Chapter Eleven

The class finished and Esmerelda made her way to the door along with the other students and the blonde was nearly at the door when Ada called her back.

"Wait Esmerelda" Ada said stopping the girl in her tracks.

Esmerelda turned around looking at her teacher awkwardly before Ada started to talk.

"Your powers seem to not be working" Ada told her student in a concerned way.

"I failed to have realised" Esmerelda replied not doing a very good job at sarcasm, that was after all her sister's expertise.

"Does this mean that Ethel was telling the truth all along?" Ada asked the girl seriously.

Esmerelda stopped to think about how she wanted to reply. She knew her sister lied a lot and it was hard to believe her because she was untruthful so much but the way that Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom had not even thought the girl could be telling the truth had annoyed her.

"Of course not" Esmerelda replied this time happy to realise she was doing a much better job at her sarcasm, "Ethie would never tell the truth would she?" the girl replied looking at her teacher who sighed.

"Esmerelda" Ada replied sensing the girl was annoyed and trying to calm her down.

"Can I go now?" Esmerelda asked her teacher desperate to go so she could go mirror Ethel.

Ada who had never seen the girl annoyed before or indeed heard her be sarcastic before nodded finally letting the girl leave and once she was gone Ada realised they might have acted unfairly and jumped to conclusions to fast and then there was the matter of fixing the girls magic, Ada only hoped she would be able to sort it all out.


Esmerelda ran down the corridors arriving outside the mirror room and sighing as she saw how long the queue was, talking to Ada had made her one of the last to arrive.

"Who is in right now?" Esmerelda asked Mildred and her friends who were stood in front of her, the younger girls turned around to speak to the elder girl.

"Drusilla" Mildred told Esmerelda who sighed knowing she took forever.

"I know" Maud replied as she rolled her eyes knowing how long the wait was going to be "Oh bad news we still haven't thought of a plan yet" Maud told Esmerelda informing her they were still at a lost as to how to help Ethel.

"Well thanks for helping anyway" Esmerelda told the girls who turned back around as everyone was waiting in silence, Esmerelda reached into her bag and pulled out the latest book she was reading and read the book already beginning to get lost in the story.

"I wish I could do that" Esmerelda heard Mildred comment and Esmerelda glanced up the book still open.

"Do what?" Esmerelda asked the dark haired girl.

"Read...I don't have enough concentration to read, I end up getting distracted" Mildred told Esmerelda still not able to understand how the sisters could read as much as they do.

"Plus I don't see the point" Enid commented "Watch the film it is way quicker" Enid replied as she hated to read when she didn't have to.

Esmerelda shook her head "Not all books have film adaptions" Esmerelda pointed out logically "And films are never the same, they always miss something out" Esmerelda then said definitely preferring the books.

"I understand that" Maud replied as she liked to read like the older girl, Esmerelda who had lost concentration to much in the conversation to read closed the book and looked down the corridor.

"Have any of you seen Sybil?" she asked Mildred and the gang wondering where her youngest sister was at.

"No sorry" Mildred replied as she had not seen the youngest sister in a while.

Esmerelda was not worried, Sybil unlike her and Ethel was always late for absolutely anything unless food was involved, ten minutes later the girl skipped down the corridor smiling at her sister.

"Sybil you are late" Esmerelda told her sister shaking her head.

"Sorry I got distracted" the girl said spinning around happily.


The line moved way to slowly for Esmerelda's liking, she wanted to talk to her sister and it was taking forever, finally after two hours Maud came out and Enid and Mildred who had been waiting for her joined her and started walking away.

"Finally we get to talk to Ethie...come on Sybil" Esmerelda told the younger girl as she practically ran into the room happily, Mildred and her friends had stopped to watch and laughed.

"It cracks me up when she does that" Mildred admitted unable to help but smile.

"Same, the way she acts you would think she has not spoke to Ethel in a year" Maud replied adjusting her glasses as the friends laughed at how excitable Esmerelda got whenever she got to speak to or see Ethel. After all the girl was normally quite serious so it was amusing.


Esmerelda sat down with Sybil as the mirror changed views showing Ethel's bedroom.

"Ethie" Esmerelda said beaming at her sister.

"Hey Esmie, Hey Sybs" Ethel replied using her sister's nicknames.

"How did mum and dad take the news?" Esmerelda asked as she had been worried it would not have gone well once they found out Ethel had been expelled. Ethel sighed sadly.

"They yelled at me for an hour about how it is disgraceful and stuff, they only stopped because they had work" Ethel told Esmerelda confirming it had not gone well.

"Well don't worry Ethel, Mildred is going to help us get you back" Sybil replied sweetly trying to lighten the mood.

"Remind me again why Mildred Hubble is helping?" Ethel asked in a disgusted way still not happy with the idea.

"Because Mildred is the best at coming up with plans with Maud and Enid, so be nice they didn't have to help you know" Esmerelda told her sister.

"But I don't like them" Ethel replied telling her sister what the problem with that is.

"Ethie" Esmerelda replied changing her tone slightly, the tone she used to tell Ethel to stop and she also narrowed her eyebrows at her.

"If they must help" Ethel replied rolling her eyes.

"Don't worry Ethel, Miss Cackle knows that Esmie's powers don't work so maybe she will let you back in the school" Sybil told her as Ethel looked at Esmerelda to explain which she did.

"Well I don't care how I am brought back to school just help me please, I can't stand to see mum and dad glaring at me for much longer" Ethel admitted wanting to get back to school to see her sisters instead of being glared at by her parents.

"Don't worry Ethie, leave it to us" Esmerelda replied happily promising she would get her sister back to school.