To be asked to make the Thronecoming Crown was a huge honor. To be honest, Shelly Seas didn't even know that Thronecoming was around the corner. She was too busy buying and testing water-resistant postcards so she could write to her 6 sisters, her aunt, and her mother, The Little Mermaid. She was also washed away in her thoughts about Legacy Day. Would she sign The Book and stay on land until her story ended? Or would she do the unthinkable and rebel, deciding to stay a mermaid forever? The white letter that slid under her door on Friday after school was her only wake-up call.

"What's this?" she wondered out loud. She took it off the floor and tiptoed back to her bed, careful not to wake Eeliza Witchton, the daughter of the Sea Witch, who also happened to be Shelly's roommate. As Shelly examined the letter, she noticed a red wax seal, the official mark of Ever After High embedded in it. The letter must be from Headmaster Grimm, she deducted.

Shelly carefully undid the seal, and read the letter to herself. Her eyes bulged as she continued. "OH MY GODMOTHER!" she shrieked. Eeliza shot up from bed.

"What's the fuss?" she groaned sleepily, pulling thick strands of black hair from her face.

"Headmaster Grimm is giving the duty of making the Thronecoming crown to ME! Me, Eeliza!" Shelly was grinning so far, it could've touched the sea star hairpiece that held up her bouncy auburn hair.

"Eh, cool." Eeliza rolled her eyes, clearly not impressed. "What are you making it out of? Do you even know how to make a crown?"

"Of course!" Shelly was trying to keep up her optimistic image, but on the inside, she wasn't so sure she knew what she was doing.

The next morning, Shelly went to the Bookend Craft Shop. It was run part-time by Paris Gypsy, the daughter of the gypsy from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

"Hi!" Paris smiled as Shelly came in. "Need assistance?"

"Oh, I'm looking for materials to make a legitimate-looking crown." Shelly said.

Paris gave her a funny face. "Um, OK, I'll try to help out."

Shelly spent an hour searching for materials. She found some durable wire and some cute gems that she gladly bought, but nothing really spoke to her. She finally left the store with wire, gems, silver paint, and a new light pink art smock. But Shelly was anything but confident about this crown.

Back at the dorm, Eeliza could care less about what crown Shelly was making. She only really cared when she came back from a shopping trip to find her roommate hiding her face in her knees, a pile of messy-looking failed crowns in front of her.

"Shell', what's wrong?" Eeliza asked. Shelly lifted her head up. She hadn't been crying(Shelly almost never cried), but her face was as red with frustration as Snow White's poison apple.

"I can't make a crown." Shelly sighed. "I'm out of gems, out of glue, and out of ideas. Unless you think a queen wants to wear these," she gestured to the pile of goof-ups." I'm out."

"No you're not." Eeliza said, kneeling next to her. "The Shelly I know never gives up, even if the first few attempts were a fairy-fail. This is no different." Shelly gave her a thanks for trying, but no face. "Here, I'll help you."

Eeliza pulled some fake pearls(her favorite decoration) out of her closet. She showed her roommate how to weave them with the wire so it looked like the pearls were floating. Shelly noticed that instead of using glue, she could weave the wires together to attach them. The girls got to work!

In what seemed like a short half-hour, a fairy happy Shelly posed in her mirror, a gorgeous pearl-and-wire crown atop her head.

"Thank you, thank you! I'd like to thank all the people who brought me to this point. The janitor, for inspiring me to remember what not to wear..." Eeliza rolled on her bed, laughing at Shelly's silly acceptance speech.

"The queen will be fairy happy with this crown." Eeliza smiled, finally recovering from her giggling fit.

"She sure will be." Shelly agreed. "And it's all because you helped me out. I'd nominate you, for sure!"

"Aww, thanks, Shell'." Eeliza blushed.

Little did they know, this would be a very different Thronecoming Year, indeed.