Ello there! This is just something that I wrote after seeing The Friendship Challenge on Hogwarts forum. And come on, even with a crucial submission the next day that accounts for a percentage of my final grade, did anyone really think I wouldn't write a marauders one shot for it? I'm sure no one who knows me did.

Th prompt was 'being there and listening to a friends ranting' and I really hope I managed to capture that here? I'm not the best at humor or silly situations so I'm not sure how I did but yeah, I hope you guys like it and any feedback is welcome :")

This is to be dedicated to a friend we've made on the forum, someone special, and that honor will always belong to Anna, who has been the most perfect friend ever. So this one's for her [this is also a tiny little apology for my inactiveness, Anna :3] and I cannot thank you enough for all the ideas and suggestions you've given me, and for letting me rant about the most inconsequential of things. You're amazing, and I am SO lucky we became friends :") Happy Friendships Day, love!

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Sirius looked at his best friend lying face down on his bed and, deciding that something was wrong, poked him violently in the side. James Potter jumped up from his half dead position with a scream, turning to look at his assailant. When he saw Sirius standing somewhat sheepishly off to the side, he looked at him with murder in his eyes but instead of attacking him back, as Sirius has expected, just rolled over and flopped back on the bed again.

Now Sirius knew for sure that something was wrong.

"Are you going to tell me what's troubling you or do I have to poke it out of you?" he commented.

James lifted his head just enough to glare weakly at the raven haired animagus. 'Go away, Sirius."

"Oooh, the first name. Must be really bad, eh?" Sirius drawled with one hand over his heart, a faux hurt expression on his face.

James finally got up from the bed and scowled at the other boy, who seemed utterly unfazed and had an expectant look on his face. "You're not gonna go away are you?"

"Nope," Sirius quipped, looking entirely too triumphant as he did.

James sighed resignedly before turning towards his bedside table and retrieving a folded piece of parchment from it. He tossed the offending piece of paper towards who caught it with one hand and turned away with his arms crossed across his chest and the beginnings of a pout on his face.

When he turned back to ask Sirius if he had finished reading through it, a highly indignant look entered his eyes when he saw that Sirius had his fist stuffed in his mouth in an effort to stifle his laughter and from the looks of it, was having a very hard time of it.

"Give that to me," James scowled, trying to grab the parchment from him. "If you came here just to laugh at me, you can go right back to where you came from."

"It-It-It's just Pr-Prongs have you ev-even read that?" Sirius replied, trying to speak through his laughter. "They-they want you to advertise Sleakeazys. YOU!"

James scowled harder as he heard that. "The absolute nerve of them, I tell you. I don't go one minute at home without hearing at least one 'oh honey, you never touch this bottle, it'll be so good for you' or 'do you really want to go out like that?" Yes, yes I do mother. I will go out like this and I will enjoy my life like this, dammit."

Sirius had managed to get his laughter under control by now and was just sitting on his own bed, listening to James with an amused smile on his face.

"And then dad, who's always just sitting there with that damned smile on his face, chimes in at the worst times, 'James, are you sure you're not just saying no because a 'certain someone' likes it so?' or 'how do you plan on getting a wife with hair like that?' and he has the gall to actually wink at me, Sirius, as if he's oh so clever and has just given me the greatest solution ever."

He turned towards Sirius, who hastily wiped the smile off his face, and continued. "Did he not get married to mum with 'hair like that'? Did he not have exactly the same hair until the point he had designed this merlin forsaken product? Oh, yes, he did. But does he care about that? Ha, as if. He doesn't even want me to use the product, he just wants to torture me further in front of mum, and she NEVER notices him doing it and thinks he's just providing support which just gives her more support!" He took a deep breath and merely bulldozed on.

"Just the other day, we were having lunch and Mrs. Hallow and her daughter, Posey'-here, he made a face- 'came over, completely uninvited, and started going on and on about the absolute wonders of Sleakeazy's and what a complete fucking godsend it is. Dad's just revelling in the praise and attention like he always does and you know what mum does? Fucking side eyes me in front of them like hello mum can you please not? And like the icing on top of the pumpkin pasty, Posey fucking Hallow sees her and asks me in that annoying voice of hers 'oh James, do you not use Sleakeazy's on that um hair of yours?' and she actually coughed in that way, Pads, where you KNOW she's judging the shit out of you and I tell you, I have never been more offended in my life. Who was she, with her potion-dyed and magically enhanced hair to judge me and this wondrous mane of lush hair?"

Here, Sirius could no longer hold onto his laughter and burst out into loud guffaws that finally caught the irate boy's attention. James suddenly turned around at the sound of the sudden laughter and could only stare in disbelief at his best mate rolling around on the bed with his arm around his stomach and tears rolling down his cheek.

"Sirius!" he yelled, cheeks warming up slightly when he realized just how borderline ridiculous his ranting was.

It, however, had no effect on the other boy who was still laughing his ass off. A few seconds of bitter muttering on James' part later, Sirius started to slowly calm down. He turned to his own bedside drawer and quickly grabbed something out of it, making James look at him suspiciously.

Biting his lip slightly, Sirius withdrew his hand and presented James with a bottle of Sleakeazy's, making the other boy turn red and smack him over the head, leaving him dissolving in another fit of laughter.

"Ah, James, what would I ever do without you?" Sirius wheezed out between fits of laughter.

A small smile threatened to break through the scowl on his face looking at Sirius but before he could see it, James just turned away. Maybe he did sound a little whiny back then.