The Rosabella x Darling update is here!

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters here. Nor do I own Ever After High.


It was Monday. Dexter was scrolling through costumes on his phone, when Humphrey sprinted round the corner. "DEEEEEXTEEERR!" Dexter didn't have enough time, by the time he looked up from his phone screen, it was already too late. Humphrey came crashing into Dexter. "Ow. Humphrey? What the hell?"

"Sorry Dexter, no time, uh don't go in Lab 3 for a while!" from there Humphrey dusted himself off, then stood up frantically. Dexter could only watch Humphrey run off.

"What the hell?" When Humphrey had crashed into him, his thumb accidentally touched an item on his screen, but it didn't look bad. After considering it for a few moments he tapped add to basket.


Darling was on her own walking to English. How she loved that lesson (!). At least she wasn't isolated in English, as they actually sat in tables, and not rows. But when she walked into the room, it was as if the tables were sick of each other and moved to be in orderly lines, yet it was so disorderly. Faybelle Thorne was sitting in, what Darling thought was Darling's seat.

"Miss Charming, there's been a new seating arrangement, it's on the board." The English teacher said pointing towards the whiteboard. Darling glanced at the board, then at the room. It seemed like everyone had already been sitting down, and Darling was the last one in. Their glares were a little unsettling. Darling when she came to her seat was expecting no one to be next to her, like in the past years. So when she saw Rosabella sitting next to the seat she was assigned; she was startled. The teacher handed out new books.

"This, " he startes "is a play written in the 18th Century about the 10th Century!" He chuckled at his very own (unfunny) joke. "It was written by the English author, James William, lucky for you, you will have to analyse it for your exams!" Darling just rolled her eyes. The teacher began to pull out a hat from under his chair. "One at a time, come pick out a piece of paper from the hat, but don't unfold it until I say when. That's because the writing you see on the pieces of paper, will be your character for the termmmm!" When it reached Darling's turn she went to remove a piece of paper from her English teacher's hat.

Faybelle on the otherhand, had already looked at the writing inside of the piece of paper. "What the hell? George of Jones' sister? That sounds like such a minor character..." She groaned. She looked around, noticing Darling with her piece of paper in hand. She smirked. "Darling could you get me a piece of lined paper please?"

"Uh sure."

"Such an easy target" she thought to herself. Rosabella was occupied talking to the teacher about something Fay couldn't care less about, and Darling had already stood up and moved away, leaving her neatly folder piece of paper behind. Faybelle then switched her's with Darling's. Then she read it. "Lady of the Wilfred Lands. Now that sounds like a major character." She looked around again to check, if anyone had seen. She smirked to herself, as no one had.

"Here's your paper Faybelle."

"Fay is fine." She said fake smiling. How she hated Darling Charming.

"Okay! Now time to unfold! When I call out your name just tell me your character description, and I shall tell you your character! If you don't already have an obvious one." Darling on the other hand was far away. It took her a while to realise that the tenth century meant knights, and dragons. Of course this might not be true, as this was some 18th century version of it, but still. Darling had really hoped the character she had would be some valliant knight, even if the knight had a supporting role.

"-Darling Charming", the teacher said interrupting her thoughts. She looked up confused at what was happening.

"Read what's on the paper..." He said slightly becoming impatient.

"Right of course." She said to herself. She unfolded the paper only to read "George of Jones' sister." Darling was very disappointed when she discovered it wasn't a knight, yet she never let that show. When the English teacher discovered that he smiled to himself.

"Yes! Lily daughter of Jones." Then a ringing went off in the class. "Whoops, sorry that's mine." The teacher excused himself, and left for about five minutes before he returned, his mood slightly dampened. "Sorry Class, but I have urgent matters to attend to, I'd like you to discuss with your partners, what role you think your character has in the play, whether they're a main character, a villian, a supporting, what you'll think they'll do. Just discuss."

Usually in discussion, Darling had to work in threes, and was usually ignored. But this wasn't the same case. This time she was in a pair. A pair with Rosabella. But Rosabella was her friend, there was no need to overthink this. That was probably the first time this lesson that Darling had made eye contact with Rosabella. And she was closer than Darling anticipated her to be. She was close enough for Darling to analyse the way her hair waved in and out of itself. How some waves were tinted slightly red - a gentle red. A feature Darling had never noticed before.

"Darling, are you okay?"

"Hm yes. Why is that?"

"I guess you kind of looked down, your character is Lily of Jones right?"

"Uh yeah." Darling said, somewhat slow to respond. "She doesn't really sound like a character who does much. "

"Nope."

"Nope?" Darling questioned. Looking at Darling's confused face, Rosabella couldn't help but giggle.

"She's actually the hero of the story." Faybelle hearing them from behind scowled.

"So she's a knight?" Darling questioned.

"Have you read it too?"

"No I just put together, hero and 10th century." Rosabella was mildly surprised at Darling's knowledge of the 10th century, her being mildly surprised was mainly due to the fact that her pencil case was knight themed. Of course the average person wouldn't be able to deduct this. Darling's pencil case consisted of sparkly silvers, and ONE knight pen. The one Darling lent to Rosabella. Which did make Rosabella curious so she asked.

"Do you like Knights a lot?" Darling somewhat stunned by the question, instantaneously almost went red.

"Does she know?" She thought to herself. She could only manage a 'huh' as a response as her brain shut down from embarrassment.

"Is she embarrassed?" Thought Rosabella. "Like you seem to know lots on them, so I was wondering if you liked them a lot or something." She said. But that gave Darling enough time to think of an excuse.

"In primary school, there was this project we had to do on fairy tales, and I chose to do knights, because it seemed like the only interesting thing to do."

"And you still remember?" Rosabella questioned, slightly skeptical.

"Well yes... It was really fun, so it stuck more?" Rosabella giggled again at this. "Why what's funny?"

"Your responses are the cutest." Darling was so unused to seeing Rosabella so giggly. When Darling took short glances,she was always serious or focused. Mainly stressed. Seeing this more alive side, this happier one, Darling got this weird feeling inside. She liked it. She liked making Rosabella laugh like this.

The door swung open interrupting all noise, and the teacher entered the classroom.

"Right, sorry about that. Someone had been misbehaving in the science lab. And they needed a detective to solve the work."

"Sure they did." Darling and Rosabella thought, both rolling their eyes. But when they both noticed each other doing this, they laughed. It was only as Darling's eyes drifted to the clock that she noticed the time, and the sudden realisation. The Black Knight was coming out in four minutes. Darling promised herself she would read this edition, so she needed to order it before it became sold out. The curses of supporting an over popular comic. Darling raised her hand.

"Sir, may I go to the bathroom please?" Darling asked.

"Yes, go ahead!"


It was lunch. Sadly Chase missed break (again) due to his detention, and couldn't hang out with Darling. But that was the least of his worries. His biggest concern was Rosabella. He had been let out of his detention a few minutes before break had ended, and for a few seconds he saw Darling. Sitting on the bench, playing on her phone. He was about to sprint off to her, when Rosabella, who had drifted from her group, approached Darling first. Chase simply observed. He noticed the way Darling's face lit up when Rosabella approached her, and he noticed how when Rosabella showed her the A4 sheets she pulled out of her bag, her face dropped too. At that moment Chase wanted to know what Rosabella had handed to her that in response her mood soured. He wanted to rush in there and yell, but he knew that would be irrational, and he refrained himself from doing so. Yet before he could move he heard the bell ringing, and a teacher calling out his name. "Redford!" And so all of break time was wasted.

"But now it's lunch!" He thought. "Where is Darling Charming?" Chase had spent about 5 minutes lurking outside the girls' toilets when he saw Darling exiting the Red Building. And he knew she saw him too because she ran in the opposite direction of where she had come from.

"Not this again..." He groaned mentally to himself. "Darling!" He called. He followed her but paused at the corner. He decided he'd take a short cut, and go through the drama room. As he passed through, he could feel the glares piercing through him, from the Drama students in there. He dare not make eye contact in case it turned into something verbal. Gladly he'd do it again to see that surprised look on Darling's face when she suddenly saw Chase in front of her. That same shocked face switched into a smirk, then Darling sprinted into a classroom. Chase had no choice but to follow. However when he walked in he accidentally knocked the chair keeping the door open, causing the light in the room to vanish.

"Ah! Chase stop Chasing me!"

"You play that same pun every day!" Chase pulled out the shiny black cover, which Darling could barely see."Guess who go the newest edition of Black Knight?"

"What? How did you get that?"

"Two words - Pre. Order."

"Let me read it please?"

"You'll have to reach for it." Darling stared at him in disbelief.

"You're not serious."

"Yep, revenge for the pun."

Lately Rosabella has been a bit more overwhelmed than usual. The planning for the party took more prep than she actually thought it would. "But it will all be worth it!" She thought. But now, some of the effects of staying up late - later than usual, due to party planning, made her forgetful. Like now she left her bag inside the French room. She was lucky she remembered before her next lesson. As she walked towards he door, she noticed in the windows there appeared to be two figures incredibly close to each other. One figure's head kept rising and falling , but majority of it's shape was blocked by the much larger figure. Until the head turned into the light. It was Chase! And someone else? Then Rosabella realised what she was watching. Her face suddenly flushed, and she sprinted off.

Chase noticed something in the corner of his eye. It was Rosabella! He turned to look, but a second after she sprinted off. Chase didn't even notice Darling swipe the book straight out of his hands.

"I saw you with Rosabella at break today." Chase said.

"Really? You were at break?"

"I was going to come over, but I had to talk to one of my science teachers about something. You looked kind of down? What did she give to you?"


It was break. Rosabella was standing in a circle with a group of girls, she really didn't know that well. She had only really heard of Faybelle and Miss Swan. If she was being honest she wasn't really listening, she was more interested about which DJ she would hire for the party this Saturday. She kept glancing at her phone screen in her inside pocket, until a familiar name stole her attention.

"-Yeah she and the English teacher missed like half of English."

"What? Is she fucking the English teacher now aswell?" Some random girl asked.

"They left at different times, but I heard they do. I mean how else can someone so ditzy like her, get high grades in English? Through sex." The other girls just ooed. Rosabella just frowned. Surely the people she was surrounded by weren't as stupid to believe something as nonsensical as this? "Darling would never do that?" She thought. The Darling she knew anyways.

"Chase probably hasn't been giving her enough attention."

"Well he is human, there's no way anyone would be able to satisyfy an attention whore like Darling."

"How the hell did someone like her end up so twisted? When Daring and Dexter are so kind?" They were so engrossed in their bitching that they hadn't even notice Rosabella walk away from them, they didn't even notice she was walking to Darling on the other side of the field.

Darling was sitting on the bench, refreshing the website page, on her phone, over and over again. She could not believe that the website had crashed. Her chances of getting the comic before it was sold out were dwindling now, and the worst part was that it only sold in stores in America. And it'd probably be sold out there too.

"Hey." Darling looked up, she knew that voice. She almost jumped up in excitement. But of course Darling wouldn't let that show. A Charming should always appear calm.

"Rosabella? Why are you here?"

"You know how you missed the end of English, well you missed out on the homework as well." Darling didn't know why she was disappointed, Rosabella was being kind, she could've not picked up the homework, and left Darling to get a detention. "It's due in on Monday." Rosabella said.

"Thanks." Rosabella just stared at Darling. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"

"Well there's another rumour about you."

"Again?"

"Yeah, it's about you having sex with English teacher."

"What? Ewwww, oh this is worse than me having sex with Chase! I don't even like our English teachers, how did this even start?" Rosabella just started laughing again. "It's not funny, this is serious!"

"I know, I know, but you don't seem as distressed as I thought you would be."

"Well, yeah it is only rumours." Darling just slumped into the bench, forgetting she was in school. " It's not like I have much of a social life at school to be worrying about. People don't really talk to me, so I guess it doesn't affect me that much?" Darling just sighed.

"Not much of a social life?" Rosabella thought. Before Rosabella could voice her thoughts the bell rang.

"See you later, yeah?" If Rosabella hadn't had French yet, she would have linked her arms with Darling so they would walk together to wherever they were going. She wanted to know how Darling managed to think she didn't have much of a social life, when she was one of the most popular girls in school. It became clearer to Rosabella, that Darling definitely wasn't the archetypal Charming. So then who is Darling Charming. And why was she soo interesting to Rosabella? Rosabella was so involved in her thoughts, she almost forgot to say goodbye.

Unknown to her Darling was in a rush to get to her next lesson. Darling didn't know why, but when Rosabella was close to her she felt like melting and hiding away. Was she embarrassed. "She already knows I like knights, what more is there to be embarrassed about?" She muttered under her breath. Darling was feeling overly warm. Was she sweating? The more she thought about Rosabella, the more Darling started feeling weird.


"Oh you know... Homework."

"Then why are you blushing?"

"Blushing?! Was that why I was feeling so warm? I can't be blushing! I have no reason to blush!"

"Wait you were feeling warm? Outdoors? In September?"

"Yes Chase! I'm freaking out!"

"Calm down Darling! Let's just talk this through. So you were feeling warm, in September while you were outdoors, with Rosabella."

"- And I hadn't been moving!"

"-And you hadn't been moving. Relax that's perfectly normal. After all it's September, not some freezing November."

"But that's the problem. I was feeling like a weird warm, ugh I don't know how to explain it."

"Yeah, you're sounding really strange. Are you sure you aren't sick or something."

"I think I am."

"Well I think it's our lunch now. Well you're not you when you're hungry." Maybe the snickers ad was right. Maybe this was all a result from hunger taking over her mind.


Lunch was peaceful. Chase and Darling were having a conversation about past Black Knight editions, mainly about who the mysterious White Knight was, and why he randomly killed the Red Knight, and of course it was all to be revealed in this edition, which Chase had already red. But of course he wouldn't reveal any details like a true friend. The conversation ended abruptly when Alistair arrived, but smoothly switched to teasing him about his crush. Once Alistair had finished they were all ready to leave together when Chase noticed Rosabella. And then everything came flooding back. "Guys don't wait up, I've got to go do something."

"Huh?" But before Darling could ask, he was already gone.

"Rosabella! Rosabella!" Chase shouted, trying to get her attention. She turned around almost shocking herself.

"Chase? You needed me?"

"It was you!"

"What?" She said confused. "If this is about what happened in the classroom, honestly I didn't see anything it was really dark, and I wasn't planning on telling anyone either."

"The Classroom? What? No? This is about the park. I saw you. Behind the bush."

"Oh yeah, I was looking for some stray members then a football came flying out of no where, and almost hit me in the face!" She said laughing it off. "Wait... So that means the tall guy I saw was you!"

"Wait..." Chase paused himself mentally. "

"So who was your friend? Cause I only ever see you with Darling." Chase at that exact moment, was dumbfounded. He came to make sure Rosabella didn't spread Darling's secret. Not him spread it himself.

"Which friend?" Chase tried to lie his way out of it.

"You know the blonde with long hair. Was it Darling?" Chase could feel himself sweating.

"No no no no no no no no, there's no waaay that was Darling. No it was my friend from my kickboxing club. He has long blonde hair too. You wouldn't know him - 'cause you don't attend my kickboxing club."

"Oh really, they must look really similar!"

"Plus even if it wasn't him, Darling would neeever play football. Never she's all about dresses, and shoes and make up. Yep. "

"Riiight, okay. Bye then, Chase."

"Wait what happened in the Classroom?"

"If he doesn't know it mustn't have been anything then." Rosabella thought to herself. "Sorry I must've been confusing myself. See you later Chase."

"Yeah, Bye."


For the rest of the day, Chase was unbearable confused. Mainly by Darling's strange behaviour. He was so glad he was home. What he wasn't expecting when he reached home was his mum chopping carrots. Humming as she did so as well. Usually when he arrived him his Mum would be screaming at the TV, or at the person she was speaking to on the phone, He never expected to see his Mum chopping carrots.

"Hello Dear. How was your bus journey back home?"

"Evening Mum, it was alright. The Bus Driver though - "

"- Sit down Chase." She said interrupting him. Chase swung his bag over his shoulder and dropped it on the floor. Then he took a seat in the kitchen opposite Mrs Redford.

"Yes Mum?" Unaware as to why his Mum too was showing strange behaviour.

"Listen Chase, you have a half-sister. I don't know if she's told you yet, but you're moving in with her!" At that moment she jumped up and clapped her hands together, dispelling the serious air around her.

"Heh?"

"Oh no worries! It's not something instantaneous! You still have the month here!"

"Wait what? Who's my half-sister?" It took Chase a moment, but then he realised why Lizzie and her parents where at his house unexpected. Lizzie and he had never talked much during school hours, so for her to come over randomly, it must've been something to do with their parents. And now Chase realised. "Lizzie is my half-sister isn't she?"

"Yes! Isn't that fab!"

"Fab?

"Oh you don't know? It's Lizzie Hearts! And you'll be moving in with her, and your biological mother, next month."

"Next month? What about my life here?"

"Your life here will still be the same, she lives on the other side of the estate, not the other side of the world."

"I'm not going. I'm staying!" Chase did not believe for a moment that he was moving to live with some stranger, biological or not. He liked life here, and truth was he loved his Mum, weirdness and all. Even though she was the only Mum he had, she was still the best.

"You can't stay."

"Why can't I stay?! Why can't I get a choice in this, when it's obviously affecting me!"

"Because she's threatening to call the police Chase!" CLANG! In anger Mrs. Redford's knife slipped out of her hand dropping on the floor, narrowly missing her feet. The sharp clanging, jolted the Redfords out of their anger. Mrs. Redford made a heavy sigh before continuing, in a calmer voice. "She threatened to call the police Chase. You think I haven't tried to keep you here? You weren't born in a hospital Chase. There was only one person who actually witnessed your birth, and that's your mother. Now she wants you back, she has all the evidence to make it seem like I've kidnapped you from birth, and decieved you into believing that I've legally adopted you."

"But you have legally adopted me?"

"No. You were never in an adoption centre. She would've killed you than be seen in an adoption centre."

"So the woman who wanted me dead, wants me to live with her."

"Don't say that Chase. She went through a really hard time." They went through a long period of silence, until Mrs. Redford picked up her knife and the sound of the metal blade hitting the wood rhythmically began again.

"I don't want to go." Chase whispered. The sounds of the knife stopped, and Mrs. Redford embraced Chase like it would be the last time she'd be able to.

"I don't want you to leave either."


Hey guys, another chapter done. Updates are going to be slower, I know I've become one of those authors who value exams, and stuff. I'll try to keep the chapters shorter to update faster, this was obviously a long one.

A/N IN this AU - 'Goldilocks' is a nickname, for Blondie Lockes. No I'm not having Blondie Lockes mother the same age as Darling, that would be weird...

Darling and Chase AREN'T related. When Darling said she was his sister, she was just describing their relationship. Not literal.

The usual secondary school, there's 10 periods in the day. Period 1-4 is before break. After break 5-6, then lunch, then Periods 7-10. I don't know if this is the same for other countries, but there's a bit of info ;). That's just cause there's a lot of time jumping in this chapter. If that confuses you just remember break comes before lunch.

Write to you guys later. Let me know spelling mistakes, if you're confused. And if you want to review feel free.

Crunol.