A/N Hey! Sorry, it's been a while. I have work, and such, plus I haven't been in the mood to write. On top of that my sister was bothering me and trying to get me to write a chapter for OUR story, so between all of that, getting a kitten(named Remus), and reading the Percy Jackson series, I have had a lot on my plate. Well, more than I'm used to anyhow. I really want to give you some chapters before school starts up again, but I don't foresee me making it past second year this summer. Then during the school year, I probably won't be writing much unless it's a holiday, so.

But! If you keep reviewing and reminding me to write (I would still love to hear your opinions on how long it is taking me to get a chapter out), I will still be motivated to finish this story! Because as of late, I have barely been motivated to do so, but I would feel guilty to abandon ANOTHER story, especially because this one has so much potential. My other story was just because I thought it would be cute (and I absolutely love this one OC I have)

Anyway, without further ado.

Year One, Part Four (this is the last of Year one guys!((Hopefully)))

The rest of the time spent at the Potter Mansion was spectacular. Christmas had come and gone, but school was drawing near. The trio had spent all the rest of their break planning all different pranks they could do. Sirius and James were the ones going to perform the pranks, while Remus sat on the sidelines.

The two dark haired boys had discovered an advantage they could use by keeping Remus "innocent" of all pranks. Remus was, of course, compared to an angel by all the professors at Hogwarts. The "Star Pupil" one might say. But Sirius and James were discovering quite the opposite of their friend. Remus was a worse swearer then both Sirius and James put together. Not only did he curse, but the Lupin boy most definitely had an attitude. Remus was sarcastic, sassy, and swore day and night. Sirius even overheard Remus sleep swearing. Remus was also the worst of them all when it came to thinking up pranks.

Although, Remus had quite a few things that neither pure-bloods did. For one, Remus had a conscience. Yes, the small boy thought up the greatest pranks, but he also would say not to use them if they would in any way cause harm or damage. Yes, Remus could come up with a thousand smart aleck comments for any rhyme or reason, but he couldn't bear the thought of anyone hearing them.

But for now, the group would keep Remus' "bad" side a secret, and all that would show is the angel whom always turned assignments in on time.

That would most definitely back fire.

As the Hogwarts Express rolled into the station, there was a huge explosion that came from one of the compartments.

"Damn it, James! You fucked the whole thing up!" Remus shouted as he looked at the now steaming game of exploding snaps. Sirius snickered in the background.

"Well, it's not my fault! Sirius distracted me!" James yelled. Meanwhile, Sirius stared directly at the door with a charming smile.

"Oh! Hello, Evans." Sirius greeted.

"Shut up you nutter, I'm not going to fall for that twice in a row!" James shouted at the young Black scion.

"Fall for what again?" Lily Evans asked.

"Nothing," all three children replied. Evans huffed and rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, I am just here to make sure you two march up to Severus and apologize to him." She drawled out, pointing her finger at the two guilty subjects.

"For what?" James asked, genuinely confused. Lily glared at him.

"For making him dance and sing in front of the entire school!" Evans shouted.

"Oh, come on! It wasn't that bad!" Sirius shrugged off.

"Wasn't. That. Bad?" Lily ground out, teeth clenched together, and her fiery red matching her now red cheeks. She drew a shaky breath and got stepped dangerously close to Sirius. "Wasn't that bad! You made my friend dance on top of the Slytherin table while singing some ridiculous wizard song. He then fell off the table and sprained his ankle. Then he danced his way out of the Great Hall, on a sprained ankle, and tripped down a flight of stairs. Because of that, he twisted his right wrist, broke his left arm, and then broke his other leg! He then continued to dance an Irish jig for another two hours! He spent a week in the infirmary and because he hadn't gotten his leg fixed right away, and then danced on it, he has to wear a cast for the next month!" she was shrieking by the end of her speech.

"Now tell me, Potter, Black, is that not so bad?" she enquired, spitting out the names of the two boys.

"Well, I wouldn't want it to happen to me, but…" James was cut off mid-sentence.

"EXACTLY!" she yelled. "Now why does it deserve to happen to Severus?"

"Because, he's a slimy, Slytherin, git who is destined to be evil. He would fit right in with my family… maybe we should introduce them." Sirius replied slyly. Evans looked like she was about to pounced but instead she ran out of the cabin crying. Sirius and James were stunned.

Remus sighed. "I'll go after her…. But you two really need to get in touch with your conscience. How do you not feel guilty? I wasn't really even a part of the prank and I feel guilty." He then left without another word.

"Guilty…guilty… gu-il-ty… Nope! Not really in my vocabulary." Sirius said as if he was searching for something. James rolled his eyes.

"Well, maybe we should apologize. I mean, she's really upset. It could do us good to look like we have morals every so often. Come on, we'll do it tomorrow." James decided.

The next Twelve hours were dreadful to Sirius. He wasn't sure he knew how to apologize. Well, he knew how he just has never done it because he actually had done something wrong. He still didn't understand the whole "wrong" part of the situation, but James, Remus, and he had a long discussion about how someone getting hurt is not funny, but how it's very bad, no matter who gets hurt. Remus knew this new-found appreciation of humanity wouldn't last long, but it was good enough for now.

James and Sirius headed to the library, where the young red-head and her slimy friend always were and got ready to say they were sorry. When the two boys got there, James stopped them from going in. he was staring at Evans and Snape laughing as they studied. James glared and looked down at his feet. He scrunched his eyebrows in confusion. He felt something and he didn't know what it was.

It was jealousy.

James hadn't ever even needed to feel jealousy. Everything he ever wanted was handed to him on a silver platter, even the things he didn't want. His parents bought his every whim, his every desire. When you always get what you want, what room is there for jealousy?

"You know what Sirius, maybe Snape didn't deserve it. But you know what else, he doesn't need to know it was us. He probably doesn't. Evans has no proof we're the ones who did it, and he has no reason to believe we did. he obviously wasn't hurt in the long run, so why do we need to do anything about making him feel better?" James pointed out. Sirius nodded his head as he thought about this.

"You have a good point, but won't Remus be mad about us not apologizing?" Sirius agreed.

"Why does he have to know?" James suggested.

"Won't Evans sell us out?" Sirius asked. James thought about this for a while.

"Yeah, oh well! Why do we have to worry about it?" James said.

"Again, good point," Sirius replied. They then turned around and headed back to their dorm.

The next two months went relatively smoothly. Relatively.

Sirius decided he should pull a welcome back prank. He got a bunch of dung bombs and set them off in each of the Gryffindor Girls bathrooms. That backfired. Because the girls couldn't use their own bathrooms, they were allowed to use the boy's bathrooms. Not only did they get to use the boy's bathrooms, but for privacy reasons, the boys were not allowed to be on whatever floor the girls were on while using the facilities. This meant that if one girl needed to use the loo in the middle of the night all the boys on that floor would have to vacate their beds and dorms. Professor McGonagall knew one of the boys had set off the dung bombs in the girl's bathrooms, but she couldn't do anything about it until someone confessed. She thought this arrangement would punish the rogue boy quite nicely.

Finally, one night when the first-year boys had had to vacate their dorm six times throughout the night, Sirius broke. He got a months-worth of detention, yet he still would not tell how he got up the stairs to get to the girl's bathrooms. when asked about it by James and Remus later, Sirius simply said that 'A charmer never admits to his code.'

Neither James nor Sirius would ever understand why Remus almost wet his pants from laughing.

"How could you not know the phrase 'a magician never reveals his secrets?' it's almost the most famous Muggle phrase!" Remus complained.

"Exactly, Muggle." Sirius pointed out.

"You two need to learn more about the Muggle world," Remus told them, shaking his head in exasperation.

As January and February passed, James birthday drew even nearer. Sirius had found out James' birthday was March 27th over the holiday and was determined to give his best friend an amazing party. Little did either pureblood know, to Remus' relief, that Remus' birthday was on March 10th.

Remus didn't really like celebrating his birthday. It always reminded him of his first full moon transformation. His fifth birthday had only been a week before his first experience as a werewolf. Therefore, every birthday he had had since he was always full of dread. This year was even worse since his birthday was the day before a full moon.

Although there were many arguments about the subject, Remus always thought that the day before the full moon was always the worst. He felt the pull that the wolf had on him harder than almost any other day of the month. That was mostly because he couldn't do much but sleep on the day of the full moon. The day after was always bad, but, again, he mostly slept all day.

Sirius had enlisted the help of his cousin and her boyfriend to throw this party for James. They had decided to surprise him by throwing the party early, 17 days early to be exact. Yes, they had decided to throw James' surprise birthday party on Remus' actual birthday.

When March 10th arrived, Remus got very nervous. He was sure someone was going to pop out of the bushes and yell "Happy Birthday!" and knowing his friends, they probably would.

Remus had gotten up late as he usually ended up doing around the full moon. He walked into the Great Hall on edge. He sat down next to Lily because she was the only one there he knew, probably because Sirius was with Andromeda and James was in detention.

"Good morning Remus! A-are you alright?" Lily asked concernedly, noting at how tired Remus looked.

"I'm fine," he insisted through a yawn. He put a piece of toast and a runny egg on his plate and stared at it. Although it was nearly 9:30 in the morning, the hall was still quite full. Not to mention the tables were full of food and the lights were giving him a headache. His heightened senses were always worse around the full moon. He pushed away his plate and laid his head on the table. What another great start to his birthday.

"Remus, you don't seem 'fine.' Please, let me take you to Madame Pomphrey. Please." Lily pleaded.

Remus shook his head no before nodding off. Lily sighed and tried to wake him up. To no success, Lily tried whatever she could think of. Still, nothing woke him up.

"Sev, can you help me get him help?" she asked the young Slytherin.

"Why would I help him?" He asked her.

"You're not helping him. You're helping me. Now please help me carry him. He's quite light, I'm sure with our combined strength, we can do it." She insisted. Severus rolled his eyes but picked up the sleeping boy's feet. They got him as far as the second-floor corridor before Ted and Sirius found him.

"Remus!" Sirius shouted.

"Did he just fall asleep like that?" Ted inquired.

"No, but Lily insisted we carry him to Gryffindor tower," Snape replied.

"Evans! Would you bring a snake into our sacred walls? How dare you!" Sirius accused. Ted looked at the poor sleeping boy.

"We'll take care of it. Thank you, Lily, uh, Severus, is it? Well, I'm sure we can handle him. Come on, Siri." Ted said as he slung the scarred boy over his shoulder.

"Remus! Merlin, he'll miss the party if he doesn't get up soon!" Sirius exclaimed. Andromeda rolled her eyes.

"He is here, isn't he? It'll be fine, he'll wake up eventually. Hurry up because James will be here sooner than later." Andromeda reprimanded.

"Yes, mum" Sirius grumbled. Ted chuckled until Andromeda slapped him on the shoulder.

Soon enough James came bounding through the doors of the Room of Requirement.

"Surprise!" they all shouted, well, all but Remus.

James jumped back at the noise.

"What's the surprise?" He asked. Sirius facepalmed and Andy smiled.

"Surprise Birthday party of course." She told him.

"For who?" James asked bewildered.

"You! You gormless muppet!" Sirius shouted.

(A/N me here! Anyway, this is a British insult I looked up. I found this wonderful page of 50 hilarious British insults that I found very charming. I mean no insult to anyone who lives in Great Britain but these are so amazing. I'm sorry it's just you guys have the best way of saying things and I am totally using "like a dog with two dicks" later in my story. OMG these are funny)

"What! My Birthday isn't for, like, two weeks. Why are you having a party?" James asked.

"To surprise you, you dimwit!"

"Oh," James took that in for a moment, "Well, good job!" he said smiling.

Andy rolled her eyes and went over to the cake.

"Sirius, can you come here for a moment?" She asked. Sirius raised an eyebrow and headed over to his cousin's side. "Why does the cake say, 'Happy Birthday Remus'?"

"I don't know. Mrs. Lupin made it" Sirius stated.

"Siri, do you happen to know when Remus' Birthday is?"

"…..No." Sirius drawled. Andromeda took a deep breath and walked over to the sleeping child.

"Happy Birthday Remus." She said as she shook the boy awake.

"No, Mummy, I hate my Birthday. Let me sleep." Remus mumbled sleepily. He then sat up slowly with his eyes scrunched up. He opened one and peeked out. He cringed when he saw that, yes, he had not only called Andromeda Mummy but that he also revealed that it was his birthday. He also revealed that he hated it. "Is there a chance none of your heard any of that?" everyone shook their heads, "Yup, that's what I thought."

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?" Sirius shouted.

"Because I wish it wasn't," he said as if he was regretting waking up. Sirius and James glared at him. That obviously wasn't a good enough answer.

Remus told them how he just didn't like the attention of having a Birthday. This didn't settle as well as Remus had hoped, but the group let it go and celebrated James and Remus' birthdays. James got almost the entire Zonko's store, plus a large amount of chocolate and candy. Remus was given all of James' chocolate in apology of not knowing his birthday. Remus didn't quite understand why that was a good enough reason for chocolate, but he would never turn down chocolate.

The rest of the year was rather unimportant. Sirius and James played approximately 34 pranks and got 100 hours of detention in all. Remus had spent the entire month before the end of the year studying for end of the year finals with Lily. Remus, of course, ended up with Out-standings in everything, even potions. James got Out-standing in Transfiguration and Exceeds Expectations in everything else, and Sirius got Exceeds Expectations in everything.

After one particularly nasty prank on Evans and Snape James got one of Lily's legendary scoldings in the middle of the Great Hall.

"You- you are such- MARAUDERS!" she yelled. James looked over at Sirius and then at Remus.

"You're right, we are," James admitted with a sly smile. He got up on to Gryffindor table and cupped his hands around his mouth. "Listen up! Please, Pay attention. I, James Potter, declare the name of the group of your residential scoundrels, The Marauders. This group consists of James Fleamont Potter, Sirius Orion Black, and Remus John Lupin." He held out his hands to bring up the other two boys. "We are now The Marauders, dubbed thusly by Lily Evans, and we are now committed to bringing Mischief to all!" James raised the hands of the boys beside him and did a theatre bow. James and Sirius went up and down, arms swinging beside them, while Remus looked around kind of nervously.

"Mister Potter! Why I never! You three 'Marauders' will get off that table immediately!" Professor McGonagall commanded.

James and Sirius smirked as they got off the table. Remus cowed instantly and shoved his elbow into James. James then cowed and did the same to Sirius. Sirius did not get the hint and smiled even brighter.

McGonagall pursed her lips and huffed. "Now, if it were not your last day at Hogwarts for the year, I would give each of you a week's detention. But, since it is the last day for this school year, I will give you an extra inch of your Transfiguration essay and detention on your second night back next year. 7 o'clock and I will expect you to be there." She looked closely at each boy. "Now off you go." She dismissed.

The train ride home was simply full of promises to write, come quickly if anything got bad at home, and plan to visit at least one night this summer, if not a week.

Remus was glad they were going home. It's not that he didn't enjoy his friends, it's that he hates lying to them. He knows that no matter their views on werewolves, his friends will all hate him for lying to them.

Sirius was dreading going home. He knows he'll get punished for running to James' and he knows it will be bad. Not as bad as getting put into Gryffindor, but still pretty bad. But maybe the next year won't be so bad. Maybe he won't be alone. He'll have Regulus. And maybe, just maybe, it will be better.

James was sad to be going home. He loved the majestic Hogwarts castle and all the wonder it possessed. He loved being with his friends and knew he would be lonely at home. Only if his parents could have given him brother. Yes, yes, it's a miracle that he was even born, imagine another one. But still, James wished he had a brother almost every day of his life. It was one of his hearts deepest desires. That would either strengthen him or destroy him.

A/N IT'S FINISHED! YEAR ONE IS COMPLETE! I'm really, really sorry it took so long but I had a small bout of writer's block. But hey, I'm done with the hardest year there is. Mostly because once I hit another hard year, like 4th year, I'll just put random pre-Wolfstar or pre-Jily. It's just this year at Hogwarts leads up to everything else. Thank you so much if you have made it this far, or if you have been with me since the beginning. Also, you can correct my grammar, I know I need to go through my last chapter and change some stuff. I know I'm quite bad with grammar, but I have seen writers with worse grammar, not that this is a place to judge. Why I ask you this is because I am trying to learn. Anyway, until next time.