[Sorry I didn't post this sooner. I've been really busy. I started writing again a few days ago but it decided to delete itself -.-]
Sirius Black wasn't exactly what you would call an early riser. It took 3 buckets of ice-cold water and a hard shaking to get him to even open an eye. James actually had to tickle him until he woke up fully - Sirius was extremely ticklish- and that let to a violent tickle-fight between the two of them.
The were rolling around in a tumble of arms, legs, pillows and blankets and childish giggles for 5 minutes until James' mother barged in and had them hovering over the heap blankets for a time undetermined.
It was quite fun, just hovering there, James thought, but not knowing when his mum would drop them was not. When she finally did, they landed with a huge THUMP, barely missing each other by inches. Mrs Potter left to go back to bed, and Sirius punched James in the arm - hard. James punched back just as hard. They both doubled up in pain, but by taking one small glance at each other they collapsed into giggles once more.
They had to force themselves to calm down after hearing banging on the wall from, presumably, James' mother.
"Why'd you wake me up so early?" Sirius mumbled - his face was smothered by a pillow, he was using it to contain more laughter.
"Because," began James, from inside a blanket "We're going to Diagon Alley today"
"At 8 in the morning? Really, James?"
"Well I'm sorry for wanting to get to there early"
Sirius just rolled his eyes. He got to his feet and gave one last jab to his friend's side, causing James to jump abruptly and Sirius to snigger at the reaction.
"Should I owl Remus and Petey to meet us a Diagon Alley today?" asked Sirius as their two owls soared into the room - James had decided to let them out as they were making a racket through the night.
"Yeah, tell them to meet us at the Leaky Cauldron at 10 so we can go together" James replied as he dumped all the bedding back it to place - sort of. "And get dressed" he groaned at his friend, who happened to be in only bright yellow boxers.
"Why Jamsey, are you ashamed?"
"Yes"
James took a blow to the head by a pillow un-harmed and laughing. He was already dressed, he decided to get ready before waking Sirius up.
"Fine, but don't expect me to be quick about it" Sirius grunted.
Sirius sent off 2 letters to his friends, and after a long, exaggerated show of putting on underwear (James had turned around for this part, no matter how friendly they were, they weren't quite at that stage), jeans, socks, and an old top, they were ready to go.
During this long time, they received two owls, one each from Peter and Remus. Peter couldn't come, his parents were making him do the chores that he had neglected to do all summer. James shrugged.
"We'll see him at school"
They stuffed their wands in their back pockets, pulled on shoes, and set off out the house.
By 10am, the three friends were together in Diagon Alley, and had stopped off at Gringotts to fill their pockets with Gold and Silver.
"So, after I pay for this ice-cream, I should have approximately 14 Galleons left..." Remus thought out loud, earning a flick in the head by Sirius
"Relax, my dear friend, it's the holidays!" He said brightly, wincing at what was probably brain-freeze.
Remus stifled a snigger at Sirius' 'brain-freeze' expression. "We still need to buy our books."
"Oh, good point." James piped up "We'll go and get them after our ice-cream"
20 minutes and many spoonfuls of ice-cream later, they handed over the money and set off to Flourish and Blotts. They bought each book on their list, Remus bought an extra book called "OWLs: What they're really about" James and Sirius exchanged glances, both of them thinking back to Sirius' book: "How to pass your OWLs without even trying" they both grinned momentarily and looked away as quickly as possible.
"Hey, James, look over there." Sirius had nudged him in the ribs and pointed him in the direction of the door. A very pretty girl with dazzling red hair and bright green eyes entered the room with a skinny boy with greasy, black curtains of hair framing his face. The boy headed straight for the advanced potions section, though the girl decided to just stay put, looking at a few books opposite her.
James grinned, this was Lily Evans, the girl he had a huge crush on.
"Go get her, Jamsey!" said Sirius, followed by Remus giving him a push towards Lily.
James had a plan worked out in his head, he would absent-mindedly wander around the area she was in, then bump into her by 'accident'. So, naturally, after being pushed, he proceeded with his plan. Luckily for him, Lily hadn't budged, and was still looking at the books. He took great stress in looking at each and every book he walked past, then, reaching where Lily stood, he looked over his shoulder and began walking backwards, and right about when he should he bumped into her, she moved.
He fell onto the ground with a loud thud, and bumped into the bookshelf nearest, causing them all to fall on top of him. Sirius and Remus were creasing up with laugher, Lily had mixed emotions; disgust, and amusement, and was battling between them both. Severus, the greasy haired boy, was sniggering from where he stood, and the rest of the customers just stared. Lily had turned bright red, and stalked out of the shop, Severus following closely behind.
James apologized and was ushered out of the shop by his still-laughing friends.
"Well, you did well there mate!" Sirius said, failing to contain another burst of laughter.
