Chapter 8: Ten Fingers

"Al!" Lily shrieked at her brother. "Don't answer the door."

"Why?" Albus asked as he slipped his hand from the shiny doorknob.

"Because that's Jasmine."

"So?"

"I will not have you tackle her with your massive crush by opening the door and going into an awkward conversation for twenty minutes because she's too nice to stop it." Lily argued.

"COULD SOMEONE JUST LET ME IN?" Jasmine yelled from outside. "YOUR NEIGHBORS HAVE A DOG THAT LOOKS LIKE IT WANTS TO KILL," Lily pushed Al and opened the door, "me." Jasmine finished quietly.

"Hi." Albus said to Jasmine.

"Hi." Jasmine said.

Lily, used to this old routine, intervened. "Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. Do we have the 'hi's' down?"

Albus and Jasmine nodded.

"Come on Jasmine," Lily said as she pulled her friend up the stairs, "Let's go to my room."

The two girls climbed the stairs, Jasmine almost falling as James raced down the stairs at the same time, and into Lily's room.

"Your brother is so hot." Jasmine said to Lily.

Lily looked at her. "Which one?" She asked curiously.

"Well, I mean, Al is cute, but look at James, Quidditch has done him well." Jasmine sighed a very pathetic sigh that made Lily sure that if Scorpius had been listening to their conversation, Lily would only have one brother, maybe none depending on Scorpius's mood.

"I don't want to look at James that way, it's illegal and wrong." Lily said.

"And anyway," Jasmine said in an annoying voice, "It would be cheating on Scorpius."

Lily tackled Jasmine, but, since Lily was quite smaller than her fifteen year companion, she lost as Jasmine pushed her off of the bed she'd been sitting on and onto the silver rug and the ground with a small thump.

"What was that for?" Jasmine asked her friend as she rubbed the arm Lily had jumped on. "James and Albus already know."

"I have a father, a mother, a grandfather, grandmother, several aunts, several uncles, and a lot of cousins that I would like to refrain from them knowing." Lily explained.

"I thought Hugo already knew." Jasmine said.

Lily growled. "He does, but Rose, Lucy, Molly, Victoire, and my other cousins don't know."

"Know what?" Lily, who'd climbed on the bed to sit next to her friend, immediately turned around and fell off of the bed.

"Oi! Dad, have you heard of knocking?" Lily screeched as she once again climbed on her bed.

"Sorry Silly Lily," Lily grimaced at her father's childish nickname for her, "but Albus, James, Hugo, and the rest are wondering if you want to hang out with them while us, what did you call us, parental units," Lily's eyes widened at the term she once used to mock her parents, "go out to celebrate Louis's twenty-first."

"Why can't we celebrate Louis's birthday?" Lily asked.

"Because Jasmine's parents would shoot me for taking her to where we're going, and I'd probably shoot myself for taking you there." Harry Potter said.

"A bar?" Jasmine surmised.

"A strip club?" Lily guessed.

"Both?" A small and familiar voice asked.

Harry nodded but Lily and Jasmine shrieked. "KILA!"

Harry snorted as he walked out of the room. "Oh, and did I fail to mention that Kila's here?" Harry quickly walked out of the room and shut the door only to hear two pillows to reverberate in hitting the door behind him.

"Kila!" Lily shrieked. "I thought you were staying at Hogwarts for the break."

"Yeah, and then I realized that Spencer's staying at Hogwarts and I really don't want to end up under a 'Weasley Wizard Wheeze's charmed mistletoe' with him."

"An yes," Lily remembered her Uncle George inventing that when she was five, "I remember those, I got stuck under one of those with Frank Longbottom when I was seven; gosh James looked like he was going to burst from laughter."

Jasmine sighed after the word 'James.'

"JASMINE DEVERAUX!" Lily shouted. "Just because you admitted that you have a crush on my brother does not mean that you can sigh every time that I say the word 'James.'"

"So," A deep voice said and all three girls' eyes widened and they all turned to face the door, "Jazzy's got a crush on me, how sweet."

Jasmine blushed whilst Lily threw a pillow at her brother. "EVER HEARD OF KNOCKING?"

James laughed as he caught the pillow. "Knocking's for dumb-nuts, besides, the gang's wondering if you three want to play party games while mom and dad are gone." James asked as he grinned a sexy grin at Jasmine immediately blushed a deep red that would've made someone believe she was in Gryffindor.

"Party Games?" Kila asked. "With just family members?"

"I may have invited a few friends over." James said.

"A few?" Lily skeptically asked.

"Okay, a lot of friends. Well, I invited a few and so did some of the others." James explained.

"As long as Spencer Sinclair isn't there, I'm excited." Kila said.

"Oh, you mean that dorky Hufflepuff in your guy's year?" James asked and Kila nodded, "Oh yeah, he's coming over, he's one of Hugo's friends."

Kila dug her head into her hands. "This is going to be one long night I suppose."

By the time, everyone was at the Potter Residence, there were over twenty people. There was James and his two friends, Kathryn Klinth and Jasper Crowelly. Albus, his friends Connor "Finn" Finnigan and Rory Thomas (who were making out), and his good friend Ced. Lily had her two friends Jasmine and Kila sitting next to her, and across from Lily, Hugo and his friends Spencer (whom Kila was avoiding) and Frank (Longbottom, the one Lily kissed when she was younger) sat. Next to Hugo's group was Rose and her two best friends Alice and McKenzie (who was avoiding eye contact with Albus). Roxanne only had her boyfriend Edward with her. Lucy had her best friend Madeleine over, and Fred and his best friends (who were dating) over, Zia and Emmett.

"Now," James said, "Let's start out with the game ten fingers."

"Ten Fingers?" Kila and Jasmine asked.

"Also known as: Never have I ever," Hugo explained, "You start out holding up ten fingers. One person says something like Never have I ever had sex," James, Rose, and Albus cracked up and Hugo stuck his tongue out at them, "and everyone who has had sex has to put down a finger."

"Last person with a finger up wins." Lily finished for her cousin. "It tends to be more interesting when everyone's drinking Firewhiskey and everyone's drunk."

"So let's play with Firewhiskey." Ced said.

"Now who would we know with Firewhiskey?" Jasmine joked and every head turned to James.

"Fine, I have Firewhiskey." James said and reaching behind him, he pulled out three bottles of it. "Now put your fingers up; for every finger you put down, you take a swig of this. Oh, and I didn't give you guys this, got it?"

Everyone rolled their eyes.

After a small silence, Hugo started. "Never have I ever had sex." Several fingers went down, including Lily and Kila's, and everyone took a drink.

Lily went next, "Never have I ever been in Gryffindor." Most of them groaned.

"Never have I ever been a boy." Jasmine said.

Frank Longbottom went next, "Never have I ever snogged someone in public."

Lily could hear James curse Frank. James had six fingers compared to Lily's eight.

"Never have I ever almost killed myself with a rubber duck." Hugo thought he was only eliminating Kila, but James also struck down a finger.

"I don't want to talk about, okay." James said.

"Never have I ever been Emo." Zia said.

Madeleine, James, McKenzie, and Emmett struck down a finger each.

"Damn this game," James said, "I only have four fingers left. Normally I win."

"Normally you play with pot-heads." Lily and Albus said and James stuck his tongue out.

"Never have I ever," Emmett began, "Dated a boy."

James was the only boy to put a finger down.

"I don't want to talk about it." James said and Lily and Albus looked at each other, each making mental notes to find out the answers one day.

Roxanne went next. "Never have I ever dated a girl."

James struck down, with many other boys, a finger leaving only two left.

"Never have I ever had an older sibling." Kathryn Klinth said.

Lily had six now, and Albus had five and James still held his two high. The rest had about five to seven each (Lucy, 5; Edward, 6; Roxanne, 6; Zia, 7; Emmett, 5; Fred, 5; McKenzie, 5; Alice, 7; Rose, 6; Frank, 6; Hugo,7; Kila, 6; Ced, 7; Rory, 7; Finn, 6; Kathryn, 5) with Jasmine, Jasper, Madeleine, and Spencer tied with four, and Rory with nine.

"Never have I ever been in the Hospital Wing for over two days." Jasper said.

Everyone but James, Jasper, Rory, and Jasmine put down a finger. Then, Lily noticed McKenzie tied with Spencer and Jasmine. By now, Spencer and McKenzie, both very drunk, were flirting with each other and calling each other sexy.

"Never have I been rejected for the Quidditch team." Frank said. ("You've never tried out!")

Thirty minutes later, it was Jasmine, Lily, James, Albus, and Kila versing each other. James, having incredible luck had one finger left, just like everyone else left, and it was Kila's turn. Kila was trying to think of something since several things people had been lately saying weren't getting any fingers down. She saw Alice and Frank talk about bets and thinking of Alice, an old memory came into mind when she accidentally overheard Lily and Jasmine talking, hoping to get down two opponents, she spoke.

"Never have I ever plotted to break someone up."

Kila won that game, much to James's dismay.

AN: Poor Lily, no one knocks. Okay, I couldn't really write much of a plot one. And I didn't include Scorpius in this one. This chapter really set up for what I have in a sequel planned. Oh, and to those wondering, this story is set during Albus Potter and the Battle to Finish plots (notice McKenzie, Rory, and Finn?), but I'm still editing that story, so sorry. Review, please.

-silverdrama