A/N – First off, thanks to the394thdauntlesscake for being the only reviewer. Also, thanks to the five followers of my story! Moving on…
Lily inspected her new house thoroughly. The living room had a cosy couch, and a fire-place for which she was glad. She liked nothing more on cold days than to sit in front of the fire and read a book by its dancing, flickering light.
There was a tiny yard outside the house. Lily wondered at its purpose, and moved on.
The kitchen, true to Professor McGonagall's word, had the most modern set of Muggle equipment she had seen. Being a Muggle-born, she could easily identify the stove, the microwave oven and the toaster. Apart from that, there was a mixer and a weird-looking device she assumed was a vegetable cutter.
Next, she discovered a little storage room lined with shelves, tucked away under the staircase. She made up her mind at once to convert the room into a small library.
On the second floor of the house was a bedroom. The walls were painted red and gold for her house, and it was decorated sparsely, yet tastefully. There was a mirror and dressing table in one corner of the room, and a closet in another corner. The single bed occupied most of the room, making it look small, yet cosy.
Lily began putting all her things away neatly in the closets and shelves. Then she went back to the living room and looked for the sheet of details that Professor McGonagall had instructed them to find. After looking around a little, she found it pinned up on a notice board behind the door in the kitchen.
Dear Student,
Please put away your things in their respective places. Instructions for usage of kitchen devices and certain other things are listed in the instruction manual. You will find it in the pull-out drawer in the kitchen.
You may make breakfast and dinner for yourselves, but lunch is to be had in the Great Hall only.
Please do not light the fire in the living room during daytime or attempt to use any devices of which you do not know the use.
The yard is for your pet, which you will soon be adopting.
Regular classes will begin after two days. You are expected to settle down in your house by then.
After reading through this, Lily went out to her yard and looked over it. It was quite small, as were all the other room of the house.
What kind of pet will we have to adopt? Lily thought. It can't be huge, or else the yard would have been bigger too. It must be relatively easy to handle as well. They wouldn't entrust us with dragons or sphinxes.
Lily sighed and resigned herself to wait until it was announced to them. She made her way over to the Great Hall again, in the hopes of finding Marlene or Alice.
The Marauders were in a secret meeting. They had found the perfect place to discuss their plans – the Room of Requirement – recently, and converted it into the official Marauders' Headquarters.
James and Sirius were telling Remus and Peter of their brilliant plan to prank Marlene. And Remus, as usual, was being skeptical of the plan and trying to dissuade them from doing them.
"Argh! Let us have some fun, Moony! I tell you, this is going to be our best trick yet!" Sirius exclaimed.
"I agree, Padfoot. We just have to do this! "James said, enthusiastically.
Remus shrugged, before replying, "You guys decide. But I still think you shouldn't do this. Remember Dumbledore said clearly that this was not universal prank-time?"
"Of course we don't remember! Who listens to the teachers anyway?" Sirius said, while high-fiving James.
"He's the headmaster, not just a teacher..." Remus muttered under his breath.
"Didn't catch that, Moony! What did you say?" James asked, grinning.
"Nothing you don't know, Prongs…" said Remus.
"So anyway, will you assist us, fellow Marauders?" James asked Remus and Peter.
Remus shrugged, and Peter said, "Yes, of course we will, James. When have we ever refused to help?"
"I just might refuse to help next time," Remus muttered to himself again.
"So what we'll do first is this…" said James, pretending not to hear Remus.
"We'll make sure Lily's visiting Marlene on the day of the prank… or should I say, night of the prank!" Sirius continued.
James and Sirius carefully laid out the details of their prank to Remus and Peter, and the latter made some suggestions which James accepted immediately.
After deciding the roles each of the Marauders would play in this, they cheered and left the Room of Requirement, eager to get back to the Great Hall for lunch.
A/N – So what do you think the prank's going to be? Will the girls be able to turn the tables on them? Or will they become the innocent, unsuspecting' targets Sirius assumes them to be?
Please review with you thoughts, and if you guess the prank right (it's really common, to be honest), I'll mention your name in the next chapter!
Go ahead and guess!