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Chapter 3- Alone Time

"How'd it go?" Lily asked James excitedly. He had just gotten back from pulling one of the most ultimate pranks on Slytherin.

"Yeah! We got so much blackmail! Sirius even had the brains to record it and Remus wrote everything down while I interrogated them!" James said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Well? What did you guys find out?!" Lily asked. She was dying to know something about Lucius. Especially since he stood James up when he asked him to meet him a couple nights ago. And they were almost caught out of bed after hours!

"I'm sorry Lily, I can't tell you. Not yet anyways." James said as he stroked her hair and gave her forehead a soft kiss. There hadn't been anything he couldn't tell her before. There was that one time.

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"Lily, I can't tell! It's- it's a guy thing!" James had to keep his voice down. He didn't want to draw attention to himself, a shy fourth year prankster. At the moment his best friend Lily Evans was being too caring and wanted to know what he had been doing all night and why he didn't come study with her for Transfiguration, like he promised.

"Why not James? Why haven't you been hanging out with me anymore? All you do is hang out with them!" Lily screamed as she pointed to the two boys standing not far off. James ran a hand through his messy jet-black hair. He glanced over at his sandy haired friend who was looking quiet pale at the moment; last night had been a full moon.

"I -can't-tell-you-Lilly-Evans!" James yelled at the top of his lungs drawing an awful lot of attention that was unwanted and made him nervous yet Lily didn't seem to notice or care at all. "I would if I could but I just simply cannot tell you! I made a promise!"

A flash of auburn hair was all that could be seen as Lily Turned on her heel and headed up to her dorm room. She slammed the door and flung herself onto her bed in a heap of tears. It took just about the rest of her strength to pull her curtains closed before she cried herself to sleep.

"Awww man, I feel so bad." James said, shaking his head as he slumped his shoulders and walked back to his friends. Remus patted his back and gave him a comforting smile. From the look in his eyes James could tell he was grateful that James didn't tell but was also deeply saddened that not telling made her incredibly upset.

"You can tell her someday, just not today. Right Remus?" Sirius said soothingly. "Lily will understand James,"

James went to bed depressed and wondering what to do. He and Lily had gotten into little spats here and there before but nothing like this. She had always been so trusting and if there had ever been something that he really couldn't tell her he thought that she'd be cool with it and understand but maybe he was wrong. But then again whenever they got into their little fights he never seemed to care this much. He had never made her this upset.

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"James? James!" Lily said James had a glazed look in his eyes. Like he was off in some far away land.

"Oh huh? What, were you saying something Lils?" James asked as he came back from whatever la-la land he was on.

"Nothing.but why can't you tell me?" Lily pressed on.

"I'll tell you later. Not today, but some day soon. Okay?"

"Okay, I have to go anyways,"

"Where?"

"Detention with Sirius and Remus," She signed and turned to trudge out the door but stopped and turned back around when she felt James grab her hand.

"Stay," He pleaded along with puppy dog eyes. His ice blue eyes bored sweetly down into her emerald green ones. She never could resist that face!

"But Jamsie! I have to help Remmie and Siri out! I was late too!" Lily said as she wrapped her arms around James's neck and kissed his nose. He caught her mouth and trapped her in a kiss that she couldn't say no to.

"Let's give them some 'alone time'" James replied slyly.

"You animal! And we can have some 'alone time' of our own! Wait- do you know what I know?" Lily asked.

"Probably, but does it matter?" James said with out letting her answer and kissing her again.

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"So, where do you think Lily is?" Sirius asked Remus while he opened the door with his back to the room, for what was probably the millionth time.

"Give you three guesses," Remus replied gleefully. He took out his wand and wrote in the air 'Do your impression of McGonagall!' Sirius nodded and dramatically puffed up his chest to impress Moony.

"Oh MY! What are you kids doing in here? James? Lily? The school's perfect prefect couple too! I am shocked!" Sirius bellowed as loud and best as he could in a voice so like McGonagall you would have thought it was she. Made both Lily and James jump bout a mile in the air, hit their heads on the ceiling and realize it was only Padfoot. Lily blushed as red as hr hair and quietly gave James a kiss good bye on the cheek and went back to her dormitory.

"Padfoot, when I get my hand on you I am going to kill you!" James roared as he reached across for Sirius's neck. Remus didn't want Sirius to get hurt so he decided to see if they wanted to take a swim in the lake.

"James, knock it off he was only joking. Anyways, lets all just go for a swim in the lake!" Remus said somewhat annoyed. He was too tired to baby-sit them At least if they went swimming they could entertain themselves.

"Yeah, James especially you! You really need you 'cool' off!" Sirius said with a nudge and a wink. James didn't get it.

"What do you mean?" James asked as he walked over to get his swimming suit out form his trunk. He turned back to face his friends after he got his suit out and held his arms up questioningly. Sirius glanced down just below James's belt to show him exactly what he meant. Unfortunately every one in the room looked too.

"Oh shit!" James muttered. "Ok, uhhh what should I do?"

"Go down to the lake right now and we'll make something up for Lily Billy!" Sirius said gleefully. Boy would they have a fun time explaining this one!

"Okay, I'm going now!" James said as he dashed out the door, nearly knocking Lily over as she walked into the room to see what they should do tonight.

"Where's James going?" Lily asked.

"Oh, we decided to go to the lake and he volunteered to go and make sure no one else is there." Sirius explained coolly not letting Lily know the real reason.

"Okay, I'll go put my suit on and then meet you guys in the common room?" Lily said before walking back to the dormitory to out on her black bikini. When she came out into the common room a few minutes there was a crowd around Sirius and Remus. She hurried down the staircase to see what they were up to this time. *I can never leave them alone for two minutes can I? * When she finally pushed her way to the front she found that they had changed into their suits already- especially Sirius!

"Sirius! What are you wearing!" Lily gasped as she looked his boy over, true it was nice but he was gay and she had a boyfriend of her own. What made her eyes pop out and everyone crowd was the fact that he was wearing a bright green Speedo! And Remus was just there standing there with a smirk on his face in his green Hawaiian print swim shorts that were all the latest style in America. He seemed to be enjoying this! Remus should have at least been somewhat nervous but no!

"What Lily Billy? This old thing? You can't possibly think that this is my real suit! You have got to be kidding me!" Sirius said and with a wave of his wand his Speedo changed into black swim shorts with red hearts on them. Then with another wave four towels appeared on his arm. "Shall we?"

"Uh, Yeah sure," Lily stammered as they left the throng of people and headed for the Lake.

At the Lake James was already swimming the backstroke lazily while looking at the clouds trying to see which one looked like a dinosaur or an ice cream cone...you know what I mean! All of a sudden Sirius came running and leaped into the water right on James's head, which he could only have managed with some spell like Wingardium Leviosa! Lily looked over and saw Remus clutching his wan and watching Sirius sail through the air.

"Hey Remus! Follow my lead when I give you the signal," She whispered into his ear, hoping to create something between him and Sirius as a thank you for cleaning the dungeon with out her. "Hey guys! I don't think I want to come in! It looks too cold!"

"What are you talking about Lily?" James said as he hurried to the shore to pick her up and dump her in the water. She gave a pretend squeal as James wrapped one arm around her waste and the other around her thighs as he picked her up like a sack of potatoes. The next thing she knew cold water was rushing over her face. She looked up and saw Remus ripping off his shirt and diving head first off a rock near by, resurfacing and joining then a few moments later.

The four friends frolicked in the water for a few hours until Lily was tired out and lay out on a hill to let the sundry her off. She put on a little skirt that she got with her bathing suit and tried to doze off. Sirius cast a silencing spell on him and crept up behind Lily, cast Wingardium Leviosa to lift her up off the ground without her noticing and plot her in the water.

"Ahhhhhhh!" She screamed as she fell into the water with a huge splash. "Oh my gosh! I think I lost my bottoms!"

"Aquaoptis!" James muttered so that he could help her look and hopefully get a look himself.

"Found it!" Lily said a moment later as she had Remus help her retie the skirt that had fallen off in the water. James came up mumbling and grumbling about how he was tricked. Lily caught Remus's eye and winked at him hoping he would get the clue have Sirius go help him. "Thank you Remmie!"

"I think I'll have another go on the rock." Remus said to Sirius before he scrambled out of the water and over the boulder he had jumped off of earlier. "Kowabunga!"

Everyone laughed at their friend's enthusiasm. It was good to see him up and around considering that the full moon had passed a couple weeks ago and that he wasn't he usual sickly self. Remus spent more time underwater this time using the Aquaoptis spell to locate where Sirius was and to resurface near him.

"Gotcha!" Remus yelled as he popped out of the water and tickled Sirius side, breaking into peals of laughter himself. Sirius in turn spun around and tried to grab anything he could to get Remus back.

"Oh No! I think you pulled my pants off!" Remus yelled as he cast Aquaoptis and went down to look for them. Sirius followed suit without realizing what he might be seeing if Remus had actually lost his pants!

Authors notes: Thanks a bunch for being so supportive! Your reviews like that are what make me wanna continue the fics! Not the kind that I get from demon dude! So thanks a bunch and if u wanna know more about the pranks read The Journal by AzureLuna! Shes my pal and an excellent writer I recommend all her fics! Ok well im sorry it took so long ff.net has been having some problems and ive been lazy that's I made this one a good one and extra lnog to make it up! Have fun!