Disclaimer: Yeah, I don't really own this. I don't really own anything. Sniffles oh well.

This is the sequel to my other story "Of Mutes and Friends" but I guess it can be read alone.

Chapter 1

"James! Sirius! We have to go now, or you'll miss the train and be stuck here for the rest of your lives," yelled Mrs. Potter from the bottom of the stairs. She grinned as two dark heads poked over the edge of the stairs, both looking somewhat guilty.

"Sorry, Mum," yelled out the boy with messy dark hair and glasses. He grinned slightly and pushed his trunk down the stairs, letting it slide down freely. The boy next to him with straight dark hair and piercing blue eyes followed suit and pushed his as well.

Mrs. Potter's eyes widened and she immediately pulled out her wand to slow down the trunks, to avoid them crashing into and breaking things. As the trunks pulled to a complete stop, Mrs. Potter turned her mildly angry, yet frustrated and exasperated glare to the two boys.

"James Potter, Sirius Black, get down here NOW!" she shrieked. Not only were the growing increasingly late, but she was really tired of dealing with their crazy ideas.

Both boys walked down the stairs sheepishly, yet trying to conceal smiles that showed that they had not qualms about their behavior.

"Sorry, Mum," James said, pushing his glasses back up his nose as they slid down when he jumped down the stairs.

"Yeah, sorry Mrs. P.," agreed Sirius, shaking back his raven black hair, and smiling charmingly at her.

Mrs. Potter rolled her eyes. They would always do that. She found it almost impossible to punish the two, even though they deserved it more than any other thirteen year olds she knew did. "Alright, no need to gaze at me so forlornly," she muttered, placing a levitating charm on the trunks and leading them out the door.

James watched her leave and nudged his best friend in the ribs. "Come on, man. We don't want to miss our first day back, do we?"

Sirius shrugged and grinned, following James out of the house and to their car. "Whatever works, man," he muttered. They filed into the car and gazed out the window as the car pulled away from the Potter residence.

Sirius sighed and leaned into the seat. That had been a good summer break, the first completely awesome one that he had ever had, if he could remember past events correctly. You see, Sirius lived with the Potters after his parents had kicked him out. Sirius had been found by James when both were only eight years old. Before Sirius had been kicked out, though, his mother had placed a curse on him.

Sirius was mute, but not always. His mother had tired of the sound of his voice and cursed him because of it. As such, Sirius hadn't been able to speak until the Christmas break of his first year. He had gone home, as demanded by his parents, and had gotten beaten up. He had run away, passed out, and when he woke up, he was able to speak again and at the Potters' house.

Now, most of the time, he was able to speak and lived with the Potters during any school breaks. However, there was the chance that he would lose his voice again. During his second year, he had started getting ill and the school nurse thought that it was the medication that he was taking to restore his voice that was making him ill. He had been off of it for six months and so far he had only had his normal voice loss moments.

"Are you two ready for a new year?" asked Mr. Potter as he drove them to the station, breaking into Sirius's thoughts.

James shrugged. "Define ready," he said, glancing at his father. He generally disliked school and saw it as a waste of time. He was intelligent and already knew quite a bit of the things that the teachers were teaching on.

Mr. Potter rolled his eyes and laughed at the same time. Mrs. Potter turned to look at the two boys. "Just think, another year for you to see your friends, pull pranks, get detention, causing havoc, doing basically anything that doesn't get you expelled but manages to get several letters sent to us, etc."

"We're not that bad, are we?" asked Sirius, a smile on his face as he entered the conversation.

Mrs. Potter pretended to think about it and then nodded. "I'm afraid so. After I got the letter about you cursing the toilets to…erm, well, I'd rather not elaborate."

Both boys laughed and began chatting about previous pranks and upcoming pranks that they thought were brilliant ideas. Mrs. Potter tuned them out while Mr. Potter concentrated on driving.

All too soon, for Mr. and Mrs. Potter anyways, they arrived at the station and helped James and Sirius take their trunks into the station and then on the platform. As they appeared on Platform 9 ¾, they were immediately greeted by Remus, who was dragging his parents over to meet the Potters. Their parents, after saying good bye to James and Sirius, began chatting with the Lupins.

James rolled his eyes and led the way to the train and then to find seats. They were able to find one rather easily, although they did have to kick a first year out, and then settled themselves down, chatting about their summer breaks.

"So what did you do?" asked Remus, looking at his friends happily.

"We researched," answered Sirius proudly. Recently they had discovered that Remus was a werewolf and had decided to help him by becoming animagi. It was a lot more difficult than they had originally thought it would be and they spent every moment that they could find the patience for sitting and reading through it. It had not been easy to convince Remus to let them help him out. In the end he had agreed, but had made them promise to give it up if they felt at all endangered.

"Did you find anything out?"

"No, not really," muttered James, looking slightly sheepish and downtrodden.

Just then the door opened and Lily Evans walked in. James looked at her and grinned slightly. It was a well known fact that James had a huge crush on the beautiful red head. It was also a well known fact that Lily Evans could hardly tolerate being around James. She considered him to be highly arrogant and childish. However, she was Remus's friend and that, by all laws of friendship, made it almost impossible for her to hate either James Potter or Sirius Black.

"Hey, Remus," she greeted cheerfully and then turned to James and Sirius, nodding slightly as she said, "James, Sirius. I trust all your holidays were alright."

Sirius shrugged and James was too wrapped up in staring at Lily to answer. Remus rolled his eyes and laughed. "Yes, they had excellent breaks and so did I."

"That time of month wasn't too hard on you, was it?" she asked in a hushed voice. She had figured it out around the same time that Sirius had confirmed it. She had confronted him about it a few days after the full moon and he had confessed everything to her.

Remus shrugged. "It was neither harder nor easier than usual," he responded, sounding philosophical. Lily looked saddened for a moment before hearing her name being called by her best friend. She glanced apologetically at Remus and nodded farewell to James, who was still engrossed in staring at her, and Sirius, who was so bored that he was nodding off.

Silence filled the compartment after her departure. Sirius managed to break it, saying, "Well, what do you wanna do?"

At those words, James seemed to break out of his thoughts and looked at Sirius, a dumb grin spreading over his face.

"What's wrong now, James?" asked Remus, exasperation filling his voice.

James just shook his head and grinned. "She's hot!"

A.N. How was that for the beginning of a sequel? Lol. I know, it sucks. Oh well. Please review and happy living!