The Last Marauder Standing || Sirius Black

15-Pranking the Pranksters

"If any of you pull a prank on me you will seriously regret it" I shook my head, watching as Remus finished wrapping the gift and taped the bow to the top. "Thank you so much, Remus!" I exclaimed, taking the gift from him as he nodded and shrugged as if to say 'it's no big deal'

"Estella, you don't seem to understand, we are the master pranksters here at Hogwarts. No one can top anything we do" Sirius brought my attention back to the conversation.

"Yea, well, that was before I came to Hogwarts" I gave them all a sarcastic smile. "You mess with me, I mess with you right back"

"We'll see about that," Sirius chuckled as he continued shoveling scrambled eggs into his mouth. I watched as the boys finished up their breakfasts, having already finished mine before they joined me. I looked over to Remus, curious as to how he got all his scars. I thought back to a few weeks ago when he was in the hospital wing, and how the day before that he was missing, supposedly visiting his grandmother.

"Hey Remus" I broke the silence and everyone looked up at me, including him. "How is your grandmother doing? I know you've been visiting her lately. I hear she's really sick" I asked, and I must have said something wrong because his face paled at the question.

"Um... She's alright. Right now at least... I visit every month though" He shrugged.

"Moony here is a real grandma's boy" James nodded his head.

"Moony? Right, I forgot about the nicknames. How did you even get stuck with that one? What does it mean?" I asked him again, and he still seemed at a loss for words. Nervous might even be a better word to describe him.

"Well... um..." He trailed off. Clearly, no one has ever asked him this before.

"Remus here showed us his arse on a dare" Sirius blurted out. We were all silent for a moment and I looked to the other boys for confirmation. They all paused before nodding their heads in agreement.

"Okay... and James? Prongs?" I asked him now.

"Got the prongs of a fork stuck in my nose... I still have a scar, wanna see?" He asked, leaning over the table and lifting his nostril for me to see up his nose. I leaned back and held up my hands in front of my face, disgusted.

"No! No thanks... Do I even wanna know about Wormtail and Padfoot?" I asked, slightly concerned about these boy's mental state.

"I doubt it" Sirius shrugged before returning to his meal. I knew something was up with them. They weren't telling me the whole truth here. Just as I was about to interrogate them further, James cut me off.

"Uh oh, look out everyone. Love birds at ten O'clock" He looked towards the entrance to the great hall and we all followed his eyes to see Alice and Frank walking in, hand in hand, Alice giggling at something Frank said. They sat at the end of the Gryffindor table, not even realizing that we were all a little further down. They were in their own little world these days.

"I'm gonna be sick" Sirius scrunched up his face and turned back to us.

"Oh hush! They're just in the honeymoon phase, it's cute!" I defended them. Sirius looked at me for a moment, something in his eyes, but before I could make out what he was thinking he looked away. Ever since Sirius admitted his feelings for me he has been acting like this, almost as if nothing ever happened. I'm not complaining though, I would rather pretend nothing happened. I've never been liked before I came to Hogwarts. Now suddenly both Peter and Sirius like me all within the first six months of being here. I've concluded that they only like me because I'm the "new girl" at the school. The more I ignore it the faster they are bound to get over it.