Phase 7: "Took You Long Enough"
Jasmine had a hard time trying to sleep that night. Shortly after she went to find Lily upstairs, the Longbottom parents had arrived home to find… a party.
Alice had been grounded for a month for actually throwing the party. Alice thought she had gotten off easy. That was before her dad had told her that it would carry on throughout the Easter and Summer holidays until all four weeks were completed.
Frank, who has been hiding in the basement behind a box of spare toilet seats, completely mortified, had to be given chocolate before he would even think about calming down.
Catherine, drunk, tearstained, and flirting with a seventh-year Slytherin Catherine; drunk, tearstained and flirting with numerous seventh year Slytherins, was sent to her room and told that her punishment would be decided at a later time; preferably when she was more sober.
Every child was told to go home, but Jasmine's parents, and Lily's parents, were good (sort of) friends with Neville and Hannah. Jasmine knew she was dead. Period.
On top of everything else, when Jasmine woke up the next morning, she found out why had been hard to find. Lily Potter had crashed on her bed.
"Lily?" Jasmine said as she shook her friend awake.
"Huh, wha?" Lily said and then took in as she groped around for some unseen item before taking in her surroundings. "I guess I didn't go home last night, how drunk was I?" She lifted an eyebrow in question and horror at Jasmine.
Jasmine sniggered. "Not as drunk as Catherine, she broke up with Scorpius."
Lily's eyes lightened up. "Really." She asked like a child on Christmas, which fit since it technically was Christmas.
Jasmine nodded and glanced at her clock: 7:48.
"Crap." Lily said. "My dad wakes anyone who isn't awake on Christmas by 8:00 o'clock up."
"So we've got ten minutes to get you home? Let's think, how do we get you home?" Jasmine joked.
"How?" Lily asked Her eyebrows furrowing in confusion.
"That booze really contaminated your brain, didn't it?" Jasmine asked. Lily raised an eyebrow at her pointedly. Jasmine sighed.) "Floo Network."
"Oh," Lily said, blinking in amazement. "That's smart."
Walking over to the fireplace in Jasmine's room, Lily grabbed a handful of powder from a near bye flowerpot and threw it on the flames. Yelling her address, she felt an odd sensation and ended up in her living room and ended up sprawled on her livingroom floor, 'oh shit' and found herself looking up at her mum, a disoriented Al (who decided to see how much he could drink in a span of half an hour the night before) and a hyper-active James.
Lily could faintly hear her dad say. "I'll go wake up Lily."
James, too hyper to wait, yelled to Harry Potter with a lie that might've even fooled Albus Dumbledore, might've. "No need dad! Lily just snuck down here."
Harry came down from the stairs, looked at Lily, who was still sprawled on the floor, and chuckled. "I guess you are. Now let's let James open his gifts before he has another fiasco like the one last Easter."
James, hyper-active and bouncing up and down, managed to make a coherent response. "Hey, that little punk was going to steal my chocolate."
"He was five and it was an Easter Egg Hunt." Lily deadpanned.
"Shut up and let me open my presents." James snarled and his mom hurriedly handed him a present to open and James squeaked in delight.
Scorpius Malfoy woke up in a vaguely familiar room that he knew wasn't his, glancing at the clock, he saw the time was a quarter to eight I wonder if dear old dad even knows that I'm gone?
"Where am I?" He asked himself as he moved up as he lifted himself up groggily.
"Potter mansion, bet you never thought that you'd end up here?" Albus Potter muttered as he entered the room. "Lily slept at Jasmine's last night and apparently you slept here, well not apparently, you just kind of came here."
"Sorry, I'm a little of because," Scorpius said, not remembering the fight he had previously been holding with Al.
"Catherine broke up with you? Lily told me and Jasmine told her." Al finished Scorpius's sentence.
"Yeah, I called her a bitch, selfish, and annoying. Jasmine called her jealous and envious, and I think I faintly heard Teddy, my cousin, not your god brother, call her a slut after she tried to hook up with him, after she threatened me and Jasmine." Scorpius said. As an afterthought he added. "Sorry I crashed here."
Al shrugged nonchalantly, "No problem, Ced bunked here too. My parents both know about it. Though, I have to say, get out of my sister's bed!"
"Sorry," Scorpius said as he jumped out of Lily's bed.
"Hey Scorpius." Cedric said as he wandered into the younger girl's room. "Ah so this is what a normal girl's room looks like," he pondered, mainly to himself. "I only see my sister's and she isn't normal, as you both know."
"So, Scorpius, what happened last night? 'Cause you were singing when you got here. Granted, I left before the party was broken up, but still; what happened that caused you, of all people, to sing?"
"Uh," Scorpius said as he went over the events of the previous night in his mind.
START FLASHBACK
Scorpius and Jasmine ran up the stairs to find Lilyslumped in the hallway.
"SCOR! I'm so glad to see you here. Oh Jasmine, you're here too, good." Lily said as she pulled her drunken self up.
"Lily," Jasmine said slowly, "Maybe we should go to my house and rest, you don't want to get into too much trouble."
"Fine,I'll go with you." Lily said. Jasmine went to grab her arm, but Lily moved first. "But not until I do something that I've wanted to do all year." Lily leant into Scorpius and kissed him square on the lips."
This wasn't a sweet kiss, nor was it a slutty one. It was full of passion, and Scorpius responded by pulling her closer to him as he deepened the kiss, forgetting about all about his spat with Catherine. Scorpius and Lily felt their bodies tingling as he pulled her closer.
"Hey Jasmine." Cedric said as he walked up beside her and looked at the pairmaking out. "Finally they do something about their mutual crushes."
"MUTUAL!" Jasmine shouted in surprise, which caused Lily and Scorpius to pull apart abruptly, Lily to actually realize that she had just snogged her brother's friend, and Neville Longbottom to get home.
"EVERYBODY OUT." They could hear Nevilleshout downstairs.
"Jasmine," Lily said hurriedly, "I think I'll go to your house."
"Come on Scorpius," Cedric said, "Let's go to Al's house. I doubt either of our parents wish to be woken up this late, but, with James being James, Al's have got to be already up."
"Okay." Scorpius said, dazed.
END OF FLASHBACK
"Scorpius kissed Lily." Cedric summed up.
Al turned to look Scorpius straight in the eye. "Seriously? Damn, I missed a good party, well not the party part, the good part."
"You mean the part where Professor Longbottom came home, grounded Alice, and sent everyone home? Yeah, you missed a lot." Cedric said.
Al went to respond but stopped as he heard a high-pitched squeak. The three boys turned to Lily standing at the hallway entrance. Squeaking once more as she saw that she had caught Scorpius's attention, she ran into James' room.
"Mate," Al said and Scorpius looked at him as though Al was going to give him advice, "Make up with her, or whatever, or I'll beat the crap out of you. Maybe I'll let James help me."
Scorpius nodded fearfully and ran into James' room after Lily.
Meanwhile, downstairs in the living room, Kathryn came by to see if James was alright. Having been at the party, she saw how drunk he had been. "Hey James." She said as she walked in. "You have fun at the party?"
James nodded. "I like her."
Kathryn looked at him with confusion. "Who? Cause if you're talking about Kaitlyn, Kathleen, or Katrina, I'm not letting you date them. They'll kill you, and I don't want to lose my best friend," she joked. "But, seriously, who are you talking about?" Kathryn asked.
James looked up at Kathryn with a lustful look in his eyes. "Jasmine Deveraux."
"The fourth year?" She questioned curiously.
James nodded silently.
"How?" Kathryn asked.
"I don't know, something to do with Alice finally snogging someone since she snogged me fourth year, and how she's a virgin and that's cool and she's sweet and I could go on forever, don't make do that." James said.
Kathryn looked into James's brown eyes. Truth only lurked within them, no secret agendas or hidden wants.
Scorpius Malfoy entered James Potter's room to find Lily sitting on the bed, staring at him.
"Took you long enough." She said arrogantly and then began laughing at his expression. "So what do we do now?"
"I don't know," Scorpius joked, "date?"
"Oh, but Mister Malfoy, dating doesn't work so well for you." Lily goaded as she leaned up to kiss him on the nose.
"There's a first for everything." Scorpius said seriously.
"I bet there is." Lily said as they kissed.
Surprisingly enough, New Year's Eve came around fast for everyone (well, except for Alice who was still grounded). And the Deveraux sisters had been graciously permitted to throw a party, as long as they cleaned the entire house up. Sometimes, Lily wished her parents were that nice. and then she remember Alice's house, and she was glad her parents weren't that naïve.
"So, Jasmine," Lily said to her friend, "Is Scorpius coming?"
Jasmine laughed and then nodded. "Yes he is. But he's coming in about ten minutes so he doesn't have to tell his parents."
"The classic, sneak out routine, eh?"
Jasmine nodded. "Do you know where your brother is?"
Lily sighed. "Jasmine, you and James are never going to be a thing."
"I know, I was looking for Al. I think I'm going to try to get over my James issue, and in the meantime, Al is pretty cute."
Lily rolled her eyes. "Nice."
It was at that moment that Jasmine heard the same question said by two people, fastly, as though they were competing as to who said it first. "Will you go out with me?"
Turning around, she saw both Potter brothers on their knees begging for her to go out with them. Oh shit, what do I do know? Pick between my crushes? STALL!
"Hey Lily, I think I see Scorpius over there." Jasmine said.
"I thought you said he wasn't going to be here for a while?" Lily asked in confusion, not realizing Jasmine's ploy. "Never mind." She said as Jasmine pulled her away from her brothers.
"What do I do?" Jasmine asked in shock.
"Go out with both of them?" Lily began to laugh at her friends shocked face.
"This isn't funny! Both of the guys I want to date ask me out at the same time!" Jasmine groaned.
"Do what I do." Lily said.
"Plot to steal a girl's boyfriend? 'Cause that ain't going to help me here." Jasmine said.
Lily laughed. "No, ignore them until them until one of them makes a decision."
Jasmine looked at her, confused. "You do that with guys you like, and it works?"
"I use it on my brothers, it works on them. Al's too embarrassed half of the time, and James is too arrogant to do anything half of the time." Lily explained matter-of-factly.
"And the other half of the time, what do you do?" Jasmine asked.
"I go to your house and hide from them." Lily said. "Oh look, it's Scorpius." Lily ran over and kissed Scorpius as fireworks went off around the sky, leaving Jasmine behind to roll her eyes at her friend's "helpfulness".
At least Lily had someone to kiss for New Years. Jasmine thought as she went to hide in her room, right now James seemed exceedingly arrogant and Al not shy at all. Evidence for this would be the two brothers beginning to fight downstairs.
I'll wait for them to be normal and too nervous of rejection to do anything, in the meantime, there's always chocolate!
Chocolate's boring, have cheesecake!
GET OUT OF MY PATHETIC THOUGHTS LILY!
AN: Sorry for the super long delay in this chapter. I've got a promo picture for this story, I just kind of edited Ginny's picture ('cause I think Lily ultimately looks like Ginny did) and, yeah! The link's in my profile for those curious. I hope to update soon, but I start school in two days so I might not get updates out as fast as I would like. Thanks much to my beta fearblank for looking over this chapter.