A/N Sorry about the wait guys but my laptop broke which means I lost everything. Everything! Even the story I've been writing for a year. Gone! Honestly I was so upset about this that I wasn't even going to continue this but then my friend wanted me to so thanks to her, here's the next Chapter! It would have been up sooner but I also went to Hershey Park for a while. ^^" I hope I didn't lose all of my readers. I fast forwarded a few days~

Ivy rolled her eyes as Crystal hurried to shove everyone out of the dorm.

"We only have 24 hours until the party! We need to find dresses now!" she squealed, while shoving Melody out of her room. The guys they met in town had asked them to the huge party the school throws in the beginning of the year. Their James wasn't going though because he didn't have a date and Ivy secretly wondered if her James was going-or again if they were the same James.

"I'm going, I'm going!" Melody shouted. Ivy pulled out the letter from her mother and read it quickly.

Dear Ivy,

I'm so glad you made friends, especially with the young Winx girls! I don't know why we never introduced all of you earlier. Oliver says hi. Your father misses you. Stella wasn't exactly a bad student…she was just…troublesome. I don't think Griselda ever forgave her for blowing up the potions lab…

Guys? On your first day? Your group is sounding to much like ours now! So, James huh? Well sweetie when I met your father it was love at first sight-Must sound weird to you right? But it's true; Crystal may be on to something.

With love,

Your mother.

Ivy sighed and put the letter in her side draw. That's not what she wanted to her from her mother. Love at first sight? Great, just what she needed to distract herself from her studies! Ivy promised herself it was books first then possibly guys.

"Ivy!" Crystal shrieked, making Ivy jump. The blonde headed fairy stomped back into the room and yanked Ivy off the bed. "Let's go!"

"Sorry!" Ivy half walked out of the room, being half dragged. "What's the big deal? It's just a party…" Ivy muttered. Crystal stopped in her tracks.

"What!? Not a big deal!? It's a huge deal! The boys asked us to go with them!" Crystal continued dragging Ivy out the door, where the other fairies now stood. Melody was laughing at them. Ivy refrained herself from pointing out that the boys asked them to the party, not her.

Four hours later they were all standing in another store. Crystal had tried on over 1000 dresses and still hadn't found 'the right one'. Whatever that meant. Melody yawned, sitting cross-legged on the floor.

"Are you done yet?" Melody had picked up her dress two hours ago. (A/N I'll put a link to all of their dresses at the end of the story.)

"This dress has to be perfect!" Crystal said, throwing an "ugly" gray dress onto a ever growing pile of "ugly" dresses. Ivy sat down next to the bags that contained everyone else's dresses.

"You look fabulous in that Crystal." Melissa said as Crystal magically appeared in a knee high black dress.

"I don't know…" Crystal twirled in front of a mirror.

"I swear if you don't pick a dress right now, I'm going to kill you," Lily growled.

"I love this dress!" Crystal quickly responded, glancing at Lily. Melody and Ivy suppressed giggles.

Crystal paid for the dress (Ivy couldn't believe how much a girl would spend on clothes) and they all went for pizza.

"Ok so everyone has a dress now, except for you Ivy." Crystal pointed out.

"I'm not going to the ball." Ivy said, in between bites of pizza. Crystal almost choked.

"What!" everyone exclaimed.

"I'm not…going." Ivy repeated a little scared now from their reactions. Melody patted Crystal on the back until she could breath again.

"What do you mean you're not going? This is the party of the year! Everyone is going! This is like where everyone hooks up and meet people!" Crystal exclaimed, still in shock,

"Parties just aren't my thing…"

"Oh common Ivy! Even I'm going!" Melissa pointed out. Henry was shocked to find out his sister was going to a social event.

"But I'm not you. I'm…me. Me doesn't going to parties or have friends…" Ivy inwardly winced. She hadn't meant to say that last part. There was a bit of an awkward silence when Ivy wondered if they were regretting becoming friends with her and the girls wondered if Ivy didn't consider them friends when Melody said,

"But you do have friends Ivy. And if you have friends you can go to this party with them!" the other girls agreed.

"I don't know…parties are just something to get in the way of studies."

"But you can meet boys there!" Crystal bribed.

"Boys are just something to get in the way of studies." Ivy smiled slightly when Lily laughed.

"You've got all wrong girl. Studies get in the way of boys and parties!" Lily waved and smiled flirtatiously at a few boys who walked in. They had found out the day before that Lily was a flirt and proud of it. She could get any guys attention.

"You have to come Ivy! The boys invited us!" Crystal whined.

"In my life school and family come first. Then after I get an education maybe i'll have time to worry about boys. And the boys invited you guys, not me. You'll all be busy with them and I can't talk to new people."

Melody laughed, "But you talked to us!" while Crystal said, "Exactly why you need to come! To meet a guy of your own!"

"That's different because 1.) You're all my dorm mates so I'd have to talk to you eventually and 2.) My mother knows all of your moms. By the way, Crystal did your mom seriously blow up the potions lab?" Everyone looked at Crystal.

"What? She was trying to make a new shade of pink."

"Did she?" Katrina asked,

"Nope." They all started laughing. "Maybe I should try."

"No!" everyone shouted, which set off another round of laughter.

With that the conversation ended. They didn't know Ivy well enough to make her go to parties yet. After everyone finished eating they headed back to Alfea. When they walked inside, Melody and Lily collapsed on the couch while Melissa turned on the T.V. and took a seat in an armchair. Her rabbit, Kali, hoped onto her lap immediately.

"You're so lucky that Kali came with you." Melody stated, reaching over to pet the bunny. "I wish Skysong could have come." Ivy thought for a moment then remembered Skysong was the baby dragon Melody got from the sanctuary-without her parents permission.

"Kali is a rabbit not a fire breathing dragon." Melissa giggled.

"She doesn't breath fire yet…" Melody muttered under her breath.

They had spent the entire afternoon looking for dresses and now it was 3:30 P.M.

The girls decided to just laze about while Crystal rambled on about the Ball and Lucas. At some point Ivy slipped out, to just get some fresh air. Being inside for too long drove her insane. When she left, Melody was writing a song-Ms. Faragonda thought it would be great for her to sing at the opening- Melissa was reading, and Lily was talking to Crystal about boys. Ivy was just wandering the halls of Alfea. She said hello to the few passing fairies but most girls were getting ready for the ball. When Ivy saw that girl who she had run into a few days back she quickly ducked through a door. When she turned around she found herself in the school library. Melissa had said it was huge but Ivy didn't think it would be this big! As she walked through the isles of books, she realized that the place was pretty empty. I guess not many students like to read…

When Ivy thought the girl would be gone, she started heading back to the door.

Only to bump into someone.

"J-james!?"

"Hey you're the girl from café! Uh, Ivy right?"

"Uh y-yeah. What are you doing here? Not that I don't want you here-I mean I don't-"

James chuckled, "I'm delivering a letter to Ms. Faragonda from Saladin. You know from Red Fountain?"

"So um you go there? To Red Fountain I mean?"

"Yeah." They moved out of the doorway, as two fairies walked in. When they were out of earshot they looked back over to where Ivy and James were standing and giggled. For some reason they annoyed Ivy. She pushed the thought from her mind when she realized James was talking to her.

"Sorry what?"

He laughed and she blushed. "I said, you must be a fairy right?"

"Oh yeah. The Fairy of Nature at your service," she pulled up the sides of her skirt a little and did a small curtsey. Both of them laughed. Oh dear God am I freaking flirting?! What is wrong with me!

As more fairies walked into the building, Ivy and James moved over to one of the reading tables and sat down.

Wait he goes to Red Fountain! Same James…so he's not going to the ball?

"So um if you go to Red Fountain I guess you're going to the Beginning of the Year ball huh?"

"Actually no. My group has dates and I don't so they'd ditch me when we got there anyway."

"Ah, same for me."

"A pretty girl like you doesn't have a date?" Ivy blushed, smiling.

The two talked for a while longer before James remembered he was supposed to be delivering a message to Ms. Faragonda.

"See you later…at the ball perhaps?" James smiled then left when she said yes.

Did he just ask me to the ball? Did I just say yes!? What is wrong with me today!

When Ivy went back to her room the girls were still watching T.V.

"Where'd you disappear to?" Melissa looked up from her book, Trickers Choice. (A/N By Tamora Pierce, I strongly recommend you read it :D!)

"Oh just to get fresh air. I can only be inside for so long before going crazy."

"Why do you look so happy…" Melody put aside her guitar.

"I'll go to the ball-" Ivy winced when Crystal squealed and squeezed her. "Not if I can't breath though!" Crystal giggled and let go.

"What changed your mind?" Lily asked.

"Um nothing really…just thought about what you girls said. Maybe some things can come with studies." Like James…. "But…I don't have a dress…"

Crystal grinned, ran into her room and came back out with a gorgeous dress. "I thought we might change your mind before tomorrow!"

A/N So updates will be slow now that I don't have my laptop. Also I found out I like writing my own stories much more than I like writing FanFictions so please check out my Quotev account- AshMisty4Ever there's not much on it right now but soon there will be more! Also if you check out Quotev here's a shoutout to my best friend, Tori. Check out her's while your at it if you want some great stories ^-^ CreativexMind that's her!

Here are the girls' dresses and etc.~!

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