Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters form the Harry Potter books. Thank you.

(A/N: I've been reading some other fics like Pensieve, Predictability, Together, etc. They are so deeep. I mean the characters are so real. Quite unlike mine. Hmmm.

A quote by P.G. Wodehouse sums up my view on these things, 'I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.'

Here's a poll for everyone: Do you think Lily, Larika and Katrina should become Animagus? Because, if they do, the plot changes entirely. And one more thing, do you think I should write a lot of these aimless but highly humorous chapters? It's going to be an awwwwfully LONG fic, if I write aimless stuff. Eg. The Tacky Glue chapter had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the rest of the story.

Chapter 14

A couple of days later…near the lake

Remus was immersed in a book called Vampires-more than a pain in the neck.

Sirius and James were playing Exploding Snap, Peter was watching the game, a bit bored since nothing had exploded and his friends weren't particularly interested in him right now.

BOOM!

"Oops I did it again! Ooh, baby, baby! Oops, I did it again…I played with…." Teased Sirius. "Right in your face!"

"UH! Sirius! I thought I told you to be careful!" He grated, conjuring up a mirror. "If you've singed my eyebrows or something…I swear…" he muttered to himself.

"What do you swear, Jamesipoo?" asked Sirius wiggling his eyebrows exaggeratedly.

"I swear that Larika will be desperate to kill Lily."

"Desperate to kill…but why?" asked Sirius curiously.

"Because Lily would have killed you."

Peter tuned out. Could anyone spell BORING? Yes… B-A…no, E, no wait, maybe it was spelt B-U…Burring? Hmmm. Anyways, lately all they had been talking about was "Lara that" or "Lily this" or "Kat said". It was time to get the Marauders back to marauding.

"Guys. I was thinking."

"You were what?" Sirius asked skeptically.

"Thinking."

"Really?" asked Remus, looking up.

"Uh huh and…"

"Good for you." Said James clapping him on the back heartily.

Peter rolled his eyes. "LISTEN!"

He had everyone's attention now. Everyone plus some three overly eager second years. He gave them a frosty look and they peered back into their textbooks.

"D'you guys remember,"

He glanced back at the second years. Although they were still staring at their texts, they were unnaturally still and had stopped writing.

He sighed and continued even more softly.

"Do you happen to remember the last time we played a prank?"

"Yest -last wee-no wait, the week befor-Bloody hell." Sirius looked up, astonished. "We haven't played a prank in over a month."

"Yes," added Remus nonchalantly. "We haven't."

"Why? What on earth, what in Merlin's name, what in God's name, what on…er…. George Clooney's name could have possibly put us off pranks for an entire month?" asked Sirius, everything else apparently forgotten.

"Er-George Clooney?" asked James.

"Oh, you've never heard of him!" Sirius made some exaggeratedly girlish hand movements. "Well, you have got to come to the Muggle theatre with me and see a…a…what is it called? Sirius looked over to Peter and Remus for help.

"A movie." Said Peter.

"Yeah, yeah a moovy. Yeah, mooovy, mooovy, moooovy!" he rolled the word around in his mouth. " Doesn't the word 'moovy' sound groovy? Hey, I'm a poet, didn't know it! Mooovys are groooys. Don't you guys like the word, moooooooovys?"

The three guys rolled their eyes simultaneously.

"Yeah," nodded Remus reverently. "I lay awake in my bed all night saying the word 'moooovy' again and again."

"See, at least one of you appreciates my love for the English language." He turned his nose up at James and Peter and missed Remus' reprisal of the rolling of the eyes.

"Aaaaaaaaannnnnyways, where were we?" Sirius pondered.

"Short term memory loss" mouthed Remus to James in a stage whisper.

James nodded conspiratorially and proceeded to scribble in/on his HANDY…DANDY…uh…HAND!

Sirius ignored them nobly and turned to look at Peter. "So, why haven't we done any pranks lately?"

"Uh, Larika? Lily? Katrina? Remember them?" Peter turned to Sirius, James and Remus in turn.

Both Sirius and James turned an odd shade of green; Remus had reverted to looking into his book.

James was silent apparently lost in thought. Sirius and Peter stared at him.

James grinned maliciously. "Well, I have an idea."

Even Remus was looking up now. "Spill."

"Listen up…" his smile broadened as he went onward with his explanations punctuated very frequently with 'YIPPEEEEES'.

As Peter listened attentively, he looked over to the second years once again. Their heads were tilted trying very hard to listen.

He sighed one more time, trying to regain a hold of his temper. Then he stormed right on over to them.

"Do you three have a bloody problem minding your own businesses?"

One of them looked down, the second gazed up at Peter's face, terrified. The third was also gazing at his face, but certainly not with fright. He smiled up at Peter broadly and stuck out his hand. "Charmed I'm sure."

Peter ignored the hand and asked rudely. "Who are you?"

"Allow me to introduce myself to you, my good man. I'm…"

A lot of eager yippeeeees later (from Sirius of course)

Lily walked toward them, carrying a heavy load of books.

James stood up, "Here, let me." He took the books from her and set them down on the grass next to his. Lily smiled at him and he blushed prettily and smiled back. And then she blushed and smiled back. And he blushed again and so on…UNTIL

"YIPPEEEEE!" yelled Sirius clapping wildly.

Lily raised her eyebrows as she sat down. "Had too many coffees?"

"If that were the only reason for it…" sighed Remus.

"Even though Sirius' usually this hyper, he seems too, er," she screwed up her face thinking of the right word (A/N: just like I'm doing right now). "Too exuberant for normal standards."

The Marauders exchanged quick glances.

Lily smirked knowingly. She fixed her sparkling emerald eyes on James, knowing full well that if he were guilty of something, he wouldn't be able to get past them. Sure enough, he looked down immediately, squirming uncomfortable.

"Hmmm…" Lily got up and began to pace.

"Let's see. Remus is reading a book very, very devotedly. So devotedly that he has yet to realize that it is upside down." Remus hastily adjusted his book, before she continued.

"Sirius, on the other hand, as observed before is even more gleeful and ecstatic than usual, although I'm not quite sure how that is possible." Sirius tried his best to look as dull and apathetic as possible. Lily snorted.

"And Peter…Peter is looking very fixedly behind me." She turned to look behind her. Seeing nothing, she turned back, an eyebrow arched coyly.

"This…" she paused and continued dramatically, "can mean only ONE thing."

She dropped the fake act. "The Marauders… are back in action." Lily smiled proud of herself for having deduced all of this.

Way to go Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, though Sirius. Or rather Mrs. James Potter.

Lily turned to Sirius, almost as if she had read his mind. "No, I'm not Missus! Not yet, anyway." She smiled at him coyly. "Right now, maybe 'Miss'...No…'Ms.' Hmmm 'Ms.' Sounds the best, don't you think?"

Remus, James and Peter looked at her, puzzled at the seemingly random sentence.

Sirius jumped back, startled at her accuracy. "Are you"

"No." she replied shortly. "I can tell by your expressions."

"Ah."

They were silent for a few moments, James and Peter trying to figure out what the hell that last little dialogue meant. Remus, being the smart and sensitive one, had all ready figured it out.

"Alllllllrrrrriggghttty, what is the plan then?" Lily questioned.

James and Sirius, the silver-tongued, were silent. They weren't any match for Lily the Great and Wonderful.

Remus just didn't care to get involved in the interrogation right now. He was saving the alibis for when the plan messed up.

Peter spoke up hurriedly, "You're right. We're planning a prank."

The others looked at him amazedly and if any of them had been near enough, they would have kicked him. He wasn't supposed to be spilling these secrets to Lily. Even if she was James' girlfriend. He continued brazenly, apparently not smelling the danger ahead.

"Yeah, er, we were thinking, we would, er, get Sirius or James to transform and give Snape or Malfoy a good scare." Sirius looked at him proudly.

Lily grinned although still slightly skeptical. "Does anyone remember the last time I caught you after Snape? Last year?"

Remus and Peter shook their heads no and waited for the story curiously. Although they were probably present…who could remember each and every one of the million 'Snape the Snake Encounters' as Sirius dubbed them.

"Yeah…" Sirius gazed at the sparkling lake as though remembering the "good ol' days" while James looked down shamefacedly.

Lily's smile broadened. "Well…

'Leave him ALONE!' James turned and ran a hand through his hair.

'All right, Evans?'

'Leave him alone.' Repeated Lily a great look of dislike on her face. 'What's he done to you?'

'Well,' James deliberated 'It's more the fact that he exists.'

' You think you're funny.' She said coldly. 'But you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone.'

'I will if you go out with me, Evans.' Said James quickly. 'Go on…go out with me and I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again.'

'I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid.'

…And if you remember, you promised that if I went out with you, you would lay off Snape?"

James snapped to, a lopsided grin on his face as he thought of a good comeback. "Yeah, but the version I remember had you saying that you wouldn't go out with if it were a…choice between me and the giant squid…Aww, Lils, are all the giant squid in this world gone forever?"

Lily grinned coyly. "Ahem. By the way. We have a date to keep."

"Ahem. Yes, of course. Lillian."

Lily grimaced at then name. "Or maybe, then again, maybe we DON'T!"

"Oh, but Lillia-Lily…"

Lily seemed to reconsider the matter and reluctantly said, "Might as well cancel it. Get our homework done with. Seeing as I have to spend tomorrow evening with you anyway."

"Tomorrow?"

"Yeah…wait, don't tell me…you forgot?" She put her hands on her hips.

"No, of course not. Of course I didn't forget." James looked around questioningly to his friends. Sirius was suddenly very interested in the sole of his shoe and Peter was examining…the threads of the rug. Remus was the only one who was actually busy with something else, but he took one look at James' pale face and took pity on him mouthing something to him.

"Of course I didn't forget our…" he thought quickly. Ate? Bate, Sate, mate? Hate…Kate…no, Kate was his ex. Er…. "DATE!" he remembered triumphantly.

Lily nodded slowly. Had he been whispering something under his breath? Yeah…Something that looked like…Ate? Mate? Cate? KATE! His ex! How dare he! Wait…. slow down. No proof. Innocent until proven guilty. Humph. That didn't really apply for Potter.

Someplace…uh, else

The Scene: A close huddle of three girls, all three admirably pretty was intently discussing something. A slimy haired someone sitting near-by; listening to every single word.

"How dare she. Just come and take him away. She probably gave him a love potion, the bitch. Poor Jamsie."

"Yeah, he probably never knew what hit him."

"I know, when Jamesipoo wakes up from his nightmare, he's going to come right back to me."

"No, he's not. He's coming to ME!"

"NO! ME!"

"No…both of you are wrong. He'll come to me!"

"Girls, girls do stop fighting!" said the boy.

"What are you doing here?"

"I want to help you destroy Potter."

"We don't want to destroy him. What gave you that idea?"

The boy raised his eyebrows. "Why…after Potter hurt you, all three of you so much…don't you think HE should bear the sorrow as well?"

"Why do you want to help us?" "Well, the whole world knows just how much Sev and I detest the vile creature."

The girls nodded their heads. It was true.

"So we destroy him? The one, two, three, four, five of us?"

The boy smiled maliciously although what he was thinking might not have been agreeable to the three of them. These idiotic creatures and their nonsensical minds. They want to kill Potter. In front of Dumbledore's nose. Hmph

Of course, what the three of them were separately thinking wouldn't have been very pleasant for him either. No, I don't want to destroy him. I want to destroy her and get him

"Now here's what I had in mind."

(A/N: Alright, a twist! A turn! Call it what you will…New plot line as well as the first time for one of the three girls and the boy.

HappySnakes Rule: Hello, my new reviewer! Yes, Remus is my most balanced character, cute, quiet, and oh so cute!

Starborn: You should join my parents…they're always telling me to get off the computer! Take right now, for example, I have an English paper tomorrow, it's 10 pm and I haven't really started studying…

Windowseat Wonderer: Which part do you mean by serious? I'm gonna try and put up A LOT of short chappies, then!

Alright…did everyone get that last part? A bit confusing, I admit…94 reviews! Oh, I luv ya people! Exams get over tomorrow and then…SUMMER VACATIONS! HOORAY! Come on people, cheer with me. By the way, vacations mean more chapters more faster….ooohh, by the way, I realized that in J.K.'s books, the characters don't say 'um' they say 'er'. I've made changes throughout my fic…)