"Well, this is way more boring as hell than I expected it to be."

Melanie sighed, casually leaning on a table filled with drinks and finger foods as she grabbed quite a handful of them, stuffing some in her mouth, not caring about staining her violet dress at all. After preparations for the Alfea ball and something along the lines, it now officially, well, the Alfea Ball. Her dark blue eyes scanned the whole courtyard as to where the aforementioned event is currently taking place. It's not so much of a surprise to see almost all of the Alfea students now in dresses and is either dancing with or without the Specialists in training, who are in their usual uniforms, from Red Fountain, with her in the snack booth probably binge eating, talking/hanging out with their friends, etc.

It seems that she's the only one who's bored in this party. She expected someone like Tesla or Princess Lauren would be bored as well, but they were nowhere to be found. Blaire could be seen blushing intensively as Scarlet introduced her to random freshmen Specialists; it was no surprise to see Princess Stacey surrounded by 'royalties' as she said it, with some of the Princes asking for dance; and Fiona could be seen politely and shyly rejecting some of the boys' offers to dance.

Hey, it's not like Melanie hasn't had handful of boys asking her out either, she did. It's just that her responses are either 'Go away', 'I'm only here for the food and the music', or better yet, 'I'm going to shove my heels down your throat if you still won't leave me the hell alone'. And even if she did dance, she preferred to dance alone.

The musical fairy's daughter sighed as she continued looking around, trying to find something for her to be entertained at least until this party is over, when suddenly...

"Can you move out the way, pixie?"

A sudden, rather gruff voice rudely asked, cutting off Melanie's train of thought. Surprised and infuriated at the person's tone of voice at her, she quickly glared at the person, revealing a Specialist who was presumably a freshman. Melanie thought he looked rather familiar, like her one of her twin brothers' suite mates, perhaps? What was his name, again? Gold? Volt? Eh, it's probably Colt. "The hell's your problem, dipshit?"

Bolt was somewhat taken back at the fairy's choice of words. "I didn't know a fairy is capable of yelling profanity out of the pretty mouth of hers." He stated with a small smirk, and before Melanie could retort something, Bolt just sighed. "Look, not looking for trouble or anything, just move out of the way."

Melanie raised a brow, still sort of pissed, "And why the hell would I do that?"

Without a word, Bolt pointed at something behind her, "Because, oh I don't know, you're blocking the mini-croissants." He said, pointing at a plate of mini-croissants right behind Melanie. "You can't just have it all yourself, y'know." He said, referring to a handful of croissants in Melanie's hands that she had forgotten until now.

Feeling slightly embarrassed, Melanie moved out of the way for the frizzy-haired Specialist to grab the croissants. "Oh, sorry." She muttered quietly, but loud enough for the boy to hear. She hated apologizing. Talk about stubborn.

Bolt took a couple of croissants, before stuffing it into his mouth and turning to Melanie after hearing her so-called apology. "Huh?" He asked, his mouth full of croissants, "Oh, uh, whatever." He shrugged as he continued eating, or rather, stuffing the croissants and other delicacies that he had failed to reach earlier, into his mouth.

Taking it as another word for 'It's okay', Melanie just sighed as she looked at the eating boy for a moment, "Uh, I'm Melanie by the way."

The boy paused for a moment, chewing his food and swallowing, before turning to the fairy, "Oh, I already know. We've met, like, yesterday when you pushed the annoying blonde into the road." He shrugged, "Plus, your brothers and I are kind of suite mates." He paused, "The name's Bolt." He said his name.

"Oh." She said, looking at Bolt once more, seeing his bored expression, she asked, "You bored, huh?"

Bolt nodded. "Super bored." He turned to her, "You?"

She shrugged, "Same."


...

"No, I get to dance with the Princess of Solaria!" Yelled what Stacey could assume as Prince Chandler of Vela as he pushed the other princes just so he can have a dance with the Princess of Solaria.

"Not if I have anything to do about it!" Yelled another prince named Hector.

"You guys don't deserve to dance with her at all!" This time yelled a Duke named Victor.

Princess Stacey could only smile nervously as she attempted to stop the boys, "Oh, come on boys, you know you can take turns to dance with a princess like me, and I know all the princes want to dance with me." She said, half embarrassed, and half pleased/boastful as other Princesses and some of the princes who have their own dates nearby glared at her.

"You're not the only princess here, you're aware of that, right?" Asked a princess named Molly.

"And not every prince wants to dance with you?" Continued Molly's twin brother, Prince Wilbur.

Princess Stacey continued to ignore them as she tapped her chin to decide who to dance with next. All the boys are cute, but then again, all princes are cute and handsome and charming (Stacey's words not the author's) in her eyes. She was about to pick one of them, that is, until some boy passing by just so happens to catch her eye. He's so cute with his reading glasses thingy and little book! Stacey squealed in her mind.

"You!" Stacey exclaimed as she pointed at the direction where the princes are, the princes' expressions were about to light up and smirk upon thinking that they're going to dance with the Princess of Solaria, that is, until they realize that the princess of Solaria was pointing at someone behind them.

"Why, hello, there, princess." A prince who thought that he was the one being pointed at smirked, bowing at the princess. "I'm Prince Hans-"

"No, not you! The guy with a book!" Stacey exclaimed, shaking her head at Prince Hans as she pointed past him. "And besides, I've already watched Frozen to know where this is going if I choose you!"

Just as the princes were looking behind to see who the lucky guy was, the boy who Stacey pointed at didn't seem to notice anything until the princes looked back at him. Pausing and looking up, the boy blinked at the sudden attention geared towards him. "Hn?" He muttered at the princes slightly glaring at him for stealing their chances of dancing with the princess of Solaria. "What're you twats staring at me for?"

Stacey wasted no time as she pushed the princes past her and went up face to face with the boy. "Hi!" She nearly squealed at the confused boy, "I'm Princess Brianna Anastasia of Solaria, but you can call me Princess Stacey, or even just Stacey, whatever makes you happy-!" She said in one go, making her abruptly stop to breath for a moment. Great! Stacey thought as she caught her breath, Probably love at first sight with this total cutie and not five minutes and I've already embarrassed myself! Mom and dad must be so disappointed!

Damian stared at the princess catching her breath for a moment, before sighing as he took off his reading glasses and closed his pocket book, putting it in his pocket, "Err, well, hello there, your highness- uh, I mean Princess Stacey." He said, it was quite a surprise for a princess to notice someone like him at all, "My name is Damian."

She was glad that Damian didn't walk away from her and her pathetic manner or anything, straightening her posture, she looked up at the total hottie in front of her, smiling brightly. "So...Damian..." She said slowly, glancing at the dancing area so that Damian will get the sign.

Unfortunately for her, Damian didn't really get it at first. Raising a brow, before fully understanding what she meant, "Oh." He muttered, he knew that this girl wants to dance with him but refuses to ask since the gentlemen are always the ones asking first. Basically, she's trying not to be desperate. And it's a good thing that Damian here is one hell of a gentleman, if she targeted someone like Bolt or Ike, she would most likely be ignored. "Err, princess, I know we just met but can-" He said as he held a hand, but before he can finish his sentence, Stacey cut him off.

"Why yes!"


...

Max sighed as he set a slow-dance kind of song for the time being as fairies and Specialist couples fled to the dance floor to, well, dance, together, as a couple, obviously. His eyes scanned through the dance floor and basically the courtyard as a whole, he always didn't like being left out, but then again, he was the one who accepted this offer in the first place so he's not in any place to complain.

He can see his twin sister Melanie by the food booth as always, with a company who he can recognize as his suite mate, Bolt.; there's Headmaster Helia's second daughter, Fiona, sitting on a corner while shyly refusing every boy's attempt to dance with her.; he can see Princess Stacey dancing with Damian; and he can see Princess Blaire being shoved towards who he can recognize as Ike. Wait, what's with the Winx daughters and his suite mates meeting coincidentally all of a sudden?

Sha king his head, he looked around some more, he can see Tesla sitting on some bench with Blaine next to her. It seems that Blaine is trying to converse with her. Well, at least Tessie's having fun in the party. He thought. At least, I hope so?

He sees his brother Mason and Princess Lauren in the middle of the dance floor, probably doing tango (but then again, every fancy dance is called tango in Max's eyes), with Mason biting a rose like in those cliched romance movies. Max couldn't help but smile at his brother, he hated to admit it, but Mason was always the better one out of the two, he can sing, he can dance, he can play a dozen more instruments than his brother, he can fight, he can play sports, he has better grades, he's one hell of a ladies' man, and not to mention being his parents' favorite (despite Musa and Riven claiming that they don't play favorites).

While Max was contemplating about his family life, he didn't notice a certain magenta-haired fairy opening the door to the door and walking in rather casually. He only noticed as soon as she shut the door shut, "I'm staying here with you until the party ends." Tesla announces, grabbing a chair and sitting down.

Max stared at the girl for a moment, "Uh-"

"I'm here because I want to." Tesla answered briefly as she crossed her legs and brought out her phone, already knowing that Max is going to ask why. "The party is boring as hell and not only that but Blaire's brother keeps annoying me by attempting to pollute the atmosphere with mindless small talk."

"Ah..." Max nodded understandingly, despite still being confused. But he accepted her explanation anyway. Tesla was always known to be quite a loner, and she's a little too choosy when it comes to company. "Well, at least I have company now." He smiled at the girl, who nodded and gave a small thumbs up.

"You're the reason why I even attended the party, anyway." She said, "If you just had to keep your mouth shut when Blaire's older sister called, then I wouldn't be in this wretched party in the first place."

Max scoffed and jokingly rolls his eyes. "Pfft. You only came here 'cause you miss me, after all these years." He said, grinning at her. "Right, Soapy?"

He can feel Tesla tense up at what he called her for a moment, before her lips curled into a small smile, looking up at him, "Like hell I'd miss someone like you, Maddox."


...

"Ooh, I think Prince Vincent might be the one for you, sis- where do you think you're going?" Scarlet was about to gush about a certain Prince in a sea of princes she decided to gather for her younger sister to choose to dance with, only to turn around to see Blaire trying to sneak out.

Blaire abruptly stopped and turned back as casually as possible as if nothing had happened, knowing that she's already been caught, "What?" She said in an obviously fake oblivious voice, grinning nervously, "I'm not going anywhere, what makes you think that?" She spoke rather quickly, trying to sound innocent.

Scarlet narrowed her eyes at the redhead, before holding her sister's hand and returning to her gushy mood and continues to gush around the princes that her sister may or may not (probably may not) be interested in.

The third daughter of Bloom and Sky tried to escape, believe her. But Scarlet's grip is just too tight on her and every time she attempts to tug her hand off, her older sister just stops for a moment and glares at her, asking why she would do that, to which Blaire would respond with a head shake. Sometimes Blaire wonders where the hell Scarlet got her personality from, because her parents sure as hell don't act like this. In fact, she wonders why the rest of the Winx kids don't seem to act like their parents at all.

"Psst."

Blaire blinked as she believed she heard that someone was trying to grab her attention, a boy, to be specific. Turning to where she believed the person to be, she turned to see Scarlet's boyfriend and Stacey's older brother, Prince Sebastian of Solaria, winking at her...? Sure, it may not sound wrong to other people, but for heaven's sake he's her sister's boyfriend! "Not what you think, B." Sebastian whispered as he got closer to her, "Gonna help you get away from her."

"But...why?"

Sebastian shrugged, "Oh I dunno, maybe it's because it's already 8 o'clock and she hasn't said a word to me yet because she's too busy trying to be matchmaker with her uninterested younger sister instead of celebrating our 2nd anniversary?" He momentarily glared at the princes who Scarlet was gushing about, "Plus, I don't like those boys looking at my girl like that."

"Oh.." Blaire tried to understand, and when she did, she couldn't help but grin. Obviously Sebastian needed attention from Scarlet and was jealous at how she was talking to random princes.

Clearing his throat, Sebastian pointed at some random direction. "Hey, Scar, look! Isn't that Charlie over there-?"

Like planned, Scarlet paused and looked up, "Where?" She demanded, looking around. Blaire noticed that Scarlet's grip on her was weakening, and once it was weak enough to the point where she can easily pull her hand off, Blaire immediately tugged her hand from her sister's grip and ran as fast as she can from her.

"BLAIRE!" Scarlet nearly yelled, terrifying some of the nearby fairies and even Specialists. She wasted no time as she chased down her now-terrified younger sister like a predator would to a prey. "Get back here this instant, Princess Blaire Skylar of Eraklyon!"

"Wow." One of Sebastian's squad mates, Earl, whistled in disbelief as he drank his punch. He was nearby with his date, Jamie, when this happened. "You weren't kidding when you said she was a beast."

"Told ya." Sebastian shrugged, drinking his own punch.


...

"Playing hard to get, sis?"

Fiona shook her head at her sister's question, "Of course not." She said, "I'm just not that interested in boys as of now, is all."

Heather scoffed, grabbing the punch that Teddy handed to her, as she glanced at the boys that tried to ask Fiona out, "Yeah, right. Maybe that's why you keep blushing every time a boy tried to ask you to dance.." She said, "Look, I know you're trying to be committed with Mikey and all-"

"No, I'm not!" Fiona exclaimed. "I'm not even dating him or anything, I don't know why you'd assume that I like him or something-!" She ranted as a slight tint of pink appeared on her cheeks.

Unfortunately for the second daughter of Flora and Helia, her older sister ignored her and continued. "-Doesn't mean that you can't let loose every once in a while, especially if it's the ball where a lot of boys are bound to ask you to dance with them."

"But...but..."

"Heather's got a point." Teddy pointed out, "I don't think Mikey would like you to be this alone in the ball to the point where you're hanging out with your big sister and her boyfriend."

"You don't even know Mikey..." Fiona pointed out, pointing at the ginger-haired boy, "And besides, aren't you two the ones that sat with me?"

"Well, you looked pretty lonely..." He shrugged as Heather nodded.

Fiona internally scoffed, "I saw Tesla alone on a corner earlier, why didn't you sit with her too, then? Because she looked more lonely than I am."

"Wait...what?" Theodore looked up, paling up a bit, "I thought Tesla wasn't attending the dance?"

She shrugged, "It was a long story, but-"

Before she could finish, Teddy suddenly stood up, looking around frantically with determination in his eyes. Heather just sighed. "Well, here he is in his 'Overprotective Big Brother' mode again." As Heather's boyfriend left, she then turned to her younger sister, "Like I said, sis, it's not that bad to let loose every once and a while. Plus, like you said, you and Mikey aren't even dating in the first place, so where's the harm in dancing with some boy?"

"How many times do I have to say this?" Fiona frowned, "I'm just not that interested in boys, that's all."'

Heather stared at her for a moment, "So you're saying that you're a lesbian?" She asked, "You know, that's fine, I think Riley knows some girls that's probably your type-"

"What, no! That's not what I meant, like, at all!" She shook her head frantically, "Look, I'm not interested in boys right now, and I don't think I'd be interested in girls anytime soon. I just want to be by myself in this party and maybe for the rest of the year!"

Her sister continued to stare at her. "Well," She started, pondering at what Fiona said, "Wanting to be alone in your freshman year huh..." She thought about it for a moment, before looking at her sister with a look, "That's pretty depressing if you think about it."

Fiona sighed, "Look, not everyone has to have a boyfriend or girlfriend as soon as they're in college-"

"I didn't say anything about having a boyfriend or girlfriend, plus, I think dad is going to freak out if he hears you're going to get a boyfriend as soon as freshmen year." Heather pointed out with a sly look, "I only want you to enjoy this ball, and spending it all alone isn't really that enjoyable. Trust me, I experienced it first hand." She smiled at the bittersweet memories back at freshmen year, that is, until she met the son of a certain tech-savvy couple, also alone. "Just dance with a boy already, it's not like you're going to be forcibly betrothed to the boy after the dance or anything."

"Okay, are you going to be like this all right?" Fiona muttered, getting annoyed at her sister bugging her to dance with someone already.

Heather grinned, "I'll stop and leave you alone after you finally dance with a boy, if that's what you want."

Fiona pondered about it for a moment, "Deal."

As if on cue, some boy approached them, specifically to Fiona. "Hi." The boy smiled at her, "I'm Keith."

She looked up at the boy, he seemed decently attractive, with greased black hair and blue eyes. "Err, Fiona."

Keith looked at her for a moment, "Nice to meet you, Fiona." He smiled, "Look, I know we just met and all, but-uh, can I have a dance with a wonderful lady, also known as you?" He winked.

Heather grinned and squealed as Fiona nodded and stood up, taking Keith's hand as they walked up the dance floor.

It didn't take too long for Theodore to come back with a bitter look, "I found her in the DJ's area with Max." He said Max's name with disgust. "I tried staying with them to prevent unspeakable things from happening, but she kicked me out!"

She held her boyfriend's hand, kissing his cheek, "You know, you sound like my dad when he found out that we're dating."

Theodore pouted as he squeezed her hand holding his, "Well, she's my baby sister, my only baby sister, no less. What do you expect?" He sighed, rubbing the back of his head. Seeing Fiona dancing with Keith, he looked surprised. "Whoa, you convinced her to dance?"

Heather grinned proudly, "Yup!"


...

Ike sighed as he took a sip from his somewhat cold punch, looking around for any source of entertainment. He couldn't believe that he and his cousins had split, but it seemed a good thing to them after he found them hanging out with Alfea fairies, namely Melanie and Princess Stacey.

Why did I even attend this stupid ball, anyways? Ike asked himself, frowning. It's not like I'm interested in stupid pixies, anyway-!

His train of thought was cut off as he felt someone, a fairy to be exact, bumping into him. Annoyed, he was about to tell the stupid pixie to screw off, but again, he was cut off.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry!" A feminine voice apologized quickly and breathlessly, as if they had just run a marathon or something. Ike blinked and looked down at the fairy (he was pretty tall and the fairy was reasonably shorter than him). He blinked again at the fairy, is it just him or does this girl bear a rather uncanny resemblance to Prince Blaine? "I was just trying to get away from my really scary sister because she would kill me if she caught me and I-"

Before the girl could finish her rant, a voice growled. "BLAIRE!"

The girl, who he assumed as Blaire, flinched and squealed in fear as she frantically looked around, trying to find a place to hide. It took a while for Ike to process what was happening right now, but when he did, he had an idea. "You're trying to hide, aren't you?" He asked, to which she nodded quickly, sweating nervously. "Hide behind me!" He suggested, their height differences was huge and Blaire could take that as an advantage.

Blaire nodded, wasting no time as she hid behind the tall Specialist. Ike then proceeded to act casual as he continued what he previously did, acting bored as he took a sip from his punch.

Unlike the people around him, he had to pretend to be surprised to see a fairy with fiery-red hair inherited from her mother that could easily be mistaken as fire considering her mood. "Where is she?!" She growled, to which the people around her frantically shook their heads. Scarlet scanned the area, until her eyes landed upon a certain silver-haired Specialist, approaching him, she demanded, "Have you seen my sister, Princess Blaire of Eraklyon? Y'know, strawberry blonde hair? 5'4"? With a blue dress? Running around?"

Luckily for Ike, he's a good actor and liar. "Why, yes." He said, "I saw that she ran over that direction." He pointed to his left.

Much to Blaire's surprise, Scarlet seems to buy this as she ran towards the direction that Ike said she would be, continuing on her rage. Once the second princess of Eraklyon was out of sight, both Blaire and Ike sighed in relief with Blaire getting out of her hiding spot. "Thanks." She smiled at Ike.

Ike shrugged, "Oh, it's nothing-"

Before he could finish his sentence, he can already feel Blaire's arms wrapped around him, "No, really, thanks!" She said as she let go of a slightly flustered Ike. "I would've been dead if it weren't for you!" She grinned, "Like my sister said, I'm Blaire, Princess Blaire of Eraklyon, to be exact." She said, "But I don't really like being called a princess so Blaire is fine."

It makes sense now. "Oh, so you're Prince Blaine's twin sister?" He asked, to which Blaire's eyes widen in disbelief. "Blaine and I roommates, for your information."

"Ah." Blaire nodded, understanding.

"I'm Isaac, by the way." He returned the smile, "But you can call me Ike."

"Ike?" Blaire raised a brow, "Like, uh, Zeke without the Z or Bike without the B?"

"The bike without the B." Ike chuckled, "Weird nickname, I know, but it's sort of stuck now."

Blaire smiled, "Well, nice to meet you, Ike."


...

"What is a not-so-wonderful young lady sitting here all alone?"

Lauren didn't need to look up just to recognize to whom the voice belonged to. "Screw off, Mason." She snarled, "Don't you have anything better to do? Like, I don't know, pranking innocent people with good ol' Max?"

Mason smirked at the princess of Tides, sitting beside her on the bench she was sitting on. "That's not nice to say to your childhood best friend." He pointed out seriously, before a smirk creeping back into his lips as he continued. "..and, not to mention, your childhood crush." He added with a wink and a nudge. He then paused for a moment. "And besides, Max is the DJ for this ball this year, anyway."

She snorted as she slapped the maroon haired boy's hand away from her. "As if. Get your head out of your arse, it's not a hat." She said, "I mean, sure, we were pretty close back when we were kids, but childhood crush?" She scoffed, "In your dreams, hair gel."

The maroon haired boy frowned as soon as he heard what she used to call him when they were kids. "Oh please, I don't use hair gel as much I used to, you know."

"Tell that to your greased hair, Ry." Lauren retorted with an eye roll, looking at Mason's neat looking, but obviously greased and slicked back maroon hair that reached his ears. "Hell, I bet it takes you at least four hours in the morning every day just to style that pathetic hair of yours."

Mason made one of those noises in game shows that plays when someone answers a wrong answer to a question. "Oh come on, I'd look way too desperate if I'd do that." He said, crossing his arms, "I only style my hair for three hours maximum every morning." He said proudly, as if spending three hours every morning just to style his hair was something to be proud about.

Lauren laughed. "Yeah, yeah, whatever you say, Ry." She said, "But still, that's a waste of time. You could have done other things if you weren't being focused on your hair too much, y'know."

He raised a brow, "Oh yeah? Like what?"

"Oh, I don't know." Lauren said in a 'Duh' tone. "Like, maybe, sleep?" She suggested, "I heard classes at Red Fountain starts at seven in the morning, and if you say you spent like three hours trying to style your hair, that means that you wake up every four in the morning." She said, "That's like, the middle of the night in my book. And, you've been doing this since, you were what? Eight?"

Mason shrugged nonchalantly, "Old habits die hard, I guess."

The two didn't say anything after that, just enjoying the company of one another. Despite Lauren and Melanie currently not on good terms before and even now no matter how much their mothers try to make them close, Lauren and Melanie's brother, Mason, are pretty close as back as they were young children, attending some dance school together when they were younger. Riven has no idea how the hell his son got into dancing, but then again, Mason is into a lot of things. Riven was pretty bitter at the fact that Mason was into dancing and Musa was even encouraging the boy, but Riven soon shrugged off the fact after Mason showed genuine interest on fighting as well.

Mason looked at Lauren, she seems to be staring at the dance floor filled with couples dancing, the music that his brother had presumably played to suit the mood was a rather cheesy love song meant for the couples. It was the time of the night where it's the couples' time to dance together on the dance floor, and basically couples only. No singles allowed.

He can even see Heather and Theodore dancing, or Scarlet and Sebastian, and etc.

Glancing back at Lauren, he can tell that she's looking at the couples in envy. Not because she's single or jealous at their relationships or anything, but because she was jealous at the fact that they get to dance and she doesn't. He always known she had a passion for dancing, and that she would dance at every given moment.

"Hey," Mason spoke up after an idea had popped up into his mind. She looked at him as he stretched and yawned. "Remember the time Miss Tara paired us up for tango that we didn't even want to dance in the first place?" He asked, looking at the dance floor as well.

Lauren thought about it for a moment, attempting to remember the memory that Mason brought up. "Oh...yeah," She nodded, smiling at the not-so-fondly memory. "I remember how many we stepped on each other's feet."

"I stepped on yours for at least two times and you stepped on mine 13 times." Mason stated as a matter of factly. "Five times on accident, and eight times were intentional."

"I was pissed off," She defended, "And you weren't helping either with your stupid off-key singing."

"But it's just a prank bro!" He grinned, before standing up, formally bowing in front of the princess of Tides with a hand out for her to grab. "Anyways, I hope you still remember the moves, 'cause I think it's the perfect time to show our skills, y'know?" He grinned as he grabbed a rose from a nearby bush, biting it like in those cliched romance scenes where the main couple of the story dance together or something along the lines.

Lauren raised a brow at the boy, before smiling as she accepted his offer, grabbing his hand and standing up as they walked towards the dance floor.

The moment they nearly arrived at the dance floor, Mason stopped for a moment. "Hey, I have another idea." He said with a slight smirk, "Since I know that you're going to intentionally step on my foot again, how about let's have a bet."

"I'm listening..."

"The one that steps on the other's foot more than the other ever did to the first person, gets to take the one that got his/her foot stepped on, on a date!" He grinned, "And has to pay, all of it."

Lauren pondered about it for a moment, before eventually nodding, "Challenge accepted."


...

Blaine sighed as he walked around the courtyard as to where the party was held, looking around for any familiar people that he can probably hangout with for the rest of the night.

Sure, he knows a lot of people here, namely the Winx kids, like his two sisters for example. He saw Scarlet trying be play matchmaker with Blaire earlier, but he didn't really want to approach them since Scarlet might do the same to him. Luckily for his twin sister, he saw Blaire successfully getting away from Scarlet and ended up hanging with with Blaine's roommate, Ike. He also saw Melanie hanging out with Bolt, Lauren with Mason, Scarlet with Sebastian (after Blaire got away), etc.

But he didn't really want to hangout with them considering the fact that he doesn't want to be a third wheel.

The only Winx kids he found that was all alone was Fiona and Tesla respectively, he tried asking them to dance, but he was rejected by both. Well, at least politely rejected by Fiona, while Tesla just walked out on him without a word while he tried to engage in small talk that she might be interested in for her to open up.

It didn't take a while for him to see Fiona now in the dance floor with who he can recognize as Keith, a fellow freshman. He didn't fail to see Tesla going up the DJ's area with Max either.

Sighing yet again, Blaine frowned. Other than Fiona and Tesla, he tried asking other girls that he believes to be single (he doesn't want to get in trouble with easily jealous and insecure boyfriends), but alas, he was also rejected, only to find the same girls dancing with random boys later on.

'Do girls just genuinely dislike me or something?' Blaine thought rather bitterly. Great, not only that he's the only Prince of Eraklyon and an only son of Bloom and Sky while surrounded with four sisters, but he also has almost little to no luck with women!

While he was deep in thought, he just so happen to bump into some fairy, who was also deep in thought. The first thing he saw from the girl was long and somewhat curled, pale blonde hair.

"Oh, I'm so sorry- Princess Amber?"

The aforementioned princess looked after hearing her name. "Prince Blaine...?" Her crimson eyes nearly widened at seeing the prince.

Blaine nearly grinned at the sight of the girl, "Princess Amber, it's been a while!" He said, he and the blonde girl knew each other after attending the same school in Eraklyon, despite her being the princess of Isis. "I thought you were going to attend Beta Ac-?"

"My mom had a change of plans." She muttered, avoiding eye contact with the Prince. Before he could even converse some more, she lightly pushed past him, "Look, I don't have time for your mindless small talk, I don't think we should even talk at all for that matter." She said, "So, if you'll excuse me, I have some friends to hang out with. Friends who mom actually approves of." With that, she left to who-knows-where.

The only Prince of Eraklyon stared at the princess of Isis first until she eventually disappeared into some crowd before frowning as he walked into the opposite direction. That was the eighth time he got rejected and/or brushed off by a girl tonight. Why was this happening to him? His father is the handsome and charming King Sky of Eraklyon who was also one of the best students in Red Fountain in their time, and his mother is Queen Bloom, the second princess of Domino, the realm that she restored with her friends, the Winx Club, Bloom is also Fairy of the Dragon Flame, and the leader of the famous, new Company of Light, the Winx Club. Blaine is sure that his parents, who had a lot of accomplishments even when they were his age, are so proud of having a son who can't even talk to a girl in the ball.

"Look who crashed into the party for the second time already even though I'm not a student anymore and therefore shouldn't be in this party in the first place!"

Blaine froze after he heard the all too familiar voice. No...it can't be-

It is.


Okay, so it nearly took me two weeks to write this thing (including the times that I got writer's block and got distracted by the internet and other things) so yeah, this'd better be worth it for me y'all. This has to be the longest chapter I've ever written ever in the history of my time here in this site, like, ever. So yeah.

If you've noticed, Blaire, Fiona, and Lauren's scenes are somewhat longer than that of Stacey, Melanie, and Tesla's. Well that's because I think they haven't gotten much attention in the previous chapters, so yeah.

Oh and yeah, Tesla and Max, along with Lauren and Mason are childhood friends, and maybe you already know where that will lead to, and it seems that Blaire, Stacey, and Melanie will probably be paired up with Ike, Damian, and Bolt who may or may not have mysterious pasts that will cause a problem later on the story. Fiona's love interest will probably not be revealed for now, while Blaine, err... let's just say that he may or may not be involved in some petty love triangle like his parents back then.

Oh, and about the people on the last part, can you guess who they are? Well, I hope you can, since the next chapter will probably be all about them.

I think I've been ranting for too long and you probably didn't read the whole thing anyways, so...

Thanks for reading!