{{First fanfic, yay!^^}}

A dream swirled into the girl's mind. She walked into the steps of her new school. A new year, maybe some good could come of it. She looked around, everyone laughing, some cheering at the entrance of the girl. One walked up to her, narrowing his eyes.

"You'll never be good as anyone here, Emma." Whispered the boy, taller and bigger than her. She tried to talk, nothing would come out. She gasped for air.

"Emma, Emma! Emma!"

Her head darted up, her dark hair frizzy and flying all over the place. "Wha- Jasmine?" She blinked. "What are you doing here?" The brunette looked at her best friend, Jasmine White. "How'd you get in here?"

Jasmine giggled, her knees at Emma's feet. "Oh! You're mom let me in! I thought we could carpool to school, but you weren't awake. Scarlett's here, too." She nodded, straightening her frilly white blouse.

She rubbed her eyes, "I'm not even dressed." Emma said, as Jasmine stood up.

"Mhm, I know."

"Can you leave? I mean- Just my room. So I can dress?" She raised an eyebrow, throwing her purple and blue quilted sheets from her.

"Oh! Right." Jasmine nodded, stepping out from her door and closing it behind her.

Emma laughed, "Thank you," She said, pulling off her gray nightdress and throwing on a t-shirt. She's so weird. Thought the brunette, smirking and pulling on her boot-cut dark jeans.

"So! Another year!" Jasmine said through the door.

"Mhm," She murmured, brushing out her hair with a piece of ribbon in her mouth.

"Aren't you hexcited, Em?" Said Jasmine, as Emma started braiding her hair.

She sighed, tying her hair. "Eh, I guess.." She opened her door, than sat back on her bed as the other girl hopped into the room. Emma bent down, pulling on her silver Doc Marten's, lacing up the ribbon laces.

"What's wrong?" She cocked her head, narrowing her eyebrows.

"I..." She sighed. "Guess I'm just nervous." She cracked a smile. Being daughter of a Not-So-Evil Queen and Prince Charming was difficult... She never felt like she fit in. But, she always thought her mother, Raven, was different. Nobody ever talked about it, but Emma felt like her mother had rebelled... Not in a bad way, but.. Raven's not very evil! Clearly not, as her relationship with Dexter, Emma's father, was stronger than-Well, anything!

"Alright... Are you ready?" She smiled, clicking her heels together, her polka-dotted flats clicking.

A nod and her hand was grabbed and being dragged down the stairs. "Hey- Jazz, I can't run as fast as you!" She laughed, as they reached the end of the stairs.

"Finally! I thought we were going to be late." Said Scarlett Darkerius, another of her friend's. Her dark hair under a beanie.

"Me too!" Giggled Jasmine.

"Alright," Said Emma, taking the black backpack from the table. "Bye, mom! Bye, dad!" She waved to her parents, sitting at the kitchen table.

"Oh! Good bye!" Her mother stood up, rushing over to her daughter and hugging her shoulders, her dark and purple hair in a ponytail behind her back. "Stay safe, Emma." She nodded, "Promise?"

Emma nodded as well, "I promise, mom." She smiled, hugging her mother, as she pulled back and walked out the door with her friend's.

"Ah! So super hexcited!" Cheered Jasmine, smiling.

"Yeah-Wait, where's the car?" She asked.

"Oh, we're not really using a car." Said Scarlett, smirking.

"Wha- You said we were carpooling, Jasmine."

"Eh, more or less." She said, snapping her fingers as sparkling dust formed around them.

"What's going on?" Emma asked, looking at the sparkles. She was answered with giggling and spinning around, as another loud snap was heard and they appeared at the door to their school. "What happened?" She asked the blonde, raising her eyebrows, still slightly dizzy from the trip.

"Something mother taught me! A trick she learned in Wonderland!" Jasmine giggled, her blue eyes twinkling. She was the daughter of Madeline Hatter, the Mad Hatter's daughter, and Knight White, a white knight from Wonderland. Her hair was light blonde, and her skin also pale, and she stood shorter than Emma.

She rolled her eyes and giggled. She should've known. "I see," She smiled.

"Let's get inside, it's hot out here," Said Scarlett, pulling open the door as the air coniditioning greeted them.

Emma nodded in agreement, walking inside the familiar school. Would her nightmare come true? She didn't see the boy in sight. She blinked, than smiled.

"I've got to go meet Daisy! We're going to work on Che-myth-stry together!" Jasmine giggled, waving to her friends.

"Have fun." Said Emma, waving back to the blonde, smiling. "So, Scarlett, how are you?" She turned to the aubern haired girl.

Scarlett sighed, "Uh, I'm fine." She nodded. "How about you, Emma?"

"I'm alright, too... Really, really nervous is all.." She cleared her throat. "I haven't seen you in awhile! Everything alright with your parents?"

She nodded, "Yeah, they're fine.." She sighed. "It's just... No, nevermind."

"Oh, come on! I want to know!" Emma said, scoffing.

"It-I..." She sighed again, "Mom's..." Scarlett motioned around her stomach.

"Pregnant?" Emma gasped, looking at the redhead.

She nodded.

"Again?"

Another nod.

"I'm sorry, Scarlett." She frowned, pulling her arms around her friend and hugging her.

"I don't really want a second sibling is all..." She said, leaning into her friend before pulling back. "Crimson's already a huge pain in my butt..." She sighed, complaining about her older brother. "Dad wants to name this one..." She shuddered, "Leeroy."

"Leeroy?" Emma puffed her cheeks, holding back any laughter.

"It's alright, you can laugh..." She sighed, folding her arms.

She burst out laughing, loudly echoing through the hallway. "S-sorry! But... Leeroy?" She said, calming down.

She nodded again, "Yeah... I don't know where he got that idea." She smirked, giggling quietly herself.

"It... Yeah... Do they know it'll be a boy?"

She shrugged, than nodded. "Yes. I really don't want to be the only girl in my family... Well, aside from mom, anyways."

"I know,"

"Oh, I've got to go... Dad wants me." She said, running off to the General Villany classroom.

Emma stood alone in the room, biting down at her lip. She walked up to her purple locker, pulling and twisting the lock until it clicked. She pulled out her books, but than blinked and put them back. She didn't even know her new schedule. She turned her back and looked down the hall.

"Hello," Said the voice she knew would come. She was afraid what would happen, even though she'd rarely spoken to him.

She jumped, her eyes closing as she bit her lip, turning around to face the boy. "Hi, Dashing."

Dashing White. Apple White and Daring Charming's son. Daring, when Dashing was little, left Apple for someone else... Although nobody ever knew who he left Apple for, as Apple was quite nice. His hair was black, which Apple envied, but she loved her son no matter what. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"Uh... nothing." She said, narrowing her eyes.

"You seem... Kind of... Tense" He nodded.

"Yeah.. Just nervous, I guess."

"Alright... Well, have you gotten your schedule?"

She narrowed her eyes at him. "No, I haven't." Even with them being-what-cousins..? She still wasn't sure if he actually saw her as anything more than someone who wasn't as good as him.

"It's alright," He said, "I've got it here.. You'd be surprised how many people have forgotten their's," He pulled his blue backpack from his shoulders and reached inside. "So, you're Emma Charming, right?" He dug around inside.

She nodded, "Yeah... I'm your cousin, remember?"

He gave her a nod this time. "I know," He finally pulled a folder from his backpack, handing it to her.

"Thanks." She replied, tucking her hair behind her ear and narrowing her eyebrows at him. Why was he being so nice? Wasn't he suppose to hate her? She blinked and cleared her throat, flipping open the folder and scanning her schedule. "Oh, hey, Dashing, do you know how the new Headmaster is doing?"

"New headmaster?"

"Yeah, Jasmine told me that they replaced Milton Grimm, too tough on the students," She explained, "Hasn't he been replaced with Giles Grimm? Milton's brother?"

He squinted his eyes, than said, "Yeah, I think so... Can he finally speak in a normal language?"

Giles Grimm, the new headmaster, was previously cursed to only speak Riddlish, the Wonderlandian languange. Emma nodded, "Yes... I think my mother and Jasmine's mom helped reverse the curse."

"Oh! Really?"

A nod. "Yep." She shut the folder, smiling a bit. "Who's your roommate?"

He grinned, "I believe it's Felix Cheshire -"

"-Kitty Cheshire's son?" She interuppted, he nodded. "Good luck," She stifled a laugh, smirking.

"Why?"

"He's a Cheshire Cat, Dash, he's a huge prankster, isn't he?"

He nodded, than looked at his feet. "This year will not be easy,"

"Sorry," She laughed. Maybe, even though he had Daring Charming's blood in him, he was a good person.

"It's alright... Hey, maybe, since you're my cousin and all, you wouldn't mind sitting with me for lunch?" He offered.

She bit down on her lip, smiling. "Well... Uh, sure." She nodded, "Thanks, Dashing."

"Eh, you're welcome. People don't really seem to like me.."

"Really?" She blinked, "Me neither." She shook her head, than lightly punched his shoulder, "Hey, we can be outcasts together." Emma laughed.

He smirked, nodding. "Yeah. Nothing better than outcast cousins from the same-ish-story."