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Chapter 7
The last thing that I remembered was cuddling with Sirius on top of that mountain looking at the beautiful view, but now I had a strange feeling that I wasn't there anymore. I felt fluff and something warm covering me. I groaned because I knew I was back at Hogwarts in my own bed. I opened my eyes hopefully to see if Sirius was there, but instead found two sets of eyes glaring at me.
"Well, well, well, look who finally decided to wake up," Becca scolded at me.
"Why, what time is it?" I asked and jumped out of bed. I hated missing most of the day for sleep. I hardly ever slept past 9, even on weekends. I felt so unaccomplished missing half the day for sleep.
"Oh, you missed breakfast and lunch-" Becca glanced at her watch- "and dinner, too. Its 7:45 in the evening." I groaned again.
"So, Sirius already told us his side of the story this morning at breakfast while the rest of the Marauders were still asleep, but we haven't heard your story so spill." Both Carly and Becca were still staring at me, but I didn't want to give too many details. I didn't want to tell them about Sirius's spot because I'm sure that he didn't want too many people to know about it.
"What's there to tell?" I replied and shrugged. "He showed up at the window and took me for a ride on his broom."
"You got on a broom?" Becca said shocked. I nodded. "Wow, I never thought I'd see the day when Lily Evans would get on a broom, willingly. And, what else happened?"
"Nothing, that's it," I replied.
"You were gone for a few hours. Did something else happen?" Becca asked, trying to get more out of me.
"Did you kiss?" Carly asked quietly.
"Yes, and that's it." Carly squealed and Becca looked a mixture of shocked, appalled and relieved.
"What? He didn't try to get in your pants," Becca questioned. Part of her whole reason for hating the guy, along with that incident first year, was the fact that he couldn't date a girl without trying to sleep with her. "I mean he took you out on a romantic broom ride and didn't even try?"
I shook my head and I couldn't even comprehend the face that Becca now made. "What's wrong?"
"Something's not right. That's not like Black at all. There isn't a girl in school that he's 'dated' that he hasn't slept with or tried to sleep with. Something's up and I'm going to get to the bottom of this."
"Oh, come on Becca. Could it possibly be that he actually really likes Lily and doesn't want to screw things up?" Carly asked her.
"No that can't be it," Becca replied. I was so used to her rudeness that I didn't even try to retort her comment. She always told the truth and what her thoughts were exactly, which were part of the reasons I loved having her as a friend. She was never dull company. "I'll find out why. Just you wait." And with that, she stormed out of the room.
"So, how was the kiss?" Carly asked as she jumped into my bed. I had never known Carly to into this kind of stuff. She was always the bookworm. I guess her dating Remus had changed things.
"Perfect. He was an amazing kisser," I told her, drifting off into thought about last night. I wanted to change the subject so I wouldn't end up spilling the beans about Sirius's secret spot. "So how are things with you and Remus?" That got her really excited and she launched into a discussion about their last date and how he had to leave today to visit his sick mother at St. Mungo's. She must really like him.
"And so then, we-" Carly had got cut off in mid-sentence as Becca had just stormed into the room.
"I can't find a single one!" Becca growled, as she stormed over to her bed and flopped down.
"A single who?" I asked.
"Marauder. It's like they've fallen off the face of the earth. I looked everywhere and they're usually not hard to find. You just have to look for lots of commotion and people screaming and they'll usually be ten feet away."
"Oh, I'm sure they'll turn up eventually. I'm sure there somewhere having fun and doing something illegal."
"Ouch, Wormtail! That was my foot, again!" That was the third time Peter had stepped on my foot since we left the common room. James, Peter and I were heading down to the Whomping Willow under James's invisibility cloak that he had inherited from his father, to meet up with Remus, who had probably changed into a werewolf by now.
"James, we either need a bigger invisibility cloak or Peter's feet need to shrink," I told James, while hopping around on one leg and trying not reveal ourselves by accident.
"Sorry, just be glad we have this cloak. We wouldn't have been able to do have the pranks we've done these past four and a half years. I guess we'll just have to shrink Wormtail's feet." Peter whimpered.
"Jeez, don't be such a wimp, Pettigrew. We're only joking," I told him and slapped him on the shoulder. It was getting harder and harder for the three of us to fit under the cloak since none of us seemed to stop growing. We now had to duck a little in order to cover our feet.
"Speaking of pranks, are you ready for our next one for Snape?" We had been planning this prank all this morning. I didn't have anything to worry about at the time, like Lily accidentally telling James about last night, because she had been asleep all day, so I was able to help out without being distracted.
"Yeah, its gonna be sweet! But we can't pull it till like Tuesday or Wednesday because Remus is the only one that can get into the prefects' bathroom and he'll need a few days to recover," James replied. "Ok, we don't need the cloak anymore if we transform now."
We had just left the castle through the front doors. James took off the invisibility cloak once we had gotten into some shadows of the castle so we wouldn't be seen transform. As soon as I could, I transformed and raced towards the Whomping Willow as fast as my four legs could take me with Prongs and Wormtail close behind, ready for another amazing night off the castle grounds.
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"James, Sirius, you guys have to get up or we'll be late for McGonagall's class," Remus all but shouted at us. He had recovered quickly from Sunday night, seeing as he only missed Monday classes and he was rather awake. I still hadn't recovered from two late nights in a row and early classes yesterday. James and Peter had to drag me out of bed yesterday. This was the last week of classes before break, so we really weren't doing anything new. We just had to turn in final homework assignments. I really didn't see the point of going to classes because we weren't doing anything, but Remus was dragging us all. He apparently saw a point to them. I decided to let him drag us off to class and listen to him because without his help, we wouldn't be able to pull the prank on Snape that we had been planning for later today.
"Alright Moony, I'm up. I'm up," I heard James from the bed next to me. I heard his curtain being pulled back and sheets being tossed aside. Then- Whomp!
"Ouch! Prongs, what was that for?" I had just been hit in the side of the head by a pillow. I guess I had forgotten to pull my curtains closed last night.
"If I have to get up, so do you," he replied rather bitterly and stormed out of the room. What was his problem? I jumped out of bed and followed him to the bathroom. He had been acting rather strange last night and hadn't said much, but I hadn't thought much about it. I had to find out what was wrong with my best friend, so I cornered him at one of the sinks.
"Prongs, what's eating you?" He glared at me.
"I saw you and Lily-" Oh crap, we were making out earlier in what I thought was a secluded passageway. "-hugging." Phew, he just saw us hugging.
"James, I was just hugging her. She had had a bad day; her cat died at home. I tried to be nice to her and be her friend. Have you tried just talking to her yet and tried to be just friends first? She could really use some cheering up now." At my words, I saw James instantly relax.
"Oh, ok Padfoot. I knew you wouldn't do try anything with her. Let's get to class," he replied and headed back to the dormitory to get dressed. I couldn't believe I was lying to him. I hated myself for it.
Five minutes later, Remus had us all rushing through the halls to get to Transfiguration. We made it just in time. James and I headed to our normal seats behind Becca and Lily; however, as I went to sit down, I realized that I had lost James. I turned around and saw that he had produced at bouquet of lilies from his wand and had given them to Lily.
"I heard that you had had a bad day yesterday. I hope these cheer you up," I heard James tell her. What was this all about?
"Aww, thanks James. That was really nice for once," she replied, with a shocked and amused looked on her face.
"Mr. Potter, please deal your romantic life after class and please take your seat next to Mr. Black." Professor McGonagall's strict voice came out of nowhere. "Now, we're just going to review today because there's no point of starting anything new now that break is a week away." I groaned. Not more review. I was going to hex Remus later, after we had pulled this prank.
"Alright, time for Phase One of Operation S.G.P." James announced to me, Remus and Peter.
"What the hell does S.G.P. stand for?" Peter said. "Why do I always get left out of the naming of the operations?"
"Peter they're not that hard to figure out. We just name them. Nothing special," James replied.
"I thought we were naming it Operation Turpin?" I asked James.
"Why would we name it Operation Turpin? That has nothing to do with anything," James replied.
"I dunno. I thought it just sounded cool," I replied and shrugged my shoulders. "It just sounded like it would fit."
"Would you three stop arguing? Snape is on the way," Remus snapped. "Sirius, are you ready with the balloons?"
"Yep Moony. Wingardium Leviosa," I whispered. The balloons filled with pink paint rose into the air above and unsuspecting Snape.
"On the count of three, release them. 1-2-3!" James said and laughed as the balloons landed right on top of Snape's greasy head. "Sweet, he's running off to the Prefect's bathroom to take a shower. Remus, you're on for Phase Two of the operation." Remus ran off with a bag of clothes towards the bathroom. James, Peter and I walked off to get lunch.
"So, James, what was with the flowers today in Transfiguration?" I asked as we sat down and started pilling our plates with food. Peter had already gone for the desserts.
"Well, you told me to try and be nice to her, so what better way than to give her flowers when she was upset." He started to cut his ham. In amazement, I cast my eyes around the Great Hall. I couldn't believe he was actually starting to listen to me about girls. He really likes Lily. I started to tear apart a chicken leg, when Remus came running into the Hall.
"I made the switch. He should be running down the staircase any minute." Remus was carrying a bag of clothes covered in pink paint. Peter, James and I jumped out of our seats and ran out to the staircase. A bunch of others, who had realized that we had pulled another prank, followed us out of the Great Hall.
Sure enough, a few seconds later, Snape came running down the staircase in a pair of tight, shinny, gold pants and a red flowing shirt. Everyone burst out laughing, partly because of the humiliating outfit and partly because the pants were two sizes too small for Snape and he found it rather hard to run in them. The look on his face was priceless. It was a combination of anger and humiliation. He couldn't decide whether to run to his dormitory and get a change of clothes or to hex us. He made his decision by running through the doors to the dungeon to get to the Slytherin common room.
'Oh, S.G.P, shiny, gold pants! I get it now!" Peter exclaimed through his laughter.
"Jeez, Wormtail. Could you be anymore thick? Please tell me someone has a camera!" I exclaimed through my laugher. At least ten other people exclaimed yes, including James. Remus and I gave each other a high-five and I slapped James on the back; we were all amazed at how this turned out! Now that was a prank that I would never forget. Snape in tight, shiny, gold pants. I don't think anything could beat that, except for maybe a dress.
Author's Note: Ok, so not much Sirius/Lily at all. I thought I'd do a fun chapter for right now (if anyone can tell me where Snape and the shiny, gold pants reference came from, you're awesome!!!) But there's much more Sirius/Lily moments to look forward to; Christmas and New Year's are coming up! Please review! WolfAsh
