Ravelment: entanglement; confusion.

June 11, 1977

"No, no, no, you're getting it all wrong," Sirius sighed, thudding his mug of butterbeer on the table and sloshing foam everywhere. "I didn't tell him anything, Prongs did, see?"

Peter furrowed his brow. "So you –" he said, looking at James.

"No, Petey, I wasn't there, remember? I was with Moony."

"But I was with Remus!" Peter exclaimed. "You were with Mary!"

"Exactly. I was with Moony, you were with Macdonald."

"No, I was with Remus!"

"I'm pretty sure it was Padfoot." Sirius chipped in.

"You're Padfoot!"

"Oh, yes, you're right, it was Padfoot. I remember," James agreed, looking at Sirius.

"So Prongs was the one that let it slip?" Remus asked, stirring his drink.

Sirius nodded. "Well, the first time, but it wasn't until Wormtail came round and said something that it really hit him what I'd said."

"You just said James was the one –"

"Prongs was the one," Sirius corrected.

"But James is Prongs, and I wasn't in Honeydukes today! It's not my fault!"

"No one said it was," Remus assured him soothingly.

"But you just said –"

At that moment, Lily Evans appeared with a fresh tray of drinks, long red hair bound in a thin braid down her back.

James grabbed a mug, beaming at her. "You've redeemed yourself, Wormtail."

"I haven't done anything!" Peter exclaimed, red-faced.

Lily slid into the booth beside Remus with a laugh. "You lot are easy to pacify. Just give you a bottle full of alcohol and all is right with the world. Even if the shopkeepers did mysteriously discover a secret passage leading to Hogwarts in their cellar that a certain group of boys has been using to steel from them."

"You're too cute to stay mad at, Wormtail," James toasted, winking.

"I'm Wormtail!" Peter almost bawled.

James chuckled. "Yes, and I'm that idiot Prongs who gave everything away."

"He's not an idiot," Sirius defended, raising his head with dignity. "Just bad timing. If Wormtail here hadn't been calling about like no one could hear her –"

He tugged playfully on Lily's braid and Peter watched in amazement as she didn't swat his hand away.

"But I'm Wormtail!" he howled.

All four of the others looked at him as if he were delirious.

"You're Walter," they said together.

Peter gave up, slumping forward to the roar of his friends' laughter.

A/N: So… this may seem random, but basically what happened was Sirius thought he was being sly and made some remarks to the owner of Honeydukes about their raiding of the cellar after hours, you know, all cryptic to be a smartarse. Then Lily showed up and 'whispered' to him 'ambiguously' about the secret passage, and… well, the owner got all interrogative and wanted to know their names so Sirius started calling her Wormtail 'cause of her braid and… well, you can get the rest I reckon. This is for erm31323 who asked for a little Marauders' chaos. Hope you liked it!

And yes, I do plan to keep working on this with last year's words whenever I get a chance, but school resumes soon and I've got contests to enter in the hopes of getting money and scholarships to find, so… dunno when I'll have time, but hopefully I will!