𝐀𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐀 | 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬

✧ chapter 25 ✧

­­­1976

After the slow dance ended, the crazy eight all began 'swimming' back down to the ground. The ball was almost over anyway and the boys still needed to put everything back the way it was.

The boys reversed the physics spell first so everything would go back to normal, before undoing the spell on the teachers. Once out of their musical trance, the teachers all went berserk, yelling at the people responsible for the evenings shenanigans to step forward. While in their musical trance they hadn't been able to properly apprehend anyone for the mayhem as they couldn't stop singing and dancing long enough to interrogate people seriously.

The crazy eight all looked at each other and grinned.

"Run?" Aurora questioned, looking to the others for confirmation.

"Run!" Everyone responded, all of them breaking into a dead sprint and heading towards the forest.

Once the eight were all on the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest they stopped to regain their breath.

"I don't think we should go any further." Mary murmured, eying the forest nervously.

"Yeah it's called the 'Forbidden' Forest for a reason." Lily backed her up, more concerned with breaking even more rules than what was inside the forest. She figured they had done enough damage for one night.

"Eh it's not so bad. They really should have called it the 'Perhaps You Shouldn't Go in There' Forest." Sirius mused.

"The 'Maybe It's Not the Best Idea You've Had to Enter' Forest." James added helpfully.

"The 'Kind of Dangerous but Not in A Deadly Way' Forest." Peter shot in.

"The 'Slightly Only a Little Bit Out of Bounds' Forest." Remus finished, all of the boys looking pleased with themselves.

"Believe it or not that's what it used to be called Remus, until you four gits showed up." Aurora jibed dryly, smirking at the four boys.

"Getting it changed to forbidden is still one of our proudest moments to date." Sirius shot back, pretending to wipe away a fake tear of pride.

"C'mon, there's a small clearing just inside that allows the moonlight to stream in so it isn't too dark. Let's go." James instructed, eyeing the rest of the Marauders knowingly and leading the way into the forest.

Once inside the clearing, the eight all sat down in a circle and the boys began pulling various bottles and flasks from beneath their robes.

"You didn't think we'd wear something with this many buttons and not have secret pockets to hide things in did you?" Sirius questioned in response to the girls shocked expressions. It turned out that all the elaborate buttons and clasps hid secret pockets which the boys had filled with flasks full of Firewhiskey.

"Now it's a party!" Aurora yelled, grabbing a flask and uncapping it. Her drunkenness from earlier had all but worn off and she was in the mood to party.

No more than an hour later half the booze was gone and everyone was drunk. It seemed the more they all drunk the more they devolved and thus the group all ended up playing truth or dare as if they were back in second year.

"Truth or dare, Rory?" Remus asked, his words slightly slurred and his head lolling to the side.

"Dare of course." Aurora replied, leaning forward and almost tipping herself over.