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Both Unexpected and Expected Surprises

Chapter 3

Anxiety and Excitement

Lily could hear her friend's giggles. It had been a week since James had rudely asked her to Slughorn's Christmas party. They we're getting excited for the occasion that would be happening this very night. The dark room was messily scattered with different shoes, ribbons, dresses, and random hair supplies and makeup.

"James Potter and you?" Rebecca, Lily's friend, laughed, still not able to get over the fact.

Lily blushed into a light shade of scarlet. She spun around to see the back of her gold dress. It was trimmed with cream lace and had gold sparkles at the neckline. Rebecca's dress was black with satin trimmings.

"So how did Remus ask you again?" Lily smiled.

"He just kind of asked me in the hall I guess…he was probably busy, I mean, James was watching him so he must have had some pressure..." Rebecca blushed.

Lily fell into laughter she could just imagine James Potter making Remus ask Rebecca to the occasion between a class period.

"At least I actually like who I'm going with," Rebecca said turning to look closer at her dress .

Lily fell silent. She frowned and pretended to look at her watch. She got an awkward feeling in her stomach. Rebecca was continuously spinning around in front of the mirror changing her facial expression every time she spun.

"Do you like James?" Lily asked her friend looking down.

"You already know what I think about him Lily; he's not really what I would call sweet, but he really likes you…and you'll have a great time tonight!" Rebecca smiled

"It's still hard to believe it's tonight." Lily sighed.

Rebecca picked up a gold earring and crawled down searching for the other.

"You're just nervous," she yelled now under the unmade bed.

"I am not!" Lily said defending her self.

Rebecca popped her head up holding both earrings in her hand. She reached over and slid them into Lily's earring hole. Rebecca frowned at her staring into her eyes.

"We better go" she cried looking at the time.

Lily slid into her glass shoes that she had kicked off earlier. Rebecca looked at her self in the mirror again running her fingers through her brown curls.

The girls headed out the door with anxious faces.

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