The Secret Revealed

The boys stared at the retreating forms of the girls. Sirius was alive with confusion. What couldn't they talk about here? James was filled with hope. She had said not to worry. Remus was realizing that tonight, everything would come free. He almost smacked himself as he remembered the sorting hat's song. Because when secrets exist, Opposites will never attract.

The boys were at the spot early, and had been waiting for almost ten minutes. Just as Sirius was starting to think it was just a big joke, the girls came up to them.

"Hi guys! How are you?" Len asked cheerfully.

" Waiting, and wondering what was so important that you guys couldn't talk about it in the open." James said, looking at Lily.

"Sorry we're late. Anyway, we wanted to tell you that it's us, (Len glares at her) alright, Melissa and I, who should be apologizing." Lily said, looking James straight in the eye.

This caught the boys off guard. "But we're the ones that followed you" Sirius said.

"Yeah, but we can understand your curiosity. You wanted to know our secret, and we refused to tell you." Melissa said, while looking at Sirius.

"That's why we are going to tell you everything." Len said in the same cheerful voice.

Remus smiled. The others just looked bewildered. "What?" James managed to get out.

All three girls glanced at each other. "You know how whenever you follow us you never catch us?" Lily asked.

"Yeah…" James answered warily.

"And how you always see some birds instead?" Melissa asked.

"Yeah…" Sirius answered in the same voice that James had.

"And, remember that argument in third year when you called Melissa predictable?" Len asked, looking at Sirius.

"Oh come on girls, they're dying of anticipation!" Remus said jokingly.

All three girls took a step back, looked at each other one last time and transformed. James and Sirius stared. Remus laughed at the look on their faces. When they transformed back into human form, the boys still hadn't found their voices. Len started laughing with Remus, while the others waited for a verdict from their boyfriends.

"Y-your animagus?" Sirius said, still awestruck.

"Yup. That's not a problem is it?" Melissa asked.

"No. Of course not. In fact…" James broke off, as he looked at Sirius. He nodded, and James turned back to the girls. Then, he and Sirius transformed, and it was the girls' turn to stare. They returned to human form, and looked at the girls.

"And here I was hoping that we were the only ones!" Melissa said, exasperated.

"Well, I guess we have more in common than we thought." Len said.

They all heard a loud 'meow!' and turned to face the caretaker's cat. It hissed, and was just about to scamper off to find her master, when Lily and Len, in bird form, obviously had had enough of this cat, and took her in their talons and once again, dumped her in the lake. When they came back, everyone else was in hysterics. The group panicked as they heard the caretaker around the corner. Obviously by instinct, the girls jumped put the window. The boys didn't argue, they just tossed the cloak on them. Snubbs rounded the corner just as they disappeared. He looked around and grunted, then went away.

The birds came back and sat on the windowsill. They looked around and were then startled as the boys took the cloak off. They returned to human form, and stared.

"Er, yeah, that was next on the agenda. I sort of have an invisibility cloak?" James said sheepishly.

"Well, that actually explains a lot of things. Like how you hardly ever get caught, how you followed us without being seen, when Lily woke up from her nap in the common room when she had heard something…" Melissa said.

"We should get back to bed. That cat should be getting out of the lake now, we don't want her telling Snubbs." Len said.

"Wait, that's not all. (he takes out the Map and explains to them.)" James said.

Lily was astonished. "You've never used that on us have you?" she said.

"Only times when we were wondering where you were…" James said nervously.

"Well, at least your being honest…" Lily said.

"Uh, guys, we should get back to the common room." Melissa said, looking at her watch.

"But there's no way that we'll all fit under his cloak!" Sirius said.

"Have you forgotten already? After GNs, we always fly back to our dorms. See you tomorrow Remus" Len said, and with a goodbye kiss, she jumped out the window.

"You know, I'm still not used to seeing her do that." Remus said, shaking his head.

"See you tomorrow James!" Lily said, also giving him a goodnight kiss before she too jumped out the window.

"Sirius, don't look so worried. See you tomorrow okay? G'night." Melissa said as she kissed him on the cheek and joined her friends.

"I understand what you mean Remus. That'll take a while to get used to." James said, as he tossed the cloak over them.

"I cant believe their animagus. I thought we were the only ones!" Sirius whisper yelled.

"Relax Padfoot, who cares if we're not the only ones! Now, they've forgiven you two, so I think it's great. We should go to bed." Remus said.

James sighed. "Your right. Come on, lets go to bed. We'll see the girls in the morning."

And they went to bed.

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"Well, I for one am glad that everything is back to normal." Len sighed, as she flopped down on her bed.

"Can you believe their animagus? I think it's wonderful." Lily said as she did the same as her friend.

"I couldn't agree more." Melissa said as she fell asleep.

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The next morning, the girls walked down to the common room, and saw their boyfriends sitting on the couches and armchairs by the fire. Len walked over and sat on Remus's lap and gave him a goodmorning kiss. Lily sat down on James' lap and did the same. Melissa sat beside Sirius on the loveseat. She also gave him a kiss.

"So, what do you think we should do today?" Lily asked as James smiled because her actions had concluded that everything was indeed back to normal.

"Well, we could do some work…" Len inquired.

"She's right guys. (he turned to the girls) We're planning a prank for April Fools day, so we probably wont want to do work on the day. It's a very special day for us Marauders, when we can prank and no one can blame us for it." He explained to them.

"Well okay, but you should know, we're thinking about joining in on the all-around pranks this year." Len said.

"And just because your our boyfriends doesn't mean you'll get any special treatment." Melissa said and laughed at the look on Sirius' face.

"But, we might go easy on you…" Lily teased.

" I have an idea! How about we have a little competition. On April Fools day, we all plan pranks, and the group with the best one wins!" James said excitedly.

" Well, what would the loser have to do?" Len asked.

" Oh I know! The loser has to buy lunch at the next Hogsmead day!" Remus said excitedly. There was a murmur of agreement.

"Then its agreed! It's the Marauders versus the Birds!" Sirius announced. The group looked strangely at him. "What, you have to have a name! We sign all our pranks The Marauders, you have to have a name and sign your pranks so we know if you did it or not. And the name is fitting, is it not?" Sirius said.

The girls nodded in agreement. "Okay, we're in. I think we should start planning. See you when you're being embarrassed!" Lily shouted as she gave James a quick peck on the cheek and was out the portrait hole with her friends.

"Hah! We'll have it easy. Len's the only one in that group that can prank. We take her out and the other two'll be a breeze. Start thinking what you want for lunch guys!" Sirius said as he relaxed on the sofa.