"You got to be kitting me, you want me to believe some young girl in her early twenty came told you that we have told her we wanted to spend the night in the wild and then flew in the morning and get the cars?" Layla said to the man in front of her; the girls had transformed and flown into the nearest town and to their surprise they found their cars parked outside a mechanic. The mechanic didn't seem to be lying but what he told seemed very unlikely and not to mention strange.

"It is okay Layla, thank you sir for keeping an eye on the cars." Flora said and the man went inside his house again. Flora was just happy they shouldn't spend hours getting three rental cars and then arrive to the hotel in the middle of the night.

"It all seems very strange." Tecna commented as she walked over to one of the cars and opened the door." What is even stranger is, that it doesn't look like anything has been taken from the car. "She bent down took her laptop in her hands and then got up to show the other girls what she meant.

"Really!" Stella ran over to the car she knew she had her luggage in, opened the trunk and then opened one of the suitcases to be sure. She squealed when she saw her clothes in the suitcase as she grabbed a handful and then hugged it tightly. "My wonderful clothes for a moment I thought I was never going to see it again."

"Do anyone have the keys to the cars?" Bloom asked and everyone stopped and looked at each other.

"No." they said in union and sighed.

"Now how are we going to drive the cars back to the guys, so we can get moving?" Layla was hopeless everything seem to tell them this was a bad idea.

"Wait I think… "Tecna took her backpack off and started looking through it while the others looked at her confused, until she held up three set of keys and smiled." I had forgotten I put the keys in my backpack." Everyone let out a breath the didn't know they were holding; they were saved there were no more having to sleep out in the wild no more having to fish to get dinner, it was save to said the girls had enough of the camping or what you wanted to call it, for this trip.

"It took you long enough to figure out, genius." Stella said happy and hugged Tecna so tight that Tecna couldn't breathe. No one was happier then Stella, she for one was very miserable about last night's living arrangement.

"Stella.. I need…oxygen." Tecna managed to get out and Stella let go.

"Sorry I'm just so happy; you know what this means in a few hours I can take a long hot shower and"

"A nice warm bed, to sleep in." Layla finished Stella's sentence while thinking about, how uncomfortable it was sleeping on the ground.

"I want to drive." Stella took one of the set of keys.

"No!" They all yelled as everyone still remembered, the last time she tried to drive the car.

"You guys are no fun." She said but she didn't get her way.

"Something isn't right Sky." Bloom said coming up behind Sky who was putting the last backpack in the car while Timmy and Tecna was sitting in the car waiting for Sky and Bloom to join them. Flora, Helia Layla and Nabu were in one of the other cars waiting for the others to get ready, so they could get going. Sky glanced at her from the corner of his eye and noticed she had changed into a light aqua-green mini dress with white polka dots; it was held up with light blue straps connected down to a blue ruffle on top of the dress. Around were her waist was a wide sky blue belt tied with a little pink ribbon.

"I know but we checked and there is nothing wrong with them, in fact the thief all cleaned the cars inside and out for us." Sky closed the trunk and turned around towards Bloom.

"No I mean between us, he seem distant and tense ever since we saw that 'just marry' car with newlyweds drove by us and I said, that is going to be us one day. What is going on Sky even now you tens up like you are nervous about something? "Sky was panicking he didn't know what to answer; because it was true he was nervous about something, about proposing to her when they got home from this trip.

"I don't know what you are talking about." He managed to get out nervous.

"Don't do that Sky don't shut me out like that, we have always been good at talking to each other about things."

"I'm not shutting you out." Sky said trying to avoid the question.

"Is it because you unsure about our future together?" He could see that was what was bothering her.

"No, I see myself with you in the future and trust me you are going to love it, when I tell you what I see. I just can't say more than that." Sky assured her and smiled; he found it a little ironic that she was worry he could see them to together in the future, when all he could think about was spending the rest of his life with her.

"Okay if you say so, I believe you." She was not completely convinced.

"Bloom I love you don't ever doubt that." He said and took her hand up to his face and kissed the inside of her palm." I have never given you a reason not to trust me Bloom, just be a little more patience okay?"

"Okay, love you too." She smiled and that lifted a heavy burden off his shoulder.

"Hey you two if you are done can we get going now." Brandon yelled and they both looked at him standing by the last car with Stella on the other side.

"Oh you only eager to get away from here so you can, get some alone time with Stella." Sky yelled back and Brandon just grinned like the lovesick fool he was.

"What is wrong?" Stella looked blankly at her phone; it was about an hour into the seven and an half hour long drive to the hotel. Stella had been laughing and chatting all the time until she looked at her phone a little while ago; he had tried to get in contact with her awhile now but she didn't respond.

"He knows." She whispered disbelieve, Brandon decided it had to be enough and pulled over so he could talk to her.

"Stella, look at me." He said and turned around in his seat so he was facing her; she still wouldn't look at him so he grabbed her chin and made her look at him. It seemed to help her snap out of it little.

"Rob knows."

"What does he know?"

"That we are back together."

"And…" He didn't really get how or why this would upset her like this, because it was clear to him that she were upset. She looked so hot in her one shoulder pink dress with a yellow flower and green and yellow ruffles, it just seemed wrong that she was so sad.

"He wants me to break up with you, right away."

"He texted you?" Brandon took the phone out of her hand and read it; I know, break it off or else…. Really Stella I thought you knew better, after all you broke up with him last time because he was a squire. That hasn't change he is still only a squire.

"You broke up with me because I'm 'only a squire'?" He managed to get out in disbelieve and Stella started coming back to life.

"No… yes." It was so hard to explain and so complicated, she didn't want to discuss it with him, but he deserve that. When she saw the hurt in his chocolate brown eyes she almost couldn't bare it." Brandon let me explain." She said desperate when he turned around in his sit and reached for the key.

"Nothing has change Stella I'm still Sky's squire." It wasn't like he hadn't thought about it himself; sometimes he had been wondering if Stella treated her other boyfriends – all of whom were royalty or nobility– the same as I treated him. Guess he just got his answer; no she hadn't because she hadn't broken up with any of them because of their status in society.

"I know it sounds really bad but let me explain it okay. I don't care that you is Sky's squire but I did care what people thought about me and who I was with. You have to understand that ever since I was a little girl I have cared what people thought of me, and when I first started dating, it was also important to me that who one I was dating had a title too. As I grown older I really don't think about it that much, but unconsciously I apparently did. I know it is superficial and shallow, but that the truth. I couldn't change the way i thought about that, not for a summer fling. But then I realized you could have been more than that."

"You really don't care that I'm Sky's squire." He looked into her eyes to be sure she meant what she said.

"Yes." He could see she was being honest with him; he wanted to give her everything but he knew he couldn't, not like the other guys she had been with could. But then in that moment he realized something; she had let him into her life and let him see a side of her that none of the other guys had, he was the only one she had told about Rob blackmailing her and that took a lot of her to do." My mom and dad was the king and queen of Solaria and it hasn't done them much good, has it?"

"Good." He turned back towards her." But I think it is time you told your friends about Rob blackmailing you, maybe they can help."

"No Brandon, not before tomorrow." Stella begged but it didn't help.

"No today we can ask my friends for help too. Stella I'm worried about you it is not good for you to keep it a secret from your friends."

"Okay." She said reluctantly but agreed for Brandon's sake.

"It's so easy for you to just stand there and judge me, isn't it? Because you have never made one mistake, in your entire life, right?" Riven hissed. Sky and Flora had been trying to talk to him for an hour now; after they had arrived at the hotel they had heard about Riven's fight with Hunter.

"Don't change the subject Riven, this isn't about me. You could have got charge with assault, have you any idea of how much trouble you could have been in then." Sky said trying to knock some sense into Riven's thick head but Riven was stubborn and just ignored him.

"Of course it is not because the crowned Prince of Eraklyon could be anything less than perfect; oh wait I seem to remembered a time or two were you threw the first punch- no that was your squire, sorry we don't all have squires to fight our battles for us." Riven snarled, his voice was like venom. It wasn't the first time Sky had to deal with Riven angry and frustrated, so he knew he shouldn't take it to heart but there still were a little part of him that were always wondered if that was what he really felt about him.

"That wasn't nice." Flora said and Riven started walking back and forward the room, Sky and Flora knew he need to cool down a little before anyone said anything more.

"What is it with people wanting to talk about me all of the sudden." Riven blurred out now frustrated as he ran his hands through his hair. Flora's eyes wide and her face became very serious; Riven was acting like an animal forced into a corner with no way out. There must been something more going on than what he is letting on, Flora thought to herself. A knock on the door interrupted them and they looked at each other in panic. "Hind, in the bathroom." Riven told them as he went to answer the door.

"You did a pretty good job, beating me up something tells me it isn't the first time you have been in a fight." Hunter said and walked into Riven's room after Riven had opened, Riven really didn't want to deal with Hunter right now. "Well it wasn't really a fight, I didn't do anything to protect me or you hurt you."

"Good evening to you too, well of course you can talk to me come right in." Riven said, bitter and sarcastic. "Are you here to kick me out?" Riven asked as Hunter dropped down on the couch; he had a black eye and right above his eye in his eyebrow he could see two stitches. He expected the only reason Hunter would come and talk to him alone were to kick him out, but yet again he was wrong, not that he would admit it.

"God no, I came to apologize." That threw Riven of his game and not to mention confused him.

"Why?" Riven looked at him suspicious.

"Because I thought about it and I realized you must have thought I was saying, I'm sure that Musa would be more than willing to sleep with you. You didn't know Musa and the band were rehearsing right next to my room, so Musa offered me her room because I haven't slept all night. If it had been the other way around I would done the same, I wouldn't have been that aggressive, but still. You really most care a lot about her to get so jealous and angry."

"No I'm just an angry person." Riven denied what Hunter was saying.

"Whatever you say dude, I know the truth. Don't worry I won't tell Musa, you two are on you own with this one." Hunter said casually and then looked dead serious, as he got up to leave again." Just one thing, don't hurt her."

"What happened?" Flora asked when they got out, they couldn't hear a thing from the bathroom.

"Flora stay out of this, don't you have some freaking flowers plan or something, just leave me the hell alone." His friends know that they were not going to get any father with him today, so they left him so he could think.

His head was spinning he needed to lie down, Hunter was wrong he didn't care about Musa in that way. She was the most stubborn and annoying person he had ever met plus she never listen to him and she had thrown a phone after him when she was mad. But she did look cute when she was mad; the way she bites down on her lower lip while trying to give him a death glance was priceless. Oh and she could be so manipulative like the time at the bar; she had manipulate him into dancing with her but that had led to the make-out session they had, so that wasn't so bad. No Riven did not have any feelings for Musa just a little physical attraction- that was all.

"Stella, why hadn't you told us before?" Helia asked softly as Stella was sitting with Brandon's arm around her after she had told everyone that was present, about Rob blackmailing her. Brandon had texted everyone to meet him in his room, everyone was there except for Riven and of Musa who still didn't know they were there.

"Take a deep breath and tell us everything, you can trust us nothing you say will leave this room." Bloom said.

"As most of you already know the last time I was out with Rob… things got a little crazy and Rob dared me to drunk dialed some people. The next morning I apologized to Helia and Flora two of the four people, I haven't talked to my mother yet I'm kind of avoiding her." Stella said to answer Helia's unspoken question, if she had talked to her mother yet. "The same day I talked to Timmy and asked if it was possible to delete one of my father's voicemail without him knowing."

"I answered yes and did it for you." Timmy confirmed

"I thought I had everything under control and I had nothing to worry about, the next day I found out that I was wrong about that. That was when we went to get dresses for the party, Rob called me and told me I owed him. At first I started arguing with him and when he got tired of that he played something for me; it was a tape where I was letting out my entire secret and some secrets friends have told me, plus the voicemail message I left my dad."

"It this okay." Brandon assured her and squeezed her shoulder.

"To be more specific I talked about how Timmy could hack into the police's computer and had done it a couple of times, How Helia's grandfather thinks his grandson is studying and not selling art. Also I mentioned to him I thought it was hilarious that Layla's mother really believed Layla when she said to 'no there is no milking' because I know that-"

"I think people get the picture." Nabu stopped her as Layla avoiding eye contact with everyone.

"Well Rob threatened to send the information to people who it was kept a secret from or to where it could hurt the person most, and I couldn't let that happened so I asked with he wanted."

"What did he want?" Flora asked

"He wanted to know where I was going."

"That makes no sense at all." Sky said

"It is not completely illogical, this Rob person seem obsessed with you maybe he is stalking you, which could be one reason why he wanted to know." Tecna disagreed with Sky and Brandon's mouth dropped opened.

"You think he is stalking her, so he could be here right now watching us." It sent shivers down Stella's spine as Brandon talked, she didn't like that idea of Rob watching her every step." The

"No he is not we would have noticed him by now if he was and beside Rob way too unintelligent to think off a thing like that, in fact I'm surprised he is smart enough to blackmail Stella." Timmy argued and that comfort her a little because she know he was right like Musa had told her-Rob isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.

"I'm with Timmy; I understand your point Tecna but Rob have never been obsessed with me, every time we have been together for more than a month he always stars expecting that I drop everything I have going on when I'm with him and if I don't which often is the case then he breaks up with me and find somebody else. We think very alike me and Rob, and to be honest I don't think this blackmailing thing is Rob's idea." Stella said after she had thought about what Tecna had said.

"You are right Stella, you guys think alike except that you got more brain then him." Layla commented and Stella shined like a little sun because of that compliment, compliments weren't something Layla gave often. And it warmed Brandon's heart to see her glad for the first time since she got the text but it only lasted for a moment.

"But if it isn't Rob that is behind this, who is it then?" Tecna asked bring everyone back to what was important; figuring out how to solve this.

"And most importantly, what do they want?" Sky added and silence fall over them all, each trying to thinking of a way to figure it out.

"Stella you really badly wanted to postpone this to tomorrow, why?" Brandon asked thinking about their conversation in the car.

"I guess I might as well tell you now but no judging okay, I only did what I thought was right."

"No judging." Brandon confirmed.

"Back when Musa had her falling out with her dad and stayed with me for two weeks, Musa asked me to go over when her father wasn't home and get the last of her clothes. I went but Musa's father wasn't at work he was sitting there on the sofa waiting for Musa to come home, it almost broke his heart went I told him she was dead serious she wasn't coming back. I knew Musa was going to be mad and really upset if I told her father anything about how she was doing, so I didn't but he figured out she was staying with me and it seem to give him some peace of mind. When Musa move in to her own apartment I called him and told him that she got her own place now and that phone called turned into a weekly call where I tell him how Musa is doing and what she is up to."

"Oh Stella." Layla said compassionate knowing fully well were this was going to lead to, when Musa fund out about this.

"I know she is going to think I have betrayed her trust but I did it because at first I thought it maybe could help them reconcile." She really didn't but Musa had been so angry and hurt at first, that just her trying to start a conversation about it had let to walking away.

"She will understand." Flora said comforting and placed a hand on Stella's.

"Flora is right she is going to be upset and angry but when she cools down she will understand." Helia agreed and gave her a hopeful smile, Stella sure hoped Helia was right but she would just have to wait until tomorrow and see.

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