"Hurry up!"
"Oh Lily's going to be so in love with me when she sees this!"
"Shocked is more like it."
"Well it's not my fault I'm desperately in love."
"Desperate, yes."
"Ouch!"
"Ha ha…"
"What exactly are you two doing? Lumos!"
A light flared. Remus Lupin looked amusedly at his two friends, who were urgently trying to hide the huge poster they had been rigging from the roof of the Gryffindor common room.
"Remus! Uh… how good to see you!" Sirius smiled sheepishly.
"You know I could turn you in? I am a prefect you know."
"This is exactly why we didn't offer you the chance of participating in this grand venture. We didn't want our oldest friend to face the guilt of breaking the rules; after all, he has standards to uphold."
"Indeed." Remus agreed, trying to look stern. He lit the candles around the room, and stared open-mouthed at their work.
"What do you think of our masterpiece?" James beamed, gesturing at the huge photo of Lily Evans smiling and winking from the ceiling. Every so often, the words "Will you go out with me??" flashed across the poster in scarlet writing.
"Very… um…"
"Pathetic," finished Sirius. James punched him jokingly, and the corners of Remus's mouth twitched a little.
"Come on Remus, you know it's funny!!" Sirius said, laughing. He pushed Remus down on an armchair, and tickled him unmercifully.
"Ha ha… stop it… Sirius… get off me!!"
"No way! Admit defeat! You are a Marauder! Rules are beneath you!"
"Okay okay!! Stop tickling me!!" Remus squirmed, his brown hair fanning out behind his head.
"Say it!!"
"Rules… rules are beneath me!!"
"And Sirius is extremely sexy."
"What???"
"Say it Moony!!"
"Okay, Sirius is extremely sexy!! Now get off me!!"
Sirius rolled off Remus, laughing. Remus seized his wand
Levicorpus!
Sirius was hoisted into the air by one ankle, yelling and struggling wildly.
"Now the tables have turned haven't they?" grinned his friend. James looked at them both and laughed.
"You guys are so immature!!"
"Look who's talking!!"
"Yeah come on Prongs, who's the one with a bloody great picture of Lily plastered on the ceiling??"
"Okay, fair enough."
"We better get to bed… it's nearly morning."
"Yeah you're right…"
James and Remus started up the stairs to the dormitory.
"Hey!!" yelled Sirius, struggling to reach his wand, which had fallen out of his robes pocket. "You can't just leave me here!"
Remus pointed his wand at Sirius over his shoulder. Sirius fell to the ground in a heap.
"Bastards."