Phase 4: Act Cool Around Him

"Now," Professor Entwhistle said as James Potter snuck into the detention room. "That Mister James Potter is finally here, we can start detention. You five have to clean the trophy room today. Detention is to be at least four hours long, if you five finish early, you will be writing lines, if you don't finish within four hours, you will be staying here until you do finish." Professor Entwhistle pulled out a duster, sponges, and other muggle cleaning devices. "Oh, and you five will give me your wands for the detention period. No use of magic and this ensures that the rule will be followed." He saw a question in Scorpius's and James's eyes. "And if you refuse to forfeit your wands, you will be expelled."

Ten eyes from five students widened. Each student gave up their wand one by one until Jasmine dropped her Eleven inch Holly Wood with Unicorn Hair Core wand into Professor Entwhistle's hand.

"Now clean." He barked as he left.

James immediately waited for Entwhistle to leave. "Clean, no magic, expulsion, I'd say he's worried about these escaped Death Eaters."

Jasmine nodded but the other three just started cleaning the room.

James and Jasmine worked at one corner (whispering rumors and nonsense) while Scorpius, Albus, and Lily cleaned on the other side making sure that each of them were as far apart as possible.

"What's with my siblings and your cousin?" James asked Jasmine.

"I can't tell you." Jasmine asked.

James raised an eyebrow. "Why not?"

"Because I was told not to." And then it hit Jasmine that she was never sworn to secrecy, Lily wasn't the brightest bulb when thinking like that.

"What would make you change your mind?" James asked.

"Nothing." Jasmine said as she polished a plaque to Bell, Jacob for receiving every NEWT possible.

"Really?" James said as he leaned closer, "Because I heard that you liked me."

Jasmine's eyes widened. In her fifteen year of life, she had never once revealed to anyone who she liked, even her parents. "Where did you hear that?" She asked, still not looking up at his face.

James smirked. "I'm not that dumb."

Jasmine giggled inside herself and bit aloud. "Really?"

"Really." James said as he lifted a hand to touch her face.

Jasmine shivered from his hand and looked down to the floor.

"What do you know?"

James words tickled Jasmine's ear and Jasmine found her head instinctively turning upward. Jasmine looked at him and melted into his adorable chocolaty-hazel eyes. "Lily liked Scorpius so Al and I were trying to hook them up but Scorpius found out so he tried beating Al up."

James quickly growled, retreated his hand, and glared at the three people he was angry (Al for trying to get Lily dating a snake, the snake for being liked by Lily and being a snake, and Lily for liking the snake).

Jasmine groaned inside herself, the most unspoken rule of anything to do with Lily's love life is: Don't tell James.

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Across the room, Scorpius turned to his left: his best friend who was betraying him. He then turned to his right: an ambitious girl who had a huge crush on him. Time to move.

Scorpius picked up his rag and moved to sit next to a pale Jasmine who was staring at James; James turned to Scorpius and looked quite ready to kill.

"What crime did I commit?" Scorpius whispered in his cousin's ear.

Jasmine turned. "I might've clued him in."

Scorpius stared at her and then turned to James. "Do I need to run?" he asked.

"Yes." James answered as he leapt forward.

Scorpius jumped back as James tried tackling him. Lily and Albus –who had remained silent- looked up, eyes wide and jumped to their own feet, instinctively looking for their wands, to no avail.

"You. Snake." James hissed and then turned to his brother. "And you, my own brother."

"JASMINE!" Lily and Albus yelled at the blushing girl.

"I couldn't help it; James was seducing me." Jasmine said.

Albus felt a pang of anger; Lily laughed a bit; Scorpius looked to see what Albus's and James's expressions were; and James stopped trying to strangle Scorpius. "Did not."

"You flirted with Jasmine?" Albus asked in a furiated voice.

"So, I was trying to figure out what was going on, which apparently, my younger brother is trying to hook our little sister up with the second biggest player at Hogwarts." James roared and Jasmine ducked further out away from the conversation.

"Second biggest?" Lily asked.

Albus snickered a bit in a unsure way of the consequences of his actions. "James would be the biggest."

"That doesn't change the fact you betrayed me, Albus!" James roared. "We agreed that we would do whatever we could to stop Lily from dating."

"I'm a person, I can choose for myself." Lily tried arguing in.

"Stay out of this Lily!" James and Albus yelled as they continued their fight.

Scorpius bent down to Lily's ear. "Your brothers don't really trust you do they?"

Lily shook her head. "To them I'm still four."

Scorpius looked at Lily for an odd second then spoke again. "I treat Jasmine like my sister and yet I let her date."

"Are you flirting with me?" Lily silently asked.

Scorpius chuckled. "You wish, I'm hoping you'll tell James not to try and beat me up again."

Lily giggled a bit. "Oh but I thought that was funny."

"Sure, sure." Scorpius said. "But you didn't have an eighteen year old boy tackling you."

"Neither did you." Lily said and Scorpius looked at her. "James is seventeen smart-ass." Lily said before walking up the stairs of the trophy room. "I'm ditching." She said and Jasmine's eyes lit up as she scurried to follow Lily.

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AN: Short, and sadly enough, there was more, but I'm cutting because it isn't coming out correctly. If anyone wants to beta this, I'd love the help. Oh, and for the past week, I've had a cold and an ear infection, so I finally go back to school today and skin my knee on the way to P.E. ... I think I'm cursed, but yeah, my illnesses are why I haven't update in a while.

-SilverDrama