Christmas Chapter number 2! WOOT! I know this one is shorter than the last one, but what can ya do? Hope you enjoy!
"So, I think we've all learned a valuable lesson." Remus said as James finished drying his hair from his two hour shower. James glared at Peter, who gulped.
"Y-yeah. Lesson l-l-learned." Sirius clapped his hands together.
"Great! Now that Peter is smarter and James is the color he's suppose to be, let's start decorating!" Remus smiled.
"Right. Now, we still have a couple more boxes down in the storage closet that we know are untampered with, so I suggest that Sirius stays here and starts putting things up while we get the rest." The other two nodded, but Sirius looked almost horrified.
"What?! I can't decorate without you guys! I don't even know what to do with this stuff!" Sirius gestured to the boxes while the others gave him weird looks.
"What do you mean, 'you don't know what to do with this stuff'?"
"Well, my family never decorated our house before, and I never really went to other peoples' houses and even when I did the stuff was already up." The other three exchanged looks.
"Wait… you're serious?" Sirius rolled his eyes.
"I'm going to ignore the very obvious pun there and just say, yeah. Like," Sirius fished through the box and pulled out a handful of tinsel, holding it out to the others. "what the heck is this stuff?" There was silence as the others thought about how to respond. Finally James just shook his head.
"You know what, you can figure it out Padfoot. You just… get started while we get the rest and then we'll help."
"But-!"
"Don't worry about it!"
"But I-!"
"We have faith in you!" And with that, the three left Sirius alone, still holding the handful of tinsel. He looked at it before tossing it aside.
He sighed. He might as well try to figure some of this out. He sat down cross-legged and began going through the box again. After looking through it for a few minutes, he decided to simply turn the box upside down so he could see everything at once. He looked at the pile of stuff in front of him.
Alright, I've got a big pile of that weird, silvery, string stuff. A big circular bush thing, a long shiny gold thing… Christmas lights, at least I kinda know what those are… WHAT THE HECK AM I SUPPOSE TO DO WITH ALL THIS!?!!
He growled in frustration, raking his hands through his hair. He glanced at everything again. Huh. Some of this stuff looks like it could be…A plan started forming. He knew he was doing this wrong, but right now he didn't care. If he was going to do it wrong anyway, he would do it wrong… with style!
A little while later, the other three Marauders returned to the room. Remus grunted as he put his box down. James came in behind him and Peter came last.
"Well, that was all of it."
"Right. And Peeves didn't get to any of this so we should be good."
"Right. Hey, where's Sirius?"
"You called?" Remus turned to where he had heard his friend's voice and his jaw dropped. James, who looked up just as Remus had, immediately proceeded to fall over the box he had just put down on the floor. Peter meanwhile simply dropped his box, the contents spilling over as he opened and closed his mouth. Sirius had slid down the railing of the stairs from their dorm and was now skipping towards them.
"You like my decorating?" Sirius was now standing before them in a corny model pose. He had a tinsel covering the top of his head like a silvery wig with his natural black hair showing like highlights and a Santa hat on top. He had two red ornaments hanging from his ears like earrings and a gold garland wrapped around his neck like an old fashioned boa. There were red, green, and blue Christmas lights wrapped around both arms from him wrists to his shoulders and had been charmed to blink like they would if they were plugged in. Around his waist was a large wreath like a belt and bells tied onto his shoes.
Sirius grinned even wider as he looked at his friends. James was still on the ground, Remus looked like his eyes were about to pop out of his head, Peter kept blinking, like he was trying to wake up from a dream, and all three were opening and closing their mouths like a bunch of fish.
"You… you know that's not… how they're suppose to go… right?"
"Oh Really…" Sirius smiled and skipped up to Remus. He picked up a silver garland off the floor and drapped it around Remus' neck, much like his own.
"Could've fooled me." He gave Remus a wink before turning to the other two.
"Come now, where's your Christmas spirit?" At that moment, they finally seemed to snap out of it and began laughing. Within moments, it turned into an all out battle, the four friends battling to decorate each other with the piles of decorations. They were chucking tinsel and throwing the wreaths at each other like a ring toss and tying each other up with garland. There was much laughter and soon they were all on a heap on the floor surrounded by Christmas supplies, hardly able to breath.
That night, the Marauders went to bed. James, Remus, and Peter smiled as Sirius refused to take the tinsel out of his hair, stating that he "liked it that way". They all thought they were going to teach him about Christmas, but really he had taught them. Who cares if the decorations were used properly or not? At some point, they would teach Sirius how to decorate the traditional way, how the decorations were really suppose to be used. But for now, it didn't matter. This was the Marauder way now.
Regardless, there was still a new item on a certain list on the wall…
15.) WEARING the Christmas decorations (even if they do look better that way).
Well, there you have it! Please let me know what you think! HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!