Hope's Children

Chapter Thirteen: Cheese, Peanut Butter, Balloons, and Pudding

Holy Crap did I just write chapter thirteen? Never thought I would ever make it this far in a story. Ever. Wow. Ok right, on with the story, I hate people who put authors notes at the beginning and now here I am, two already. Silly me, sorry, odd mood, my grandmothers down from the island and she's as crazy as they come, really. Right, go on read.

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"Remus!" Sirius galumphed himself on the shorter boy, who winced.

"Careful Siri, my ribs."

Sirius looked at him in scrutiny and declared: "We need to fatten you up." And hoisted Remus onto his shoulder. "Come on, we're going to fill you with Ms. Potter's marvelous cooking."

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"Ok, one, two, THREE!" Sirius jumped out from behind the statue on the third floor and dumped the vat of pudding on Remus's head. It never reached the top of the other boy's head; instead, it turned itself around and dumped itself on Sirius' head, as well as James, who was still crouched behind the stature.

"You really should know better than that by now." He looked down at them and smiled: "Good luck getting that out." And he walked off to find Peter.

"Stupid spell, stupid moony," Sirius muttered. "Moony," he said in a normal tone of voice. "That's a wonderful name, we'll call him Moony!"

"Moony, Moony," Sirius called after Remus's retreating back.

"Ah Sirius, he doesn't know that's his name yet."

"Oh, right. Remus! Remus!" Remus turned to look at him.

"Yes Sirius?" Remus said.

"We've…" James cleared his throat. "Um…I've got the greatest name for you."

"It better not be something stupid like wolf-boy, or something."

Sirius chuckled. "That's a good name."

"Don't you dare!"

"Fine, I won't, and it wasn't something stupid. I don't even think I'll tell you."

"Fine then," he said, disappearing into his room.

"See that's not fair," Sirius said, turning to James. "If you said that to me I would so want to know, but Remus, he just, he's got like no curiosity! What happened to curiosity kills the cat?"

"Apparently it doesn't kill the werewolf," James muttered.

"I heard that, don't let your parents hear you. I'd rather not get kicked out early," Remus shouted through the door to his room.

"My parents aren't like that, Moony. They won't care."

"That's what you think. Even the best of people'll go bad in the face of a monster," Remus said darkly.

"Oh relax Rem," Sirius called, and turned to James, saying in a much quieter voice: "Who do you think betrayed him?"

James shrugged. "I do' know, come on, let's go find Peter."

"Wait, what'd you call me?" Remus called as they turned from the door.

James opened his mouth to answer but was cut off. "We're not telling you unless you come out here, and get the pudding of us, and be cheerfuler."

"Cheerfuler is not a word," Remus said, stepping out and waving his wand to get the pudding off them.

"It is now, Moony," Sirius said, slinging an arm around the shorter boy's shoulders and leading him in the direction of the kitchen.

"Ok, do you have everything?" Sirius whispered.

"Yes, here." Remus handed him two balloons: "Hold them still," he muttered, smearing peanut butter on half of each of the balloons. "Ok, now give me a boost up," he muttered, taking the peanut butter smeared balloons from Sirius.

"What exactly are you doing Remus?"

"You'll see, now boost me up so I can put these on the ceiling."

"Um…if you say so." Sirius cupped his hands and lifted Remus up. "You're still too light, I keep telling you to eat."

"Sirius! Be Quiet!" Remus hissed, glaring down at him.

"Bossy, aren't you," Sirius muttered as Remus stuck the last of the balloons to the ceiling.

"You can let me down now."

Sirius dropped him. "Now will you please tell me what's going to happen?"

Remus sighed and pulled Sirius away from 'the crime scene'. "Eventually the peanut butter will stop holding up the balloons and they'll fall on whom ever is standing under them. It usually takes about two days, so we just have to make sure the guys are under them in about two days." He shrugged. "Simple."

"What's the cheese for?"

Remus looked at him as if he were crazy. "Its cheese, what else will we do with it? It's to eat, silly." Remus handed him two pieces of the cheese he was holding and walked off, leaving Sirius staring after him, puzzled.

A/N I know that was a weird chapter thank you very much! Um yeah, don't know if the peanut butter thing will acutely work, I doubt it, but I'm not one for pranks, next chapter you find out what happens. : smiles devilishly:. Thanks to marauding-siriusly who gave me balloons and peanut butter and cheese when I asked for prank items, thanks to her. I added one of my own and you'll find out what it is next chapter. Review on your way out please, sorry about the short chapter.

Smiles my Sweets.

Xandria Nirvana