Friday evening, James had returned, much to the disgust of Lily.

"I actually wish he'd just stay there," said Lily to Emma at dinner that night. Then she stuck a piece of her steak in her mouth before glaring at him and turning to where he was out of her view. She couldn't even stand starring at him, much less talking about him.

"Hey Lils!" shouted James at her. She just ignored him.

"Hi James," said Kayla, turning around from the Ravenclaw table to grin at him. He grinned back then started on his food. The other three marauders gave him a grin also, and again he asked, "What? What's so funny? Did I miss a joke or something?"

Even Lily knew what was going on and rolled her eyes as he asked this stupid question. Almost everyone knew Kayla fancied James, and it was pretty obvious too. Sirius poked his mashed potatoes, wanting to go outside badly and play some quidditch.

"So Sirius, where's 'Emma'?" said James, grinning again.

"She's history. It's Katie now," he said, nodding toward the raven haired seventh year, who blushed and looked away. Amada saw this and glared at Katie.

"What?!? After going through hearing, Emma is so gorgeous, I love her..."

"Actually mate, that was you talking about Lily I'm afraid," said Remus, looking up from a book he was reading.

"Oh," he said in a casual voice. "Well, never mind then."

Conversations continued in the hall and when desert came around, everyone waited eagerly as the meal plates were replaced with.......A very, very nasty green substance......

"Ew!!!!!" shrieked almost all the girls.

"Gross!" replied everyone else.

"Awesome," said the marauders.

Lily glanced over and guessed that, sure enough, they were behind the gruesome desert. Great, now no desert!!!!

Groaning, the houses marched up to their common room, some staying behind to actually try the substance, and it actually turned out to taste exactly like chocolate cake. Pleased, the marauders woofed down as much as they could, then headed for the common room themselves.

"I wonder why we didn't have a decent desert tonight?" asked Emma upon the marauders arrival.

"Maybe because," answered Lily, coming directly in front of James, "some boneheads couldn't resist turning it into some gross boogie like substance."

"I thought it was good," said Sirius.

"Tasted like cake to me," said James. "Chocolate to be exact."

"Remus Lupin! You, you're supposed to -" Lily was simply outraged.

"Alright. You know that wasn't right and not to do it again just because you wanted all the desert to yourselves, right?" said Remus in an offhand voice. After receiving a death stare from Lily, Remus added, "Right?"

"Right," chorused the other three in unison.

"Good, now let's go take a walk or something."

The three marauders left Emma and Lily and went out onto the grounds. Peter gazed up at the moon and asked Remus, "When's the next full moon?"

"I'm not sure," replied Remus. "Why?"

"Just wondering," answered Peter.

"So...What to do next?" asked James. He blinked and looked around at his friends.

"Don't know," said Sirius. "I'm out of ideas."

"We can always do something to Snivelly," said James, stooping down and picking up a stone. Then he tossed it up and down, practicing his catching skills for quidditch.

"Of course," said Sirius. "At least until we come up with another great scheme."

They continued to talk like this for about an hour, then went back inside and James, Peter, and Sirius went up to the common room. Remus had prefect duties.

"He always has duties anymore," mentioned Sirius as him and Peter were playing exploding snap.

"I know, isn't it a bit odd?" replied James, turning away from the fire.

"It's not like we don't have millions of prefects running around," Sirius stated as he stifled a yawn.

"I'll mention it to the head girl tomorrow," said Lily, entering from her dorm.

"Good, because if he doesn't get head boy for the work he's done, I'll shot myself," said Sirius.