Layla sighed as she woke up. She looked at her clock. 12:03 P.M. She groaned. She hadn't been able to sleep for many nights now. The death of her boyfriend, Nabu, was still heavily hung in her heart. All she wanted was someone to care for her. She laid her head back on her pillow, and slowly Layla's eyes closed as she drifted off to sleep.

"Hello?" Layla called into the darkness. She knew it was a dream, she was walking on clouds. She looked around. It was beginning to light up, but soon Layla was begging for the darkness to return. Everywhere, she saw Nabu's face. "You let me die." "It's your fault." "If you had been faster, Ogron wouldn't have stolen your gift." The Nabus accused her of being guilty for his death, and Layla screamed. She clawed her hands over her ears, trying to make the sound go away. Suddenly they disappeared, and a man with glowing angel wings sat on a rock. Layla carefully walked towards the man, trying to make out a face. He had long, flowing hair, and soft, golden brown eyes. Layla gasped. "Professor?!"

Layla woke with a jolt. Sunlight was streaming through her window. Her clock read 7:07. She slowly eased up out of bed and headed for the shower. As she got undressed and stepped in, she thought about her dream. "Why him? I mean, why not any of the other professor's? I've always thought that he was kind of cute, but I didn't think that I loved him." Layla sighed and stepped out of the shower, her hair dripping. Someone pounded on the bathroom door with their fist. "Come on, Layla, hurry up! I need to do my make-up, and Bloom's in my room using my mirror to get ready for her lunch date with Sky!" Layla heard Stella's voice on the other side of the door. "I'm almost done, Stella, just let me dry my hair and get dressed!" She yelled to her friend, who huffed in annoyance. Layla chuckled. With a snap of her fingers, her hair dried and got put into a low ponytail. She pulled on her clothes, hung up her towel on the rack, and stepped out of the bathroom.

"Okay Stella, bathroom's a-" Layla tried to talk to her, but Stella pushed through her and went into the bathroom to do her make-up. Layla sighed and walked into the room in the middle of their dorm, and saw the rest of the girls sitting there. "Hey, Layla! We're gonna head down for breakfast right as Stella gets finished." Bloom said as she saw her friend walk in. Layla smiled. "Alright, but that might not be for a while! Stella seemed pretty serious about her make-up today. I mean, more serious than usual!" Layla joked. She then took in her friend's concerned expressions. "What's wrong? Wait... Where's Tecna?" She then realized that Tecna was missing. "Well, she got sick last night, at around midnight. We took her to Ofelia to make sure nothing was wrong. She told us to come back after breakfast. We'll miss our first class, but she already told him that we're needed." Flora explained gently. "But isn't Palladium's class first? I'm not doing too well in that class, and if I get one grade lower, I'll fail!" Layla countered. "I know. So I asked him to give you a break. I know that there is a test today, and he said to do it tomorrow. He'll bring you in for detention, but it won't be counted as you getting in trouble. Don't worry, we have this all figured out. It's okay, sweetie. Don't worry about a thing." Flora reassured her stressed friend. Layla smiled. "Thanks, Flora." Suddenly there was a shriek from the bathroom. "Stella? What's wrong?" Bloom called to her. "Someone used ALL of my favorite eye shadow! You know, the light purple? It's ALL GONE!" Stella yelled, outraged. "Well, just use ano-" Bloom as cut off as she looked down to see Kiko pulling at her pant leg. On his eyelids was a mess of Stella's eye shadow. Bloom laughed. "Yo, Kiko, I don't think that's the best look for ya. And you might wanna bounce before Stella sees that..." Musa told the little rabbit, who was now pretending to be a diva, flipping a fake boa over his shoulder, putting on imaginary sunglasses, and wearing non-existent high heels. Stella barged out of the bathroom, glared at Kiko, then burst out laughing. "Oh, Kiko! That's okay. I guess I have to go shopping. Oh well!" Stella giggled. "Come on, let's go to breakfast!" Stella said. And with that, the girls got up and headed down to the dining hall to get breakfast, or as Musa called them, "Ze Nom-noms!"