I awoke with a start the next morning. I reached for my muggle watch on the nightstand to check the time. Stunned, I tapped the face of the watch to make sure it was telling the correct time. 9:07! I was late! The first day at Hogwarts and I had already slept in past nine!

I was in the middle of slipping into my blue jeans when the girl in the four-poster next to mine stirred. I was startled that another girl in my dorm had slept in as late as I had. To my even greater surprise, the girl poked her head out of the curtains and gave me a funny look.

"What?" I asked her as I pulled my new 'Weird Sisters' crimson shirt over my head. She tucked a lock of her fiery red hair behind her ear and sighed.

"Why you would want to get up this early on a Saturday is beyond me." she pulled her head back behind her curtains. A second later, the girl stepped out from her bed. Her nightgown trailed as she stepped over to her trunk. "But I'll join you." She added, pulling her clothes out of her trunk.

I smacked myself in the forehead. Duh, it was Saturday. No wonder no one was up. I smacked my forehead again. Gawd, I was so stupid. When I looked up, the read-haired girl was dressing in neat school clothes and her robes.

I turned to look in the body-length mirror between Kyo's and my bed. I knew she was still sleeping, as I could hear snoring coming from behind the curtains. Acting on an impulse, I tore back the curtains and yelled at the top of my lungs.

"KYO! WAKE UP! IT'S SATURDAY!" I screamed. She and the two other girls in the dorm sat up with a start. When she realized who had woken her up, she reached to strangle me, but got caught up in her blankets and landed face first on the floor. Both the read-haired girl and I laughed loudly as Kyo untangled herself from her sheets. She left to wash her face in the bathroom while my companion and I continued laughing.

As soon as we caught out breath, we both went to make up our beds and grab our wands. By that time, Kyo had returned grinning. She dressed and the three of us headed down to the Gryffindor Common Room, chatting all the while. Kyo and I learned that the other first-year girl's name was Lily Evans, and that she was muggle-born like Kyo. We reached the common room laughing at one of Kyo's jokes.

We sat down on the couch next to Remus who was starting into the fire. He greeted us with a smile, although he didn't take his eyes off the flickering flames. When Lily and Kyo continued with their conversations of how they thought magic worked, I stood up and moved so I was sitting on the other side of Remus. He leaned back with his hands in his lap and his eyes closed and sighed as if he had remembered something very sad. I was going to ask him what was wrong, but at that instant, a door slammed from somewhere upstairs and two male voices came drifting down into the common room. James and Sirius were conversing as they walked down from their dormitory as I had done with Kyo and Lily.

They took one look at the four of us sitting there, particularly Kyo, Lily and me, looked at each other and then burst out laughing.

"What's so funny?" spoke Lily and I in unison. They were laughing so hard that they couldn't answer, so Kyo turned to Remus, who was smiling too. She looked very puzzled as she asked. "What's with them? Jay doesn't look that funny."

I stared open mouthed at her, but I couldn't help but have the slightest bit of a smile playing on my lips. We deserved to be each other's best friend. By this time, James was clutching to the back of Lily's chair for support and Sirius had collapsed in the armchair opposite me, still laughing.

"They stayed up all night talking. I only heard bits and pieces of it, so I don't know what they are laughing about." He said innocently. "At least I got some sleep." He added as Sirius and James struggled to catch their breaths.

I looked over at Lily to catch her rolling her eyes. James was grinning at her, still containing his laughter. Sirius was still smiling, but he had stopped laughing.

"Wouldn't you like to know what we were talking about, Takashen." he said, running a hand through his long black hair and sitting up a little straighter. Lily took her eyes off of James and, still with a disgusted look on her face, looked up at Sirius.

"Actually, Black, that is exactly what we'd like to know." She said, standing up and walking to the opposite side of the room from James. One could tell James wasn't too excited about that, but he didn't make it too obvious. He took Lily's seat and turned to the rest of the group.

"Eh, we were just talking about stuff." He said, as innocently as Remus, only no one believed he was really that innocent.

"Enough with the talking. I'm hungry." Sirius spoke up. "Why don't we converse over our first Hogwarts breakfast?"