Okay, I know my chapter is still short but I revised it and made it a little longer. In the far future I may make it longer but right now I'd rather work on the other chapters.

Disclaimer: I do not own HP and this will be my disclaimer for the whole story.

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"Shoot, I'm going to be late!"

Hurriedly cramming the last of his toast in his mouth, the bespectacled boy mumbled a quick muffled goodbye to his parents around his mouthful as he got out of the car. Grabbing his things from the back, he started sprinting towards a brick archway. His trunk swung crazily behind him, threatening to tip over while his owl hooted indignantly from its lurching cage. Suddenly, the boy and his things disappeared, right as they hit the wall.

On the other side of the brick barrier, he hurriedly raced to the door of the train just as they were being shut. Lunging, he tumbled inside right as the door clicked shut behind him. Just in time, he thought victoriously. Then his head whirled around as he heard a familiar
voice.

"Hey Prongs! Over here!"

The date was September 1st and James Potter had just boarded the Hogwarts Express in the nick of time, and if he did say so himself, a bit of a flourish. His friend Sirius Black (a.k.a. Padfoot) had stuck his black haired head out of a compartment and was calling to him. James immediately felt a wide grin break out on his face.

"Padfoot!"

After quickly gathering his things which had spilt when he had jumped onto the train with a sweep of his wand, he walked briskly to the open door. Entering, James smoothly lifted his things up on the rack overhead with the ease of someone who had been doing that for a long time and looking around while his bird settled, he saw a boy with dirty blond hair with his nose buried inside a thick book.

"Moony! How can you read when James Potter is in the room? He's definitely more interesting then a mere book!" He grinned to show he was joking as he examined at his friend. Remus was looking a bit peaky and pale but then again, it had been a full moon recently. Looking up from the book he was currently reading, Remus spotted James and smiled.

"Good to see you too Prongs and if you're done addressing yourself in third person, how was your summer?"

"Pretty boring if you think about it...I mean, it's not like I did anything and there wasn't anybody to prank."

"Well, then I guess I'd be right in guessing we'll be going on a pranking spree soon huh?"

"But of course Moony! We would be disappointing everyone if we didn't do our traditional welcome back pranks!"

Remus shook his head but grinned. "So James, are we going to start sixth year with a bang? In other words, with a big prank?"

"Yup! Do you have any good ideas?"

"Well, I was thinking maybe we could transform the Slytherins into-"

"Hey!" Sirius cut in, looking at James and Remus with fake hurt in his eyes. "You guys aren't starting to plan without me are you? Because you'll need," here Sirius flung out his hands dramatically, "my brilliance and cunning to make any worthwhile plans." James sighed and sympathetically patted Sirius on the back. "It's alright Padfoot; it's not your fault you're in denial. Well, actually it is but that's not the point."

Sirius jerked away and glared at James. "I am not in denial despite what you may think. Now I shall go to someone who may appreciate my brilliance." With that he got up and started to go to Remus when an arm shot out and grabbed the back of his shirt collar, effectively keeping him from going any further no matter how hard he strained against his shirt.

"What were you saying Padfoot?' James asked pleasantly, as if they were having a normal conversation and he wasn't forcefully
restraining Sirius.

"N-n-nothing, but yo-o-u're cho-o-oking me!" Sirius managed to say those words and then proceeded to have a wrestling match with James's arm. Soon he was free and gasping, gingerly rubbing his mangled throat.

Thunk! The back of a certain messy haired person's head suddenly came in intimate contact with the back of Sirius's hand.

"Oww! What was that for!"

"Oh nothing if you don't count strangling me." Sirius calmly remarked, pretending to inspect his fingernails as if they were the most fascinating thing he had ever seen. Abruptly he looked up, eyes shining.

"OH! I just remembered something!" Sirius started to excitedly bounce around the small compartment. Looking over at him, James asked, "What?"

Sirius stopped suddenly in mid bounce. "……um……I forgot?"

James peered at Sirius over his glasses. "You forgot?"

"Uh-huh."

"You forgot as soon as you remembered it?"

"Uh-huh."

"That's sad Padfoot."

"Uh-huh. Hey, wait a minute!"

Shaking his head, James started to grin but halfway it turned into a frown as the train shook and began moving.

"Where's Wormtail?" He inquired, looking around with a questioning look.

Sirius shook his head pityingly. "Shame on you Prongs, not even able to keep track of your own friends."

The said person scowled at him. "It's not my fault; he hardly owled me."

Remus inserted his own comment. "You are aware of the fact that you can owl him too, right James?" James pretended to have not heard that but he reddened slightly and Remus snickered quietly to himself.

Smirking, Sirius pretended to think something over. He began to talk to himself rather loudly.

"Hmm, should I tell ol' Prongsie over here? No? He doesn't deserve to know? Yeah, I agree-" Sirius was cut off by this point by a smack in the head from a "concerned" looking James.

"Are you alright?" he asked in overly worried tones while feeling Sirius's forehead for a fever. "I knew the mental institute was wrong in letting you go so soon. One day out and you're already talking to yourself. After all," here James nodded sagely, "they say the first step towards insanity is talking to yourself."

"Ha ha, very funny, I'm laughing my pants off."

"Ugh! That's nasty, bad mental image!"

Remus chuckled, amused by their antics. However, he decided to take pity on James and to just tell him straight out. "Peter moved to the states."

James looked quizzically at him. "The…states?" he repeated slowly as if saying it slower would make him suddenly understand.

"Yes, the states. As in the U.S. James." Remus spoke slowly and clearly, as if he were talking to a 3-year old. Since James seemed to be no closer to understanding then before, he sighed and clarified it for him. "The United States? You know, that big place on North America?

"Oh!" Realization suddenly dawned on James's face. Then he frowned. "Why?"

Remus threw up his hands in exasperation. "Who knows James, there's never one reason for moving. How would I know? Ask Peter if you really want to know."

Sirius threw back his head and let out a bark of laughter and then promptly started singing in an annoying voice, "Prongsie got told off, Prongsie got told off…" over and over again until "Prongsie" took a chocolate frog, aimed for Sirius's open mouth, and fired.

"Bull's-eye!" he crowed as Sirius looked startled to find out that he had a mouthful of chocolate. Shrugging, Sirius started munching away happily on the frog. Remus sighed again as he resumed his reading.

"By the way Prongs, I saw your entrance." Sirius remarked. "You seemed a bit flustered and you just barely made it. Care to tell us why?" James sniffed haughtily. "First of all, I wasn't flustered. Second of all, I didn't just barely make it, it was all calculated so my entrance was made just right." Sirius scoffed, not even pretending to believe him.

"Uh-huh, sure Jamie, whatever you say." Remus on the other hand, decided to humor James. "Alright James, let's say your entrance was all calculated. What happened to make you decide to calculate the entrance to make it seem like you almost missed the train?"

"Well you see, last night I was watching TV ("What?" "Muggle form of entertainment." "Oh. Go on.") when I realized the remote wasn't working ("The what?" "It controls the TV." "Sirius, stop interrupting!"). So anyways, I went and took the batteries out of my alarm clock –don't ask- and put it in the remote. Unfortunately, I forgot to put them back so the alarm didn't go off, I woke later then planned, had to speed things up to get ready on time while my oh so helpful parents laughed at my plight, and then we drove over here. Of course, on the way I calculated my entrance since I had to speed things up which included how I got on the train."

Remus looked at James amusedly. "It seems like you went through a lot trouble planning this out and for no reason. It's not like people besides us were watching…"

"Ah, but that's where you're wrong, my adoring fans must have been watching!"

"Whatever you say Prongs. Oh, and shouldn't we be planning our prank by now?"

"Yeah you're right, we should. And Paddy can join us this time too."

"DON"T CALL ME THAT!"

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