A/N: I wrote this ages ago. Enjoy.

Why Esmie Loves Ethie

It was a question that people at Cackle's Academy asked themselves all the time but never quite knew the answer to. Why did Esmerelda love Ethel? Why did she stick up for her all the time? Why did she care for the girl so much when she was awful to her?

Ethel Hallow after all was not exactly the nicest person. The girl was a brat a lot of the time, she was also loud, stubborn, and a bully to everyone in her year. She thought she was above everyone else and was a incredibly jealous person.

Esmerelda had heard people asking this question amongst themselves before all trying to understand why Esmerelda loved Ethel after everything she had done. She had never stopped to answer the question before mainly because she knew that even if she did no-one would understand the answer.

The thing was Esmerelda really did not know herself why she loved Ethel as much as she did. She knew her sister was no angel but she could never hate her. It was not just the fact that the girl was her sister that made her love her, she loved a lot more about her sister than that.

She loved the way Ethel laughed, it did not happen very often but she loved seeing her sister's eyes shine when she laughed about something. She loved how Ethel was not afraid to be herself and do things other people might not like, she loved the way she called her Esmie, she loved Ethel's smile, her real smile not the smirk she was known for.

Esmerelda loved how Ethel did not sure fear, she knew she was terrified when she was rescuing her from the collapsing castle but she did not let her fear control her, She loved how Ethel was not afraid to speak her own mind, true sometimes it was not needed and sometimes it hurt people but Esmerelda loved that she could stick up for herself.

People saw Ethel Hallow, Esmerelda Hallow's little sister, the middle child, the troublemaker the bully whereas Esmie saw Ethie. Ethie was a completely different person, a person she only showed to people she truly loved and trusted.

Ethie was funny and caring. The younger blonde COULD be loving and caring when she wanted to be, people often said Ethel cared about nothing or anyone but that was not true, Ethie loves and cares about a lot of things but the only thing people really get to see her care about is her cat. Ethie was incredibly smart, in fact Esmerelda suspected she had more knowledge than she did she just didn't know it. Yes Ethie was the sister Esmerelda thought of when she thought of Ethel, she was the little sister she loved so much.

Ethel could be horrible to Esmie, she blamed her for her problems and rejected her love a lot of the time and Esmerelda was not stupid she knew Ethel had a horrible side, so why? Why did Esmerelda keep going back to her? Why did Esmerelda keep letting Ethel hurt her over and over when she really could do just fine without Ethel, she was after all smart enough to get wherever she wanted single handedly.

Thinking about it Esmerelda knew the answer. It is true there was a number of things Esmie hated about Ethel but there was only really a few things she really hated about Ethel whereas there was a million things she loved about her sister, things some people would not understand because they had never seen the things before.

Esmerelda could not stay mad at Ethel no matter how hard she tried because the girl was her friend as well as her sister, the girl was her Ethie and she was not perfect but she was the only 'Ethie' she had ever had and the only one she wanted.

So the reason Esmerelda loved Ethel? It was simple. She was her Ethie. She was her little sister, the sister she always wanted, the child she had known since birth and over the years had found herself loving more as each day passed. The reason Esmerelda loves Ethel? There is no answer because there is too many reasons why Esmerelda loves Ethel. So many reasons she could not possibly answer the question with just one answer.