Dad and I were walking down the track at night. We loved to go for night time strolls. We rounded a corner and walked into the bush. We were laughing and smiling. We walked up our favourite little hill to watch the full moon. It was peace full and relaxing. It was all quiet. The distant howl of a wolf could be heard. It made my spine crawl. I didn't hate wolves, they just scared me.
The beautiful rainforests of Queensland were a great place to go. You could hear the water trickling, me and dad laughing, and slow and steady breathing?
I looked up into red eyes. I screamed at the top of my lungs.
"Adz, Adz wake up" some one was shaking me. "Come on Adz"
I opened my eyes and saw Lily standing over me shaking my arm.
"Adz, are you okay? You were screaming and sweating and well, being really strange"
"What, oh yeah I'm…erm…fine" I lied.
I sat up. The Marauders were crouched around me. How did they get into the girls dorm?
"How did you guys-" My eyes wandered and I could immediately make out the common room. Question was, how did I get here?
"Why am I in the Common Room?" I asked. James answered.
"Well, you kind walked down here in your sleep, and then you were smiling. You lay on the ground and smiled more, and then you looked up and screamed. We picked you up and sat you on the couch."
"Oh" I need to change subject, "Listen, I'm really sorry about last night I didn't mean to go off at you like that. You guys have been so nice and you were just trying to help and-" Sirius cut me off.
"No it's fine! Seriously"
I was so glad it was Sunday. I didn't have classes today.
"So, erm, what do you want to do today?"
Lily walked back up to her room. James watched her before coming out of his trance and looking back at me.
"Well, maybe we could pull a prank?"
I smiled mischievously and nodded in agreement.
They all smiled as well.
"What if we dye everyone's hair purple?" Remus asked.
"Nah, that's not a prank!" I said.
"We could…umm…give everyone bunny ears and tails" Sirius provided.
"Oh, good one, but it needs something more….we'll make it different for each house. We'll make the slytherins Medusa's and the Ravenclaw's ravens and the Hufflepuff's puff each time they talk"
"Good one Addie" James praised.
"But what about the Gryffindor's?" Sirius asked.
"What about the Gryffindor's?" I replied confused.
"Well, should we make them lions or something?"
"No. Rule number one in pranking, never prank fellow housemates!"
Sirius grunted, but agreed.
We went to work.
We entered the great hall for breakfast. Remus would tackle the Raven claws, James the Slytherins, Sirius the Hufflepuff's, while Peter and I created a distraction. Unfortunately, that meant that I would have to fake faint in front of everyone.
Our plan worked and soon a collection of squeals were heard from all the girls and strangely some of the boys too.
People were running around like crazy, some had snakes for hair, some had a beak and the rest couldn't talk.
It wasn't the best prank I had ever pulled, but it sure was funny. What topped it off was our song.
When you open your gryffindor with your ravenclaw it makes a hufflepuff sound and then your slytherin through.
And the best part was even though we did it, and McGonagall knew, she had no proof and so we escaped detention.
We thundered up to the common room and collapsed in a heap on the couches roaring with laughter.
After we settled down and could control ourselves Sirius spoke.
"Good work Adz, you are officially in."
"What? I'm a Marauder" I asked surprised.
"No, you can't be a Marauder, but you can be our fellow prankster" James replied.
"Well, what about a Marauderess?"
They looked at each other and then Remus said.
"Sure thing"
And that was it.
So we've now been best friends for four years. I'm now in my sixth year and the boys are in their seventh.
Unfortunately, I'm still not a marauder, but they settled for a Marauderess.
So that's me. A half-blood, half vampire, Marauderess.
What a mixture!
Okay, now, back to the story.
It was the Christmas holiday. Peter went home, but the rest of us stayed. Life was good. And I was hanging around with my best friends at Hogwarts.
The marauders and I were laying lazily on the common room couches.
I was in laying in Remus's lap thinking.
"Hey, why don't I have a cool nickname?" I asked boredly.
"What?" James asked.
"Well, you're Prongs, and Sirius's Padfoot, and Remus is Moony. What about me?"
"You're Adz" Remus replied calmly.
"Yeah, but that's so boring. Why can't I have a cool nickname like you guys?"
"Guess you're not cool enough" Sirius teased. I threw a pillow at him.
"Hey!"
"Well, you have to do something special to get that nickname" Remus said.
"And what would that be?" I asked, taking my mind off Sirius.
"Uh, now that is a Marauder secret" James said mysteriously.
"Well, I'm a marauderess" I argued.
"But, you're not a Marauder" Sirius replied.
"Well, why not?"
"Another Marauder secret" James said.
"Jeez Louise. Can I know anything?"
"Nuh" Sirius said.
I huffed but dropped it. When ever I brought up this topic they changed it, saying I couldn't know.
It sucked, but life goes on. Build a bridge, drive away, leave it be…whatever floats your boat.
"So what do you want do?"
It was the too cold to go outside and we were the only Gryffindor's who stayed for the holidays.
"Well, what if we play truth or dare" Sirius suggested. That game was like his bread and butter. He always wanted to play.
Hmm, tempting.
But you only just read about a game of that and it would be very boring.
Yes, I was talking about you; the idiot who is perving in on my life!
He he.
"Nuh, what about a snowball fight?"
"If you want to freeze your butt off outside, then sure go ahead. But I'm not defrosting you" Remus said.
"Fine" I mumbled.
We all sat and thought what to do. Obviously, our brains started to hurt after a few minutes so we quit.
"We could just talk" I offered.
'What do you mean?" James asked.
"Well, you know, just talk about people, and things and us and stuff"
"Okay" Sirius said.
"So, um. What's like in Australia?" Remus asked me.
"It's beautiful. There are the most beautiful kangas and there's a thing called carols by candle light every year at Christmas." I laughed. "Dad and I used to…"
"Used to what?" James asked.
"Nothing"
I hoped that they would leave it. I didn't like talking about dad. Because of that they didn't know anything about him, only that I loved him.
But leave it up to Sirius,
"Why don't you ever talk about your dad?" he asked.
"So, can you think of anything else to do?" I asked ignoring Sirius's question.
"You didn't answer my question, what's up with your dad?"
"Can't you just leave it?" I pleaded.
He stopped before I got angry.
Remus stroked my hair.
"You don't have to tell us you know" he whispered in my ear.
"I know"
Remus and I were really close. He was like my best friend out of all the marauders. Not that I don't like the others but we just got along really well.
I always felt safe around him. I loved him as much as I loved my parents, he was like the brother I never had.
I curled up in a ball, and fell asleep, with Remus still stroking my hair.
