Ouch

"Ow" Lilly thought "ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!"

She felt absolutely ridiculous, and extremely stupid, and that had gotten her into this. Lilly Potter was stuck in a tree in the forest by her house, after going out for a late night fly on her Firebolt 500. And after a bird, a branch, and a whole lot of pain, she had ended up here, hanging from a massive oak with her shirt snared in the branches and her broom just out of reach. Lilly cursed herself for leaving her wand out home, because even though it was illegal to do magic, this definitely counted as a life-threatening situation. If her shirt ripped, it would be a fatal fall.

Lilly tried to stretch for her Firebolt, but as she twisted she felt her shirt start to tear, and froze. She couldn't reach her broom, couldn't move for fear of plummeting to her death, so she did the only thing she could do. She started screaming

"HELP!" she screamed so loud that the birds flew out of the surrounding trees in great flocks of feathers and wings. "HELP!" she tried again, to no avail. She sat there, defeated, and was pondering another way to get out of this when she heard merry laughter from far down below. Glancing down, she saw her brother Albus nearly crying because he was laughing so hard. She sighed.

"Stop laughing and get me down you arse." she called, which just made Albus laugh harder.

" You know," he called up in a choked voice " I think I'll let you hang there for awhile."

This was a bad move on Albus's part because that made Lilly angry, and you should never EVER make Lilly angry.

" ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER I SWEAR ON TO MERLIN IF YOU DON'T GET ME OUT OF THIS BLOODY TREE RIGHT NOW THIS WILL BE A WHOLE LOT WORSE FOR YOU THAN IT IS FOR ME!"

Albus suddenly stopped laughing, knowing that Lilly meant it. He remembered last year, when a Slytherin had laughed when her potion exploded and covered her in green goo that stuck in her hair, and said Slytherin still had a reddish tinge to his blonde hair, and idiot written on his face in acne. He got on his own broom, and flew up to where Lilly hung from the fabric of her shirt. He stifled another laugh when he saw the true extent of her predicament, and after a few tries, got her on his broom in front of him. He steered toward the ground, intent on dropping Lilly of and going back for her broom. When he got back, he handed Lilly her broom and they both took of in to the night sky.

Suddenly, Lilly swerved. She rammed into Albus, knocking him off his broom and sending him spiraling down to the waiting treetops below, and then followed in close pursuit. Albus crashed into the branches, limbs flailing and screaming at the top of his voice, and fell through until his shirt got snagged on a particular one. Looking up, he saw Lilly hovering beside him, smirking as he hung from the very same tree branch that she had been not half an hour before.

"That," she said triumphantly, " was for laughing."

Albus sighed.