"Ooh, James! There goes your girlfriend!" Remus chortled, pointing to Lily, who was walking down the hall. James felt a pang of anger but his face had begun to colour. "Cut it out!"James hissed trying to keep his face from view of his friends. Sirius was behind him trying to stifle his laugh. They were under James' invisibility cloak headed outside to practice for end of term exams.
They heaved the huge doors open and went out to the edge of the Forbidden forest. James pulled off the cloak and set it down at the trunk of a tree.
"Right," he said pulling out his wand, "what are we going to do first?"
"Er…" said Remus pulling out his own wand and wiped it on his robes.
" I know!" Sirius said and cast a mischeivious glance at Peter who hadn't said anything through the trip down to the forest. "Why don't we practice our Stunning Spells!"
"On what?" Peter asked shaking like a leaf on a tree. He knew what was coming but why? Why-? "Oh no oh come on you guys! Why am I always the lab rat?"
"Interesting question," Remus said in mock contemplation, "why ever could that be?" he winked at James who was standing behind Peter his hands bent like claws making a face.
Peter turned around to James and he immediately snapped his hands to his side and started whistling innocently.
"C'mere Rat-boy!" Sirius said wand at ready, advancing on Peter.
"I still don't understand w-?"
"Stupefy!" all three of them yelled and Peter fell backwards but James who was still behind him stopped his fall. He caught Peter and eased him to the ground.
When Peter awoke James was bent over him and Sirius who was still laughing but was on his knees at Peter's side.
"Wha?" Peter stuttered struggling to sit up. "what happened?"
"We Stunned you" Sirius managed to say " and I must say you took it rather well."
Now it was James' turn to laugh. He sank to his knees his hand's over his face laughing like a maniac.
"Wait," Remus said suddenly, "what was that?"
Just then a deer walked out of the brush grazing on the grass. It looked up once at them and ran back in the brush.
"Hey," Remus said laughing "James was that one of your deer friends?"
James threw a look of utmost distaste at Remus "I'm a stag not a deer"
"Could've fooled me," Sirius said unable to hold in another laughing fit. When he stopped he was close to tears.
They practiced various spells, charms and curses for about three hours then pulled the Cloak back over themselves and started back to the castle.