CHAPTER 1
"At Ever After High , just after the Dragon Games , that something had changed-" The male narrator was interrupted by his loving wife,"between Apple White , Darling Charming and Raven Queen." "Okay , what gotten you guys so happy?" Brooke asked her parents.
"Well this story going to be spelltacular." The Female narrator replied to her daughter as the story continues where Apple White and Darling Charming are sitting together, in the castleteria. "Well on with the story before a certain 'somebody' spoils the story to a certain 'wonderlandian'." As the Male narrator says this, Maddie looks up from her breakfast and cheekily sticking her tong out.
Apple and Darling sat near the Rebel table but the weird thing is that Raven wasn't sitting by the table or in the castleteria in fact, which worried Apple. Apple had noticed that Raven was acting strange towards her and Darling (who is her girlfriend), like the witch doesn't want to hangout, or doesn't come to her dorm untill late and leave very early while she was still sleeping that it shocked her.
But now wasn't the time to worry so Apple hid her worries behind a fake smile but was too late, Darling had seen the princess worry. "Sweetie, what is wrong ?" Darling ask. "Nothing." Apple replied but Darling gave her 'don't-lie-to-me' look which Apple sigh.
"Lately Raven has been acting weird, like she would return to our dorm till late and gets up before me; and did you notice that she isn't in the Castleteria." Apple explains her problem while looking around the room for a maroon-hair girl. "It's like she avoiding me and the rest of her friends, after the Dragon Games and Evil Queen episode."
"Well you did let the Evil Queen out of the mirror realm and tried to help her change Raven evil." Darling pointed out which Apple flinch. "Maybe that the reason that she avoiding us." Apple was uncertain and it clearly shown on her face.
"Why don't we go find Raven tomorrow and ask her what bugging her." Darling says that it made Apple smile just as the bell rang , stating that class will begin soon.
*NEXT DAY*
The couple was looking for Raven, high and low even in the dragon stables, where the witch would spent her time with Nevermore but they still couldn't find her. When they did find Raven, it's like the witch grew a sense for them, as she knew what they were up too. The witch vanished, using her magic that left the couple with a problem.
They gone to Maddie father's teashop , where they found Maddie busy with a customer. The couple sat at a table as they waited for Maddie , whom they didn't have to wait long as Maddie comes with cakes, cupcakes and tea for them.
"Hi Maddie." The couple greeted the Mad hatteress as she sat down. "Hi you two , so how can I help with a certain bird ?" Maddie ask which shocked the girls but they are talking to Maddie , the Mad Hatter's daughter ,that always spoke to the invisible 'narrator's'.
"Yeah,Raven has been acting weird around us lately that she doesn't come back to her dorm till late and leaves very early in the morning." Apple was really worried about her roommate-slash-best-friend-forever-after. "Since your like a sister to Raven, do you have any idea what is wrong with her ?" Darling ask the mad-girl pleadingly.
"I have..." the couple having a hopeful glint in their eyes. "no idea what wrong with black birdy, literally the narrator's won't spill anything." Just like that, the hopeful glint turned into a shocked one's since Maddie always knew something from the situation.
If Maddie didn't know what's wrong with Raven, then nobody knows what wrong with the girl which the the couple didn't know what to do but then Maddie gave them teabags and ... cuffs, that confused the two girls.
Knowing what the girls were thinking , Maddie explained. "These aren't normal tea bags and cuffs. The tea bags can cancel Raven's magic for a day but stir the tea at least more than 5 time else it won't work." Maddie instructed the girls , who are happy that they have a solution to the magic problem but was still confused about the cuffs.
"The cuffs can withstand Raven's magic and can be used for certain 'activities'." The girls gotten red as Apple namesake when Maddie said activities in such a way that both of them stood up, thanked Maddie and left with red faces and the accessories, leaving behind a laughing Maddline Xylophone Hatter.
Later in the evening, Apple waited for Raven to return but when midnight struck, Apple knew that her roommate wasn't coming to her room tonight. So Apple gotten up from her bed, got dress in a plain shirt and pants, and left her room, seeking for the witch.
Apple had walked around the school but still couldn't find Raven. Just then she heard the most pleasant sound she has ever heard, coming from the muse-ic studio, that she followed it. When she gotten closer to the room, one of the stalls light was on and there were sounds like someone was talking, that she went closer that she found what was making that noise.
There stood Raven, in all her glory as she looked at the small, sleeping dragon. Apple looked at Raven, wondering if the witch had spent all her time here, that she notice that Raven wasn't wearing her normal outfit that doesn't screams 'EVIL QUEEN' but for once looked like a normal girl.
"Ok Nevermore, just one more time than we can drop this off by Melody or Professor Piper and go to bed." Raven says to the dragon, who was sleeping but still gave a little nod.
Raven placed the headphones over her ears, closed her eyes as she stood in front of the mic, just as the music started.
Hello sweet grief
I know you'll be the death of me
Feel like the morning after ecstasy
I am drowning in an endless sea
Hello, old friend
Here's the misery that know no end
So I'm doing everything I can
To make sure I never love again
I wish that I did not know
Where all broken lovers go
I wish that heart was made of stone
Yeah , if l was bulletproof
I'd love you black and blue
If I was solid like a jewel
If I had a diamond heart, oh, oh
I'd give you all my love
if I was unbreakable
If I had a diamond heart, oh, oh
You could shot me with a gun of gold
If I was unbreakable
I'd walk straight through the bullet
Bendin' like a tulip, blue-eyed and foolish
Never mind the bruises
Into the fire, breakin' through the wires
Give you all I've got
(If had a Diamond Heart)
I'd walk straight through the dagger
Never break the pattern
Diamond don't shatter, beautiful and battered
Into the poison, cry you an ocean
Give you all I've got
If...
Goodbye, so long
I don't know if this is right or wrong
Am I giving up where I belong?
'Cause every station's playing our song
Goodbye, my love
You are everything my dreams made up
You'll be prince and I'm the crying dove
If I only were unbreakable
I wish that I did not know
Where all broken lovers go
I wish that heart was made of stone
Yeah , if l was bulletproof
I'd love you black and blue
If I was solid like a jewel
If I had a diamond heart, oh, oh
I'd give you all my love
if I was unbreakable
If I had a diamond heart, oh, oh
You could shot me with a gun of gold
If I was unbreakable
I'd walk straight through the bullet
Bendin' like a tulip, blue-eyed and foolish
Never mind the bruises
Into the fire, breakin' through the wires
Give you all I've got
(If had a Diamond Heart)
I'd walk straight through the dagger
Never break the pattern
Diamond don't shatter, beautiful and battered
Into the poison, cry you an ocean
Give you all I've got
If I had a diamond heart
Apple knew that Raven could sing but she never knew she could sing like that! Raven's mother had mentioned that muse-ic and singing was like second nature to Raven but wow, Raven sounded like a spellebrity that was taking on the world.
Apple wonders why Raven didn't tell her about the songs she was recording? She can think later on the question as she hears a door open. Apple runs out the studio as quickly as she could and hid behind the stairs. Apple didn't know what to do so she decided that she going to wait for the witch and follow her, without letting Raven know that she there.
It felt like forever-after when Raven left the studio, so Apple hid in the shadows and hiding from Raven sight as she follows the witch. Raven walked-and-walked till she gotten to Melody Piper's room and dropped off a CD with the keys to the studio, in front of the door and left with Nevermore, who is sleeping around the witch's neck.
Halfway back to their dorm, Raven had stopped by a bench and sat down but she wince when her back made contact with the wood. This confused Apple that the princess gotten closer to the witch but still hid in the shadows. Raven lifted her shirt where Apple could see a real, nasty wound that doesn't looked fully healed yet and had red, angry lines. But that was not the only thing that caught Apple's attention, Raven's back was blue, purple, black and so on.
Apple really wanted a trashcan from the sight she seeing, nobody would even blame her if she puked on the spot from just seeing what horrible condition her roommate's back is in. 'Why didn't Raven tell me of her wound or singing , aren't we best-friends-forever-after?' Apple was sad that one of the people she trusted with her life didn't trust her back.
Raven sighed as she dropped her shirt and lay down, mindful of her back; and looked up to the sky just to see the stars that stood out. "Well Nevermore, looks like we be camping here tonight." Nevermore moved her position from Raven's neck to her belly, where the small dragon had immediately fell asleep.
Raven looked at the small dragon and smiled as she patted the dragon's head. Raven gaze once again to the sky as just seen stars that the witch closed her and falls asleep just as quick as her dragon.
Apple waited for a few minutes till she was certain that Raven was asleep. The blond-haired girl walked out from the shadow and to the witch, knowing that she had to carry a witch and a dragon. The princess picked up the witch like a bride while Nevermore just slept on Raven's middle section and Apple walked to their dorm with her roommate in her arms.
Moments later, Apple arrived to their dorm, where Apple lightly kicked the door open, went inside and kicked the door closed. The princess went over to her 'Evil Queen' side of the room and gently placed the witch on the bed, without hurting or waking her up.
Apple had walked to her side of the room to collect a blanket and some ointment for Raven injury's; and went back to her roommate side. Apple sat next to the witch and removed the witch's shirt (she had Nevermore move next to Raven) and putting on ointment where it mostly needed. 'Raven what in fovever-after happened to your back?' Apple thought while looking at the old scars, new bruises and wound on the witch's back. Apple stared at her friend's face for a few minutes, thinking how beautiful the sleeping witch looked that Apple went closer to Raven face to see the most beautiful detail, her lips.
The princess wanted to kiss the witch ever since thronecomimg but she couldn't since she is dating Darling , who Apple loves her as a lover that she would cherished forever after, but wanting to kiss the witch so Apple moved her head to align her lips with Raven and kissed her and her lips felt like it was on fire.
Apple stood up, threw the blanket over Raven and Nevermore; and gone to her side if the room. Apple gotten dress in pj's and when her head had hit the pillow, Apple was fast asleep.
In the morning, Apple woken up and gotten up that she looked at her roommate side of the room, seeing that her roommate was once again not here that Apple sigh and begins her routines. Apple was sad that her roommate wasn't here again but her lips were still on fire from the kissed she gave Raven that it place a bright smile on the Future Queen's face.
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