I doze off, not thinking about the horrible things, but about my family, about the palace and those are beautiful thoughts.

Chapter IV: Restoration (2)

I hear some kind of noise; I don't know what it is; but it woke me up. The person that disturbed me will not be treated well. I stand up from my bed, I stretch myself to wake up and I leave the room, very carefully. When I am in the hallway, I am extra careful and I look around, trying to scan the environment, something I learned from Tecna. When I turn around the corner, I see

"Stella!" What is she doing here? She can't be here; everyone has to leave me alone. Why does nobody understand that? I am hurt, I have to sulk, wallow, whatever. I start to run.

"Bloom! Come on, just hear me out!" She says, more like she's begging me

"Fine" I say and I turn around to face her.

"Bloom I am so happy to see you! Your residence here didn't improve your sense of fashion, I suppose?" she asks, hugging me.

"God Stella! It's like…" I look at her questioning

"Honey, it is 12 am." She says

"Damned" I curse "How could this happen? I was planning on …" I silence myself.

"What were you going to do Bloom?" she asks, very curiously

"You would love to know, wouldn't you?" I ask, teasingly.

"Bloooom" she whines "Come on; you always tell me everything!"

"Everything?" I repeat, looking at her sceptically

"Oh come on! Almost everything then!" she says, looking at me and pleading me to tell her everything.

"Are you here alone?" I ask, but deep down I already know the answer.

"No" she says, insecure. Stella being insecure; that's not normal.

"You have never lied to me like that before." I say, harshly.

"Who did you bring?" I ask "Did you come with him?" I ask, almost spitting out the last word.

"We had to…" she starts but I interrupt her "Stop" I say.

"Did you bring the girls?" I ask. She only nods. "Layla too?" I ask

"No, she wanted to catch up on some homework." She says, shaking her head.

"Oh" I say, laughing bitterly "Is it real this time? That's a first then."

"Come on Bloom, we have to…"

"Alright! Do you want to know what I want to do?"

"I want to restore Sparx." I say and I heave a deep sigh.

"WHAT?" she yells "ALL ON YOUR OWN? ARE YOU CRAZY? IT'S NOT BECAUSE THAT POOPHEAD DUMPS YOU THAT YOU …"

"Stella, calm down" I say. "Did you honestly think I would even think of doing this alone? Besides; I only want to defrost the castle and maybe a little bit of the area surrounding it."

"Oh, okay then." She says

"And I need you guys; I need the Winx." I say

"Okay" she nods, "we should go outside then."

"Oh and about the S-word… He is very sorry; they both don't know what has gotten into them. They didn't mean to hurt you Bloom." She looks at me, trying to make explain to me why 2 plus 2 is 4.

"But they did." I only say and I go to my room.

"I'll be there in 5" I say. I enter my room, look into the closet and pull out tight dark blue jeans, a warm, red sweater and high brown boots. Before I go outside, I pull my hair into a loose bun and I put a spell on my boots so they wouldn't get dirty or wet so easily. I am prepared now. I put a little gloss on my lips, and I realize that I not only do this to protect myself against the cold but especially because I am seeing Sky again. I don't know what to think of this.

Apparently, a certain annoying blond fairy, thinks I am dawdling too long so she knocks on my door, yelling "Hey pretty doll, are you almost ready? This isn't a school trip!"

When I leave the room, Stella looks at me like she has just seen her parents getting back together.

"What?" I ask annoyed because she's staring at me.

"Bloom, you look beautiful." She says

"Did you just say that?" I ask

"No, off course not" she says, re-establishing herself. We wink at each other and leave the castle. I hear 3 voices screaming "Bloom!" and a few seconds later I lie in the snow because of the enthusiasm of my friends. I laugh and look at them. We stand up and all fix ourselves.

"Bloom you look amazing" Flora says

"We really missed you, you know that right?" Musa asks

"Why did you leave?" Tecna asks in a slightly accusing tone.

"Come on guys, give me a break, I…" then I see him. He's in his specialist's uniform. Isn't he cold? I shouldn't be worrying about that anymore. He looks at me; hell he is staring at me!

"Bloom" he softly says "You look amazing" those words almost make me fall into his arms again. There's that word again. Almost.

"I guess that wasn't enough for you." I say and I walk past him. This is going to be hard; how much longer can I bear this.

"We have to do this quickly girls. Who wants to help me to restore the palace?" I ask. They all agree to help me, okay that's good.

"We want to help." Sky suddenly says

"With magic." I say; if I could destroy him with my look, there only would be a miserable pile of dust left of him.

"Musa, why don't you scan the environment with your sound waves to check if everything's alright here. Flora, after we heated and defrosted this place; can you plant a whole bunch of plants to surround the castle? I want this castle to live again. Stella, you and me are going to combine our magic to defrost everything. And Tecna" I look at her "You know what to do." She nods.

"Okay then. Let's get to work!" I yell and everyone transforms, except Flora, she will need to save her energy. Everything goes incredibly well; and in a few hours, the whole castle and everything within a radius of 0,5 mile is defrosted.

"Flora" I yell, "it's your turn now!" She transforms and firstly she puts a fence of strong, rough plants around the defrosted area. The fence looks like it will protect the castle; but it doesn't entrap the castle. As she goes more to the castle, the plants become more and more delicate and beautiful. When she finishes, she's exhausted. Everyone is, except me. I thank everyone, including the specialists, yeah (not what I really want, but hey)

"This looks good" I say, out loud

"Yeah, it's beautiful, thanks to you." He says. I recognize his voice immediately.

"Sky" I say, but I don't turn around to face him. I have to stop myself from crying, or hitting him off course. It's practically the same, right?

He puts his hand on my shoulder and he sighs. I shiver because of his touch.

I finally turn around, but I look at my boots instead of looking at him. He moves his hand to tilt my chin, but I quickly say: "I should check if everything's alright around the castle." And I transform and fly away.

I keep flying until I reach my room. There I change to my regular outfit, I stand against the door and I fall down, crying. These confrontations are so… difficult is way too weak to express all of this. I look in the mirror, wipe away my tears and I go outside again.

"So… What are you going to do? You aren't planning on staying here, aren't you?"

"We certainly will if you don't come with us." Musa says.

"Oh come on Musa" Riven says, very annoyed. She gives him a destroying look and they just smile at each other. They want each other.

"Musa's right." Stella says "So, what's it gonna be?" she asks.

"Fine" I say and everyone claps "However" I say "I won't leave today, I will leave tomorrow. You go ahead, and I will come the next day to Alfea"

"Bloom, come on!" Musa says

"Bloom, why don't you come with us now?" Flora asks sweetly.

"Bloom, you know that there's no logical reason to stay here." Tecna says

"There is. I still have to explore the castle. I promise I will come tomorrow night." I say

"You bet you will!" Stella says "Or I will personally come here and drag you to Alfea."

"Thanks Stella" I smile.

"Besides, that cold weather is totally ruining our skin." She says, laughing.

I roll my eyes "Off course, I should've thought of that."

We decide to eat something first and then they will leave. We play games, but after a while I feel a little sick and I leave the group.

"Bloom" I suddenly hear a voice say, startling me.

"God you scared me!" I say. "Sky" I say, shocked and then I run away very fast.

A/N Okay guys, I am really into this story and I am really trying to make it as original, interesting and beautiful as possible. Do you think I would let Bloom forgive Sky yet? Because I am not sure what to do. Help me please ) Thanks to the persons that have posted reviews on the last chapter, there weren't a lot, but THANK YOU. It helps! Keep reviewing (it gives me a special kind of inspiration)