A/N: Welcome to a new story about my favorite Hallow girls. This one is going to be different as it is set when the girls are older. I have changed the ages in this story so there is four years between Esmeralda and Ethel instead of two because I needed Ethel younger than sixteen but Esmeralda at least eighteen. This first chapter is slow but I hope you stay with me as it will get better. This story will not be edited by anyone.

A Home At Last

Chapter One- Surprise

There was an knock on the door and the person in the flat gave an cheery 'I am coming' in response. They opened the door and saw an blonde girl stood on the doorstep.

"SUPRISE" The girl shouted to the person who had answered the door. For an moment the person who had answered stood there until their face broke into an smile.

"ETHIE" Esmeralda Hallow shouted as she wrapped her arms around her little sister hugging her tightly. They hugged for an good few minutes as they had not seen each other in months before pulling away.

"What are you doing here? Your holidays do not start until next week?" Esmeralda asked.

"I lied, I wanted to surprise you they actually started yesterday" Ethel said with an smile.

Esmeralda Hallow was now eighteen years old and had now left Cackle's Academy and was now studying at Weirdsister college. The college was very far from the Hallow residence so she had to move into student accommodation. As for Ethel she was now fourteen and was a forth year at Cackle's Academy but as the school was an boarding school the two girls only got to see each other during school holidays but they had gotten a lot closer recently.

Ethel walked into the flat happily looking around, she had only seen it once she had forgotten what it looked like a little bit.

"Where is Sybil?" Esmeralda asked her sister wondering the whereabouts of the youngest sister who was an third year at Cackle's and was thirteen.

"Mum and dad were taking her out somewhere or something" Ethel replied simply as she sat on the cream coloured sofa.

Esmeralda nodded in understanding before asking a question.

"Drink? Food?" she asked her sister.

"Just some orange juice please" Ethel replied. Esmeralda nodded and stood up walking to the kitchen.

The flat was fairly small, it had an very small living room with a sofa and a armchair and a kitchen which was joined to the living room, it had a small bathroom and two bedrooms one for Esme and one for her room-mate.

"How is school?" Esmie asked her sister from the kitchen as she could still see her sister from where she was.

"Oh you know same old Cackle's, Agatha has not pulled any tricks yet though so everyone is waiting for her next stupid scheme" Ethel replied informing her sister how school was.

Esmie came back with two glasses of juice and handed one to her sister before taking a sip of hers and replying.

"I miss Cackle's" Esmeralda replied with an fond smile at the memories.

Ethel laughed before replying and then smirked.

"I swear HB has gotten worse, I bet she misses her star pupil, the new head girl is nearly as badly behaved as I am!" Ethel replied as she picked up her drink, took an sip and then put her glass back on the coaster.

"No-one is as badly behaved as you are" Esmie replied with an laugh.

"I cannot even deny it" Ethel admitted with an fond smile. "How is college life?" Ethel asked really interested.

"It is...well I have so much work I don't even know how I find time to sleep and now I know why it is an good idea for Cackles to teach girls separately" Esmeralda replied.

"Why are boys really that distracting?" Ethie asked interested. She had no experience with them herself.

"Yes, there is this really adorable guy who sits in front of me in my spells class...I spent the entire lesson yesterday staring at the back of his head, I couldn't help it he has such nice hair" Esmeralda admitted causing Ethie to laugh.

"That is so funny, this coming from the girl who prides herself on paying attention" Ethel said laughing more.

"It is not my fault he sits within my range of vision" Esmeralda replied turning slightly red from embarrassment as Ethel laughed at her.

"Speaking of boys guess who came to Cackles last week" Ethel said.

"Zac?" Esmie guessed.

"How did you know that?" Ethie asked confused how her sister knew that when she had not told her.

"You don't know any other boys" Esmeralda logically replied.

"Good point, anyway yes he came along to support the first years on the annual spelling bee" Ethel told her sister. The spelling bee was now an tradition and held every year between Cackles and Pentangle's first years.

"So what did you end up saying to embarrass yourself this time then?" Esmeralda asked knowing everytime Ethel was around the boy she got tongue tied and ended up saying something stupid.

"Actually...I managed to talk to him!" Ethel told Esme proudly. Esmie who had just picked up her drink quickly put it down excitedly and beamed at her sister.

"Really? Tell me everything that was said" Esmeralda asked her sister wanting to know what they had said to each other now Ethel had managed to say something other than an single word.

"Well I said 'Hello Zac and then he said Hello Ethel" Ethel replied telling her sister exactly what they had both said to each other.

"Is that it?" Esmeralda asked thinking there had been more to the conversation than that.

"Well yes, after that he had to leave to help the younger students" Ethie replied telling her sister why the conversation was so short.

"Well it is an start" Esmeralda replied with an small laugh. Just then an door behind Esmie opened and an teenager came out. She had dark hair which was just touching her shoulder blades and brown eyes with freckles on her face.

"Morning" the girl said

"It is nearly one in the afternoon, it is not morning anymore" Esmeralda replied shaking her head.

"Whatever, who is our little guest?" she asked as she noticed Ethel.

"This is my sister Ethie...I mean Ethel" Esmeralda replied. She wanted to say her sister's full name or her room-mate might think her actual name was Ethie and call her it when she did not like others using the name. She was strangely quite sensitive to people using the name.

"Ethie...erm Ethel this is my room-mate Cadence Nightmoon" Esmeralda told her sister introducing the girls to each other.

"Hi nice to meet you Ethie" she said with an smirk and then laughed at the look Esmeralda was giving her. Esmeralda could have made Ethel's famous glare look like nothing at that moment. "Just kidding I know the nickname is your thing, nice to meet you Ethel" she said.

"Hi there" Ethel replied with a smile.

"You look an lot like your sister you know" Cadence replied seeing similarities between the girls. Both blonde and both similar facial wise though the eldest had brown eyes and the youngest had blue.

"Thanks" Ethel said happily liking that it was easy to tell they are sisters.

Cadence laughed and Ethel liked her already she was warm and friendly. The girl put on an jacket.

"See you later then I am going to meet Adam" she said walking towards the door.

Cadence" Esmeralda said calling her back

"Mmm?" the girl replied.

Esmeralda held up an keyring with an bunch of keys on them "You might want to take these with you" Esme told her.

"Oh yes thanks" she said grabbing her keys and then leaving.

"Who is Adam?" Ethie asked as the door closed.

"Her boyfriend, they went to Pentangle's together" Esmeralda replied telling her sister who she was.

"That girl went to Pentangle's?" Ethel asked amazed "But she seems so..." Ethel said trying to think of the word as Pentangle's students tended to be stuck up and serious about everything. Cadence reminded her of an much less clumsy version of Mildred Hubble.

"I know, she does drive me insane at times, she is always forgetting her stupid keys" Esmeralda admitted.

The two girls spoke for hours until Ethel had to leave just after four as Esmie did not want her walking in the dark. Esmeralda closed the door as Ethel sighed to herself making her way home. She would rather of stayed with her sister only the rules would not allow it.