Embarrassment Is So Your Color

The Marauders were by their favorite tree near the lake. It was Sunday afternoon, and the wind was blowing. Even though it was November, it was warm enough to be outside.

"Oh great," Sirius muttered to James. "Our favorite person is coming over to see her darling Remus." James looked over to see Ashleigh making her way to them and an evil grin spread across his face. "Perfect," he said.

Sirius raised his eyebrows. "What do you have planned?" he asked his friend, knowing the look that was on James's face meant trouble. James just shook his head before he looked over at Lily. When she glanced his way, he nodded his head and she separated himself from her friends and wandered over to him. Sirius's eyebrows went higher. "Since when does Lily listen to you?"

"You'll see Padfoot," James said softly. "You'll see." Ashleigh sat down next to Remus, smiling.

"Hello James," said Lily pleasantly when she arrived. "It was a rather long night last night, wasn't it? And then we had to stay and clean up afterwards. What a pain."

"Oh yes," James agreed. "But it was worth it. After all, if we hadn't cleaned up, we would have never seen the oddest thing."

"I know," Lily nodded. "Who would have guessed that we would have seen someone sneaking a girl out of the boys' dorms?" Ashleigh choked when she heard this and looked at Remus worriedly. Remus immediately said, "Well who would be sneaking a girl out of their dorm?"

"I think you know Moony," James told him. "After all, we clearly heard your voice telling Ashleigh here that she couldn't have her wand back without a goodnight kiss."

"Wait," Sirius said. "You're telling me that Remus and Ashleigh were up in the dorms? Alone?"

"That's exactly what I'm telling you," James grinned.

"What exactly were you doing in there?" Sirius asked, turning on Remus.

"You know, that's a very good question Padfoot. Sirius and Peter were both out of the dorms, and I was downstairs, which meant that you two were very much alone in there for a very long time. So what were you doing to pass the time?" James cocked his head towards Ashleigh, who was turning a brilliant shade of red and didn't answer.

"I'm thinking about what I would be doing, and trust me, it's not very innocent," Sirius looked at the two of them.

"I'm still a virgin!" Ashleigh declared loudly.

"That's what you say, but can you really prove it?" Peter asked. James and Sirius both nodded encouragingly as Ashleigh blushed even harder.

"You know, I don't think there's really a way to prove it," Lily commented.

"Yeah, you'll just have to take my word on it," Ashleigh agreed, nodding to Lily.

"Oh, I know a way," Sirius said, standing up and grinning evilly. He reached for Ashleigh's skirt. She shrieked and jumped out her spot.

"Padfoot," Remus said warningly. "Although that is a way to find out whether she's a virgin, I am not letting you do that to my girlfriend."

"Thank you," Ashleigh said to him, holding down her skirt with both hands. She moved to the other side of Remus so that he was between her and Sirius.

Sirius held up his hands and put an innocent look on his face. "What are you thinking that I'm trying to do? There's a spell that I know that will tell these things. My aunt did it to my cousins when I was younger, that's all." James and Peter laughed at this.

"I don't want you anywhere near me with a wand!" Ashleigh said.

"Alright, let's make a deal. I'll call Bryanna over, and if she says that I can do the spell, then you let me do it and that's that. If she says that I'm not allowed, then I won't do anything and you won't have to worry about my scary little wand," Sirius grinned.

"Yeah, that'll be fine," Ashleigh nodded. Bry was her best friend; there was no way she would let Sirius do anything to her. She smiled.

"Oy! Bry!" Sirius called, and Bry looked up from beside the lake. "What?" she called back. "Come over here!" Bry stood up and wandered over to the group, raising her eyebrows at Ashleigh's look of disgust and Sirius' eager face.

"We just found out that Ashleigh and Remus here spent some quality alone time in the boys' dorms last night. They both say they didn't get into anything that I would call fun at all, but I know this spell that will prove if Ashleigh here is a virgin. Ashleigh doesn't want me to do this, but we both agreed that if you said that I could do it, then she'd let me," Sirius explained quickly.

Bryanna looked at Ashleigh for a minute before grinning. "Go ahead and do it."

"WHAT?" Ashleigh yelled at her best friend. "You know I wouldn't do anything, you're supposed to be my best friend, don't let him do this!"

Bryanna grinned wider. "Ah, but it's worth it to see your face."

Ashleigh turned on Remus. "You're my boyfriend, you know we didn't do anything, why aren't you protecting me from idiots like that!" she said, pointing at Sirius.

Remus shrugged. "You were the one who agreed that Bryanna would have the final decision, not me. As I recall, that means that you have to let Sirius do the spell."

"I'm also the one that can dump you!" Ashleigh screamed.

"But you won't," Remus flashed her a grin and sat back.

Ashleigh fumed for a minute before turning to Sirius. "Fine. Do your stupid spell."

"With pleasure," Sirius grinned, whipping out his wand and sending a spell at her that caused the air around her to turn white. "Damn, she's actually a virgin," he said.

"You mean that they were up there alone for all that time and didn't do anything?" James said. "Moony, I thought you were a better Marauder than that."

Lily smacked James. "He's a good boy, Potter. Just because you want to corrupt him like you and Sirius are corrupted, doesn't mean that he's willing to become that way. I think it's a good trait that he didn't have sex with her like you two would."

James pulled a disgusted face. "Neither Sirius nor I would have sex with Ashleigh, trust me." Sirius nodded vehemently. Ashleigh made an odd noise and stormed off. Lily just shook her head angrily and turned on her heel to return to her friends.

"You always have to ruin everything, don't you? Thanks a lot," Remus said before getting up to follow Ashleigh.

Bryanna laughed. "I love it when moments like this happen," she said as she too walked back to her spot by the lake.

"Well, that got that witch out of here for a while. I'll be surprised if she tries to go see Remus when we're around for a long time," James grinned triumphantly.