Chapter 3 is up!! Read and Review!! This is where the actual story really starts.

Chapter 3

Remus sighed as he flopped onto his bed. It had been a long, hard day and he was ready to relax. He listened as James left and Peter quietly left the dormitory for their usual nighttime stroll down to the kitchens. He had barely closed his eyes when he heard Sirius mumble, "Bugger."

He poked his head out from his bed hangings. "Padfoot? You all right?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just spilled this Binding Potion all over this board game."

Remus climbed out of bed. "Binding Potion? Sirius? You took a flask of that from Potions class?"

Sirius shrugged innocently. "Hey, it's not like this thing's dangerous. And besides, I just spilled it over this game I found here…"

Remus peered at the game more closely. Many of the words were smudged, but he could still make out some of them. "….. or Dare. Must be Truth or Dare." There were a lot of words on the side he couldn't read, but he figured those were advertisements to sell the game. "Sirius, where did you find this?"

Sirius pointed to an empty space of floor near his bed. "In there."

"In where?"

"In here." Sirius put the game down and walked over to the space of floor he had been pointing at. He bent down and pulled up a tile. Remus peered into the space that had been left there and his eyes widened in amazement.

"Padfoot… what's all this?"

Sirius grinned. "This is where I keep all my fun stuff. You know, like potions and whatnot. All the stuff I nick from class."

Remus frowned playfully. "Padfoot, you know you shouldn't be doing that. You never know what might happen when you mess around with stuff like this." But he didn't mean it. Sirius was one of the smartest boys in the school, and no matter what it looked like, he paid attention in class. At least, he paid attention until he found out if the potion was deadly or not. Then the rest of the lesson was pretty much free time for him.

"So… you hid a truth or dare game in there?"

Sirius frowned. "No, it was there before. It was the only thing too, but I forgot about it since I never used it. I found it my third day at Hogwarts, and I just havn't looked at it since."

"Then why get it out now?"

"It was taking up too much space. I was going to get rid of it to make room for the next batch of potions that I'm going to nick."

"I gotcha."

"Well…" Sirius frowned. "Why not play?"

"What?"

"It's out and I don't need the room anymore, so why not start a game? I haven't got anything better to do tonight, do you?"

"Nope." It was true. Tonight Remus had just planned on catching up on lost sleep. No studying involved.

"You wanna wait for James and Peter?"

"Nah, they can join in once they get back. Let's get it out."

The two boys pulled the game out from its box and set it on the floor between them. Only a little of the potion had leaked through the box onto the game inside, so Remus figured the magic that kept the game working was probably still intact.

"Just make sure not to touch that. You don't want to get fused to the game."

"Right."

"All right." Sirius examined the game. "I think we have to do this first…" he put his hand on the semi-sphere protruding from the top of the game. It shined for a few moments, then the light subsided. "Your turn."

Remus put his hand on the half orb and watched the light. The Binding Potion had leaked onto the side of the game, nowhere near the orb, so he was okay there.

"All right. Now what?"

Sirius looked at Remus and smirked. "Well I think we have to ask a question."

"What?"

Sirius grinned. "Truth or Dare?"

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