Erased But Not Forgotten

Chapter 17

Pieces of Heart and Finally Remembering

Just after Jul said "I do," something caught Rose's eye. Lifting her gaze, she found herself staring directly into a pair of brilliant green eyes. As she looked into Harry's eyes, everything that felt wrong and messed up flipped around and righted itself in his eyes. All it took was one glistening tear from those perfect emerald eyes to send her into another wave of dizziness, followed by a forgotten memory.

"You could marry me." Harry pulled something out of his pocket. It was the aquamarine ring she wore now on her right hand.

Rose's eyes opened wide. "W-what?" she breathed.

"Rose, will you marry me?" Harry asked again, kneeling down.

"Yes," she said quietly. "Yes!" she exclaimed, smiling, "Yes, Harry, I'll marry you!" she threw herself into his arms.

"Why, Miss Thorn, are you trying to seduce me?" Harry inquired in his extremely sexy British accent.

Rose grabbed the front collar of his shirt and pulled him so he was only inches from her face.

"Always," she whispered seductively, grinning.

She briefly recognized the scene and tried to capture her bearings when she heard the minister speaking to her, but instead was thrown into another glimmer of the past, except this time, Jul was in it, not Harry.

Suddenly, Jul grabbed her and kissed her right on the lips. Rose kissed back instinctively for a moment before she realized what she was doing. She jerked back and slapped him, leaving a very satisfying red handprint across his cheek. She vaguely noticed Harry stepping onto the porch, but he kept to the shadows, seeing what Rose would do.

"What the bloody hell is the matter with you!?!" she screamed. "I'm engaged to Harry! Are you insane! Do you have some sort of death wish!?!"

"Rose! I'm sorry, but I think I'm in love with you!" he yelled back.

"Well, I'm kind of already spoken for!" Rose ranted, infuriated.

"You know, Jul, I've been waiting for you to kiss me and say that you love me since I was 13! But now that I think I'm finally over you, and you realize now that you have feelings for me! You're just a bit late, don't you think!"

Rose was sitting on the porch with Jul again when all of the sudden she started singing,

"It's like a knife, through the heart

When it all comes apart

It's like someone

Takes a pin to your balloon

It's a hole

It's a cave

It's kind of like a grave

When he gets up, and just walks away from you

So why they call it falling

Why they call it falling

Why they call it falling

Now I know

Why they call it falling

Why they call it falling

Now I…know"

"I'm sorry, but if I'd never met Harry, with our past, would you even care?" she asked.

Suddenly she was back in the church, in her wedding gown, with Jul looking at her inquisitively. And suddenly, Harry was gone, and it wrenched a hole in her heart that hurt worse than anything else she had ever experienced. In that moment she realized the cause of her earth-shaking visions was something so simple that she should have figured it out from the beginning; she loved Harry, not Jul.

That's why he had always been such an important character in all her memories. And why the fireworks they emitted whenever they touched were so prominent. Then why did she forget him, everything about him? She didn't know but she definitely wasn't going to let him just walk away.

"…until death do you part?" the minister said, turning his gaze towards her.

Looking up into Jul's sapphire blue eyes she finally spoke, "I'm sorry, Jul. But no, it's not fair for me to marry you."

"What?" Jul inquired softly, his face falling. "Rose, please…"

"No, Jul, listen," Rose replied pleadingly, taking his hands in hers, "You're going to go and find a girl, who will love you completely, with all of her heart. And I can't marry you, no matter how much you love me or how much I loved you, because I can't give you my whole heart. It's true, I gave you a part of my heart a long time ago, Jul, but you have to realize that I gave a much bigger part of my heart to the man who just walked out of this church," Rose said, a tear rolling down her cheek.

"Harry?" he asked. All she could do was nod and place the diamond engagement ring he had given her back in his hand.

Jul just smiled down at her as his sapphire eyes welled with restrained tears. "Then go get him."

"Thank you." She kissed him on the cheek and ran out the side door and out into the rain. Within moments her dress got soaked and she silently thanked Liz and Hermione for making her wear water-proof mascara.

"Harry!" she called, her eyes scanning the lot.

Harry heard his name called as he was walking away from the church, to no where in particular to die of his broken heart. Glancing back towards the church, he caught sight of a figure in white, calling him name.

"Rose," he breathed. As she turned her head, their eyes connected and she smiled. Harry stood his ground, rain pouring, as Rose ran over to him steadily getting wetter.

"Rose, why aren't you inside…getting married?" he inquired. Instead of answering him, she threw herself into his arms, her lips finding his. And for a moment, time was suspended as they kissed in the rain.

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this is totally NOT THE END!!!! more happens :P so yeah, flooding horribly here so no skool tomorrow YAY!!!!! that gives me more time to work!!! YAY!!!!!! now all of you who have been crying during these last few chpts will get a reprieve! but the tale does not end here! no! there is more to come...tee hee hee! lmk what you think!!!!!!!

your faithful authoress,

Miss Romantic