And...IM BACK!

By the way, I'll try to put lines in between paragraphs and stuff...sorry if it was illegible before.

Next chapter-second to last one in year one. Year two-Remus' little secret comes out. Any ideas for other things to happen?

Anyways...ON WITH THE STORY!

Chapter Twenty One (or whatever)- Out like a Black Lamb...

March 31st...the end of the month. The snow was melted, and the weather was calm. So where did that leave the marauders? Duh. In the common room, so-called "grounded" by McGonagall for letting several rats out of their cages and charming them into the girls dormitory. Eh, all in good fun, right?

"Wanna put more rats"

"No more rats in the girls' room, Siriu. We're already locked in here. Under guard of ghost..." Remus interjected. He would NOT let Sirius Black and James Potter make any more trouble for him if it was going to be the last thing he did.

"I meant...in McGonagall's soup. I still can't believe she thought it was spaghetti." Sirius replied.

"That was not only unsanitary and dangerous, but it was..." Remus started, be he couldn't stop himself from laughing. "Gotta hand it to you, mate, it was pretty funny"

"I know it was. I'm just the funniest guy around..." Sirius replied. Seeing the look on James' face, he quickly added "aside from Jamesy here"

"...So..." Peter said, walking into the room. He had been in the lavatory, making good use of water and soap. "What are you guys doing for Easter break"

"I dunno...maybe I'll stay here." James said, thinking about the last letter he had recieved from his house. His father was getting more active in the 'plot against Voldemort' (as James and Sirius called it, with Remus and Peter making detective music underneath it), and his mother was busy...with...well, James didn't know that, but he knew that if he went home, it would not be any fun.

"You should!" Sirius said, jumping up, happier than they had seen him for weeks. "We can do all sorts of mischief while everyone's out. And, we'll get the best armchairs, the best seats at the table and best of all, we can get up whenever we want!" James looked at Sirius with his eyebrows raised high.

"Um...I didn't know there was a best seat at the table...and we get up whenever we want every day...we just weasel ourselves out of detention for it by doing something stupid enough to forget we were late." Remus said, whle James just stood there, assessing the situation.

"I'll stay." James said, shrugging his shoulders, and immediately getting enveloped in the biggest...man-hug ever. "I'll stay, too." Peter squeaked in the corner. He was incredibly confused about why Sirius was so happy. Peter never understood what was so bad about Sirius' life, but he wasn't going to question it. If Sirius wanted to be poor and an outcast, that's his choice.

"Remus-you have to stay, then." Sirius said, but very quickly realized what he must look like and calmed down. "I mean...you should stay if we're all staying. It wouldn't be the same without our resident professor"

"I'm not a-oh I give up. I don't know how I'm going to stand you for another two weeks, but I'll ask my mother. OK?" "Good." Sirius said, trying to get his hair out of his face. It looked oddly like a cat and a ball, him wiping his hair out of his face every few seconds. "My hair is getting annoying"

"I can fix that. Diff-" James started but found himself on the floor within two seconds, with one Black on him.

"Don't touch my hair!" Sirius said, laughing at James' startled face.

"You said-"

"I know what I said, but last thing I want is one of your haircuts!" Sirius said, getting off James and letting the small boy breathe.

"Hey! I told you! It"

"Grows this way." The other three first years said simultaneously with James.

"Yeah. What, you don't believe me?" James said.

"Only one way to find out." Sirius said, getting an idea.

"What?" James asked... he didn't like the look on his friends face. Usually, this face meant trouble for him, and usually something that lands them in detention or the hospital ward...or that one time...in a muggle pet shop...which he still didn't understand how Sirius could've done that to the poor guinea pig. True, he said it looked like a Groundhog, but still, that poor thing was scared out of his wits.

James was quite the animal lover, deep down-deeper down than anybody would ever see, but it was there.

"-Peter..." Sirius had apparently given Peter an order while James was reminiscing.

"What are you gonna do..." James asked as Peter walked up the stairs to the fifth years male dormitory. He was really starting to get a bad idea about this.

"Nothing that can't be undone." Sirius said, as Peter walked down with something shiny.

"What did he say, Peter?" Remus asked, curious.

"He said that if you needed any help with it your first time, he would be happy to show you, Sirius" Peter said, grinning.

"Sirius...first time with what...why is Peter holding...is that a razor?" James asked, eyes widening... "No... no... I said NO"

But it was too late. Sirius Black was officially shaving James' head. James tried to move, but apparently, Sirius had put the Full Body Bind on him. And within five minutes, all of James' hair was gone.

After he was done with his masterpiece, Sirius gave James a mirror to look at his new hair-do.

"I call it...the James looks like a skunk look!" Sirius grinned, running as fast as he could behind the couch as Remus muttered the counter-curse for the Full Body Bind. Remus, reguardless of what he might say, thoroughly enjoyed watching James and Sirius make mockeries of themselves.

"...Oh...oh...my...OH MY GOD! SIRIUS BLACK! I WILL KILL YOU!" James Potter screamed, as he chased his best friend around the common room. You would think that people would be running out of their dormitories to see what all the commotion was about, but by now, everyone knew that these four were always playing tricks on each other, and were always screaming some profanity around the common room. No one yelled at the first year boys about it, becuase they were the youngest. If they wanted to swear, who was going to stop them? And if they wanted to pull a prank on each other-at least it wasn't on any of the other inhabitants of Gryffindor tower.

But, as Sirius said while James was running around, trying to put his hair back onto his scalp, it looked like a black lamb had just been shaved, so technically...March had literally went out like a lamb...without any hair.

Meh? Read? Review? Please? Now? Or else? Happy holidays?