The first day of class would be a nightmare. Sirius had been duly warned, and thus it was no wonder he awoke with a sinking feeling of despair.

Or maybe that was just the sinking feeling of dread from last night. Sirius would never know, but he knew he had to find Latissia and make it up to her.

If she wasn't dead already, that was.

Shivering at the thought, Sirius got out of bed, got dressed, and proceeded to jump on what he had assumed was James's bed.

So you can imagine how surprised and embarrassed Sirius was to see a wiry haired youth who was most certainly not James stare blearily up at him.

Sirius unexpectedly felt two spots of color rise to his cheeks, stuttering: "I'm so sorry! Thought you were someone else - really apolo-"

The boy half - smiled. "Although I would have preferred for our first meeting to be one where you were not attempting to expel the contents of my stomach, I am very pleased to meet you."

The fact that he hadn't yelled at Sirius already was astonishing, the kindness he displayed was enough to make Sirius want to offer the shy boy friendship.

"I'm Siriusly Sirius Black."

Perhaps it was the fact his name was pronounced Serious or maybe it was just his last name was so literal, but Sirius had always been one for puns, and to his delight, the boy laughed at him.

"I'm Remus Lupin."

"Nice to meet you."

Sirius turned around to see James beginning to rise and immediately lobbed one of Remus's pillows at his head.

"Wha- SIRIUS!" said James.

Once James had put his glasses on, Sirius introduced him to Remus Lupin.

"Lovely to meet you, Remus," said James, shaking Remus's hand. "And now," he said, throwing his arms out wide. "Now we have breakfast!"

He headed to the common room door, Sirius calling out after him: "James! JAMES! JAMES!"

"What seems to be the problem?" asked James, spinning around on a heel.

"You're still wearing your nightclothes," said Remus.

"Might want to change, don't want anyone dying of fright," said Sirius, sniggering.

James mock - glared at them but deigned to change into his Hogwarts robes, disappearing into the washroom.

Remus and Sirius then began the very difficult task of waking Peter Pettigrew up.

"Get some cold water," said Sirius.

"Got it," said Remus, hurrying to the bathrooms James was coming out of.

"James, take his underwear," said Sirius.

"What?" asked James, hair sopping wet.

Sirius mumbled the full details of the prank in his ear, and James grinned.

Together the boys hid the underwear in Peter's trunk in a nearby flowerpot that would soon be removed from all common rooms, considering the amount of pranks James and Sirius played with it over the years.

Remus came back with the water, and Sirius held it tantalizingly over Peter's head.

Now all they had to do was wake him up.

Author's Note: Well I'm leaving in nine days and probably won't be able to post chapters, so be prepared for lack of Sirius. But I will get up five more chapters (at least!) before I leave, promise.

If you haven't already, please check out my Hunger Games fanfiction about Cashmere! It's called 'The Forgotten Victor' and it's basically her entire life.

This series will be very loosely paying attention to the Harry Potter books, so don't expect that. Let the theories begin! (But that's not coming until later ;))

Peace out,

- Vanessa