Promises - Chapter 1
September @jilychallenge fic!
@adenei vs. sweeethinny (thank you so much for helping me <3)
Celebrity AU | Prompt: Oh, my God, I’m puking my guts out at the Oscars, and what if I’m in the wrong bathroom? And oh, please, tell me my celebrity crush hasn’t just walked in on me with my head in this toilet bowl.
Summary: Lily and James are co-workers.
They talked, had lunch together and everything was going very well.
But when James invites Lily to a party and they end up having an affair, things get out of the way. Not exactly the next day, but three months later when Lily found out she was pregnant.
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Sitting on the floor of her cold bathroom, Lily took a deep breath, laying her head back on the toilet seat, trying not to cry again at the thought of what was happening to her.
Yes, she wanted to be a mother, but not like this. From a man that she wasn’t even seeing. 24 years old and barely knowing how to take care of herself yet. What was she going to do? Now that her career had started and she had signed film and commercial contracts that she probably couldn't act anymore… Lily was lost.
Lily couldn't waste time crying. She had already stayed Thursday and Friday doing it. Her time had run out.
She needed to compose herself and go to the market, and then go to the studio to get her dress that probably no longer fit. Lily could see that her hips seemed to have expanded with frightening ease, as did her breasts, and then she would be back to the house and would clean up the mess she'd made yesterday when she'd noticed none of her pants fit anymore and she'd think about what she needed to do now that there was a life growing inside her.
On Sunday, tomorrow, she would need to be fine to make it to the Flamel Awards, the most important event in the wizarding world's cinema that she had finally been invited to! It was a unique opportunity and one Lily couldn't turn down, no matter how much makeup she would need to use to hide the dark circles under her eyes and the sick look she had gained now that she was throwing up everything she put in.
''Come on baby, be nice to mommy and let me get some rest.'' She spoke to her own belly that was already starting to get rounder, nothing very noticeable to those who didn't know her, but Lily needed to be discreet if she didn't want the seamstresses to notice her increased measurements. ''I promise I'll give you food later, just...let me rest.'' Lily sighed. Leaning against the toilet she tried to get up, body still limp after vomiting everything she ate, or tried, for the last few hours.
Lying in her warm, comfortable bed, Lily reminded herself that there was one more duty on her to-do list: telling James that he was going to be a father.
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