Hello! I bet you guys have been wondering where I've been. And are probably wondering when the next chapter is coming up. I've had some exams lately so haven't been able to do a lot of writing. But, I did manage to type up chapter 11 and I've started writing chapter 12. Enjoy!

Sophie's POV

"What do you reckon we'll be doing in Good Deeds?" Sophie wondered.

"Dunno, saving the poor from hunger by starving ourselves?" Agatha muttered.

Sophie rolled her eyes. "Aggie! You could still put this all right! You still have a chance. Don't blow it."

They walked in silence for the rest of the journey to Professor Dovey's classroom.

When they reached the room, Sophie headed towards the seats near the front, but Agatha dragged her to the very back.

"What are you doing?" Sophie whispered.

"You seriously wanna learn about good deeds?" Agatha asked.

Sophie frowned. She studied Agatha's face. Clearly she was still upset about her ranks. "If this is about the ranks-"

"It's not." Agatha interrupted angrily. "It's not to do with ranks." Agatha tried to recompose herself. "Now just please stop talking about that!"

Sophie turned her head away. This wasn't the Agatha she had become friends with. Not at all. The Agatha that was Sophie's friend should be funny, relaxed, and making sarcastic comments now and then. She shouldn't be negative, grumpy, and lazy.

As soon as class finished, Sophie and Agatha headed silently towards the Blue Forest gates for Surviving Fairy Tales.

"This has been such a long day." Agatha moaned as they reached a flag with the number '3'.

"Maybe if you stopped whining and think positive, things would seem better and the day would move along quicker." Sophie reasoned.

Agatha rolled her eyes.

"You're becoming a royal pain and it's only the first day here." Agatha retorted. "Seriously, I never thought you'd turn into a prissy princess this quick."

"I'm not turning into a 'prissy princess'!" Sophie sighed. "I'm just doing what girls are supposed to do here. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather be a princess than a bush. But if you prefer to be a plant, that's fine by me."

"Huh. You think you're gonna be a princess? Sophie, there are hundreds of girls here. Girls who were born royal and born princesses. They were trained to be princesses. On the other hand, we were born in a village and trained to be bakers or housewives. So good luck with becoming a princess."

"Have a little faith." Sophie muttered as the rest of their group arrived. Among which, was Tedros, and unfortunately, Beatrix.

"Such bad luck. Both readers in our group. Isn't that terrible, Teddy?" Beatrix said smugly.

Tedros, however, smiled at Sophie and Agatha. Which surprisingly made Agatha's heart do a little skip.

"I think it's kinda cool. We'll get to know about what goes in the Woods Beyond. That's only if you want to tell us. I'm not forcing you." He shot Sophie a dazzling smile.

Tedros seems quite nice. He's tolerable, unlike some snobby rich kids, Sophie thought.

"Sure. Depends on what you want to know." Sophie said. "If you're only interested in how we have to cook and clean ourselves because we don't have servants, we're not interested." Sophie joked.

"He's probably more excited to hear if any girls in your village like him," said a bored voice.

Tedros glanced at her. "And what's your name, gingerbread girl?"

"Hester. This is Anadil, and Dot." The girl said, showing no emotion to the nickname Tedros had just given her.

She had a tattoo and dark hair and looked like the sort of person that could kill you with her bare hands. Two girls, Anadil and Dot, stood behind her. Anadil was fierce-looking and looked prepared to back up Hester, and Dot looked as if she would sit down on the ground and start making daisy-chains.

"Let's just hope that you don't end up like your mother did, getting fooled and destroyed by a little girl." Beatrix smirked.

Hester's eye twitched.

"And what are your parents known for, Goldilocks? The arts of how to be a snob? Though I doubt they'd have needed much training. With someone like you as a daughter, I bet they learned off you." Hester said.

Beatrix glared at Hester and leaned towards Tedros. Hester smirked triumphantly.

Sophie and Agatha exchanged glances as in the background, Beatrix muttered: "Did you hear what she said Teddy? She's such a witch!"

Tedros didn't seem to be paying much attention. "Probably because she's training to be one."

Beatrix was just about to reply when a gnome stood at the number '3' flag. He studied them through his beady eyes.

"Bad group." He muttered, then gestured for them to follow him.

As the students trailed after him, Sophie hung back, admiring all the strange-looking plants and peaceful animals. Everything was a different shade of blue; the trees, flowers, grass, all a unique blend of hue. Deer, birds, squirrels and many more species of animals dotted the forest. The forest was beautiful.

Sophie picked up a fallen flower from the ground and rolled it between her fingers. She glanced up and saw Agatha amidst their group, a little ahead. Running slightly to catch up, Sophie accidentally tripped over a tree root. Just as she was about to tumble onto the ground, a pair of hands caught her, holding her arms and steadying her. Sophie looked up.

Even before she tilted her head to identify the figure in front of her, Sophie was almost certain of who it was.

Agatha had always been there for her, even at the hardest times. She was always helpful when Sophie's mother had died a few years ago. Always offering Sophie her company and keeping her mood up.

So why wasn't she there for Sophie now?

Okay, I normally don't really say anything at the end of a chapter, it's just 'hope you like it', 'next chapter coming soon' and stuff like that. But people have been saying how my fanfic is different to the original story and let's just say they're not exactly used to it. So I feel like I should say something.

First, this is my story, and I can choose what happens in it, and if you don't like it, I'm sorry, but everyone has different opinions.

Second, fanfics are meant to be different to the original story, if it isn't, then what's the point of the fanfic?

Third, other fanfics about SGE have made the characters' personalities the same as they are in the book, with a few alterations, and I'm totally fine with that. Some people have even changed the settings completely to make the story exciting, and I love a bit of originality. So, if they are allowed to create their own settings, then why can't I create my own character personalities?

I know that not everyone will like my story, but I'll still try my best to make it as good as possible. Quoting from Girl Online, 'Every time you post something online you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world - or you can make it something that takes away from them.' Plus, the majority of you have probably guessed that I'm in my teens, and being a teen is quite hard, you have so much going on in your life (those of you who are around my age group will know), so please don't make this fanfic something that increases my stress levels, and I'm telling you, I have so many more exams coming up my stress levels are probably reaching the clouds!

As always, thanks for reading. I hope you guys see this as an act of kind of defending myself, not trying to be rude to others.

'See' you all at the next chapter! :)

Omgsge x