Disclaimer which I forgot in chapter one:- Oops! I own nothing. Literally.
Author's notes: Lets keep this short and sweet, hey? This story is in two parts. *~*Love/hate*~*= love/hate. *~*Classic*~*= Friendship/love. How simple is that?
*~*Love/hate*~*
"I'll shuffle!" cried Cara, reaching over to the proffered pack of cards in Tessa's hand. She roughly chopped them together and started dealing them out to the small knot of fifteen-year-old girls.
A long and exciting game ensued. From inside their compartment cries of "Snap!" and "Dammit! Not again!" rang clearly.
"Ayls- How are you doing it? You're going to win again!" Aylson smirked.
"I know, I know! I have talent… Skill… Beauty -"
"Luck." Tessa butted in, laughing as she placed another card down "Pure luck!" as if to prove her wrong, the cards chose that moment to blow up in her face. A collective groan followed, quickly dissolving into loud laughter as the girls looked around at each other's various burns and singes.
They were all blackened with soot, hair singed and eyebrows non-existent. They made a very amusing sight. Every time they surfaced from the tide of giggles and looked around, they just started off again, or they were, until the compartment door slid open to reveal one Severus Snape: Slimeball extraordinaire.
"Well, well. If it isn't the Gryffindor Grime Girls!" he sneered. The girls abruptly stopped laughing and turned to him, eyes cold.
"Snape." Tessa acknowledged him briefly, before turning her back on him. He didn't take the hint though, and stepped through the open door.
"When you're leaving, Snape, please close the door. We don't want any unwanted visitors." Lily hissed, briefly forgetting about their singed hair and blackened faces. She hated Snape even more than the others did. He seemed to have something against red-heads, and had teased her mercilessly since they had met.
"Ah! If it isn't the weed!" Snape's cold eyes swept her over, eyes lingering on the prefect's badge. "Little miss perfect been made a prefect, eh? Why anyone would want a mudblood prefect, I don't know, but-"
"Snape-" Aylson cut in, looking murderous "Do us all a favour and piss off!"
"Sticking up for your mudblood friend? Ah, how sweet." Lily stood up to look him in the eye;
"Snape, if you don't get out of here right now and leave us alone, I'll show you on no uncertain terms that I don't need anyone sticking up for me.. I can do it all myself." Her green eyes sparkled dangerously, and her hands balled into a fist at her side. He knew her temper well enough to back down, having been on the receiving end more than once, but he couldn't leave without a last demeaning remark;
"Oh, Evans? You might want to put your hair out, before the fire spreads. It's too late to save you; your face is burned to a pulp already but have some consideration of others, mudblood slime.." He smirked at her open mouthed rage, malicious eyes lingering on her blackened face from the game of snap, and left.
Lily was too busy staring in rage, doing a goldfish impression, to retaliate.
"Oh, oh…" muttered Aylson "He broke cardinal law number one… Thou shalt not piss off the redhead." Tessa and Cara quickly stifled a giggle.
Lily turned around, her quick temper flared "I.. am… going.. to… kill… him…." She rummaged around in her trunk and found her wand. A quick flick, and the soot was removed from her face, and her hair was tidied. The other girls held the tactful silence as Lily stormed out toward the Prefects compartment.
"I pity anyone who dared cross her today…" Tessa winced at the thought. Lily was a sweet girl most of the time, but when she was pissed off…
*~*Classic*~*
"I'll shuffle!" cried Aylson, snatching the pack from Cara's hands. She neatly sliced them together, before dealing them out to each of them.
For Lily, the game was short and sweet. She quickly took the lead, and beat them all hands down. "And with that, I'll leave you!" She got up, successful.
"Aw come on Lily! You have to play again! I need to beat you!" Lily laughed and said "I don't think so! I said I'd play one game. I played one game! I promised no more!"
"But they didn't even get a chance to explode!" Cara whined, sounding more like a first year than a fifth year.
"Ha ha! All the better for me! I escape with my eyebrows!" She laughed mockingly
"Bitch."
"You're just angry 'cause I beat you!"
"True."
"Well, mi chicas, I'm off. I want to see who else is prefect this year." Lily sidled off out of the door, waving goodbye to her friends as they dealt out the cards again. As she sidled along the passage, she saw Snape, the ultimate Greasy Slimeball swagger into the girls' compartment. Got out just in time! She thought. Lily couldn't stand Snape. He had the uncanny ability to piss her off. She glanced at him again before continuing down the corridor. Still hasn't discovered shampoo then. She laughed to herself. Some things will never change..
At the end of the winding passage, with countless compartments full of students of all ages, from wide-eyed first years swapping roumers to laid-back seventh years comparing exam results, lay the prefects compartment, distinguishable by the neat, scripted plaque on the front of the wooden door. Lily lightly brushed the cold metal sign with her fingertips, before smoothing her silky hair and sliding the door open and entering.
She smiled at the inhabitants, happy to see she knew some. There was two Hufflepuffs she used to sit near in Arithmancy, a Ravenclaw that Cara was friendly with, two Gryffindor sixth years she knew and James Potter, who was another Gryffindor in her year. She smiled a greeting at all of them and slid into an empty seat next to James.
"Hey!" She greeted him. He looked up and smiled
"Hey Lily! No surprises you got made a prefect! Miss perfect grades!" He teased her. She laughed
"As I recall, you beat me in quite a few of the end of year exams, Mr Potter, so what does that make you?" He pretended to ponder this, before replying;
"A genius." Lily snorted loudly at this, while James put on a hurt expression. She didn't really talk to him very much. He had his crowd, she had hers. In first and second year, she had thought he and his friends childish, but as she grew older, she realised some of their pranks were quite ingenious.
She had always got on well with Remus, since they had been partners on a long forgotten DADA project. Sirius and James she had barely talked to, but found them easy-going, Peter she liked, even though he was quite shy. She looked James over. He had grown quite a lot over the summer. He had filled out a little and matured a lot, but still had the same mischievous twinkle in his eyes, the twinkle that had so many girls swooning.
As Lily surreptitiously looked James over, he was doing the same to her. She had changed a lot over the summer. Her tall, willowy figure had gained some feminine curves, her red hair loose midway down her back. Her eyes shone brightly with hope and happiness. He liked talking with her, she was more down to earth than most of the girls at Hogwarts, well, the ones he attracted anyway. As a skilled quiddich player, he had a gaggle of groupies. He dated them quite often, but it never lasted long. He preferred girls with more depth, but he seemed to repel them!
"…James? James? You there? Hello?" He was brought back to the present moment by Lily's hand waving in front of his face
"Wha-?" Equolent as usual, he stumbled back into the conversation
"You were a little… Out of it!" She laughed.
"Yeah.. I was… thinking" He finished lamely
He and Lily continued chatting for the remainder of the journey. Lily was surprised by his whit and sharp comments. She had never thought of him as being quite such interesting conversation. They sat and laughed together over various pranks James and his friends had played on Snape and the other Slytherins. On his part, James was really starting to enjoy her company. She was quick and full of good comebacks, also a very appreciative audience, which was nice. As the train rolled in to the Hogsmede station, and they bid farewell to each other to find their retrospective friends, they both had the feeling it was going to be a very good year…
*~*Love/hate*~*
Temper still flared, Lily barged down the train's passageway towards the door marked "Prefects". She opened the door just as the train gave a jolt, and lost her balance. She flailed wildly for a moment, before crashing to the ground, taking the first thing she grabbed onto to keep her balance with her…
"Mpfhh!" Her muffled cry sounded from the floor, as something heavy fell on top of her. Through her tousled hair, she looked angrily up to see who had landed on her-
"Potter- Get off me!" James looked at her incredulously
"Erm.. Sorry, but you're the one who pulled me down!" Green eyes locked with brown. Neither broke their gaze.
"Just move!" Lily spat
"Happy to oblige" James replied coldly, sitting back down. Normally, Lily would apologise, but she wasn't in the mood at that moment. She sat grumpily down too, legs crossed, arms folded, an aggressive line to her back.
"Sheesh, what's got into you?" James muttered under his breath
"Lily spun around in her seat and glared at him.
"Potter, do me a favour and shut up?" How the hell did you get made prefect?" She sneered
" Better than you Mrs Bitch Queen of the universe!" he shot back "Maybe something to do with the fact I have a sense of humour? More than what we can say about you!" Lily shot him a look that could have shut down BT. She was not in the mood to be pissed with. The rest of the train journey was passed in uneasy silence in the Prefect's compartment. The air between Lily and James was thick with tension, and it was disenhartening the others. As the train ground to a halt, Lily and James ran off to find their friends, both fuming about the other.
*~*~*
Next: stuff!
Sorry that was so short. I'm doing my exams right now and I'm kinda busy! I had the worst maths exam ever today! Shoutout to any other people in Scotland doing their Standard Grades! We will suffer together! Actually.. Shoutout to anyone, anywhere who's doing exams! If you reviewed, thank you, I love you! I have a little thank you bit on the review page. If anyone has any prank ideas, please tell me! I'm too stupid to think of any good ones! I will give you a nice cameo in the story if I use your idea! I've got my Drama exam tomorrow, wish me luck! Byeee!
