"So? What did she say mate?" Sirius asked James later that night in the common room.
James grinned. "She said yes."
"Finally" Remus said coming to sit down beside James.
James shrugged and glanced across the room at Lily. She was talking with some fifth years but as soon as she saw his gaze she quickly turned her head and blushed.
"Now all we need to do is find you a girl" Auria said to a dejected looking Peter.
"Ha, yeah right" he said staring at his shoes.
"Don't worry mate" said James in a reassuring tone of voice. "There's one out there for you."
Peter rested his hand on his chin. "I hope so."
"Remus" whispered a voice from the corner of the common room.
They all turned around to see Jade standing in the shadows motioning for Remus to follow her out of the common room
"I want to show you something" she said coming towards them.
"Well gents" he said sarcastically, slapping his hands on his knees. "Duty calls."
He got up, took a hold of Jade's hand and walked out the portrait hole, flashing his friends a grin as he went.
"Have fun" James called after him. "Now what shall we do?" he said turning back to the group. "Auria?"
Auria was looking intensely out one of the common room windows and did not seem to hear him.
"Auria?" Sirius said gently touching her arm.
"Huh?" she answered, shaking her head and turning away from the window.
"What were you-"
"I thought I saw...nevermind. Sorry what were you saying James?"
Auria took hold of Sirius hand and rested her head on Sirius shoulder. His arms seemed slightly more muscular then before. She smiled to herself.
"What should we do now?" he repeated.
"Plan for one last prank" Peter suggested, excitedly clapping his hands and leaning in towards the table between the couches.
"Good idea" Auria said.
The other three leaned in as well and began to whisper. They stayed up very late that night preparing for their final prank. When a very flushed looking Remus returned they told him the plan and then went straight to bed.
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Auria awoke late the next morning to find her blankets strewn across the floor. She was hot and sweaty and her body felt like it was glued to the mattress. After rubbing the sleep out of her eyes she sat up and looked around. Hot sunshine was pouring in through the open windows, making the room seem unusually bright. The sound of laughter and water filled her ears and looking out the window she found half the school swimming in the lake. After dressing in the shortest shorts and smallest shirt she owned she made her way downstairs to the common room.
Several students were lying sprawled out on the couches fanning themselves with extra parchment.
"A bit hot today isn't it?" Sirius said behind her.
Auria spun around to find her boyfriend and the other three Marauders slowly making their way down the stairs.
"Yeah, just a little" she replied, walking over to meet them.
Sirius gave her a small kiss and then tried to hug her, but she pushed him away.
"Too hot" she said.
Sirius smiled. "Well at least I get to see you in small clothes."
She slapped him playfully on the arm.
"What time is it?" Peter asked.
Remus looked at his watch. "11:30."
"What do you guys want to do today?" Auria asked, picking up a piece of parchment off the ground.
She began to fold it back and forth into long rectangles.
"What are you doing?" Sirius asked her.
"You'll see" she said.
Auria unravelled it and folded down the bottom to reveal a somewhat sturdy fan.
"Cool" James said.
"Muggle trick" she replied with a grin.
After each Marauder had made a fan of their own Auria enchanted them so that they would follow and fan them on their own. Eventually, after much debating, they all decided to spend the day in the castle, out of the hot sunshine. They agreed that there were too many people in the lake too swim, and too many bugs in the forest.
After a small breakfast of fruit they quickly discovered that the coolest spot in the castle was the dungeons.
"Ah" Auria said, pressing her back against the cool stone wall.
"Now can I hug you?" Sirius said putting one hand on either side of her.
"Sure" she said gazing into his deep brown eyes.
Much to her surprise Sirius bent down and kissed her instead.
"That was a strange hug" she said when they broke apart.
Sirius grinned and kissed her again, this time wrapping his arms around her.
"His arms are stronger!" Auria thought, smiling into the kiss and pulling Sirius closer.
"Guys!!!" James said exasperated. "We're going to find the slytherin common room. We'll come find you when we do."
"Ok" Sirius muttered between kisses.
James rolled his eyes and led the way down the hall.
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Auria and Sirius joined them half and hour later. They spent the next couple of hours searching for the common room but were unable to find it. They did however find a new storage closet and a secret room. Finally deciding to give up they made their way to the Great Hall for dinner. Dinner consisted of salad and ice cream, in an attempted to keep everyone cool. Auria noticed that several of the students were extremely sunburnt and thought it would be quite entertaining when they all started to peel.
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"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Lily asked.
The Maurders, Auria, Lily and Jade were on the seventh floor trying to decide whether a night time swim in the lake was a good idea. It was still terribly hot outside, despite the fact that the sun had set.
Auria walked back down the hall towards the high window. She enchanted her towel to fly so that she could see outside.
"It's pretty dark, maybe we shouldn't?"
Sirius and James looked concerned.
"I mean the water looks black, what if something happened?" she said making her way back over to Sirius.
"But it would be fun to swim in the dark" Sirius said, sounding disappointed.
"Well, how well can everyone swim?" Jade asked.
Everyone muttered very well, except Peter.
"I never really learned" he said, embarrassed.
"Look, I agree that we need a place to swim and cool off but look" Auria said dragging Sirius across to the window and enchanting his towel.
"Yeah, she's right guys, there's no moon, it's REALLY dark down there."
"But-"James protested.
"Um guys" Remus said looking up from the Marauder's map. "We'd better decide fast, Dumbledore, Filch and McGonagall are coming up the stairs."
Auria quickly enchanted Sirius's towel to fly back down and they raced back down the hall towards Remus.
"I think you just found your place to swim" said a gruffy male voice from behind them.
They looked up and lit their wands to reveal a bruised looking man on a giant tapestry grinning down at them.
"What?" Auria asked confused.
"Look!" Lily exclaimed.
Opposite the tapestry a highly polished door had appeared in the solid stone wall.