It had been 2 days since the baby had died. Lily had not left her bed. James was a walking zombie, going from class to class, emotionless, and in his eyes, completely gone. Sirius was trying everything to get James to talk to him. Alice and Mary were at Lily's side whenever needed. After classes every day, James would walk up the stairs with Mary or Alice, so the stairs wouldn't turn into a slide, and crawl right in to bed right next to Lily. They would lay there for hours, silently.
"James?" Lily whispered.
"Yes, love?" he replied.
"I- I wanted to have it so badly. To have something I'm in charge of and to care for someone other than myself. I wanted to be a mother. Over the past months, I was a little bitter knowing that the girl who was on the top of the class, couldn't go to Auror training or go to the Ministry to change the welfare of Muggleborns. But, once she first kicked, it was all too real to not realize that I would do anything for this baby. I now feel guilty to be a bit happy to be able to get a job, when I would rather have the baby." She whispered.
"Lily, I loved her so much and I feel as if I now have a void in my life because I have nothing to look forward to now." He answered.
"You have a wedding to look forward to." Lily replied.
"What? You want to?" he asked surprised.
"I never stopped wanting too." She answered.
As the days went on, things only got better. Graduation was coming up and Lily had a wedding to plan, but not one day would she not wake up and think about her. James was still very heartbroken that he couldn't have his little girl. They decided to have a formal spring ball on May 1st. Lily had little time to ask Dumbledore, get a dress, make a decoration committee, get the décor, and she still had to tell everyone about the wedding. James was a huge help in getting the decorations and he was the one who asked for permission. Sirius and Peter made flyers to pass around, they called it "The Spring Bling Ball". Cheesy? Yes. Bad? No.
"Show us the damn dress, Lily! I'm sick of waiting." Screamed Mary. Lily had bought her dress last night and hadn't shown anyone. She was losing weight like a rocket so she looked very tiny and thin. Finally, she came out in her shimmering, floor length, white satin dress. It fit her figure like a glove and was perfect. Lily looked so tall and her legs were a mile long.
"LILY! You look fantastic! Oh my God! Look at your boobs!" yelled Alice.
Lily laughed and just smiled.
"Ya. Guess that pregnancy hasn't completely gone to waste." Said Cynthia bored, sitting on her bed.
Mary and Alice gasped and Lily ran into the bathroom crying.
"You rotten, jealous snake! How dare you say that! Lily has done absolutely nothing to you and you act like a snot to her every single day!" yelled Mary.
Lily came out of the bathroom in her pajamas, walked straight over to Cynthia and slapped her sharply straight across the face. She then gave one last deathly stare and marched out.
Mary then walked over to Cynthia and threatened, "You do as much as mutter a word to her, you will find yourself in the middle of the Black Lake hovering over the Giant Squid at dinner time!"
"Ya! And you're a bitch!" said Alice proudly. Then the two girls marched out of the room to go find Lily.
"I don't want to talk about it." Cried Lily.
"Oh Lils. Don't listen to her. She's going to die alone with a million cats all named Fluffy and will never find love. It's that simple." Said Mary.
"Lily she won't ever be in love enough to realize what you're going through. She doesn't deserve that love." Added Alice.
"I guess so. Thanks." Said Lily.
James and Remus walked into the Common Room with bags of decorations for the dance.
"You do realize we have 3 days and 30 times the work to do?" asked James.
"Yes of course. We start putting up the décor tomorrow with the prefects and the Marauders." Replied Lily.
"Ok then. That's settled. Now I need a date. Hmmmm.. You." He pointed to Lily and wrapped his toned arms around her waist and rested her hands at the small of her back.
"Will you accompany to this amazing ball, lucky girl?" James asked.
"Well, I have been asked numerous times by hundreds of boys all very worthy of my presence at the ball, but you." She poked his chest and had a determined thinking face on.
"You are arrogant, witty, mischievous, crazy, funny, handsome, great smile, and a complete nerd… Ok. You'll do." She replied.
"Deal my little redhead munchkin."
"Hey!" she playfully punched his shoulder.
The next days were full of hectic screaming, running, and planning. Mary and Alice had bought their dresses after Lily and had been so excited for her to see them. Mary was asked by Remus of course to the ball and Alice couldn't get a hold of Frank so she went with a burly Ravenclaw named Stephen DaFrink. Sirius asked a bottle-blonde named Crystal Jackson (HUGE boobs). Peter wasn't really seen too often because of his tutoring sessions with a Hufflepuff named Dana Hamilton. He ended up going with a Slytherin named Shellie Rogers.
The girls got ready together again. Mary decided that a scarlet "sexy" dress was the one for her. It was silk with a slit running up to the bottom of her waist. She curled her hair and put it in a messy up do. Alice didn't want to be too seductive because Frank wasn't even there. She wore a royal blue mermaid dress with a halter top and thousands of sparkling sapphires. Her hair was curled at the ends and to the side. Lily was wearing her white dress with her crazy red hair curled to the highest extent and framing her face wildly. The girls had spent hours getting ready and were finally done. They did last minute lip gloss checks and sucked on mints for their breath. They walked down the staircase to see their men in full suits with corsages and everything.
"Lily. You look like a white, beautiful crazy lady. And it works for you, wild girl." Complimented James.
"You look amazing, honey." They shared a quick kiss then linked arms to get to the Great Hall.