Lily

James led me under his cloak to a picture with a bowl of fruit.

"Where are we?" I asked him.

"We are at the kitchens, under the great hall." He told me.

"I've never been here before, and where are the kitchens." I looked around; I didn't see a stove or refrigerator anywhere.

James put his hand to the pear in the bowl of fruit picture and tickled it, it started shaking and the picture swung open to reveal a doorway.

"Lady's first." James put his arm out to motion me to walk forward. I stepped through the doorway and looked around. There were little creatures cleaning dishes, chopping up vegetables, or cooking things on the stove.

"James." I whispered once he got in the doorway.

"What?"

"What are these things?" I asked him.

"These are house elves Lily." He told me.

I looked down and there standing at the height of James's knee was one of these creatures looking at us with her big blue eyes.

"Hello Mr. James Potter, how can I help you?" It asked.

"Hullo Twinkle, this is my friend Lily Evans, we were just wondering if we could get some breakfast."

"Why of course Mr. James Potter, please sit down." She ushered us to a little table with four seats and held out her hand for me to shake, "Pleased to meet you Ms. Lily Evans."

I shook her hand and replied, "Oh please just call me Lily." She nodded and walked away.

"They wont call you by your first name, they think of anyone here as there master." James said.

I nodded slowly sitting down, "How did you find this place?"

"Well one day before second year the rest of the marauders were at my house and we were talking about Hogwarts and how we loved to go exploring with my Dad and he told us about his mates and himself and how one day they came to this picture and could not decide what to do. They heard about some old tale about tickling a pear to get into the kitchens or something so they tried it and it worked!" James explained, "Then the next year, we found the picture and tried it and that is how we rediscovered the kitchens!"

"Now I understand why there are four chairs around this table." Lily laughed.

"Mr. Potter, Ms. Evans, your food is ready." Twinkle said holding a tray filled with all types of foods. Another elf behind her was carrying another tray filled with drinks.

"Thank you Twinkle, thank you Sparkle." James said as he grabbed the trays from there small hands and put them on the table.

A hour later

"That was fun James thanks a lot." I said as we stepped back through the portrait hole into the Gryffindor common room.

"Yes, it was, maybe we can do it again sometime." He told me.

"It's only about 4:30 AM, what should we do until everyone else gets up?" I asked.

"Want to think of a prank to play on everyone as soon as they wake up?" James suggested.

I laughed, "Sure, it will waste time."

"Well everyone will probably wake up at around 6:00 to catch breakfast at 7:00 so that gives us about an hour and a half to think of something and perform it." James said getting a mischievous glint in his chocolate brown eyes.

I giggled again. "You sure we can pull this off without your other friends?"

"Come on, I am the master of pranks Lils." James told me.

"Well, ok." I sighed, "What do you want to do?"

I watched as Sirius black stepped out of the fifth year boys door yawning. All of a sudden I heard a scream from across the hall. I looked over at the seventh year girls' dormitory entrance and started cracking up. Standing by the door were five girls drenched in orange juice with whip cream in their so called "perfect" hair. I looked up the stairs and standing there was three of the marauders wearing pajama pants that said you know you want me honey. They were pink with yellow flowers and read hearts. I looked over at my dormitory and my three best friends were covered in purple paint from head to toe. I snickered, glad I didn't pull that trick, they would hate me, I did James's dorms and he did mine. I looked all around the common room at all of the students. People were covered in all sorts of things, from feathers to sticky gum balls.

"Thank goodness we are under the invisibility cloak James, or they would definitely blame us, because we are the only people that are not messy." I whispered into James's ear.

"Your right, let's go down to breakfast and look innocent." James said, laughing as we head out of the common room.