Chapter 4

Agatha wandered along the corridor, her head whirling with formulas and facts from the Chemistry mock exam she had just suffered through. That was one exam she was not confident she did well on. In fact-

"Agatha!"

Tedros fell into step next to her.

"Uh, about yesterday-"

"What about it?" she snapped. Tedros looked irritated.

"Do you have to be so rude? I was just going to say, did you know how surprised everyone was when they realised you could sing?"

Agatha stopped, surprised. That was not what she had been expecting him to say- it seemed rather bizarre. Mind you, Tedros had a knack for saying bizarre things.

"Is that what they were saying?"

"What did you think they were saying?"

She shrugged sullenly.

"Don't know. Anyway, why did you feel such a burning desire to rush over and tell me that? Shouldn't you be kissing Sophie behind a tree or something? "

Unruffled by her comment, Tedros grinned.

"She's doing some talk on her style. Don't ask me. "

Agatha grimaced.

"Oh, god. Is it part of that Beauty and Charity thing that the posters are up everywhere for? Because Albermarle kicked her out the library for that last time."

"Yeah, it is. But she promised Professor Dovey there wouldn't be any shoe burning this time."

"It'll be worse instead."

"Agreed."

Agatha spied Tedros's friends leaning in the hall, chattering, as he did. "Well, got to go. See you at rehearsals, Agatha."

Baffled, Agatha watched him stride off to his posse and disappear through the doors. Was Tedros being… nice?

That night at rehearsals, Agatha was surprised to see the coven wedged in the corner, Hester and Anadil sullen, Dot chattering excitedly. She sidled over to them.

"What're you doing?"

"Lesso said we'd get extra credit on our references if we did crew on this." Hester muttered. Anadil rolled her eyes.

"And because Hester's an ass kisser, we said yes."

"I am top of our class!" Hester barked.

"So you don't need to do this!"

"Oh, come on, it could be fun!" Dot chirped. She received two poisonous glares in response. "What? We get to sit and watch rehearsals, at least."

Agatha turned from the three as they started bickering again, looking for Kiko and instead finding herself at eye level with Professor Sheeks' chin wart

"I HAVE THE CAST LIST, MY USELESS ONES!"

Agatha winced as the piece of paper Sheeks was brandishing hit her in the face. Pollux cleared his throat and started reading off parts, with Sheeks contributing the occasional soul- destroying comment and Anemone trying to ease the sting of them, rather unsuccessfully. It seemed fair to say there were some mixed reactions (however, most of the negative ones were destroyed by Sheeks in seconds, so it didn't really matter).

Pollux eventually reached the main roles- the most notable being Kiko as Frenchy and Mona as Rizzo- then-

"Tedros as Danny..."

Most of the girls started giggling, and Tedros grinned. Agatha rolled her eyes. That had been a given , anyway.

"And Agatha as Sandy."

Agatha choked on her water, hardly believing her ears. Everyone had frozen in a sort of bemused shock, like they were all trying to process the words they had just heard.

"YOU MESS UP AND YOU'RE GONE, WOODS!" Sheeks boomed. It seemed to break the silence, and everyone started chattering at once, surprise and amusement evident. Agatha blinked a few times.

For one thing, she was Sandy?

"Your audition was wonderful, dear!" Anemone beamed. Agatha barely heard her, still stuck on the first part. Bewildered, she looked up, and met Tedros's eyes. Written on his face was what she was feeling- complete shock, mixed with horror.

Tedros.

Tedros.

Her worst enemy- and her best friend's boyfriend.

The coven were gaping at her, she was gaping at them, and Tedros looked like he was going to be sick; and Agatha would've bet her life all five of them were thinking the same thing.

Sophie will be furious.

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter! I'm back at school so I've had less time, but I'll try and get chapter 5 up within the next week. Thanks for your patience, and for your reviews- keep them coming!