A/N: I haven't updated anything this week and I am so sorry! School hasn't been easy for this week since it's exams and projects and stuff, and unfortunately, it would be the same next week as I know I will be quite busy with activities and such. So...basically, this week I'm busy, and next week I will also be busy. So don't expect much updates from me in the week. Okay? But don't worry! I'll make up for it in Christmas Vacation, which is the week after next week, so...yeah!
Originally, this wasn't planned to be updated today, as I was planning to post it in Tecna's birthday (from what I remembered, it's in the 16th of December, right?), but then I realized...yeah, I'd better update it now just in case my schedule for next week gets any tighter. So, here I am!
This chapter has more hinting, more parodies of things, some explicit mentions (just a warning to the young ones) and other stuff. Like, the Winx is now in a plane coming to LA and the Specialists is about to pick them up, but it's not the chapter where they meet, it will be in the next chapter.
Hold on tight, this ride is a wild one
"I said leave me alone!" She yelled with force as she nearly slammed her door close. "I've said this before, and I'm going to say this again: I'm FINE! How many times does it take for you to process it in your heads?!" Her voice was cracking as she struggled to fight the urge to break down again.
"No, Tec, you're not fine!" Her best friend since preschool had yelled back from the other side of the door, "If you were fine, you wouldn't be yelling at us and having an emotional breakdown in there!"
She just stood quiet as she tried to breath, desperately wiping the tears in her eyes as she leaned her back on the door and sliding her back down on the white, wooden surface, trying to calm herself down. This is why he yelled at her again. God, why does she have to be such a mess? Why did she even come back here in the state she's in? She didn't know, but they'll know.
Make no mistake, the day will come when you can't cover up what you've done,
Hearing no response from her best friend, a certain musical girl just turned to her other friends with a frown and sighed. "Tecna, sweetie, what's going on?" Her nature loving friend asked softly, approaching the door and knocking on it softly.
"Like I said," She managed to utter, even though she was now practically choking on her own tears. "I'm fine, I-I just need to...c-calm myself for a moment..."
"But why?" Asked her blonde friend, approaching the door to hear her a bit better. Even she's a bit better, "Is it you and Troy again or something?"
Now don't lose your fight, kid
She kept quiet at that statement, well, it was true. So what's the point of answering? "I knew it," Her best friend stated, now the one who is approaching the door, "I knew there was something wrong between you and Howards...tell me, Tec, what did he do to you?"
"It's...nothing." Honestly, it just sounded pathetic. The very first excuse in the book. But it was all she could say right now. They don't need to find out.
"Well...whatever it is, I hope it's not anything serious." Her redheaded friend said, basically saying 'we should probably leave her alone for the time being' to her other friends indirectly. "We hope you two can sort it out soon..."
It only takes a little push to pull on through
"Yeah..." Her nature-loving friend trailed off, pulling her best friend from ramming the door down and demanding what really happened. "What about we go...shopping while we let Tecna have some alone time?"
With so much left to do...
"Or, or, or, we can just bring her with us." Her best friend suggested, "It's been a while since Tec went shopping with us..."
"G-go ahead..." She spoke up. The musical girl was right; they haven't been shopping, or hanging out in general for what? A few months? "I'll be fine here."
You'll be missing out, and we'll be missing you.
Her best friend frowned at this, why is she being so distant lately? Is she purposely trying to be left out or something? Because even though the technical girl was never quite fond of shopping, she was still good company, her best friend admitted that. And with her being left out lately... "Fine, Tecna..."
...
"Psst, hey Tec, wake up,"
Tecna's eyes slowly opened as she felt someone nudging on her shoulders. Realizing that the previous scene was just a dream sequence that may or may not have been a flashback of some sort, she let out a sigh of relief and straightened her seating, before turning to the source of where the nudging came from. Seeing Musa, she asked, "Err, is the plane landing already?" Because why would Musa even bother to wake her up other than reminding her that they're now in Los Angeles? But, seeing as the plane they were in is still high up in the air with no intention of landing any time soon, it seems that it's not the case.
"Not for an hour or so, I guess." The musical girl shrugged.
"So...why did you wake me up?" Tecna raised a brow, "Don't tell me you accidentally locked your iPod for twenty-four hours again-"
Musa only laughed nervously and sheepishly at this, "Not really, thank god." She paused for a moment to look at her friend's expression and frowns, "But I was kinda worried about you for a moment there, y'know..."
"Huh...what do you mean by that?"
The Asian girl flashed one of her concerned expression to her best friend, "You kinda had one of those sorta distressed looks in your sleep again," She said, "Had a nightmare or somethin'?" Before Tecna could answer a half-assed lie like 'it's nothing', Musa cut her off, "And don't bother lying, Tec, we've been best friends since we're like, five. I know it when you're lying."
Tecna blinked at her friend for a moment, "Wow, Musa, when did you get so concerned?" Ever since they were at least in primary school, Tecna was the concerned friend. But now, they seem to have switched roles.
"Like, about a year ago. But thanks for noticing it now, I guess." Musa jokingly rolls her eyes, "But seriously though, had a nightmare or something?"
Sighing in defeat, the girl gamer rubbed her head as she sighed yet again, "Yes," She answered truthfully, "But it's nothing too serious, Musa, so there's practically little to no reason to worry about me."
Musa stared at her for a moment, before shrugging and turning back to her iPod to change her playlist, "Well, if ya say so..."
The two sat in silence for at least a few minutes, with Musa enjoying a new and surprisingly good album called '1969', and Tecna pulling out her new 5Ds, continuing her journey in the newly released CapsuMon Purple Version. But a few moments later...
"Hey, you two!" A high-pitched voice that came from behind their seats suddenly exclaimed as two heads (a blonde and a redhead) popped up behind them, Tecna only sighed at her blonde friend's rather loud greeting, while Musa muttered a curse under her breath.
"What?" Musa demanded irritably, turning back to the blonde and redhead who sat behind them. Bloom grinned sheepishly and flashed an apologetic look for her blonde best friend's loud greeting, while Stella just ignored the musical girl's glare and irritability, continuing on.
"Remember our old 'Reading Winx Smut' segment? You know, that time where we read really perverted fanfics about us-"
"I thought no one is supposed to talk about that segment, like, ever again?" Musa asked irritably, getting a bit disgusted at their old segment where they read rather erotic Winx stories. Since the Winx Club channel in MagixTube about, well, the famous Winx Club, a group of attractive and 'sexy' girls doing random things, there's at least bound to be some Rule 34 out there...
"I know!" Stella exclaims, pointing at Bloom in a confident manner, matched with a confident look, "But B here discovered this awesome story about us and I thought, hey! We should totally read and react to this!"
"If it's another erotica about us having an orgy then I'm going to throw you out of this fucking plane and into the fucking sun." Layla threatened as she and Flora popped their heads from in front of the musical and technical girls.
Bloom quickly shook her head at the accusation, "No, it's not, I swear!" She assured, "In fact, there's no smut or any explicit content on this story that I discovered, like, at all."
The nature girl only raised a brow at this, curious. "Oh? What it is about?"
Stella grinned in excitement, "Okay girls, get ready for this..." She paused for a moment, "It's a story about us...as FAIRIES!"
It took a few moments for the other Winx girls to respond, "Okay, so like some fairy tail shit like T-bell or somethin'?" Musa asked, frowning. "'Cause I'm not interested in girly sparkly fairy dust stories, thank you very much."
"Oh, it's not that girly!" Stella rolls her eyes, "In fact; we're fighting crime and stuff like that-!"
While Stella was telling her friends about this story that she's been talking about, Tecna just sighed and turned away, deciding that she was far too uninterested to listen. She frowned at remember what her dream/nightmare was, she was glad Musa woke her up, she just didn't want to experience it. All over again...
She just hopes that she would be off to a new start in Los Angeles, without him, of course...but for how long?
...
"I still don't get why you morons decide to go with me to pick up Musa and the others in the airport..." Riven muttered, irritably rubbing the back of his head as he and the Specialists waited in the airport for the Winx's arrival.
"Oh come on, Riven, don't you ever think I'll pass on picking up and welcoming some hot babes around here." Brandon gave a sly and confident wink at the maroon-haired man.
"Well, one of those 'hot babes' is my girlfriend, so you'd better watch out lover boy, unless you want to get castrated." Riven retorted, giving a side-glare to the brunette man. Brandon, in turn, merely shrugged at this, used to his hotheaded friend's threats and glares. Seeing Timmy busy on his 5DS or whatever, Riven smirked a bit, "And plus, I think Timmy here has his eye out for another one of them too."
Hearing his name being mentioned, Timmy looked up from his latest Mintendo 5DS with CapsuMon Red Version with a clueless look. He doesn't even know why he came up to the airport just for Riven to pick up his girlfriend and her group of friends, but he did anyway as he was...kind of looking forward to talk to a certain magenta-haired gamer, "Uh...what?"
Nabu just laughed at his friend's clueless nature, slapping his back jokingly with the bespectacled gamer's glasses nearly falling off, "Oh, come on! I'm sure Brandy here would reserve the gamer girl for Timbro here!"
"Well, you're not wrong, anything for Timster here," Brandon shrugged with a smirk, "I'm kinda aiming for the blonde one anyway."
"'Aiming'." Helia pointed out, making quotation marks with his fingers as he spoke the word 'Aiming', "You sound like you're preying on the poor girl."
"Well, what do you expect from a player like him?" Sky rolls his eyes.
"Can you guys shut up for once? I think their plane's landing."
A/N: So...there are a handful of references thrown in there, can you tell which and what I based it from? I made it pretty obvious though.
There are a handful of things I still need to say but I'm saving it for the next chapter I guess, so...
I hope you enjoyed reading!