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James woke up completely drenched. Apparently Sirius thought the best way to wake him up was by pouring ice cold water on him. He gasped for air as he sat up in bed, trying to locate his wand from his bedside table.
"You git!" he yelled at Sirius who had a wide grin plastered on his face. He flicked his wand at his best mate and Sirius went flying off his bed and dangling upside down, three feet above it. He muttered the counter curse and fell on his bed in a heap.
"Will you to stop acting like children and get ready?" Moony scolded. James smiled evilly at him. One look was all it took for Sirius to understand what was going on beneath the mop of untamable hair. Everything happened so fast that in a split second James found himself tackling Moony to the ground, Padfoot in tow.
The three boys wrestled on the floor for a good amount of time. After they had had enough, they lay panting with their clothes dampened from James still soaking night clothes.
"I think we should go down for breakfast now," Wormtail squeeked. He never really got involved in any of the Marauders' activities and only followed the other three boys around. He did take part in some of their pranks but James knew that was only because he didn't want to get left out.
They got dressed and trudged down for breakfast. Once there James began piling his plate up with eggs and sausages.
"What do you think a good start-of-term prank would be?" Sirius asked the group of four. James thought about this. They had used up a lot of good jokes in the past, so they were a little low on ideas but you never know what to expect from The Marauders. That was the name that the people had chosen for them.
"You can't possibly be thinking about playing pranks on people now that I'm a prefect, are you?" Moony asked in disbelief.
"Well of curse I am. You're a prefect now. That gives us access to out of bounds places, we can roam the castle past curfew. This is the best thing to happen to us," James said, dead-panning.
Any further argument was cut off by the arrival of Professor McGonagall with their time tables.
"How were your holiday's Professor?" Sirius asked with a charming smile, leaning back in his place.
The ageing Professor gave him an odd look but responded none the less," They were fine. Thank you for asking Mr. Black."
Sirius made to ask another, undoubtedly cheeky, question but was stopped by Remus stepping on his foot.
"What the bloody hell was that for?" Sirius turned to him.
"We're going to be late for class," came the reply as Moony stood up and signalled the others to do the same. "And also because I don't want detention on our first day back."