Ever After High--The Secret Diary of Apple White by Heather Alexander

Author:Heather Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, Juvenile Fiction / Media Tie-In, Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Friendship
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2017-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

Diary Entry

Surprise, surprise!

Our walk from the Castleteria to the Grimmnasium held way more surprises than I hexpected!

The woodland creatures scurried ahead. Kitty lounged on top of the lockers, occasionally reappearing farther down the hallway. Faybelle shuffled behind me. Lizzie pulled out a croquet mallet and tapped a crumpled ball of paper down the hall as we walked.

The school was fairy quiet. Classes were in session. I was missing Crownculus, and I hoped that Humphrey would lend me his notes. I’m going to have a lot of makeup thronework to do.

I hesitated in front of the closed door leading to Headmaster Grimm’s office.

I wondered aloud if we should tell Mrs. Trollworth we were moving on, but Faybelle said she’d only ruin our fun. Had I skipped a page, Diary?

Surprise #1: Faybelle thought we were having fun! Okay, then. Off we went.

After that, the three of us walked together. Kitty stayed on the ceiling. She has a thing for heights. Then the bell rang. Classroom doors opened, sending students streaming into the hall.

And, of course, Surprise #2: Duchess came storming down the hallway. She announced that she was going to talk to Headmaster Grimm about having the dance and doing it her way. She made sure to mention how my theme was so last chapter anyway.

Then Duchess spotted me. “Check out the merry maid. Yesterday, you were a queen-in-training. Today, you’re scrubbing floors. The apple has fallen fairy far from the royal tree.”

My mother taught me that if I don’t have anything nice to say, I should speak with a smile. With Duchess, I smiled so hard, my cheeks hurt.

Suddenly, Duchess let out an unintentional honk, then dropped the folder she was carrying. Papers scattered everywhere! Then she blamed me for it so loudly that a big crowd of students gathered around.

Whatever-after was she talking about? I didn’t do anything. I wasn’t close enough to touch her.

And that, Diary, is when Surprise #3 happened: Lizzie, Faybelle, and Kitty came to my defense!

Lizzie and Faybelle insisted that I hadn’t done anything. Then Kitty appeared right between Duchess and me. She told Duchess to walk away if she wasn’t going to play nice!

At that moment, Sparrow hurried by and stepped on Duchess’s worksheet for Home Evilnomics. I knew if someone didn’t pick up her papers soon, they’d all be trampled. I bent over to pick them up and—

I was yanked upward.

Faybelle had grabbed the bow on the back of my apron.

“Sorry, Duchess, but you’ll have to clean up the papers you dropped. Our merry crew has detention, and our cleaning hexpertise is needed in the Grimmnasium.” Faybelle took one of my hands and Lizzie took the other. Before I could say fiddledeedee, they led me away from a fairy shocked Duchess.

You can imagine how confused I was. Faybelle stood up to Duchess for me! And Lizzie and Kitty did, too.

I stopped in front of the doors to the Grimmnasium and thanked them.

But something was bothering me. Why were they suddenly being nice?

Then came Surprise #4: They said they’ve always liked me.

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