Chapter 2

"Hey Sirius. Are you asleep yet?" The boy called Sirius shook his long ebony black hair out of his stormy grey eyes.

"Nope. Are you?" The first boy rolled his eyes at his best friend's tall frame spread out as much as it could be on the 4-poster bed.

"Of course I'm asleep, mate. That's why I'm sitting up on the edge of my bed, asking you if you're asleep yet."

"Touché, James." Sirius got up and sat next to James on the 4-poster. "Bored?"

"Nah. This is why I'm sitting up on the edge of my bed, clearly wanting to-"

"Alright!" Sirius tackled James and rolled him on the ground. James punched Sirius in the stomach, earning a yell from Sirius.

"Shh! You'll wake the other two." James Potter stood up and walked to the mirror. He tousled his already messy and untamable dark brown hair. His glasses glinted once in the moonlight, and behind them hazel and gold flecked eyes sparkled. He surveyed himself for a moment, then called his best friend over to the mirror with him. "Does my nose look too big?" he asked, touching the offending figure lightly.

Sirius, who's nose was noticeably longer than James', nodded. "Yeah. Makes you kinda look like an elephant." Sirius made a honking sound through his nose, much to the annoyance of James.

"Honk! Honk!" Sirius pranced around James, not exactly knowing what an elephant sounded like but thinking he deserved bonus points for the effort.

"Shut up!" James threw a look towards the other two beds in the room.

"Honk! Honk! Honkity-honk-honk!"

"Oh yeah?" James paused and thought for a moment, trying to come up with a good comeback. "You look like a.. penguin!" Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Nice one." he said sarcastically. James took this as his cue to stick his arms in the sleeves of his shirt and waddle around. He paused for a moment.

"What sound does a penguin make?"

"I dunno" Sirius answered, both boys clearly perplexed.

"Penguin sound! Penguin sound!" James started to waddle again Sirius, chanting "Penguin sound!"

"Moron."

"Retard."

"Idiot."

"Freak."

"Am I supposed to care?" Sirius grinned.

"Nah, I guess not" James responded, grinning as well. "Think they'll ever wake up? We've been yelling and stuff for a while" he nodded towards the two boys occupying the other two beds in the room.

"I dunno" said Sirius for the second time that night. "Do you remember their names? I forgot."

"Yeah" James responded. "The guy with the book," James pointed to the bed furthest from the window and the only one not encased in moonlight "is Remus. The fat one," here he pointed to the 4-poster in between Sirius and James' beds "is Peter."

"Porky Peter. That's how I'll remember!" Sirius gave James a mischievous look that James read easily.

"Think we should introduce Porky and Remus to Hogwarts?"

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"ARGHHH!" Remus woke up early the next morning, just as he had planned. His school uniform laid neatly on it's chair, all planned out as well.

What he hadn't planned on was waking up in somebody else's footsie pajamas and covered in smelly goo. He held his breath and looked around. Peter was still asleep, covered in the same slimy goo as Remus and wearing gym shorts that looked remarkably familiar. The other two boys weren't in the room.

"Gits" Remus muttered under his breath. He got up (with some difficulty), located the shower, and spent over an hour scrubbing the stinky mess.

This wasn't exactly the way his first day of school was supposed to start out.

While passing his bed on the way out, he grabbed a tissue and stuck a bit of the goo in it. He hadn't even reached the door when there was a fervent knocking from the other side.

"Remy!"

"Remus? Are you in there?"

"Oh.. his name is Remus? I thought it was Ralph."

"Remy!! Come out already!" Remus opened the door, and a very excited Calista almost toppled him over. "Are you excited?" she asked, her eyes shining. "I am! I couldn't sleep ALLLLLLLLL night!"

"Morning, Remus" Lily said from his other side. Turning to Calista, she said "You did too sleep last night. You were the first one to fall asleep and the last one to wake up!" Calista answered with an exaggerated eye roll.

"Hi, Remus!" interjected Felicity. "You room smells a bit funny. What happened?"

"Ahh, Remy dear. Have you crapped your pants?" asked Calista, laughing. Remus answered with an exaggerated eye roll of his own.

"No.. but look" he unrolled the tissue he had been clutching to show the girls the sticky glob inside. "I woke up in that." Lily frowned a bit.

"Well, that's mean. You should tell a teacher."

"Who did it?" asked Felicity. "Do you not know, or..?" Remus shrugged.

"cough THE GITS I'M ROOMING WITH cough" he cleared his throat. "Ahem."

"Who are you rooming with?" inquired Felicity.

"That dude" Remus pointed to the 2nd bed from the window. "and James Potter and Sirius Black." Felicity made a face.

"Bleh. No wonder it smells!" she said, causing Calista to laugh. "Where are they now?"

"No clue."

"I'd suggest we get them back," Felicity said thoughtfully. "Only problem is, it's the first day of school and I don't exactly want to engage in a prank war."

"And we'd get in trouble!" Lily frowned again, disapprovingly. At that moment, Calista's stomach let out a low growl.

"There's a rumbly in my tumbly" she said sheepishly, while leading the other three downstairs to the Great Hall for breakfast.

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"Oi. James. Is that Remus over their with those girls?" James craned his neck along with his best friend to see their roommate pouring orange juice for a brunette. 'Aw, thanks Remy!' could be heard above all the commotion in front of them.

"I think so.. why isn't he mad? Why isn't he sticky? Why is he talking to girls?" Sirius glared a bit in Remus' direction, and then-

"Oh!" Sirius slapped James upside the head. "Duh! You moron! You ruined it!"

"Oww, what?" James asked, rubbing his head and mussing his hair in the process. He hastily tried to flatten it, making it stick up more in the back.

"The shower!" Sirius said, exasperated. "He just took a shower. Our prank didn't even work." He threw down his toast and sulked. "It was a good one too!" James took a look at Remus, laughing and obviously enjoying himself. "What are you looking at?" Sirius asked James.

"A prancing dinosaur, which is why i'm looking directly in Remus' direction."

"Ahhh, shut up. Do you think we should go talk to him? Doesn't look like any of his friends are blokes, and he seems like a pretty decent-" James rounded on Sirius.

"NO! He THWARTED our prank! NO ONE does that and gets away with it! I say we get him again." James glared intently at Sirius.

Sirius gave James his famous evil look.

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"Hey Remus. Who are Potter and Black? Point them out."

"Lily, why do you call them by their last names?" asked Calista after hurriedly swallowing a mouthful of pancake. Lily shrugged.

"Everyone back at my muggle school does it; people who don't know you really well call you by your surname." Lily grinned. "Why? Is that weird?" Remus took a swig of orange juice.

"Different is all. Look, do you see those two blokes over there? The one with the glasses is Ja-I mean Potter, and the other one is Black. They're looking at us."

"They don't look very threatening" observed Felicity. "But James Potter used to come over to my house when we were little because our moms were friends."

"You and Potter were friends?" asked Calista, carefully wiping her hands.

"No. He tore up my dolls and pulled at my hair. I haven't seen him since I was four." Felicity smiled. "So if you are ever interested," she said, turning to Remus "I really, really would not mind a little payback!" But the last part of her sentence was drowned out by laughter echoing on all sides of them. Felicity looked in the direction everyone was pointing.

There was Peter, wearing too-small gym shorts and covered in sticky, smelly goo.