Chapter 12: The Chamber of Secrets is Opened


Adelaine almost fell out of the barrel at first but caught herself.

"Hey Lainey," Lee said, almost immediately wrapping his arm around her once she steadied herself.

"Hey Lee," She smiled.

"You know I have always loved it when you leave your hair down," Lee said.

He was tempted to twirl a strand around his finger which he's never done but he's always wanted to.

"Thanks, I didn't have the patience to put it up today," Adelaine said, leaning into him to hide her reddening cheeks.

She wasn't supposed to be blushing at her best mate's comment. Now if that was Oliver who said it she would be blushing even worse but not with Lee.

"When do you have patience?" Lee smirked at her.

"Rarely, sometimes I wonder why I was sorted into Hufflepuff."

Lee could think of multiple reasons why she was a Hufflepuff. He hadn't realized that he was staring at her.

"Something wrong, Lee?" Adelaine asked, sweetly.

"I'm fine," He said.

Adelaine nodded. The group reached the Great Hall. Adelaine opted to sit at the Hufflepuff table much to Lee's chagrin.

"I'm too excited to eat," Leslie said, pushing away her plate a few minutes into the meal.

Adelaine rolled her eyes playfully as Leslie got up and walked towards the Defense classroom. Adelaine finished eating.

"So, what's your first lesson?"

"Defense with the Ravenclaws," Adelaine said.

Lee nodded and said. "We have Potions with the Slytherins."

"What a good way to start the day," She said, sarcastically.

"I know, right," Lee grinned at her.

Adelaine walked to the Defense classroom with Cedric while Lee walked towards Potions with the twins even though Adelaine knew they would probably end up getting detention for being late and/or playing a prank.

It took all her strength not to roll her eyes or bang her head against her desk during Defense. Lockhart was such an idiot. It seemed like she was the only girl who wasn't hanging on his every word.

"Hey Lainey," Lee greeted.

"Hey Lee, how was Potions?"

He shook his head and said. "Just as bad as Defense was for you."

"You can read me too well. Lockhart is an idiot but Leslie was eating up his every word."

Lee smirked at her and said. "You tend to do the same thing when it comes to Oliver. Though Oliver is far from an idiot."

She suddenly whacked his arm with one of her books.

"Ouch, what was that for," He asked, holding his arm.

Adelaine smirked and said. "Oh sorry, you have to catch me first and I'll tell you."

And with that she ran off towards the Charms classroom her golden brown hair flowing behind her. Lee shook his head again and chased after his best friend.

"Ms. Romero what's the rush?" McGonagall asked as Adelaine almost ran into her and Professor Sprout.

"Oh, sorry professors," She apologized.

"It's quite alright, no one's hurt."

Lee reached his best friend and said. "Of course you would stop to talk to two of the Professors."

Adelaine whacked his arm again.

"Well, there goes the other arm. It's a good thing I only do commentary on Quidditch and not play," He said, holding his other arm.

"Well, we should get to Charms," Adelaine said, walking away and Lee dutifully following her leaving McGonagall smirking at Professor Sprout.

"Don't smirk at me like that, Minerva, We both know they'll end up together but the question is when."

McGonagall laughed and said. "It's quite obvious they both fancy someone else but even with that said I sense Ms. Romero is starting to develop feelings for Mr. Jordan although she doesn't exactly realize it."

Professor Sprout nodded. Adelaine and Lee reached the Charms class.

"Hello, Ms. Romero," Professor Flitwick greeted.

Adelaine smiled at the Professor and sat down.

"Mr. Jordan, you're earlier than usual," He said his voice laced with shock and somewhat playful.

"Don't be so shocked, Professor. One of my best friends is the teacher's pet, after all." Lee smirked at Adelaine as he sat down next down next to her.

He leaned back in the chair and fell out.

"I'm not helping you up this time, just for that comment," Adelaine smirked at him.

"Where's the love. It's been a bad day for me so far I get abused by my best friend then I fall out of my chair," Lee whined almost pitifully, getting up and sitting back down.

He looked at her brown eyes in a puppy dog pout and his dimples showing.

Adelaine gave him a sympathetic look. Curse his puppy dog eyes and his dimples that she always seems to give into especially lately.

"Now, that's better."

The rest of the class filed in. The twins rushed in at the last minute. This is the one class where the boy's mark rivaled Adelaine's. She wasn't the top student but one of them and she was quite happy with that. Lately, Adelaine has noticed a change in Leslie's personality. She was not as outgoing as usual. She wondered what was wrong.


It was now Halloween. Adelaine was walking with the twins and Lee when she saw Harry, Hermione and Ron standing by the wall. She also noticed that Filch's cat was frozen.

"What's the wall say?" Fred asked.

"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, enemies of the heir beware," George read off.

Adelaine shivered and Lee tightened his grip around her. McGonagall was the first professor to arrive and she visibly paled at the sight of the wall.

"Who did this?" Filch asked, pain in his voice.

Nobody liked him but Adelaine couldn't help but feel sympathy for the old caretaker that cat was his only friend.

McGonagall glanced at the two gingers and the dreadlocked boy suspiciously.

"This wasn't our doing, professor. As much we don't like Filch. Adelaine would hex me to oblivion if we hurt his cat since she has a penchant for cats and we just got here," Lee said.

"You better believe it," Adelaine smirked at him.

McGonagall nodded. After this incident is when all hell started to break loose. Adelaine was on a mission to find out what's wrong. And when she's on a mission she's relentless.

It's the third night in a row she was in the library deep in loads of books.

"Lainey, you in there?" Lee asked with a teasing smile.

"Yes, and this isn't the time. Lee," She said, frustrated.

"Give it a rest for now, the books will be there in the morning," Lee said, shrugging nonchalantly.

"I will not give it a rest, Lee Patrick Jordan!"

Lee shrunk back slightly. He knew Adelaine well enough to know that she only used his middle name when she was angry or hungry. Judging by the fact that she missed dinner she's probably starving.

"Not so loud, Ms. Romero," The librarian, Madam Pince scolded, shooing her out.

"But Madam Pince," Adelaine whined.

The very strict librarian was not budging as she walked back to her station

Adelaine turned, glared at Lee and exclaimed. "I hope you're happy you got me kicked out of the library!"

"When was the last time you ate?" Lee asked.

She shrugged nonchalantly and said. "I don't know, maybe lunch. I think Cedric may have brought me something but I just nibbled at it."

"I suppose we're going to the kitchens before I walk you to the Hufflepuff common room," Lee said, throwing his arm around her.

She didn't have the energy to shake it off but she had the energy to argue back. "I'm not hungry," Adelaine denied but her stomach betrayed her.

Lee shook his head, laughed and said. "So, I suppose that was just the wind."

"Yes," Adelaine replied, nodding trying to get Lee to believe her.

"That's not going to work, Lainey."

Adelaine shook her head and said. "Oh, bugger."

"Alright come on," Lee said.

They walked towards the kitchens. The house elves were happy to give Adelaine some leftovers from the night's dinner. She hungrily ate them up.

"That makes me feel much better knowing you're not going to bed hungry," Lee smiled.

Adelaine smiled at him slightly.

"You have a bit of food there," Lee said, conjuring a tissue and wiping the corner of her mouth.

"Thanks."

They held the gaze for a few long seconds. Lee has never noticed the smidgen of grey in her eyes. Actually he's never really noticed her eyes since she wore glasses. What's coming over him?

"Mr. Jordan, Ms. Romero, what are you doing out at this hour?" McGonagall asked, interrupting the moment.

The two of them of them turned to the stern Transfiguration mistress identical light blushes forming over their features.

"Well, I hope you two weren't playing a prank," She said, sternly.

Lee shook his head and said. "I found Adelaine in the library she was buried in books and she hadn't eaten since lunch. So, we went to the kitchens so she could eat."

"I suppose that's fine, but I'll take off twenty points each. Does that seem fair?" She asked.

She knew the dreadlocked boy meant well because she knew he wouldn't want his best friend to go hungry.

"Yes, that's fair. Professor," Adelaine smiled at the Transfiguration professor.

"But I'll escort you two back to your respective common rooms. It's not safe for you two to be alone," McGonagall said.

The two of them nodded. McGonagall first escorted Adelaine to her common room.

"I'll see you in the morning, Lainey," Lee said, hugging her.

She hugged him back, tapped the barrel and crawled in. Lee and McGonagall walked back to the Gryffindor common room. Lee recited the password and walked in the common room.

"Where have you been, Lee?" Fred asked.

He told his friends where he was as they walked up to their dormitory.