After the Holidays, things went slowly back to normal- at least Annie was spared of James and Sirius for most of the time, and Lily wasn't forced into a halter dress that was indeed the colour of salmon, and it indeed clashed with her hair. She knew that she would have to wear it at thewedding in a few weeks, but she didn't care. She often spoke of BURNING the dress. But something happened that made her want to burn James- and not in the kinky way, if there is one.

Simply enough- James and his friends had put a Trip Jinx on an entire corridor that was supposed to go off at regular intervals- mainly, when Lily had to use that corridor to get to classes. So during these intervals, suddenly, all the people in the corridor would trip and fall.

"Did you see her face when it went off?" Sirius asked Remus, for lack of people to ask. Sirius had already asked James, Peter, April (who had and actually laughed), June (who threatened to curse him into oblivion if he didn't stop harassing her Hufflepuff friends), Filch (when he and Peter got caught, as an attempt to calm him down) and Owen (who was very confused why Sirius was cleaning out all the bedpans in the Hospital Wing when he went there for a burn he got in one of his classes).

"Yes, Padfoot, I saw it, RIGHT BEFORE I WENT CRASHING INTO THE FLOOR!" Remus said, very annoyed. Ink had gone all over his Transfiguration essay. He was REALLY annoyed.

"Calm down, Moony!" Sirius exclaimed, shocked. "It must be because of his furry little problem, Prongs," he added to James. They were around a table in the Common Room.

Annie, who was walking by, stopped. "Furry little problem? Does Remus have an ill-tempered rabbit or something?" she asked, leaning over the table.

"No, he's-" Sirius started, but he stopped since Remus just kicked him in the gonads under the table. "That's precisely what he has!" Sirius lied, a fake smile on his face and he was wincing slightly.

"Oh... Kay..." she said slowly, a little shocked by Sirius' wincing. "You okay? Peter, did you practice Cheering Charms on him again?"

"Not at all." Peter said, shaking his head.

"Great, because last time was scary. So what are you guys working on? Studying?" Annie pulled up a chair and sat down, and Sirius smirked. Cameron was looking a little disgruntled with his friends, since Annie had not gone and been his second half.

Remus scoffed. "These guys? Studying? Hark the thought of it..."

"We're working on a prank idea for old Snivelly..." Sirius muttered.

"And what's that?"

James looked at Sirius. "Padfoot, would you like to announce it?"

"Prongs m'boy, you can have this one." Sirius replied.

James smiled. "We will make Snivellus tell the truth!" Peter burst into applause, and Sirius took a bow.

Annie stared. "Okay... I'm not getting why force-feeding him Veritaserum is such a hilarious prank."

"No, we're going to cast a spell on him that will make him tell the truth whatever he's asked!" Sirius said, and he started to giggled. Annie continued to stare.

"Elaborate."

"We're going to ask him A LOT of questions- hehe- and Prongs is going to cast a Sonorus charm whenever we have a really embarrassing one, and he'll be humiliated!" Sirius finished.

Annie bit on her lip. Not that she particularly liked Snape- he was a Dark-Arts loving fool and he had injured James, but on the other hand, that was retaliation. Now that she was a little older, she knew the difference between a harmless prank and bullying. "Count me out for the co-creator credit on this one, guys," she patted Sirius on the arm and walked to her dorm room.

"That was weird." Peter remarked.

"Well, at least Macula can't snog her senseless now," Sirius muttered.

"I thought you liked Cameron, Padfoot!" James exclaimed.

Sirius looked at James. "Not when he is SNOGGING her."

"Then be glad you weren't on patrol with me last night." Remus muttered, and he got up.

"Wait, why?" Peter asked, and Remus gave him a look. "You caught them snogging in a closet, didn't you?" Remus nodded.

Sirius got up and Remus forced him back down. "You had your first snog in first year. She's in her third."

"Yeah, but she's not me!" Sirius protested, as April and Lily were walking by.

April snorted. "Heaven forbid."

The next morning, the plan went off without a hitch. "Ew, look at Snivelly." Sirius said loudly as their target walked out of the great hall. "OI! Snivellus! Did you wash your hair this morning or did you put SPAM on it?"

"I only wash my hair once a week!" Snape said loudly, and alot of people started laughing.

"Now now, don't you know proper hygeine is key to a healthy life?" Sirius asked.

"I don't care about having a healthy life because I want to do better then Potter!" Snape blurted out. He then ran out of the Great Hall, and ended up punching a wall outside. Sirius paused and looked around, wanting somebody to follow along with his plan. Most people were laughing. However, Annie looked quite miserable. "Annie!" he hissed. She turned to look at him. "Shape-change to look like one of his friends and follow him!"

Annie stared. "Are you mad?"

"C'mon, it'll be funny! He's always trying to poke about our buisness, now let's poke about his!" Sirius whispered.

"Our buisness? Snape has nothing to do with me. He's never spoken to me, and he's merely glared at me occaisonally over the years. Do it yourself, Sirius." Annie got up and walked out of the hall. Sirius got up and ran after her, because he knew something was wrong with her. He seemed to have taken a wrong turn, however, for he overheard very angry mumbling.

"Haha, Potter and Black are soooooo funny!" Snape grumbled, walking down a hall. "Jinxing a bloke so he tells the truth... ha-flippin-ha. There's something mentally wrong with all of them, and I know there's something wrong with Lupin. Why does he go off every month? And how come the Marauders-" he spat after saying that last word. "- are always injured when he comes back? They're up to something... if only I could just find out what..."

Sirius leaned against a wall, and he got an idea to make sure that would ensure that Snape would never poke his obscenely large nose into anybody else's buisness ever again. He got out a quill and a piece of parchment...

Should you ever feel the urge to find out where Remus Lupin goes to every month,
Go to the Whomping Willow tomorrow at 8 o'clock.
Freeze the tree by hitting a knot with a stick.

Sirius looked back to admire his handy-work. He made a paper-airplane out of it and threw in it Snape's direction. A few moments later, he heard a whoop-whoop of joy that freaked Sirius out to the extreme.

Sirius was so excited about his plan he completely forgot about asking Snape any more questions. He decided to tell nobody about his plans, so they could congratulate him on them later. Tomorrow came very quickly and early in the day Remus went to the Hospital Wing so he could relax a bit, since lately the transformations were taking a serious toll on him. Sirius sat at a table in the Common Room later in the evening, daydreaming.

"Sirius?" he heard a voice say. "SIRIUS!" Sirius jerked up and saw Annie looking at him. "Are you alright?" she asked. "You haven't snuck off to broom closets in the past two days. Have you decided to save whatever you have left for marriage or something?"

Sirius shook his head. "No, I'm pretty okay. What about you? You're all quiet... ish."

Annie leaned back in her chair. "I don't know. I guess I'm growing up."

"Don't grow up too fast, Anne." Sirius said quickly, then he smiled. "I'm going to miss joking around with you."

Annie smiled at Sirius. "I'll always be a kid at heart, Sirius."

"Good- I don't want an annoying worm for a little sister." Sirius replied, and Annie looked at Sirius with an odd look.

"I wouldn't want to be annoying for my big brother- he's annoying enough." Annie countered, and she smiled again.

"Touche."

Annie laughed. "I better go. I've got an essay to write. See you later, Sirius." she got up and patted Sirius' shoulder before walking off. Sirius was left to ponder how much she was changed by living with him and James, and if she was going back to herself. After about half an hour, James walked into the Common Room. "Look, Evans, I have no idea why Snivelly would run out of the castle at this time," he was saying, and sure enough, Lily was behind him, looking angry.

"Are you sure you didn't do anything, Potter?" she asked.

"I give you my word as a Marauder that I did not lay a wand, a finger, or harmed a greasy hair on Snivelly's hair recently."

"That's not really alot, but fine. Whatever." Lily said, rolling her eyes, and she went upstairs. James walked over to Sirius. "That was bizarre." he remarked.

"What is?" Sirius asked, trying to ask like he had no idea what was going on.

"According to Evans, Snape just booked it outside for some reason..." James checked his watch. "Hey, it's a little after eight, we should find Peter and head down there. But what is Snape doing outside at this time?" he went back to the original subject, really confused.

"I dun' know." Sirius lied quietly, and winced, because James always knew when he was lying.

"God damn it Padfoot, what the hell did you do?" James asked.

Sirius coughed. "Nothing."

"SIRIUS." James said loudly, banging a fist on the table.

Sirius quietly told James his plan, and he knew that he had done a very bad thing. James got up, his face pale. "Oh shit..." he whispered.

"It was so he'd stop messing around in our buisness!"

"And you told him that he'd find Moony, and now he'll find-" James lowered his voice. "He'll find a full-grown werewolf! You're not only endangering Snape's life, but Moony's secret. I gotta go."

"I'll help!" Sirius jumped up, but James shook his head. "You've helped enough" he said, before running out of the Common Room. He saw Peter, who was very confused, about halfway, but he shouted at Peter to go talk to Sirius so Sirius wouldn't drown himself in Firewhisky out of guilt. James ran onto the grounds, and ducked to avoid being knocked down by the Whomping Willow- he saw Snape's cloak just whipping around the opening. If only he could get there in time... James dived and slid across the muddy ground, and was whipped by a branch, but he kept on going.

"SNAPE! GET OUT OF THERE!" James yelled, but either Snape didn't hear or he ignored him. He reached the opening and ran inside, his head hitting the top of the tunnel. Then he heard the growl, and a howl. It seemed Remus had transformed into Moony. James ran right into Snape, who was frozen in fear. Moony turned and saw them- Snape yelled. James grabbed Snape's collar and the back of his robes and half-dragged him out of the tunnel. "Impendimenta!" James shouted, aiming the spell at Moony, who froze, and James used that precious few moments to get Snape out of the tunnel. Snape was frozen on the ground, and James looked back inside. It seemed Moony was now in his solitude, and ignoring the fact that two people were in the tunnel a few minutes before- James prayed that it was him, Sirius and Peter helping him through most of his phases that rendered him more tame.

"Lupin is a werewolf?" Snape choked out. James was still having heart palipitations and chose not to answer.

"Lupin is a werewolf!" Snape exclaimed a few minutes after. "Oh, wait until Dumbledore finds out! You'll be in trouble, big time! Harbouring a werewolf..." Snape smirked.

"There is no need, Severus. I already am aware of Remus' affliction," a voice behind them said.

Dumbledore seemed to have a thing for sneaking up on people.

Dumbledore escorted the two to his office. "It is fortunate I heard of what happened, or perhaps you two may have done something extreme."

"From who, sir?" James asked.

Dumbledore opened the door. "From the culprit," he replied. He led the boys inside and gestured they should sit in two of the three chairs that were now in front of his desk. The third chair was occupied by Sirius, who's eyes were red-rimmed as if he had either been pepper-sprayed or that he had been crying. "Now, Severus, I must ask something great from you."

Snape was still mouthing 'Lupin is a werewolf' but he looked at the Headmaster.

"Tell nobody of what you saw. Remus already suffers enough without gossip stabbing at him wherever he goes."

"But... But!" Snape spluttered. "Black tried to kill me!" he pointed at Sirius, who glared.

"It's rude to point." Sirius said in a low voice.

"So it's not rude to try and use your friend to get back at someone?" James asked loudly.

"I didn't mean for him to get injured!"

"And he did NOT!" Dumbledore shouted over them. "Sirius has already opened up about his mistake, and is accepting his punishment without dispute. What's done has, regretably, been done. I suggest you all go to your Common Rooms."

"What about Potter, sir?" Snape demanded. "Potter knew!"

Dumbledore looked at Snape, and it looked like he smiled slightly. "Sirius has already told me that James was not aware of what he had done, and that he had left the Common Room to help you the moment he found out. And I have been told this is true by witnessess, who were confused by James' erratic behavior. Now off to your Common Rooms, all of you!"

Snape left immediately, running out of the room. When Sirius got up, he walked out sadly, and he rubbed his arm. He seemed to be on the verge of tears again. "Sir-" James said, looking at Dumbledore. "What is Sirius' punishment?" he asked.

"I do not feel that I should be the one to tell you, James." Dumbledore replied. "But do not be too harsh on Sirius, though he acted irrationally. He has made up for that by telling me of what he has done. He even suggested his own punishment- but I felt expulsion was too hard on him, after he had come to me before I even heard of anything happening."

"He wanted to be expelled?" James asked, gaping.

"Go to your House, James!" Dumbledore exclaimed, though he chuckled, James took that as a queue to leave. He ran down the spiral staircase and caught up to Sirius.

"What's your punishment, Padfoot?" James asked. Sirius shook his head.

"I'm going to kill myself," he said sorrowly. "Moony is going to murder me anyways and you hate me."

James shook his head. "I don't hate you- I was a little angry, but it's fine. What's your punishment?"

"I'm banned from Hogsmeade for the rest of the year."

"That's not too bad-"

"And from the Quidditch team. And I have to write an apology to Snape. And," Sirius sighed. "I have to clean out all the dungeons on every weekend from ten a.m. until five in the evening until they're spotless. Oh, and I can't have chocolate gateau at dinner."

"You can't play Quidditch?" James asked.

"I can't go near the Pitch until next year."

"So we need another Beater..." James pondered.

Sirius shook his head. "Look, just wing it!"

"With one Beater."

Sirius shrugged. "She's pretty good, besides, do you really want to train somebody for one more game, two if we get to the finals?" Sirius asked.

James felt himself smile a little. "Not really."

"Exactly. Now let's go celebrate the fact that I'm not dead before Moony murders me tomorrow."

"You did WHAT?" Remus yelled at Sirius, in their dorm room. "I can't believe you, Sirius! I trusted you!"

"I know you did!" Sirius exclaimed. "I thought I was doing good!"

"You're such an asshole!" Remus shouted. "I might actually hate you!"

"Stop repeating things I already know!" Sirius yelled back. "If I were you I would hate me! Hell, I already hate me!"

There was a knock at the door. "WHAT!" Sirius and Remus yelled at the door. Peter and James, who were on their beds watching the argument, turned.

Annie opened the door and poked her head in. "Is everything okay in here?" she asked, looking very worried. "There's a rumor going around that you guys got attacked by a werewolf."

"That rumor's bullshit!" Sirius exclaimed, and Annie was about to leave (since she was slightly freaked out) when Sirius said, "Come in and shut the door dammit!" Annie did so, not at all comforted.

"I still can't believe you, Sirius!" Remus said, and he sat down on his bed. "Did I bite him?"

Annie was at a loss. "Who would you bite?" she asked, thinking it was something kinky. Nobody listened.

"Of course not!"

"Did I attack you guys?"

"Not at all!"

Annie got up. "HOLD. THE FUCK. UP." she exclaimed. "Sirius, sit." she said fiercely. "For the past three years I've been dealing with rumors and gossip about what's been going on with you guys! Either you guys tell me, or I'm going to leave and act like I heard absolutely nothing because this is really confusing!"

Sirius opened his mouth to say something, but then again, Remus probably didn't want her to know. After all, it was bros before hoes. "Can't tell you, sorry. Not today."

Annie threw her hands in the air. "Then keep it down, or somebody else might run up. Later, guys." she said with a sad smile, and she left.

"She is very confusing," Sirius remarked. "Her mood swings are off the chart." Then, he noticed Remus staring at him.

"You... you didn't tell her?" Remus asked after a few minutes.

"I figured you wouldn't want me to..." Sirius said slowly.

Remus looked at his friend. "You've grown up from this, Sirius Black."

Sirius looked more confused then Annie did four minutes ago when she heard about the biting.

"I'm still mad at you. Madder then a Hippogriff who just had to spend an hour with a Slytherin. Madder then Lily on many occasions when Prongs tried talking to her. Madder the-"

"I get the point, Moony." Sirius growled. "But I wouldn't expect any less from you."

James got up. "So there won't be any Padfoot-Killings tonight?"

"Not unless he does something else to piss me off." Remus replied, but he already knew he couldn't stay mad at Sirius for long. Shortly before Remus went to find Sirius to talk to him, Peter had told him what had happened, as well as Sirius' suggestion that he should be expelled. Remus knew that Sirius felt horrible, and Remus was very forgiving.

Sirius got up and opened his arms. "C'mon, Moony."

Remus was shook out of his thoughts. "What?"

"I'm going to give you a hug. According to Anne, they are good for your soul. Now come here." Sirius said, and he opened his arms wider.

"I said that I'm still mad at you- STOPPIT!" Remus said, because Sirius just tackle-hugged him and was holding onto him tightly. "THIS IS RAPE. PURE RAPE. RAAAAAAPE!" Remus exclaimed.

James nudged Peter. "They seem to be back to normal."

"Stand still and enjoy the fucking hug!" Sirius growled. There was a pause, and then Remus hugged Sirius back. Then he kicked Sirius away.

Remus grinned to James' and Peter's expressions of questioning. "Long live the fucking brotherhood, remember?"

Easter Holidays came and went- Lily did go to her sister's wedding, in the horrible halter dress that made her look horrible. Then, when she heard that James had nothing to do with Snape running around like a loon, she felt a little bad. Not bad enough to actually talk to him or anything, though. But what made everything worse, what made everything MORE horrible was the rumor that went around at the very end of school. That James had saved Snape's life from a vicious ghost that lived in the Shrieking Shack, but Lily knew from fourth-year that Remus was a werewolf, and then she realized that James must have actually gone to save Snape from a werewolf.

And that didn't help her annoying mixed feelings. But for the remaining part of the term, she kept them under control- which was saying something. But a few things happened during that time that really didn't help. For starters, she overheard James and Sirius apologizing to Snape in an empty corridor- and they didn't prank him after, they just walked away. Then, when Cameron broke up with Annie on account of her not being 'attatched enough' or some issue like that, James didn't pound the stuffing out of him. Then, when Gryffindor lost the finals for the Cup, he was mature about it, and he shook the hand of the Hufflepuff captain like a sensible person, and he still partied later for everybody doing a "job well done" as he had said.

Then, as it must have, the end of term came. Lily found herself on the train with her four best friends- as usual, they were talking and laughing. "So Remus and Lily are both STARING at me and Quincy, because I was just taking off my shirt when they burst in (thank god I wore a bra that day, or I would of flashed my sister's ex) and Quincy goes, 'Look, we can't get in more trouble they we are already in, so can you just close the cloest door and let us finish?'" June exclaimed, and the compartment was full of laughter.

"Lily, did you really let her bang in a broom closet?" April asked, who was near tears.

"Yep!" Lily said, and she laughed. "The boy had nerve and he was right- so I just slammed the door shut and Remus and I ran to the nearest bathrooms to wash out eyes out." More laughter rang out at this. "I'll be back in a bit, guys, I have to use the loo." Lily added, and her friends lamented into more laughter as Lily left at something April was telling. She walked down the hall, looking for the girl's loo, and praying that the train actually had one. The door of the compartment behind her slid open and banged shut, and James walked out, looking a little flustered, not noticing Lily until he had knocked her over.

"Oh geez, Evans, I'm sorry." James said, and he offered Lily a hand, which she actually took, and he pulled her up. They stood there awkwardly for a few moments. "Enjoying the train ride?" James asked.

Lily grinned. "Well, June just told us a story that I had a sad part in-"

"Where she was banging Quincy in a broom closet?" James asked, and they laughed. Then, for a few seconds when the laughter disapated, their eyes met. Lily bit her lip. In James' dark brown eyes, it was like they were ready to show her everything about the boy they belonged to. Lily could see in those eyes James' sweetness that lay close to his bones, and care-free nature that he used to cover it up.

For James, it was like meeting Lily all over again. He saw her kindness, her temper, her loyalty to her friends. He flushed. "I- I guess I'll see you in the su- later, L- Evans," he stuttered out.

Lily blushed as well. "I guess s-so, Jam- Potter. B-Bye!" Lily choked out, and she did the thing with James where you try to get around the other person in the hallway, but they go the same way you do, so it's a little awkward. James grabbed Lily's side and turned her around.

"Bye," James said, and he watched her walk away with a weird smily feeling in his stomach. He had completely forgot about the girl he had been snogging in the compartment that he had just come out of. He walked down the hall, whistling, and ended up doing a choreographed dance routine with innocent passers-by.

Lily sat back down in her compartment with her friends, and she was looking out the window, shocked about what had just happened. And she had completely forgot to go to the washroom. God damn it, James Potter. I'm supposed to hate you. Stop being so nice and sweet and kind and loyal, and let me hate you in peace!

Lily had sat there, thinking, for quite some time. Eventually, like it always has to, the train pulled into the station and Lily and her friends got off the train and stepped onto the platform. Lily looked around for her family, and she caught James' eye. It was almost as if she had got an answer when he smiled a little at her...

No.

AWWWW. Is it possible that Lily is realizing that she doesn't actually hate James, and that they merely got off on the wrong foot? PERHAPS. xD I'm so devishly evil!

Yes, I didn't put in anything about Kenny, and there isn't a Valentine's day mention, but seriously? Do you need to guess? I'll put some Kenny drama in later, and V-Day is always the same!

Review time! :D

chocopaisly61: I've got charm like that. xD Oh, yeah, the Voldy thing was dramatic. I wanted to make him sound queer, but we are trying to be serious here! Yeah, there's alot of unspoken things going around lately. Hoorah for BEING AT SEVENTH YEAR NOW THOUGH!

junebugbug96: That's alrightt! Hotels often have crappy internet. I loved the James and Lily thing- so I think year seven is going to be very, very fun. Also, Sirius and Annie will have alot of these sorts of fights throughout the story, and they will always make up with these little understandings. Next one is schedualed to be... Hm. Don't know yet. xD And what kind of school do you go to? At my school, a girl sometimes wears a friggin TEACUP on a headband. As to your next point, can't answer that, because it'd be a SPOILER. AND I AM UPDATINGGG! (That doesn't work as well as Evershorts "More" thing, does it?)

Also, I woke up this morning thinking my house was being broken into. Fun times. After going to sleep at one in the morning, and waking up to a friggin alarm going off, I'm not in the best of moods today. OH WELL. :D

READ AND REVIEW, LOVES!

Side note: Who actually wants Sirius and Annie to be together? I'm curious.

This is 26, signing off.

PS: I need a new catchphrase at the end of each update. Ideas?