Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and James Potter had gotten called to Professor McGonnagal's office for the twelfth time this week. This time, it was about a million balloons in Headmaster Dumbledor's office. Dumbledor found this prank harmless, even a bit amusing, but Minerva did not.
Now, the three were sitting in front of her, Sirius laughing his ass off, James smirking at his best friend, and Remus wondering why he was dating one of the two idiots and friends with the other.
"Mr. Black. Would you like to explain why you did this "prank" this time?" Professor McGonnagal asked, sending Sirius a narrow-eyed glare. Sirius almost fell out of his seat, laughing.
"I-I didn't d-do it!" Sirius struggled to get out through his laughing fit. Remus rolled his eyes.
"Then why are you laughing?" James asked, still quite amused. Sirius tried to talk through his fit, but ultimately failed.
After a few moments, his laughs died down to where he could talk. "Because whoever did it is a fucking genius!"
"Mr. Black! I have told you not to use that language!" McGonnagal scolded.
"Oh lighten up, Minnie! We didn't do it this time! I promise!" James objected.
McGonnagal sent James a glare as Remus elbowed his friend in the ribs, to get him to shut up. "Ow! Moony! Padfoot, get your boyfriend under control! He just hit me!" He wailed, hands flying to his side.
Sirius gave James a look. "Well, don't disrespect Professor McGonnagal like that, Prongs! You know he's a suck up!" Remus shook his head and elbowed Sirius as well. "Ow! Bad dog!" Sirius scolded jokingly.
"Good one coming from the literal dog." Remus muttered to himself, sending Sirius a glare.
McGonnagal cleared her throat, trying to hide a small smile at the three trouble makers. "Well, if you three didn't do it, then who did?"
Remus, James and Sirius shut up after that question, glancing at each other. "That's a good question, Professor." Remus said.
Just then, a balloon came floating into the room. "PEEVES!" McGonnagal shouted. Peeves made himself visible and pouted.
"Awww. Fiddlestcks!" Peeves exclaimed.
"Well, Professor. You found your culprit. Can I take these two idiots back to the dorms to study?" Remus asked, standing up. Minerva looked at Remus and nodded.
"Of course. But are they really going to study?" She asked, chuckling a bit. Remus smiled at the questions as Sirius and James feigned hurt expressions.
"All right. Get out of my office." McGonnagal shooed them out and shut the door to reprimand Peeves.
The boys raced along the corridors, tripping each other to get back to the dormitory. Sirius being the first back, took the big sofa and laid down, taking up the whole thing as Remus and James ran through the portrait hole.
"Padfoot get up!" James screeched, jumping onto the sofa.
"No. I got here first!" Sirius screeched back as he kicked up at his best friend. Remus shook his head at the two and sat down in the large arm chair next to the sofa.
Three hours later, the three could be seen in the common room, asleep. James laying on top of Sirius who had refused to get up from the sofa and Remus curled up on the arm chair, his book falling out of his hands.
Any outsider who looked at the sight, would have thought Sirius and James were dating, but everyone else knew that they were more like brothers than anything else in the world and Remus was okay with that fact, knowing Sirius would never cheat on him.