Seventh year just continued to fly on by. As spring closed in on them, Lily was pulled to Hogsmeade more and more for helping Alice with her wedding. She was of course glad to help, but it got a little overwhelming at times.

Lily returned to the Potters home for Easter break, where James had a special surprise for Lily.

"Lily!"

The redheaded girl whose name was being called muttered something and rolled over, shoving her face into her pillow.

"Lily, you've got to get up! I've hidden a special Easter egg for you!"

Lily's eyes opened. She rolled over to face her boyfriend, squinting in the light. "James, I'm almost eighteen. I don't do Easter egg hunts."

"Lily, I think you'll want to find this egg." Then he added, so quietly Lily almost didn't hear it, "At least, I hope so."

Lily groaned as she got out of bed and pulled on her dressing gown, pulling her hair into a sloppy, half-hearted ponytail as she followed James downstairs to the Fort. The entire, humongous house was strangely empty.

"James, where is everyone?" Lily questioned.

"They're out buying a few last minute things for Easter brunch," James replied.

"Where?" Lily replied, raising one eyebrow.

"I don't know, the store?" James replied, rolling his eyes. "Okay, Lily. I hid it somewhere in here. Now, go find it!"

Lily laughed as she turned and scanned the room. "Alright, James."

She searched everywhere, through the entire mess that was James and Sirius' fort. She looked behind and under and in and next to things. She looked in both the obvious and not so obvious hiding places. Everywhere.

Finally, she sighed and approached James. "I can't find it," she said dejectedly.

"You can't?" James said in a strangely dramatic tone. He placed his both hands on his hips. "Well, that's just strange. I'm sure I hid it in here...oh, look at that! It's still in my pocket!"

Lily rolled her eyes as he held it out. He winked at her. "Open it."

Hoping for chocolate, Lily was confused when she opened it and saw a small, black, velvet box rested inside the neatly decorated plastic egg.

She lifted it out and peered at it, before James took it from her hands, his eyes capturing hers and refusing to leave her gaze. He became suddenly very, very serious. Lily's eyes filled with tears as she realised what was happening.

"James?" She whispered as he sunk to one knee.

"Lily?" He replied just as quietly. "Lily, I know it's only been a few months. But I've loved you for so much longer than that, and I don't know how much longer I can live without knowing you're mine for sure." He chuckled lightly. "You know how jealous I can be. But Lily, even if you reject me, I want you to know that I'll be just as stubborn as I was before you said yes, until the day that we die. Lily Marie Evans, will you marry me?"

Lily couldn't even speak through the shock, but she wasn't going to let that stop her, especially not with the voice in her head screaming at her to say yes. That voice hadn't been wrong before, so with a tiny little cry, Lily leapt into his arms, kissing all over his face before her lips finally met his.

James chuckled and pulled away slightly. "I'll take that as a yes?"

Lily laughed. "Of course it's a yes! James, I love you. And it hasn't been very long...but it would have been longer if I would have just admitted to myself I loved you so much earlier than when I'd first realised it. James, I would love to marry you."

James grinned and kissed her again.

"Look out, mum," James exclaimed, pulling Lily up into his arms and holding her tight. "You've finally got grandchildren!"

Lily giggled in delight as James ran her to the kitchen, where everyone had been waiting the entire time.

After much congratulations, the group ate their Easter brunch, everyone in such high spirits, that Remus and Peter were invited over immediately for a game of Quidditch in which to take out the happy energy. But James couldn't let go of Lily.

...

And that was that. The moment James proposed to me, my world felt complete. Though I had lost many people from my world-my parents, Petunia, Severus-I realised that they weren't really gone. The memory of happier times was still there, and though memories can make you sad, once you realise that they must miss you in some way or another as well, you feel that you can be satisfied with just a memory. Though Petunia and I hardly spoke anymore, I could be sure that she still missed me. Though I couldn't be friends with Snape anymore, him being a Death Eater in training and I being an Auror in training, I could still hope that maybe one day, he'd realised he wasn't as cowardly as he was making himself to be, and one day, he could rejoin me in my world.

And now, with so many new people in my world, I knew that I could be happy until the day came when all of my friends were there.

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*Happy tear* Stories grow up so fast, don't they? Hm... well. No summary, which I haven't been doing lately, anyways, and if I say "Stay tuned" you'll be unhappy to find that nothing will come of it. So...

Look forward to my other stories, then! ^^ I plan on updating Face Down, Beautiful Disaster, Chip Away the Stone, and maybe even post the sequel to Muggle Games today. So, look forward to that!

Also, I'm betaing a few stories. Love Lives On by xxfallblossomsxx and Light By The Lake by olivia4eva. The latter is Twilight...which I'm not a huge fan of (but I support Stephanie Meyer for, you know, publishing when she knew that people may not like her, just like every other story) but her story is pretty good. It's an OC story about some random vampire or other joining the Cullens as she and her family moves to Forks and such...

Well, I hope you continue to enjoy fanfiction, anyways! ^^ Goodbye for this story!