Lisa: I am so sorry but I started working on my original story and this really got away from me but I'm back now so fear not.
Heather: She'll ignore it again for another month…
Lisa: Yeah, I usually do and then I say "oh shit, gotta write" and then go at for a few days non-stop… it's my process.
Heather: And a good one it is.
The Big Day
Lily, Maureen, Heather and Laura sat in the small back room of the church, today was the big day, the day of Lily and James's wedding. Laura was doing all she could do with her wand to make Lily's hair perfect, but the end of the day only the strongest spells would be able to take it down. However there did seem to be a problem, not with Lily or James they both looked fabulous, but the problem of where the best man and one of the bride's maids were.
"I'm sure they're fine." Maureen said as she walked up and began sending a lint roller down Lily's white dress. "Andy probably just came across Sirius in the hall and he had his tie wrong or they're just talking. I'm sure they're fine."
"But she's been gone for a half hour, and so has Sirius, you heard Remus when he came in here asking." Lily argued. "I tell you they found something or got distracted by something and it has to be bad because what else could be more important today then my wedding."
Heather sighed and played with her green dress, she wasn't too fond of the whole dress thing. "Look, those two have the attention span of mole rats… they probably found a lamp and got distracted by the pretty colors."
Lily moaned and bounced up and down for a couple minutes. "But the weddings in less then a half hour, where are they?"
"Stop moving," Laura scolded. "I'll mess up and end up lighting your hair on fire."
"Laura its fine." She protested.
"This is your wedding day; your hair has to be perfect."
"Speaking of hair," Maureen said turning around from putting the roller away. "Did we do Andy's hair yet?"
Lily paled. "No… oh my God we didn't do her hair yet!"
Heather rolled her eyes and looked up from her magazine. "Oh come on! You cast one spell and it goes up, you are witches remember." She looked back down.
There was a knock at the door and all four girls turned to see who it was, when they realized they did not have the power to see though wood Lily answered. "Who is it?" She called.
"Uh, it's Remus, Pete, Benjy and James." Remus answered. "James thinks he found Sirius and he has reason to believe Andy might be there as well."
The four girls looked to one another and Maureen threw a white robe at Lily so she could face James and not completely jinx the wedding. Heather shot up and walked to the door, wanting to see this. They stood their until Lily was ready and they all opened the door and stepped out. James immediately covered his eyes, not wanting to see Lily before the wedding.
"Lil!" He exclaimed. "I can't see you in the dress."
"You're not seeing me in a dress you're seeing me in a robe, now come on." She said and looked around, it came to her attention she had yet to know where they were headed. "Where do you think they are?" She asking looking over to James.
"Well I used the two way mirror and apparently Sirius set it down on a table, I told him to take it with him just in case. It looked like the back rec. room." He said and pointed down the hall in the direction of the rec. room.
Lily stomped down the hallway followed by her loyal bride's maids and James followed, a bit more casually with his groomsmen. After a couple turned they arrived at the door of the rec. room, their got their fairly quickly, Lily was practically running, time was short before the ceremony began. They could hear noises inside the room and it looked as though her green eyes turned almost as red as her hair and she flung open the door.
Before them sat Sirius and Andy on the couch watching TV and looking excited to be watching it. Andy did not have her hair done it still was flat against her back, not only that but her legs were up on the couch with her and she wore no heels, she was wearing her boots. Sirius didn't look much better, his tie was loose around his neck and his long hair was aroused and his robes had gathered quite a bit of lint and wrinkles from his position next to Andy.
The eight of them stormed into the room and stared with open mouths. "What are you doing?" Lily asked shocked and dumbfounded.
"Watching Star Wars." Andy replied with a grin and pointed to the screen. "See look, Luke, Han and Chewie just saved Leia from the prison."
"Don't forget R2-D2 and 3C-P0." Sirius reminded as he glanced at her.
"My apologies to the droids." She said waving her hand absently, after a pause she added. "You know they're making another one."
"They are not." Sirius scoffed. "Really?" He asked after a beat.
"Yeah, two more it's gonna be a trilogy." She confirmed.
"Well good, too many unanswered questions."
"What's wrong with you two!?" Lily exclaimed. "It's the day or my – of our wedding, me and James! How can you waste precious time watching Star Trek?"
"Wars." James corrected quietly.
Lily ignored him. "How did you get in here anyway?" She asked sitting herself down on a chair near the door.
"Well… we were bored, met up and wandered and we found this room." Sirius explained and pointed down to an open cabinet which had video tapes displayed out on the floor. "Then we found tapes… one was Star Wars."
"Obviously." James drawled.
"We still have…" Andy looked up at the clock on the wall. "Fifteen minutes, c'mon… plenty of time."
"That is not plenty of time!" Lily cried.
Andy rolled her eyes. "It takes three seconds to get my hair up, two to accio my shoes, and my make up is done and I have the dress on, which is ruining my image by the way and I wanna see them get stuck in the garbage disposal."
"Get back in the room so we can make you beautiful for my wedding, and smile because you're going to enjoy it." Lily ordered and pointed to the door.
Andy moaned and got up casting Sirius a sideways glance.
"Don't worry, love," Sirius said as she walked by him. "I'll watch it for you and then recite it back…"
She waved his hand absently at him and walked by with sagging shoulders past a pissed off Lily, an amused Heather, a frustrated Laura and another amused Maureen. The boys were all watching the movie. They were trying their hardest not to watch it, but they were having some serious trouble with it.
"You've seen the movie two dozen times…" Remus said to her as she walked out, tearing himself away from the movie.
Andy nodded her head sheepishly. "Yeah, but it's a really good movie." She said as he led her out with his arm around her shoulders. "Besides, Harrison Ford is hot."
"Hotter then me?"
"We'll see."
Sirius remained in the room and stared at the TV screen in a trance like state. James, Peter and Benjy stared at him with crossed arms until he finally looked up at them. "Ya know," He began. "There's plenty of room for you guys to sit down."
"Padfoot, it's my wedding day, get off your lazy ass and be my best man now come on." James said flicking his wrist toward the door 'discreetly'.
Sirius smiled and shut off the movie. "Yeah, I know, I can't believe you guys are finally getting married. Seems like it's taken you forever to get this far."
"I know… I think I might have cold feet." James admitted biting his bottom lip.
"That's natural." Peter said as they all walked out of the rec. room and down the hall to James's dressing room. "Besides I'm sure Lily is feeling the same way."
Back in the female dressing room Andy sat in a chair while three girls hovered over her hair, Heather was watching with a smirk on her face at her friend's discomfort. Just to anger the women further Andy grinned at Heather and began humming the Star Wars theme. She regretted it almost instantly because she felt a hard tug on her hair.
"Ya know, my hairs pretty obedient," Andy began. "I don't see why we have to spend so much time with this."
"It's only fair." Heather said grinning smugly at her. "You're the one who decided it would be a good idea to watch TV during the time you should be sitting with me reading magazines."
"What were you thinking?" Laura asked, even though she was slightly amused by the situation now.
She spread her arms out and Maureen gave her a small smack with the wand for moving too much. "Since when do I think? Haven't you guys known me long enough to have learned that?" She asked loudly.
"Still," Lily began now much more cooled off. "It's not appropriate in the least."
"Okay, Lils I'm sorry I was watching Star Wars on your wedding day, now can we finish with this hair? I think it's quite finished." She said forcing her head away from the girls and checking it in the mirror across from the room. "I'd take my glasses off… but I'd be blind." She said turning back to Lily.
"Oh that's fine." Lily said walking over and smoothing her dress out for her. "Your glasses make you look so studious and they compliment your eyes and you angular face…"
"Okay, okay, okay, I get it, I got it, I'm good." She said and walked toward the door. "I'm gonna go out and check on things, we're due to start in five." She said and disappeared through the door with Heather at her heels.
The two girls walked down the hall, both of them tripping every now and then on the high heels. Which were very high, Heather was now pushing the record breaking height of five foot six inches with the five inch heels on. Andy on the other hand was pushing six foot one with the large high heeled shoes on, she was towering.
As they walked down the hall they spotted Sirius and Remus walking to the main room as well. "Hey!" Andy shouted out to get their attention.
They greeted them and managed to close the gap between them for about ten feet before the boys gaped at them. "I'm dating the tallest woman in the world." Remus said seeing that now Andy was almost eye level with him.
Sirius stared at Heather for a few minutes before speaking. "You're still short."
"Thanks." She replied dully. "Do we have everything in check?"
"Uh huh," Remus said pulling himself away from Andy and looking around. "Sirius has the rings… you have the rings right?" He asked and looked over at Sirius who nodded. "Okay, rings, bouquets, you all have them right?" He asked and they nodded. "Okay, James and Lily have their vows? They must, yeah I think we have everything."
"Wait that's all we need?" Sirius asked. "Well then why the hell did we spend months planning this thing!?"
"Well we needed music, invites, caterer, dresses, robes, rings –" Andy began rattling off as she lit the candles that lead the way into the main room.
"Andy I didn't ask for that… and what the hell are you doing!?" He cried out and pointed to the candles she was lighting. Apparently as she turned around to answer the question she left the flame on the tip of her wand lit… and it lit the large bouquet of flowers that sat on the table.
She turned around to come face to face with the flames and cried out. "HOLY SHIT!" She screamed as the flames got bigger.
"Andy you lit the church on fire!" Heather yelled half laughing, but also half mortified.
"I didn't mean to!"
"Put it out!" Sirius cried.
"I'm trying!"
"Use your wand!"
Andy stared at her wand and sighed. "Duh…" She said to herself and easily shot a spray of water at the smoldering flowers. When the fire had gone away there was nothing but blackened lily flowers. "Damn…" She drawled and stared at the smoke.
They heard quickly steps and looked to their left to see Laura running over. "I heard yelling," she started as she spotted them. "What's… wrong…" She gaped at the burnt wall and flowers. "What did you do?" She asked in complete shock.
"Andy lit them on fire." Sirius answered with a small smile. "Pretty cool."
"Not my fault." She said innocently turning around.
"It was." Heather confirmed to Laura.
"Laura," Remus said finally speaking, figuring it was best to stay out of the situation until now. "Do you think perhaps you could do some of your magic with them?"
She nodded her head and walked over. "You guys are lucky I stayed after with Madam Pomfery to learn this sort of thing."
"I stayed after with her almost every day." Heather said as she watched Laura re-grow the beautiful flowers. "How come she never taught me anything like that?"
"Maybe she thought you wouldn't benefit too much from being able to grow flowers." Laura suggested with a raised brow. "And frankly, I can't see you growing flowers on the side any time soon."
"Point taken." Heather said as James walked down the hall with Benjy and Peter at his side.
"Hey guys." He said and rubbed his hands on his robes. "Are we ready to go?" He asked.
"Yeah I'll go get Maureen." Laura said and began walking back to the brides dressing room to get her friend.
"This is it." James said and looked at the wall, it still had a burnt look. "What happened?"
Andy stepped in the way and shooed him. "Ignore that, get in there before Lily comes and you see her, go, go, go, go, go!" She cried and pushed him into the main room.
A few seconds later Lily, Laura and Maureen walked into the hallway, they all gave small nods and Heather stuck her head out into the main room and gave the thumbs up. The music began and Lily's father came out ready to give her away.
"How you feeling, baby?" He asked looking down at her with a smile on his face, already knowing the answer.
"Oh daddy…" Lily said wringing her hands together nervously. "I don't know if I can do this." She said and looked at all her friends and then back up at her father.
It looked as though he would have fielded this question, but he was quickly but off by Andy who was staring at her.
"You bitched to us for months about everything being perfect; you put my hair up in an impossible to get out knot on my head, you will go through with this wedding and you will do it without saying a word…except for vows… and I do and all that crap. Now if you'll excuse me," she said as she picked up her bouquet and grabbed Remus's arm. "We all have to go in and look pretty!" She hissed.
Andy harshly motioned for Laura and Sirius to walk in, both of them being the maid of honor and best man. Next walked in Andy and Remus, then Maureen and Benjy and then Heather and Peter.
They all took their proper positions up in the front until the wedding march played and Lily entered her father at her side. James marveled at her sight, she was gorgeous, her red hair fell around her shoulders in highly styled curls and her make up accented her features perfectly. The dress was long and strapless with small diamonds; it left a train of about four feet behind it. The sunlight shone through the windows of the church and it seemed to make her flawless skin shine.
When she reached the alter she smiled at James with ruby red lips. "Hi." She said quietly.
"Hi." James responded mirroring with his own smile.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to celebrate the union…"
That's about as far as he got before everyone stopped paying attention. James and Lily just seemed mesmerized by one another; they couldn't hear anything that was going on around them. They held hands, with the bouquet between them, of course, and they stared into the eyes of the other.
But James and Lily were not the only ones in the room who were in love. Just a few feet away Andy and Remus were having a similar feeling. She wasn't paying much attention to him, she was watching the ceremony, but he was paying attention to her. Her gray eyes were wide behind her oval frames, and pale skin glimmering with the soft makeup she was forced to wear for the occasion verses her normal heavy and dark makeup.
She stood out profoundly against the rest of the girls around her, of course she always did, but she was the only girl in the room who was surpassing into the six foot region. He couldn't believe how beautiful she looked in the green dress; it was long and formed around her hour glass figure well. The way she shifted slightly as she stood and fingered the ribbon on her flowers. All the little quirky habits she had, without them in his opinion she'd be quite dull.
She must have noticed him staring and she looked over to him with a raised eyebrow. He smiled and shrugged his shoulders ever so slightly. She smiled and laughed faintly before looking back at James and Lily, only giving Remus small glances every now and then.
But there was some more in the room, they may not have been as obvious as James and Lily or Remus and Andy but they were there. Chris was sitting out on the groom's side of the room staring at Heather. In his opinion she didn't dress herself up enough, just a little makeup on the eyes or on her cheekbones went a long way. But he could tell she was uncomfortable, he knew that just minutes into the reception her heels would be off and she would be back to five foot one. But he didn't care, she was cute short.
Sirius stood next to James holding the rings in his robe pocket. Every now and then he would steal a glance at Laura who stood across from him. He knew he shouldn't have been doing this, that their relationship had been over for years but he couldn't help himself. The green dress matched so perfectly with her brunette hair and deep brown eyes, he didn't see how anyone could not look at her.
He looked back up at James and Lily and grinned, James looked so happy up there with Lily at his side. The two really were meant to be together, you wouldn't think by how they acted toward each other in school, but now it was like you couldn't have one without the other. Love was a weird thing.
"The rings?" The minister asked James and Lily.
James mouthed 'oh' and looked almost shocked, like he wasn't expecting rings to be involved with this. "Sirius, oi, Padfoot, the rings." He hissed in Sirius's direction.
Sirius bought his hand up to his pocket and patted it with his hand a couple times like he had forgotten to being them, making James give him a look of despair. Then he smirked and moved his hand over to the other pocket and pulled the two rings out. "I'm not that bad, mate." He said quietly as he handed them over.
James gave him a playful glare and slid the ring on Lily's finger; she slid the ring on his finger. The two smiled warmly at each other and waited for the minister to say the words they had been waiting to hear for months.
"I now pronounce you husband and wife, you may now kiss the bride."
James and Lily were instantly wrapped up in each others arms and their kissed deeply. The room was filled with applauding and happy cheers as they watched the couple make out at the alter. When they finally broke Lily motioned for all the girls to get in the isle so she couple throw the bouquet.
About fifteen young women ran into the isle and stood there in anticipation. Lily turned her back and chucked the flowers over her shoulders, she turned around while it was still flying through the air and it landed squarely in the arms of Laura, who screamed and immediately threw then back up as if that could undo what just happened. They then landed in Andy's arms and she looked to Heather and tossed them to her, it was like a hot potato game now. Heather, obviously not wanting them threw them behind her immediately.
Their last resting place would be in the arms of Maureen who caught them and gave Benjy a smile. He grinned back, not sure if she was playing around with him or not.
James and Lily were laughing up at the alter as they watched all this happen and James whipped his wand out and pointed it at his face to enhance the volume of his voice. "C'mon everyone! Off to the reception now!"
Since the majority of the people in the room were magical there was almost a simultaneous pop as over half the people in the room apparated. After that there was a few people leaving by the floo system they had set up in the front room and a couple using portkeys. After a minute or two there was only the eight old friends and the parents of the bride and groom, along with Lily's sister.
"Oh! Lily, my dear!" Cried her mother as she ran over with her muggle camera and gave her a long hug. "I'm so happy for you!"
"I know you are mum."
"Oh, and James." She said as she turned to face her new son-in-law. "I'm so happy Lily found a man as sweet and kind as you."
"Well," James started with a smile. "I'm glad I found a girl as sweet and kind as your daughter." He looked over and Lily and smiled before he leaned down and kissed her, it soon escalated into a little bit more then a quick peck.
"Arooo." Andy cried out quietly and very realistically as the two kissed before them, in a moment Remus joined in as well and the two newly weds stared at them with amused faces.
"Did you have to?" James asked.
"Yes." Remus answered making Heather snort in laughter.
"That's just scary." Petunia said as she walked up to the group, she had been back at their seats touching up her make up. "Honestly, it is."
"That's what you get for associating with people of the likes of them." Sirius said and wrapped his arm around Remus's neck. "Bloody werewolves." He grinned playfully.
Petunia raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms across her chest. They all knew she wasn't exactly the friendliest person in the world; the girls had met her before the boys had and she seemed sort of nice, but over the years she just got worse. It was one of the reasons she wasn't one of Lily's bridesmaids, she would just be complaining about the magic the whole time and arguing with her friends.
"Aside from that sort of talk." Mrs. Potter said waving her hand around and eyeing Sirius with a small smirk. "I think we should all head over to the reception, people will we wondering where we are."
"Good idea." James said and took out his wand. "Accio broom." He said and seconds later his broom came flying into the room, startling the Muggles. James jumped on and patted the seat behind it, he had specially had it charmed to fit two people comfortably. "Come on, love."
Lily grinned and got on the broom; James kicked off from the ground and hovered in the air for a few seconds.
"Oh wait!" Sirius said before the two went off and took out his own wand. "Can't be riding around without one of these." He waved it around and soon there was a long train following the broom that read 'just married' in French script.
"I just can't believe you're about to ride out into a predominantly Muggle neighborhood without any cloaking device." Remus mumbled and he took out his and charmed the broom. "Now you're only seen if you want to be seen." He said flipping it around and placing it back in his robes.
"Where would I be without you, Moony?" James asked.
"In jail." He responded shortly. "Now go on, fly away."
The two waved and zipped out of the room and out of sight.
The three Muggles stared at the spot where the two just flew from in slight shock, they had seen their daughter fly on a broom before but it was still quite a sight to see. They probably would have stood their and stared for longer if they hadn't been broken out of their trances by the Potters.
"Mr. and Mrs. Evans, Petunia?" Mrs. Potter asked. "Come with us, we bought a portkey to use, this way you won't be late for anything." she said and lead the two away from the main room.
"A porkey?" Mrs. Evans asked.
"Just a mode of transportation," she filled in. "I don't want any of you flooing and getting lost or apparating with us and getting sick, that would be terrible."
Soon only the six of them were left in the room. For the life of them they couldn't understand why. They got in a circle and grabbed hands with one another, in one loud pop they all disappeared from the room and were immediately transported to the reception room a few blocks down the road.
Lisa: Here we are, finally finished, thanks to this snow day.
Heather: I likes snows.
Lisa: I likes snows toos… Next chapter we'll cover the reception and stuff.
Heather: In another month.
Lisa: Hey, this was more three weeks delay rather then a month.
Heather: …
Lisa: … yeah…