A/N: Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all have a amazing year and I hope to write even more stories this year so here is my first chapter for 2018, also has anyone seen the new Worst Witch trailer yet? Series Two looks amazing but shocking I cannot wait! Again I do not own the worst witch or the characters!
Chapter Twenty-Five
The three girls spent hours and hours speaking to each other explaining in detail everything that had happened over the last few months and Esmerelda was true to her word and explained everything to her sister even the bad stuff.
"What do we do now?" Grace asked leaning her chin on her arm bored after a while of sitting in silence.
"Well Miss Browning is gone but with Ethie not dead that must mean I can leave here right?" Esmerelda commented and Grace shrugged not sure about it.
"But that girl you attacked, her and her friends now know your secret" Ethel said worried about what this meant.
"Ethie if you were a normal girl and some random person came up to you saying witches exist what would you say to them?" Esmerelda asked her sister.
"I would probably say they are crazy and they have to prove it" Ethel replied knowing if the girls went up to a policeman and said that they would probably be taken to a mental hospital.
"Exactly, I don't think even they are stupid enough to do that" Esmerelda replied her arm still draped around her sister.
"Good point, or they will get in trouble for wasting their time" Grace replied logically.
"True, if they did tell on me they would be the ones getting into trouble not me" Esmerelda said trying to reassure Ethel she was safe.
"What are you going to do about your parents?" Grace asked looking at the older girl.
"I don't know yet, I will think more into that when I see them" Esmerelda replied not sure what she was going to do yet.
"But hey it might be a good thing, maybe your parents will finally treat you right Ethel" Grace commented as she turned her gaze to the younger blonde instead.
Ethel snorted before replying "They will probably be all over me for like a week but then they will grow tired of me again, it is alright I don't really care anymore" Ethel admitted not holding out much hope for things to change but she suddenly grew sad as something entered her mind.
"That poor other girl...I really did try to save her but I couldn't" Ethel commented with a sigh knowing as awesome as things had turned out for her with her finding her family again, the grieving process for the other little girl's family was only just about to begin.
"You did the best you could Ethie, I mean hey you could have just left her and saved yourself and then you probably would not have lost your memory but you chose to stay and try" Esmerelda replied happily as she was really proud of her sister for the bravery she had shown and how much she had tried to help the other girl.
"I am a witch, I should have been able to save her" Ethel replied blaming herself for the other young girls death.
"Hey I might have left my school early but I remember something someone once told me when I first started" Grace butt in not wanting the younger girl upset.
"What did they say?" Ethel asked looking at the brunette with a look of interest.
"They said to me, 'being a witch does not make us invincible and being a witch does not make us a miracle worker, being a witch does not mean it is impossible for things to go wrong, magic can't solve everything" Grace replied with a smile as she told Ethel the quote. Ethel looked at her sister who raised her eyebrows as if telling her that was a good quote to follow.
Ethel went back to her foster parents that night to explain to them what had happened and they called the girls social worker who told her by the next day they would get things moving but for that night Ethel had to stay at her foster parents so Esmerelda would have to cope for one more night without Ethel.
The older girl could not sleep that night and neither it seemed could Grace as the brunette sneaked into Esmerelda's room finding her friend wide awake as she kept glancing to the window every few seconds.
"She is safe don't worry" Grace told her able to read that the girl was worried about her.
"To think she was next door all along though" Esmerelda replied to her friends comment talking quietly into the darkness.
"Well at least you found each other" Grace replied beaming at her friend.
The next morning the two sisters sat through boring meetings with social workers as they went through details, Ethel was given a DNA test proving it was her and their family was contacted so all they could do now was wait.
As Esmerelda had being sent to the school to help her with her grieving and now that she was not grieving she was allowed to go back to Cackles along with Ethel but Grace was not completely through her programme yet, she still had a few months to go but luckily for her Laura and her gang had being leaving them both well alone since Esmerelda had accidentally attacked the other girl so at least Grace could go through the last few months in peace even if she was going to be alone.
Esmerelda and Ethel were both dressed smartly as they were going home for a few days before returning to school, Ethel's social worker was taking both the girls home and as Ethel crossed the street to go and thank her foster parents Esmerelda went to talk to Grace.
"Well hopefully I will be out of here soon too" Grace commented as she smiled at her friend happily.
"Here" Esmerelda commented handing the girl her mobile number "Please don't think I am ignoring you if it takes me ages to reply, I am not very good at technology and texting takes me forever" Esmerelda told her friend as she gave the girl a way to contact her.
"Not to mention you are away most of the year anyhow so you couldn't reply if you wanted to" Grace replied as she took the paper with a smile.
"Well yes there is that too" Esmerelda told her friend beaming.
Grace smiled as she looked at the younger girl across the way speaking to her foster parents.
"I really am so glad about how everything worked out so well for you" Grace told her friend honestly happy for her.
"Me too" Esmerelda said smiling as she too looked at Ethel "I am just sorry I am going to have to leave you here" Esmerelda told her friend feeling awful about the whole thing.
"Hey, you need to be with your sisters, I will be fine here honestly I can look after myself" Grace replied not wanting her friend to feel guilty.
"You know you should think about going back to witch school" Esmerelda suggested knowing the girl would be brilliant at any school she chose to go to.
"I don't know Esmie" Grace replied with a sigh "It is very hard when people tell you you are not even a witch and not only that but I will be way behind everyone else now" Grace replied explaining her reasons for not wanting to return to school.
"You are more of a witch than most of them lot, I mean you used your powers to save me when others use their powers for evil, you are a true witch Grace, I know that because of how you use your powers" Esmerelda told her friend really believing what she was saying.
Grace smiled at her friend happy she still believed in her but then shrugged before replying "I don't know" Grace replied honestly terrified of returning to witches school.
"Come to Cackles, I mean I go there so you will have a friend so it will be much better for you and I can help you catch up, I know I can not do any of these regular subjects to save my life but I do have a way with witching subjects" Esmerelda told her friend really wanting the girl to come to the school with her.
"Mmm...I will think about it, right now I am just trying to focus on getting out of this place" Grace replied not wanting to think about school right now.
"Esmerelda are you ready?" Ethel's social worker suddenly said as she waited by the car.
"Yes I am coming in a minute" Esmerelda said to the woman before turning back to Grace.
"I will text you a great curse to use on Laura in case her or the others start again" Esmerelda told Grace who snorted before laughing.
"Thanks but I can deal with Laura she is no match for me" Grace told her friend.
Esmerelda smiled before she suddenly hugged Grace and Grace knew this meant she really did like their friendship, she knew Esmerelda was not really in to hugging anyone outside of her family so it was a testament to how close they had become the last few months. Grace hugged her friend back and they stayed like that for a few minutes.
"Esmerelda!" the social worker said again causing the blonde to pull away and roll her eyes.
"Hopefully I see you soon" Esmerelda said as she walked towards the car and got in the back seat with her sister and Grace waved to them as the car drove away taking the sisters back home.