A/N: Well, I haven't updated in a while, sorry! I've been really, really busy – organising both my sister and friend's birthdays, homework, rewriting one of my oneshots, writing insane scripts, eating, creating blogs, trying to start a Save The Chickens fund, etcetera. SAVE THE POOR, GENETICALLY MODIFIED CHICKENS! Uh… ahem.

Disclaimer: The day Remus gets over his chocolate obsession and James gets over his Lily obsession is the day I become JKR.

"Happy Easter!" called James, his mouth full of chocolate. Bright, shiny, empty wrappers were littered around him on the table, and there were many more wrappers filled with chocolate eggs, too.

"How much chocolate do you have?" asked Lily, rubbing her eyes in case she was still part asleep.

"Sometimes it rocks to have an unnecessarily large extended family." said James, shrugging amidst his pile of about a hundred eggs.

"Is that all you're eating for breakfast?" asked Remus from over at his plate of bacon and eggs, looking sadly at the amount of chocolate he wasn't able to eat himself.

"Yep." said James.

"That's disgusting!" said Kim, shaking her head and sitting down at the Gryffindor table.

"Hey, I'd do the same thing," said Sirius. "I just don't have enough chocolate."

"You have heaps!" said Lily, pointing at his pile of thirty-something Easter eggs.

"What, them?" asked Sirius. "That's just from Prongs' Mum! Moony and Wormtail have the same."

"I already ate all mine," added Remus, sighing.

Lily shook her head with amusement. She sat down next to James (with difficulty, thanks to the masses of chocolate) and helped herself to some breakfast.

"I don't get it." said Kim. She took a mouthful of toast, swallowed, and went on; "How is it they can eat so much chocolate, but-"

"Not weigh three-thousand pounds?" Lily finished the sentence for her. "Must be all the Quidditch. I don't know how they manage it all, the food, the Quidditch, the detentions, the homework…"

"We just don't do the homework." said Remus, having apparently been eavesdropping. "Still, I think we're gunna have to do some these holidays."

"I don't think it can be classified as a holiday." grumbled Kim.

"Too right." Lily agreed. She obviously didn't enjoy doing homework, but she was beginning to see why the teachers gave them so much of it. It was only the fact that the NEWTs look far closer from this side of the end of term. A couple of months – it wasn't enough time! They still had so much more to do, which meant more homework to do, which meant more to learn, which meant yet more homework. It was a never-ending, exhausting cycle.

"What're we going to do today?" asked Peter.

"Look for Easter bunnies for Moony to eat next month!" sniggered Sirius. Remus kicked him in the shin, causing him to howl in pain and drop to the floor.

"You OK, mate?" asked James thickly, looking underneath the table.

"Ow. Not really." said Sirius, heaving himself back onto his chair and glaring at Remus, who was chuckling silently.

"We could go try and touch the trunk of the Whomping Willow." suggested Kim. "That's something no-one's done in a long time."

"That's because Davey Gudgeon nearly lost an eye, remember?" asked Remus. "We'll get into loads of trouble, and my arm's still sore since my last detention."

"I saw enough of the Whomping Willow over Christmas to last me a lifetime." added Lily darkly. James looked sheepish.

Just then, an owl burdened with yet another colourful package swooped down next to them.

"Finally!" said Kim. "Dad said he'd send me some Eggs." She put the moderately-sized packet of chocolate in her bag. Remus' eyes followed it longingly.

"We could go to try and entice the Giant Squid out of the lake again." said Peter.

"Mmkay." said James. "Hopefully we can actually see him this time."

"Or her." said Lily. Sirius snorted.

"Do Giant Squids even have genders?"

And so it was that the party of six made their way down to the beech tree by the lake, carrying books (maybe they could get some of the easier homework done) and, for some reason known only to the Marauders, a bag full of cranberries. Lily decided she didn't really want to know the reason for the cranberries, but doubtless she'd find out.

"Here, Squiddy, Squiddy, Squiddy!" Sirius sang, calling out on the water's edge. Lily and Kim exchanged glances.

"What is your fascination with the Giant Squid?" asked Lily.

"It's just so cool!" said James, flopping down underneath the shade of the tree, and watching Sirius with amusement as he attempted to conjure up a fish for 'bait' ("I don't think squids eat fish," said Remus) and had a bird of some sort swoop down and pick it from his fingers. Cursing, Sirius mended the small cut the bird had made with it's beak and returned to everyone else.

"I give up." He said, sighing in a defeated manner.

"You suck." said Kim. Sirius opened his mouth to speak, and Kim shot him a warning glance. Sirius began to laugh, but Kim kicked him in the shin Remus hadn't bruised earlier.

"Ow! Why do people keep kicking me in the shin?"

"Because you're being an ass." explained Remus.

"Oh, right." Sirius shrugged and stuffed a handful of the cranberries into his mouth.

"What's with the cranberries?" asked Lily.

"They make us go high." shrugged Peter.

"Cranberries?"

"Yeah, well we're not allowed to have anymore alcohol 'till past July!"

"I s'pose."

James took Which Broomstick? Out of his bag and began to read it. Lily shook her head, James had a perfectly good broom, why would he want another one? Sirius took a random ball out of his pocket, and amused himself by throwing it above his head and catching it, over and over again. Peter retrieved some homework, and Lily followed his example. Remus began to doodle on a piece of parchment he found in his pocket. Kim took to talking with anyone who would listen.

"Which year was Grindelwald defeated?" asked Peter.

"1945." said Kim immediately.

"How'd you know that?" asked Sirius.

"It's on the back of this Chocolate Frog card." said Kim, holding out the card to show him.

"You have chocolate?" asked Remus, sitting straight up.

"Hey, wasn't 1945 the year World War II ended?" giggled Lily. "Was Grindelwald Hitler?"

"Hitler?" asked James Lily felt like saying 'Duuuuh!' Sure, James was a pureblood, but to not know about Hitler?

"You know, Adolf Hitler? The-"

"All that chocolate! Alone! Upstairs!" Remus mourned. "Someone will steal it!"

"Moony, Moony, Moony." Sirius shook his head. "Are you going to ever get over this chocolate obsession?"

"Let's put it this way." said Remus. "When you and Prongs get over your obsessions with Lily and Kim, then I'll quit obsessing with chocolate."

Four faces flushed bright pink. Remus smirked.

"Yeah, well it's not like you don't have an obsession with anyone!" said Peter. Remus' eyes looked momentarily sad.

"No, I don't." he said shortly yet mournfully, pushing some hair out of his eyes. No one said anything for awhile. Lily's mind was processing it. That look was the one Remus only wore when he was thinking bad things about himself being a werewolf. But what did that have to do with, well, anything?

"Oooh, awkward pause." said James, grinning. "Don't be so idiotic, Moony. Or, at least, try not to." Remus laughed and the tension was broken. Lily felt a flash of warm love towards the Head Boy.

Lily gave up on the homework, and watched with amusement as Sirius tried to steal Kim's chocolate without her noticing. Kim did notice, and slapped his hand away. James chuckled.

"You two look like an old married couple!" he teased.

"Please, have you ever seen you and Lily?" asked Kim.

"What is this, tease people about their current relationship day?" Sirius raised his arms in exasperation.

"We can tease you about your past relationships, if you like." said Peter.

"Um, I'd prefer not." muttered Sirius. Kim looked suspicious. Remus stood up.

"Where're you going?" asked Lily.

"Bathroom." said Remus quickly. He took off towards the castle. Someone needs to go! Thought Lily, stifling a laugh behind her hand.

However, half-an-hour later, Remus had still not returned.

"Where is he?" asked Lily.

"You don't think he ran into trouble with Slytherins or anything?" asked Peter.

"Maybe he got lost on the way to the toilets." joked Sirius.

"I don't think it's good, whatever it is." said James.

"He might've been murdered by Pringle." said Kim. Lily shuddered, not wanting to think of the ways Pringle would be able to murder a student.

"Maybe we should go check if he's OK." said James, jumping to his feet. Lily followed, grabbing her bag, and they strode up to the castle. Kim, Sirius and Peter were a few paces behind them.

They stepped into the Entrance Hall, and couldn't see him there. Sirius ran to check in the boys toilets, and announced that he wasn't there. Worried, the group decided to check the Common Room. The boys split up to search the large room, but Lily decided to ask someone.

"Hey, Alice!" Lily called to Alice, who was passing by with. "You haven't seen Remus, have you?"

"Um, yeah, he was here about twenty minutes ago." said Alice.

"I think I saw him go up the boys staircase." Tara piped up from behind Alice.

"OK, thanks." said Lily.

"Check your dormitory!" Kim called to James, Sirius and Peter. James shrugged and ran up the staircase. Lily and Kim joined Sirius and Peter, waiting. And then James' yell floated down the stairs.

"Moony! What the hell are you doing?"

Lily, Sirius, Peter and Kim all exchanged glances, and then they were running up the stairs, fighting to get to the dormitory first.

"What's he doing?" asked Peter.

"Maybe he's got a girl up there." sniggered Sirius.

"Do we really want to find out?" asked Lily, wondering if what they were going to find up there was appropriate for human eyes to see.

"Hey! That's mine!" came James' voice.

They finally reached the seventh years' dormitory, and saw Remus and James each pulling one end of a large… thing.

"Give – it – here!" James ordered, panting with the effort of attempting to .

"OK, OK. Fine. " Remus laughed , letting go of the egg. James hugged the colourful, circular chocolate to his chest.

"What the bloody hell is going on here?" asked Sirius from over Lily's shoulder.

"I thought you ate all your chocolate!" said Peter to Remus, gesturing at the massive pile of eggs sitting on what Lily guessed must have been Remus' bed.

"He did!" exclaimed James, half-amused, half-angry. "He stole all ours!"

"That's low, Moony." said Sirius, snorting.

"Really low." said Kim.

"Hey, that's my singing egg!" said Peter, pointing at a gold egg that had printed in curly font on the wrapper; IT SINGS WITH EVERY BITE!

"You shouldn't have told me that you'd left your chocolate upstairs! I couldn't help it! It was so easy!"

"Well," said Lily. "Of all of you, I thought Remus was the one with self control."

"He only looses control under two conditions," said Sirius.

"One – that chocolate is involved." James put in.

"And two – that it's full moon." said Sirius.

"If only you had a third shin to kick." said Remus, shaking his head and stepping on Sirius' foot instead.

A/N: Ooookay, this chapter basically had all sorts of random things I'm personally obsessed with in it, including Grindelwald being Hitler, Remus being in love with chocolate, cranberries and the Giant Squid. Oh, and Sirius getting kicked in the shins. :D But you have to admit, Remus does come across as being a little obsessed with chocolate. Like – "Have some chocolate, Harry, and all your worries will disappear!" But, yeah, it's not like that's a bad thing!