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Sirius climbed out of the water, the frilly pink nightdress James had put on him billowing about him. He looked murderous.. But strangely hilarious all at once.

"You- you.. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?" he sputtered, a bit of seaweed stuck to his eyelid, matching his mole perfectly.

James shrugged.

"I was bored." He looked behind him, where the girls were still giggling hysterically, Lily rolling in the bushes with a mad glint in her eye. "And they seem to like it." He grinned roguishly. Taylor peeked out from behind her clasped hands in order to examine their handiwork on Sirius, and immediately buried her head in Lily's shoulder, her large hazel eyes filling with tears of mirth.

"That- was..t-the funniest..reaction I have e-ever seen!" she gasped.

Kate stood up as if to make a speech, mimicking Sirius.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! MY FACE! MY BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL FACE! WHAT HAVE YOU FREAKS DONE TO IT! I HAVE A ZIT THE SIZE OF A HIPPOGRIFF ON MY FACE! SWEET MOTHER OF MERLIN! DOES THIS COME OFF? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? " she bellowed with a high, squeaky voice, the very image of the glowering wizard standing before them.

Sirius stared fiercely at the whole lot of them, trying to strike some fear into their hearts for disfiguring him like this, but it only made them snicker harder, rolling in the dirt of the bushes.

"D-d'you really expect us to take you seriously..dressed like that?" Lily lifted her face up from her hands, tears and soil mixing together on her cheeks.

"No pun intended Padfoot." the normally placid Remus chuckled. Peter just looked, confused, from James to Remus, then to Sirius, for the first time (he was sleeping when Sirius woke up). Then he fainted.

Sirius looked shocked.. Then grinned hesitantly.

"Do I really look that scary?"

James grinned, eyes dancing merrily.

"Yep. C'mon mate, let's get you cleaned up. Seriously.. You should think about dressing this way more often..."

"Shut up!"

Two Hours Later

"James honey, Peter has a very weak heart, it seems. Did he see anything scary before he passed out?" Mrs. Potter busied herself, setting Peter down on his bed so that he could rest.

James looked behind him at the now-normal-looking-Sirius Black, as the rest clamped their hands over their mouths, threatening to crack up again.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that, Mother." He replied, keeping his face straight.

"Well, I don't want to know what it is that he saw, but he should stay in bed today, and get some sleep. Were you all going to go somewhere?"

"Yeah, I guess we'll have to go without him now.." sighed Lily, who secretly didn't like Peter much. Taylor and Katie hid suppressed grins behind their already twitching mouths, but also looked a bit disappointed.

"Aww.. And we were going to dress him up in a pink frilly dress, and make him dance around the mall with James!" Kate whispered sadly.

"Yeah, with his short and pudgy figure.. Everyone would have loved him!" Taylor said.

"Oh well, it's not like the idea's original anymore, we'll just think of something else! We got plenty of stuff to do to them." Lily finished.

"Hey what are you girls plotting over there?" called Sirius, a rather suspicious look now adorning his features.

"Nothing, Black." Taylor said. "Getting a bit paranoid in light of recent events, aren't you? Gonna become like that Auror, Mad-Eye Moody?"

"Oh shut up," groaned Sirius. "Come on, let's just go to the mall now and get these dares over with." A bit of his mischievousness seeped back into his voice. "I can't wait."

A/N: Next chapter we'll finally start dares you guys! Hope you guys are still reading and haven't ditched me, sorry for the long wait and the short chapter.. Love you!