Erased But Not Forgotten

Chapter 16

Crying Angels and Unspoken Objections

The hours that followed Harry's departure blurred together, leaving Rose in the back of the church with Hermione and Liz dressed in their wedding gowns. Suddenly full of nerves, Rose started pacing back and forth, twisting the aquamarine ring on her finger; it felt uncomfortable on her right hand and she felt the insatiable urge to put it on in place of Jul's engagement ring.

"Sleeping Beauty," Liz sighed with a note of exasperation in her voice, "what's wrong? It can't be the rain. You love the rain!" It was true, the sky was dark and the oncoming storm, which normally would have calmed her, did nothing whatsoever to disperse the uneasy feeling she had.

With a sigh of her own, Rose turned to face her best friends. "Okay, so you know how I keep getting these flashbacks of Harry and Jul and stuff?" she asked. They both nodded for her to continue.

"Well, when Harry gave me this ring, I remembered him, all dirty, pushing it onto my finger and kissing me. Like we were engaged…" She turned her sunflower eyes to her best friends, silently pleading for and explanation for her strange reoccurring visions. "Like we were in love… Hermione, Liz, what am I missing? Why am I remembering these things? Why did I forget these things?"

The two fellow conspirers glanced at each other warily, wondering if they should explain everything. Just as they were about to answer her, their fathers came in, all wearing identical smiles, unaware that they had just saved their daughters from an extremely messy explanation.

"Show time," Mr. Granger said with a grin, and they all prepared to walk out the double doors and down the aisle to their soon-to-be husbands. Rose gave her father a weak, reassuring smile and they followed Hermione and Liz down the aisle with their fathers as the piano magically played "Canon" as the wedding march. Though she could see Jul's radiant smile as she proceeded to him, she couldn't disperse the feeling that something was wrong; this wasn't how it was suppose to be. That, somehow, marrying Jul wasn't the key to her happily ever after.

Harry found himself fighting the butterflies that had invaded his stomach, regardless of the fact that he was only the best man, not the groom. There he was standing at the end of the aisle, in between the door and Ron, with Jul in the middle and James on the far end, waiting for everything to begin. All three grooms were dressed in proper tuxedos like Muggles, each of them attempting to look like James Bond. It would have worked too if they could manage to pull of the cool, collected front of a secret agent, but as it was they were all grinning like fools. He vaguely noticed the music starting and the doors opening, but then she came in and everything else dissolved.

Gliding down the aisle, gently grasping her father, Micheal's, arm, was Rose, a vision of beauty, Aphrodite in his eyes. Her strapless gown hugged her lithe body perfectly, the bodice embellished with lace that complimented her graceful curves femininely. He drank in the sight of her, leaving her eyes for last. But as he looked up, he felt his face fall at the sight of her.

Instead of the radiant blushing bride, glowing with happiness, smiling up at her future husband like he'd expected to see, hoped to see; Rose had a worried, anxious look on her face. After being with her for nearly a year, he could tell when she was uneasy, though she rarely ever was around him. It seemed like she was having second thoughts, like she didn't want to reach the end of the aisle where her fiancé was waiting. Almost like she didn't want to marry him.

'Stop it, Potter, let her go!' he growled mentally at himself. As her eyes flickered towards him, her smoky green eyes locked with his. 'Rose, please, release me. Let my heart rest…in pieces.'

Time seemed to be slipping away, and Harry could feel his eyes burning with the tears he didn't dare shed in front of her, as he watched her get married to the person who'd hurt her so long ago. 'She's happy, she's happy with him,' he repeated over and over again, as if to convince himself the look on her face was a figment of his imagination.

As if to jog him out of his musings, he heard Ron say "I do." Seeing the smile on his face, on Hermione's as she said the same, mirroring James and Liz' when they too repeated those two little words, a small genuine smile graced his lips. But as soon as those sweet words were uttered by Jul, his glimmer of happiness disappeared as quickly as if a Dementor had just glided in.

Harry knew what was going to happen, he'd lose her forever; game over, you lose. His emerald eyes, bright with tears that threatened to spill over, briefly met with hers once again before he turned away, slipping out the side door. He didn't even see the confused and slightly longing look in her smoky green eyes at his unspoken objection.

As he stepped out into the storm, the tears trailing down his cheeks were disguised by the rain, and he felt his world crashing down around him.

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ok so that's chpt 16, and most of the weddin :P ok so im trying to finish it before thursday (23rd) cuz that's when skool starts up again (grr) so yeah, hopefully i'll get the next chpt up tonight!!!! lmk what you think!!!! PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!! it makes me happy and when im happy i write faster (hint,hint,wink,wink) i would promise chocolate and whip cream covered harry and dracos to all who review but 1) this is spose to be k+ rated :P and 2) i don't own them (unfortunately :() or else i would actually have a social life! lol so please review even though i cannot provide chocolate/whipped cream covered harry and dracos...i no it's sad...please (uses puppy-dog pout)

ps. thanks to all who did review on that last chpt, it makes me suprisingly happy to know i can write a tear-jerker! thank you! and anyone who wants so see their wedding dresses, lmk ur email address and (hopefully) i'll send the pics to u! (hopefully it will work, it went quite gay the first time i tried and i have no idea if it actually went through) lmk!