As Greta went to the Castleteria for breakfast, Ingrid stayed behind. Glancing over at her, it was clear to Greta her friend wasn't sleeping. She just didn't want to deal with anyone. The more Greta thought about it, the less she could blame her. As she searched the enormous room for the frog prince, Hans walked up beside her.
"Make nice," he reminded her in a voice oozing I know better that only siblings use.
"I know," she hissed. Across the room, Hopper and Daring were by the buffet, placing breakfast items on their trays. When Daring spotted 'Ingrid', he tapped Hopper on the shoulder and pointed her out.
"Time to go make nice, Hopper." Hopper nodded, but glanced curiously at Daring as he too exited the line of students grabbing food.
"Wait, where are you going?" Daring turned back to Hopper and subtly pointed out Blondie Lockes.
"To go have a word with Blondie, of course." Hopper watched as his roommate's charmingly persuasive mask slid on over an almost dark determination. He shuddered, glad that his fairytale didn't really require him to charm anyone the way Daring's did. Hopper turned to go find 'Ingrid', only to come face-to-face with the girl who had already found him.
"Oh! Um, h-hello-"
"Look," she began, cutting him off, "I dunno why, but Greta likes you. She was really upset by our fight yesterday, so I'm here to offer a truce." He nodded. "I...I'm sorry I said she had better taste than to ever like you," she said with noticeable difficulty.
"I'm sorry I said you were an ugly witch," Hopper said, rubbing the back of his neck nervously, "you're actually really pret-"
"Oh no," she said sharply. "If you finish that sentence, I'm gonna make you into frog legs for my lunch." Hopper stared at her, alarmed and speechless with fear as he turned into a frog. She chuckled. "Okay, I can almost understand why that would be endearing. I'm not kissing you, though." Hopper nodded.
"Understood, my lady." With a quick bow, the frog prince left for the table he and the Charming brothers shared. Dexter had been sitting down at the table throughout Hopper's conversation with 'Ingrid', but once his friend had turned into a frog, Dexter made sure to grab his friend's tray without interrupting his conversation. It was easy, he was fairly certain he was the most unnoticeable prince in the school. When Hopper finally made it to their table, he thanked Dexter for bringing his food.
"Transportation across such a vast space as this room can certainly conjure up an appetite." Dexter smiled at his friend's polite, froggy persona. Even Hopper can get a girl, he thought. As the princes drowsily ate their breakfasts, Daring glided over to the table with a firm grip on Blondie's arm.
"Blondie," he said in a voice oozing shallow charm, "wouldn't you like to tell Hopper something?" Blondie nodded and turned guiltily to the frog prince.
"I'm sorry about my mirrorcast show yesterday," she said, pained. "I know that it was presented in a way that was just not right, and I'm fairy sorry I made your and Greta's friendship look like something it wasn't." Darin raised an eyebrow as he shot Blondie a sidelong look and she sighed, clearly not getting out of anything. "The truth is, I was just feeling really jealous of Greta because Apple seemed to like her so fairy much. I guess I just wanted to get her back for it, so I tried to make her look bad," Blondie trailed off into a mumble at the end and didn't look at Hopper. He sighed.
"While I do not appreciate that being the object of my affections was the tool best suited to bring shame to her, I believe that the target of your malice should be the first to be made amends with." Blondie nodded.
"Yeah, about that, do you know where she is? I haven't seen her yet."
"Maybe she's sitting with Ingrid," Dexter said.
"No, I checked her usual table first, and Greta wasn't there." She sighed. "Well, I'd best go look for her."
"Oh, and you'll issue an apology on your show, won't you Blondie," Daring asked with a superficial veil of politeness.
"I will, Daring!" Blondie smiled and blushed at the prince as she rushed off to search for 'Greta'. Dexter shook his head, he never did like it when his brother used his looks like that.
"So what about you, Hopper," Daring asked, "When are you planning to apologize to Greta?" The frog stared guiltily down at his pancakes.
"As soon as I am ambulatory once again." Daring nodded his approval and silently began his breakfast. Halfway through breakfast, Maddie drifted past the princes' lunch table and kissed Hopper without a word. When she sat down next to Raven, she had a clever smirk on her face.
As promised, Hopper abandoned his breakfast as soon as he was human again and found his way to the girls' dorms. He figured that if someone would miss breakfast entirely, they most likely had slept in. As he climbed up the spiraling stairs of the dorm tower, he spotted Blondie walking down.
"What'd she say?" Hopper looked pleadingly at Blondie, hopeful that she would give him some idea of what to expect from 'Greta'. The confused looking blonde turned to Hopper.
"She said...she said she was sorry that she'd upset me," Blondie said disbelievingly, "and that she forgave me for the video, so long as you did."
"What? Isn't she mad at me?" Blondie tapped her chin.
"Why would she be mad at you?" Hopper smiled. Maybe she wasn't mad at all, he thought, or at least, not anymore. He rushed up the stairs, then turned partway back to Blondie.
"I'll tell you later." He ran up a few more steps, then turned a serious expression on her. "If you promise not to make it a mirror cast." She nodded, and watched amusedly as he ran up the spiraling stairs. As Blondie removed her last video from her mirrorcast site, she shook her head.
"I was just so right about them."