Bloom POV
I see the world in black and white. You would normally associate it with color blindness but I wouldn't agree. I feel like there is something special about my condition, and I have yet to find out. And besides, this isn't really bothering me so who cares?
"Bloom?" Stella called, breaking my line of concentration. "Breakfast is ready."
"It is?" I asked, making sure. "Then I'll be down in a few moments, I'll just get my phone."
"Why?" Stella joked. "To text your "friend" Sky huh?"
"He is just a friend Stella!" I explained, Stella laughed even harder. "Shut it Stell! The rest will hear you, besides, I'll go down now."
"Stella!" Flora called. "Come on! The pancakes are getting cold!"
"PANCAKES?" I exclaimed, running down the stairs as fast as I can. "HURRAY! WHO COOKED IT?!"
"Flora cooked it," Musa answered, I hugged Flora tightly. "Looks like someone loves pancakes. Do we have any syrup or something?"
"We do," Aisha replied, pointing to the syrups. "Bloom, what syrup do you want?"
"Chocolate?" I asked, she then passed the chocolate syrup and I poured syrup on my pancake. "Now this tastes good!"
"So you're saying that my pancakes usually aren't?" Flora questioned, making me laugh. "What are you laughing for?"
"Well," I explained. "It taste good. I never said anything about it. Hey Tecna, what does your pancake consist of?"
"80% pancake, 15% maple syrup, and 5% butter." Tecna replied, Stella just squealed. "Why? It tastes good."
"Who puts maple syrup with butter?!" She asked, freaking out.
"I do," Tecna said, I got my PDA and started chatting to the new friend a made yesterday. I feel happy just by remembering it.
"Guys let's go! You're taking so long!" Stella complained, we, the Winx, just laughed. "What's so funny that you guys needed to laugh?"
"Dumb statements by Stella raised to 2," Tecna said, making Stella huff. "Why? You're the one who will usually get told by that exact line. Now listen here, you aren't even done dressing! Come on!"
"Wait, I am not?!" She yelled, Musa immediately winced. "Give me a few minutes!"
"Hours, on your behalf," Musa hissed. "Faster come on!"
"Can't wait to see them," I said, half dreaming.
"Looks like you're already fell in love, we didn't even meet them yet!" Stella teased from her room.
"Hurry up princess!" Aisha said, banging on the door. "We don't our reputation to be ruined because you are spending the first hours of our supposed meeting dressing up because you were being so self-centered for a bit and forgot that you also needed to change!"
"I'm finished! I'm finished! Jeez!" Stella whined, opening the door to reveal her really formal dress. "How does it look?"
Not wanting to delay our meeting any longer, Tecna dragged Stella's hand and rushed to our meeting place. I saw 6 rather attractive males, of course, because of my condition, I couldn't define them by color, only by their features. I was worried though, because here, this might be the time that my secret might slip. I have kept it secret for a long time so it won't be a bother.
We greeted them as new friends would, somewhat formally.
"Hi guys!" Stella greeted, the 6 boys stood up.
"Hi girls," They said, maybe flirting. "Nice to meet you,"
"Nice to meet you too," Flora responded, she then went to the boy who had hair that past his shoulders. "Hi Helia."
"Flora?" Stella said, bewildered slightly. "You know Helia?"
"Of course," She laughed. "He is my high school friend."
"Oh, anyways," Stella continued, making us and them sit still. "Let me introduce these girls to you guys shall I?"
"Of course princess," The boy beside her flirted, Stella immediately blushed. "Oops, maybe that was wrong."
"I'm Brandon by the way," He introduced, bowing his head. "The blond is Sky, the blue guy with Flora is Helia, the brownish hair is Nabu, the red hair is Riven, and the orange-ish hair is Timmy."
"I am not "red hair!" Riven complained, he looked at Musa, who was laughing. "What are you laughing at huh?"
"Red hair….." Musa mumbled, resulting in Riven huffing. "I'm not making fun of you you know."
"Looks like Musa has made a move," teased Aisha, this caught Riven's direction. "What?"
"She wants to date me?!" He exclaimed, making them all gasp in shock. "Wait wha?"
"I never said such thing," Musa defended, they all sighed. One thought was the only one encircling all their brains: "They are a match!"
I was aware that one of them was looking at me intently, because he was also the one I looked at first earlier. Since I had a different condition, I cannot determine who is who. I can only determine Riven, who complained that he was not "red hair."
"Let's eat then!" Stella announced, they all cheered except me. I knew that Stella was arranging seats but I didn't know who I'll seat with. "Okay, here are the seating arrangements: Sky and Bloom, Riven and Musa, Aisha and Nabu, Helia and Flora, Timmy and Tecna, Brandon and me!"
They immediately sat down until I was the only was standing, I looked at Stella and she pointed at the guy who she said was Sky. But as soon as I sat with Sky, colors filled my sight. It was like I had no color blindness at all, but I refused to let anyone know that it was cured. So I stayed silent and acted like how I would normally act.
"Hey," He greeted, I was shy. "What's up?"
"Everything's good," I said, not wanting to do eye contact. "What about you?"
"Fine as well," He responded, I began to have butterflies in my stomach.
"Lovebirds!" Flora teased, poking me in the side. "When will the food arrive?"
"Right….now," Helia responded, kissing Flora's cheek, making her blush deeply.
"Eww!" Stella said quietly. "Look at that color!"
"I agree," Timmy said, they all laughed.
"Bloom?" Tecna asked. Oh no, did she notice? "Something wrong?"
"Nothing," I lied, putting a fake smile.
We ate and the food was delicious! They almost found out my secret but it was good that they didn't because I would have so much explaining to do. I didn't want to make them feel as if I hid something from them.
"Bloom? Bloom?!" Aisha called, shaking me causing me to jump back into reality. "You're alright! Thank God!"
"I told you she will," Stella smiled. "She was just daydreaming."
"About who?" Flora asked, getting into the conversation.
"About someone she sat with yesterday," Stella teased me even further. I threw the nearest pillow at Stella and was holding my laughter as it hit Stella right in the face. Making her tumble to the ground, luckily, she was not on her chair. "Pillow fight!"
"Wait!" Musa shouted, using her magic to clear the table. "Now let's begin!"
We had a pillow fight like we usually do when we have nothing to do or no enemies to defeat. I was immediately out of the game the second Musa declared that it will start because they all threw their pillows at me. I just huffed at them, hiding my laughter. Musa then turned her attention to Aisha, to which Aisha knocked Musa out.
"YOU'RE OUT!" I teased to Musa, she crossed her arms and acted like she was upset. "Aww, don't get upset over losing Musa. You know, that's bad. Now I'm going to tickle you until you're happy again."
Musa laughed as I tickled her at her sides. "Stop Blo...Bloom! It….t...tickles!"
The others burst laughing and stop playing immediately as the fall to the ground clutching their stomachs. Bloom stands up and sees that her phone has left her pocket. She slowly reached for it while Musa is now being tickled by the rest.
"Ring!"
A text message has just been received by Bloom. The others turn around from curiosity, looking at their red-haired friend.
"What happened?" Stella asked, peeking over my shoulder to see what just happened. "Who text you? Sky? Brandon? Brandon's mine!"
"Woah woah," I said, backing up, holding my heads in surrender which led to my phone dropping. "I never said anything yet."
"Bloom, can you come home for a while? We need to tell you something," Tecna reads out loud, they all look at me. "Who is this?"
"My mom," I replied, taking the phone from Tecna as I walked to the door. "I'll be right back, after a few days. I hope."
"It's so nice to be back!" I thought as I looked to the still not so busy streets of my 'hometown' Gardenia.
As I see the house I grew up in, I thought that I wanted to surprise them with my homecoming. So I headed for our backyard, but as I approached it, I heard moans from a male and a female.
"What are they doing in our backyard?" I thought, disgusted. I take a short peek and notice dad with another woman. They aren't naked but they are pleasuring each other. I was filled with anger at the sight. "If they are doing this, that means Vanessa isn't here. Mike you cheating bastard!"
"Sarah," Mike said, calling the girl that is so much younger than him. "Come here tomorrow, Vanessa won't be here the entire day. So both of us can sleep together, love you."
"Okay, love you too Mikey," She replied, flirting. I noticed that she was heading for the backdoor so I quickly made myself invisible. When she left, I waited a few more seconds till I jumped over the fence that makes up our backyard. Mike was shocked, and I quickly took note of that.
"What's wrong dad?" I asked, knowing exactly what was wrong beforehand. "Is something wrong?"
"Uh….nothing. My dear," He replied, putting on a very obvious fake smile. But I didn't want to push him. "Have you seen your mom recently?"
"I heard that she was going out tomorrow," I said, doing as much as I can to make him feel guilty. "Where is she going tomorrow?"
Mike gulped, knowing that he has been seen by Bloom and by the looks of it, she is not happy with it. "Did you see it?"
"See what?" I played along, knowing that Mike was now suspicious. Luckily he bought my response and assumed something else. "You called me home didn't you?"
"I did," He beamed, as if a spotlight was shining over him. I laughed sheepishly. "What?"
"Where's mom?" I asked again, this time, I was concerned. "You both called me besides, it said 'we'."
"Bloom honey?" A sweet voice called out. "Over here!"
"Mom!" I ran to her and jumped to her, nearly making her fall. "There you are!"
Mike just stood there, grinning slightly. I looked at him, his eyes were full of anger and hatred. His eyes displayed no other emotion than that as Vanessa kissed him on the cheek.
My mind was fighting over I should tell Vanessa what happened or hide it. Besides, the actual criminal doesn't even know that a certain someone has witnessed him.
"I'd rather not tell them," I blurted suddenly, covering my mouth right after. Mike eyed me suspiciously. "What?"
"You're lying," Mike suspected, his eyes widened, showing fear in his eyes. "Vanessa, wait."
"Okay..." Vanessa replied hesitantly as she saw Mike drag me away from the common room.
"You saw it!" He yelled to a volume only he and I can hear, holding me by the collar. "You liar!"
"Why did you do it then?" I asked, holding back tears of betrayal. "Why did you betray her?"
"Why didn't you admit to me that you saw us?!" Mike asked, knowing that he was busted. "Vanessa is getting boring as well."
The fire that was coursing through my veins almost erupted, I was beyond furious.
"If that is your problem, why won't you end it now?!" I asked, kicking him in the balls. "See how that hurts? That is how I feel about you betraying her."
Mike fell down on the ground holding back screams of pain. Instead, he let out a laugh, a creepy laugh. "She'll forgive me anyways, it won't be such a big deal. Now excuse me, I have to go meet—"
"Sarah," I cut him off. "I know, don't even talk about it to her. I will tell you one thing though,"
"I didn't witness anything nor did I see anything," I admitted, he stood up, surprised. His face saying "How?"
"Well," I said, recalling the memory. "You were muttering something earlier, so I have no idea what I'm talking about. Besides, my questions were something anyone can ask in whatever situation. The betrayal was another thing I heard."
"Mike, Bloom!" Vanessa shouted, she never sounded this angry before. "Get down here before I drag both of you here myself!"
We both went down the stairs and saw Vanessa looking furiously at a woman at our front door.
It was Sarah.