"Flora! Time to come out! You've been in there the whole morning!" Digit was hovering outside the changing room door.

They shared a huge bathroom with all of the girls but the showers and changing rooms where behind a different door in the bathroom. Flora was behind the changing room door.

Everyone was gathered in the bathroom and they each had their own mirror they were sitting behind, they were either doing their hair, or their makeup.

Digit was about to give up as she looked desperately at the normally chatting pixie Chatta. Who'm was strangely quiet for once.

Before she could say something about it however, the changing room door opened.

Digit looked at it expectantly as she noticed a brightly humming brown haired fairy had zoomed out of it, Chatta following her quickly.

Flora didn't really notice all the stares she got from both the pixies and the fairies. She happily continued humming her happy tune as she sat down behind her mirror and quickly brushed her hair.

"What is with her lately." Lockette asked her red haired bonded fairy as she averted her eyes towards Bloom.
Bloom simply shrugged.

Showing both her cheeks to her mirror, to see if her hair was all right, Flora took a flower out of the vase by her mirror and got up again. She continued her humming. Everyone stared at her openly.

Flora twirled once in the air as she reached the door and pulled it open.

She quickly went outside it as she almost hit her mother in the chest.

The Queen was also startled by her sudden appearance as she went to check on her daughters progress for the day.

"Oh, Morning mother!" Flora happily chanted, as she put the flower she was holding into her mother's hair by her ear. She planted a quick kiss on her cheek before she zoomed off into the hallway, loudly singing the rest of her song. She again twirled in the air before she turned a corner, her song echoing.

The other girls and pixies slowly hovered near the door, staring at where Flora had just disappeared.

"Oh, she's got it bad." Tune had put her hands into her sides, shaking her head.

"What? What does she got?" Queen F. asked her daughters. Looking at them questioningly.

"Oh, Isn't it obvious your highness?" Amore clasped her hands together near her head and rested her cheek against them, not looking at the queen.

"Flora is in Love!" She sighed.

The Winx looked at each other in panic. Thinking they REALLY needed to talk to their pixies, as quickly as possible.

The Queen took out the flower next to her ear and held it in front of her.

"Flora... in love?"

She twirled the flower once.


A little bit further away, in one of the big towers, a pink haired fairy was walking back and forth between big bookcases filled with book.

She was obviously in a library. It was a round circular room. But instead of the books being stacked horizontally. They where stacked vertically, which made the room really high up, and the cases pretty large. This made sure the room was easily accessible to all those who'm had wings. Meaning everyone in the castle.

Roxy sighed audibly as she turned to a pixie that was sitting on one of the shelves, looking at her with mild interest.

"Okay." She started, but she was still looking down and pacing around, her hands on her back. Chatta deducted she wasn't talking to her, but to no one in particular.

"So far, so good. I don't think the Queen knows anything yet." She suddenly stopped in her tracks. "But it will not be easy keeping something like this a secret for very long." Roxy pouted her lips together and lowered her eyebrows in a concerned look. She was quiet for a little bit as she suddenly heard the turning of pages and a giggle.

She grabbed the side of a bookcase and popped her head from behind it to see where it came from.

In the middle of the room, were couches and desks with chairs, to do research of to just relax and hang out, with a good book. Roxy often sat there, doing one of the two.

She saw one of the couches was occupied, by a fairy sitting crossed legged on the couch, a book on her lap.

She was flipping pages slowly, but too fast to be able to read anything decent. It almost looked like she was skimming for something. Roxy decided to go a bit closer, in case she could help. She was followed by Chatta.

She noticed the fairy mumbling something every time she turned a page.

"He loves me." She sighed, as she turned a page.

"He loves me not." She pulled a face, as she turned a page.

"He loves me!" She happily sang, as she turned another page.

"He loves me not." She sighed sadly, turning another page.

It went on like that for a while. Roxy could only stare.

Flora on the other hand, seemed rather occupied in her task.

She had read in a novel that girls pulled out flower pedals to deduct if their chosen male loved them or not. She wanted to know as well, so she thought to try it too.

But as she loved flowers way too much to simply start torturing them. She decided to try it with a book. Though it seemed the book she had picked was a little bit too fat. Making the game longer than she anticipated and she was quickly getting to eager to know the answer.

She noticed she was slowly getting to the end of the book. Only 3 more pages...

"He loves me." She quickly said.

"He loves me not." She pouted.

"HE LOVES ME!" She giggled and she fell back into her couch, closing the book. "I knew it!"

Roxy had followed the whole thing and had quickly noticed what she was doing.

She needed to put a stop to this nonsense.

"Flora, listen to me." She started, as she got closer.

Flora sat up straight, looking at her, but she was still smiling.

"The human world." She sighed. "It's a mess."

"Life in the forest is so much better than what they have got to offer out there!" She pointed to no particular side, but she stretched her hand none the less to emphasise on her sentence.

Flora raised an eyebrow but remained quiet. Obviously not convinced and hardly even listening.

Roxy needed something else to convince her.

She knew these Winx fairies, like they called themselves, loved music. But she couldn't sing to save her life. Then she remembered this one liked poetry. She was always open to that, and she would listen to it.

Roxy smiled at her.

"The tree leaves are always greener, in somebody else's wood"
Roxy went to sit in the armchair of the couch Flora was sitting on. She noticed a little gleam in her eyes, and felt happy she was finally listening.

"You dream about going out there, but I really don't think you should."
She put up a finger and wiggled it in front of her face. Flora chuckled.

"Just look at the world around you, right here on the forest floor."
Roxy stood up and twirled once, her arms spread.
"Such wonderful things around you, what more are you looking for? "
She took away the book Flora was skimming and winked at her.

Time to get more dramatic.

"The animals here are happy, when helping or play around."
She emphasised when a small bird flew through the window and landed on her finger.
"Out there they are never happy, they can't even make a sound!"
She put a finger to her lips and looked at Flora. She was content to see her gasp.

Roxy started Stepping behind the bookshelves, looking for inspiration.
But none would really come. She needed to do something fast, or she would lose her attention.

Chatta might be able to help.
But as she was about to ask her she noticed she was gone.

"Oh no." She said to herself out loud. As she left the cases she had hid behind to confirm her suspicion.

Her eyes landed on an empty couch, followed up by the open window through which the bird had come.

She sighed audibly. "You'd ought to take her wings and pin them down to a wall to get her attention." She cursed to herself, crossing her arms.

She suddenly heard something whistle.

Looking up, she saw the bird from earlier fly towards her. She held out her finger to make it land.

"Finally." It chirped. "You're listening." It seemed exhausted.

Roxy chuckled. "I'm sorry, love. How can I help you." Roxy was always glad when she could use her ability to talk to animals and hear them to good use.

"Well." It started a little shy.

"I have a message from the queen. She needs to see you right away." It quickly said, as it flew away.

Roxy held her hands to her now panicked face.

"She knows..." She breathed.


Sorry about the holdup guys.
I've been working on another story now too, thought I didn't mean for this to happen...

I give you a short update to show you I am still alive!

I'm actually really working on it, really! I've written a lot this past month. But it's a bit further into the story, so I can't say much.

I'll tell you this though. Any Musa and Riven fans will be overjoyed! I've written a really big chapter about the two that was actually really fun to write! I think I have another favourite couple.
Next up to write will be Stella and Brandon I think? Or maybe Roy and Aisha?
Hmm... choices, choices, choices.

Anyhow. I'll be updating in small chapters from now on, until we reach that big part. Because I need to write that before I can continue... You'll understand when we get there.
I'm also almost at my sauna part I wrote like ages ago, so when I'm there, you'll get a big one again. (Though I might reread that first!)

Anyhow, don't know when the next one will be. But for now.
Happy Holidays!