Just the two of us

"We neeeeed to hurry!"
Miseria bit her lip and looked around. Shops, shops everywhere. And she had no idea where she could take her poor little friend Mira, who was going to get married soon. Or get imprisoned, that is. Miseria had always different views of marriage. And it seemed to be murder for her.
She could not imagine herself bound with a man even if she loved him. It was almost like selling your soul to a demon that walked the earth and won't leave her be until the death sepparates both of them. Luckily or sadly, she hadn't met anyone yet. For a moment, she felt sad in her heart. She remembered Josh, but that was all in the past now.
What mattered was the future!

She grabbed Mira's arm and looked around. Damn, she knew about shopping as much as she knew about muggle items! Nothing. All those cute dresses, shoes... they meant actually nothing for her. To tell you the truth, she'd actually never wear those things. If she'd to be married one day, she would just wear her black skirt and a comfortable shirt. And her shoes... or boots... Her marriage would remind more of a funeral than anything else.

"Let's see... " She stopped and looked inside one shop. Huge window displayed beautiful wedding dresses. Colors variated from showwhite to, which impressed her, bloody red. "Do you have any ideas what you'd like to wear?" she asked, fixing her eyes at the bride. Mis knew that Mira will was in her blood. look gorgeos even if she will wear just a pair of jeans and an old tee.

Everything was so surreal right now. Mira barely dared believe that this was really happening in her life. She was going to be married to Elijah Krum. Not hypothetically like before.. but honest to god, I'm looking for wedding dresses, getting married. This morning of wandering around shops with her best friend was about the best type of day that she could ever ask for. Mira had suspicions about Miseria's opinion on her upcoming union. It was obvious that she wasn't exactly jumping up and down to get to the alter herself but Mira had to give her credit for being uncondionally supportive. She might question Mira's judgement but she wasn't the least bit rude about it. And Mira was incredibly greatful for it.

Misera grabbed her and pulled her into the shop, looking around at the surrounding dresses with some confusion. She turned and asked what Mira was thinking about wearing. And Mira found herself at a loss. She had always prided herself in knowing exactly what looked good on her but now she felt clueless. She couldn't count how many times she had thought about her wedding. Ever since when she was a child and had been told that she would marry Krum. Even in their second, more recent, engadgement she had thought about their wedding in a vague sense. Like it was there but would never actually happen. Some distant, unimagineable, future.

So Mira closed her eyes and tried to picture it. "Something simple. Not too flashy, you know? Soft and beautiful." and light smile crossed her lips "Elegant." Mira opened her eyes again, a full smile on her face. She didn't want too much glitz and glitter because she was concerned about it overpowering her. Although she was tall, she was still small and skinny. She didn't want to drown in a sea of while fabric. At least the light color would make her look a little bit tan. Mira looked over at her best friend to see if she had heard her. It was truely awesome that Mis had offered to come with her today. They deffinately had completely different styles from each other and the whole light and airy thing wasn't exactly Mis's favorite fashion. But she had always thought too highly of Mira and her looks. Miseria was completely beautiful too. More so in some ways.

Miseria had to confess one thing while she was in this shop, staring at all those beautiful wedding gowns – she had no idea how to help Mira. Although she stated what she wanted her dress to look like, soft and beautiful, Miseria saw none of these things here.
They were flashy, extraordinary, but yes, they were beautiful. If it would’ve been for Mis, she would’ve dressed Mira on her own without getting lost in this... strange gallery of wedding dresses. If it were for Mis, she’d do something more simple, yet cute and flashy. Obviously people in there would be all in black (her dream come true; black wedding), but there would be life in this ceremony!
„Um...“ she bit her lip, looking around again. Right now she felt that it would be better not to look at Mira. „Maybe... maybe we can... you know... create our own dresses?“ she asked. Not that she was good at designing new clothes or anything. Usually she ordered them from other magazines or even other countries that had suitable clothes for her fashion.

„Okay... Let’s see...“ she finally said, trying to get rid of her fear. Mis took one snowwhite dress with diamonds on it and studied it’s material and then, finally, she looked at Mira, trying to picture her in this gown. Not bad, but then again, it was something really outstanding and not that elegant at all. It was with rather deep cleavage. Nah, too open for a wedding ceremony. She doupted if Elijah would agree for his bride to wear something like this.
She put it back where it belonged and then she reached out her fingers and grabbed baby pink dress. It reminded her a dress of a princess from a cartoon that she once saw on a tv. Was in Disney or something? Anyways, someone was dealing there with Light magic, and that was all the she remembered. „What about this one?“ she asked. Material was soft. She imagined how little babies would sleep in something like that. Soft and warm and cute. Sweet dreams were guaranteed. „We could put on some stickers on it, too. You know, from this famous brand, Hello Kitty or something like that, and make a tiara from that cat!“ Miseria gave her best to turn this situation to joke; bat attempt though. Her lips never curved up into a smile.

It was painfully obvious that Miseria was far from comfortable about the situation right now. Mira took this as a person responsibility and her spirits sunk slightly. This was supposed to be a fun occasion. Not something that one of them would have to silently suffer though. Mira flipped through dresses on the wall nervously, trying to find something that would catch her eye. Everything seemed to be either too puffy, too glittery, too slutty, or just too ridiculous. When she realized this, Mis's suggestion of making her own dress lingered in the back of her mind. It actually wasn't a bad idea. She would get exactly what she wanted! But the problem was Mira didn't have any idea what she wanted right now. So for the moment the store bought option seemed like the best bet.

"Hello kitty, huh?" Mira said, her mouth curving into a soft smile at Miseria's attempt at a joke. "But if we really want to get classy we can go over to -" Mira's eyes caught on a glimmer of shine fabric. "Spongebob." she finished as she pulled out a brilliant colored dress. Mira raised her eyebrows in amusement. "..Sliver." she said with a combination of shock and amusement in her tone. "I would look like a metallic candy cane." She continued to flip through dresses, remaining completely uninspired. She nervously examined the elaborate pattern of reinstones in front of her. Without looking at her friend she asked "Do you think I'm doing the right thing? Getting married I mean. I know we just graduated. And just got back together. But.." she trailed off, her words getting lost on the way to her mouth.

Mira desprately wanted a friends approval. Someone to say 'You're perfect for each other. It's meant to be. You're making the right choice.' And maybe with her anti-marriage views Mis wasn't the perfect person to ask.. But she was Mira's best friend. So if her opinion didn't count.. who's did? Mira knew she would go through with this no matter what people said. But hearing what someone else thought would give her some ease of mind - one way or the other.

’This is meant to be,’ she thought to herself with sadness appearing in her eyes. This had to be this way. Miseria realized only now that they won’t be able to stick with Mira together for much longer. After Mira and Elijah get married, they will be together. First the honeymoon somewhere far-far away in exotic place, and then they’d have children. Of course they will still talk to each other, and meet, but that’s only when Mira will have spare time. As a wife, she’ll have to take care of her husband, later her children and the house. Miseria felt how guilt flushed all over her heart and soul. She wasn’t a perfect mother. Although she was trying to give Dakota all the attention, it seemed that her own daughter saw Khaat Lupin as her real mother. It was her fault. If only she would’ve left the school so that she could be with her only child, everything would be different. She would be different. Miseria would be a normal person. She’d go to work, she wouldn’t risk with her life just to get the adrenaline rushing in her veins. Oh, how arrogant she was.
And now, when even her daughter didn’t recognize her as her mother, but mostly as older sister, Miseria felt pain when she thought that she’ll lose now Mira, too.

When she saw Mira smiling at her bad joke attempt, she felt slightly better. She put the gown away and looked at her best friend’s choise. Spongebob? She didn’t know wether Mira was talking seriously or not, but Miseria actually imagined Spongebob’s decorations all over the dress. All those puffy little dolls, stickers and even make up close to Spongebob. „Oh god, Yes!“ she gasped loudly when the picture was ready. „Let’s do this,“ she said, agreeing with Mira that the dress would look like some sort of candy cane. „You know... this wedding... it could be like a theme party. Everyone gets ridicilously dressed but you will reserve the Sponge Bob so that no one will ever dare to take this one. I’ll go as Patrick.“ Elijah could take the Sandy’s costume.
Sudden topic change made Miseria serious again and her thoughts raced back to regret and sadness. She looked at Mira. Her words would only ruin her day. Their day. She took a deep breath and forced a smile on her face. To her big surprise it was soft and happy. Like a person’s who’s really happy that their best friend is getting married. Truly happy.
„Graduation is nothing. And the fact that you’re both together again means only that you love each other. Deeply and that’s what matters. And what also matters is that You are now happy,“ she lay her hand on Mira’s shoulder, and looked seriously at her:“But remember, if Elijah ever breaks your heart or your soul, I will crush him.“ Best buddy promise she ever made. She then hugged Mira tightly:“I’m so happy for you, I truly am!“ she whispered in her ear.

As Mira was pulled into Miseria's embrace a warm feeling of love spread through her. Even though the two had never spoken before last summer she already felt closer to her than she ever had with another person before. Mira would have trusted Mis with her life. Even Elijah didn't hold the high regard in her heart that Miseria did, due to the still lingering bitterness in her heart about the years they had resented each other. Mira wrapped her arms around her friend and held her close. She murmured in her ear, "I love you, Mis. I love you a lot." Being close to her made Mira feel irrationally safe. She had been raised in a life of lies and betrayal was almost secondnature to her. But losing her best friend would be unbearable.

Unwillingly, she pulled away, still holding on to her hand. "You know, this might be pointless. Let's just make the thing ourselves." she smiled, thinking of how much more pleasant it would be to sew in the comfort of home than flip through all of these overdone, untasteful dresses. For a second she thought of sending a message to Athena with an offer to join them. But then Mira realized what a terrible idea that would be. Mira understood and accepted Miseria as she was.. but would Athena be willing to do the same? Those two worlds just couldn't mix in Mira's head. No, it would be better to just keep them from meeting for as long as she could.

OOC: and here's the outfit for you. Better late than never.

Miseria smiled at Mira, nodding softly at her:“I love you too, sweetie,“ she replied with a soft tone in her voice.
Again, her thoughts made a sudden turn and she thought about how they actually ended up in being best friends. Year ago those two were from different worlds: Mira was from really rich family and was the Diva of Slytherin. She was always hanging around with purebloods and she never even spoke to Hufflepuffs. Those poor creatures – Miseria's former housemates – are always underestimated. She never thought that she made a revolution with her character in this house. Only when she joined the Potter's Army students became aware of her.
And about Miseria – though she reminded with her stubborn character and sharp tongue a perfect Slytherin student, she and the snakes never found anything that would relate between them, so to say. Even when they realized that they had something in common, it all changed in a moment. And truth to be told, Miseria actually enjoyed fighting and arguing with them more than making friends with the kids who were born with silver spoon in their mouths.

The born of Mira's and Miseria's friendship was really odd and the thing that only made their trust and bond stronger was even odder. But she was tankful that this had happened. Without Mira Miseria would realize few things so much later in the future. And she was also lucky to recieve something that perfect in her life without even trying that hard.
But one thing made her feel worried, though. Mira's wedding. Yes, she agreed with the fact that she has to let go of her precious little diamond, but now the second thing was attending the ceremony. She imagined what sort of people would be there. They'd see that she, Mis, isn't like them. And some might even recognize her. Being a Lupin has it's own perks sometimes and not always brings it up the rush of respect from others. It might even bring some hatred. Ooh, yes, being in the circle and hated by everyone was the thing that she missed the most. Bring it on Wedding!

„Oh hell yes!“ she said, holding Mira's hand in her firm grasp. „We will make you look like a real princess! No one will ever forget that wedding – be sure of that!“ In a second, she had forgotten all her worrying and adrenaline thoughts. Oh yes, yes yes! For Mira, she will help to make this wedding ceremony truly unforgettable!
„Say, Mira, can I help you and your family to... you know... decorate and plan stuff?“ she asked almost in a begging voice. It sounded like Miseria would start purring to get what she wished.