This is the second of my Drabble collection for the Hogwarts Online Prompt of the Day. These drabbles are completely unrelated, although all are about the Marauder Era. Please enjoy.

Although we Marauders never admitted it, we weren't very brave. Well, we were, when it came to things that actually mattered. If someone was in trouble, none of us would ever hesitate to help them. Pranks, however, were a different story. Every prank and practical joke, taunt and tease, were perfectly planned out. Almost all involved a distraction, the invisibility cloak, and a couple of 'tricks' that we kept up our sleeves. Even though we had the most detentions in the school's history, we would still be sitting in detention to this day if we had been caught for half of the pranks we pulled. Of course, we had 'bad-boy' stereotypes to take care of, but we really were quite cautious. Only when it came to pranks, of course.

"Prongs, pass me the cloak!" Sirius whispered urgently.

A few seconds later, a silvery object was tossed across the corridor. A small rat scurried after it, followed by an 'oomph' and a thud. Four feet scurried down the floor of the nearby dungeon, before quickly becoming invisible. The rat scurried back across the hall. James and Peter, knowing that their work was done, quickly made their way to the grounds. After around ten minutes, they heard great peals of laughter. Two figures made their way towards them, laughing all the way. Remus and Sirius sat next to them, recounting the adventures of the night. They sat under the large oak near the Black Lake, as they always did, relishing in each other's company. The adventure was told at least five times in that few minutes, each time becoming more and more exaggerated. By the end of that night, Peter and James swore up and down that they too had gone into the Slytherin Common room. They swore that they had even died those Slytherin's hair hot pink. By the end of the week, however, that story had even been blown up. Now, it seemed as if the whole Common Room was hot pink, the lake water had turned a nasty shade of magenta, and the Slytherins had hexed them up and down the corridor.

None of that was true, however.

Sirius and Remus had simply cast a simple color changing spell on the walls of the Slytherin's Common room, turning them a wonderful shade of hot pink. Then, they'd high-tailed it out of there. Like I said, the courage everyone hears about was reserved for battling the Dark Side, and for that alone.

But all of that didn't matter. At this very moment, they were just four friends enjoying each other's company. They were enjoying everything that it means to be best friends. They were taking full advantage of the seemingly endless time that they possessed. They were four friends, just sitting there, underneath that innocent sky.

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Wise girl