Alright kiddies, here we go again ;) We get to see how Annie and Lilly became friends. I was going to put the finding of both girls' dresses in this chapter but I decided to split them up. You get to see the finding of Lillian's dress in this chapter though!
Disclaimer: if I owned Harry Potter I would have made sure Fred never died and probably would have put Harry and Hermione together, just saying.
The four of us apperate into diagon alley and are hit by the noise of the crowded streets. I can't help smiling seeing all of the amazing shops. I love diagon alley so much. I turn to Lilly and we grin at each other because this is the place we met when we were little.
Flashback:
I was walking down the streets of diagon alley, streets I had known my entire life smiling and eating an ice-cream cone from Florean Fortescue's. I was taking in the sights and listening to people talk. All of a sudden I ran into something and fell down on the cold cobblestone walks way. I looked around for whatever it was that I ran into. I saw another little girl around my age on the ground in front of me. I helped her up and dusted off my pink dress.
"Oh my Godric! I'm so sorry. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going?" I exclaimed. I took a closer look at her and didn't recognize her and before she could speak I said, "I don't know you, I know everyone around here at least by sight. Are you new? You're really pretty! Do you want to be friends? I love people and making new friends! What's your name? Mines Annabelle but I prefer to be called Annie by my friends. Sorry I talk a lot sometimes!"
She eyed me suspiciously but said in a shy voice, "Uhh hi, my name is Lillian but you can call me Lilly. I used to live here when I was really little but my mum and dad moved us to Scotland. We just moved back a couple days ago."
"That's really cool! Would you like me to show you around? We can get some ice-cream; I seem to have dropped mine when we fell." She gave me a small smile and nodded her head. I grabbed her pinky with mine and started walking down the street. "We're going to be best friends! I can just feel it." She and I started skipping at the same time and giggled.
"You know, you're kind of silly, but I like you." She said to me.
End flashback.
I was right, we've been best friend ever since. And every time we come here we apperate right to the spot we wet.
"Annie, you're kind of silly, but I like you." Lilly tells me. I smile at her and grab her pinky with mine and we skip off to Madam Malkins. Fred and George laugh at our antics and follow us into the shop.
"Loves, do we get to help you pick out your dresses? Or do we have to sit here and wait?" Fred asks us.
"Freddie, you know us, we want you to be surprised when you see us in them next weekend. You and Georgie can go sit in the chairs they have for the guys in the waiting room." I tell him. Fred and George go sit in the chairs.
"Hello dears! How have you been? I haven't seen you in a while. I was actually expecting you last weekend though." The plump witch that runs the shop says to Lilly and I.
"Yes, well, we forgot and Fred, the one who usually reminds me to remind the others, forgot as well" I say with a smile.
"Ah, ok then. What kind of dresses are you ladies looking for today?"
"We're not sure yet actually." Lilly pipes in.
"Alright well I'll leave you lovelies to looking. There are some new dresses towards the back I'm sure you'll love! Yell if you need anything."
We walk over to the racks with new dresses. "Lils I'm going to help you find your dress first, then we can find one for me. I think it'll be easier that way." I tell Lilly.
We look at the racks for at least a half an hour and end up with about ten dresses for her to try on. "I'm going to go find the owner and let her know I'm ready to try these on, you keep looking to see if there's anything good that we've missed!" Lillian yells at me as she scurries away. I look through a rack with her size on it one more time and something catches my eye. I find a beautiful red sparkly dress that I know Lils never would pick out herself. I see Lilly and the owner walking to the changing rooms and give them the dress to put in the room with the others.
She comes out in a coral pink dress first that does nothing for her figure and completely washes her out. I make a face at her and she walks back into the dressing room without even looking at herself in the mirror. She does this a few more times until she comes out in the dress I pick out. She looks amazing in it.
"Lils, this is it! Look at yourself!" she looks in the mirror and lets out an uncharacteristic squeal. The dress is a low cut halter top dress with sparkles on the bust that makes her chest look awesome but not too big like a lot of dresses do. It accentuates her amazing curves at all the right places and flows out to stop right above the knee. It will be one of the only short dresses at the ball but Lillian has always been one to break tradition. The red color is going to pop too because a lot of the women at these balls go for black dresses or neutral colors.
"Yay! I can't believe this dress! It's amazing. Thanks so much Annie! It's perfect. Now let's find yours!"
We give the dress to the owner and she takes it up to the register for us. We spend what feels like forever looking for my dress but just can't find anything I like; I am very picky about what I wear.
"Oh my! Annie gets your arse over here right now!" Lilly screams at me from a different rack. She holds up what appears to be a lot of puffy fabric and sparkles and jewels. I let out a gasp.
"This is it!"
Okey dokey guys. This is it for now; let me know what you think? I really like this one. Not much Fred and George but there'll be more of them to come, don't worry! Excited for Annabelle's dress? Me too! RR please!