"Hey Remus, what you doing?"
"Reading."
"Oh do you want to come down to breakfast?"
"I'm waiting for the guys, they're still sleeping."
Amanda who was standing behind them smiled an evil grin.
"Really, well if I know Sirius he's not getting up anytime soon, why don't you guys head down and I'll meet you with the other guys."
Remus looked up at the smiling girl, something about that smile told him she was planning something, something that Sirius wouldn't like. He knew he didn't want to be around for that.
"Okay, I'm hungry anyway; we'll meet you down there."
Remus closed his book placing it carefully on the table before getting to his feet, he looked at the other girls, he noticed that Branwen and Alice were laughing at something; Ginny stared hard at Amanda while Lily watched him.
"Go on then if you're going!"
Amanda watched as Alice and Branwen were first to leave the room, Lily and Remus were close behind. As Ginny turned to follow Amanda grabbed her arm.
"You're coming with me, this should be fun."
Amanda pulled Ginny towards the stairs to the boy's dorms.
"Mand we can't go up there!"
"Why not it's only Sirius, I've slept in the same bed as him more times than I can remember."
Slowly they tiptoed up the stairs careful not to make a sound. Ginny put her hand forward and carefully opened the dorm door praying none of the boys were changing. To their luck the boys seemed to still be tucked up in bed.
Amanda noticed that three of the beds had their curtains closed and pointed this out to Ginny as a good sign, whispering she told Ginny what the plan was, and smiling they each chose a bed.
Ginny chose the bed to the far right and slowly drew back the curtains to reveal a soundly sleeping James. She noticed that he had some sort of broomsticks on his pyjamas.
She smiled down at him as she watched him suck his right thumb while pulling his left ear with the other hand. She wished she had a camera; this would be so good for blackmail.
Amanda was very careful as she pulled open the curtains to the bed on the far left. Behind them she found Peter fast asleep hugging an old brown bear to his chest. She noticed that the bear had a large black button for one eye and a small white button for the other. She knew it was old and it seemed to help the boy sleep. A smile swept up her face as she looked at him. He looked so sweet asleep.
Quietly she pulled the curtains back around him shaking her head at Ginny. Cautiously she made her way to the last bed. Tenderly she opened the curtains anticipating what lay behind.
She found Sirius sleeping with his bottom sticking up in the air. His tongue was hanging out of his mouth and the top of his pyjamas were done up wrong so that it didn't really cover his chest.
Smirking Amanda turned to face Ginny. Both girls smiled knowing what each was planning for the boys.
Ginny pulled herself up onto James bed and leaned towards him, while Amanda stood above Sirius' back. They looked at each other and mouthed a count down.
"3, 2, 1"
On one Ginny pulled James thumb out of his mouth and stuck it up his nose, while Amanda jumped down onto Sirius' back. The noise that followed was enough to wake Peter, who screamed rather louder than was needed.
"What the hell, Amanda get off me."
"No why should I?"
Then to Sirius' horror she started to tickle him.
"No…ha…stop it…ha…Mand…ha…James…ha…help!"
Amanda started laugh as he squirmed under her. On the other side of the room, James and Ginny were wrestling on the bed. James was winning now that he had gotten his finger out of his nose.
"James I love your top it's so cute. Where'd you get it?"
Ginny smiled up sweetly from under James. She watched as he looked down and horror covered his face. He quickly jumped off her and picked her up. He lifted her out the door and turned shutting it behind him.
Ginny turned away from the door; she could still hear Sirius screaming like a baby. She went down to the common room and sat down on the couch to wait. She waited only minutes before James joined her.
"Ginny Dunn, you wait I'll get you for that when you least expect it."
James then jumped over the back of the red sofa and landed next to Ginny where they started a thumb war. Soon Peter had joined them down in the common room. As he sat on the arm of the chair he shook his head.
"Those two are still at it up there, Amanda's winning."
The three laughed just as Ginny's stomach gave a large lurch. James looked at the girl closely, she was pretty, she held natural beauty that would cause most girls to be jealous, and he wondered what the others thought.
Peter interrupted his thoughts
"I think they're going to be ages, can we just go get breakfast, we can wait for them there."
The three climbed to their feet and raced through the portrait. They ran down the corridor and followed it to the right, then to the left. James stopped running noticing he had left the others behind.
Soon Ginny was standing next to him and moments later Peter can round the corner out of breathe. They looked around and for the first time James wondered where they were, he was about to ask when a tapestry to his left opened and Sirius' cousin stepped out.
"Hey, you're Sirius' cousin aren't you?"
Andromeda looked at the small boy, she instantly knew he was the Pettigrew son; she had met him more times than she cared to remember.
"Yes I am, why?"
Laughing Peter smiled at the girl, "Because he's being tickled to death by a girl."
Again Ginny and James laughed at the thought of what was happening.
"Oh is he, and let me guess Miss Dixon is winning."
Ginny looked up at the girl, she could she the smile in her dark eyes and she could tell this was a normal thing for her cousin.
"Yes, he's losing." James smiled, as Ginny's stomach gave another lurch, "Umm… is that the way to breakfast, through that tapestry you just came up."
Andromeda looked at the three; she guessed they wanted food the girl's stomach was practically talking.
"Yeah, go down there it'll take you to the second floor, then follow the corridor to the end and you'll find the moving staircases, go down one floor and across on the left then there's the marble staircase. Down that you'll find the Entrance Hall and the Great Hall is through the main doors."
"Thanks, I'm James by the way, this is Peter and the owner of the lurching stomach is Ginny."
Andromeda watched as the girl turned red, but she just smiled at the three of them.
"I'm Andromeda, Andi for short, this is Ted and that's Trinity. It's nice to meet you, but I have to go and get my bag, tell Sirius I'll see him later."
She smiled and walked off. Ginny thought that she was a nice girl as she followed Peter behind the tapestry, as they reached the bottom James pushed pass them and started running. Ginny followed as she grabbed Peter's hand to pull him along.
They raced down a floor, down the marble stairs, into the Entrance Hall and through the doors to the Great Hall.
"I beat you, I beat you."
James jumped up and down and pointed at the other two, from the corner of her eye she caught sight of Remus, without letting go of Peter she ran to the table, and pulling Peter down with her taking a seat.
"Look who's here guys its Peter and James."
She watched as the four smiled at them.
James sat down opposite Ginny in the seat next to Lily; she smiled at him as she turned to Ginny.
"How'd you wake them up?"
Ginny smiled, "It was easy, Amanda jumped on Sirius and I, I stuck James' finger up his nose, and then wrestled him. It was so sweet when I went up there James was suc…"
"Ginny, if you finish that sentence I will hurt you."
"Oh really James, and when you come after me will you be wearing that top with the bro…"
"GINNY!!!"
She burst out laughing as she filled her plate with food, she knew there was a twinkle in her eyes, and that James was already planning his payback.
Remus looked around at that moment as if noticing something for the first time.
"Where are Sirius, and Amanda?"
To his confusion Ginny, James and Peter burst out laughing.
Through the laughter James managed to catch his breath
"They're still in the dorm fighting; Amanda is tickling him to death at the moment."
Ginny still laughing turned to the rest of her friends.
"She woke Sirius up by jumping on him, when I left Amanda was tickling Sirius to death."
"Yeah he squealed at me not to leave and help him," added James.
"Well Amanda is still winning he can't breath up there," piped up Peter.
The rest of the group joined in the laughing as they sat and waited for they're two remaining friends to join them.