CHAPTER 9

"Stella please for the love of God wake the HELL up," Layla screamed at the blonde fairy for the fourteenth time.

Nothing.

"Stella I will BLAST you into the next freaking dimension if you don't get your lazy ass up," Musa growled.

"Jesus I'm awake, I'm awake. Christ. Don't eat my head." Stella muttered into her pillow.

"There's nothing in there worth eating." Bloom retorted turning around and walking out the bedroom.

"Well pardon your rudeness." Stella huffed as she rolled onto the floor and then crawled into the bathroom leaving the other two to stare at her moving figure.

The Winx were getting ready for their 5 day camping trip on an island not far off the coast of Gardenia. They were meant to meet up at school where they will be assigned buses to take them to the harbor but because a certain fairy stayed up all night packing, they all had a very grumpy start to their morning.

"You guys the watches are here!" Tecna yelled from the sitting room.

"Yayyy!" Flora screamed running to her, "Aww its SO cute!"

"How in Magix's name does a watch look cuuuuuu- OH MY GOD IT'S GLOW IN THE DARK!" Layla screamed jumping onto the couch.

"Get out. Really? Wait, how does it even switch o – oh, ooooh that's cool," Musa grinned strapping the black watch firmly around her wrist.

The watches came in 3 colours, white, grey and black to make it look like ordinary watches, but as we know, they are NOT ordinary watches.

"This is way too cool to be real. HOW? Half of this technology isn't even out yet, where the heck did Faragonda get them?" Tecna mused, a look of excitement flashed across her face when she switched on her watched and a female robotic voice let out the words "Greetings Princess Tecna from Zenith, welcome to your Timebot. Would you like to view your settings?"

"Dude. Did your watch just…speak?" Bloom asked staring at the now giddy technology fairy.

"This is soooo badass" Musa chirped as a hologram screen popped up from the watch's face. "Check out all these programs, there's literally everything AND OH MY GOD MUSIC? I CAN PLAY MUSIC ON MY WATCH? WHAAAAT?!"

"Okay well according to the coolest watch ever, it says we've got 15 minutes until the school buses leave, let's go?" Layla stated as Stella entered the room.

"One sec, I need to open my watch too." She said as she grabbed the box from the coffee table that said STELLA in orange letters. "Whoa, so hi-tech huh? Neat."

"That's it? That's all you're going to say? 'Neat'? No, 'OH MY GOD THIS LEATHER IS SO, uhh, PLUSH' or 'Ugh white watches are SO last year'? Whatever, let's move it people!" Musa bellowed picking up her duffel bag and heading out the door. Stella huffed and thwacked her head before following her out the door.

The rest followed suit.

"What time did Miss. Faragonda say she'll call us?" Flora asked, closing the door behind her before descending down the staircase to the rest.

"Around 3 here, let's hope we'll be free, I mean imagine if our watches just start ringing in the middle of something." Tecna answered.

"That would be hilarious. I can just imagine Ms. Roberta explaining the activities or something and then all of a sudden there's this really loud beeping noise and then everyone turns to look at us and there's a really frustrated look on her face and –" Musa grinned before she was cut off by Bloom.

"-And then she confiscates them? Yeah, I don't think that would be funny."

"You suck Bloom. Way to kill my mood." Musa frowned jokingly, swatting the redhead's hair.

"You guys, I really really don't want to go for this stupid trip." Stella whined coming to a halt at the 4th floor.

"No one wants you there anyway."

She twirled around to come face to face with Brandon. She mentally rolled her eyes. "I'm only coming because you NEED me there asshole." She thought.

"Really? Because I'm pretty sure we do." Layla remarked coming to her rescue and interrupting the angered eye contact the two seemed to be having. "Now stop giving him the death glare and start walking." She continued dragging Stella down the stairs.

"Thanks Layls. That was getting pretty awkward." Stella mumbled once they were out of earshot.

"I'll say, the way you were looking at him was like you were trying to mentally undress him." Layla joked causing the rest to snicker.

"Ha. Ha. Very funny. Please, I'd rather protect my eyes from such."

"Protect? Please, I bet you you'd be drooling all over him." Musa winked nudging the blonde's shoulder.

"Okay I'm not even going to deny to be honest." Stella huffed causing the rest of the girls to burst out laughing.

"Whaaat? As much as I hate that dickhead's guts, no point denying the fact that he's hot as hell." Stella spoke innocently leading the way to the gate.

"Awwwwwww does Stellie have a crush?" Bloom teased pinching her cheeks.

"Please no. I'd rather die. It's one thing being good looking, but a completely different thing being good looking AND hella annoying." Stella explained shoving Bloom's hand away from her face.

"Okay yeah. I don't get those fools, they seemed nice in the beginning but damn! I mean, no wonder they're with those sluts." Layla scoffed.

"Except Brandonnnnnn," Flora winked at Stella from the side causing the blonde fairy to blush pink.

"Shut up with him okay?"

"Never." Tecna laughed.

"Oh so that's how it is huh? How's Timmy then?" Stella smirked.

"Okay okay, we'll stop." Tecna blushed looking down at her palms.

Stella grinned triumphantly as they walked out the gate.

"Do you guys realize we're talking about our potential 'childhood best friends'?" Flora asked randomly.

"Holy shizzzzz" Layla gasped. "What kind of karma is this? From best friends to enemies."

"Jesus that's sooo cliché," Musa snorted back a laugh.

"Think about it, our life here is pretty much as cliché as it gets," Tecna retorted.

"What do you mean?" Bloom asked furrowing her eyebrows.

"You know, we move here right, meet these guys that we get a long great with, then we encounter with their girlfriends who seem to hate us and because of them the guys hate us and so we always argue and now we have to work together – you know, for this mission thing, that is IF The Specialists are actually who we're looking for – the only difference is that we're not falling in love with them." Tecna elucidated to the rest.

"…at least not yet." Flora whispered, so quiet that it was a shock that they all heard.

They exchanged worried glances before falling into a comfortable silence for the rest of the walk.