Chapter 1- A new school year
Mirta slowly walked through the woods in front of Alfea. It was a fairly warm day in September, the new school year was beginning that day, and Mirta was a bit excited like she always was. Over the summer she had finally learned how to transform into her fairy form, and soon she hoped she could get her charmix powers. She felt way behind the other girls in her training since she did start off as a witch at could tower, even though she didn't ever feel like one. Alfea was home to her, as it was to many. She didn't have very interesting summers because she didn't have any close friends. Sure she had the winx girls as friends, and Lucy was her best friend, but they didn't talk much out of school. She hadn't talked to Bloom that much since after she was saved from being a pumpkin. Sometimes she wished she could still be a pumpkin. In the summer she usually just read romance novels from the library, or she worked on her school work that was due the first day of school. Her mom always bugged her to get out of the house and do something, but in fact Mirta was pretty content staying in the house and reading. She didn't like when her mom tried to get into her social life. Sure, Mirta would like to have a best friend to hang out with every other day and talk to about anything, but she had learned over the past couple of years that you can't trust anyone.
As the wind blew one strand of hair in her face, Mirta was getting frustrated with her hair. There was always one piece that just didn't seem to want to stay in place, and it made her even more unattractive. The one thing that Mirta hated about being close with the winx girls, was that they always seemed to talk about their boyfriends. "Oh he was so cute last night when he kissed me!" "The way he hugged me was adorable!" "I felt so happy when he held me around the waist!" It made her feel left out, since she had never had a boyfriend before in her life. She had liked boys, but boys just didn't like her, and she couldn't blame them. She wasn't exactly pretty, she was too shy, she didn't like frilly things or bright colors, she was an animal activist and into saving the environment and she was the palest girl at Alfea, from what she could see. But she figured that a guy would interrupt her studies, and she couldn't fall behind now, when she was so close to becoming a fairy. She finally reached the outside of the woods where she saw the great big pink building that she would be spending the next 9 months at. She sighed and gathered her thoughts into making it up the stairs without tripping and causing a scene.