AN: Wow. It's really not long until the end now. Well...IDK...I might add a little more to the story than I have planned. It depends on the reviews I get. (Hint, hint)

"Alexa!" Lily half-whispered, half-screeched. "Thank god!"

"Why are you whispering?" Alexa asked, matching her volume.

"Oh," Lily said, still whispering. "I mean, uh, I don't know." Back to normal volume.

"I made Sirius come get James, like you said, then left twenty minutes after, as per your instructions. What's up?"

Lily looked nervous. No, beyond nervous. Lily looked like a train-wreck of nerves. "I need your help."

"With what?" Alexa inquired.

"Well, not really help," Lily mumbled. "More like moral support."

"For what?"

"Well, you see-"

"Lily!"

"I'm taking a pregnancy test!" Lily cried suddenly. "I might be pregnant!"

"Well, that is usually why one would take a pregnancy test," Alexa said calmly. "Well, come on then." And with that she grabbed Lily by the arm and pulled her to the bathroom.

"How are you so calm?" Lily asked. At five eight, she had a good five and a half inches on Alexa, but she'd never felt smaller.

"Isn't this what you wanted?" Alexa asked her best friend. "To be married to James, and to have a baby?"

"Well…yes, but not this soon-"

"And weren't you thrilled when James said he wanted a baby too?" Alexa asked, her eyebrows raised.

"Well, yes, but we agreed on a few more years-"

"So there you have it," Alexa announced. "So the timing's a little off. Big whoop."

Lily stared at Alexa as she unwrapped the test.

"Well, here," Alexa said, handing it to Lily. "I'm not peeing on any sticks today. It's all yours." She turned around.

Minute one- Lily: What if it's a no? What if it's a yes!? What if I want it to be a yes? What if James wants it to be a no!? What if-

Minute two- Alexa: Do you think it'll be a boy or a girl?

Minute three- Lily: What if I'm a horrible mother! I could totally ruin the child! I could drop him on his head and he'd never be able to apparate without splinching his toes off! What if I'm a horrible mother and James leaves me and takes the baby and-

Minute four- Alexa: Will you name it after me?

Minute five- Silence. The deadest of silences. There were no sounds in the Potter house. No water was run, no words were spoken, no fingers were tapped. Silence. Until…

"It's ready," Alexa said, quieter than she'd ever been in her life.

"You look at it," Lily replied, equally quiet, as if the test was some big secret they had to hide from a houseful of people.

Alexa tried to look at it, but she couldn't. she brought it to her eyes, then lowered it without seeing anything. Then she tried looking at it with one eye, but couldn't make her eyelid move.

"I can't do it," Alexa said. "I'm nervous too."

So they stood there for thirty minutes. Neither of them could bring themselves to look at it.

"Alexa?" Luanne asked from the doorway. Both girls jumped, having forgotten Luanne was in the living room, reading.

"Lu!" Alexa shouted, much too loudly. "What does this say?" She thrust the test at her.

"P," Luanne announced, as if it were obvious. It probably should have been.

"Does that mean positive or pregnant!?" Lily asked shrilly. Alexa stared at her for a moment. "I don't know!" she replied, equally frantic.

They both searched for the box for five minutes until Luanne said slowly, "Wouldn't 'positive' and 'pregnant' both mean the same thing?"

Alexa and Lily stared at each other for a moment before breaking into huge grins and hugging each other. There was much hugging and giggling from the three girls until Remus, Peter, James, and Sirius came back to find them like that.

"What's going on?" James asked, clearly pleased to see everyone so happy. Sirius look confused but happy, and Peter looked thrilled beyond belief to be amidst so much happiness. Remus Lupin was silent. He saw the test sitting on the back of the toilet.

He looked back and forth between the Lily and Alexa, meeting both their eyes. Alexa gestured toward Lily with her head, and Remus Lupin broke into a wide grin.

"James," Lily said, barely able to compose herself. "James, I have to tell you something."

"Good news, I'm assuming?" he laughed. She nodded wildly. "Well, let's have it then!"

"James," Lily said again. "Well, uh, um…" But suddenly the words were gone. She just squealed with delight and gave him a huge hug.

"I'm just so happy!" she sobbed, and Alexa patted her on the arm. "We know, Sweetie," Alexa said kindly. "But you really have to tell James."

"I'm just so happy!" Lily repeated, but it didn't matter, because James had spotted the test, and it was a good thing Sirius and Remus caught him by both arms, because James Potter fainted.

*****

Later that night, Luanne had begged Remus until he agreed to take her to the park, leaving Alexa and Sirius alone at the apartment.

"They looked so happy when we left," Alexa sighed dreamily.

"Yeah, they did," Sirius agreed. Then he said something neither of them expected. "Maybe we should get married."

"Alright," Alexa said lazily. "What are we doing next week?"

"Nothing, I think," Sirius replied, matching her ease. "Which day?"

"Hmmm." Alexa thought for a moment. "Sunday. It sounds romantic."

"Alright," Sirius said.

"It doesn't leave much time," Alexa said. Anyone listening would have been shocked by the eerie ease of Sirius's proposal and Alexa's wedding plans, but for them, it worked.

"We don't really have much to do," Sirius replied. "Just find a place and invite our friends."

"Well," Alexa argued. "I also have to get a dress. And shoes. And plan food, and we have to buy the rings, and….and…Sirius! I have to go get ready!"

She got up off the couch and was about to shoot out the door about as fast as a bat out of hell, when Sirius grabbed her arm.

"Wait," he said. "I just proposed."

She looked at him as if he were insane. "I know!" she exclaimed. "That's why I have to plan!"

"I just proposed," he repeated. "And I know you have a lot to do and all, but do one thing for me, alright?"

Alexa nodded. "Anything."

"Kiss me first."

And she did.