Disclaimer: I don't own the Respect song. That belongs to the lovely Aretha Franklin.

…And in the sixth hour…

The dorm was once again, quiet. Having exhausted themselves from drenching Sirius in shampoo and laughing themselves silly, the occupants of the room were resting amongst themselves in silence.

Lily was over by the window, pacing back in forth in front of it. She kept glancing at her watch. It was just starting to turn six but it had felt like they had been in here much longer. She was starting to get hungry. Since she had eaten a large breakfast, she had skipped lunch in favor of searching for her wand which was no where to be found.

'It it wasn't for those two meddling baboons I wouldn't be in this mess,' she was thinking. 'Wow I'm hungry. Wait, do I still have those crackers in my trunk? I think I do. But I'm not sharing with them, no way. Actually, I think I have some rum in there too from Christmas. That might make this whole experience more endurable.'

As Lily speculated on this, Sirius came out of the bathroom, his hair wet from his shower. He had done his best to get the shampoo off of his clothes, but they were still a little uncomfortable. He had washed his shirt the best he could but it was still wet. And then he had removed his boxer shorts and hid them in one of the drawers in the bathroom for either Lily or one of Lily's roommates to find later.

It had taken fifteen minutes to rinse the humongous amounts of soap out of his hair. Not that he minded; he had felt pretty gross after everyone had had their fun spitting on him.

Walking over to Debbie's bed, he sat on the edge of it and glared at Remus on the next bed.

'Damn you Moony, I will get you back for that one. Speaking of Moony, what was that that Lily shouted about lemon boxers? That was weird. But at least I got to try out the handcuffs before Debbie comes back from break. Oh yes, Debbie and I are going to have a lot of fun with those.'

Remus looked over and saw Sirius glaring at him.

'Oh well,' Remus thought, 'that's what he gets for trying to say that I came up with this stupid plan. Really though, I'm having trouble remembering. Was it Sirius? Or Remus? I mean me. Wow that was weird. Ooo, is that a sickle?'

Peter had finally come out of the closet and kept flinging himself into the door, trying to break it down.

'Stupid door,'he was thinking,'stupid Remus for coming up with this plan, stupid Sirius for coming up with this plan, whoever came up with it is stupid. Stupid Lily for smacking me with that bottle. I'm going to have that bruise for a week. Stupid James for…actually I can't think of anything James did. But I'm pretty sure he and Lily were the ones that drew on my face so he's stupid too.'

James was miserably smacking his forehead with his hand. He sat on Lily's closed trunk, trying to get the song that was going through his mind to stop.

'R-E-S-P-E-C-T find out what is means to me, R-E-S-P-E-C-T tare care TCB!' James whimpered and tried to think of something else ANYTHING else.

Lily's hair, Lily's eyes, Lily's arse, Lily's freckles, Lily's legs, Lily's—

'Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me!'

Everyone turned to look at him as he wailed sadly into his hands. Even though it had been by a muggle, he had always liked that song. Now, for no apparent reason at all, it had popped into his head and refused to leave.

And now that he had tried to think of Lily instead, the image of Lily singing that with Aretha Franklin's voice was in his mind.

'Just a little bit! Oh babe, just a little bit, you're runnin' out of fool! Just a little bit…'

"What's wrong with you?" Remus asked him worriedly.

James quickly shook his head. "Respect—I mean nothing."

Remus gave him a strange look before shrugging it off.

"TRUTH OR DARE!" Sirius shouted out of no where, startling the others out of their thoughts.

Lily, who was still pacing, nearly tripped. Peter jumped in the middle of his dive for the door and ending up hitting the doorknob and doubling over in pain, Remus for some reason fell off of the bed, and James's thoughts were cleared.

For two seconds before the song came back stronger than ever.

They all stood up and glared at Sirius.

"Peter, are you ok?" Sirius asked Peter who was standing up glaring at him, but looked to be in a great amount of pain.

Peter was seething. Never had he been so beat up than he was now. Not only did his head still hurt from where Lily had thrown a book at him, but his arm was bruising from where Lily had hit him with a shampoo bottle, and now because of Sirius, he was pretty sure he had bruised up his ribs pretty badly.

So really he was mostly bruised up because of a girl, something that Peter was none too happy about it. Not to mention that he bruised like a peach, which just made it so much easier for her.

"Oh, I'm all bright sunshine and daises, over here Padfoot." He ground out at him angrily before sinking down onto the window sill.

Lily patted him on the shoulder apologetically. She had felt bad about hitting with him with the shampoo bottle, that had been a little harsh, but he and Remus had kept wasting her shampoo. In other words, they had been wasting her money. And she was ridiculously frugal. She was not CHEAP!

But Frugal.

Sirius cleared his throat. "Uh…truth or dare anyone? Peter, you can go first."

Everyone shrugged. There was nothing else to do.

"Fine, buttmunch." Peter grumbled. "Remus, truth or dare?"

"Truth," Remus said, sounding bored.

One corner of Peter's mouth lifted a little. "Ok, that story you told Lily about the lemon boxers, was it true?"

Remus sent a nervous look at Lily who had jerked her head in his direction. "Er…Well, er…it depends on what you mean by truth…I er…ok yeah, that was a lie."

"WHAT?" Lily shrieked.

"Hey, I got a wet willy for that!" Sirius screamed at Remus accusingly.

"This is fun." Peter said happily.

"What you want, baby I got it. What you need, you know I got it." James sang quietly, but no one heard.

"Fine! I'm sorry." Remus said, not sounding sincere at all. "Sirius, truth or dare?"

Sirius shrugged. "Dare."

"Ok, I dare you to go lick the shower drain."

Lily blanched at this, but the others had expected something along these lines. As many times as they had played this game, it never got old to make Sirius lick the shower drain, or the toilet seat, or the bottom of his shoe, or the floor. He was the only one that always picked dare and always did what he was dared to do.

Lily couldn't watch. The boys, however, found it hilarious and piled into the bathroom to watch Sirius do this disgusting task.

Figuring it was probably the best time to do it, Lily rushed over to her trunk and after searching through it quickly, found a box of crackers. She jumped on her bed, hid the box under her pillow, and then tried to look as innocent as she could manage when they came back out.

"Why are you looking so weird?" Remus asked her strangely as he walked out.

Well. So much for the act innocent plan. She shrugged at Remus. "How do I look weird?"

"You looked like you had gas or something." Remus said before walking on.

So apparently, when she tried to look innocent, she ended up looking like she had gas?

'Ok,' Lily thought, 'no more trying to look innocent…'

"Lily!" Sirius yelled in her direction. "Truth or dare?"

"Truth."

She was NOT going to say dare after knowing what Sirius was made to do.

"Ok…" Sirius thought for a moment. "What is the most horrible thing you're ever done?"

Lily had to think on that one. She'd always tried to be a nice person…she wasn't perfect, of course, but she was always (mostly anyways) nice to everyone, got straight O's, did all of her homework on time, had never done drugs or snogged a complete stranger.

And those last two were complete lies.

"It was the summer break before last," she told the boys, "my neighbor and muggle friend Lucy were going to this party…My dad said no but…I wanted to anyway. So later that night I snuck out of the window."

"Far out—Lily Evans is bad!" Remus grinned.

Rolling her eyes at this comment, she continued. "And while I was there…" she bit her lip, "I kind of…sort of…maybe smoked a little pot…"

The Marauders gaped at her. Lily had always been so goody goody at school. The image of her smoking pot was an odd one.

"And then I snogged some poor bloke I'd never met before and haven't seen since." She finished this story and looked around at all of their gawking faces.

"What?" James asked, looking a little disappointed. Disappointed because he hadn't been the strange bloke, of course. He mentally cursed himself as he remembered that summer—when Lily had been snogging a strange guy, he and his friends had probably been dunking Peter's head in the toilet.

"Wow, Evans," Sirius let out a low whistle. And then after a few more moments of silence: "I'm telling Dumbledore."

Lily stared at him. "Why would you do that?"

"Padfoot!" James interrupted before he could answer Lily. "The rules of truth or dare clearly state that whatever happens in the game stays between the persons who participated and no one else."

Sirius gave him a strange look. "Ok Mister rule book—I was only teasing."

As Sirius shook his head, Lily sent James a little smile which he returned. This, however, went unnoticed by everyone else in the room.

"Your turn Evans," Sirius told her.

"Ok, Black," Lily grinned cheekily at him. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"Ok, I dare you to tell me what it feels like to transform into a dog."

If the boys had been shocked by the news that Lily had smoked pot, then it was nothing compared the shock they felt now. HOW had she known? They had been so careful for years…and why hadn't she said anything to anyone?

No one really had anything to say for a few moments.

Lily enjoyed the rare silence though. She had seen them transforming and disappearing under the whomping willow three days ago after everyone had left for the Easter holiday break. She hadn't ever thought of telling on them—that was their business.

Oddly enough, when she had first saw them transform, her first thought was: 'Good grief…How stupid to do it out there in the open…Dingbats…'

And then she had rolled her eyes and gone to take a shower without a second glance.

Then later when she had asked James about it, he simply said, 'Yeah, we do that…Wanna snog?'

Right now James wasn't looking shocked at all. Instead, he looked like he had forgotten to tell the other boys something. "Oh, YEAH, forgot to tell you guys…Lily knows."

Remus, with his mouth hanging open, turned to stare at James. "WHAT?"

James shrugged. "Yeah, no biggie, she's not telling."

"And if she does we're telling everyone about pot smoking Lily," Peter warned, making Lily roll her eyes.

"This game is dangerous." Sirius said. "We're not playing this anymore."

"But you didn't answer your question!" Lily complained.

"We're not playing." Sirius said stubbornly.

"But-"

"No."

"But-"

"Evans!"

"Dog—I mean Black!"

"No more."

"But-"

"No."

"I-"

"No."

"Come on just-"

"No."

"You suck."