On their own
A/N- This is my first fan fic so please be kind! I've had this story Idea playing in my head for a long time now so I finally found time to write it! Yay! I must tell you that flames will be used to roast marshmallows over the camp fire! Yum!
Right now my friend is harassing me about what not to do, HELP ME! ;)
Disclaimer- If I owned Harry Potter, then I wouldn't be writing this now would I?
Chapter one
Prologue
James Potter was frustrated. That Sirius could tell. He was currently pacing around his bedroom, if you could call pacing jumping over strewn clothes among other things. His hand grabbed his hair so hard that Sirius thought he would pull some out and he would have to use Aunt Beatrice's hair re-growing solution, again. Sirius was frustrated too, but not nearly as much as James was right now. The reason?
Betty Boopsley had come home.
Betty Boopsley was James' evil next door neighbour. Well, not as evil as the self proclaimed Dark Lord Voldemort that was running around the place terrorising the wizarding world at this current time. But she was evil. There was a deep family feud between the Potter's and the Boopsley's that dated back to James' great, great, great, great grandfather, called James potter and Betty's great, great, great, oh well you get the point! Grandmother, surprisingly, called Betty Boopsley. Well, the dead James Potter apparently stole the dead Betty's pet Chinese fireball dragon for a ride and accidently flew it into the great lake on the potter Estate (apparently, if you dived down far enough you might be able to see the skeleton, but the lake was so deep that no-one could reach the bottom, even with the help of gilliweed!). Dead Betty supposedly cursed the Potter Family with untameable black messy hair. Of course, James' parent didn't believe in such nonsense, and being the respectable people they were, got on with the Elder Boopsley's. alive James, of course, knew that it was all true and held the grudge of the Potters for his parents. Betty and James despised each other more than Lily Evans despised James!
Betty had been on a two week camping trip to a wizarding campsite in north Wales, as soon as she arrived home, she lost no time in taunting them.
Jumping up to the wall,
"That mutt still here then, eh? If I were you I would have kicked him out by now!" she shouted when she saw them playing quidditch "mind you, If I were you for more than a day I'd probably get some disease that'll make all my hair fall out!". Sirius growled, he surely would have turned into Padfoot andpounced on her to show how much of a mutt he really was if Harold Potter, James' father, hadn't turned up.
"Having fun kids?" he questioned, "Betty! I forgot you were coming home today, you're welcome to grab you broom and join the boys if you want" he smiled at her. Betty was a complete angel to the Potter Elders.
"No thanks, Mr P. I've got to go and unpack my things, but I'll see you later." She threw one last mocking glance at James and Sirius, and jumped into her own yard.
"She's such a suck up" Sirius muttered under his breath.
"I know" mumbled James.
Harold Potter had other thoughts though.
"She's such a lovely girl, isn't she? You should take a leap out of her book James; she's so kind and friendly." With that he turned towards Potter Manor shouting over his shoulder "Your mother said to tell you dinner will be served in fifteen minutes!" then walking down the path.
James and Sirius stood there with their mouths hanging agape
"I swear he'd rather have her for a child instead of me" James uttered after five minutes.
This is what led James to pacing his room and nearly pulling his hair out. He and Sirius had decided instantly that she needed to be pranked, big time. They had spent the whole dinner, conspiring the perfect prank, but couldn't get any new ideas into their heads. They had thought of making her food change into bugs every time some went into her mouth. But they had done that. They thought of making her hair change a different colour every time she thought something bad about them. They had done that, Severus Snape, 4th year. They had thought that she could get one new feature of a Dragon every time she thought of food, because Betty Boopsley loved food, so did James and Sirius, but unlike them, she didn't have Quidditch to keep her fit. But they had done that to Amos Diggory, 6th year.
"I've failed as the ultimate pranker, Padfoot! Take my place as head of the marauders, I'm a failure!" he moaned.
"Your overreacting mate! You're just wired up because she's back" Sirius comforted him "once she's been home a few days, you won't know she's here!" James visibly relaxed,
"Yeah, your right mate, everything will calm down soon and when my heads cleared I'll think of my best ever prank. You know, I've been thinking, maybe we could use a break" he suggested.
"You mean like a 'raid the pantry until your mum catches us' kind of break?" Sirius questioned James curiously
"No, I mean we could go on a holiday, we should go to that wizarding campsite that Boopsley went to with her mum and dad"
"You're serious" Sirius was starting to question James sanity, he was thinking about doing something Boopsley did?
"No, you're Sirius" James smirked
"Grrrrr" Sirius growled
"Ok Padfoot! It was just a joke, you know I can't resist!" whined James "Ok, going off track here, so what do you think? We would have no Adult supervision at all! It'd be so cool!"
"Us...In a tent... on our own... with no adult supervision... Hell yeah! Let's go ask your Parents!" Sirius yelled, getting extremely over excited now, James thought he might have to use petrificus totalus (A/N- spelling?) on him to make sure he doesn't do something stupid like try to accio the moon to him, again. James shuddered at the memory.
"Yeah! We can get Moony and Wormtail to come to! A marauding holiday! This is gonna be awesome!" and just like that, James and Sirius, two seventeen year old boys, going into the seventh and final year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, of age in the wizarding world, started to dance around holding hands like two little eight year old girls.
A/N- Lily Evans will be in this story, since James/Lily is one of my favourite pairings, in fact, Lily is going to be in the next chapter, so all you Lily Evans fans, you'll like the next chapter! Ok, I'm not very good at authors notes so I'll end here.
Half-blood goddess xx