AN: Alright, so we're back to Courtney and Raven, awesome. : ) But not only that, we get to now see the students and the headmaster of Ever After High cast and how they react to the CITPrincess! :D

Anyways, enjoy, and btw, there is a Mean Girls reference during the beginning between Courtney and Maddie. ;)


Chapter 7: "Who's the new girl?"

Meanwhile in the Ever After High universe, Courtney, who ended up in the fairy tale world do to falling into a magic mirror from her world, and who ended up being founded by two Rebel students who went to that school: Raven Queen, the daughter of The Evil Queen and Madeline Hatter, the daughter of The Mad Hatter was being taken to the fairy tale school because after learning that Raven and her had a lot in common about not wanting to be evil and how they are both mistreated by their peers, the two ended up befriending each other; and were also unaware that they actually began to have crushes on each other. Raven thought Courtney was beautiful and just needed help with herself, while Courtney thought that Raven was gorgeous and she was very kind and helpful once they both learned that they were alike. Therefore, Raven told Courtney that if she stayed with her at Ever After High, then she would help her get a happy ending, one that she deserved.

So with that being said, Courtney agreed to stay with Raven at the fairy tale school, and now, the three new friends were making their way out of The Enchanted Forest and to the school. In addition, all of them felt really happy about this moment, especially Courtney herself.

"I can't believe this," Courtney happily spoke, "I'm in a new world where someone actually cares about me, and is going to help me with my bossiness and my flaws in general." Raven, who was located on her left side smiled back at her with bliss and replied back to her.

"And we're happy that you are here with us because we are going to help you."

"We just need to choose what fairy tale are you from, so no one will have to know your real native." Maddie reminded the two, and then even added and mentioned another student at the school, who was also a Rebel like Raven and Maddie: C.A. Cupid, daughter of Eros from Greek Mythology. "Kind of like how our friend, C.A. Cupid is from Greek Mythology because her father is Eros, the god of love." When Courtney heard the student's name, she felt a little surprised.

"Wait, there's a student named Cupid here and she's not part of a fairy tale, but Greek mythology instead?" The Princess asked Raven and Maddie, though Raven just looked at her in bewilderment.

"Yeah, and what about her," The Rebel Queen commented back.

"So if she's not a fairy tale, why does she go here?" Before Raven could answer her crush's question, Maddie reacted with shock.

"Oh my hatter Courtney, you can't just ask about people on why they're not fairy tales!" The Mad Hatter's daughter squealed.

"Well, I know that, but I'm curious, that's all." replied back the CIT, making Raven finally answer her.

"I'll tell you why, Courtney," Raven summoned her sweetly, causing her crush to smile back at her with kindness. "You see Courtney, Cupid originally came from this school called Monster High, yes she went to a school that was filled with children of famous monsters." The Rebel stopped for a chuckle, and then continued. "However, during the spring time, her father told her that she would be going to our school because…well since I am the one that caused the whole destiny conflict, they needed her to help us out with guidance about destiny. Though luckily, like Maddie said, she's a Rebel so she doesn't fully agree with destiny." As she listened to her new crush's story about the Cupid student, Courtney nodded by being impressed.

"Oh, very nice and logical sense, and good choice for her," Courtney said to her.

"Why, thank you." Raven answered back.

"Anyways, back to what I was saying," Maddie chirped, "We just need to choose what fairy tale you can say you are from, in order to hide your true form."

"Maddie's right, that's going to be hard though since they are a lot of fairy tales," Courtney said to Raven in concern, but Raven was less worried about that.

"Don't worry about that, Courtney," The black and purple-haired girl said to her, "because since you told me a lot about yourself, I think it would be perfect to say that you are from a story with music and dance like The Nutcracker or The Twelve Dancing Princesses." Courtney's face started to blush mild pink when her friend told her that idea and even admitted sweetly.

"Well, that does sound nice,"

"I knew you would like it." Raven excitedly expressed back to her with her hands crossing her heart and a smile on her face, a smile that Courtney couldn't help but love herself.

"And here we are, Ever After High," Maddie gleefully tweeted with a huge grin on her face, "home of all fairy tale students, whether as Royals or Rebels, they're more than one together, and yes, I'm quoting the theme song." Once Courtney saw the school she was about to enter with her new friends, she could not take her eyes off of it. The school was extremely huge with its castle-like buildings, the trees, bushes, and grass surrounding it as well as the school's colors: red and magenta roofs and ribbons, and the cream-colored bricks made it look beautiful, and what surprised and made Courtney a little anxious the most was that she saw some of the pupils outside of the school's grounds that looked exactly like the parent they were the child of. And thankfully for Court, they were not looking at her, yet.

Seeing the CIT's face filled with surprise, Raven grinned at her, and simply asked, "So it looks like you like it, huh?" The Rebel's question made Courtney jumped a bit, but luckily, she quickly calmed down and answered her honestly.

"I do, I really do," smiled the CIT with honestly filling in her voice, but started to sound a little nervous, "but the pupils that are out here." Hearing this, Raven and Maddie looked at each other and shared a smile.

"Don't worry about them, just relax." Raven calmly told her and took her hand and patted it with hers. "We're just going to simply introduce you to our friends: The Rebels of the school."

"Yeah like Cerise, Cedar, Hunter, and Cupid, that's all." Maddie helped out with her energetic voice. Hearing the two girls sounding optimistic around her, Courtney gave them a gleeful smile and thanked them kindly, and they both said welcome to her.

"So, you now ready to find your happily ever after?" Raven asked Courtney with a wink. Courtney fed back with a wink of her own and voiced delightedly.

"I am, with all of my heart, I am."

"Hexcellent, let's do this then!" Raven promoted with greatness, and with her best friend and new friend/crush all together, all three of them walked up to the school with smiles crossing their faces.


Meanwhile, in the main hallways in Ever After High, a girl who had blonde hair with a golden crown and a red bow attached to it, that was on top on her head, who also had snow white colored skin, blue eyes, red lips, and was wearing a red and gold dress with fishnets and red high heels was at her locker, and by her was two other girls: one who had brown hair with pink streaks in it, and was also wearing a pink dress and rose-themed accessories and even had light brown skin; and the second girl had blonde hair as well, but instead wore a blue and yellow dress and a blue bow in her hair, and all of them were all bear themed. In addition, her high heel black boots that she wore with light blue tights had faux fur covering the top of her boots. Therefore, with all these said, the names of these girls in order are: Apple White, the daughter of Snow White, Briar Beauty, the daughter of Sleeping Beauty, and Blondie Lockes, the daughter of Goldilocks. All three of these girls were best friends at Ever After High and as oppose to Raven and Maddie being Rebels, Apple, Briar, and Blondie were all Royals, meaning that they agreed and liked their destinies, and most of all, they wanted them to come true. Well, mostly Apple since her destiny is to be the next Snow White.

"So anyways," Apple was talking to her two friends, "yesterday, Holly and I were paired up together for this assignment in Princessology where we had to arrange the princess tiaras from oldest to newest and with my knowledge and Holly's skills, the White Queen was impressed and passed us both with a perfect score!"

"Apple, that's amazing!" Briar shrieked with cheer.

"Yeah, that sounds wicked cool that you and Holly both passed just right!" Blondie added with her own catchphrase. Both Briar and Blondie praised Apple's knowledge when it came to school because they both knew, as well as everyone in the school knew that Apple was no ordinary princess; she was instead smart, motivated, independent, and a very hard-working leader because as the next Snow White, every student, teacher, and even the headmaster, Milton Grimm knew that Apple worked hard for her destiny. However, every since Legacy Day happened, because Raven was her roommate/story's villain and a Rebel, did not sign the Storybook of Legends, which was a book that the students signed in order to pledge their destinies, and afterwards, Apple's and even everyone else's stories were put on pause, which horrified and made Apple upset, and mostly everyone as well, all but the Rebels, who were led by Raven were more than happy that their leader chose not to sign.

So with that said, Apple tried her best to get Raven back on track, so her destiny can come true. Don't get the wrong idea though, Apple really did care about Raven, and knew that she was sweet and respectful to her, but the blonde princess never understood why she would reject her destiny. This is mostly because according to the school, if one breaks away from destiny, they can end up vanishing forever, along with their whole story. Despite this, Raven still proved that you can change your own destiny without anyone ceasing to exist, but this only made Apple more worried about her future; even if her best friends forever after and the Royals were on her side to help her not worry.

"Aw girls, you guys are the best," Apple replied sweetly to her best friends after giving her praise about her performance in class. "So, what's up with you guys?"

"This Friday afternoon after school, Ashlynn is said to get more shoes shipped in for the new semester at The Glass Slipper and I'm so hexcited to see them!" Briar revealed excitedly to Apple.

"Wow, that is hexcited, I should see them too. Count me in, Briar!" Apple then looked at Blondie and asked her with a smile, "What about you, Blondie, what have you been up to?"

Blondie answered while holding up her MirrorPad, "Oh, the usually, trying to come up with new ideas to make new stories like how Lizzie Hearts was able to win the trophy for the croquet team, Sparrow Hood and his band trying to make their first album, and a-A NEW GIRL!" Blondie ended her sentence in surprised and even looked wide eyed.

"What," Apple questioned.

"Oh, I see her, too!" Briar also said eyeing the now mentioned new girl.

"Girls, what are you," Apple asked, but Blondie pointed her index finger and said, "Look ahead, Apple!" Apple then obeyed her friend, and wouldn't you know, Apple indeed saw a new girl, and every other pupil did too.

Courtney, Raven, and Maddie were now inside the fairy tale school's main hallways, smiling big and everyone who attended the school looked at them in awe and surprised as they wondered who the new girl with brown hair, tan skin, and in the purple dress was. In addition, they even asked each other "Do we know her," "who is she," "have we seen her before," etc…However, because of all these questions and people eyeing her, Courtney start to get nervous.

"Raven," the CIT said to Raven, "they're staring at us, I'm getting nervous."

"Don't worry, stay calm," Raven gently whispered to her. "Just follow mine and Maddie's leads." The Rebel Queen then started her lead with a simple smile and her purple eyes started to shine at everyone who was surrounding her, Maddie, and Courtney.

"Good morning everyone," Raven greeted the surprised student body of Ever After High.

"Lovely Saturday morning it has been, am I right?" Maddie continued on, but still the students just looked surprised and shocked at Courtney, who was getting more nervous every second. Seeing this, Raven grabbed her by the wrist and all three girls began to walk down the hallways; where everyone still looked at them. With all the stares and questions that were aimed at her, Courtney still felt nervous, even though she went along with Raven's and Maddie's lead by smiling and waving hi to the new people she was surrounded by. Luckily, Raven saw how good she was doing.

"You're doing great," Raven complimented her with a smile, which Courtney couldn't help, but smile back. "We're just going to find the Rebels; don't worry about the others looking at you." Courtney simply nodded, and the three continued on with their lead. A second later, Maddie spotted two Rebel students that were good, close friends to her and Raven: a girl with a red hood and a wooden girl who was literally cursed to not lie; and these girls were named Cerise Hood, daughter of Little Red Riding Hood and Cedar Wood, daughter of Pinocchio. Both of them were smiling and waving excitedly at Maddie and Raven, showing that they were happy to see them and Courtney as well. The Mad Girl cheered with happiness when she saw the two Rebel girls and friends of her and Raven.

"Look, there's Cerise and Cedar!"

"Hexcellent, let's go girls!" Raven cheered, and quickly, she, the CIT, and Maddie sprinted their way to the two friends. "Get ready Courtney," Raven looked at Courtney, "because you're going to meet some new friends who will like you because they are the nicest people ever." Once she heard this come from her crush, Courtney spread out a smile and a blush on her face. Meanwhile, back at the first part of the main hallways, the students who just saw the secretly disguised CIT with The Rebel Queen and The Mad Girl were still filled with surprise and curiosity and even still asked each other who the new girl was. In addition, Apple, Briar, and Blondie were even surprised after seeing that moment.

"A new student, we have a new student?" Apple asked her friends in curiosity.

"Well, I did say new girl, now didn't I?" Blondie answered her, but also had some amazement in her voice.

"I know that, but who is she? We never saw her before until now." Apple said with more curiosity controlling her.

"True, but Blondie's right, she could be a new student." Briar said, agreeing with the daughter of Goldilocks.

Apple nodded, "Yeah, but, do you guys think she could be "strange" in a way?"

"What do you mean, Apple?" Both Blondie and Briar asked her at the same time.

"As in, what if she's not what we expect her to be?" The daughter of Snow White with blonde hair told them in concern.

The blonde snow white's friends both thought of that question real hard before thinking of a response.

"Well, for one thing," Briar first responded, "you are right Apple, she does look different than most of us."

"Yeah, like she's actual real person." Blondie said her response.

"But, she couldn't, she can't," Apple argued a bit, still feeling concerned.

"Why would a person from the real world even come to our world in the first place?" Sleeping Beauty's daughter asked in disconcerts.

Blondie shrugged, "Who knows," she then looked at her MirrorPad and got an idea.

"But, I know a special reporter who can get the extra scoop on the new student and find out who she is!" When they heard their blogger friend say this in a happy tone, Apple and Briar smiled big with excitement.

"Blondie, that's a great idea!" Apple said.

"Totally agree; just don't go too far like what you did with Cerise that one time." Briar added some concern in her agreement.

"Trust me, I won't." Blondie promised. "Gotta go now, time to interview the new girl." After that, Goldilocks's daughter sprinted off to find the "new girl;" leaving her best friends behind.

"Wanna go follow her?" Briar asked happily to Apple after Blondie left.

"No thanks," Apple politely declined. "You can, I'll go get the headmaster."

"Alright, hex you later." Briar went off to follow Blondie, while Apple went to get the mentioned headmaster.


Back to Raven, Courtney, and Maddie, though they spotted the Rebel students, Cerise and Cedar, they once again faced pressure when some more students, even ones that saw the three earlier were coming up to them and asking them questions like "Is this girl new," "who is she," "Raven, did you find her," and other questions were aimed at Courtney like "Where are you from," "what fairy tale are you part of," etc…In addition, Cedar and Cerise saw the conflict, and they knew that something must be done.

"Hey Cedar," Cerise first spoke, "even though we are also curious about the new student, we really need to help Raven and Maddie."

"Yeah, I agree." Cedar replied, and off they went to save Raven and Maddie and the new girl/Courtney from the pressure they were in. Though Courtney looked like she was going to faint.

"Raven, too much pressure!" The Princess cried.

"Don't worry, Courtney, we'll get away from these guys." The Rebel Queen tried to comfort her.

"Yeah besides," Maddie added and pointed her finger at the Rebels who they saw earlier coming their way. "Cerise and Cedar are coming to save us now." Raven and Courtney then felt relief.

"Thank goodness," Raven and Courtney both said at the same time, making them blush at each other, and sharing a smile lastly. Finally, the friends of Raven and Maddie came in to rescue them.

"Alright, alright, back off." Cerise commanded the students who were giving her friends and Courtney pressure by waving her hands at them.

"Yeah, leave our friends and this new girl alone," Cedar followed in, "besides, don't you see that she's already under a lot of pressure, thanks to you guys?" Once Cedar pointed out how Courtney was feeling, the CIT had a face filled with redness, meaning that she was feeling pressured and insecure enough that her face started to turn red with humiliation. Seeing her like this now, the students who bugged her, her crush and the Mad Girl backed away with guilt.

"That's what we thought," Cerise said as the students went away. Courtney sighed in relief and her face went back to her normal tan color.

"Thanks Cerise and Cedar," Raven smiled at her friends.

"No problem Raven," Cerise replied.

"We couldn't let you guys get embarrassed out there," combined Cedar with a loyal smile. All three of them nodded, and then the daughter of Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio eyed Courtney, who looked shy and insecure once again.

"Anyways, who's the new friend you guys have?" The red-hooded girl asked. When hearing this sentence, Courtney blushed even more and tried to avoid eye contact.

"Aw, she's shy like me!" Cedar excitedly says.

"Yes, and kind of cute and pretty," Raven tried to added that in quietly, but her friends heard her.

"You're right about that, Raven, she is." Cerise agreed, though unaware that Raven was trying to hide her real feelings from them. However, hearing more of these complements just made Courtney blush even more and it only made the two female Rebels smile even more.

"Hey, don't be shy," Cerise tried to comfort the CIT.

"Yeah, we're very funny," Cedar put more in.

"I, uh," Courtney shyly spoke, also adding some eye contact.

"It's okay, just tell us who you are," Red Riding Hood's offspring told her calmly. Still feeling shy, Courtney looked up at Raven, and then at Maddie, both were smiling at her with satisfaction, showing her that both Cedar and Cerise were good and loyal friends and that she can talk to them without any trouble. Finally, Courtney looked at the two new girls and smiled at them, letting all of her shyness and blush-filled face out, and now trusting the two.

"Sorry, my name is Courtney," Courtney finally told them with no hesitation and took out her hand at both of them for a handshake, which Cerise and Cedar accepted.

"Nice name, I'm Cerise Hood, daughter of Little Red Riding Hood." Cerise introduced herself politely.

"And I'm Cedar Wood; daughter of Pinocchio, the only difference is I can't lie until I'm done with school." Cedar revealed herself.

"I know who you guys are," Courtney said and the pointed at Raven and Maddie, "Raven and Maddie told me about you guys and the other Rebels after they found me."

"Found you?" Cerise questioned. Courtney nodded, "Yep, they found me in the Enchanted Forest."

"Really," Pinocchio's daughter also questioned, but with more interested.

"Indeed we did!" Maddie stepped in and told the truth. "Poor girl was crying, so we had to bring her here." The Mad Hatter's child winked at Raven and Courtney.

"Aw, why were you crying?" Cedar asked the CIT, who once again froze and then started to panic. She didn't want to tell them what her real origin was, not until she meets the other Rebels and gets use to the school at least. Plus, Courtney was afraid that another student would pop out and once again question her; eventually, she was right. While she was trying to think of an answer to tell to the hood and puppet girl why was crying in the forest before coming to the school, Blondie finally revealed herself to the gang so she can do her interview on Courtney.

"You were crying," Blondie asked her once she jumped out to them, making Courtney herself jump in fear. "Aw my dear, I'm sorry that I'd scared you." Blondie then apologized as she unlocked her MirrorPad. "That was just not right for me to do." The blonde-haired girl then shines her MirrorPad at Courtney, who once again looked scared, almost as if she was a little timid animal. Luckily, Cedar and Cerise blocked her way from Blondie.

"Hey, what gives?" The daughter of Goldilocks asked them, slightly annoyed as well.

"Blondie, as much as we love your work," Cerise told her straight and simply. "Now is not the time to do a MirrorCast with Courtney."

"Oh, so that's her name?"

"Yes, but did you hear me Blondie?"

"I did, but you guys know that I do a MirrorCast when a new student comes." Blondie whined a bit, "what's the change now?"

"Number one, with the expectation of the four of us, she's shy around everyone." Cerise gave her an example.

"Two, because of that, she's now feeling under pressure." Cedar gave her a second example, and before anyone else said a word, a big, tough strict voice was heard.

"And thirdly, she must talk to me first."

When the voice spoke, the six girls all faced forward and saw a man dressed in a blue coat, light grey vest, and a light blue ascot. He also looked a bit stern and covering his head and face was dark grey hair with a mustache and green eyes. It was the headmaster of the school himself, Milton Grimm. And by his side was Apple, who had earlier said to Briar that she would get him and she did. When the girls saw the headmaster, they all look a bit frightened do to his strict personality, but what made it worse is that he was eyeing at Courtney since she was "new" to the school, and this made her feel more scared than the last few times that she felt scared when she first came over to the school.

"Is this her, Apple?" Headmaster Grimm asked Apple, "the one in purple, looking scared and timid?"

"Yes, that's the new student Headmaster Grimm." Apple answered him loyally. After that moment, she kneels to a trash can and said to it, revealing a little surprise. "Or and Briar, you can come out now." As this was said, Briar, since she did say that she was going to follow Blondie to see if she can interview Courtney, came out of the trashcan that Apple kneeled to.

"Aw, curses," Briar said disappointingly as she got out of the trashcan. "I really wanted to see your interview, Blondie."

"Miss. Beauty, now is not the time to fool around," the school's headmaster sternly told her. He then faced the girls with Courtney again and said, "I now must talk to our new student, who I guess never showed up to me about coming to Ever After High." Courtney gulped nervously when Grimm said that. She really couldn't help it, she was in a new place with new faces, so of course she would be nervous; and now seeing the stern filled headmaster of the school, she felt more nervous.

Grimm then thanked Apple for leading him to Courtney, and then ordered her, Briar, and Blondie to leave kindly, which they did out of respect for him. Blondie was a bit upset about not getting to interview Courtney, but what got to her the most was when she asked Briar on why did she follow her to get to Courtney, making her pink friend answered that she really wanted to see how her interview would go. Blondie smiled once she heard her best friend say that, and that made her feel better since it showed that her best friend cared about her work a lot. After the three friends left, Grimm turned his attention on Courtney and the Rebel students.

"Now that that's out of the way," Grimm faced Courtney with his still, stern face. "Young lady, as a new student at Ever After High, it is very important to have me and the faculty advisor, Madam Baba Yaga to discuss your role at Ever After High, why you are here, and of course, to tell us what fairy tale you are from, so Madam Yaga can choose your classes." As he says these grounds, Grimm eyed Courtney from all kinds of directions; up and down, side to side, and diagonal. In addition, he still had his stern, strict face on, as this once more raised Courtney's nervousness.

"Hm, though you actually look interesting for a fairy tale character,"

"Really," The CITPrincess finally spoke to him and blushed a bit.

"Yeah, it's like as if you're not a fairy tale character at all." The Headmaster told her with honesty, but still sounding tough and strict. As they heard him, Courtney, Raven, and Maddie let out some nervous feelings.

"Well, uh, yeah," Courtney nervously said, "I actually get that a lot."

"Like a lot, a lot," Raven helped her out.

"All the time," Maddie put in for help as well, "twenty four seven." Cedar and Cerise just exchange confused facial expressions at each other since they were the only ones that didn't know what was going on right now.

Headmaster Grimm then cleared his throat and went on acting serious even more.

"Anyways, young lady, please come with me to my office."

"O-okay," Courtney obeyed and walked towards the headmaster, and they both went to walk to his office; leaving behind the Rebel best friends. Though Courtney kept turning back and eyeing them for help.

"Everything will be fine, promise." Raven told her calmly. Afterwards, Courtney and the headmaster left the female Rebels and went off to the office that belonged to the headmaster.

"Well, that was odd," Raven admitted slowly.

"Yeah," Maddie, Cedar, and Cerise all agreed.

"My only question is what's going to happen now?" Cedar anxiously asked.

"Yeah, and what does Headmaster Grimm mean about her 'not looking like a fairy tale?' Do you guys know why?" Cerise also questioned. Knowing that her friends were going to have to learn the truth about Courtney later, Raven simply, yet failed at hiding her nervous emotions answered them.

"Well, uh I would tell you guys, but," Raven nervously spilled out, but she then eyed Maddie, "Maddie, help me now." As she obeyed her friend, Maddie smiled big with optimism, and came up with a solution.

"We'll tell you guys as soon as Courtney is done with the headmaster, it'll be easier that way so you guys can know her even more." Raven signed in relief once her best friend helped her, and she felt more relief when Cerise and Cedar agreed that Maddie's answer sounded understandable, making them all nod.

"So with that said, we'll just have to wait for the next chapter." Maddie lastly put in, and even breaking the fourth wall once more.

"Yeah, what you said Maddie." Raven replied to her in an awkward accent.


A/N: Oh man, was that long or not? Ha, well I hope you all enjoyed this once. It was pretty fun to write, yet a little challenging. Also, yes the setting is on a Saturday, even though the students are in the halls; sounds weird I know, but I think at boarding schools you can still be in the school halls on the weekends, especially if you're going off of school grounds and that's your only way to reach the exit, right? Sorry, I sound real stupid saying this I know.

Speaking of school, I start my senior year next week on Thursday (stupid I know, a Thursday?), so I won't be as activate on here or on my deviantART or my Tumblr because of that, but you will see some work from me from time to time. Promise. ;)

Oh, and the Mean Girls reference between Courtney and Maddie when talking about Cupid was referring to the "Oh my God, Karen you can't just ask people why they're white" quote between Karen and Gretchen if you didn't get it. I actually got inspiration after seeing these EAH/Mean Girls crossover posts on Tumblr, and I thought they were kind of funny. So yeah, that's a tribute to all you Mean Girls fan out there. Ha, I love that film. : )

Enjoy, review, and fave! It will make me very happy! Bye!