Sunshine (Take Two Sequel)

Chapter 25: Lilly

Today was Freddie's wedding and it was insanely stressful. Freddie was freaking out about getting married, Ella and Gwilym were stressing about how much planning they had to do for their wedding, Winter and Rose were all over each other, which was bothering me, and Joe was paranoid that the frat boys were going to show up. He had taken out restraining orders on them while he was waiting for his court date, but he was still worried. On top of all that, Roger wouldn't leave me alone. He was worried that I was under too much stress because of the wedding, but him constantly checking up on me was just making me more stressed. I was hiding from him when Rory came up to me.

"Lilly!" She yelled frantically. "I can't find my wig!"

"So what?" I said. "Your hair is growing back and it looks great!"

"Please!" She said. "It's so short, it barely counts as hair."

"Rory," I heard Ella shout from behind me. She was running over with Freddie close behind her. "I found your wig!" Rory sighed in relief and took it from Ella, running off to get ready.

"Lilly," Freddie said to me as soon as she was gone. "Why aren't you dressed yet!"

"Will you stop worrying?" I said to him. "Winter picked my new dress up for me, I'm going to go put it on now. Go finish getting ready so you can get married!" Before Freddie could object, I walked away from him. I found Winter and Rose in the dressing room with their hands all over each other.

"Jesus," I mumbled under my breath. "Did you pull away from my sister long enough to pick my dress up?"

"Yes, your highness," Winter said sarcastically. "It's on the rack. The blue one in a size six."

"Six?" I said. "You got me a six? Why would you get me a six? I told you to make sure it was an eight. It's going to be too small!"

"Because that's what size you are," Winter said. "That's the size you've been since we met. What did you gain weight or something?"

"Oh I'm sorry," I said, annoyed. "I'm having a little trouble keeping my weight down because there's a human being growing inside me!"

"So it'll be a little tight on your belly," Winter said.

"Your stomach isn't the only thing that grows when you're pregnant," I snapped. "It's not going to fit around my chest! I can't believe this! What am I going to wear now?"

"Lilly, calm down," Rose chimed in. "We'll find you something."

"That's not the point," I said. "If you two hadn't been so busy fucking, Winter would have found me the right dress!"

"Oh my God, Lilly, enough!" Winter snapped. "Why do you have such a problem with Rose and I dating?"

"Because," I replied. "It's... weird. She's my little sister, I don't really like the idea of her sleeping with my drummer."

"Lilly I know you can't see this," Rose said. "But this is not your little sister sleeping with your drummer. This is two people who like each other just getting to know each other a little better, and it makes more sense than you think. I've been so down lately trying to figure out what I actually want instead of just doing what Dad says and Winter makes me feel better about that."

"And I haven't really been that happy since I broke up with Anna," Winter added.

"Really?" I asked her. Winter nodded and I smiled at her. "I never thought about it that way," I said. "But I guess if that's true... I can learn to be ok with this. I'll stop being a bitch."

"Wonderful," Winter said. I walked over to the rack and examined my dress, suddenly realizing something.

"Winter," I said. "Why did you say you picked up the wrong size? This is right."