So this chapter is a little pointless, it does have some stuff in it, but nothing of too much importance. When I had started this chapter, I was so excited because I love it when there is side by side fighting with the boys but it turns out that Stella, Musa and Layla aren't even a part of the action when the Trix go to take the Codex from Red Fountain. Anyway, I thought that would rob me of a Musa/Riven scene that you were all waiting so patiently for, but don't worry, I still managed to find a way to fit one in; but it's not exactly love dovey - sorry

And this is another short chapter so enjoy!

Reaching for the Sky

Musa and Stella walked back to their dorm room soaking wet with dirt on every inch of their bodies early in the morning after a hellish night with the sisters of Kai Fli. "I cannot believe that we have to suffer an entire week of this crap," Musa complained, she had been up the half the night running around Magix, doing some of the most insane pledge activities. First she and the rest of the pledges had to participate in what the sisters liked to call the 'date dash' where every pledge had to meet the Kai Fli sisters at some diner in the middle of Magix, but they needed to bring a date and they only ten minutes to do so. Musa and Stella were lucky to run into a few guys that went to Magix University that were happy to accompany them, they were actually pretty nice; but Ali hadn't faired as well. She had forgotten about the time limit so she went back to her room to straighten up and arrived almost an hour later; lucky for her she found a very hot guy to accompany her so the sisters forgave her tardiness. "It's so not worth it,"

"Yeah well at least you didn't have to be a moving target for them," Stella said with a groan. After the date dash, the girls split up into groups with their 'big sis' and Stella's big sis seemed nice until she decided that she needed some work on her aim with some of her spells and made Stella her moving target. They were around Black Mud Swamp for hours. "Why she wanted to do target practice at 3 am in the morning is beyond me,"

"She probably did it to piss you off," Musa pointed out, Musa was ready to go home after the date dash and officially decline the chance to become a sister, but Ali and Stella practically begged her to stay and when that didn't work they threatened to make every waking second a living hell if she didn't stay. And these were two girls Musa knew were not bluffing, so she decided to hang on the entire night and participate in the ritual of hazing. "This is hell week after all. And you have no reason to complain, Karen is my big sis, she's probably going to have me killed,"

"Oh calm down she didn't even make you do much," Stella said. It was kind of weird; Karen hadn't asked Musa to do anything particularly humiliating. Musa had to go to the Omega Chi house in Magix and clean the floors as a chore, but that was about it. "Besides after you were done you got to hang out at the Omega Chi house while I was still dodging orbs of mud and sand being hurled at me by a senior,"

"Yeah but I think I'm done with this whole sorority thing," Musa said sure that this was no longer what she wanted to be a Kai Fli sister. Sure it was fun to hang out with some of the girls, but she could do that any time she wanted and the public humiliation was something she was not exactly willing to go through. A part of her wanted to hang in there because her mom was a sister and from what Musa could tell from her old photo albums, she loved it. But things had changed and there was other ways Musa would follow in her mother's footsteps without having to run to a diner with some random guy from off the street. "This has been…interesting, but honestly I am really not that big a fan of being a sister and I think I'll live if I don't become one,"

"No! Come on you promised you would stay if you got the bid to be a pledge and you did!" Stella said recalling Musa's promise when they were walking over to the first Kai Fli meeting. She had promised Ali and Stella she would stick it out with them until the sisters picked the next class of girls to be in the sorority. "You can't back out now,"

"I think I can," Musa informed her. "Kai Fli is nice, don't get me wrong, but I am not about become Karen's bitch and basically beg at her knees to become a sister. I do not want it that bad,"

"So this is about your pride," Stella asked disappointedly. "Musa look at me! I have mud on my one of a kind Iwink Wizrahi heels and my designer outfit," Musa knew how much Stella's clothes meant to her, and she was a mess; her clothes were definitely headed for the trash, but still, Stella actually wanted this and Musa was very much on the fence. "I let go of mine and besides this can be a lot of fun; sisters meet the biggest names in everything,"

"So do royals," Musa pointed out. Kai Fli was known to introduce it's sisters to the most influencing people, but Musa and Stella were both royalty, which meant they had that privilege as a birth right. "And this way, I don't have to be kidnapped in the middle of the night,"

"It's one week!" Stella nearly shouted as the two continued to bicker as they stood in the common room. They had actually been there awhile, and Musa was rather surprised that they hadn't woken up any of the girls, especially Flora who was a very light sleeper. "I don't want to do this alone, and we have been having a lot of fun" Stella said looking down to the floor and seeing that they had tracked half of Magix back into their dorm room.

It was then Musa realized why Stella had been so avid about Musa being a part of Kai Fli, even though she had a hard time believing it. Musa and Stella hadn't really started off as great friends since the two of them clashed immediately, but their arguments formed some type of strange friendship between them but they hardly ever had any time to hang out since Bloom was so clingy and Stella had Brandon as well; while Musa was dealing with Daniel, the dance team and Riven. When they were at Kai Fli they had time to hang out and have fun like they did the year before, before all the crap started to rain down. When she thought about it, all the times she and Stella hung out at Kai Fli events, they had a lot of fun together and now that Musa was so close to Brandon, it served to bring her closer to Stella as well. And the Solarian princess didn't want to lose that since there would be very little time to hang out if she added 'Kai Fli sister' to her life and Musa didn't. "Fine," Musa said finally as she turned around and began towards her room. If she was going to deal with this for the next few months than she was going to have to get used to being humiliated, but of course she was used to that since last year was just a continuous stream of it. "I guess one week won't kill me,"

"Good!" Stella said happily as she headed back to her room as well. They were in desperate need of a shower and some sleep.

Musa woke later that that morning for her only class of the day, it was some cooking class that Stella had basically forced the girls to sign up for. According to Stella it was going to be the greatest classes ever because the teacher was amazing; Musa simply agreed and signed on since asking Stella a question about it would probably confuse her more.

The princess lay on her bed, still trying to work up the energy and will power to actually get out of her bed and start to get ready. She had arrived back in her room early that morning and after a shower she collapsed into bed and stayed there as long as she could; cooking was late in the afternoon and it was her only class so she could catch up on her sleep that she had missed when she was kidnapped from her room and forced to run around Magix like a chicken with it's head cut off.

"Where were you this morning?" Techna asked Musa as the princess finally sat up in bed and the digital fairy walked into the room. "I didn't see you in bed; did you have practice in the morning,"

"Nah, I was kidnapped," Musa said nonchalantly with a yawn and stood up and walked over to her closet. "Long story,"

"I'm sure," Techna said picking up a few books. "Tell me on the way, we're going to be late to our cooking class,"

Musa nodded and quickly threw on some new clothes and fixed her hair and walked over to the old wing with Techna. She explained the Kai Fli hazing briefly before realizing that those types of things were usually secret, especially since she was pretty sure hazing was a big no-no. Musa finished telling her about all the crazy night she had and then told her to keep it to herself since Musa really didn't need to be taking heat from the sorority for something as stupid as telling someone about hazing.

"Do you think this class is going to be difficult?" Techna asked scanning through her perfectly planned schedule on her PDA, as if looking for sometime that she could study. "Because I only have an hour free between class later and I'd like to read ahead on the material,"

"It's a cooking class Tech," Musa told her. "We probably won't have to do much besides mix some stuff in a bowl and throw it in the oven,"

"Yeah but at least that's better than the classes we're stuck with this year," Bloom said as she, Flora and Layla joined the two of them right as they stood in front of the classroom.

"Who's teaching our new class, anyway" Musa asked as she and Bloom walked over to one of the lecture rooms in the old wing. She rubbed her neck, it was still really sore from the night before. She was hoping the rest of the week wouldn't be as bad but she knew better than to hope for something that was very unlikely to happen.

"A famous chef," Bloom told Musa, being one of the most prestigious schools in the universe gave Alfea it's pick for teachers, which meant only the best taught these fairies. That did have it's pitfalls, however, Griselda happened to be one of the best teachers for combat and potions. "Stella is obsessed with his new cooking show,"

"Yet the girl can't make toast without starting a fire," Musa pointed out.

"To be fair that was only one time," Techna said.

"And she put it right out," Flora added recalling the day Stella decided she was going to cook breakfast for the girls before they woke up. She had printed out recipes and everything, but in a matter of minutes the entire dorm filled with smoke and they found Stella in their small kitchenette wielding a spatula and fire extinguisher. It was the last time the Solarian princess tempted fate with kitchen appliances.

"Nothing was worse than her yoga phase," Bloom said. Stella tended to throw herself into random things on a whim and for an entire month in their freshman year, she forced all the girls to do yoga with her, going so far as to turn the common room into a yoga studio.

"Hey girls wait for me!" Stella said running up to her friends, frantic to not be late for the new class and what looked like would be her new passion. "I'm so excited for this new class, aren't you excited," She said looking to the girls who all had the same glazed, uninterested look in their eyes; they would have rather been doing something else; or in Musa's case sleeping, but Stella had forced their hand for this one. "Come on, chef Rocco diSpello is so cute!" She continued at the door. "I want a front row seat,"

"Another hot new teacher?" Techna asked with a roll of her eyes; Alfea was still very much a buzz with Avalon and adding a new teacher to this place full of hormone driven teenage girls would surely cause a frenzy.

"This is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be," Musa said. Stella then turned around from looking into the classroom with a horrified look on her face.

"Ewww," The Solarian princess said loudly.

"What?" Techna asked. "Is he not as cute in person,"

Then, as if answering Techna's question, Griselda walked out of the classroom with her hands on the waist and the usual disappointed look on her face. "Griselda?" The group said in weird unison once again. What was with that anyway? They were clearly spending way too much time together if they were now saying the same things at the same time.

"Well are you girls just going to stand there and gawk?" Griselda said sternly. "Get in here,"

"Isn't this supposed to be a magical cuisine seminar," Stella said nervously as she walked over to her seat with a disappointed look painted all over her face. The girls took any of the remaining seats and saw the disappointed looks on the other girls' faces as well, any class with Griselda was sure to suck.

"Cooking class has been replaced with my master combat class," Griselda told her, putting her hands on her hips. Musa was less than excited about the change in her schedule, she was so careful to pick classes that Griselda wasn't teaching and now she was stuck with what was sure to be a brutal class. Griselda was known for having no patience with students that were not up to par with her skills and she was brutal if anyone was disobedient in her class, which was why Stella found herself in detention all the time. "So go find your assigned seat and let's get started,"

"I can't believe we have another combat class," Musa complained quietly. After the invasion of the witches the yer before, the school for fairies became very serious about teaching the girls defense with both spells and in combat. "They got rid of my favorite music class for master's potion theory,"

"I know, I hardly have any time to do anything because of all the mandatory training sessions with the teachers," Techna said lowly to Musa.

"The focus of this master class will be magical martial arts," Griselda told the girls, giving Musa and Techna a stern look. "I'm sure many of you don't know this, but I competed in the all realm magical games, in fact I was the first female black belt gold metal,"

"And what year was that?" Musa asked with a small laugh, not realizing how loud she actually was when she made the comment.

"It was twenty years ago," Griselda snapped with some offence staring down at the musical princess with her signature look of judgment mixed with hate. "But I can still fight like a champion. Young ladies deserve to learn from the best and there will be a mandatory combat practice along with this class. It is scheduled for later this afternoon near the west entrance and everyone must attend,"

A loud groan from the class, the girls began to gather their books, not looking forward to the class they would have to attend later. "Class dismissed," Griselda said loudly as she took a seat behind her desk and all the girls quickly filed out of the room.

"Just when I thought I was going to have an easy 'A'," Musa said, picking up her things and walking out of the classroom next to Stella. At least the class itself didn't last long since it was simply an introduction; they were probably going to get into the real material of the class and all the theory the next day.

Musa walked onto the west field of the school, ready for whatever Griselda planned for the class. She walked onto the grass and saw that Griselda had already begun to tell the girls the plan for the lesson. And to Musa's surprise, they were going to be allowed to attack Griselda, although the point of the lesson was deflection techniques; so Musa wasn't exactly quick to volunteer.

"Would anyone like to volunteer?" Griselda asked looking over to the crowd of girls surrounding her, each with the same 'please don't call on me' face on her face. And of course she landed on one of her least favorite students. "Very well, I'll have to pick someone. What we want to do is to use the attacker's force against them. Why don't we start with you Stella?"

"I just wanna say that this year's schedule is a disgrace! I mean, like enough battle classes already! I thought the school mission was to give us a well rounded education!" Stella complained as she stepped up towards Griselda and prepared herself to be made a fool of, why else would Griselda pick her, Stella had a theory that Griselda was simply jealous of her 'youth and beauty' as she put it; which was why she always picked on her. Musa figured it had something to do with the fact that she had blown up the potions lab the year before.

"At the moment, our mission is to help you survive." Griselda told the fairy with a cross look in her eye. "Go ahead! Show me your best attack!"

"Fine!" Stella said with a small smile on her face, even though it was apparent this attack wouldn't pan out, the fact that she got to throw an attack at Griselda without getting in trouble. "Sunburst!"

"Sun block!" Griselda said calmly, not looking even looking over to where the attack was coming from. However it did not stop Stella from trying once again.

"Solar Lava Blast! "

"Deflector" Griselda said putting up what looked like a spell shield, but the attack bounced off the wall of it instead of simply disintegrating, and it went straight back at Stella, even when she tried to dodge it, and hit her straight on.

"See how I used her power against her?" Griselda said proudly looking down at Stella, who was sitting on the ground in confusion and frustration, with a smug smile. "Everyone attack now,"

"Right, let's go," Musa said being aware of the fact that Griselda would probably use another similar move, she would have to move out of the way a little quicker this time. "Sonic Blast,"

Musa fired a rather powerful blast at Griselda, however she simply absorbed the attack and continued to do so for the rest of the class and then dismissed the girls, telling them to read up on the material to prepare for next week's session.

After a grueling dance practice and dinner Musa began walking back up to her room after a few hours of spell searching in the library. Musa knew she was probably not going to find the spell since she knew very well that there was not something to find. She knew from the second Layla brought up the fact that complete mind control was nearly impossible.

"Hey Musa," Musa turned as Ali caught up to her in the hallway as she walked back to her dorm.

"What happened to you last night?" Musa asked, she hadn't seen Ali all night, she did see Tessa and Stella but Ali was not present.

"I was actually going to ask you about that," Ali said. "I was actually over at Red Fountain last night so I missed everything, Tessa filled me in,"

"And why were you at Red Fountain?" Musa said with a sly smile.

"We both know why I was there," Ali told her. "But I just wanted to know what exactly we're in for this week,"

"No idea," Musa told her plainly, she was a little apprehensive about what was going to happen since Karen basically owned her for the week. "I have to do whatever Karen wants me to do,"

"Yeah I heard about that too, but I don't think there is anything to worry about," Ali said with some confidence. "But what is she going to do to you in one week?"

"That's what Stella said,"

"I actually wanted to ask if you were going to go to the gala event at the museum next week," Ali asked. The event was the charity event of the year where a bunch of rich people donated a lot of money to poor people that weren't invited to the party. It was basically an excuse to get together and drink and bask in their power and affluence. But it was usually a lot of fun when the older crowd was drunk and the younger rich kids got to play. It was the type of event that Ali loved and Musa really wasn't a fan of.

"No, I didn't even hear about it,"

"Really cause I saw the guest list and 'Princess of Harmonic Nebula' is on there," Ali said. "I saw it and knew you wouldn't go willingly so I just thought maybe it was a mistake,"

"Oh it's a mistake," Musa said gritting her teeth. This definitely had Galatea, with the help of Karen, written all over it. "Galatea is after my throne,"

"Seriously?" Ali said a little shell shocked, she couldn't stand it if someone had even tried to take her noble status. "Well we need to stop her and teach the bitch a lesson,"

"Don't get too riled up yet," Musa advised. "I think I need to go get some sleep but I'll talk to you about it tomorrow, I don't think she is very serious about it so we'll see,"

Ali nodded and the two fairies went on their way to get some sleep.

The next day started pretty early since Stella and Musa were both called to the greens of the back grounds of Alfea to be the gardeners for the morning. One of the things that Kai Fli prided itself on was bettering Alfea, at least that is what they told alumni when it came to getting grants and other financial aid, so during hell week all the pledges were required to get up at the crack of dawn and do the gardening.

Musa was stuck with planting flowers, which wasn't too bad, she could have gotten Stella's job which happened to be trimming the shrubs on the edge of campus that were infested with bugs and other gross woodland creatures.

"So is the point of hell week to ruin all my one of a kind shoes?" Stella said angrily walking back into the dorm with Musa, covered in dirt, much like the morning before.

"Well why do you wear them if you know they are going to get ruined?" Musa asked, she had just shoved her feet into a pair of random shoes she had found on her floor. She needed to run into Magix and pick up a new pair now since her's were caked in everything from the dirt from the garden to whatever she had stepped in on the way up. She shook both feet over the trash can so she didn't have to touch the slippers and looked back to Stella.

"Because what if we have another diner date dash thing?" Stella whined. "I mean I might not be so lucky to run into some nice boys from Magix U, by the way did you give your guy your number?" Stella asked, she recalled that the boy Musa had taken was pretty cute and she definitely approved. "What was his name,"

"Jake," Musa said. "And no I didn't, I really didn't like him that much,"

"Why? He was cute and nice and he was well dressed," Stella whined.

"I dunno, I just didn't,"

"Ugh you are far too picky,"

"Coming from the girl who won't wear shoes unless they match her everything down to her skirt hem," Musa said with a roll of her eyes, she looked into her room and saw that Techna wasn't there and she looked into Bloom's room to see that she and Flora were gone as well. "Hey where are the girls?"

"I dunno," Stella said. "Oh I know, Red fountain!"

Immediately after Musa's shower she was pulled out of her room and dragged off the campus in the direction of Red Fountain. "What are we doing?" Musa said as she fixed her shirt that happened to be inside out since Stella had basically pushed her out of her room as she was getting dressed.

"Bloom told me she wanted to talk to Sky and I think Flora went along as moral support," Stella said still kicking the same twig she had been messing with the last fifteen minutes. "Although I think she had a bit of an ulterior motive,"

"She was pretty taken with Helia," Musa said. Flora was not as talkative about her love life, or at all for that matter, but she seemed to be on cloud nine for the past couple of days, ever since they had run into the pacifist at the reopening of Red Fountain. "But again, why are we going?"

"Because I'm bored and I didn't want to walk over alone," Stella said plainly and saw the distasteful look on Musa's face. Last year after she and Daniel were over, Musa at least had Flora to hang out with but now with Helia in the picture it looked like she was the only one in the group without a guy, except for Layla, but she wasn't exactly a part of the group yet. "Hey you might see Riven,"

"Maybe he's grown that personality you thought he needed," Musa joked, she was looking forward to seeing him but she knew that not much would happen.

"Hey do you hear that?" Musa said stopping abruptly on their way through the enchanted forest, on the well traveled path to Red Fountain. She heard a faint siren in the distance, at first she had thought it was coming from Magix, but now she was sure that it was coming from Red Fountain. "It sounds like it's coming from Red Fountain,"

"I don't hear anything," Stella said as she ran ahead forward until the school came within eye sight and she gazed up and saw the red light flashing from the school. "But I can see something going on," She yelled back to Musa and motioned for her to hurry.

"Something's going on," Musa said. She and Stella quickly transformed and flew up to the campus and saw the students in a massive scramble.

"Oh hey there's Helia," Musa said not sure if she should call him over or not, he looked like he was a little stressed out, judging by the howling sirens, she was right.

"Helia!" Stella called as she waved her hand over her head at him. "Yoohoo!" She yelled out again, almost making Musa feel a little embarrassed for being there next to her.

"Hello girls," Helia said walking over to the girls, panting as if he had just been running. But he managed to keep a very calm demeanor in spite of the fact there was chaos erupting around him.

"What's going on?" Musa asked, still looking at all the guys scrambling around the campus.

"The school was just under attack," He said with some surprise that they didn't know. "Isn't that why you're here?"

"What! Again?" Musa spat. The trix were really bent on destroying the new school weren't they. "The witches?"

"Yeah and they escaped with something called the Codex," Helia told them. "Brandon, Sky and Riven are all in the infirmary with a bunch of the other guys,"

"Schnookums! Is he okay!" Stella nearly yelled as the blood drained out of her face. She then began walking in towards the school and motioned for Helia and Musa to follow since she had no idea where the infirmary was in the first place.

"He fell pretty hard on his leg, but I think he's gonna be fine," Helia told the girls as they began to walk towards the infirmary, the hallways were filled with confusion as to what had happened; the attack must have just occurred if the siren had just shut off and the guys were still getting information as to what happened to their school, again. "Sky is the only one that was in actual trouble, Icy put a sleep spell on him or something,"

"Is he okay?" Musa said although her mind was still heavily fixated on if Riven were okay or not. Helia didn't seem too worried so it did help to ease her mind but of course he was the guy that restrained the lio-dragouraus to save Flora but let it loose when she was out of harms way. Musa couldn't help but worry, no matter how much she doubted him sometimes, Riven had found a place in her heart and she couldn't deny her feelings to herself anymore.

"He's fine now, but some of medics are still checking him to make sure he doesn't have a concussion," Helia told the two as they finally made their way to the infirmary. "Here we are,"

Musa walked in and saw Sky laying on one of the bed with Bloom sitting at his side; Brandon was two beds over next to Riven. Both of them were sitting up on the sides of their beds talking, obviously fine, not that it stopped Stella from making a scene in front of all the other guys that were in there as well. "Schnookums!" Stella yelled as she ran up to Brandon threw her arms around him. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine Stella," Brandon said with an embarrassed laugh since everyone was now staring at him. Stella however didn't believe him and stayed at his side making sure he was all right, Flora was standing next to Brandon as well, feeling a little awkward so she moved over to Musa who just happened to be standing next to Helia. "What happened?"

"And why did nobody call us!" Stella added.

"It all happened pretty fast," Bloom said. "We got here and the witches sent out some crazy orb that started to tear up the campus,"

"It was a distraction to get into the Varatox chamber," Sky continued. "They stole the Codex,"

"Are you okay?" Musa asked while wondering what exactly this 'Codex' was.

"Yeah," Sky said with a warm smile and looked over to Bloom with a loving look; making Musa want to gag a little. She couldn't help but feel a stab of jealousy though, a year ago she had a handsome prince looking at her that way too and now her handsome prince wasn't even speaking to her and the guy she wished would look at her like that barely spoke two words to her. "Thanks to Bloom,"

"And what about you," Musa said walking over to Brandon, seeing that he had hurt his leg.

"I'm fine," Brandon said giving her a smile. "Helia here was actually a big help today,"

"You sound surprised," Stella said. "He did restrain the lio-dragouarus that day,"

"And then let it go," Musa said under her breath, again loud enough for Helia to hear.

"Sorry about that," Helia said finally looking down. Musa hadn't really realized that Helia was trying his best to fit in and it was a little intimidating when people in the group were resistant to that. "I just don't think it's right to restrain an animal, no matter what it's doing, it was obviously under some type of spell,"

"Yeah and he is the newest student here at Red Fountain," Brandon added.

"Really?" Stella said excitedly looking to Flora who stood there silently, but he face had just lit up. "Ooh this will be so much fun,"

An hour passed and Musa found herself walking along the campus with everyone except Sky and Bloom, who decided to stay in the infirmary, she hadn't even realized the time passing by but she had noticed that she and Riven really hadn't said anything to the other. God, she just wished that they could be comfortable enough to just talk to each other.

"Are you okay?" Musa asked looking down as she played with her fingers, feeling increidably nervous. She had just then realized that she and Riven had seemed to walk off into a rather secluded part of the campus in between the shooting ranges and the stadium doors. Musa could slightly hear the roar of the dragons that were in the stables not to far away.

"Yeah I'm fine," Riven said feeling a little self conscious since Musa was obviously feeling a little awkward around him. "I'm surprised that there wasn't more damage to the school though,"

"Me too," Musa said with a small laugh. "I didn't even know they were after something,"

"Why else would they be here?" Riven asked confused, not realizing that his voice pick up with some defense sneaking in.

"Reek havoc, they're the trix sisters," Musa said, feeling a little defensive. She could here a defensive tone picking up in his voice. Was he defending them? They were the witches that nearly took over the universe, nearly had him killed and he was still defending them? Musa could feel herself about to overreact, but everything was just piling up and she could not keep dealing with it. Why did she have to go through all this crap for this guy, she wished it could have been as easy as it was with Daniel.

"I dunno I think they would have some type of plan behind their mayhem," He continued not seeing the anger beginning to well inside the fairy he adored so much. Riven really hadn't meant anything by it, it just seemed silly to him to attack a place where there was no benefit; it made no sense. Of course he failed to realize that it didn't exactly sound good, a flaw he seemed to keep on repeating, especially to Musa who was feeling particular insecure about the situation.

"Well you would know," Musa said snidely, knowing that it would hurt Riven when she said it. And promptly walked away, feeling sick. She hated how much she liked him and how much he was proving to her that he was not the guy she thought he was. She had just spent the entire week looking for some spell, which probably didn't exisit, that explained his actions the year before. She was so positive that a spell had to be out there since she was not ready to face the truth; but it was so bleeding obvious Riven joined the witches on his own accord; just the thought was making Musa dizzy.

Musa left Red Fountain a few minutes later, not saying another word to Riven, while the rest of her friends hung around for awhile after words, angry beyond words with a certain specialist. Although she didn't know how crushed she had left him, feeling both shock and surprise since he had no idea what he had done but now was feeling like he would never have a chance with her since she was obviously not over the entire mistake he had made the year before.

I was going to have a cute little scene between the two of them at the end of the chapter, but I was reading some fanfiction stories and got a little pissy with Riven's character so I figured I would have Musa lash out at him because of her insecurities, besides that is something you see in a lot of real relationships. Plus Musa's anger towards Riven is going to help when Jared comes along.

I also happen to love the little love triangle between Darcy, Riven and Musa, I even have about half a story written about it, I just can't seem to get it right; I don't know if I ever will, I've been working on it for over a year now and I just keep chopping it up and redoing it. Hopefully it will be ready soon.

wow no notes this time - it was a short chapter after all

My favorite part of the story is coming up in a few chapters!

xoxo,
princessm