Chapter Eleven – Celes Patel
"Year Six, Daniel Rodriguez!"
I looked around, trying to see if who the really beautiful girl was staring at but she was only staring at me. What did I do already? I stared back at her, noting her large gray eyes, long and incredibly straight white-blonde hair. Dang, that girl was fine. She was sitting across from Connor.
"What's her damage?" I nudged Race and pointed the girl out.
He rolled his eyes. "That's my ex-girlfriend, Celes Patel."
"Hufflepuff!"
"Your ex-girlfriend? How interesting." I was sure my self-esteem dropped a point or ten.
"Year Five, Tyler Young!"
"I guess," he shrugged. "It was a long time ago anyways. Plus, her personality? It's as ugly inside as she is pretty outside."
Hm, I assessed this. True, he called her an ugly person inside, but he also said she was really pretty. But what does he think about me? What does Race think about me?!
"Gryffindor!"
Once Tyler sat down, Professor Dumbledore said that we were dismissed. I ate a big breakfast earlier with Jordan and we both gave each other pained glances.
We both got up and Race followed me. Connor, Kira, and Celes were up too.
"How about I give you your own private tour of Hogwarts," Race whispered into my ears.
I looked up and noticed everyone staring at us in surprise. "I think I'll just hang out with my friends today," I giggled nervously.
Okay, sure I liked to pretend I knew what I was talking about and acting as if I had all this experience. But deep down, I'm a freaking virgin.
"Besides, I'm a bit tired, you know, jet lag and all," I said. I wasn't lying or anything; you still had jet lag even through portkeys. Freaking incredible. "If you could just point us the way."
"Actually," Celes spoke up. Her voice even sounded lyrical—I rolled my eyes. "I think that I'll take them to the Slytherin common room."
Kira, Celes, Jordan, and I exited the Great Hall and Celes led us straight across the Entrance Hall and through the door to the left of the main staircase. Down the stone steps was a maze of corridors.
"Don't forget this password because you will need it to gain access to the common room," Celes said. I said nothing but recognized what she was talking about when I spent hours reading up on Hogwarts history on Wikipedia. "Chimera." The stone wall opened up to show a large and long room with a rough but low stone ceiling and walls. Green-tinted lamps hung by chains were lit and carved chairs were around a fire burning under an elaborate mantelpiece. It set off a sleepy and trance-like feeling inside the common room. Despite the stone walls, the common room was very warm.
"It's a pretty green-blue hue," Kira commented.
"It's because the Slytherin dormitories are located under the lake," I told her.
Celes shot me a surprised look and I bit back a triumphant smile. I had a couple of tricks up my sleeves.
At the end of the long common room, were two large staircases on either side of the room, leading to the dormitories, I figured.
"The ones on the right go up to the boys' dormitories and the ones on the left lead to the girls' dormitories," Celes explained.
We followed her up the stairs leading to the girls' dormitories and it lead to a long hallway with doors on both sides of the walls, with four names on each of them.
"The rooms closest to the staircase belong to the prefects and the Head Girl. I am a prefect, so if you have any questions, I'll be in this room." She motioned to a room on her left, which flashed her name. "Your room will be at the end of the corridor."
We said our thanks and I started to go down the corridor with my friends when Celes grabbed my arm.
"You better stay away from Race," she threatened.