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CHAPTER 26

The four boys sat there, mouths agape, the first to speak was Remus.

"I'm not sure what just happened."

"I think that was their interpretation of us…" James mused. "Evans looks good in my Quidditch jersey."

Peter, Remus, and Sirius simultaneously smacked their palms to their foreheads.

"What?" James exclaimed, and then turned to Sirius. "I saw you smirk when Audrey strode down in your shirt."

"I did not." Sirius denied.

"You did." Remus and Peter said together. Sirius shot them a look and they both shrugged and looked away.

"Well anyway, I think it was just their interpretation of us." said Peter casually. "They were just blowing off some steam, I think we forget sometimes that we are so different from them."

"Agreed." interjected Remus. "How we're all even friends is a wonder, we're all very, very different."

"Well, I say we get them back." Sirius stood.

"Why is it that we must always get them back?" Remus asked, shaking his head.

"Why can't we be diplomatic for once?"

"Why are you such a grandpa, Moony?" Sirius whined.

"They are some of our only good friends, if we do something incredibly stupid this time they may not forgive us." Remus said flatly.

"And what even did you have in mind, Sirius?" James chimed in. "We have other things to worry about right now."

James of course was referencing to our research on animagi, he, Peter, and I were planning on doing the transformation sometime that year if we were lucky. It was going to be a surprise for Remus.

"I was thinking we do to them what they did to us." Sirius replied, crossing his arms. "Might as well play fair, like old man Remus said."

"It's an excellent idea-" Remus began in deep thought.

"But I really don't want to dress in drag!" James whined.

"Who said we had to dress in drag?" Sirius smirked, a glint in his eyes.

"You've got my attention then." Remus said, intrigued.

"Come on over, gents." Sirius motioned for them to come closer. "Gather around and listen to my plan."

Upstairs, the four girls were discarding the boys clothes. Lily and Marlene had taken to the bathrooms to wash the hair product from their heads. Sarah and Audrey had decided to put all the clothes back that they borrowed and change into normal clothing.

"I'm not going to lie, your Peter impression was priceless." Audrey laughed, as they put back the clothes Lily had borrowed from James into his dresser.

"And your Sirius was spot on! His face when you told him you were Sirius Black…I wish I had a camera." Sarah grinned, as they headed back to Audrey's room to wait for the other two.

"I finally got the stuff out of my hair!" Lily exclaimed, walking into the room with a towel on her hair. "It took forever, so much scrubbing."

"It was probably that grease." Sarah reasoned, as Marlene came in the room as well.

"Yeah, but it was so worth it." Marlene said, taking the towel from her hair and draping it over her arm. "Are we going in James' pool at all?

"I don't think we should." Lily said. "For all we know they could try to get us back in there."

"So then what do we do now?" Audrey asked. "We can't stay up here all day."

"Who says we can't?" Sarah replied.

"Huh, that is true." Marlene replied. "Why don't we catch up on all of our summers then? I'm a bit scared to go downstairs alone."

"I'm scared to use the loo alone…you know how boys and bathrooms work." Sarah said, cringing. The girls laughed.

They had spent a majority of the afternoon talking about anything and everything, from the bitchy girls at Marlene's step camp, to the odd teachers at Sarah's camp, to Audery's sporadic cello lessons with her Uncle Ivan, to Lily's insufferable sister Petunia. They spoke of Karl, grilling Audrey for every possible detail, and they wouldn't leave Sarah alone about a boy she had met who went to Beauxbatons.

"Where did you meet him?" Marlene exclaimed, excited.

"Our camp was taking a trip, and his family was visiting England. We met at a café in the city. He said he knew I was a witch right away, and he pulled out his wand!"

The other three burst into laughter, Lily's face was red, Marlene was laughing so hard tears fell.

"Get your minds out of the gutters! You're turning into them." Sarah said, jerking her head in the direction of the stairs. They could faintly hear the boys.

"I'm sorry." Audrey said between laughs. "That was too funny."

Meanwhile, a few doors down, James, Remus, and Peter sat on Sirius' bed in a straight line. Sirius was walking back and forth like a drill sergeant, using a blackboard they'd found in James attic to illustrate their plan.

"Alright, who's going to ask them then?" James asked.

"Remus!" Peter and Sirius said together.

"Why me?" Remus said, surprised. Though he was greatly amused by Sirius' plan, he really didn't want to do this. Really.

"Because they trust you the most!" James said, as if it were obvious.

"Ugh…" Remus said, getting up and making his way for the door. He turned before he opened it, and said. "Sirius, If I die because of this I'll come back and kill you."

"Love you too, Moony!" Sirius called down the hallway as Remus left, making his way to the other side. He followed the noise of the girls' laughter.

Knock, knock.

"Come in…" Audrey said, a little perplexed.

Remus walked in to find all the girls with random objects to use as weapons incase the boys retaliated. He held his arms up in surrender.

"I'm not here for pranking. However, the boys feel that you might get them again so they decided to send me over to ask you if you want to rendezvous in the pool in a half an hour."

The girls raised their eyebrows, exchanging glances.

"We'll agree to this rendezvous, assuming that you are the liason, Remus." Lily replied, diplomatically.

"But if anything goes wrong…" Marlene grumbled, giving Remus a look.

"I know, Marly. I know." Remus replied, lying easily. He hated lying, but if he exposed the prank the others would be furious. He just hoped it wouldn't be too bad, or too extreme, he'd missed the finer details of Sirius' rather long game plan.

After Remus had left the room, and made his way down the hallway back to Sirius' bedroom where the others waited with huge grins.

"Are we all set?" James asked, his eyebrows wiggling suggestively.

"Yes." Remus sighed, nervous.

"Why so nervous, Moony?" Sirius asked, concerned. "It's not like we haven't done anything this crazy with them before. I mean…the Black Lake."

"Yes, Sirius. But that was the Black Lake…obviously called that because you can't see a damn thing." Remus snapped.

"Alright, Moony. Merlin, we'll be careful. I promise." James said.

The girls shared one bathroom, as the guys did. After they had changed they met in the bathroom to fix their hair, and for other reasons.

"Group huddle." Sarah whispered, before they fixed their hair.

"Alright, theyre definitely up to something, there's no question about it." Marlene hissed.

"Especially seeing as they sent Remus…they were obviously trying to throw us off." Lily snorted.

"They're probably going to do something to the water." Audrey said.

"But what?" asked Sarah, looking around at the others. They all shrugged.

"We'll just have to be on our guard." Lily said, her green eyes narrowing.

The girls nodded and broke apart, fixing their hair. Audrey had pulled Marlene's thick blonde hair back into two French braids, Lily shoved her hair up into a sloppy bun that worked for her, Audrey had two small braids on the side of her head which met into a pony tail. It kept all of her long black hair out of her face.

"Merlin, Audrey you could make a long wool coat!" Sarah exclaimed, holding up a stray piece of Audrey's long hair that had fallen off. "It's ridiculously thick!"

"Banshee hair, got it from my mum." Audrey grumbled. "Its incredibly stubborn. You could light my head on fire and nothing would happen, literally."

"Well at least we know what to use to put out a fire if we ever have one." Marlene joked, tugging lightly on Audrey's pony tail.

"Yup!" Audrey nodded, putting the finishing touches on Sarah's hair, a braided bun.

The four gave each other knowing looks and left the bathroom, making their way down James' staircase with their towels. The sun was lowering slowly in the sky, not quite setting yet.

They were the first outside it seemed, and they set their towels down on some of the chairs near the pool. Lily decided that she would examine the water first.

"There's nothing wrong with my pool, Evans." James called, running and jumping in, causing a huge splash.

"Fine." Lily huffed, jumping in next. Audrey and Marlene exchanged looks, and back flipped into the pool. Sarah followed by yelling "Whee!" and jumping in after, making everyone laugh at her cuteness.

Remus slipped in easily, without making so much noise. Peter somehow managed to trip and fall in. Sirius, being just as obnoxious as James, ran, back flipped, and jumped in.

He was such a show off sometimes…

After a bunch of splashing and fooling around, the boys jumped out of the pool, claiming they were going to get some water from inside.

And that's when it all started.

None of the girls had noticed it at first, but one by one, the boys had made off with their towels. They didn't really notice anything else until Sarah suddenly shrieked.

"What?" Marlene asked, alarmed.

"I can't find my top."

"You can't find what?" Audrey hissed.

"My bikini top, it's gone." Sarah said, crossing her arms over her chest, she was mortified. No one could blame her for that.

"Maybe it slid off?" Lily supplied. "I'll go under and check."

"I'll go too." Marlene said, going under after Lily. James pool only had one dim light in it that illuminated the water slightly.

"Sarah?" Audrey asked, in the dark.

"Yes?"

"I don't think this is a coincidence."

"Why?"

"My top's gone too." Audrey replied, wide eyed, now crossing her arms over her chest.

Marlene and Lily came up seconds later, with similar looks of shock on their faces.

"VERY FUNNY, YOU GITS." Marlene yelled, crossing her arms.

"And the water's cold!" Sarah yelled right after her, prompting the boys to burst out laughing and the girls to give her odd looks. After a moment of silence, she yelled again. "And everyone in this house needs to get their minds out of the gutter, you're all ridiculous."

"You set yourself up for that one, Puffer." James replied, casually strolling out with a white towel around his waste. He was eating an apple.

"JAMES POTTER." Lily snarled, piecing it together. James grinned, unfurling one of his hands to reveal Lily's top.

It was so simple that we hadn't even thought of it, we were so used to their pranks being so elaborate that we didn't expect it at all.

Sirius arrogantly strode out next, with Audrey's towel around his waist and her blue bathing suit top in one hand.

"I rather like this color." Sirius said, holding it up. "It brings out your eyes."

"My eyes are brown you tosser." Audrey said, giving him a look.

"I never said they were blue, love. But it's true, this is a nice color, suits you well." Sirius was smug.

"Will you stop being a kiss ass, Sirius?" Marlene called.

"I'm not being a kiss ass, Marly! I'm being genuine." Sirius replied with innocence.

Audrey rolled her eyes and muttered. "Pervert."

At that moment, Remus strode out, half grinning and half feeling sorry for them.

"Reeeemus!" Sarah whined.
"Not you too!" Marlene whined, noticing he had her top and towel.
Audrey began to hit her head lightly on the side of the pool.

Sirius walked forward to stop her but she pushed off the wall with her legs, her arms still crossed. She glared at him and he smirked.

Sirius was doing a very typical Sirius thing, where he'd tease, then tease again by trying to be kind. He liked to play with his prey before trying to go in for the kill.

She wasn't stupid, that's what I liked about her, really. One of the many things…

Last, but not least, Peter waltzed out holding Sarah's top.

"Peter, I will kill you in your sleep." Sarah grumbled.
"Nice try, Puffer." Peter laughed. "You couldn't kill a pixy."

"Because it's cruel." Audrey mumbled.
"Enough with the creature rights, Audwee. You're ruining our fun." James whined.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Us being topless and towel-less wasn't fun enough for you?" Audrey cocked her head.

"No, well there's more." James said, triumphantly throwing on Lily's bikini top at the same time as his friends.

"Ew!" Sarah called out, sticking out her tongue.
"Well, now we're going to have to burn our bathing suits." Marlene crinkled her nose in disgust.

"Ooh! I'm Marly and I'm disgusted by everything considered fun!" Remus imitated in a girly voice. The girls had to laugh a bit, it was rare to see a goofy Remus.

"I'm Sarah! And I'm a Hufflepuff because I'm cute and a push over!" Peter pranced around.

James flung off his glasses in a far too sexy manner. "I'm Lily Evans! And I'm a ginger…who's smart!"

"And I'm Audrey Dalio." Sirius chimed in a girly voice, with a heavy Russian accent. "I'm too good for English boys."

Audrey's mouth formed a perfect O, quite shocked by that. Marlene shot her an interesting look, a look she only shot her when she was tallying off things for the 'Sirius wants you' argument. Something Audrey had often denied.

Peter decided to skip around as Sarah would, Remus had done a perfect imitation of angry Marlene by crossing his arms and wearing an expression of annoyance, yelling at imaginary versions of James and Sirius. James was flicking his non-existent long mane and talking to an imaginary Severus, who he had rudely still called Snivellus. And Sirius had mimicked Audrey by batting his eyelashes several times (as if he didn't do that himself!) and playing an imaginary cello.

After a good twenty minutes of parading around, Sirius flirting with an imaginary Karl and saying the worst things possible, Remus, Sirius, and Peter mimicking irish step, and James sticking his head in a book, Marlene shouted. "Alright! Alright! We get it! You're even! Can we have our towels back?"

James, Sirius, and Peter didn't respond, but Remus did by removing Marlene's towel and holding it out for her to quickly jump out of the pool and shield herself. He wrapped it around her quickly without looking.

Remus was probably the only one of the four that was constantly a gentleman, the others…well, it took some fine grooming.

"Thank you, Remus." Marlene said quietly, her blue eyes soft.

"Anytime." He replied, going with her inside.

James snorted, rolling his eyes.

The way those two looked at each other, well, we always teased Moony about it. As his best friends, we knew all and saw all.

"Well?" Lily asked, raising an eyebrow at the remaining three. Peter caved first, going to the edge of the pool and placing Sarah's towel there. She maneuvered herself out of the pool without exposing anything and walked inside. Peter shrugged, following, mumbling that he ought to apologize.

It was now only Lily and Audrey.

We decided to toy with them a bit more…

Sirius and James sat on the tiny stone wall a few feet away from the pool, the girls' towels in their laps. They just stared at them, with huge grins on their faces.

We were out there an extra ten minutes, waiting.

"This is why I date boys outside of England." Audrey said, giving Sirius a look that said. 'Seeing as you mocked me for it…'

"Oh really, Russia? Do elaborate." James replied in fascination, he folded his hands.

"Well." Audrey began, coming closer to the pools edge. The siding covered her so she could rest her arms on the ground and lean. "Karl wouldn't make me wait this long to get my top back."

"Are you insinuating that Karl, your perfect man, would actually do something like your silly English male friends? Such as this prank?" Sirius asked, mocking yet surprised.

Audrey gave off a smirk he couldn't define. "What happens in St. Petersburg is a lot different then what happens in England…"

Touché. I suppose.

Sirius approached the pool, towards the ladder, holding out Audrey's towel in surrender. Audrey was skeptical, but covered herself with one arm, and used the other for balance to get out of the pool. Once out, she used both arms once more.

She was such a prude! …Then again, when I said that to James later that evening he replied with "Well, mate. She's one of the only girls who isn't willingly going to flash you."

Sirius faced her, still holding out the outstretched towel. He looked in the other direction, turning his head and wrapping the towel around her shoulders gently.

"Spasibo, Sirius." Audrey smiled, giving him a friendly peck on the cheek and taking her bikini top back as she walked back into the house. His heart raced.

He followed her, James and Lily weren't far behind.

* * *

"You have to admit, it was pretty funny." James said, munching on a pumpkin pasty and glancing out the window of the Hogwarts Express. They had just left Kings Cross only twenty minutes before.

"It wasn't when I thought my tits were going to fall off." Marlene replied, making a face. "Your pool was freezing!"

The boys laughed, and the girls did too but gave Marlene looks.

"What? You all were thinking it too, except for Audrey probably."

"Why's that?" Sirius asked, confused.

"My body temperature is about fifteen degrees higher than a humans." Audrey replied casually.

"That explains why youre always so warm…" James mused.

"You're like a space heater!" Peter exclaimed, they laughed.

"So, it really wasn't that bad then." James said, referring back to the prank.

"Well, it was pretty awful. I mean looking back its funny, but at the time…" Audrey trailed off.

"At the time I thought we were going to have to kill you." Lily grumbled, she was the only one still a bit angry about it. She hadn't lightened up, especially around James. The imitations she didn't mind, but taking her top was a violation. It wasn't as if James had seen anything.

"Oh lighten up, Lils." Sirius said, resting his head in his hands.

"So what do you think the letter meant when it said that this year of school was going to be different?" Remus asked, deciding to change the topic.

"I don't know, Moony." Sirius replied thoughtfully.

"Perhaps they'll be changing the curriculum." Lily said excitedly, Remus agreed that it was a possibility.

"You guys are such bookworms!" James groaned hitting his head on the wall.

"Well, James. What do you think it'll be?" Audrey asked, curious.

"I don't know, I was thinking perhaps new textbooks or something new with the Quidditch pitch-"

"Of course!" Marlene said in the background.

"but you know how our teachers are, anything new and different is usually educational." James finished, doing jazz hands to emphasize the last word further.