"Tuney!" She shouts over and over, pounding up the stairs and waving a set of clothes in her hand. "TUNEY! Look what Mummy got us!"
It was a matching set of a thick-strapped tank-top and a skirt, complete with accessories and ballet shoes.
"Oh, dear Lord!" Petunia exclaims her favorite word, pretending to fall to the floor and faint.
Lily runs over to her precious sister, throwing the clothes on the cream-colored carpet and clobbering Petunia's heart continuously. "I'll save you!"
After a few minutes, Lily gets bored and Petunia flutters open her eyes, still on the floor. "Get up, Tuney! Let's try them on!"
They scramble up the fallen clothes and disappear into a room, frantically pulling on clothes. Lily tosses a thick scarf to Petunia, both throwing the scarf over their shoulders identically.
"We look go-orgeous!" Petunia screams, fanning her cheeks daintily.
"Time for the jewelery! Ready, Tuney?" Lily asks excitedly, looking up to her sister with awestruck eyes.
"Set..."
"GO!"
Racing each other, they pick up their large pink-beaded necklaces and fling it on their necks, one hand already setting the matching earrings in. Lily places one pale foot in a glimmering shoe, as Petunia places her foot in the same one.
They trip over each other, giggling happily and shoving each other gently aside.
"Tuney! Outta my way!"
"Lily! I'm the eldest!"
Finally, their shoes are on and the bracelets are clasped on.
"I win!" Lily and Petunia scream at the same time, fingers combing frazzled hair. Lily frantically pounds her head, trying to stop the frizz from rising up as her sister purses her lips, making a pose from the magazine she had read.
"I'll go first." Petunia lightly pushes Lily to the side and rolls a rag down the steps. She steps onto the imaginary red carpet, striking a hand behind her head and arching her back. "I'm ready!"
"Presenting the beautifulest woman in the world, the Miss Universe of Eternity and my sister-TUNEY EVANS!" Lily screams aloud.
There is a slight rumble around the house as it shakes, almost making it seem as if an earthquake had struck.
Her first sign of magic.
Petunia emerges onto the stairs, slightly stumbles and regains her poise as she walks down the steps and turns. Pink, green, and white stripes run diagonal across her shirt, as a fluffy cotton candy scarf covers up half of her long neck. The large pink beads blend in with the overall appearance, a short pink skirt and ballet shoes taking the show away.
"Mwa...Mwa..." Petunia blows high-pitched kisses into the imaginary crowd, curtsying. "I love you all! Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"MY TURN!" Lily hugs Petunia away from the silently cheering crowd, her carefully done hair messed up again. "...oops."
"Go, go, go-get up there! Be a star!" Petunia exclaims, pushing Lily to the imaginary red carpet line.
"Presenting Silly Lilly!" Petunia shouts, speaking into a plastic microphone.
"Wheee! That's meee!" Lily giggles, the nearly empty house echoing with her tangible laughter.
And without warning, there is a bright flash, brighter than a camera flash surrounding Lily. She squirms happily, blinded by the flash.
Lily walks down the stairs, emerging from the fading flash. Petunia muffles a gasp and pretends to faint, Lily oblivious to everything.
There is a mirror at the bottom of the steps, as Lily gets ready to blow kisses into the crowd and make her way back upstairs.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!" Lily screams, bringing her parents running into the foyer and Petunia sitting up. She covers her face and peeks through, astonished.
"I LOOK BEAUTIFUL!" She shouts again, happy.
Aside from the house shaking again, Lily is dressed in a thick-strapped tank top, covered with blue polka dots, pink stripes, and brown checks. The skirt is red and pink plaid, adorned with black stags and dogs. Knee-high socks sag all the way down to her ankles, a mess of rainbow colors. Lily's pink fluffy scarf has completely disappeared, and her pink beaded necklace is now brown.
And the shoes.
The shoes changed from regular flat ballet shoes to teetering high heels shoes with pink and green ribbon wrapping over the socks, around the ankles.
"...whoa." Lily says, posing in all different directions. She runs back to Petunia, her million dollar smile reaching her ears and beyond. "I'm gonna be an awesome model one day!"
Instead of becoming a model and showing off different outfits everyday, she became an Auror and died.
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Wow. I haven't updated in a while! Anyway, this took me a long time to finish! Also, this piece is very long. Thoughts, anyone?
