It had been a couple of days since Thorne's arrival. Flora got lucky and didn't have to worry about Thorne being in any of her classes, but Helia had been gone a mission the last two days so she hadn't gotten a chance yet to call him and let him know about her cousin. Flora reached for her phone sitting on her night stand. Helia was back by now and most likely resting in his room making this the perfect time to call and warn him. She knew Thorne and Thorne will do anything to get her hands on Helia and make him hers and Flora was not going to let that happen.
She waited as the phone rang, and rang until it finally landed on voice mail. Knowing that this was too important to leave on voice mail, she hung up and deiced to try and call again later.
"Not answering?" Her roommate Bloom asked.
"No and he always answers unless they are on a mission, but they just got back from a mission and they don't leave for another until the end of the week." Flora said slumping onto her bed.
"Let me try Sky." Bloom offered. She reached for her cell phone and waited for Sky to answer or the call to go to voice mail.
"Hello?" Sky answered.
"Hey Sky. I have a question for you." Bloom told him
"Okay shoot." He said.
"Is Helia with you guys?" Bloom asked.
"Helia? Yeah he is. Why?"
"Can you put him on? Flora wants to talk to him." Bloom said.
"Sure. Hold on." Bloom handed her cell phone over to Flora.
"Hello?" Helia asked.
"Helia? It's Flora. I tried calling your cell phone but you weren't answering. I was worried." She said.
"I'm sorry to have worried you. I left my phone in my room. Did you want to talk to me about something?" Helia asked.
"Do you think you could meet me at the lake? What I need to talk to you about is too important to say on the phone." She said.
"Alright. I'll leave right now. See you at the lake." The phone hung up. Flora hung up blooms and handed it back to her, before making her way to the lake.
The water in the lake was pristine and sparkling. The sun was low in the sky making everything seem even more beautiful than it already was. Lora walked closer to lake to see her favorite specialist waiting for her.
"Helia!" She shouted running into his arms.
"It's good to see you too my Flower. So what is it that you wanted to talk about? You sounded worried on the phone." He said his arms still around her waist.
"My cousin." She said bluntly.
"What about your cousin?" Helia asked.
"Remember when you came to Alfea to tell me that you couldn't make our date because of the mission? Well you didn't tell me, you told my cousin Thorne." Flora said. Helia was in shock by this.
"Flora, I had no idea. I thought it was you. She looks exactly like you. Wait? SO I kissed you cousin. I'm so sorry if I hurt you." He said kissing her forehead.
"It's okay you didn't know, but you have to be careful. Thorne has a way of persuading people to do things for her. Now that Thorne knows about you, nothing will stop her from trying to make you hers. I don't want to lose you Helia." Flora said.
"Flora, you will never lose me. I love you Flora and no one can ever take that from us. I am happy we could meet. Remember when I said I had something important for you. Well this is it." Helia reached into his back pocket and pulled out a bracelet. (Imagine a chain of large pink glass beads between every few beads is a different charm.) Flora looked at the bracelet, tears in her eyes.
"I love it and I love you Helia." Helia tied the bracelet onto her wrist before pulling her in to a sweet, passionate kiss.
"This is how I will be able to tell who the real Flora is." He said lifting her wrist to show her the bracelet that was now affixed to it.
"I wish you didn't have to leave on another mission." Flora said looking in the direction of Red fountain.
"Me too, but it has to be done. But I'll be back in soon. If all goes well then we will be back as soon as tomorrow evening." He said kissing her hand.
"Let's hope it goes well then." She said back to him.
"Yeah. Now I have to go. I'm sorry my flower." Flora understood and let him go. She waved good bye as she headed back to Alfea, but not before the sound of the something in the bushes gave her a start. She assumed it to be an animal and brushed it off. Nothing could ruin what had just happened.
