Down in the Gryffindor common room the four best friends and most popular guys in the whole school sat gathered around the fire. James let out a loud and lingering sigh. It was his fifteenth sigh in about three minutes. His friends had tried to ignore him but found it increasingly difficult.

"What James!" Sirius had finally caved and asked him what was bothering him.

"Well it's about Lily…" The other three marauders groaned.

"Prongs, this has gotten ridiculous." Remus said shutting his book before reaching his hands up to rub his temples in irritation.

"Why can't you just give it a rest?" Sirius pried as he hit his head on his desk.

"Really Prongs, you have gotten a bit obsessed." Peter said in his mouse-like voice.

"Could you get over it if the girl you loved had chosen your worst enemy over you?" James asked.

"Um, that has happened to me." Sirius said referring to the one girl he actually liked. Scarlet Hawthorne.

"Right sorry, Padfoot." James apologized.

"S'okay." Sirius mumbled.

"Right, as I was saying I tried to talk to her and offer to walk her to class but she ran ahead to walk with snivellus." James said irritably.

"So?" Remus asked.

"You're not getting the point here Moony. She walked with him." James all but hissed.

"Well she always walks with him." Peter said timidly.

"Yeah but she knew it would annoy me." James said.

"How do you know that?" Remus asked.

James bit his lip in thought. "Well what if you saw someone you hated walking with Kendra Kingsbury?"

Kendra was Remus' crush though he tried to deny it.

"I d-don't like h-her." Remus said though he stuttered.

Sirius smirked. "So you wouldn't mind if Henry Johnson asked her out?"

Remus was livid. "He's going to ask her out!"

The other three marauders snickered.

Remus scowled.

"Back to our main problem James has gotten way too obsessed." Peter said.

"I second that." Sirius said twirling his quill around in his fingers.

"Thanks a lot Padfoot." James grumbled as he picked at a piece of loose thread on his robe.

"Look man, you've got to stop badgering her." Sirius said dropping his quill on the table.

"But, then I'll never be able to ask her out."

"You can just don't ask her so much." Remus said.

James sighed. "Fine,"

"Great." Sirius said.

"Hey can we go and get something from the kitchens to eat? I'm starving." Peter said standing up to stretch.

"Sure, I could go for some food." James seconded also standing up.

Remus and Sirius looked at each other and shrugged before also agreeing to go along.

James got his invisibility cloak and the marauder's map from their dorm before sneaking with his friends out the portrait hole.

~oOo~

"OW! Wormtail!" Sirius hissed after Peter stepped on Sirius's foot under the cloak.

"Sorry!" Peter squeaked.

"Would you two be quiet?" Remus yelled in a whisper.

"Why don't you stand next to him then?" Sirius suggested.

"Fine I will." Remus said and switched spots with Sirius under the cloak. About halfway down the stairway Remus hissed in pain after Peter elbowed him.

"Not so easy is it?" Sirius asked smirking.

Remus glared.

"Would all of you shut up? We're here." James said pulling off the cloak and facing the portrait of the pear.

Remus outstretched his hand and gently tickled the fruit and the marauders watched as the portrait swung open.

"Finally," Peter sighed and walked in.

The other three followed and, were suddenly surrounded by house elves.

"How may we help you fine sirs?" A small house elf asked.

"Oh don't mind us. We're just here to grab a quick bit to eat." James said waving off the elves. The elves nodded and scurried off.

"I think this might be my favorite room in the castle." Peter said as he picked up a roll of bread out of the basket on a table.

"Trust me Peter we know." James said as he got a goblet of pumpkin juice.

Peter grinned like an idiot before diving into the bread roll. Remus wrinkled his nose.

"I can't see how he can eat like that." He said.

Sirius laughed. "Mate, you can be very stuck up sometimes."

"Well at least I'm not going around the school shagging every girl in sight." Remus said back. Sirius grinned sheepishly.

"It's not my fault. The girls come and find me."

"He's got you there Moony." James said taking another swig of pumpkin juice.

Remus just sighed and walked over to get a goblet of water.

"Sooo, how about a prank on out good friend snivellus?" James asked.

"Sounds good to me, what should we do?" Sirius asked.

"How about dying his hair blue?" Peter asked.

"No, we did that a week ago." James said.

"How about we steal all of his school robes?" Remus asked.

"Well that's shocking. You usually don't participate in the pranks Moony." James said.

"What can I say? I probably won't get in any trouble anyways." Remus said.

"True. You are basically considered an angel by all the teachers." Sirius said.

Remus grinned.

"We should probably head back soon." Peter said.

"Yeah, let's get going." James said and through the cloak over his friends and himself and walked out of the kitchen.

~oOo~

"Would you stop stepping on my foot?" Sirius demanded to Peter.

"I'm sorry! It's not like I'm trying too." Peter hissed back.

"Well maybe if you didn't stick to my side like glue we wouldn't have this problem!" Sirius whispered fiercely.

"It's not my fault! You're practically walking right in front of me!" Peter snapped.

"We're under a cloak you idiot. I can't help but walk in front of you by accident!"

"Well-"

"Would both of you shut up? We need to be quiet!" James hissed.

Sirius and Peter shot each other one last glare before being quiet.

~oOo~

James let out an exhausted sigh as he fell back on his bed.

Remus sat down and looked at James.

"You know, Sirius and Peter weren't that bad." Remus pointed out.

"It's not that. It's just…this is out fifth year here at Hogwarts and I just really thought that Lily would have gone out with me by now."

"Prongs just get some rest. I know you're upset but you need to be awake for class tomorrow."

James nodded and rolled over reluctantly before falling into a dreamless sleep.