Chapter 1: Severe Stress and Disappearing Doors

"Aaahhhhhgggg!" came Lily's cry of frustration as she walked out of her last class of the day, "How am I ever going to get through all this crap?" she muttered semi-crazily to herself.

It was Lily's last year at Hogwarts. N.E.W.T. year and the pressure was definitely getting to her. Big Time. Mostly, everyone had started to avoid her because of her random crying and stress-filled rages. Everyone except the one person who drove her over the edge. James. James Bloody Potter. It was bad enough having to put up with him as Head Boy, but with him following her around like some insane messy haired stalker and asking her out every five seconds (EVERY FIVE STINKIN' SECONDS!) she was going even more insane.

I need a quiet place to study. A place where I can hear myself think without a million bloody prats around making noise. And without James. -mental shudder- James.

Somehow her overworked brain knew where it was going and Lily started towards the Room of Requirement. Where it would be quiet and James-less. Or so she thought.

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"Padfoot! You prat! Hurry up!" cried James

James, Remus and Sirius were running as fast as they could towards the Room of Requirement. Well, Remus and James were anyway, Sirius was running as fast as he could while holding about 20 pounds of bananas he'd nicked from the kitchens. This, incidentally, wasn't fast at all, as he kept dropping them.

Remus looked at the Marauders Map worriedly "Pringle is coming closer! And you're practically leaving him a trail with those bananas you have! By the way, why do you have them?"

"Oh I traded Wormtail for them. Damn house elves, this is all they thought he was worth I guess." Remus gave Sirius a worried look, but decided that Peter would probably be very happy in the kitchens for now. "But Pringle? That old fart is still alive? I thought he'd died ages ago. What's his replacement-in-trainings name? Nora or something isn't it?" mused Sirius while picking up the 47th banana he'd dropped in that hallway alone (Remus was counting).

"No, that's his cats name, Mrs. Norris. I wonder if he ever likes to pretend he's Mr. Norris." said James waggling his eyebrows.

Sirius burst out laughing and dropped about 10 bananas as Remus sighed and wondered for the zillionth time why he even considered these two prats his friends.

The three Marauders finally got to the Room of Requirement, avoiding Pringle altogether, thanks to Peeves, who had gone banging down a hallway with some poor Hufflepuff girls' lingerie on his head. They kept a secret stash of fire whiskey in the R.o.R. and since it had been a long week, they decided they deserved to get a little drunk to celebrate the weekend.

"Ahhhhh, fire whiskey," sighed Sirius as the three started to walk up and down the corridor across from Barnabas the Barmy.

Maybe I'll train trolls for ballet someday. Or tap. Or to be my wingmen. Because James really sucks as one, with all his mooning over Lily. Haha trolls with wings. Sirius thought while staring at old Barnabas and his trolls.

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Lily walked up to the corridor with the picture of Barnabas, and saw her worst nightmare unfolding before her eyes.

"WHAT ARE YOU THREE DOING HERE?" she screamed.

"Lily Flower! How nice of you to join us!" James bowed gallantly, as Lily tried to control her rage. "We were just about to get completely, utterly, wonderfully drunk! It'll be fun! Just me and you, on a cozy little couch, before a cozy little fire, and lots and lots and lots of alcohol. Oh and them, but I'm sure they wouldn't mind watching," he said excitedly, gesturing to Remus and Sirius.

Remus started turning a bit red and sputtering while Sirius, muttered about his bananas, totally oblivious to the fact Lily had just walked up to them.

Lily was actually very tempted to go along with James. If it had been anyone other than James, she would've welcomed the chance to get drunk and forget about studying for a time. But her deep-seated loathing of James, and her perfectionist, studious, side kept her from saying yes.

"Don't call me Lily Flower!" she said, which hardly expressed her loathing for what James had just suggested, but she was too stressed to think of a witty comeback. Instead, she started running up and down the hallway thinking of quiet, studious places.

"Oh no you don't!" yelled Sirius, snapping out of his banana daze faster than anyone would have thought possible (especially because it looked like he was about to make out with one of the bananas, the way he was looking at it) but when he realized his pending drunkenness was in danger (if Lily was in the Room of Requirement, they couldn't get into it to get their Fire Whiskey) he leapt into action faster than anyone with an unnatural obsession with bananas should be allowed to leap.

"FIRE WHISKEY!" he screamed over and over again while running up and down the corridor. James meanwhile decided to "help" by jumping around and getting into everybody's way. Remus was just about to put a silencing charm on Sirius, Pringle better not here him, James is the HEAD BOY for crying out loud he's the one who is supposed to worry about not getting in trouble, when the door to the R.o.R. appeared on the wall he was leaning against and he fell backwards through the door.

"BANA-er…FIRE WHISKEY!" yelled Sirius as he Lily and James all charged in through the door and fell in a heap on top of Remus.

"Uhhh…this isn't the Fire Whiskey room," said James stating the painfully obvious while Sirius disentangled himself from the pile and stood up.

"Quite right mate and I think we should-smack" Sirius had walked right into the door, which promptly disappeared into the wall.

"Bloody hell," Lily said in disbelief.

Author Note: Ok guys this is my first story! I don't know whether it'll b a success or not….but I thought it would b fun to try. ANYWAY read n review! N flames r ok, just please if your gonna say it sucked, tell me why and how I can make it better! Thanks!