Chapter 51: Scolding.

— I just ask you not to leave me alone with him, that's all—Agatha requested kindly.

— We won't - Japeth promised—I'm just saying that if you were closer, I'd be wearing you as a jacket.

— Don't be so dramatic—Agatha downplayed.

— Agi, you hugged him as soon as you saw him, and you haven't let go in the last 10 minutes—Sophie tried to reason.

Hugging would not be the right term.

Agatha clung to Japeth as if he were a rope, and she was in the ocean without a life jacket.

Aric knew there was nothing to be jealous of, but Sophie noticed that it was starting to bother him.

— Listen—I try to fix Sophie—if holding one of us, as if we were the only branch of the precipice, is the solution you find to be calm, you can do it.

Aric and Japeth looked at her reproachfully.

— But—Sophie was quick to clarify—at least you have to do it in turns, it's summer, it's hot, too much physical contact it's not pleasant for anyone at this time of year.

— I like hugs, and today I'm not in the mood—Adam helps.

Today, the four friends wore pristine white.

Agatha, wore a summer dress of a pink so light that it could pass for white, but pink enough to please the fairies, it was slightly flared to the knees and exposed in the back, of the whole piece by the front that was tied to the neck, a fairly cool model.

Sophie, on the other hand, would have managed to make a comfortable white short-sleeved T-shirt that said "if you are good at something, never do it for free", along with gray shorts of heartbreaking style and sneakers.

Aric, Japeth, and Adam wore gray trousers and white shirts.

How had they managed to get rid of school uniforms without breaking the rules?

They hadn't.

Sophie had taken advantage of the 3 days off to fix most of everyone's clothes.

After repeatedly discoloring with potions, she made the black clothes a very light gray and after dyeing them with the help of other potions, she got a pristine white.

Since it was the same school uniform, only faded, they could obviously wear it.

They looked like a group of teenagers heading to the nearest beach.

That being the last class of the day, Sophie had planned to elope with the boys and Agatha to one of the lakes that populated the different gardens of the school of good.

She swore to herself that when she had magic, she would leave the waters of the Lake of Evil immaculate and advance the construction of what had been known in the book as Sophie's beach.

She saw no reason to wait four years to build such a convenient structure.

Jacob came running towards them, the poor boy became depressed to see how fresh everyone else was.

Sophie smiled at the little guy and pulled him over to take off his vest and jacket.

Once the boy was left alone in the white shirt, it looked quite like everyone else's clothes and was much cooler.

— Keep them in inventory—Sophie advised—since your mates can go everywhere shirtless, I don't think you'll get scolded just for not wearing a vest and jacket in the height of summer.

Jacob's face lit up with a smile of hope.

He nodded and kept the extra clothes in his inventory.

Suddenly Sophie saw how Agatha, who had finally let go of Japeth, seemed that the boy had convinced her that he was exaggerating a little, she panicked again.

This time, she climbed like a frightened cat onto Aric's back, holding on with her hands and feet.

Japeth had stepped forward and placed himself slightly in front of them.

Regardless of how badly the rest of the princes fell on her, Sophie knew that there was only one right now that could cause this reaction in her friend.

She kissed Jacob on the crown and prepared his coldest expression.

As Tedros approached, followed by Rhian and Chaddick, he was greeted by a glacial glance from his favorite blonde.

The boy had a chill run down his spine, he remembered that the last time he had seen that look, a teacher had had to leave school to preserve his life.

He wondered what he would have done to anger this girl.

I notice that Jacob didn't come close to him either, but he didn't expect that to spread to his sister.

He cleared his throat and politely greeted Sophie, she nodded in recognition.

The two boys behind him also waved and these were greeted with a "Hello" cut by the girl and a slightly less cold look, with Rhian being the one who was better received.

He cleared his throat and risked asking if there was a problem.

— Apparently, your friends here—Sophie said, indicating Tedros and Chaddick - like to practice archery with black-haired dolls.

Tedros's eyes widened, and he gasped like a fish; Chaddick blushed and looked away, and Rhian gave him an apologetic look, apparently, he did know about Tedros's archery practice, though he didn't join them as far as Agatha could tell.

— I… — finally managed to start saying Tedros, but Sophie cut it off.

— If it seems like a heroic feat, almost killing an innocent child, you and I have nothing to talk about, much less if, after that, all you did was blame my best friend for being unable to make a selfish wish like the other heartless superficial ones in your school.

— That's not what… — started again, but once again it was cut off.

— That's what happened—she firmly declared—and if you don't believe me, ask Professor Dovey, anything else you've been told is just a rumor, not what actually happened, to know the truth you have to talk to a teacher, not gossipers.

Tedros blushed, but a little anger asked.

— Why should they lie to me?

— Why would one girl lie to you, so you don't talk to another? I don't know, deduce it yourself—said Sophie, raising an eyebrow and with a lot of sarcasm.

Tedros gasped like a fish again and then blushed to a plus because he knew that it was very likely that she was right.

Sophie turned around and left him with the word in her mouth, returning to her friends.

Tedros I hope to see the boys greeting her with a High five, as they always did every time she made a great scene, but the two boys were only in front of Agatha with a protective attitude.

They gave him a look of such hatred that, if he could have died for them, he would be 1000 times dead and missing paying the debt.

That only served to sink the boy further.

— Can you help me with this? — Tedros asked Rhian.

— Does that depend?

— Of what?

— Do you know what you did wrong?

— … Did you scare Lady Agatha? — Tedros replied in doubt.

The 3 princes turned their gaze toward Sophie's group.

Agatha refused to let go of Aric, while Japeth tried to calm her down and Sophie tried to tickle her, but the black-haired woman wouldn't budge.

— Partly, but I think the biggest problem is the "how" you scared her.

— No! — they heard Agatha complain—that psychopath was making me voodoo with a life-size doll.

— Okay, she wasn't amused, but I didn't think she was looking—he tried to defend himself.

— Would you instead notarize the difference? — I hear asking after him.

— Seen like that, I don't think so—he admitted.

— Is there another "right" way to look at it? — I hear Rhyan's voice ask – a "good person" is supposed to be empathetic by definition.

— Well, I understood Rhian, you don't have to scold me.

— Ted, brother, here - Tedros saw that Rhian was on the other side.

He turned quickly to see who he had been talking to and lost the color when he saw the Director of evil standing behind him, and a few steps away was his twin of good.

— I think that at the time—continued Rafal—is when you go, you apologize to the princess for scaring her and to the villains for taking away their work, forcing them to do yours.

— Academically, I don't know which is worse—complained the director of good.

— The same as morally, in my opinion—I answer the twin of evil.

Tedros nodded and walked towards Sophie's group.