She hasn't really talked to me since I've been engaged, I think she's scared of me," Haylie said smiling.
"She has a boyfriend," James said shrugging.
"I knew that! I've met him a million times!" Haylie said. "How long have they been together now?" Haylie asked. "I want them to break-up."
"Over a year now, I think. Why do you want them to break-up?" James asked laughing slightly.
"It's just she's always happy! She's never been sad about boys! I'm not anymore though," Haylie said smiling as she looked over at Michael who was talking to his dad.
"Well then, I'll leave you to him," James smiled, and he left Haylie for Michael.
A/N: I'm updating today because I'm sick, and not at school...thank god! Thank you for the reviews. I know i realized, a long time ago, like in November i would update back then, but for some reason it wouldn't take my update. The last chapter, actually isn't the first chapter, its the second chapter. The first chapter would have been worth to no one anyways, so it works out quite nicely. Since I'm sick, i just wrote a chapter. I haven't wrote anything from this story since Christmas break. I've been writing futur chapters for this story. When they're all out of school. It's fun to write.
Well, this is the chapter, I'll try to write theeighth chapter today, so I can update again. TTYL!
R/R! Thank you for the wait:D