Maximus
Callyn has been giving me the side eye since I sat down. I can’t tell her that me and the guys are talking about her. After a few moments I can’t take anymore, so I end the conversation. It’s not like we were getting anywhere. We’re at a standstill from both Callyn and the Council. I make light of everything, but even this is getting to me.
“So, can I make you a playlist too?” I practically beg. Hoping to divert her attention.
I was waiting for her to question me about who I was talking to, but it never comes. Instead, she rolls her eyes at me and hands me her phone. I hide it under the desk. Well, it’s easy to spot Lucian’s playlist, it’s just his name. Oh, yeah. I’m going to name my playlist Maximus the Great. I snicker to myself. As our English teacher drones on about some type of poem, I create my playlist. I finish and decide to look at her other playlists. Lucian is right, there are songs from a multitude of music genres.
I sneak her phone back to her when the teacher goes to write on the board. She quickly grabs it and shoves it in her bookbag. I pull out my phone and pull up my music app. I tap her elbow. Make me one, I mouth and add in a pout for good measure. Callyn gives me this look. Then mouths, really, now? I nod enthusiastically. She rolls her eyes again, but quickly grabs my phone and just drops it on her lap right as the teacher turns back around.
A few minutes later I see her fiddling with my phone. She continues until the end of class. We’re out in the hallway when she hands me back my phone. I want to see the name of the playlist she created, Slytherin In. I laugh.
“Harry Potter, huh.”
“It’s my favorite. I read all the books. I borrow from the school’s library all the time. I haven’t been able to see the some of the movies though.”
“I have them. You’ll just have to come over and watch them with me.” I waggle my eyebrows.
“I would like that,” she says with a smile. It doesn’t quite reach her eyes.
“You okay?” I ask as we start to walk toward her next class.
“I will be.”
Callyn gives me a small smile before walking into her class. I think about the shadows, that haunt her pretty eyes, as I walk to my own class.
Graydon
Callyn was little reserved during math. She’s normally reserved, but more so today than usual. I ask if she’s okay, and she says she’s fine. I call bullshit. I was hoping that maybe we can all make her feel better at lunch but I was wrong. She’s just playing with her food. I glance at each of the guys, they don’t like this either. Max is the first to break the silence.
“So, I had Callyn make me a playlist, after I made her one. Guess, what she named it?
“What?” I ask.
“Slytherin In,” he says and promptly busts out laughing.
My eyes roam over to Callyn and I can see the smirk on her face and the slight shake of her head.
“Is that your Hogwarts house?” questions Lucian.
“Yeah. I went to their official page and took the sorting quiz. Quite frankly, it surprised me. I thought I would have gotten Ravenclaw.”
“Wait, a second. Are we just going to ignore that both Max and Lucian made her a playlist? I want to make you one too. Graydon, you should make her one also. Callyn, will you make a playlist for me on my phone?”
“Sure.” They swap phones. “Does anyone else know their Hogwarts houses?”
“I do.” Max states. “I’m a Hufflepuff.” He says proudly.
“You know Slytherin and Hufflepuff are supposed to make good friends.”
He nods. “One of my favorite things about being a Hufflepuff is that their dorm room is near the kitchen, easy access to the snacks. We should make the rest take the quiz, so they can find out.”
“I know mine.” This time it's Lucian. “I’m a Ravenclaw.”
Callyn looks up, hands Zeke his phone back. I pass mine to her and Zeke passes me her phone.
“Makes sense. If I had to guess, Zeke I would say is a Gryffindor. Graydon would probably be a fellow Slytherin, though underneath might be the heart of a Gryffindor.”
“I’ll take the quiz when we have time,” I say.
“Me too,” claims Zeke.
“There’s always study hall. You can pull the website up on your phone,” states Lucian.
“See, that’s the Ravenclaw in you,” giggles Callyn.
By the end of lunch, we each made a playlist on her phone and she made one on ours. The shadows left her eyes and she seems more like herself.
Zeke
I can hear Graydon grumbling under his breath about taking the quiz. I’ll take whatever quiz Callyn wants, just so I don’t have to see her the way she was earlier. She reverted to the way she was when we first became her friends and I don’t like that. I like the Callyn we get see, now, the one that’s happy, smiling, and laughing. I love the sound of her laugh. Her whole face lights up and she looks so beautiful.
Focus Zeke. I finish and sure enough, I’m a Gryffindor. I turn my phone Callyn.
“How did you know?”
“You just show the traits. Brave, daring, courageous.”
“What are the traits of your house?”
“Cunning, ambitious, determined.”
“Is that why you think Graydon will be in Slytherin?”
“Yeah, the stubborn fool.”
We look to Graydon and he has a scowl on his face.
“Why the face Graydon?” I ask.
“Because I got Slytherin. That’s the house where everyone is bad or evil.”
Callyn scoffs. “Not all Slytherins are bad, just look at me.”
He cocks his head to the side and roams his eyes over her body. “I guess you’re right.”
“Plus, we’re in the same house.” She moves her fist out for him to bump it. He does and smirks at her.
Callyn breaks through his gruff exterior. He’s softer around her, well, is getting softer around her. He still likes to push her buttons, but she gives it right back. I think he gets off on it. This girl is Slytherin in alright, right into our hearts. Well, mine for sure but if the look on the guy’s faces says anything, she’s slithering her way into theirs too.