Hexed Heart: Magic Everywhere

Chapter 17: Thinking about you

January 17th, 2016

Sofía's POV

It was actually pretty amazing watching Hecate's competitive side. I always thought she would be a bit competitive, as she is always pushing us to become our better selves, but never in my wildest dreams I could have foreseen how competitive was she. I couldn't even guess why Cackle's hadn't won the competition in 28 years, at least with her putting herself and the Bee's through so much extra work just to practice.

Esme and I were mostly enjoying the process of training, except when our friends started complaining that it was taking too much of our time. That didn't even make sense, because we had spoken to Hecate to have at least some free time after class to go see Tess with the girls, but Jess couldn't stop saying that what we were doing wasn't enough and that she couldn't believe we would choose to stay after hours to study instead of hanging out. Not even Tessa agreed with her, but Em did, which meant just a little more because she was around us during lessons so she could see things Tessa didn't. Even so, Em was always more considerate and said she understood our reasons and that she knew it was only for the time being. I was once speaking with Esme in our room when I realized why Jess was acting like that.

"She hates her." I told Esme. "That's why she's so angry all the time. She hates Hecate and thinks all time spent with her feels like punishment."

"What? No way, So, you're hallucinating. She knows Miss Hardbroom isn't as bad as most think. You've told us so a billion times over, and I've always believed you. And even so, why would she be taking it on us?"

"Because she thinks we are trying to impress her to be in her good books so that she doesn't punish us as hard as the rest.

"Well... I see why it may seem like that."

"She said so herself. That she thinks I'm her favourite."

"Well, you are. She did let you keep Fito." she said, whilst caressing his head. "And let you stay here for the holidays, and gave you private lessons all year, and..."

"I get it, I get it, but that's not where I was going. I might be, but that's because I've worked hard for it. And it was never because I wanted to be treated differently, it was because I didn't want to be treated differently. Left out. I always liked getting along with the teachers, but I knew that if she accepted me, every other pupil here would too, because even if they are terribly afraid of Hecate, they still respect her a lot. And I've realized long ago that even if everyone else didn't accept me, having you and her was always enough.

"That's so sweet, thank you." she said, crying, whilst giving me a hug. She wiped away the tears and added. "The thing is, we still need to figure out how to solve this. Because I'm pretty confident we are going to pass the first round, and this isn't going to be over that quickly."

"I know. But I may have just thought about something..."

January 18th, 2016

"Please, Hecate. I wouldn't be asking if it wasn't important."

"Tell me again, why are you even asking?"

"Esme and I have been having some trouble with our friends and I think this would be the perfect way to solve it."

"Because..."

"Because they don't understand it, and this will help them to do so."

"How is it that having your friends watching your study session is going to help them understand?" Hecate asked. As I could certainly not tell her that they didn't understand why we would want to spend time with her, my response was a bit more... mysterious than I wanted it to be.