CHAPTER 9

TIME SKIP TO 6 WEEKS LATER

STELLA'S POV

Oh Good God!
I literally woke up on the edge of the bed and fell flat on my face.

I groaned into the carpet.

I woke up with a killer headache.

I had a really long day yesterday.

This is what happened.

FLADHBACK TO THE DAY BEFORE.

I climbed up the stairs into Adrian's apartment and walked in.

I dropped the caramel mocha that was in my hand and my jaw too.

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ADRIAN?!" I yelled.

Adrian looked up startled and cursed under his breathe.

"Stella? Ummm, it's not what it looks like!" He yelled.

"Oh? So now you're calling me blind? Right, I can so totally see that there is nothing wrong innit? And there is definitely not another girl on your freaking sofa, innit? Yeah Adrian, you are sooo right! Hmmm, maybe I should book an appointment with the eye doctor, innit? NO BLOODY WAY ADRIAN!" I yelled, angrily

"Look Stell-" he started.

"Wait, hold up, he was dating you too?" The girl asked.

I nodded.

"YOU JERK! I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!" She yelled and slapped him across his left cheek. Then she stormed out the apartment.

"Oh well, I didn't even like her," Adrian smiled.

I raised my eyebrow at him.

"HOW THE HELL DOES THAT MAKE THINGS BETTER?!" I yelled. "You know, if you did like her, I would have accepted it, but seeing as you were just using her? No way Adrian! And you know what makes this worse? The fact that it's our 1 month Anniversary"

"Wait, it's today?" He asked.

"Unbelievable!" I yelled, I slapped him across his right cheek and he looked at me in horror.

"What the hell was that for?" he yelled.

"For being a complete jerk!" I yelled back.

He must have gotten really pissed because he picked up the empty wine glass and through it at me, I dodged it but a small piece cut my wrist and now it was bleeding a lot.

But apparently he wasn't done, he through a pebble from a bowl that was on the table at me. I didn't see this coming so it hit my forehead on the right side and that was also bleeding a lot.

He yelled at me to get out and so I did.

I walked out his door, slamming it behind me.

I stopped, and sighed.

Then I ran down the stairs and pushed open the front door of the building.

It was raining cats and dogs man!

I didn't have an umbrella, and Adrian was supposed to drop me home, but well, shit happens.

I groaned and started walking.

I was wearing black ripped jeans, a dark blue t-shirt that said "Bruh" in gold, a black and red snapback that said, "Crazy" In Silver, I wore it backwards, and a pair of sandals. Today was the day I HAD to forget my jacket home. Fucking great.

I walked through the busy streets, all the shops were closing because it was already 7 p.m. on a Friday.

So I couldn't even buy an umbrella or a jacket, hell, I didn't even have any money on me

Man, how could I have not seen this happening? He even looks like the player type.

I remember how I met him at the park and he bought me ice-cream and soon we started dating, I know it's only been a few weeks, but the thing is, I thought he would help me forget about Brandon, but now he just ruined everything!

I loved him! He had short blonde hair that was always spiked up, blue eyes, an ear piercing and an eyebrow piercing, he was very muscular and he had a deep voice.

"What a bloody jerk!" I yelled in frustration while kicking an empty soda can. Big mistake, it just left a huge cut going across my right foot. I groaned as the blood started spilling out.

I was really surprised I didn't burst into tears in front of him, and to be honest, I actually took it really well.

Surprisingly,

I spoke to soon. I couldn't get Adrian's face out of my head, all the times he made me laugh, the way he held me in his arms, protected me, loved me, TOLD me he loved me.

But it was all just fake as fuck!

Why am I falling for idiots?

It's like my heart wants to break.

That's it, tears rolled down my cheeks as I continued walking.

Oh God! Why? Why am I even crying? I mean, he doesn't like me, I can't force him to.

But couldn't he just tell me? Why did he have to go and cheat on me?

My life is literally full of jerks.

Brandon, Adrian, then there was David from summer camp, and for a few months I went out with Marco in year 11, and before that, well it wasn't exactly dating but there was a lot of flirting going on between me and Dylan in year 9…And then there was my parents…

Maybe it's my fault. I mean Brandon didn't like me, and he made that pretty clear. David used me to get to my friend, Marco only wanted sex, which I refused to, Dylan apparently didn't like me in that way, Adrian well, cheated on me, and my parents…they killed themselves.

What the hell Stella! All this time you've been thinking it was their fault and that they were all just jerks, when it's you that's the problem.

This made me cry even more. Why didn't I think of this before? Because I'm stupid that's why.

"AHH!" I yelled in anger.

I was soaking wet now, my clothes became heavy, my cheeks became pale, my eyes became red, and my nose was pink and so was my cheeks and strands of my hair was glued to my face.

The blood from my forehead was dripping down my face, and drops of blood was falling of my wrist and onto the thick pavement. And so did the blood from my foot, I was losing a lot of blood and this worried me, my head began to pound really bad, my eyes were still tearing but they were barely helping me see.

Man it hurt so badly, by the time I reached my front door, I was so dizzy after losing a lot of blood, I had made a trail of blood all the way from Adrian's house to The Shield's.

I rang the doorbell and the last thing I remember was seeing Cameron's worried face scream my name before I blacked out.

NO POV

Cameron opened the door to see Stella, blood dripping from her wrist and head, her clothes soaking wet and so was her hair. Her eyes were very red like she had been crying her eyes out.

"STELLA!" He yelled before she collapsed into Cameron's arms, which he put out quickly before she hit the floor.

"BRANDON! MUM! DAD! GUYS! HELP!" Cameron yelled kneeling down next to Stella whose head was on his lap.

The rest of the shield's and the Specialists came running to the door and gasped when they saw Stella.

"WHAT HAPPENED!?" they yelled.

"I don't know! She just collapsed when I opened the door, she's lost a lot of blood, look," He said indicating to the long trail of blood.

"Oh God! We need to take her to the hospital fast!" Alison said quickly.

The boys nodded.

Brandon picked her up.

"Careful of her cuts, there really deep, and she's soaking! She's going to catch a cold!" Dave cried.

"I don't understand though, who did this? I mean, isn't Stella a kind person, I've never heard of her getting involved in any physical fights, it's only Musa and sometimes Layla who does," Helia said worriedly.

"I'll call Tecna guys, they'll know what might have happened," Timmy said.

"But first let's get her to the hospital, before she loses a lot of blood," Riven said.

Timmy rang Tecna up and told her to meet them at the hospital.

Man was Tecna surprised to see his name on the caller idea, but that all disappeared when Timmy told her to meet Stella at the hospital with the others,

As soon as Timmy hung up she called the other girls and they all met up at the St Clares hospital 10 minutes after the Shields and Specialists did.

"Where is she?" Flora asked the reception lady desperately.

"Who, Stella? Down the corridor, First door to the left," she said.

"Thank you!" Layla yelled as the 5 girls ran down the corridor.

They opened the door to see The Specialists and The Shields spread out around the hospital room, Stella was lying unconscious on the hospital bed.

"What happened?" Musa cried walking over to Stella's bed.

She was bandaged up pretty well, her cuts were all covered.

"We thought you would know," Sky said.

"We don't," Bloom sighed walking over to Musa.

"Do you know where she was before?" Alison asked.

"All I knew was she was in a rush to go somewhere, and she was really happy too, she just ran out the door before I or Cameron could ask," Brandon sighed.

"Wait! What's the date today?" Layla asked.

"Ummm, 24th July," Nabu said checking his phone.

The Winx gasped.

"Her anniversary," Flora whispered.

"Huh?" Everyone but the Winx chorused.

"Her Anniversary, 6 weeks, with Adrian," Tecna explained.

"Wait, Adrian?" Cameron asked.

"You know him?" Brandon asked.

"Almost the entire female population knows him! He has a reputation of sleeping with a different girl almost every night, last I heard was he started dating a girl called Stacey 4 days ago," Cameron growled.

"What!" The Winx yelled.

"Adrian huh?" Musa asked, "Do you, do you by any chance know where he lives?"

"Umm, Elmond street, Oakwood Apartments, number 8," Cameron said.

Everyone stared at him,

"I used to be good friends with his cousin," Cameron explained.

Everyone nodded.

Then Musa began to laugh.

"Why the hell are you laughing?" Riven asked.

"Uh oh," The rest of the Winx groaned.
"Why are you uh oh-ing?" Helia asked.

"Elmond street huh? That's like a 10 minute walk away from here," Musa grinned, "I'll be back,"

She cracked her knuckles and her neck then opened the door and walked out closing it behind her.

"That's why," Flora sighed.

"Oh crap," Everyone sighed.

The rest of the Winx spread themselves around the hospital room.

20 minutes later Musa came back, she had a very deep cut across her forehead and it was also bleeding really badly.

"MUSA!" Everyone yelled.

She was literally covered in blood, her white t-shirt was stained and there was a hole in her blue jeans, with blood coming out.

"What the hell happened?" Layla yelled, everyone was now on their feet.

"The asshole had a wine glass in his hand, and I guess Michael didn't love me so therefore he threw a knife at my foot," Musa said through gritted teeth, "And I think I might have punched him a bit too hard," she said looking at her bleeding knuckles.

Riven and Timmy helped her to the extra bed in the room.

"I'll call the doctor," Flora said quickly, she ran out of room just as Musa blacked out.

"Oh God!" Bloom cried.

Flora came back in with a doctor and a nurse behind her.

They immediately started to get to work.

After a few minutes.

"She'll be okay, she just had a few stiches and we just bandaged her hand to keep the bacteria out, but she'll be okay, same goes to Stella, a few stiches and a bandage, but they both lost a lot of blood, but they'll be fine," The nurse said before she and the doctor walked out.

"Oh God!" Alison cried.

"So explain to me, Both Musa and Stella had a boyfriend?" Riven asked, sharing a look with Brandon.

"Yeah, Idiotic ones too," Tecna said.

"I'm gonna beat the shit out of those assholes," Brandon and Riven growled.

"Don't, you'll just make this even worse, and plus Stella and Musa wouldn't want you to anyways," Layla sighed,

"She's right, they would have stopped you anyways," Nabu said.

Everyone nodded, they all went back to sit.

A few minutes later…

"Aaah" Stella groaned.

"Ahhh" Musa moaned.

"STELLA! MUSA!" Everyone yelled.

"Huh?" the 2 girls said at the same time.

"Oh God! You had us worried!" Dave said.

"Yeah! Don't you ever do that again!" bloom said.

"What the-?" Stella said holding her forehead.

"the hell?" Musa asked examining her bandaged wrist.

"You guys got hurt really badly," Cameron said.

"What? How?" Stella asked.

"You should tell us," Tecna said.

"Huh? All I remember is-Adrian!" Stella finished.

"Go on," Dave said.

"Well, today was our 1 month Anniversary, so I went and bought his favorite drink for him, and so I took it to his apartment, his door was open so I just walked in and well, he was making out with some other chick on his sofa, then he tried to deny it all, and the other chick didn't even know he was dating me, so she slapped him and walked away, then I yelled at him and apparently he forgot our annivarsery and so I slapped him, then he threw a wine glass at me and it cut my wrist then he threw a pebble at me and it hit my forehead and when I ws coming back home I kicked a soda can and it sliced my ankle, and it was raining, I didn't have my jacket, the shops were closed and I didn't have any money with me- ACHOO!" Stella explained.

"Oh my God! That bitch!" The girls cried.

"Yeah well, It's okay." Stella smiled.

"That guy is an asshole," Brandon said through gritted teeth.

Cameron, Riven and Alison smiled at him.

"Wait, what the hell happened to you?" Stella asked looking at her best friend.

"No one gets away with hurting my best friend, but well, I got hurt instead," Musa sighed.

Riven smirked.

"What! I was out numbered! Okay, I didn't have a wine glass or a freaking knife!" Musa defended.

"Aw Muse! ARE YOU INSANE!?" Stella screamed.

Everyone winced.

"Good heavens child, whatever happened to ya?" Flora grinned.

Everyone cracked up.

"Wait who was the other guy?" Stella asked.
"Michael bloody Hearts," Musa scowled.

"Man! Why are you guys falling for jerks," Cameron asked looking at Brandon, who glared back at him.

"You shut up!" Stella said sitting up.

"Uhh!" She groaned.

Cameron loosened up when he realized she couldn't hurt him in any way.

"okay, enough drama for today, let's go get ice-cream," Musa said.

"Hell ya!" Stella grinned.

They both stood up at the same time forgetting about the pain they shared, and put a lot of weight on there foot.

"AAh!" They screamed before falling to the floor.

Stella and Musa frowned.

"uh uh, you ain't putting any pressure on that foot of yours until you're completely fine," Riven said helping her back on the bed.

"I agree, doctors' orders," Brandon said lifting Stella back on the bed.

"You must be insane, I can't stay here! I have a life!" Stella argued.

"Yeah, of course, I'll get you girls checked out of the hospital with Dave. Brandon, Riven you help the girls to the car, everyone else get back to our house, you guys can spend the next few days with us if you want, we'll discuss the arrangements later but all I know is Stella and Musa will be sleeping in Stella's room so it's easier for them. Brandon and Riven will sleep next door so they can help them at any time of day, but just get them home now," Alison said walking out with Dave.

Everyone agreed.

"Unbelievable, we're gonna be stuck in bed for a whole week Stella," Musa frowned.

Stella groaned.

"Don't worry, you have us as your entertainment," Timmy grinned.

"Yippee!" Musa and Stella said sarcastically

Everyone grinned.

"Okay, let's go," Stella said.

And once again her and Musa got up from the bed and fell to the ground in pain.

"You know, you really have to stop trying," Riven laughed.

"Shut up," Musa said.

"Okay come on you 2 let's go," Nabu said as he and the others walked out.

"You heard him, let's go," Brandon said.

"You know, you guys don't have to carry us, can't you get us a pair of crutches?" Stella asked.

"And exactly how are you going to hold it?" Brandon smirked.

"A wheelchair then," Musa said.

"Nah, we don't mind, you're light anyways," Riven grinned picking her up bridal style.

Brandon did the same.

"Are you sure? I mean, you'll get tired having to carry us around all the time," Stella said.

"Well, you'll be in bed or on a sofa most of the time," Brandon smiled.

"But still," Musa complained.

"Look, we don't mind, besides you deserve to be treated well after what those guys did to you," Riven smiled.

"But still!" The 2 girls whined.

"Will you shut up now?" Brandon asked.

"Yes sir!" Stella grinned.

The 4 started laughing as they walked to the car.

"you know Brandon and I would have beaten the shit out of those 2, but the others didn't let us." Riven said.

"And they did the right thing!" Musa cried, "Those guys are insane, I don't want you 2 getting hurt!"

"Musa's right, i mean come on, if you 2 got hurt, who would carry us around?" Stella smirked.

Musa grinned.

"Okay whatever," Brandon shook his head at Riven who rolled his eyes back.

"We saw that!" The 2 girls cried then burst out laughing.

They entered the car and drove home.

"Do you want to sit on the sofa or on the chair?" Riven asked.

"Oh umm, chair is fine," Musa smiled.

"Absolutely not! Put them on the sofa, they need to rest," Alison said.

"How about we just put them in their bed?" Brandon said.

"Yeah, that's a good idea, they don't need any discussions," Helia said.

"Yes we do!" The 2 girls objected.

"I mean, we can't let Brandon and Riven carry us around all the time, we should get a wheelchair or something," Stella said.

"Yeah, and what if we fall down in the room or something, we can't keep screaming for them to come," Musa said.

"Why? We won't mind," Riven said.

"yeah, well, we do! We don't want to keep irritating you guys, and plus if we scream your name in the middle of the night, everyone else will wake up," Stella said.

"We don't mid," Timmy said.

Stella and Musa looked at each other.

"You guys are idiots!" Stella said.

"Morons" Musa said.

"Retards," Stella said.

"Stupid," Musa said.

"BLOODY INSANE!" They both yelled.

Everyone grinned.

"Hmm, you know what? You're right, we can't keep waking everyone else up," Alison said.

"Yup, exactly, I agree," Stella said.

"Totally, smart, very smart, good idea!" Musa said.

"So Brandon and Stella will share a room and Riven and Musa will share a room," Alison smirked.

"No thank you," Stella said.

"I disagree," Musa said at the same time.

"We're fine, I mean, they said they don't mind, with the, with the whole waking up thing, it's okay, no, I don't, I don't, it's fine," Stella and Musa said.

"My mind is made up, Flora and Tecna can share a room and Bloom and Layla can share a room, and Helia and Timmy can share a room and Sky and Nabu too, now it's late, go to sleep," Alison said, Dave and her went to their room.

Cameron winked at the 4 before going to his.

And the other 8 smirked at them.

"You heard her go to sleep, now! All of you! Bye!" Stella growled.

"I bet you'll enjoy your night," Flora giggled.

"You're lucky I can't hit you," Musa growled.

But Riven and Brandon both started laughing.

"Have a goodnight guys," Sky grinned.

"Oh I'm sure they will," Bloom smirked. This time everyone laughed except for the 2 girls.

"You know, I may ot be able to walk or hit, but I still can bite," Stella scowled.

The rest snickered.

"I hear voices, ugly voices," Musa said.

"Hey! That hurt!" Helia said

"No wait! Shut up! I hear them too!" Stella said.

Stella and Musa looked at each other as everyone fell silent.

"Umm, I'm dizzy," Musa groaned.

"Ah my head!" Stella cried.

"My leg!" Musa cried!

"My hand!" Stella cried.

"My-"They started, then they both collapsed into Riven and Brandon's hands.

"Whoa!" the 2 boys said.

"Okay, we're gonna put them to sleep now," Riven said.

"Don't you dare try anything on them," The Winx growled.

"I respect Stella too much to actually do that," Brandon sighed.

"Yeah me too, they've gone through too much already, we can't do any of that sort," Riven smiled.

The 2 boys looked at the 2 girls in their arms and smiled.

The Winx grinned.

"Your secrets safe with us," Timmy grinned.

"What secret?" The 2 boys asked.

"Aw you know, the whole liking Stella and Musa thing," Tecna grinned.

"I think you mean LOVE!" Layla giggled.

Nabu elbowed her but burst out laughing himself.

"OKAY! I think you should go to sleep too," Riven said.

Then everyone went into their rooms and went to sleep.