James POV

When we finally got back at about 5 we were all tired, and, in some cases, bruised. Sirius had taken a very impressive wipe out on a slope, and made a crater in the piste, much to the amusement of the Swiss children who whizzed past us at light speed (seriously, what do they feed those kids, steroids!) laughing manically and pointing him out to other equally as amused adults. The experience was humiliating for Remus and I also as we endeavoured to lift up Sirius's limp form (He insisted he couldn't get up himself).

So when we got back no one could quite face the horror that would result if we tried cooking ourselves, though Sirius insisted that he was an amazing cook, but fortunately Remus put his foot down, so we went to a local restaurant for dinner. We were halfway through a discussion about whether cheese could be the cause of spontaneous combustion (just don't ask how we came to this subject) when in walked none other than Marlene McKinnon and Rosa Shielding, some girls I knew slightly from my lily-stalking at school-I had followed lily around for 2 years, hoping to gain her affection. Unfortunately Sirius decided to join me in my ventures and, good friend that he is, tried to get lily as annoyed with me as possible. These attempts usually involved pus of some sort and lily's hair, and the result for me was never pretty.

Anyway the two girls, walked in, caught sight of us, and for some unknown reason immediately looked like incredibly amused. At this point I have to refer back to the wise words of my eight year old self, "Girls are so weird…"

Lily POV

I was just walking in to the restaurant we'd decided to go to for dinner when I saw Rosa and Marlene standing in the entrance of the restaurant whispering and laughing about something. I couldn't be sure but I think I caught the sentence, "Lily will just LOVE this!" Strange, but they're probably just plotting a snowball ambush after dinner or som- OH. SWEET. MOTHER. OF. CHOCOLATE! Please tell I did not see what I thought I just saw, tell me it was an illusion or something, ANYTHING but the reality of seeing potter and the munchkins sitting at a table. I chanced another look, and yes, it was them. Its official, the universe has got to have some sort of grudge against me. What have I ever done wrong?!

I grabbed Rosa and Marlene by the arms. "You know, let's go somewhere else, this place is way too, um… hot"

"Too hot!? Lily, we're at over a thousand six hundred meters" said Rosa

"And besides" said Marlene and I think I detected a hint of mischievousness in her voice, "I like the look of this place…"

After about 5 minutes of ever so slightly pointless arguing, Marlene and Rosa lost patience and pushed me bodily through the door, (rather harder than was necessary I thought). I landed on something warm and squishy. For a brief moment my mind was at peace and I was only thinking of the distinct likeness between my favourite common room chair and my current seating arrangements but then intelligence caught up with me and I realised it was not a something but a someone.

Oh deary me, won't this be fun to try and explain in French… I was just trying to figure out how to say it was my crap lousy friend's fault, when an extremely obnoxious voice rang in my ears.

"Prongsie! Look, a girl fell into my arms! I've been trying to convince you for two years that they do that! VICTORY IS MINE!"

I scrabbled my way (extremely gracefully of course) out of the lap of Mr Black and came to the realisation that I have fallen into my own special horror movie… I could name it "Return of the munchkins"!!! But, back to more pressing matters, such as the fact that the entire table appears to have recognized each other, and the excitement of this has short-circuited Sirius' brain (the fact that he was rocking back and forth muttering Lily-pop, Rosa-bean and Marlenesicles was my first clue.)

Rosa and Remus are staring at each other looking love-lorn and mournful, and Marlene is gleefully poking Sirius' still rocking form (she is easily amused) leaving Potter and I in an extremely awkward and red faced silence. (OK fine, the red face was just me, there are defects to being a redhead, Potter was just staring at me, his mouth slightly open, as if he couldn't believe this was happening, which unfortunately, it was)

"Soo…" I sprinted through my mind to find something vaguely intelligent and/or interesting to say, "Cheese… Swiss cheese, cheese is good…" Oh way to go brain, now he thinks you're a freak, wait, why do I care, I don't care I couldn't care less it would be physically impossible for me to actually care less, and now I'm babbling inside my own head! Could this get any sadder?

Thankfully Sirius breaks the ice (and his chair) by trying to lean back on it and stretch, subtly putting his arm round Marlene. However subtlety and Sirius are just not soulmates and he overbalances and has ended up on the floor, much to the amusement of the Swiss waitress that has come to take our orders. Rosa Marlene and I make a mad dash for the French dictionaries we are all carrying while the guys just head straight in. Their combined French vocabulary consists of fromage and petits pois, so this could be interesting.

James POV

After being kicked out of the restaurant, we decided that our best option was probably getting a takeaway pizza from a little boulangerie that was in the centre of town. So we walked with the girls, messing around and talking amiably for a while. Amiably meaning, Rosa and Remus flirt subtly to each other, Sirius trying to flirt with Marlene when Marlene is currently hitching a ride on Sirius's back and endeavouring to throw snowballs at Rosa and Remus. This leaves me, suddenly struck dumb, listening to Lily sing quietly. She's actually quite good, I've never told her before.

However this did not last as Sirius was whining that as he put it Remus had "totally ruined his chances with the fit foreign girl who was totally into him!" by not just ordering for them in the first place. He was also choosing to do this in an extremely annoying childish high pitched voice and was eventually told by Marlene to walk at least ten feet away from us, or shut up!

Sirius pouted and went to sulk at the edge of the road. So we ignored him for about a minute before hearing a very high pitched and strangely girlish screech from the road about ten feet away. Evidently Sirius had gone too close to the edge of the road and had walked over a snow cap at the edge of the road, collapsing it and falling down the snow covered slope at the side of the road. The head of an extremely sheepish Sirius appeared over at the edge of the road, shortly followed by the rest of him. I regret to inform you that, at that moment my friend had turned into something resembling the abominable snowman. He was completely caked in powdery snow from his feet to (horror of horrors) his hair.

Lily POV

From inbetween fits of laughter I managed to gasp out "Sirius, your, your hair!" Sirius froze, a completely disbelieving expression on his face, and one cautious hand crept up to his soggy and it has to be said, deflated, hairstyle. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" his anguished cry reverberated around the mountains. "It's, it's… flat", the last word was said in what could only be described as a whisper of despair.

"Sirius, you ok?" asked Marlene tentatively. Sirius seemed lost for words; he just gave a tiny shake of the head and continued walking, the occasion finger or two timidly touching his hair in the vain hope it might not be true.

Marlene went off to comfort him and Rosa and Remus drifted away leaving me with Potter, I swear I think fate has got bored and is trying to play matchmaker with my life or something because I seem to be finding myself in this situation a lot…