it's a (not so) beautiful day - lily

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It was the middle of November in the Scottish Highlands. The heather and peat on the hillside was a nondescript brown. The trees of the Forbidden Forest were mostly tall and dark evergreens, except for a narrow band along the edge that were shades of orange and brown. It was barely four thirty in the afternoon and it was already starting to get dark. Tendrils of mist laced through the grounds, everything was soggy, and it was raining.

Roxanne stared out the window of the Gryffindor Common Room at the dreary and dismal scene, and decided enough was enough. She needed some joy and cheer in her life, and bubble gum and doing her makeup in the morning weren't going to cut it today. And she knew just the cousin who would be keen for that too.

She turned around to the Common Room and called out, ”Lily!” She had a few ideas for what they could do, but she wasn’t about to yell those across the room - she was already bothering the studiers.

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Lily was ready to get some action, do something fun, have some energy. She was ready to get the day started, but she was finished a stupid assignment first. She rarely did her homework, but sometimes she had to remind herself that graduating was a little important. Lily was all snuggled up in one of her cozy knit sweaters from her grandmother, Molly, as she growled at her paper as she finished it and tossed it on the table, just in time to hear her name called. That voice was like sunshine bursting through her veins and her grin widened as she jumped up, moving toward her cousin Roxy. "Rooooooooooooooooox," she called when she reached her. She threw one arm over Roxy's shoulder and gave it a tight squeeze, "so, what's on the agenda today love? You've got that look in your eye. What can I do for yo?" she said giddily. Today was going to be a good day!

@roxanne
(yes, lily dyed her hair XD for a few days)

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Roxy leaned into the one-armed hug from Lily, and smiled at her obvious enthusiasm. “First things first, Lily, your hair! When did you do it? You have to let me know next time; you know I love that stuff.” She spun her fingers through the lighter ends of her hair, relics of one of her own adventures with hair dye, to emphasize her point.


What could they do? Well, there were a few things she could think of… “We could go down to the kitchens and see if we could make some cookies with the elves, or we could do some rainy-day pampering, or we could build a tower of Exploding Snap cards, or…” Her eyes sparked with special delight, “ooo, if you want me to do your makeup for the Yule Ball, we could do a trial run? Or, I don’t know. Whatever you fancy, I just can’t stare at this bloody parchment a moment longer.”

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Lily grinned as her cousin called her out on her hair and mentioned that Lily needed to invite her along next time. Lily hit her forehead with the palm of her hand for a moment before lowering it to grin at Roxy. "Of course! I'm a fool. I just follow my impulses sometimes and forget those around me. Next time, you shall be the first to know!" She giggled, "granted, I do think I'll dye it back to my natural color in a few days. This was just for fun! And partly to freak Adrian out," she giggled again.

Lily listened to Roxy's suggestions as to what they could do to entertain themselves and nodded, thinking them over. Well, not really thinking them over. More like picturing them and seeing if her body chose one and heaaded toward it. At the idea of a trial run of makeup, Lily grinned widely, "that would be fun! I have my dress, have I shown it to you yet!?" it was slick and black and touched the floor but easy enough to move in.

@roxanne
(I'll grab a pic for you XD)

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“You wouldn’t be Lily if you didn’t follow your impulses,” Roxy assured her. “And did he freak out?”

Roxy beamed when Lily said that the test run of makeup sounded like fun. She'd probably end up doing half of Gryffindor’s makeup for the Yule Ball if she let herself, and she wouldn't have minded except that she wouldn't have made it to the Ball herself at that rate. And then Lily mentioned her dress, and Roxy made a high-pitched sound probably best described as an excited squeak. “You haven't!” She grinned. “Show me now?”

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Roxy was right, of course. Lily would not be Lily if she wasn't a slave to her impulses. Then Rox asked if Adrian did freak out and Lily laughed, "he was quite shocked, yes! He moved passed it pretty quickly, though. I'm pretty sure he thinks I'm fabulous no matter what," she winked, giggling. She didn't really know what Adrian actually thought and tried not to care.

Roxy's high pitched sound at the mention of Lilys dress made Lily laughed loudly, tossing her head back for a moment. "Of course! Come with me!" Lily reached out to snag Roxy's hand and pulled her toward her dorm room.

Once there, she pulled the dress out and laid it on her bed. "Viola! Unless... you wanted to see me IN the dress?" she grinned, eyes wide and excited.

@roxanne
(here it is!

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She laughed when Lily said Adrian had been shocked, and that she was pretty sure he thought she was fabulous regardless. “Of course he does, because you are.” Roxy hadn't really expected anything else.

Lily all but dragged her Roxy up to her dormitory to show her her dress. It was dark and sleek and Roxy just knew it would be perfect for Lily. But Lily asked if she wanted to see the dress on, eyes sparkling, and there was really only one thing Roxy could say to that. “Go on, then,” she answered grinning.

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"Daw, shtap it," Lily said in a funny voice, giggling at her cousins compliment. They really were a rather fabulous bunch, especially for coming from a family of lanky redheads. Not that lanky redheads were a BAD thing.

Roxy told her to go on and Lily skipped away to change. Soon, she was back in front of her cousin in the sleek, black dress. "My hair won't be like this, I guess. But I do want it down. I don't like it up, it's not free moving enough," she explained, turning around and holding her arms out for Roxy to see.

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Roxy watched Lily spin, considering. “Your hair down and in it’s natural red will be perfect,” she said. “You don’t need anything fancy to make you pop in a crowded ballroom, that’s plenty. Still…” her fingers started to twitch, “always some good makeup tricks to do.”

“I can see it in my head,” she said, eyes closed as she committed it to memory, “but you should change back so we don’t accidentally get your dress dirty.” She opened her eyes and grinned at Lily. “And I have a few things to grab from my room.”

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Lily nodded, "definitely in natural. I'll leave it natural for a while next, I think," she agreed that she didn't need anything incredibly fancy to make her stand out. Still, Roxy was ready to have at her face, Lily could practically see her fingers twitching!

She took a step back as Roxy closed her eyes, saying she could see it. Then she was told to change and Lily nodded, grinning back before turning and leaving to change again. "See you back in five!"She carefully hung the dress back up and returned to the room.

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Roxy ran up to her room and rifled through her makeup bag. None of the foundations and things would be of any use, but… she pulled out some highlighter, a palette of eyeshadow, a couple of different lipsticks, and her brushes. Her fingers ran over her gold eyeliner, but she was planning on wearing that, so… best to be different.

She dumped them all into a bag and headed back down to Lily. ”You’re ready to sparkle, right?” It was for the Yule Ball, after all - of course there would be sparkles.

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Lily giggled at Roxy's words and prepared herself, sitting up straight. "I am ready! Make me the most beautiful creature in existence," she joked, placing her hands in her lap and waiting patiently. Well, she was still slightly bouncing up and down and tapping her foot, but that was sitting still where Lily was concerned. She couldn't just stop moving, otherwise that would show that something was really, really wrong.

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Roxy grinned, and pulled out a brush and her glittery highlighter, running it over Lily’s cheekbones until they popped. She was skipping the foundation, because that was too much work for a test run and Lily’s skin looked just fine as it was.

Eyebrows next, and Lily could tweeze her own eyebrows thanks all the same, so Roxy held up her pencil to Lily’s eyebrow and frowned. “You have an eyebrow pencil, right? Mine’s totally not the right colour.” It probably shouldn’t have been a surprise, but sometimes it was hard to tell with eyebrows.

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Lily giggled, surprised that she didn't think about the pencil issue either. "Yes!" she lifted her wand and summoned her make-up. It wasn't much, because Lily didn't do that much, but she pulled out the eyebrow pencil and held it up to her cousin, "here you go!" Lily was just excited to be spending some time with Roxy. She never really made a big effort to spend time with people, it just kind of happened, and when it did happen it was great! She wasn't the best about making plans, though. Some of her cousins it seemed tried to spend time with each other enough, but Lily didn't focus that hard on it all.

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Lily handed over her eyebrow pencil, and Roxy grinned. “Thank you,” she sing-songed as she began filling in her cousin’s eyebrows. Subtle, because there had to be something that wasn’t sparkly. “That’s much better,” she said as she worked.

It was quiet for a moment, and then Roxy decided to change that. ”So, how about you tell me a story from the life of Lily?”