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Simply Sixteen – CHAPTER 4 - "Midnight Madness"
The four boys paused in their tracks. James, Sirius and Remus exchanged looks, and Pettigrew had stopped biting his nails and walking in circles. He stared at the girls.
"Come with us?" Sirius asked, in a disbelieving tone.
"That's right, were coming with, and if you don't let us, then we all can tell the teachers." Kaye said, backing up her friend.
"But... girls... you wouldn't want to..." James started.
"Yes we would want to. Do you have a problem with that?" Sasha asked. She raised her eyebrows to the boys.
"No, no problem at all." Sirius grinned.
Remus looked at his friends in disbelief that they were letting them come with. What if I let something slip about me liking Lily? I don't want to die just yet! I'm too young! There's far too many full moons left to encounter. On the other hand if I died now wouldn't have to be a werewolf any more---"
"Moony, you coming?" Sirius called to him.
Remus turned and noticed the others were evacuating the common room. He quickly ran and followed them.
"So, what do you boys have planned for this fine evening?" Kaye asked.
"Oh you know the usual." Sirius put his arm around Kaye.
"Hexing a few statues, terrorizing a few ghosts and paintings, all the normal things." Sirius grinned. Kaye shook his arm off her in disgust.
"Maybe we'll add in a midnight broom flight." James winked at his friends.
They all nodded, except for Pettigrew, who was busy giving random whimpers of fear and hiding in the shadows.
Sirius launched into a quiet speech about all the secret passageways of Hogwarts, making lots of exaggerated gestures towards various places in the hall. The girls actually looked genuinely interested.
So, since the attention was all on Sirius, James fell behind a bit and took the liberty to take out his anger on Lupin by cursing a couple paintings, hexing a couple ceiling tiles into dropping rotten fish on any passing Slytherins, and transfiguring some statues into odd positions and shapes. He just wished it were Moony getting all the curses instead of inanimate objects.
Remus lagged behind the others, and decided to take his mind off things by hexing a couple items himself. Usually he was completely against Sirius and James' methods of having fun, but he had to admit, it did feel to good to get some angst out by making a suit of armor spit Fanged Frisbees at Slytherins.
Peter was watching James and Remus in awe, and every few seconds he would emit an odd noise of some sort for no particular reason.
Every few minutes, while the girls were looking at something odd Sirius had pointed out to them, Sirius would use the Marauders Map to make sure the group was safe from discovery.
Everything was hunky-dory until Lily happened to look at James just as he was putting a charm on a statue of "Beaumont Marjoribanks, discoverer of Gillyweed," (according to the plaque on the stand) so that it would grab any passing girl and begin to dance with her in the middle of the hallway.
Her fiery green eyes flashed and she hissed, "Just what do you think you're doing?"
Everyone turned to look at James. He shrugged. "Just thought Monsieur Marjoribanks may need some dance lessons. What with the Halloween Ball coming up in a few weeks..." he explained, nonchalantly.
Sirius grinned and gave him a high five.
All three girls rolled their eyes. I don't even want to try and do anything about it, Lily thought to herself, a bit pissed off, but I guess Potter is right...there is a Halloween Ball coming up soon...
Lily's mind snapped back to reality as Pettigrew shoved his way past the girls and into the kitchens. She hadn't realized they'd walked so far already.
"Oooo...I know!" Sirius whispered, "How about a midnight snack?"
"Midnight snack sounds good." Kaye nodded.
The group turned and stood in front of a painting of fruit. Sirius reached up and tickled the pear. The girls looked at him like he was insane, until the portrait opened.
"Mr. Black Sir." Squeaked a house elf.
"Oh and Mr. Potter and Mr. Lupin." she squeaked again. "How nice of you to visit Sockie this late at night. Would you need Sockie to bring you anything?"
"Actually Sockie yes, we would like... some kind of snack..." James said, unsure of what to get for them and the girls.
"Sockie will prepare you something special." The house elf squeaked then scurried off.
Sirius started singing quietly, "Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, ring the Hogwarts bells!" He swayed dramatically, purposely crashing into Kaye and Lily.
Sasha raised an eyebrow. She didn't seem to question Sirius' out of season choice of song, but she did ask, "Does Hogwarts even have bells?"
Remus shrugged.
Sockie arrived out of breath, holding out a large tray stocked with butterbeer bottles and a variety of wizarding candy, including Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, Chocolate Frogs, and Drooble's Best Blowing Gum.
"Ah!" James grinned, "Wonderful choice of edible items, as usual." Sockie blushed, bowed, and hurried off.
"Well what are we all waiting for?" Sirius smiled. "Dig in!" Everyone suddenly found him or herself surprisingly hungry, and within the next five minutes, had asked for seconds from Sockie.
An hour and a half and more than thirty bottles of butterbeer later, Sirius' arm had found its way across Kaye's waist, and she didn't seem to be objecting. The two were sitting on the floor, in a corner, singing an animated rendition of: "When you're sitting on the john and the toilet paper's gone, be a man! Use your hand!" They seemed to be getting chummier by the minute.
Pettigrew had fallen asleep a while ago, after eating more than his fair share of candy.
James and Sasha were having a bubble gum-blowing contest. Both faces were completely covered in with the pink, sticky substance and every few seconds Sasha would drunkenly tell James, "You gotta little sumthin, right there..." and point to her entire face.
James would ask, concerned, "Really? Here?" and scrub furiously at his cheeks. I don't want to look stupid in front of Lily, he thought, hiccuping, wherever she went somewhere around here...
Sasha would counter, with, "No, you git, there," and try to scrape the gum off his entire face, resulting in James screaming, "Ow! You're pinching me!" After another drink of butterbeer the ritual would repeat itself.
The girls rarely drank more than a bottle of butterbeer each. Soon, Kaye's head was on Sirius's shoulder, and Sasha had curled up next to James. Luckily, the guys were a bit more used to being in this condition. Sirius grinned, and looked from Kaye, to Sasha, to James.
"Hey Prongsie," Sirius hiccupped.
"Oy, Padfoot, watcha want?" James asked sleepily. James barely noted the slightly puzzled expression on Sirius' face and how his head was cocked to the side; his eyes were too glazed over.
"Prongs," Sirius began, now regaining his senses. He gently placed Kaye on the floor.
James wondered vaguely, Why's Padfoot getting up? It's rather cozy here...on the floor...I thought dogs liked floors...why don't stags sleep on floors more often?
Sirius shook James awake. "Prongs," Sirius hissed, "Pull your bloody self together. You of all people should be concerned."
James looked at his friend, and decided to listen. It must be fairly important. "What's up?" he asked, rather drunkenly.
What Sirius asked next made James immediately come to his senses:
"Prongs!" Sirius looked around the kitchen, trying to keep his voice down, "Where's Moony and Lily?"
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