Sirius Black stood in front of a scowling James Potter, whose brown eyes were looking up at Sirius dubiously. Sirius's face was quite the opposite, he stood with his arms crossed and a grin playing across his tannish face.

"C'mon James!" Sirius looked down at James with what was his 'girl-getter' look. It was quite obvious that James wasn't going to fall for it, and Sirius wouldn't have made the look if he could help it. But he couldn't, because this was his usual expression for getting something he wanted. What he wanted, this time, was different for what the expression was usually used for.

"Don't tell me you're going along with this, Remus!" James turned his eyes to Remus, who was standing alongside Sirius with a hidden smile, but his eyes were twinkling. Remus opened his mouth, and it immediately formed into a smile-sort of O, making his dimples pop out. He merely laughed, which made James roll his eyes.

"C'mon James, it'll be fun!" Sirius tried again, and James fixed him with a glare, which only made Sirius smirk harder.

"What're you fixing poor James into now?" came a new voice that was qualified as Lily's as she sat down next to James and stared up at Sirius. He and Remus exchanged quick glances and then looked back at Lily.

"Nothing," Sirius said maybe a little too quickly, and Lily raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, right, like I'm going to believe that," she rolled her eyes and which made Sirius sputter out, "You don't believe me? When have I ever lied to you?"

At this point James and Remus both burst out laughing, which made Lily smile, and Sirius fix a glare on his two best friends. Sirius glaring was quite a sight to see, his nose obviously didn't agree with his eyes at the expression, and it scrunched up, forcing his mouth into a rather sour look, and all the while his eyes were reduced to slits. He looked like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. Lily promptly leaned on James's shoulder with laughter that was shaking her body as she clutched her stomach. Remus was doubled over and James's shoulders were curled forward as he laughed with air through his nose.

"All right, shut up," Sirius smirked, and the laughter eventually trailed off, leaving the three with grins.

"Really, Sirius, what are you planning?" Lily asked as soon as she trusted her mouth to speak and not break off into insane laughter again.

But Sirius only gave her a smug look and crossed his arms again and replied, "Nothing."

"Don't worry Lily, you'll find out soon enough," Remus grinned, and received a half glare from Sirius.

"C'mon James," Sirius reached down and grabbed his best friend's arm and pulled him off of the couch, and the three proceeded to go up the stairs leading to the boy's dorms, with Sirius taking up the end and waving a sardonic hand in Lily's direction as the three disappeared.

Sirius shut the door behind him and casually strode over to sit on his bed, facing Remus and James who were looking at him curiously.

"Are you seriously going to do it, Sirius?" asked Remus, who looked as though he were clearly enjoying the idea. James however did not.

"No, he is not going to do it," James frowned and crossed his arms, which made his age-appearance drop back a few years.

"Lily has got you so whipped," Sirius mumbled with a roll of his eyes.

"What was that?"

"Oh, nothing…" Sirius gazed at the ceiling with a look of irritance. Then his eyes lowered to look at Remus, and a smile spread across his face again, making his eyes shine. "So do you want to?"

"Do you even know where to get coconuts and grass skirts, Sirius?" Remus asked with a doubtful voice but Sirius knew that he really wanted to go with the idea because his eyes were twinkling like they did when he was excited. But his question made Sirius pause and think.

But only for a second. "No, but I bet we can find them at Hogsmeade."

"Oh, come on, Hogsmeade? Why would Hogsmeade have grass skirts and hula music? This is England, not Hawaii," James spoke up with a roll of his eyes as he pointed out the obvious.

"Not yet it's not Hawaii," Sirius smirked. "Come on, you only turn forty once! We want to make this a birthday for her to remember!"

"I'm sure that Professor McGonagall will have a nice enough birthday without your help Sirius," James said, but he was smiling now.

"But she never goes out! She's like…she's like a hermit!"

Remus burst out laughing, and even James grinned. "A hermit, Sirius? A hermit who is constantly surrounded by students and other Professors? Yeah, right…" Remus laughed.

"You never know, she could work down at the Three Broomsticks on Saturday and Friday nights where she dresses up in tight clothes and flirts with the old drunken men from behind the bar," James smirked, and both Sirius and Remus groaned.

"Bad, bad mental image!" Sirius covered his eyes and collapsed backwards onto his bed. "Distractions!"

"So are you guys going to do it or not?" said a voice from the corner, making Sirius sit straight up and suffer from blood rush, and James and Remus whip their heads to the voice.

"Quick! Sick Remus on it!" Sirius hissed, and he got up from his bed and reached out and pulled Remus towards the corner.

"You're the dog," Remus hissed, "transform and attack it!"

"Oh, but you're the wolf. Go kill it!"

"Nice to know how you three'd handle attackers," the voice said and Lily's head appeared and was quickly followed by her body as she pulled off James's invisibility cloak, which she sharply tossed to him. He caught it and stared at her with a look of astonishment. "You really ought to keep your things hidden better, James," Lily replied to his look and pushed past the baffled Sirius and Remus to sit next to him.

"How much did you hear?" Sirius managed to ask as soon as he and Remus had regained control of their adrenalin and managed to sit down.

"Oh, all of it," she said and glared at Sirius. It took him a minute to realize she was frustrated over the 'whipped' comment and he grinned.

"Are you going to help us, or are you going to ruin the whole thing by stopping us from getting the ingredients?" Sirius asked, and Lily raised an eyebrow.

"Do you seriously think that I'd stop you? From what I heard, it sounds like this is a hilarious plan, and I'd love to be a part of it. But then if you refuse there is always blackmail…" she grinned with the grin that James hated but Sirius absolutely lived for.

"Great," he said and began to explain the whole plan. "McGonagall's turning forty soon you know," and stopped as if waiting for her consent.

"I'm not going to ask where you got this piece of information, but do go on."

"I'm an expert eavesdropper. Anyway, we've decided to throw her a surprise party. A surprise hula party. My uncle had one last year for my cousin's graduation. He's a Muggle you know. Anyway, it was awesome. The girls wear hula skirts and coconuts for bikini tops and dance around all happylike, and you get drinks with little umbrellas in them…" Sirius trailed off and was slapped back to reality by Remus with a punch in the arm. "Oh, right. Anyway, we thought it might be fun to have one for McGonagall, you know, we could all go and hide in her office and wait for her to come in and then surprise her. And then we could have a real hula party at Hogwarts," Sirius absolutely beamed at his idea.

"And you actually think that McGonagall won't get mad and send us all back to the Gryffindor common room with detention and lost house points?"

"Well…that is the downside…but maybe she'll be in a good mood?" Sirius grinned, and waved off Lily's explosion answer.

"Anyway, Lil' do you have any idea where to get hula music, grass skirts, and coconuts?" Sirius asked when Lily had calmed down.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Oh, of course I do. Because every Saturday I sneak off and have my very own hula party…"

"Why didn't you invite me?!" Sirius put on a hurt look that was answered by another roll of eyes from Lily.

"Why don't you call up your uncle? Ask him where he got his Hawaiian supplies?" Remus suggested and a gasp from Sirius followed.

"Remus! You're a genius!"

"No, Sirius, you're just really stupid…" James said but Sirius appeared not to have heard his comment and was pacing back and forth mumbling to himself. (A/N: Rather a scary sentence, no?)

"Right," Sirius said, and the three looked up at him, "get me paper and a quill and James I need to use your owl."

Dear Sirius-

Hey! My dad and brother aren't home, actually they're on 'work' in Rome. Did you know that Adam's going to work for Dad's company? Yeah, my dad is thrilled. Anyway though, getting to the point…

Dad got this magazine with all these party favors in them, and we just ordered the supplies from there. I sent the magazine with your owl, just write the things you want on that order form in the center (of the magazine I mean). If you don't know how to fill it out one of your friends should. Actually, have them do it anyway. I don't trust you. Send the magazine (and the completed form) back to me A.S.A.P.

Well, I'd better go, I expect an owl back and maybe this time you could send it at night? Our neighbors so flipped when they saw an owl tapping on our window at six in the morning. Mom wasn't exactly happy, but she lightened up when I told her it was from you. Good luck with whatever you're doing…

Love,
Jessica

PS. Tell your friends at Hogwarts 'Hi' for me!

Sirius finished reading the letter and threw it on James's bed.

"I wasn't done with that!" Peter squealed, and rushed over to James's bed to retrieve the letter and finish reading it.

"What does she mean she doesn't trust me? I'm the most reliable person in the world!" Sirius scowled, his face squishing up like it did when he glared.

Lily's face broke into a smile over the top of the magazine that had been enclosed with the letter, and James and Remus burst out laughing.

"You? Reliable?!" Remus hooted, and had to grasp the bedpost to keep his balance.

"Yeah, right," James grinned, causing Sirius to squish his face up more. He started towards James, his face distorted and his fists clenched. James immediately took on Sirius's expression, and the two of them began fake boxing.

"Psst, Remus," Lilly hissed, and Remus tore his glance away from Sirius, who had just been tripped and was now kicking at James from the floor, to Lily. She was sitting on James's bed and motioning for him to come look at the magazine with her.

"C'mere, come look at this before those two idiots tear up the room," she said, and he trotted over.

"Look," Lily pointed to a picture with a very chesty girl in a skimpy coconut bikini. The girl was bare from the bottom of the bikini to the top of her short hula skirt, which was made out of grass that looked as if it might fall off at any moment.

"Uhh…Lily, is there something we need to tell James?" Remus asked, glancing at Lily from the corner of his eye.

"No, you idiot," Lily punched Remus in the arm, "is this the outfit Sirius was talking about? Because I don't think we can wear this kind of stuff in Hogwarts…"

"Well it is a surprise party," Remus said, his cheeks slowly gaining more blood in them.

Lily gave an annoyed sigh, but what she was going to say was drowned out by a huge bang as Sirius landed flat on James, in apparently what was supposed to be a bodyslam.

"Sirius, you idiot!" Lily hissed, tossed the magazine under the bed, grabbed James's invisibility cloak and rushed into the corner.

"What did she do that for?" Sirius asked, but his question was answered when the door was swung open abruptly, and a Prefect rushed in.

"What is going on in here?" The girl asked, much resembling Professor McGonagall with her eyes wide and nose in the air.

"Umm…nothing…" Sirius spurted, and caused the other two (Peter was still reading) to let out sighs of exasperation.

"We're just re-arranging the room, and Sirius dropped James's trunk," Remus lied, as Lily, hidden underneath the invisibility cloak, pushed the trunk into view.

"Uh-huh," Sirius nodded, and regaining composure, "I shouldn't have eaten that last butter roll for lunch! Those things sure make your fingers oily. Want to see?" He stuck his fingers in the girl's face, and she quickly backed away.

"Ugh…no. Just…be quiet…and…don't let him touch anything else," she pointed to Sirius as she reached for the door, and then she fled the room, slamming the door behind her.

"Nice job, Sirius," James said sarcastically, "Uhh…nothing…" He mimicked Sirius in his moment of spotlight.

"Hey shut up," Sirius took another swing at James, who dodged it and was about to retaliate but was stopped when Lily came out from under the invisibility cloak.

"Not," she grabbed Sirius's arm and shoved her face up to his, "again!"

"Okay, okay!" Sirius backed away and tripped over James's trunk. "OW! Who was stupid enough to move this thing here?!"

Lily gave out an annoyed sigh, and helped Sirius to his feet. "I did. Will you please just go sit on the bed with Remus?" She pointed over to where Remus was sitting on James's bed, staring at the magazine with a strange expression on his face, his ears very red. She rolled her eyes and shoved Sirius over to him.

"Nice job," came a voice from behind her, as two arms slid their way around her waist, and the voice came very close to her ear, "get them out of the way and we can - OOF!"

James was cut off with an elbow in the stomach from Lily. "I am not in the mood. Go sit on the bed!" She pointed to where Sirius and Remus were hovering over the Hawaiian magazine, both wearing identical expressions.

"Sure honey," James tried again, and went over to Sirius's bed and laid down. "Okay, now what?"

"James," Lily hissed, "Go sit over there!" She pointed again to where Remus and Sirius were, and gave another exasperated sigh. "Fine!" She strode over to them and ripped the magazine from their hands. She ignored the "Hey!" from both of them, and marched over to Peter's desk. (It was of course the neatest; the other three by far were not even close to being organized.)

"If you want to see the magazine, grab some chairs and quietly come over here," she commanded, and gritted her teeth as Remus and Sirius sprung up from the bed and rushed across the room for chairs, knocking several things over in the process. They screeched their chairs to a stop next to her, quickly followed by James and Peter.

"I like these tops," Sirius grabbed the magazine and flipped to a page where several girls, all of them very extensive in the chest area, were dancing in coconut tops that were way too small, and skirts that were way too short. "Let's get them." Nodding from James and Remus, but a surprising remark from Peter followed his statement.

"They're a little small, don't you think?" The three other boys looked at him with huge eyes and open mouths. "That's the point…" James explained slowly, and Peter, his ears quickly gaining more blood, followed with an: "Oh."

"At least one of you has some sense," Lily smiled at Peter, but the other three glared at him.

"That's not what I'm thinking he's got…" Sirius mumbled, and James and Remus snickered quietly.

"Anyway," Lily glared at Sirius, "if we do get these tops," she pointed to the picture, "then we have to get some that fit. And - "

"How are we going to do that?" Sirius interrupted. "Oh, I know! We'll measure you, and Molly and Arabella and then average out the numbers!" His suggestion was followed with nodding from Remus and laughing from James. "Yeah right," James chuckled, "Fat chance you'll get a measurement out of her!" He pointed to Lily. "She won't even let me - "

"Okay!" Lily stopped him, her face slowly turning red, "Enough!! That's a terrible idea that would never work! We'll just order a bunch of every size, and those that don't fit won't be worn." She ripped the order form out from the center of the magazine and grabbed a quill. Checking the page number and item number, she began scribbling on the paper. Behind her back, James and Remus were doubled over in silent laughter as Sirius mimicked Lily, his hands parallel to his chest, but a foot out. He imitated Lily ordering people around, but as he turned his body, his hands smacked James and Sirius.

"Stop it," Lily commanded, without even turning around. "Sirius you know I can hurt you, and if you keep doing that, I really will. So I would recommend that you stop." Sirius immediately did stop, and rubbed his arm where Lily had punched him a couple of days ago. "Sorry, Lily," he said quietly, and smacked the other two when they kept laughing. "She's mean!" He mouthed, and was backhanded in his chest by Lily.

"What do you think about these?" Lily pointed to a page with really thick, really long grass skirts. The three boys exchanged glances, and Remus grabbed the book tenderly, his eyes watching Lily's hands.

"What about this page?" He turned to a page with really thin, really short grass skirts. "These are nice," he said softly, and the other two nodded. Peter just pursed his lips, preferring not to comment.

"No," Lily said and grabbed the book back: "I let you have your skimpy bikini tops, now I get to pick out the skirts. These are the skirts we are going to get," she turned back to the page that she had previously been on, and grabbed the order form. She quickly filled it out, and gave the magazine to the boys. "Find some leis. Cheap ones preferably."

"What's a lay?" Sirius whispered under his breath to James. "Not that I paid attention in grammar, but isn't lay a verb? As in, James la-"

"No," Lily interrupted sharply, "a lei is a noun. A lei is a Hawaiian necklace of flowers, such as these," she grabbed the magazine and flipped it to the back. A colorful page of flowers came into view. "Pick the cheapest ones you can find, and then we can decorate them when they get here." She turned back to the order form with another sigh.

"I like the blue one," James said, his finger on a lei that was made out of three shades of blue flowers. "Oh…it says that these leis are nine dollars - "

"I can't see!" Peter protested and grabbed the magazine from James's hands.

"Give that back!" Sirius whipped around and flailed his arms wildly as Peter kicked his chair back and ran across the room.

"No! I want to see!" Peter called back and was immediately attacked by Remus.

"I want to see, too! You can't even figure out the prices; if you haven't noticed, they're in dollars and cents!" Remus snatched the magazine and jumped on James's bed.

"You'll pick the ugly ones! Give it to me!" Sirius grabbed at the magazine, but James snatched it out of Remus's hands. He quickly bounded over to Sirius's closet, and shut himself in.

"Well that was a stupid thing to do," Remus put his arms down and stared at the shut closet door. "Who would want to be in Sirius's closet?"

"Only those with good fashion sense, but I really don't know why James is in there…" Sirius's answer was, and he and Remus jumped down from the bed.

"Fashion sense my eye," Lily scoffed, and the three boys jumped. They, in their moment of chaos, had forgotten she was there. "Let's leave him in there, he'll get all the punishment he deserves in that pit," she motioned toward Sirius's closet.

Before she had sat down again at Peter's desk, the door to Sirius's closet burst open, and James came out gasping for breath. "I've found some!" He exclaimed, waving the magazine triumphantly in his right hand. To Sirius he said, "When was the last time you cleaned that out?! It smells worse than Peter's shoes in there!" With that description, Remus scrunched up his nose, Peter narrowed his eyes, and Sirius beamed triumphantly.

"Not since the first week of school…" he said proudly, and was answered with four groans. "…In first year." He finished.

"Ewww!" Lily gagged, and the other three followed suit. "You're disgusting!" she strode over to the window and opened it, also closing the door to Sirius's closet and snatching the magazine from James on her way back to the desk.

"Okay," she turned the subject, "which one did you like, James?"

"These," James slapped the magazine on Peter's desk, and his fingers landed on a group of leis that were rainbow colored. Sirius immediately scoffed, and received a glare from Lily and James.

"They're ugly," Sirius whined, and crossed his arms over his chest.

"They are not. And why do you care anyway?" Lily raised her eyebrows at him, and he stuck out his chin.

"Because this is my party. I am throwing it. I get to pick out the leis," Sirius attempted to grab the magazine, but it was held tightly by Lily.

"Sirius Ian Black, you let go of this magazine right now, or I'll - "

"I'm filling out the papers!" Remus proclaimed in a singsong voice, the quill in his hand moving at a rapid pace. "I've filled them out!" He announced again, and Sirius let go of the magazine at a rapid pace, causing Lily to fall backwards on the desk.

"You did what?! You ordered those ugly leis, didn't you?!" Sirius slowly advanced on Remus, until they were face to face. Remus simply grinned in reply, and extended the hand holding the order form out to Sirius. Sirius immediately snatched it, and howled when he had read the form.

"You did!" He cried, a hand dramatically raising to his forehead. "Now what?! I'm going to have to wear an ugly lei! I'm not going to the party." Sirius folded his arms across his chest and glared at Remus.

"Sirius, you forget we're wizards, and witches," James quickly added before Lily had a chance to open her mouth, "and we can easily change the color of the leis when they come. We just wanted to order the cheapest ones."

Sirius preferred to ignore James, and continued to pout. "That's not the point," he whined again, and Lily rolled her eyes.

"Sirius, just give me the order form," she sighed, and extended a hand for it.

"No!" was Sirius's reply, and he quickly found a very hot-tempered Lily in his face.

"Sirius Ian Black," she hissed, "you give me that order form right now," her hand slowly crawled its way up his arm, until it had found the bruise that she had created several days before when she had punched him, "or I will give you a permanent bruise in this - " She had to say no more. Sirius quickly thrust the paper into her hand, and backed away.

"Thank you," she smiled, and her face turned smug, the pride obvious in her grin. She sidestepped Sirius, and made her way across the dormroom. "I'm going up to the Owlry," she announced before she turned the doorhandle, and turned around to face the boys. "Would anyone like to come?" She stared pointedly at James, and his eyes lit up and he quickly strode over to her.

"I would!" he grinned when he reached her, and turned back to the others with a wider grin. Sirius, obviously over the whole "Mean Lily" streak, waggled his eyebrows at James, bidding his friend farewell, and good luck. James was about to reply, but Lily cut him off by grabbing his hand and dragging him out the door, and the couple disappeared.

"But I wanted to go too," Peter whined, looking forlorn as he stared at the door.

"Trust me on this one Peter, no you didn't." Remus smiled, and Peter's eyebrows drew together.

"But why?" Peter asked, and Remus's cheeks gained color in them. He offered no answer, so Peter turned to Sirius, who was waiting eagerly.

"A little thing, my friend," Sirius slung his arm around Peter's shoulder as he headed for the common room, dragging Peter along with him, "called the birds and the bees…"

Remus rolled his eyes and got up to follow the Sirius and Peter, the former who was preparing himself for a long speech, and the latter whom Remus felt extremely sorry for. Remus shook his head, and pulled the dormroom door shut behind him, heading into what was obviously going to be chaos. For the next two weeks.