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(2.) Shrieking Shack

James pov.)

It pained me to hide from Moony,  Padfoot, and Wormtail, but I need to be alone for a few minutes. I needed to get my thoughts together and my mind out of the gutter. I know they are bound to check the map sooner or later and find me, where they previously checked. I sigh and remove my invisibility cloak.

I will have to come up with a reason to why I was hiding from everyone. I'm just tired of everything. Anyway, pushing my thoughts away, since we fixed up this place, it doesn't look half bad.

Banners of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and very few Slytherin, hang up on the walls. Little drawings litter the desk top and the walls as well. There was other meaningless decorations everywhere, that made the shack feel more comfortable.

"James!?" Sirius yelled. 'Bloody hell , I worried them a lot to have them calling me by James.'

"Up here, Pads!" I shout down the stairs, sitting at the average sized desk, with my invisibility cloak tucked securely in my robes. I hear his hurried footsteps and I spin the desk chair around and give him a smile. It falls as soon as I see his worried face.

"Are you okay, James?" His eyebrows was pulled together and his eyes traveled over me and then back to my face.

"Yeah, I'm fine, Siri. Don't worry bout me. " I say, giving him a lazy smile. Moony and Wormtail came up quieter but was still clearly worried. I assured them I was fine.

"Well, don't just stand there guys. Come and sit down." They sit down on the bed or one of the chairs in the room.

"Where was you, Prongs? We searched here before we went back in the castle." Peter asked his worry still evident.

"We was about to assemble search party." Sirius joked.

"Y'know how it gets sometimes, guys." I lean back in the chair. I was very aware of how Remus was looking at me with a thoughtful expression and a look of understanding.

"Yeah, we know. Here's your precious snitch, Prongs." Moony tossed the snitch to me and Sirius jumped forward a bit. Remus laughed a little and threw his arm around Sirius's shoulder.

I suggested going to the lake. And, boom, just like that my absence was cured by me being there now and no harm done. That's what I love about the Marauders. You don't get questioned to much when your back with the people you care about and who care about you. We resolve and reconnect instantly. Like a bond.

As we make our way back through the passages, we make sure we are not about to scare some kid out of their skin but jumping out of a passage way. Or get caught, but the first one is a funner way to put it. It was easy enough, as most of the students was outside already. I asked Moony if I could see the map momentarily and see Lily and Snape's name together walking from the library and down the hall.

I handed the map back to Moony without saying anything. Of course they'd be together, after all, they made up after him calling her a dirty blood. He didn't mean it, I know. I had pissed him off and he was angry, he was also embarrassed, probably. I haven't talked or messed around with either of them since the interaction.

Who was I to care about when and where they hang out? They are not my responsibility. It's their lives and none of my business if they hang out or hook up. I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't already.

We'd finally made it outside and I was lazily tossing the snitch and catching it with ease. Remus was reading, as usual, Sirius reading over his shoulder, but we all knew Remus didn't mind it. Peter was sitting there making little braids with grass.

"Hey, would you guys want to come to the summer gala thing my mother is hosting?" I asked the three. I always did when it was coming up.

"Bloody hell, Yes!" Sirius said, with enough enthusiasm to make Voldemort unconscious. I chuckled and turned to Peter and Remus.

"Sure." Peter said quietly, smiling. Remus said, he'd try to make it.

"Great!" I grinned widely and tossed the snitch up and when the snitch went up this time it caught a familiar red headed girl and a black haired male coming closer. I snatched the snitch out of the air and squeezed it in my palm. Remus, Peter,and Sirius saw my reaction and stood as they saw the pair coming.