The Slytherin Champion (The Four Maidens of Hogwarts #1)

Chapter Eleven

When Jade saw Adonis at the Slytherin table on early Thursday evening, she plopped down into a seat across from him.

"Hey, Jade." Adonis greeted, swallowing some of the food that was in his mouth. "Haven't seen you since Moody's class. What'd you think?"

Jade gave a shrug. "Same old Moody." In all honesty, Moody was an interesting professor, but something about him just gave Jade an abnormally strange feeling. Professor Lupin from last year had been better, in her opinion. "How was your uh... night yesterday?" She asked.

Adonis gave a small, pursed smile, averting his gaze as Jade saw his cheeks flush a light shade of pink. "Oh, uh... it was nice. We just... sat and talked a little in the kitchens."

Jade couldn't help but snort. "That's it?"

"What were you expecting, a kiss?" He snapped his eyes back to meet hers.

Jade tried her hardest not to double over with laughter, but failed. "So you admit you wanted to kiss her?"

Adonis blinked a few times as Jade held her stomach from laughing so much. "Lin, I swear -"

"Right right yeah okay. Owl me when you're planning the wedding." Jade waved her hand dismissively, reaching over at Adonis's plate and sticking a fry in her mouth.

Adonis rolled his eyes, but eventually started laughing at their ridiculous conversation. "What are you doing the rest of the evening?"

Jade glanced up at the ceiling in thought. "Just going to do some studying with Cait, Preethi, and Laverna." She saw Adonis's eyebrows raise slightly at the mention of Laverna's name.

"You're studying with Laverna?" He then brought a hand to his chin in thought. "Huh, Gibbons and Patil too."

"Yup. Kind of an unexpected group of friends, I know, but going to give this study group thing a try." Jade nodded. She crossed her arms and gave a slight smirk. "Just us four only."

Adonis put a hand over his heart and made an exaggerated hurt expression. "I'm offended, Lin."

"Please, as if you actually want to study with us." Jade sarcastically replied.

"It's cool. I'll just chill with Adrian and Cassius, just us three only." Adonis shot back with a grin on his face.

Jade stuck her tongue out and stood up from her seat, grabbing her satchel. It was heavier than normal as she had decided to carry around the golden egg. She had caught one of her meddlesome roommates snooping around the other night, trying to 'look for her lost earring', so Jade had decided to carry the egg around until her roommate chilled out.

"I'll see you later." Jade waved and headed out towards the library. Adonis merely raised his hand as he plopped another fry into his mouth.

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"Thanks for waiting for me." Jade set her bag down and massaged her shoulder. "When did you all get here?"

Cait gave her a bright smile and waved as Preethi responded. "About five minutes ago." She then glanced at Jade's shoulder. Preethi knit her eyebrows slightly. "What were you carrying? Your shoulder looks hurt again."

Jade gave a small sigh as she took a seat on the open end of the square table, in between Laverna and Cait. "Don't worry, I made sure not to use the shoulder I injured during the first task." She replied to reassure Cait's worried expression. She reached into her satchel. "I was carrying this thing temporarily until my roommate finds her earring."

Laverna straightened in her seat, mouth dropping open. "Whoa! Fred and George told me that Harry came back with a golden egg, but I hadn't seen it for myself yet. I heard Harry say that it holds the clue for the second task."