Disclaimer: And I still don't own J.K.'s characters, but we're negotiating at this point.

3. Another fun game

It was past 11 before any of the girls woke up and when Maggie did, she decided to speed up the process for the other two girls present – hold on, two? Where was Susie? She shrugged it off and jumped on Lily's bed before yanking the covers off of it. Then, she went over to Anna, hit her with a pillow lying around and then also tore away her covers.

'Wake up!' she bellowed, 'It's a lovely cloudy day! The sun isn't shining which means I can go outside to have fun!'

As the other girl groaned, she laughed maniacally the way only vampires can and skipped into the bathroom.

'What's got her so worked up?' Anna asked from under the pillow that was used to hit her.

'She's got a date with Remus, doesn't she?' Lily answered while getting up.

She shivered when her bare feet touched the cold ground. She too, hurried into the bathroom. Anna groaned once more before throwing the pillow away from her face and getting up to shower as well.

When they were all done, they dressed as casually as they could – after all, free days didn't occur that much, and it was nice to be free from the uniforms for a while.

'So, what should we do?' asked Lily while brushing her hair.

'D'you reckon the guys are still asleep?' asked Anna with a wicked smile on her face.

The absence of Susie was completely forgotten as they creeped towards they boys' dorm. As they went inside, the snoring was almost unbearable. They each went over to a boys' bed – of course, Lily went to James' and Maggie to Remus' which left Sirius for Anna. She sighed heavily when she realised this, but did it anyway.

'Ready? On the count of three!' said Maggie, and they got ready.

'1…2…3!'

At three, the guys all jumped up from their beds and scared the wits out of the girls, who all screamed rather loudly. Luckily, everyone else had already left the tower. As the guys laughed, the girls huffed and sat down on each respective bed. When the boys had calmed down, they all sat down as well. Neither Lily, Maggie nor Anna could help blushing at the bare chests that were now exposed.

'Come on, gals, you didn't honestly think we snored this hard, did you?' Sirius asked, still grinning.

Anna shoved him, but as she did he grabbed her arm, which resulted in him pulling her down with him and her being on top of him. He frowned playfully at her, but she quickly got off of him, and straightened herself out.

'D'you want us to leave?' James asked, grinning.

'No, we'll leave so that you can get dressed,' said Maggie as she got up.

'Yeah, we'll wait in the common room,' added Lily.

'Why?' asked Remus.

'Because we're going to hang out!'

The three hormone-driven boys grinned stupidly as the girls left the room. As soon as they were out of earshot, Sirius received a couple of pillows in his direction.

'What was that, Padfoot?' yelled James, 'Trying to get laid while we were in here!'

Sirius chuckled and started to dress. 'No, it was simply a reaction.'

'Sure,' said Remus and James at the same time, which earned them some pillows in return.

When they arrived in the common room, the girls were packed tightly together.

'What's up?' James asked.

'Well, we just realised, that neither Peter nor Susie got back last night,' Lily explained.

'Hey, yeah, you're right!'

'So, let's go find them instead of just hanging here,' said Anna.

At that, the guys dashed back to their dormitory, leaving the girls behind in confusion. But a second later they went after them. They found the guys by Sirius' bed, bent over something what seemed like a piece of parchment.

'What's that?' asked Lily.

'It's a map,' said Maggie, after quickly reading Remus' thoughts.

Anna pushed James out of the way and looked at it.

'Wow! Where'd you guys get this?'

'We uhm…'

'They made it.'

'Like I said, damn mind reading tricks.'

The other girls came over to look at it as well. It was a really detailed map of Hogwarts, showing every secret passage and room, and, which was even more amazing, every person in the castle, each labelled with a miniature name tag. The six of them formed dots in the Gryffindor 7th year boys' dormitory.

'So, where are they?'

'We didn't find them yet, it's a lot of dots to go through,' said Sirius.

'Here they are,' said Anna and pointed at the Hospital Wing.

'How'd you do that?' asked James.

'Well, I was afraid they were there, so I simply checked.'

'Makes sense.'

With that, Sirius tapped the map with his wand, mumbled 'Mischief managed' at which it went blank, and they all rushed towards the Hospital Wing.

'Susie!' Lily said as they entered and stormed over to the bed where her friend was in.

'Hey,' Susie said weakly.

Peter was sitting in a chair by her bed, asleep.

'What happened!'

'Well, Peter took me for a walk outside the castle, but we got too close to the forest, I guess. Something attacked me, but Peter was able to fend it off.'

The boys exchanged a look with disbelief written all over it. Nobody else noticed though, as Madam Pomfrey bustled in a shooed them all (except for Peter, of course) out.

'We'll be back later, Suse!' called Maggie.

They walked away from the Hospital Wing lazily, with no particular destination.

'What shall we do now?' Lily asked.

'Let's go outside, please! It's been sunny all week, I want some fresh air!' Maggie complained.

They all laughed, but agreed to her plan.

When they got outside, they discovered that there was a nice breeze blowing, and they all walked towards the lake. They sat down and watched as sometimes a tentacle from the giant squid would reach above the surface. Anna shivered the first time when this occurred.

'D'you remember last Halloween?'

'With the squid-soup? Yeah, I do,' Lily said, snickering a bit.

'Don't laugh! I'll never look at the lake the same way!'

Sirius and James laughed at this.

'Sorry, Smith, I had no idea it would affect you this way.'

'Yeah, well, that pumpkin is still affecting you, isn't it? Only fair…' Anna said grinning slightly.

Sirius scowled at her, and then bent towards Maggie.

'Hey, Maggie, is Anna ticklish?' he whispered to her.

Maggie smiled before answering yes. Sirius grinned and lunged for Anna.

'What the- Black, what in all seven hells are you doiiiii, ahahahaha, stop that, ahahahahaha, can't breathe, hahahahaha, stop!'

Sirius stopped and looked at her. 'Do you surrender?'

'Depends. What consequences does it have?'

'Well, amongst them are rubbing my feet, giving me massages whenever I feel like them and treating me to diner sometime.'

'No way!'

'Fine, you leave me no choice, then.' And with that, he continued to tickle her, until he accidentally brushed against her right breast. They both froze. The others stared at them weirdly.

'Will you please get off me?' Anna asked, with an amazingly calm voice.

Sirius actually stood up and helped her up. She dusted herself off and started walking towards the castle.

'Well?' asked Lily, who had been talking to James.

'Well, what?' Sirius asked back.

'Aren't you going after her?'

'Why?'

'Because…' Lily hesitated, 'because she takes truth or dare very seriously.'

Sirius frowned at this, but his face cleared a moment later.

'Does she really?'

'Yeah! And you really hurt her feeling by lying yesterday! Go make it up to her!'

He didn't need to be told twice and ran after her, leaving the other four shaking their heads.

Will they make up? Will Anna get over her fear for squids? And will they all find out about Susie before it might be too late for her? Tune in next time for 'Forgotten Memories'!