A/N ok brand new chapter, for the 2 ppl that reviewed. grrr…. Is it that hard to click a little button that says 'review' and leave me like 2 words of encouragement to keep going on this story. Anyway, kinda drawing a blank for this chapter, but I'm still gunna write it.
Summer Holidays and a Few Troubles
The summer holidays were drawing closer and closer, but three 11 year-old boys weren't sad about the upcoming holidays. James, Sirius and Remus had made plans with each other to spend two weeks with each other at James' house, since it was the biggest, as far as the stories James told them.
The girls, on the other hand, were sad about leaving, especially Lily. When Rory, Rhia and Alice went home for the summer holidays they would still have magic around them, but Lily, being muggle-born, wouldn't have any contact with magic for two whole months. And it was because of this that the small red head was in the common room, past midnight, a week before school ended, sitting on a sofa and staring into the fire.
She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't hear the footsteps coming down the boy's staircase.
"Lily?" James asked. "Are you okay?"
Lily was at first startled, since she hadn't known he was there. She soon found her voice.
"Oh, James, I didn't see you there. I'm fine. Just couldn't sleep. What about you? What are you doing up at this hour?"
"Same problem, my eyes close but my brain is wide awake. So I thought I'd come down here, and sit on the sofa for awhile, but I guess that spot's taken," He replied with a teasing smirk on his face.
"You know what?" Lily asked thoughtfully.
"What?"
"We should go down to kitchens and have some hot chocolate. That should help us fall asleep, right?"
"Well, it normally works for me at home, so why not? Let's go. Just let me get my invisibility cloak from my room," Lily nodded, and James quickly, yet quietly, sprinted up the stairs, grabbed his cloak, and came flying back down, ready to leave.
The two first years quietly made their way down many flights of stairs and passages, but finally reached the kitchens. They tickled the pear, and asked the house-elves for some hot chocolate before going to sit at a table.
"I didn't think many wizards drank hot chocolate," Lily said as their hot chocolate was served to them.
"Well, I don't think most do, but my mum's friend is muggle-born, like you, and she taught my mum how to make it. When I was little, whenever I couldn't sleep, like tonight, my mom would take me downstairs to our kitchen and we'd both sit there for half an hour, talking and drinking. Then when I started getting sleepy she would bring me back upstairs and tuck me into bed. We don't do it as much now that I'm older," James looked slightly sad as he said the last part.
"My mum and I, kind of did the same thing, except it was on nights when it was storming outside. We'd get up and sit in the living room looking out the front window at the lightning, each with a cup of hot chocolate. We still do that when there's a thunderstorm."
"It like hot chocolate fixes everything," James smiled at Lily.
She smiled back at him, and the two of them spent the next half hour, talking and sharing stories of when they were little. At two o'clock in the morning they decided it was time to head back to Gryffindor tower. They tiptoed through the castle, until they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady. They said the password and climbed into the common room. After yawning slightly, Lily said goodnight to James and they both headed up to their respective dorms, to try to fall asleep.
The next morning, the girls all woke up, got dressed and headed downstairs for breakfast. It was a beautiful Sunday morning, and the girls wanted to go outside after breakfast to enjoy sitting by the lake, before they had to leave again.
When they got to the Great Hall they spotted the Marauders and went to sit by them. Rhia sat beside Remus, with Lily on her right, and across from them, Rory sat next to James, who was next to Sirius.
"So guys, after breakfast do you want to join me and Lily and Rhia, down by the lake?" Rory asked as she grabbed a piece of toast with jam on it, and put it on her plate.
"Sounds good to me," Sirius said right before he shoved a two large pieces of buttered toast in his mouth.
"Ugh, Sirius, are you ever going to learn how to eat like a gentleman?" Lily asked.
"Gy should I," Sirius tried to say through the mouthful, but he ended up spitting a bit on Rory.
"Eww…" Rory said wiping her shirt on Sirius' arm.
Sirius swallowed and said, "It's just a piece of toast, it won't kill you,"
"Yeah, but it had your yucky saliva on it,"
After everyone was done eating the group headed out to the lake. It was warming up fast, so the group decided to take their shoes and socks off, and stuck their feet in the lake. They were just swishing their feet in the water, when Sirius decided it would be fun to push Rhia in. He subtly put his arm behind her back, and quickly, before she could react, shoved her into the lake. Little, did Sirius know that Rhia's reflexes were so quick that right before she fell in she pulled Sirius in with her. They both screamed, as they toppled head first into the cold water. When the two of them surfaced it was to find the rest of their friends backed up from the shore, so as not to get pulled in, laughing until they turned red.
"Hey Rhia, you looked like a drowned rat," Sirius laughed.
Rhia turned around in the water and glared at Sirius. He tried to put on an innocent smile but failed miserably. The she grabbed his head and dunked it into the lake. She let him up and he tackled her in the water. It soon became an all out, splashing war between the two of them. The other four friends soon controlled their laughing and were amused by watching their two wet friend's, having a battle in the water.
The afternoon came and went, and soon it was the evening. The two groups had a bit of a problem though. Sirius was bored, and that's never a good thing.
"Guys, I'm really bored. Let's go do something fun!" Sirius whined, as he watched James and Lily playing chess. Meanwhile, beside Sirius on the sofa, Remus was reading a novel, Rhia was skimming through one of her magazines, and Rory was lying on the floor in front of the sofa, trying to take a nap.
"Well, Sirius if you want, you can go down to the kitchen's and get a snack," Remus suggested.
"Check," Lily told James.
"That's no fun if you're alone," Sirius complained.
"Ha! Check," James said.
Rhia put her magazine down and said, "If you want Sirius, we can go down to the Slytherin common room and change Snape's hair color."
"Yes! Finally, someone wants to do something that's actually fun!"
"Yeah, Yeah, whatever, let's go," She said.
"Shouldn't we get James' invisibility cloak?"
"No, I plan to be back before curfew,"
"Ok, well, curfew is in one hour, so we better hurry,"
They quickly made their way down the flights of stairs trying to get to the Slytherin common room. On their way, they were met with a little surprise. They heard footsteps coming down the corridor, and didn't want to be seen, so they snuck into an alcove, quickly, and waited until the person passed. As they saw who the person was, they quickly stepped out into the corridor making sure to stay quiet.
Severus Snape was taking an evening stroll down one of the corridors when he heard a noise behind him. He spun around quickly but no one was there. He turned and kept walking when I thought he heard someone whisper something. He quickly turned around again, but he still didn't see anyone. Thinking that he was just tired and needed to go to bed, Snape made his way back to the Slytherin common room, not knowing that his hair was no longer black.
As soon as Snape turned the corner and was out of ear shot, Sirius and Rhia started laughing.
"The slimy git didn't even notice that his hair changed color," Sirius laughed.
"It's too bad that we had to hit him in the evening, no one will see his beautiful new Magenta colored hair," Rhia laughed along with Sirius.
"O, don't worry about that," Sirius smirked. "I made sure that the spell would stay on for the next 48 hours, everyone will see his hair, tomorrow morning in the Great Hall."
They started walking back to the common room, when they heard someone clear their throat behind them.
"Uh oh, I know that cough," Sirius said as he and Rhia slowly turned around. "Professor McGonagall! Umm, we were just on our way back to the common room, to engage ourselves in an educational game of chess."
"Nice try, Mr. Black, but I saw what you and Miss Cammon did to Mr. Snape." The stern older woman replied.
"Well, you can't say he doesn't deserve it. I mean he is a slimy little…"
"Mr. Black! I advise you not to finish that sentence. You and Miss Cammon, will join me in my classroom tomorrow night for your punishment. Mr. Black, I advise you not to pull any more pranks, before the holidays, or I may just have to give you extra holiday homework."
"Don't worry Professor, he won't," Rhia finally spoke.
"Very well, back to your common room immediately and do not be late tomorrow," She then turned around and strode down the corridor.
"You can't make a promise like that for someone else," Sirius said as they began walking back to the common room.
"I can and I did," Rhia replied. "Besides, I think you had your prank fulfillment for the rest of the week. You can pull more pranks when your at James' house this summer.
"Fine," Sirius pouted.
They reached the common room and filled their friends in on what happened in the corridor.
"Ah, so Sirius got yet another innocent person a detention," Remus said.
"Ok, it was her idea to pull a prank on Snape, not mine, so if anything, I'm the innocent bystander."
"Sirius has a point," Rory said.
"Thank you!" Sirius said throwing his hands up in the air for effect.
"I mean, if Rhia hadn't suggested going to prank Snape, Sirius would have never opened his big mouth in front of McGonagall," Rory smirked at Sirius.
"It's a conspiracy!" Sirius yelled.
"O Sirius, you know we love you, picking on you that is," Lily laughed.
"O hahaha, your so funny," Sirius said sarcastically.
"O, but Sirius, your so fun to tease," Rhia said.
"Ya, well James' hair is ugly! Pick on him,"
James who was laughing, suddenly stopped, "Hey!"
"What are you gunna do about it, Potter?" Sirius grinned.
James grinned back, and suddenly he tackled Sirius to the floor and they started wrestling. Sirius, having a younger brother and more experience in a play fight, was coming out ahead. At the moment he had James in a head lock. The two of them kept rolling across the floor until they were too tired to keep going, so they layed on the their backs and started laughing instead.
And so the six friends went to bed that night with thoughts of James and Sirius wrestling like gorillaz.
It was the morning that the students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry would be heading home, for the summer holidays. The girls were hugging each other every ten minutes, while the boys were waiting to board the train.
Pretty soon all of the students would head down to Hogsmeade Station to board the train back to King's Cross Station, where they would meet up with their families and head their separate ways.
As soon as all six friends found an empty compartment, the Marauders went off to do one last prank on the train before the holidays while the girls, decided get together sometime during the holidays.
"We can all stay at my house for a week," Rhia suggested. "We have a humongous pool in our backyard, so it could be a Pool Week for the girl's."
"Sounds great, we can ask our parent's when we reach the station," Lily said.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure my mom will let me come," Rory said.
"Perfect, we'll have so much fun…"
Suddenly the door burst open and the three boys jumped on the bench and covered themselves in James' invisibility cloak.
"If anyone asks, we weren't hear," The girls heard Sirius' voice from the bench.
The door burst open again, and Snape walked in. At least the girls were pretty sure it was Snape. It was hard to tell since his skin color was now red.
"Where are Potter, Black and Lupin," he demanded. "I know their in here!"
"We don't know what you're talking about Snape, we haven't seen Remus, James or Sirius since we borded the train," Rhia smiled innocently.
"Ugh, I'll get them next time mark my words," He then stomped out of the compartment. As soon as Rory closed the door, the invisibility cloak flew off the three boys and they started laughing hysterically.
"That should teach Snivellus, to try to call us names behind our back," James smirked.
"What names did he call you," Rhia tilted her head as she asked.
"Just stuck up, arrogant Gryffindors, but those two insisted on pulling a prank on him for it," Remus said, still smiling.
"You can tell us it wasn't fun Remus," Sirius stated.
"Yeah, of course it was fun, but still, we don't have to prank everything that moves."
"No, just Snape," James said.
"You two are hopeless," Remus said shaking his head.
The train arrived at King's Cross Station a few hours later. The girls all hugged each other and went to find their families. They all promised to write each other and to make sure to send Rhia a birthday present, because her birthday was in three days. They said their teary-eyed goodbyes, and left with their families.
The boys meanwhile had been introducing themselves to James' parents. After discussing their holiday plans, the boys said quick goodbyes and headed their separate ways, promising to see each in two weeks.
A/N hope you all liked this chapter. It probably wasn't as funny as the others, but I was drawing some mind blanks. I hope it makes everyone happy. And remember REVIEW!
