A Picture Perfect Moment

They stayed there for awhile just talking. Finally when they started getting tired they all walked back to the common room and fell asleep there. It was definitely picture perfect. Melissa was asleep on top of Remus, Sirius was by Melissa's feet and his bottom was on the couch and his head hanging off the couch, James was sleeping on the floor and his head was by Sirius', and Peter was snoring in the chair not so far away.

In the morning they were all sleeping when Lily and Ariel walked into the common room.

"How cute!" Ariel squealed. Lily couldn't help but smile. She liked the way they treated Melissa, it was really sweet to watch.

"Do you think we should wake them?" Lily asked, walking forward. "I mean we have classes today."

"Well what time is it?" Ariel asked.

"They just started to serve breakfast I think," Lily replied. "Come on let's get them up."

Ariel and Lily hesitated. "Can't we take a picture of this?" Ariel said.

"I guess," Lily said.

"Great! We'll give it to them," Ariel said, running up the stairs to get her camera. Once she took the picture they started to wake them up.

"Melissa, Melissa get up," Lily said, gently shaking her. She opened her eyes and yawned.

"Morning," she said groggily.

"Good morning," Lily said, smiling.

"Get up! Sirius! Get up!" Ariel said, shaking him abruptly. Lily and Melissa chuckled while watching Ariel try to do the impossible. Melissa looked down at Remus, he was still sleeping.

"Remus, get up," she said softly. Once he heard her voice his eyes opened.

"Good morning," he said, yawning.

"Good morning," she said, giggling. Lily went to wake Peter who was easy, and then she woke up James which was a little harder but not as hard as Sirius, who Ariel was still trying to wake up. They all laughed at Ariel's attempts to wake Sirius up.

"Care to help?" Ariel said. They all passed glances and then smirks formed on their faces. They all took a deep breath then…

"WAKE UP SIRIUS!" they all shouted at the same time. He jumped and fell to the floor.

"Bloody hell!" he said, rubbing his head. "I was getting up!"

"Yeah right," they all said, laughing. They all walked down to the Great Hall together and even sat together too. Melissa was tired and she wasn't ready to go back to classes yet. The weekend was…eventful. The mark on her face had faded and she learned the Marauders secrets. So she had a bad day, and a good one. Knowing Remus was a werewolf didn't change anything, they all had a feeling it wouldn't, knowing Melissa.

She was playing with her eggs and was staring into space.

"Melissa? Hello?" James said, waving his hand in front of her face.

"Hmm," she said dreamily.

"You awake?" he asked.

"Yeah," she said. They all ate breakfast and then left for their first class of the day.

Melissa was grateful that it was a free period now. She eagerly ran back to the common room and collapsed on the couch. James and Sirius were out performing their prank by chasing after Lucius and Snape yelling 'Melissa!' and 'Gryffindor!', Peter was getting extra help in the library, and Remus was going to meet Melissa up in the common room. She felt bad for him today, tonight was going to be a full moon, he looked more sickly than usual but was trying to be happy for the sake of everyone around him. She heard the portrait door open. She looked up and Remus walked in.

"Hey," he said, smiling.

"Hey," Melissa said. He sat down next to her.

"Tired?" Remus asked, chuckling.

"Yeah," she said, smiling.

"Did you hear what Lily and Ariel did?" he asked. She shook her head. "They took a picture of us sleeping this morning," he said, blushing. She started blushing too. He pulled it out of his robe pocket.

"I got it from Lily after class," he said.

"We get to keep it?" she asked, taking the picture and looking at all of them. She couldn't help smiling. Even though the pictures moved this one seemed still, the only thing moving was their patterns in breathing.

"I guess," Remus replied, watching her. She fingered the picture in her hands.

"Can I keep it?" she asked, looking up to meet his gaze.

"Sure," he said, smiling. She hadn't told them yet about her secret, which she was starting to feel guilty because they shared everything with her. She just didn't want to bring up her past memories, they were too painful. Knowing now that her parents had hidden her true identity hurt the most, but also knowing she may never see these people again hurt even more. She had to tell them soon though…But she wanted to keep the picture to remember them, when she had to leave them which she hoped wasn't anytime soon. She had grown to love these people more than she could have ever thought, and it would break her heart to find out that in a second their friendship could disappear within time. She hoped she would be stuck in this time; she didn't care if it could affect her family, and she loved these people more than them anyway. All the Marauders have done was be there for her when her own parents couldn't tell her what she was destined to be. An angry tear trickled down her face.

"Melissa are you okay?" Remus asked. She nodded wiping away the tear.

"Yeah I just got something in my eye," she said, forcing a weak smile.

"No, you don't have something in your eye. What's wrong?" he asked. He saw right through her façade, she couldn't believe it. She sobbed lightly.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," she said, hanging her head. All of a sudden the door slammed open and in walked in Sirius and James looking liked a couple of…girls? How Remus and Melissa knew that they were James and Sirius they had no idea, but they did so they started to laugh. James had long curly black hair, the same glasses and hazel eyes, except on the eyes you could see eye-shadow and mascara, and he also had a woman's figure. Sirius had shoulder length black hair and lipstick on.

"What did you guys do now?" Remus asked casually, yet he was laughing.

"We were doing that bloody prank on Snivellus and Malfoy, I guess they had enough to they hexed us and did other stuff and we turned into girls," Sirius said in a manly voice which made Remus and Melissa laugh harder. "Sod off!"

James crossed his slender arms and huffed. "Well if you were in this predicament I think you would feel the same way we do!"

"Alright, we're sorry…Jamie," Melissa said, smirking.

"She's a true Marauder," Remus said, smiling.

"Sorry I couldn't resist," she said innocently. They started to growl under their breaths.

"Change us back!" Sirius yelled.

"Sorry Padfoot, I haven't the slightest idea how," Remus said, chuckling. James and Sirius were almost exploding with fury. James stomped his foot down, which by the way had high heels on it, and looked at Melissa.

"Do you know how?" he asked with gritted teeth. She shrugged her shoulders.

"Nope," she said. James and Sirius started to swear and pout. "Oh my god, how did I stay friends with you babies?"

James seemed to calm down for a moment and looked up and smirked. "Because you love us so much Lissy!"

"And to think I could have changed my mind and went with Lucius," she said, examining her fingers.

"What?" all three boys yelled. She looked up and smirked.

"You're not serious are you?" James asked.

"Of course she's not Prongs! I am!" Sirius said.

"That joke is so old," Melissa said.

"That's why it's funny, I like seeing you guys get aggravated at it," Sirius said, smirking.

"And no Prongs she wasn't serious," Remus said.

"Good," James said. "Cause I like having you in the Marauders."

"I'm in the Marauders?" Melissa asked.

"Naturally," Remus said. "You know about us, you're friends with us, why not be one of us?"

"But I'm not an Animagus," she said.

"That doesn't matter, you need a nickname though," Sirius said, putting a finger to his chin in a thinking sort of way. "What's that story you were telling us about?"

"Beauty and the Beast?" she asked.

"Yes! Your nickname will be…Beauty!" Sirius said.

"Yeah!" James and Remus said in unison.

"Of course we'll still call you Lissy, but this can be your nickname too!" James said, beaming. Melissa chuckled.

"What are we going to do about those two beauties?" Melissa asked, looking at Remus. He started to laugh.

"I guess we'll have to wait until it wears off," he said. "Unless we take them to Dumbledore."

"What? No! Then he'll know we were pranking them in the first place," James said.

"Well you don't want to be stuck like that do you?" Melissa asked.

"Maybe Lily will like him more this way," Sirius said, smirking.

"Lily isn't a homosexual," James said, shaking his head.

"How do you know?" Sirius asked.

"Because I do, Padfoot," James said, getting annoyed.

"Come on, let's go to Dumbledore and see if he can help," Melissa said.

"Are you sure?" James said.

"Most positive," she replied, smiling. They left the common room and walked to Dumbledore's office. Once the gargoyle opened the winding staircase, James and Sirius started to get hesitant to go.
"Come on," Melissa said, pulling them up the stairs. "No need to be embarrassed."

Once they reached the large doors, Melissa had to drag them forwards.

"I'll knock," Remus said, seeing Melissa was quite incapable to at the moment.

"Come in," he called. Once they all walked in he looked up. Amusement was dancing in his twinkling blue eyes.

"Hello Mr. Lupin, Miss. Ross," Dumbledore said, nodding to each. "And who are these young ladies?"

Melissa smiled weakly. "Sir, you see, these girls are James and Sirius."

He smiled. "Well we'll just have to fix that," he said. He muttered a spell and they turned back into boys.

"That's it," James said. "You don't want to know how we got that way, no detention, NOTHING?"

"I'd rather not know," Dumbledore said, a smiled tugging the sides of his lips. "You best be off, you have class soon."

"Bye," they all said, leaving. They were all walking the halls to get to Transfiguration.

"That was better than I thought," Sirius said, examining his body to make sure he was back to normal.

"Yeah, to tell you the truth I expected worse," James said. "Oh yeah, Lissy, tonight's a You-Know-What."

"Okay," Melissa said, looking at Remus seeing him look embarrassedly at the floor.

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