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~James~

*Bounce* "Wake up James!" *Bounce*

Incoherent mumbling from yours truly. What the hell is Sirius doing jumping on my bed. It's Saturday. Sleep in day.

"Stop mumbling James or you'll miss your date with Chelsea."

"Who's Chelsea?" I heard myself mumble.

"Didn't quite catch that James!" Sirius stopped bouncing and grinned at me.

I groaned, then sat up, taking in what was going on around me. Peter was coming out of the shower, dressed, but his hair was wet. Remus was leaning against the backboard of his bed reading, and Sirius was going through his trunk trying to find a shirt.

"Hey James, the shower is free since everyone but you has taken one." Peter said smiling at me.

"Hogsmeade today right? That's why you're waking me up?"

"Yes James, and you have a date with Chelsea Jones. She's Hufflepuff, one of Mallory's friends… honey colored hair, blue eyes…" Remus said, jarring my memory.

Flashback

Lily and Michael had just come back from talking, and Sirius was getting a little too friendly with Mallory.

"James, could I ask you something?" a sweet sounding voice came from behind me.

I turned around and there was a pretty girl standing there, looking quite calm.

"Sure." I ran my hand through my hair. She smiled a pretty smile.

"Wanna go to Hogsmeade with me tomorrow?"

"Alright." I grinned at her, and she sat down next to me. The next thing I knew, her mouth was all over my neck and someone, most likely Evans, shouted at us to get a room. She looked embarrassed and ran off. Not without a kiss good bye and a "I'll see you tomorrow at ten."

End Flashback

"I remember now. Ok, Hogsmeade with her. Meet her at ten. What time is it?"

"It's nine, you have plenty of time." Remus said, getting up. "I'm going to go and down to breakfast with Lily and Kari, I'll see you down there."

"Bye Remus." Peter called after him and Sirius said, in an almost sing song voice, "Bye Remmy!"

I got up and went to take my shower, which only usually takes me ten minutes.

Ten minutes later…

"Have you seen my jeans?"

"Which ones?" Sirius asked, looking up from his trunk, he still hadn't found the shirt he was looking for.

"The only pair I own…"

"Are these them?" Peter held up a pair of jeans.

"Yup, thanks Pete." I slipped them on over my boxers.

"Sure thing."

I finished dressing, pulling on a dark red shirt, threw Sirius the blue one he was looking for, and the three of us headed down to breakfast.

We walked past the Slytherin table, giving them glares, and sat down with Remus.

"…and the other muffin says, "Ahh! A talking muffin!"

Remus laughed a little and I looked at him and he just said, "A joke Kari was telling me."

"Another one?" Sirius asked, grabbing a piece of sausage and biting into it.

"Yes, but this one was more corny than funny." Karr grinned and looked at Evans who said, "Tell them the banana joke."

"They don't wanna hear the banana joke."

"Sure we do, tell us." Peter said, he was finally getting comfortable around girls. I have to say, most of it is my doing, with a little help from Sirius and Remus of course…

"Alright. Knock, knock." Karr looked at us, shaking her head.

There was a pause I and I was beginning to wonder if it was really a banana joke after all.

"Honestly! Lily, knock, knock."

"Who's there?"

"Why are you interrupting the joke Evans?"

"It's part of the joke Potter. It's a muggle thing, you wouldn't understand," she said, a little rudely if you ask me.

"Banana."

"Banana who?"

"Knock, knock."

"Who's there?"

"Why are you repeating yourselves?"

"Pettigrew, don't interrupt please, we're not done." Karr sighed, "Just never mind. There's no point in finishing the joke if no one except us will understand it."

"Good point. What time is it?"

"Almost ten." Remus replied, glancing at his watch.

"Well we have to go then. See you Remus." Karr waved walking towards the Ravenclaw table.

"Bye Remus." Evans got up to follow her.

"See you guys at two." Remus waved.

I spit out my pumpkin juice.

"Remus what was that?"

"What?"

"You're meeting Karr and Evans at two?"

"Yeah, my girlfriend is friends with them and so am I so we're going to meet up at two in the Three Broomsticks. Is there a problem?" he picked up a piece of bacon as if it was no big deal.

"When are you going to spend time with us? Your friends?"

"I'm only staying at the Three Broomsticks for about half an hour. We can go anywhere for the rest of the day." he shrugged.

"Hey Siri!"

"Hi Mal." he answered, not even looking up from his plate. "I'll be ready to go in a minute."

"I'll wait." she smiled and sat down. What a ditz. Couldn't she tell he wanted to talk with us?

"Have you guys seen Karina and Lily?" Sarah asked, coming up and tapping Peter on the shoulder.

"They left about five minutes ago." he said a little nervously. He still wasn't comfortable around girls.

"Alright, see you guys around, then." she waved and walked off to tell Callie.

"We should all go cause it's five till now."

"Alright Remmy poo." Sirius said in a sickening sweet voice. "Come Mal, we're leaving to Hogsmeade. See you guys at two thirty at the Three Broomsticks."

"What am I going to do while you guys are off on your dates?" Peter asked suddenly.

~Lily~

"Michael, would you stop doing that?"

"Why, its funny to see you get so worked up only to smile at me."

"Its really distracting though."

"Does it look like I care?"

"No…but you should…"

He was so annoying. Yet so cute. He wouldn't stop grabbing my hand and swinging it back and forth like we were three. I, on the other hand, was trying to take in all the Hogsmeade scenery.

"Lets go in there!" I exclaimed, seeing the word 'chocolate'.

"Honeydukes…I should have known." he laughed and kissed the top of my head. The butterflies started in my stomach. I just knew I was grinning stupidly.

We walked into the shop, and I think my jaw dropped and my mouth was opened as wide as it could get. There was every kind of candy I could have ever thought of and more.

"Wow…"

"Its great isn't it? We used to come here every year when I was little. I always loved it."

"Its amazing…look at all the chocolate!"

"Pick out some and I'll buy it for you."

"Really!" I squealed.

Michael laughed as I ran off towards the fudge. They have it all. I mean it! Every kind. Right from my favorite to…well…my other favorite. After many long arguments with myself, I chose peanut butter chocolate swirl fudge.

"Took you long enough." Michael teased, and poked my side. I jumped.

"Hey, they have all my favorites! I couldn't choose!" I said, in a mock hurt tone.

"Is there any kind you don't like?"

"Well…no…but that made it even harder!"

He just laughed and I smiled sheepishly. He paid for my fudge and we headed out. The lovely weather was still holding out, but storm clouds were gathering to the north and I pointed this out to Michael.

"Cold weather is coming then."

"I hope it won't be too cold, unless there is snow."

"Snow? Not until December, at least I hope so. That would make Quidditch hard to play."

I shook my head, "Quidditch players!"

"Hey, you know you love 'em!"

I let out an exasperated sigh, and he gave me a funny look out of the corner of his mouth. I will not laugh…no laughing… I should stop doing that cause it never works. I burst out in a fit of laughter at the look on his face. His blonde hair was falling in front of his face and his dark blue eyes were twinkling with laughter. His face was screwed up into a half laughing half hurt expression, and he looked so funny.

"Stop *laugh* looking at me *laugh* like that!" I gasped between laughs.

"What?!" he asked in a confused voice. What a liar! He knew exactly what I meant and he knew it, just by the look in his gorgeous eyes, then he did something horrible. He started tickling me, in the middle of High Street.

"Michael *laugh* STOP *laugh* I can't *laugh* BREATHE! *laugh*"

"Oh, I dunno, I think I should keep it going till we get into Zonko's. Maybe even longer."

"NO!" I screeched. I was laughing so hard, he was holding me up, but still tickling me.

We walked down High Street towards Zonko's like that. We collected quite a few funny looks, then we saw Remus and Liz.

"Michael, what are you doing to her?" Liz asked, smiling.

"Tickling her," he said simply.

"Liz, *laugh* Remus, *laugh* make him stop! *laugh*"

"Oh, I dunno, I think you're doing good on your own." Remus smiled.

"Remus!"

Michael just picked me up around the middle and carried me up to Zonko's. I had stopped laughing by the time we were there, but he still hadn't put me down.

"Please put me down!"

"Nah, I kinda like carrying you."

"You're going to get tired, then you'll have to put me down." I pointed out to him.

"Well until then, I'll keep carrying you."

"We won't fit through the doors." I said, pointing to the doors to emphasize my point.

"Yeah we will." he said walking into the Zonko's. The door expanded.

"You made your point, put me down."

"No."

"Why?"

"Because this is fun."

"No, it's annoying."

"The basis of its appeal."

"You're taking my words!"

"You're my girlfriend, I have my rights."

I stuck my tongue out at him and crossed my arms. "You're so stubborn."

"No more than you."

"ARGH!"

"That's a nice comeback."

I didn't say anything, but I did grumble. I took the time too look around the shop. The shelves were covered from bottom to tippy top of every kind of gag, joke, and prank device known to wizard and muggle kind. Frogspawn, biting teacups, dungbombs, fake wands, trick sweets, etc. I don't think they were missing anything.

"Can you put me down, please. I wanna look around."

"Well since you said please…" he put me down.

"I said please earlier!"

"Yeah, well, I wasn't tired then."

"I told you." I stuck my tongue out at him again.

He just laughed and grabbed my hand.

~Sarah~

"Come on Callie. Let's go to the Shrieking Shack. Rumors are going around that some violent ghosts moved in and I wanna see if it's true."

"Ok, sure. We have about one more hour till we go to the Three Broomsticks." she shrugged and followed me up the hill.

"Maybe…this wasn't…the best idea…I've ever…come up with…" I panted.

"You…got…that…right!" Callie gasped from behind me.

The hill was steep and long, and up ahead, I could see the dark outline of a house.

"We're…almost there."

"Good…"

Upon racing the top of the hill, I doubled over, with my hands on my knees, trying to catch my breath.

"Hey Sarah, Callie."

I looked up. It was Pettigrew. Why wasn't he with the rest of the Marauders? He seemed to guess my unanswered question on his own.

"Sirius, James, and Remus all have dates, so I've been wandering around on my own."

"Oh, same with me and Callie. We're all meeting up at two in the Three Broomsticks."

"Yeah, we're meeting up at two thirty."

"Cool." Callie said from beside me. "This place is kinda chilly." she pulled her jacket tighter around herself. We could wear muggle clothes to Hogsmeade.

"Yeah, it is. The house looks kind of, foreboding… you think?" Pettigrew asked nonchalantly.

"I think its cool. Do you really think there are ghosts, or its just a rumor?" Callie asked.

"I don't think its cool. I think its kinda scary." I shuddered.

"That's what makes it cool. I mean, its just plain creepy." Callie smiled.

"I don't think it's cool, its interesting, yeah, but cool, no." Pettigrew said a little absently. He was giving the house a look that plainly said he didn't like it.

"Yeah…well…" I left off, looking at the house.

"Well I'm gonna go. I've seen enough up here. See you guys later." Pettigrew started walking off.

"Hey Pettigrew, wanna hang out with us till their dates are over?" I called after him.

He shrugged, "Sure," and walked back to us.

After about five more minutes of Callie looking at the house, we made our way back down to the village.

"Where haven't you guys gone yet?"

"Dervish and Bange's, and the Three Broomsticks, but we're going there later so…" Callie said.

"Alright, lets go on to Dervish and Bange's then. I haven't been there either. We can go to the Three Broomsticks early. Just to sit."

"Sounds good to me." I said. We saw Sirius and his date, Mallory, she was in my House, a year above me though, going into a little place called Madame Puddifoot's. Pettigrew waved, and we walked on.

"There it is." Callie pointed out.

We walked in and a little bell tinkled.

"Welcome. I'm Mr. Bange, how can I help you?" a rather tall wizard in green robes said smiling at us.

"We're just here to look around. First time in Hogsmeade." I said, smiling back.

"Ah, well if there is anything you need, just call, and either me or Ms. Dervish will be there to help you."

"Thank you." Callie said, and went to look around.

The shop was full of Wizarding supplies, rather like a thrift shop. A little bit of everything.

"Sarah, come look at this book." Callie called from a couple of shelves over.

"What is it?" I asked, walking over. It was a book entitled, Weird Wizarding Dilemmas.

"What about it?"

"Look at this," Callie opened the book to a page.

It read:

How to grow your nose hair into ringlets.

1. Make sure all nose hairs are clipped.

2. Point your wand at your left nostril first and say, Shirak Ponus.

3. Repeat process with right nostril

4. Wait 2-3 days and you should be walking around with curly ringlets growing out your nose. The envy of all your friends.

I snorted. "What in the name of Merlin!?"

"I know, I thought you would enjoy that." Callie giggled.

"What's so funny?" a girl asked coming up from behind us.

"Oh, hi Alice. Its just this book." Callie held it up for her to read.

Alice giggled and said, "That sounds like something one of the Marauders would do."

"Yeah, it does." I giggled.

"Did I hear the Marauders mentioned? What did we do this time?" Peter came up from behind Callie.

"Oh, nothing, but this spell sounds like something one of you would do." Alice smiled. She was a Ravenclaw, same year as us. She was one of my second cousins. Her and her brothers, Fabian and Gideon. My family was really close with the Prewett's, so I knew Alice fairly well.

"Yeah, that does sound like something Sirius would do." Peter laughed, then he looked at Alice, "Aren't you Gideon and Fabian Prewett's sister? Alice right?"

"Yup, that's me. No need to ask who you are. Peter Pettigrew, one of the infamous Marauders. You know my brothers?"

"Well, they're a year above us, but they're both on the Quidditch team with James and Sirius, so, yeah, we hang out with them sometimes."

"What do they say about me?" Alice asked, suspiciously. I laughed and knew perfectly well they probably talked about all the stupid things they had done to Alice over the years with the Marauders.

"Oh, nothing really…" Peter started to say, but Alice interrupted.

"I don't believe you, they have probably been getting their more recent pranks on me from you guys. Ugh, they are so immature."

"I agree on that one!" I said, smiling.

"I knew you would Sarah, cause they have pulled some of their dumb jokes on you too. Especially over the summer. Erg, you Marauders!" Alice threw her hands up dramatically.

Peter smiled shyly. "I'm not the brains behind the operations, I just do what I'm told."

"Hey, its about time for us to meet up with everyone." Callie interrupted, looking at her watch, "Sorry, Alice."

"Its alright, I'm going to meet some of my friends too. See ya later." she waved walking out of the shop.

"Bye Alice, see you around." I called.

"Well, lets go, we don't wanna be late." Peter said, walking towards the door.

"Please come again!" Mr. Bange said pleasantly as we walked out.

"You can count on it!" Callie waved and walked out.

~Karina~

"Jason, if you want it, you should get it."

"I don't know, I mean, I could just ask my mom to get it for me, my birthday's only about a month away…" he said uncertainly.

"Whatever you want Jason, but hurry, we have to meet everyone in about fifteen minutes."

He had been debating whether to buy some new arm guards from Quality Quidditch Supplies or not for the past half hour. As soon as he decided yes, he would get in line, and change his mind. It was rather frustrating on my part, because quidditch wasn't exactly my favorite thing.

"I'm going to get them," he decided.

Finally, there was no one in line, so he didn't have time to change his mind. He bought them, and we headed out of the store.

"Lets go into Honeydukes real quick please, my chocolate supply is dwindling."

"Ok, sounds good to me."

We went in and I dropped my jaw. They had everything. But I didn't have time to look around cause we had to be in the Three Broomsticks in about five minutes and I was starving.

"I'll come back later with Lily, Sarah, Callie, and Liz, there's to much to choose from for just five minutes."

"Sure, lets go, there isn't far to go to the Three Broomsticks." he grabbed my hand and we walked down to the pub.

Walking in I caught the smell of chips. (AN: I always wanted to say chips instead of fries…)

"Look there they are." Jason pointed to a table.

We walked back to their table together and sat down. I was surprised to see Pettigrew there with Sarah and Callie.

"Hey guys." I sat down and Jason sat next to me.

"Hey Kari, Jason. How was the date?" Sarah asked smiling.

"It was great, we went everywhere. The only bad part was having to listen to Jason debate with himself about whether he should get some new arm guards or not." I giggled and looked at him. He smiled and put his arm around my waist.

"You know you had fun wandering around the store till I was done." he kissed my cheek.

"Erg, no. Quidditch isn't exactly my thing. I've only been to one match and that was the first Gryffindor one n first year. I didn't really like it." I confessed. "What is there to eat around here?"

"What? One quidditch match? You didn't like it?" Jason sputtered.

"How could you not like Quidditch?" Pettigrew exclaimed.

"Who doesn't like quidditch? Karr?" Remus asked, sitting down with Liz.

"Yeah! How can you not like quidditch?"

"Oh calm down Pettigrew, is not that big a deal, I don't particularly like it either. I only went to the one match Kari went to." Lily said, sitting down with Michael. She looked happy and I smiled at her. She smiled too and we looked at Pettigrew who was looking at us with a weird look on his face.

"I have never met someone, let alone two people who didn't like quidditch!" he exclaimed.

"Well now you have." I answered, "I'm hungry, can we get some chips?"

"Sure, and Meredith told me we should try the butterbeer too." Lily said.

"Yeah, she told me that too."

"Lil, since when didn't you like quidditch?" Michael asked, frowning.

"Since first year, and I didn't say I didn't like it, I'm just not a big fan."

"I've tried to get them to come to the matches, but they don't ever want to. They always catch up with their homework." Remus shook his head, "I'm always trying to get them to come."

"Well, it's a good time to take advantage of the quietness of the common room. We actually get our work done then." I said, sticking my tongue out at Remus, "And I'm starving, my stomach is yelling at me to feed it! Come on Lily, lets go get some food and drinks." I got up.

"Sure. Anyone want something? Hand over the money." Lily held out her hand, and people put in orders for butterbeer and chips.

We got to the bar, put in orders and stood around waiting.

"So, how was your date?" Lily asked me smiling.

"It was good till we got to the quidditch store, then it took Jason half an hour to decide if her wanted new arm guards or not. I still had a great time." I smiled, "How was yours?"

"Wonderful, we went everywhere and he bought me some fudge from Honeydukes." Lily grinned.

"Ah, chocolate, the key to your heart. I only got to walk into Honeydukes so that is our first stop after we break off with the guys alright?"

"Sure thing."

"Her you ladies go, that will be two galleons and eight sickles." the barmaid said smiling.

Lily handed over the money, we each grabbed a tray, and walked back to our table.

"Food!" Liz cried and grabbed her chips.

Everyone else grabbed their orders and we sat around talking and enjoying ourselves till two thirty. That's when Sirius, James, and their dates showed up. Before they could sit down, me, Lily, Sarah, Liz, and Callie left, waving bye to Remus and Peter. I kissed Jason and Lily kissed Michael, and we headed over to Honeydukes.

"Its wonderful in here!" exclaimed looking at all the fudge, trying to decide which on I wanted.

"I agree!" Sarah smiled, picking up a bag of sugar quills.

"This is heaven on Earth." Lily sighed, picking up some Fizzing Whizbees and putting them into the little basket we were carrying around, it had all the sweets we were going to buy.

Liz picked up some levitating sherbet balls and threw them into the basket, "I love this place."

"Love is an understatement!" Callie sighed, throwing some bags of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans in the basket.

Finally choosing about five different types of fudge, I said, "I love this place too, but we should stop putting this in. We only have a certain amount of money."

"Yeah…" Lily said a little wistfully, looking at the side of the store they hadn't even gone over to yet.

"Let's pay for this and leave. We only have an hour till dinner starts." Sarah said, glancing over her shoulder at the ice mice.

"Ok." we all said at once, sounding and looking so thoroughly depressed that when we started to pay for all of it, the owners asked us what was wrong.

"We don't want to leave. We don't know when the next visit is." Liz said sadly.

Finally leaving Honeydukes, we walked back up to the castle, discussing random things.

"See you guys later." I called to Callie, Liz, and Sarah as me and Lily headed up to the common room.

"Today was great. I'm going to like being able to go to Hogsmeade." Lily said as she went through a tapestry.

"Yeah, it'll be easier to get sweets now." I giggled.

"Yeah."

"Password?" the Fat Lady asked us smiling, she had heard us talking.

"Wayfarers."

"Thank you ladies."

I walked over the threshold into the common room and smiled. Students were milling around either playing exploding snap or just talking. Some were finishing homework while other weren't doing anything in particular. Walking across to the dorm, Gina and Denise gave me evil looks, but I ignored them, well almost, it still hurt to have someone hate you for no particular reason. Lily went into dorm and plopped onto her bed.

"What a day." she said, it was muffled into her pillow, but still legible.

"I agree." I sat on my bed, and put the bag full of candy under my pillow.

"Come on, let's go down to dinner, I'm hungry again." Lily sat up.

"Me too. Come on." I held out my arm.

She out her arm through mine and we walked down the dorm stair, waved to Remus, who was just walking into the common room with Black, Potter, and Pettigrew, and skipped down to the Great Hall. I couldn't help thinking, 'Maybe my life is pulling itself together finally.'