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She Will Be Loved

Chapter Five ll The Hut: More Pointless Yelling

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"You stupid twit!" Lily exclaimed at once.

"What?" James spluttered, quite taken aback.

Lily whirled around and jabbed him violently in the chest, "This is all your fault!"

James shoved her away, blinded by his fury, "Oh, so it's my fault again, huh?"

"Nuh duh, you told me to take the left track, which was wrong!" Lily was screaming at him, looking ready to strike him again.

"And you listened, you little skeez, so I wonder whose fault that was?" James said sarcastically.

"I am going to slap you in a second, Potter."

"I'd like to see you try."

"Screw you, you aren't worth it," Lily snapped nastily, "Now shut the feck up, it's the least you can do."

"Oh really?"

"Yes, Potter, because in case you haven't realised we're stranded in the middle of a bloody, stupid forest, which, I might add, is in the middle of MUGGLEVILLE!--"

"What the hell is that?"

"--it means we're not in a wizarding area, git. We have no wands, no food, nothing, so you could shut up while I figure out some witty plan to save myself!"

"Brilliant, all we need is a plan of yours to kill us off. Just marvellous. Pray tell."

Lily shoved him away and said hurtfully, "Do everyone a favour and jump in the sea."

Before James could retaliate, there was a wispy, airy and bone-chilling noise from somewhere around them. It sounded like spirits whispering and hissing at each other.

"What is that?" Lily had suddenly dropped her voice as she looked around, quite scared.

"No idea," James said quietly, looking around with wide eyes.

They both froze when they heard it again; this time, it was louder, as if it was getting closer to them.

"I don't like this," Lily whimpered.

"C'mon, let's get outta here--" James started to say, when suddenly there was a rushing of wind. Lily screamed. It sounded like everything was being sucked out of earth, and there were powerful winds everywhere.

It was like a hurricane as James yelled at Lily and grabbed her arm. They both started to run, shielding themselves from random flying objects.

They had been running for a couple of minutes when the winds began to die down, and everything slowly returned back to normal. The trees stopped rustling around dangerously as if they were about to be pulled right out by their roots at any moment.

When they burst out of the forest and into another clearing, they stopped running and caught their breath. James dropped Lily's arm and she collapsed onto the ground, panting.

"What the hell was that?" she asked as soon as she could talk properly.

"Beats me," James replied, looking shaken up. He stood up and exclaimed, "Hey, look at that!"

Lily looked up and to her surprise, saw a hut in the middle of nowhere. It was made out of wood and looked quite welcoming.

"Go and check it out," James ordered.

"Why me?" Lily asked.

"Because you'll make a better impression," James said irritably, without the slightest trace of embarrassment, "You ask too many questions, Evans, just go for the love of all things sane."

"Whatever," Lily said with a grin. She slowly walked up to the hut, straightened herself out (James rolled his eyes), and knocked on the door politely.

There was no answer.

So she knocked again.

Still no answer.

Lily touched the golden handle slightly, and the door creaked and open a crack. Hesitantly, she pushed it open a little more.

"Hello?"

James came up from behind her and pushed the door open wide, "Hello?" he also called.

There was still no sign of life.

They both stepped in awkwardly, keeping close to each other.

"I think it's empty," James finally said.

Restraining herself from going, "Nuh duh", Lily explored around. The door had opened right into the living area, which looked very cosy and warm. The lights were on and there were warm-coloured rugs covering the wooden floor. There were a couple of squishy armchairs and a large sofa that looked so luxuriously comfortable.

"It's empty and ours!" James said cheerfully, jumping on the sofa and kicking off his shoes.

"Hold on, are you sure we can just... invade?"

"We're not invading... just staying..."

The hut proved to be magical, as the kitchen would produce food at an instant if you wished aloud for it. There was a completely white and rather dazzling bathroom, and a cosy bedroom with two neat, clean and warm beds.

After Lily had finished exploring, she returned to the kitchen and saw James eating a treacle pudding.

"Excellent food," he managed to say.

Scrunching up her face, Lily squeaked an, "Ew," then said, "I wish for a cup of coffee."

"Such a young girl like you shouldn't drink such a caffeineated drink," James said slyly as a china cup of steaming coffee appeared in front of Lily.

"Just shut up and eat your pudding, Potter."

While they drank coffee/ate pudding, they argued over the facts of Wizard-and-Goblin War I, II and IV. WaGIII had only lasted for a month and, therefore, was not an interesting topic of conversation.

Fortunately, neither of them resorted to name-calling and insultive attacks. They had a good-natured argument for once.

After that, Lily brought up the subject of how they would return to camp.

"I don't want to go back there," James whined.

"Neither do I, but we'll have to one day."

"Yeah, one day. Meaning not now. Think about it later. You worry too much."

"No I don't," Lily replied with a small sigh.

Seeing how weary she was, James suggested softly, "Come on, let's play cards or something. I saw a deck of playing cards in the living room."

"All right..."

After they spent the morning playing Go Fish (Lily taught him how to play), they ate lunch together. Again, they felt uncomfortable and silence reigned. It was like that night when they were both stuck in Lily's dormitory. Neither of them knew how to act.

So they just shut up and ate.

How come whenever she's surrounded by friends, we end up arguing, but when we're alone, we get along all right? That's not what it used to be before. We would just fight and fight all the time.

Lily looked up and saw a faint pink mark on James' face. Realising that she had been acting like a bitch to everyone lately, she bit back a smile and said, "Does it hurt?"

James' head shot up, surprised and grateful that she was talking, "What does?"

"Where I hit you this morning."

"Oh," James touched the spot gently, "Uhh... no... yeah."

"Sorry," she said quietly, and quickly went back to eating.

Surprised that Lily was acting so human towards him (for once), James murmured a, "It's okay..." But all the same, he wondered what had brought on the sudden mood change.

Girls these days.

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A/N: Lol... Lily seems a bit more nicer, yeah? Well, she has her mood swings like every other teenage girl. Please review! I really want to keep those comments coming! Hehe, thank you for reading. Tally ho! --MSQ.