Chapter 10: Complicated

Soon, Easter was fast approaching and only in one week's time. The first years were looking forward to a break from the extra homework they were getting from the teachers. The exams were in June, and the teachers were piling on more work.

James, Sirius and Peter were noticing something very odd though. Sometimes when they'd wake up Remus wouldn't be there, and they wouldn't see him till the next day at dinner. Every time this occurrence happened they'd ask Remus what was up.

"My mother, she's, er, ill again. It seems to be more serious. She wants to see me, so Dumbledore lets me go." Then that would be the end of the discussion. But that wasn't the top of their worries.

On the Easter Holiday weekend, the four boys were going on search for the kitchens.

"This weekend we're on the search for the kitchens!" announced Sirius.

"Are we going to listen to the advice Dumbledore gave us?" asked Peter.

"Er, you mean the 'fruit likes to be tickled' part?" suggested Sirius.

Peter nodded.

"I don't see how that's helpful," said James.

"Yeah, I know. I've never met fruit that likes to be tickled," said Sirius thoughtfully.

Remus rolled his eyes. "Are you kidding? Fruit love to be tickled!" said Remus sarcastically while reading a book.

"Stop fooling around Remus, you're being silly! Are you?" asked Sirius staring intently at Remus.

"I'm not going to answer that," said Remus.

"Yeah, I wouldn't either . . . people will think your were weird eating demon fruit!" Sirius got up from his bed and went out the dormitory door.

Frank looked up from his homework he was doing on the floor. "Does he do that stupidity on purpose?" he asked with a hint of worry in his voice.

James laughed. "Unfortunately . . . no."

Easter Weekend

Boys Dormitory

5:30 am

Sirius tiptoed over to James' bed, and stopped in front of James' head. He put his mouth to James' ear and yelled as loud as he could, "JAMES!" James shot up; when he saw Sirius he grabbed him by the collar and pulled him on his bed. James made a move and he was now sitting on Sirius.

At the sudden outburst in the quiet dormitory, it woke Remus and Peter, watching the two boys. Sirius sat up causing James to fall on the ground. Sirius grabbed James and put him in a head-lock.

"Operation: Find Kitchens, has started!" Sirius said to the two boys, and the struggling James. Sirius nodded to the Invisibility cloak that he pulled out of James' trunk that was on the ground. Sirius let go of James, who was rubbing his neck.

Remus who was sitting up fell back onto his pillow. "Sirius, its 5:30 in the morning go back to sleep," said Remus like a mother scolding his child to go back to bed.

"I don't want to! We have to get an early start! I'm hungry and I can't wait till breakfast!" whined Sirius.

"Your hungry?" asked James outraged. "You gave me a head-lock, because you were hungry? Can't we just wait for our little operation to take place, after breakfast?"

"No, we can't! See, if we don't do this soon, then we'll be an embarrassment!"

"Too who will we be and embarrassment to, your parents? Sorry Sirius, but you're already and embarrassment to them," Said James getting up to go back to his bed.

"We'll be an embarrassment to ourselves!" said Sirius like he was pointing out the obvious.

"At five o'clock in the morning? No thank you," James went to his bed and lay there.

"I had a feeling this would happen." Sirius picked a bucket he had at the foot of his bed, and poured it on James who screamed, then Remus who also screamed, and to Peter who jumped out of bed.

"Alright, we'll get ready," said Remus defeated.

The three tired boys got dressed, and were all cramped under the invisibility cloak. "Okay, move slowly and – Ow! Peter that was my foot," yelped James.

James, Sirius, Remus and Peter spent two hours looking for the kitchens.

"Alright, this is enough, I'm going to Breakfast," announced James, just after they searched the Dungeons.

"Me too," said Remus and Peter.

"Fine," Sirius followed the three boys out of the Dungeons into the Great Hall. Laughter was filled with joy of the Easter Holidays. This meant the students had more time to do their homework, which they needed.

Sirius, James, Remus and Peter all went to sit next to Lily, Britney, Tess, Daisy and Alice.

"Hey," mumbled James, he was too tired to do anything else. He wanted to just go to sleep.

The girls looked at the four boys who were half asleep.

"Are you tired?" asked Alice smiling.

"Could you have guessed? Mr. We'll-be-an-embarrassment had to wake us up at 5:30," grumpily said James.

"'We'll be an embarrassment'?" asked Britney, who was looking suspiciously at James and Sirius. "You two are already embarrassments."

"Oh thanks Brit, thank you for telling us something we didn't know," James sarcastically said, and he went back to his eggs.

After breakfast, the four boys went to go on the search for the kitchens when Sirius stopped.

"What now, oh 'smart one'?" asked James, who was tired of Sirius having these ideas.

"Wouldn't it be cool if there was a Hogwarts map, of every secret passage, every secret and where everyone was," asked Sirius thoughtfully. James stopped walking and went back to where Sirius was standing.

"Yeah, that would be cool," said James looking at Sirius. "What do you mean by that?" asked James. He was hoping Sirius would catch on to his clever idea.

Sirius looked at James. "Hey!" James and Remus rolled their eyes. "We could make a map!"

James sarcastically gasped. "You're a genius!"

"I know, aren't I? Sirius had the biggest smile on his face. "But, we don't know any secret passages, or any of the other stuff I just said."

"We can look for passages," said Peter.

"I'm brilliant!" Sirius shouted and he bounded up the stairs.

Remus shook his head, and the other three followed their friend up the stairs.

When they entered the boy's dormitory they found Sirius throwing stuff out of his trunk to a pile on the other side of him.

"What are you doing?" asked James.

"I'm looking for parchment, so we can write ideas for the map," said Sirius from inside the trunk.

"Ok," said Remus quietly. A few seconds later Sirius came up for air (his head was no longer lost in the trunk).

"Ok, we need to find the Kitchens, number one on the list. Er, we need to find many other passages," said Sirius.

"You said earlier, what if we knew where everyone was at?" asked James looking down at Sirius' messy writing.

"Oh yeah!" exclaimed Sirius, and he wrote it down.

"Er, how are we going to do this?" asked Peter apprehensively.

"You know I never thought of that . . . LIBRARY!" Sirius jumped up fast and was out the dormitory, the boys followed. Sirius ran as fast as he could to the library with James, Remus and Peter on his heals. After loudly entering the library, Sirius stopped in front or the rows of book shelves.

"What type of book are we looking for?" asked Sirius. "There's too many," he started down one row.

"First off Sirius, if we're looking for what you want, it wouldn't be in the 'Magical Creatures' section," said Remus leading his friend out of that section and into the 'Charms' section.

"Charms?" asked Peter, looking at all the book. Sirius grabbed a book from the shelf, and flipped through the pages like it was the first time he saw a book.

"Yes, it's all charms to be able to track people, and to keep the memory into the map," said Remus looking at all the books also.

"So, what are we looking for?" asked James. The boys stared dumbly at the books. When Britney came over and started looking at the books to.

"Wow a book, who would have thought anyone would see one in a library?" she giggled. Sirius looked at her and he picked her up and walked away. He came back a few minutes later.

"Ok," said Sirius rubbing his hands together. "Let's look at books!" he grabbed a handful of books and brought them to a table.

The boys spent the whole day looking through books for ideas for 'their' map.

Britney was watching them for most of the day. The girls all sat at a few tables away from the boys doing they're homework (except Britney).

"Something's up with them," Britney said thoughtfully.

"Mind your own business," mumbled Tess who was looking through her Transfiguration text book.

The girls all looked at Tess.

"Sorry?" asked Alice with raised eyebrows.

Tess looked at them, trying to look confused, "What? I don't think you should be worried about them, that's all," quietly said Tess.

"No, I have to be worried, you don't know James and Sirius like I do, which might be a good thing for you," answered Britney thoughtfully. "I don't think I've ever even seen them open a book, let alone looking at like 25 at a time."

Lily found this very suspicious. She looked over at the four boys who were pouring over book after book on different Charms.

"Maybe they've changed?" asked Daisy. Britney snorted, and she started absentmindedly flicking through her History of Magic text with her brow furrowed.

"I haven't seen you do your homework all day," announced Tess looking at Britney.

"Mind your own business," smiled Britney. Tess scowled.

Michael POV

I entered the library with my friends, to do some homework before classes started in two days. I looked around for an empty table till I found my brother. In the library . . . reading a book . . . not one book . . . many books.

I looked again. Something is up. I walked over to my brother and his friends.

"What do you think you are doing?" I asked, rudely, yes, but I'm his brother, so it didn't really faze him.

"Reading," he answered and he turned his attention back to his book.

"What? Why?" I asked perplexed.

"It doesn't concern nosy brothers," James said.

"My bloody ass, what the hell are you planning?" I asked. My brother never read a book, if it didn't concern anything interesting to him. And Sirius was reading too, oh god the world is coming to an end.

"Maybe you should take Sirius to the hospital wing," I suggested.

Sirius stopped, and backed away from the book like it was contagious. "What am I doing?" he asked himself astound.

"I don't know that's why I'm asking." Sirius was strange, but cool . . . is that the right word?

"I'm reading?" he seemed to be thinking. "Maybe I'm sick? Remus could you feel my head for a temperature," Sirius asked putting his head in front of the book Remus was reading.

He put his right hand up to Sirius' forehead, and instead of checking his temperature, he slapped him on the head. I grinned. I like this kid, Remus I mean.

Sirius rubbed his forehead, and went back to his book, but not so concentrated as before.

"James, what are you doing? This can only mean bad things," I asked very confused.

"Homework," answered James briskly. Ha, why would he need that many Charms books for first year Charms?

"You're such a liar."

"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not," James seemed to be getting annoyed. I don't care.

"James," I said, this was bugging me.

"Michael," James said in the same tone I used.

Maybe I can use dad, or would I sound too . . . er, what's the word? Goody? It's worth a shot.

"I'll tell dad your planning something," I said, wow that sounded as lame, as I thought it would.

James looked at me. "No you wouldn't, you know that sounded lame," true, "and you never tattled on me before on dad," no I didn't, "I'm not going to tell you," damn, "but I don't give a damn if you tell dad or not." Wow, James is going to get himself in trouble with this attitude one day . . . or today.

I sighed. "Fine, but don't plan anything on me."

"Don't worry, suck-up."

Oh great, a new nickname. "Shut it ass wipe," I answered smiling. Oh good one. James just continued to smile.

A/N: Whoa I came very close to updating the last two chapters. I sort have a problem . . . two actually. I plan on being a year ahead of myself in writing. Now I'm almost done year 1, and I don't think I'm close to finishing year 2. My second problem is more or less and question, WHY ANNA??? DON'T THINK ABOUT IT!!!! NO!!!!! ok I'm done. wait theres more. "WHAT ABOUT OUR PLANS??? ok i think i'm done.

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