Date: Tuesday, February 5th
Time: around 2pm
Location: Tresor Litteraire, then Diagon Alley
Rating: PG, I'm sure
Characters Involved: Stella Sinistra and Charlotte Finnigan
Stella had been elated, on Friday evening, to hear that Caleb had asked Charlotte (and she had agreed) to stand up in the wedding. Stella knew that Caleb had come to cherish
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Finally, it was modeling time. Charlotte just made a somewhat disgusted face. She didn't like getting naked at the moment yet, which was a large disappointment to her husband. It was one thing when she had been pregnant, now she was just too flabby for her own liking. She was highly critical of herself, but the girl had been a twig before she'd gotten pregnant.
She wasn't going to disappoint Stella though. She modeled each dress and nixed the idea of any strapless dresses immediately
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They held onto a few of them, trying them on again and comparing them back-to-back. Eventually, they were left with two that Stella liked best- a floor length, halter-top dress that wrapped around a bit, or a shorter, knee-length dress that gathered a bit at the front.
"Well," Stella said, as Charlotte stepped out of the dressing room for what seemed like the hundreth time. "Which do you like? Long or short?"
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"Ze bot' 'ide my tummy, so I like zat on bot'." she said, looking at Stella to try to gage which gave her all hearts in the eyes, "I t'ink zat ze short would be ze best, plus it would give me an excuse to buy some pretty new shoes."
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Still, though, she was glad that Charlotte liked both the dresses. Stella was leaning a bit more towards the shorter dress, though, and was glad when Charlotte seemed to be thinking along the same lines.
"I like that one too," Stella nodded, smiling at Charlotte. "And it looked just adorable on you. Besides, any excuse to get some new shoes, right?" Stella laughed, remembering how difficult it had been for Charlotte to get used to wearing flat-heeled shoes during her pregnancy. "Some nice heels, I think."
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"Someti'ng with sparkles. I deserve zem." she chuckled, sliding her little feet back into the pretty flats.
Her flats weren't ungly by any means, but they didn't meet the height requirement to ride the ride. She wasn't tall enough without her heels!
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"Yes- beautiful, sparkly, strappy red heels," Stella agreed. "I haven't found shoes yet either- I just have to be careful to get ones that aren't too high- if I do, I'll be taller than Caleb, and we can't have that!" Most of the time, Stella loved being so close in height to Caleb- it meant that she fit in his arms perfectly. And, most of the heels she had made them nearly the same height. Still, it would not do to be taller than her groom on their wedding day!
"Perhaps we can go shoe shopping next week?" Stella laughed, glancing at her watch. "I do need to be getting back to Hogwarts, unfortunately." Trying on all those dresses had taken up quite a bit of time, and Stella wanted to get a few things done before her evening classes tonight.
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She took the dress to the register to pay for it, getting it all wrapped up and ready to go home with her and paid for it. She didn't even think of letting Stella or anyone else but her. It was going to be her dress. She was going to pay for it. She had lots of jewelry that would match too. Maybe she could wear her mother's necklace...
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She resigned herself to brainstorming what else she and Caleb could get for Charlotte as a thank-you gift. Perhaps a bracelet or some earrings...
They chatted and laughed as they made their way back to Finnigan's, and Stella gave Charlotte a hug before the new mother went in to fetch the baby.
"Thank you, again, for doing this. It means the world to Caleb- to both of us," Stella said, giving Charlotte a kind smile.
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