A/N: A story I have had planned for a while. I hope you all enjoy and reviews would be appreciated. I do NOT own The Worst Witch or the characters.

Be Careful What You Wish For

Chapter One

Ethel Hallow stormed nosily up the stairs as her sister Esmerelda followed behind her trying to calm her down.

"Oh just go away Esmerelda" Ethel yelled down the stairs to her sister as she kept storming up them.

"Ethel will you listen" Esmerelda replied following her and making a lot less noise than her sister was.

Ethel arrived on the landing and walked towards her bedroom door without replying to her sister, the young blonde walked into her bedroom folding her arms to stop herself striking out.

"Ethie, will you calm down! This is not even my fault!" Esmerelda shouted at her younger sister as she followed her into her bedroom.

"Of course it is" Ethel shouted as she turned around to face her sister "Why do you have to be so bloody perfect at everything?" Ethel asked her eyes blazing with anger.

"Mum and dad signed me up for that stupid competition, I didn't even want to go to the flaming thing!" Esmerelda shouted back infuriated with Ethel right now for blaming her when it was not her fault.

"Even so you had to do everything perfectly didn't you? "Flying is my thing, it is the only thing I have never messed up with and you had to take that from me as well" Ethel yelled at Esmie.

Esmerelda had being entered into a flying competition by her parents and had won a award for being the best flyer there and this was the exact reason Ethel was so angry.

"Oh what did you want me to do? Crash into a wall? I just flew like I normally flew it is not my fault the rest of the contestants were crap at it!" Esmerelda shouted back angrily at Ethel. The journey back home had being half an hour of sitting in silence and the second they had got home Ethel had started.

"YES YES YES, I WANTED YOU TO CRASH, I WANTED YOU TO SHOW YOU WERE NOT VERY GOOD AT SOMETHING, THE PROBLEM WITH YOU ESMERELDA IS YOU ARE BORING...YOU TAKE EVERYTHING TO SERIOUSLY, I MEAN WHY DON'T YOU TRY ACTING UP FOR ONCE INSTEAD OF BEING ANGEL CHILD" Ethel boomed in response really yelling at her sister loudly now.

"BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN WHAT ACTING UP DOES, THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I HAVE HAD TO HELP YOU OUT OF A SITUATION WHEN YOU HAVE NEARLY GOT EXPELLED, I WOULD RATHER BE BORING THAN NEARLY EXPELLED EVERYDAY" Esmerelda yelled back in the back of her mind feeling sad, she and Ethel had never had a fight this bad before. This was new for both of them but as the years went by Ethel was becoming more and more depressed and more and more sensitive.

"OH YES IT MUST BE SO HARD BEING THE ELDEST MUSN'T IT? IT MUST BE SO HARD GETTING EVERYTHING FOR BEING BORN FIRST!" Ethel shouted fed up of her sister getting all the attention and everything good just because she happened to be born a few years before Ethel was. Not only was the girl fussed over constantly by everyone but she had being given all the family heirlooms for being born first thanks to the witches code.

"FOR THE LAST TIME IT IS NOT MY FAULT! I DID NOT MAKE THE WITCHES CODE SO DON'T BLAME ME FOR IT!" Esmerelda yelled back really angry and hurt right now. Ethel was being unreasonable.

"YOU ONLY CARE ABOUT YOURSELF!" Ethel yelled back meanly.

"I HAVE ONLY EVER TRIED TO SHOW I LOVE YOU BUT YOU ARE SPOILED AND WON'T ACCEPT IT" Esmerelda shouted back at Ethel both girls getting their feelings out and insulting each other.

"OH YOU ARE NICE TO EVERYONE, OF COURSE YOU WILL SHOW ME LOVE OR PEOPLE MIGHT THINK YOU ARE NOT PERFECT" Ethel shouted back really angrily. In Ethel's head her treatment of Ethel was all a act to fool people into thinking she was perfect.

"YOU KNOW WHAT BEING THE ELDEST IS NOT FUN AT ALL BECAUSE I GET YELLED AT ALL THE TIME, YOU ARE SO FLAMING SELFISH AND NEVER SHOW THAT YOU ARE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT I HAVE DONE FOR YOU!" Esmerelda yelled back not caring anymore how it came out, if Ethel wanted to fight they could. Ethel never appreciated anything after all.

Ethel took a deep breath then struggling to maintain her composure and struggling not to attack her sister, Esmerelda stood glaring at her annoyed.

"Do you know what I wish?" Ethel said still loudly but her voice had lowered in volume quite a bit. Esmerelda did not even bother to comment at her sisters question in that moment not caring what Ethel wished.

"I WISH YOU HAD NEVER BEEN BORN, YOU RUIN EVERYTHING I HATE YOU" Ethel yelled at her sister not thinking about what she was saying and not caring if it hurt her sister, Esmerelda hurt her all the time it was time for her to get a taste of her own medicine.

"RIGHT BACK AT YOU" Esmerelda replied glaring at her sister before opening the younger blonde's bedroom door and walking out of the room slamming the door loudly behind her.

Ethel threw a book at her door as her sister slammed it her anger was so high right now even her cat, Nightstar, went and hid in the corner away from her before Ethel started trashing her whole bedroom, throwing books around, pushing things of her desk and making sure not to leave any of her room untouched.

After she had finished trashing her bedroom she jumped onto her bed and started to cry so upset and frustrated.

She really did hate her sister at times, she couldn't help it. If she had being the oldest she would have got attention but because the girl was so perfect even at the time Ethel was born the middle child was neglected. That was the way Ethel saw it.

Ethel lay down on her bed now crying more at the fact something else had been taken away from her again and eventually after a good hour of the girl just solid crying she fell asleep.

Ethel was never one who was entirely good at sleeping in the first place but tonight after only a hour the girl was awake, she yawned and stood up swearing to herself as she stood on something on her floor from when she had trashed it, after the pain in her foot had subsided she then walked to the bathroom and emerged a few minutes later.

As she was on her way back to her bedroom she had to past Esmerelda's bedroom, now that she was calm she paused outside wondering if she should go in and apologise and knew she really should. She did not want to go to sleep on a fight and she had gone way to far this time.

Ethel walked in quietly but saw her sister was in bed sound asleep, somehow waking her after their fight seemed to Ethel like it would make things worse so she sighed and walked out the room and back into her bedroom.

Ethel went back to bed but stayed awake for a good few hours finding that she felt unable to sleep anymore, she was worried about her argument with Esmerelda, now that she had time to think about it she regretted the whole thing and was worried the girl would not forgive her. Despite what she had said it was not true she did love Esmerelda and had not meant to get so angry at her. These thoughts kept Ethel awake.

Ethel finally fell asleep again in the early hours of the morning and the girl had no idea at the time that the wish she had made earlier was about to be granted...