Chapter Three: I'LL GET YOU, FLY!

The trio sat in the dorm room, waiting for Lily to arrive. Sirius was still acting like a walrus.

"Uh, Sirius? You do know that that is wrong in so many ways," Remus whispered, holding his face in his hands.

"Oh, you got to admit, Remmy, it is pretty funny," James giggled.

"James, on a scale of one to ten for stupidity, you're eleven." Remus sighed, rolling his eyes.

"Oh, thanks! Wait, is this one of your fancy insults?" James asked suspiciously. Remus rolled his eyes again.

"I don't know. Could be." Remus smiled mischievously.

"Hmm, true," James drawled.

Remus slapped his forehead.

"Hi, guys! Sorry I'm late," Lily gasped as she ran down the steps. "It's just all this homework." She sighed.

"No problem," Remus said, shooing the apology away. Well, that's what it looked like, anyway. He was really trying to kill a fly that had been buzzing around his head. It huffed and flew over to where James was. It landed on his forehead, which he slapped rather hard and fell over.

Sirius, on the other hand, had currently pulled out a fly swatter and was whacking James in various places, also trying to kill the fly. Soon they were running, James in the lead, the fly next buzzing its heart out, and Sirius taking up the rear with the fly swatter. Remus slapped his forehead, which was beginning to get sore from the constant whacking.

"Did you bring the cloak?" Lily asked, ignoring the fact that James and Sirius were currently hanging out the window as the fly got away, smiling pompously.

"I'LL GET YOU, FLY, IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!" Sirius shouted after it, clutching James' leg tighter so that he wouldn't fall.

"REMMY! A LITTLE HELP!" James pleaded. Remus ran to the window and started trying to pull his friends back up.

Soon everyone was safely back in the common room and Sirius was being distracted by trying to touch the fire.

"Remmy, I'm scared," James whispered to Remus.

"What are you scared of?" Remus sighed.

"Sirius, because he's muttering things to himself." James was now looking at him with big eyes.

"Like what?" Remus asked.

"Listen."

They both listened.

"Orange…Baddddddd………Snort!" Sirius then snorted and giggled.

"Ohhh!" Remus shuddered.

"So let me get this straight," Lily sighed. "Snape put a jinx on Sirius, so now we have to find the counter-curse and cure him. Did I forget anything?" Lily asked.

"No, you pretty much got it summarized flat," Remus said, looking impressed.

"Thank you," Lily giggled.

"Don't mention it," Remus smiled.

"Since you two are done with your little 'talk', can we go now?" James pleaded.

"Yes, fine, alright!" Remus and Lily answered at the same time.

Beneath the Invisibility Cloak…

"Okay here it is-Ow! Remmy, that's my foot!" James whispered harshly.

"Sorry, but I can't help-Ow! James, get your elbow out of my eye!" Remus hissed.

"Will one of you get your friend away from me? He keeps on stepping on my robes! OH, NO! He tore it!" Lily whimpered.

"WHOOPSY!" Sirius giggled.

"WHO'S THERE?" Filch shouted.

"Okay, I hope this works," Lily said, biting her bottom lip.

"What's your plan?"

"Someone grab Filch's wig and throw it back and forth with someone else, while the others get the book back, then I'll perform the counter-curse," Lily explained.

"Well, who's gonna get the cloak?" James whispered.

"You and Sirius. Remus and I will hide behind two different aisles with Filch standing in the one in the middle," Lily answered matter-of-factly.

"Nuh-uh! No way! There is no way you're going to convince me to do this!" Remus cried folding his arms over his chest.

"I can't believe they convinced me to do this," Remus sighed from his spot.

"Everyone ready?" James asked from behind the cloak.

"Yes!" everyone else called back.

"Good! On three!" James grinned. "One…Two…THREE!"

"Hey, Filch, over here!" James cried as Lily grabbed the wig when Filch turned.

"I'm gonna get expelled…I'm gonna get expelled," Remus repeated to himself. Then he caught the wig. "Oh, no, now I'm really gonna be expelled!" He whimpered and threw it back.

"YOU'LL ALL BE EXPELLED WHEN I'M THROUGH WITH YOU!" Filch bellowed after them.

"THAT'S IT! WE'RE DONE!" James cried. "COME ON, MOONY! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" James yelled as he, Sirius, and Lily sprinted down the hall. But Remus was frozen in place. Then he was jerked from behind. He turned around in horror, only to see James. "LET'S GO!" he shouted.