Disclaimer and Summary: see chapter 1
Chapter 5:
"What the pfffttt is going on?" James said, interrupted as a balloon flew out of his mouth.
Sirius laughed at him just as streamers of various colors sprung out of his nose. The same thing happened to Remus as he tried to take control of the situation and figure out what had happened. Peter fell over at the table (possibly from the effect of little dancing pixies in his stomach) and landed in a bowl of scrambled eggs).
The girls were simply enjoying the fun. They almost forgot that they pranked the Slytherins too. They all looked to their table and, sure enough, saw balloons, streamers, and little dancing men signing "the candy man can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good" all over the place. It was absolute chaos, and the girls were loving every minute of it. Suddenly, Dumbledore stood up, radiating great power and strength in a way that only he could, and yelled, "Quiet!"
Everyone shut up and froze; people tended to take it seriously when Dumbledore shouted.
"Now, what seems to be the problem?" he asked, as if nothing more than a slight confusion had just occurred. Everyone was still too afraid to speak, so he continued, "Well, if you ask me, it seems that someone played a sort of...prank...nothing that unusual, I'm afraid. Although, those that, normally, I'm afraid to say, are responsible for this sort of thing, seem to be part of the inflicted population," his eyes glanced at the Marauders, and smiled, and Sirius burped out a balloon in agreement.
"So," he continued, "Who is responsible for this?" now speaking more to himself than the others.
Everyone looked around at each other. The Slytherins were covered in streamers, as were the Marauders and several unlucky Gryffindors who happened to sit near them; the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were relatively unaffected, except for the few who got in the way of a streamer outburst; the only ones that were really unharmed were the five infamous Gryffindor girls, and Lucius Malfoy.
The girls tried to wipe the guilty looks off their faces, but Corinne broke out laughing when a Pixie man came up to her and began to serenade her with the "Candy Man" song. Lauren tackled her under the table to muffle her laughter, but of course it was completely useless because in the silence everyone had heard her laughter. Dumbledore looked over at them and said, "I see."
Dumbledore stood silently for several seconds; meanwhile, Pam, Lauren, Lindsay, and Alyssa began shoving random objects in Corinne's mouth in hopes that she would stop laughing.
"Black, Potter, Lupin, Russell, Borealis, Henry, Gardner, and Castineiras," Dumbledore started, before he was interrupted by a "clink" sound, as a spoon fell out of Corinne's mouth, "to my office. And please shorten your names so I don't spend an hour reciting them. Thank you," and left.
"We didn't DO anything!" Remus protested with confetti pouring out of his nose. Nonetheless, they all trudged to Dumbledore's office.
"Before we start," Dumbledore said, holding back a chuckle as Sirius burped another balloon, "how do we stop the spell?"
"You have to say CRACK!" said Lindsay.
"CRACK!" Dumbledore yelled.
"No, we were joking, we just wanted to here you say crack," Lindsay said, laughing.
"Say it again!" Alyssa said.
Dumbledore sighed deeply, and said, "You are the most likely suspects, and I don't know which of you did it, so since none of you want to confess, you will all serve detention. Mr. Black and Miss Russell, you will clean the potions room-"
"I'm not cleaning that, it's dirty!" Lauren yelled.
"Obviously..." Remus said, under his breath.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of the dirt your highness..." Sirius said sarcastically.
Dumbledore continued, "Mr. Potter and Ms. Henry, you're taking care of the Quidditch pitch, Mr. Lupin and Ms. Borealis, you're cleaning the trophy room, Ms. Gardner, you will be helping Mr. Malfoy, who also has detention, clean the dungeons, and Ms. Castineiras, you will show a new student around school."
There was silence for a minute.
"Is any part of this school not dirty?" Lauren asked.
Everyone snickered.
"Good," Dumbledore said, "Now back to the common room, and don't forget to take some lemon drops on the way out!"
"You know, I've been thinking...why don't we all team up? Separate, we are flawed, but together we can be masters of our pranking destiny!" Remus said on the way back to the dormitory.
"Their tiger-style kung fu is strong, but our dragon style is stronger!" Sirius cut in, mocking cheesy kung fu movies.
"The Shaolin masters of the east and west must unite! And find out who is number 1!" James continued.
"Guys, I'm serious!" Remus yelled.
"No, actually, I am," Sirius said.
"Forget it guys," the girls all yelled as they reached the common room, tossed their hair, and went inside.
"Has anyone ever noticed how buff and hot and tan Sirius is?" Lauren said, "Not that I care."
"Suuure," said Alyssa and Lindsay, giving each other smirks.
Corinne was jumping from bed to bed, possibly from an overload on her caffeine consumption at breakfast.
"Guys, we have Potions in five minutes," she said, but no one really answered.
"Does anyone remember why I broke up with James?" Alyssa asked.
"Which time?" Corinne asked.
"The last time."
"He told you he loved you."
FLASHBACK
"I know this is quick Alyssa, and I don't want to use the "L" word but..."
"Good, then don't."
"I think this is love."
Silence.
"...I'm sorry, which "L" word were you thinking of?" Alyssa asked.
END FLASHBACK
"Well I want him back," Alyssa stated matter-of-factly. "I think I have monogamy. I caught it from you," she said to Lindsay.
"Oh, yes, it's airborne."
"Guys, not to interrupt this whole lovey-dovey moment thing you have going on, but we have Potions in exactly 3 minutes."
"Lys, what makes you think this time will be different?" Lindsay asked her counterpart.
"I don't really know, but I just want to try it out again."
"Hey, a really evil wizard is going to sneak into our dormitory and kill us all if we don't move!" Corinne yelled.
"Hey Lys, you going to Potions?" Lauren asked.
"Nah, I'm thinking I might skip it."
A/N: Thanks to Krymsan-Dragyness, freakin-person, and atomic muffin for reviewing! You make us all feel warm and fuzzy inside! LoL
The line, "I think I have monogamy, I caught it from you."
"Oh, yes, it's airborne." – is from Sex and the City, not us, so don't sue.
Teaser of next chappie:
"Do you REALLY want me to say it? Cause I know everything. So don't pull shit on me for being closed off with my feelings! Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, I'm afraid of getting attached to someone and getting hurt? Maybe that's why I have my strict no-commitment rule? So both of you shut up! I'm just as stupid as you are!"