…And in the Eighteenth Hour…

Turns out, it didn't take long for the boys to wake up. This could be because Lily got bored and deliberately made noise to try to get them up. But she wanted to make it look like an accident and not like she actually wanted them awake. No, that wouldn't do at all.

So the first thing she tried was going into the bathroom (after she had brushed her teeth and put on her clothes) and flushing the toilet. Her toilet was annoyingly loud and regularly woke her up on a nightly basis when one of her roommates would flush it.

So when she flushed, she ran out of the bathroom, and said loudly, "OOPS! I didn't mean to…" But she trailed off into silence as she noticed that the boys had not woken up at all. They hadn't even rolled over or flinched.

That was ok, she would just have to try harder. So she went back into the bathroom (leaving the door wide open) and opened the toilet lid and slammed it back down again.

"OOPS!" She said as she ran back into the room.

But still the boys were fast asleep.

So she did the next most logical thing that anyone would do. She went over to her trunk, opened it and then slammed it down three times.

"Sirius, get off of my elf!" James said loudly as he rolled over. "That's my elf! Get your own…"

And then he was snoring softly. Remus rolled over and sighed happily, Sirius, who was lying on his stomach, grunted loudly and then farted, and Peter was the only one who didn't budge.

Lily glowered at them all before she opened her trunk again, reached in, grabbed two books, and then pulled them back out. She walked over to stand over Remus who had a little pleasant smile on his face. At least Remus seemed to be having sweet dreams, unlike her, Lily thought grumpily.

She would put an end to that.

Lily held the books two inches above his head before she pulled both of her arms back and then slammed the books back together. The impact made a loud crack sound and Remus jerked into consciousness and flew out of the bed in a tangle of sheets.

"Oops!" Lily said pleasantly. "Sorry Lupin, was that too loud? I didn't mean to wake you…"

Remus blinked slowly up at her from the floor. He still looked half asleep. His usually neat blonde hair was a sloppy mess on his head, and his eyes looked drowsy with sleep. He glared at her for a moment before reaching up onto the bed and pulling the pillow down to him.

"Lily," He said in a low, angry voice that Lily had never heard from him before. "I was having the bestdream and you rudely interrupted it. Now if you don't mind, Farah Fawcett is waiting on me. Goodnight."

"No!" She complained loudly and Remus winced at the sound. "I'm bored! I've never asked this, and I will never ask it again, but I want you monsters to wake up and hang out with me."

"Go wake James up!" Remus snapped. "I'm sure he would like it."

"But nothing wakes any of you up!" She said, "I've been trying for the past ten minutes!"

Remus sighed and pulled the covers up to his chin before closing his eyes. "OK, go over to James and tell him you're naked. That'll work for Sirius too. You'll need an atomic bomb blast to wake Peter up, but you can try it with him too."

Lily sighed as he pulled the covers over his head and proceeded to ignore her.

Thinking that his plan would probably work, she walked over to the bed where James was laying on his stomach. Hoping that Remus's plan would work, Lily ran and then jumped on James, while saying loudly, "James, I'M NAKED!"

"OH!" A whoosh of air came out of James at the impact on his back. He was instantly awake of course, and he groaned loudly into his pillow.

"Lily, you better actually be naked," he said in a weak voice. "Because that was a painful awakening."

"Good morning!" She said cheerfully before kissing him on the temple.

"No it's not, go back to sleep." He grumbled.

"NO!" She started bouncing on top of him, causing him to groan again. "Wake up! Wake up! I'm bored senseless!"

"Go read a book then!"

"I've read them all," she countered. "And I left that novel I was reading in the common room."

"Then write a story."

"I forgot how to write."

"Lily, this is very strange."

"Yeah? So is your face!"

He chuckled into his pillow and seeing that he was starting to wake up more, Lily started bouncing again.

"AH! Stop that!"

"Say you'll wake up and have fun with me!" She teased.

"Oh how I love when you talk dirty to me," he laughed before raising up and throwing Lily off of his back.

She giggled madly as he proceeded to pin her down and kiss every inch of her face and neck.

"OK! ENOUGH!" Remus yelled angrily as he stood up. "If I can't do it with Charlie's Angels, then you're not going to do it with James!" He balled his hands into fists and angrily threw his covers and pillow back onto the bed.

Lily and James watched him with the same, shocked looks on their faces. No one had ever seen Remus mad before. He was the most laidback person that they knew.

After he had stomped off into the bathroom, (slamming the door behind him) Lily turned to look up at James.

"Wow…he's not a morning person, is he?"

"I reckon he's not today," he rolled off of her and onto his back to stretch. "He's usually really quiet in the morning."

Lily figured in her mind that his unpleasant mood must have been because of the dream she had ripped him from. Whatever she did, Lily was NOT going to think about what he must have been dreaming about. Nope, she wasn't.

"Hey James," she rolled over on her side, bent her elbow, and rested her head on her hand. "Last night I dreamed that Ronald McDonald was naked in my bed and trying to…do things with me."

James looked oddly hurt by this confession. "WHAT! Who is Ronald McDonald and why are you having sex dreams about him and why are you telling me about it!"

"OH yeah, you're not muggleborn. Sorry, I keep forgetting that you don't know these things," she said quickly, "Ronald McDonald is this creepy clown sponsor guy for a muggle restaurant."

James didn't look any less hurt at these words. If anything, he looked more hurt now than he did a moment ago and he also looked extremely confused. "AND WHY are you dreaming about him like that? Sorry if you get mad at me for saying it, Lily, but that's just sick!"

"JAMES!" She gaped at him. "BELIEVE ME, I do NOT want Ronald McDonald! I don't know why I dreamed that! I also dreamed of you…" she trailed off and watched as his sad look started to disappear only to be replaced with a curious one.

"Really?" he asked slowly.

"Yeah," she nodded, "You had on this pair of sparkling bellbottoms, I don't know where those came from…But at one point you ripped them off and started doing these splits-"

They both stopped, feeling someone's gaze. Slowly, they looked over to See Sirius across the room, still laying in bed, but watching them with a pair of wide, horrified eyes. James's face was red; Lily felt embarrassed that she had actually told James that she had dreamed about him in a pair of sparkling bellbottoms.

No one said a word. They simply stared at each other for a long moment before slowly Sirius tugged on the covers and pulled them up over his head.

The sound of the shower in the bathroom and the birds still singing outside of the window were the only noises that filled the room in the awkward silence.

It took a while, but Lily finally opened her mouth to say something else to James, but Sirius, whose head was still under the covers yelled at her.

"NO! Don't say another word about it!"

How he had seen her, Lily didn't know.

"I wasn't going to talk about that," she argued before rolling out of the bed. "I'm er…I'm gonna go wake Peter up now."

James, still in his clothes from the day before (yet now they were covered in wrinkles), jumped out of bed behind her and followed her over to Peter's bed.

It took a lot more to wake Peter up than it had taken Lily to wake up Remus, James, and obviously she had woken Sirius up with the mention of her strange dreams. Peter just lay there drooling into his pillow as she slammed the two books over his head, he didn't move when James jumped on his bed and started jumping all over it, he even kept sleeping when they both got on either side of him and yelled, "PETER!"

So they did the only thing they hadn't tried and both went to one side of his mattress. There they proceeded to lift it together and throw Peter off of the bed, before throwing the mattress on top of him.

He groaned loudly and started cursing, causing Lily and James both to smile brightly and give each other a high five.

Well, Lily thought, at least she wasn't bored anymore.