AN- Hey readers, this is my first Sofia the first story so please don't expect it to be absolutely perfect. I am a big fan of STF and the amazing characters it has brought to me, and the ships of course. Cedfia might not be everyone's cup of tea but it is definitely mine, which is why I've based this story on it. If you do not respect this shipping used in my writing please click off, thank you. Sofia is 18 and Cedric is 30.

Shipping's: C/S , A/D

Synopsis: Sofia and Cedric have been best friends since she was little so when she starts developing stronger feelings for him, she asks Amber for help.

Rated: T (language)

Disclaimer: I do NOT own SFT or any of the characters. All rights belong to Disney.

Just a note: The first chapter is always the most boring chapter of any love story because it's setting the plot and nothing major happens, so yes this chapter isn't going to be the most interesting and won't be instant Cedfia I do apologise, but please be patient thanks!

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth."
― William W. Purkey

Enchancia.

According to the best romance novels, films and TV series' it's awfully simple to reveal your feelings to your crush. Whether it's: Tripping with loads of books and having your crush gaze love-stricken into your eyes whilst he picks up your books and hands them to you, a romantic boat ride, bumping into your crush, starring in a dangerous situation in which your crush miraculously is there to save you or simply saying hi and everything moves on from there, (most likely a "wanna go for coffee" addition afterwards).

Bullshit. If you have a crush, these pointless coincidences will never happen like they do in movies or books and therefore be a waste of your time and effort.

Sofia, being a Princess has been expected to find a suitor since she turned sixteen, which of course has been nothing but exhausting. Her suitors she had encountered were either: Snooty and arrogant, horrible and demanding or too clingy. None were up to her standard so she was forced to kindly turn them down. Sofia hated being rude, but when faced with certain Princes she was triggered like fire on gasoline; she would instantly fire up to reject them.

Cedric was her best friend as he had been for ten years prior to this moment in her life. They both shared a delightful interest in sorcery and anything related to that of magic. Intrigued by the wonders magic could behold, fascinated by the spells and enchantments that Cedric would perform to her. As a little girl, watching Cedric the sensational perform magic shows at her birthday party was something out of a fairy-tale. Trick mirrors, disappearing vases, creating a duplicate of a person or thing it was all so incredible to witness.

She had remembered at the age of thirteen when she was asked by her father and Lord Gilbert to show Lady Joy around the castle whilst they discussed important matters like a new bridge being built, despite them saying they would arrive on a different date then when they actually arrived. It was the day of the dance in the village, which she attended every year. Last with Ruby and Jade, but this time Amber and James would be joining her too. She was so excited, which is why after they arrived earlier than expected, Sofia felt annoyed and torn as to what to do. It all became apparent when Cedric had been scattering around the castle, chasing Wormwood yelling: Doppler duplicato! which in fact duplicated anything the spell touched. Cedric had been trying to clone Wormwood so he could have two evil sidekicks instead of one, but Wormwood wouldn't let it happen. Sofia's chance to escape from her duties was at her fingertips, so before Joy was to arrive she slipped into Cedric's workshop to try out the spell. Firstly, on an apple. When she attempted it first, she took Clover with her and duplicated an apple which turned pink. In no time to taste the apple, she repeated the exact same spell on herself and in a flash of light, another Sofia stood beside her.

Assuming all was fine, she left for the dance, discreetly, after briefly explaining to her copy what her task was. Unfortunately, to her dismay, her copy was actually the complete opposite of nice, causing chaos and mischief in the castle and at the dance. When her copy left Joy at the castle and came to the dance, she realised the painful truth that she had fucked up the spell completely. In the end she was forced to tell her father what she had done and Cedric removed the Sofia and the fake amulet he had obtained from her.

Many times after, she would mess up spells whether it was a simple hair spell that went disastrously wrong or setting her bedroom on fire at the other end of the mistakes- with-magic scale. Naturally, as an optimistic person she would always have an idea how to fix her problem even if it meant taking the weighty blame.

For years and years, Cedric had wanted nothing more than to snatch the amulet away for himself in hope that he could obtain its power and take over the kingdom. His sly cowardice proved to be just as reckless and full of holes as his plot was. On taking the amulet he would yes have unimaginable power, but for how long? What would happen if the King and his guards managed to stop this evil sorcerer from his evil deeds?

Cedric wasn't too worried on any repercussions of his plans, for he assumed no one or nothing would stand in his way in fear of being hurt. It was all finally proven that he wasn't as cruel as he first had noted about himself. For when he managed to obtain a power so ghastly, he foiled his own wishes. A medusa stone he was gifted by the fellow ex head master of Hexley Hall. It contained the ability to freeze anybody at one zap of it. Along with other sorcerers of neighbouring kingdoms, they too were allowed one, green little medusa stone to be placed on top of their wands. It's purpose was to seek revenge for being cast aside or mistreated in the sense of being used for silly things like magic performances for kid's parties. Instead of real great magic, such as saving the Kingdom on attempts where villains would claim it theirs or using spells to aid the King or Queen in other ways that didn't include entertainment for children.

All he was required to do was freeze the: King, Queen, Amber, James, the guards, Baileywick and any other pest that might try to prevent him from his task. Especially the goody goody Princess Sofia. Seemingly, it was no harder than using the amulet which made it easy as to when he finally froze all but one person...

Reluctantly, he fumbled and stuttered at the chance to freeze his best friend and so it seemed the compassion buried deep down in his heart had broke free and was now present. Sofia smashed the medusa stone and the spell was broken, leaving the King to deal with the traitor.

Cedric was thrown in the dungeon as consequence from his attempt to commit regicide almost to the King. No matter how Sofia pleaded to her father for him to be released, Roland refused and so he was left to rot in the dungeon. That all changed when she visited him to confront him, wondering why he did it and why he said they were never friends. He apologised. He didn't mean any of it. Thankfully, his words of empathy must have been as pure as he claimed as when Grimtrix flew over to Enchancia to check up on Cedric, instead of allowing power to get the better of him, he saved Sofia from Grimtrix which allowed him a second chance from King Rolland. The King warned Cedric for if it was not for Sofia he would still be rotting in his cell so Cedric became indebted to her. From then on, he gave up the lust for power, instead he concentrated on improving his magic skills and mending his bond with the King.

Strangely, Sofia started feeling queasy around Cedric as she grew up, shivery and full of life. Butterflies were dancing around in her stomach and she began noticing that she felt breathless around him. Her lungs would tighten, her heart would beat faster and she often found herself knocking at his door twice as much as she would normally. For all those snooty Princes full of arrogance and self entitlement, she realised that Cedric was the one for her.

She was in love.

Upon falling in love, she had no clue as to what she should do. He was only a sorcerer, not a Prince, Duke or with any title except the King's clumsy fool of a sorcerer. Not to mention her father's burning hatred for his past actions. How silly she was to think that he would ever forgive him. Obviously, forgiveness was built and moulded over time, but enough for him to court his daughter? Now that's a stretch.

Princes and Princesses are suppose to marry, it's tradition. Only, let's not forget that Rolland married Miranda who was but a mere shoemaker, so maybe her plan to marry Cedric one day wasn't so cursed or impossible after all.

7AM - Sofia's room.

As the sun burst into her bedroom windows, the young Princess now an adult rose from her sleep and rubbed her eyes, greeted by the bright daylight that succumbed the most of her bedroom. Robin and Mia were at the bay of her window, chirping away as they did every morning and Clover had just arrived through the hole in her wall.

"Goooood morning, Princess Sofia!" He shouted energetically, hopping over to her.

"Morning, Clover" She replied, still tired. Sofia carefully clambered out of bed and sauntered over to her closet, staring horrified into the mirror at the awful state of her hair. Knotted and curly, her hair sprung into all different directions, and as for her face she realised she forgot to remove her makeup from the ball last night, leaving black smudges under her eyes. "Oh man, oh man, my hair is a mess, my face is covered in my makeup I never wiped off and I've got a visit from Prince Zander, this morning!" She said in a panic, grabbing a brush from her dressing table.

"Calm down Sof, let me help," Clover said.

"Thanks Clover," She smiled, trying to brush her hair so it didn't look like a birds nest. "How did my hair end up like this anyway? I only had one drink last night and only danced with two people before heading off to bed!" said Sofia in annoyance, trying to tame her locks.

Clover bounced over to Robin and Mia who sat quietly by the window, "Hey you two, our Princess is having a major problem, could you get a bowl of water?" Clover said hurriedly.

"No can do, we're birds, not castle servants," Robin said rudely.

"Robin!" Mia chirped. "Sofia needs our help!" She added.

"Alright hold on then..." Rolling her eyes.

In the nick of time, Robin and Mia returned with a bowl of glistening water and placed it on Sofia's window seat. "Here you go―"

"Aw thanks birds! Sofia over here!" Clover bellowed, trying to grab the frantic Princesses attention.

Sofia didn't listen at first, she was too busy picking out a gown. Starting to be like Amber it seemed; normally the first dress she saw was fine even if she wore it the previous couple of days. No. She knew for a fact that after yawning through the boring tea party with Prince Zander, Cedric would be in the gardens practising his new spell to make flowers grow in an instant after they had been planted.

For that reason and that reason only did she care which gown was to be selected. "That dress?" She thought carefully. "Oh gosh, I can't chose that one..." Another wave of panic floated in which only made it trickier to pick. Luckily, she saw the perfect dress, green with rose petals scattered perfectly over it. "That's the one!" She said in relief. Grabbing the dress from its hanger, she finally noticed poor Clover pulling at the bottom of her nightdress.

"Oh Sorry Clover!" She apologised. "I wasn't ignoring you, I'm just so busy with picking out the perfect dress for Zander"

"Uh huh, the perfect dress to see that Prince in? I don't believe you, you complained for nearly two hours last night about having to yet again turn down another suitor and now all of a sudden you are picking out the perfect dress for him?" Clover questioned her, folding his arms, raising an eyebrow.

"Umm, yep pretty much!" She lied, laughing at the same time.

"C'mon Sof, we are best friends, so what's the dress really for?"

"Okay...I'll tell you..." She gulped. What if they laughed at her. "It's for Cedric...I kind of have a crush on him..."

"Cedric?" Clover repeated.

"Yes..."

Now her secret was out, she felt vulnerable even though she was confident he would have her back. Somewhere in her mind, she thought that after his past mistakes he committed that Clover would laugh or totally not understand her feelings. How wrong she was. Clover was of course baffled by how she could love someone so old and grumpy like Cedric, but then again love is love and age is just a number as they say.

"But he's so old," Clover chuckled a little.

"Clover, he's only thirty, not really a duplicate of Gandalf or Dumbledore is he?" Sofia smiled at his humour, Clover always knew how to cheer her up.

"I guess not, but I have got a bowl of water for you, ya know to wipe those smudges off your eyes, unless they're not smudges and they're actually real," He joked, mirthfully, pointing to the bowl of fresh water.

"Very funny, Clover" said Sofia, ambling across to her room. Cautiously, she lifted the bowl and walked it to her side table, grabbing a cloth along the way. As she began to scrub gently at her face, Clover pulled out a carrot from under her bed that was half bitten and began munching on it. Soon enough, the smudges began to decrease and her face finally didn't look like it did on Halloween night. As for her hair, it was brushed down back to normality so all that was left to do was change into that glittery gown staring at her in awe.

Right on cue, Violet knocked on her door and let herself in. "Good morning Princess Sofia, is this the dress you would like to wear today?" She asked her kindly, curtsied, then walked over to her.

"Good morning, Violet, yeah this is the dress for today," She replied, curtsying.

"Right then, let's get your nightdress off then we'll put this pretty one on, shall we?" She smiled.

After changing, all that was left was some shoes, which shouldn't be too hard considering they wouldn't be visible under her eye-catching dress. Slipping on a pair of green heels to match her dress, she was now ready to skip through this boring tea party and impress Cedric. Not that he ever tried to impress anyone by wearing something other than his purple robes, but it was in Sofia's natural instincts to make the effort.

After Violet left, Baileywick had come to give her breakfast which she stuffed down as quickly as she could; she was too excited not to. She could barely wait to see Cedric, hoping she would pluck up enough courage to tell him her true feelings. Sadly, even if he did reciprocate the feelings she felt towards him, there was no guarantee her father would allow her to court him, let alone let her marry him. At least her mother would be more understanding, so with that she kept her fingers crossed tightly.

Strolling down the castle halls, smiling at every servant that walked by she made it to the end of the corridor when suddenly she heard an all too familiar cry of her sisters distaste. Room décor? Sofia supposed that was just it, she was re-decorating her room and the servants just weren't placing a painting in the right spot. Yep. That had to be it.

Curious, Sofia wandered over to Amber's bedroom and peaked in to see if her assumption was correct. Inside, Amber caressed her hair whilst pointing angrily at the wall on the other side of the room. Two servants mightily held up this gigantic painting of Amber with Desmond and struggled to keep it high up as she kept changing the positon in which she wanted it.

Desmond and Amber got married last winter after their love had progressed. She wasn't ever expecting Amber to fall in love with Desmond as all she ever did was nit pick at him and ridicule him. It wasn't till they started growing up did Sofia notice a change in her sister's behaviour towards him. She replaced ridicule with comfort and nit pick with compliments. As strange as it was, Sofia couldn't help but gawk at the whole aspect of it, Desmond was charming and smart and her sister was pretty and intelligent so they fixed together like a jigsaw; they fitted nicely like your typical Popular girl with Nerd cliché.

"Oh Amber" She thought, putting a hand over her mouth to prevent herself from bursting out laughing.

Ignoring her sister's petty problems, she skipped down the hall and made her way to the castle courtyard. There outside her parents sat around a little white picnic table with Prince Zanders parents and Prince Zander himself. Throughout all her school years, Zander had been just a friend not a fricking love interest at any point of her life. She always assumed that he would court Vivian or Cleo seeing their on screen chemistry play out like a romance movie. Awkwardly, Sofia curtsied and waved as she joined the table, sitting next to Zander.

Butterflies fluttered by as did bees and wasps: the joys of summer. Sofia tried her best not to look directly at Zander so instead she fixated her eyes on the scenery around her such as the hedges cut into perfect shapes of swans, the grass smelling sweeter than the creepy I want to be more than friends looks that Zander was sweetly giving her and the sky in the prefect shade of blue like in movies.

Pleasantly, Sofia scanned her eyes around the table, listening to boring royal duties, avoiding his cringe observations of her. Having to contend with her obligations was painful, it was like hearing long fingernails scrape against a blackboard. All she desired was for Zander to stop observing her like she was a planet and perhaps stop wrecking their friendship.

Thus far, all he had done was offer her toffees from his pocket, stare at her religiously and compliment her graciously. For Sofia it was appalling and forced, Zander must be pressured by his kingdom too. He had never shown any signs of affection up until now.

"Princess Sofia, you look remarkable in that dress" said Zander, smirking.

It was going to be a long day...

AN- Please R&R your thoughts.