Disclaimer: I do not own Winx Club. Did it take a detective to find out?
I'm writing this AN about a week before I upload chapter 11. First off I have to say this is NOT a BloomxSky story. It's an important disclaimer because I know many of the readers particularly dislike that pairing. And the next few chapters may make it look like they get together. THEY WILL NOT. Sorry if I spoiled it there. I went back and forth if I should have them together or not. You can see this especially with chapter 6. In the end I decided not to. After all in chapter 1 an's I ranted how there is so much BloomxSky crap. This story has canon pairings expect BloomxSky and MusaXRiven. The latter being because, Bloom wasn't there for most of season 1, Riven is still Darcy's boyfriend. And him being her boyfriend for that long, probably damaged that potential relationship so it will probably never happen. Maybe there is a very small chance of it happening later but probably not. Remember this is not a shipping story. If you want a shipping story look elsewhere. Or write one of your own. So any romance is mostly background and not that much story related. If I write a shipping story the pairings would have been stated at the summary.
I felt something was off. I was laying on the ground, yet it didn't feel like ground. I got up only to be met with a mesmerizing sight.
Everything around me was various shades of light blue. Like I wasn't even standing on the ground, rather something bigger. Like this place was where magic resided or center of the universe. But what mesmerized me more was what was standing in front of me.
In front of me was a giantess. Glowing bright yellow while some parts were darker shade of yellow. The giantess' hair looked absolutely stunning while I couldn't see her face as she had covered it up with a mask. Part of me felt like this giantess was familiar in some ways. Yet I couldn't place my thought to it. I couldn't figure it out, who this was. Despite me feeling like I should.
"Find me." I could hear it's voice calling for me. Like it came from her lips. Yet it felt distant. Like she was talking to me from another country.
"W-where?" I asked as I took steps forward. Where could I even begin trying to find her.
"Find me Bloom." She said again without giving me any clues.
I took even more steps forward trying to get closer to her. "But I don't even know where to look." I stated while trying to get her to help me to find her. Part of me just knew, I needed to see her. I needed to know who she was, what she meant to me. It's hard to describe the feeling. Nostalgia might be the best word. Just her voice wakes up a part of me, that wants me to see her again. A former self of mine. Like I had another lifetime where I knew this being.
"You will find out in time." She said cryptically as ever.
"I don't even know what you are trying to imply." I said and just then her glowing got worse. No not glowing shining. I couldn't see her as it would hurt my eyes due to the brightness. She was disappearing from me and I didn't know anything, she was even trying to help me with.
"Don't go!" I tried to get her to stay, but it was too late.
"Bloom. Bloom." I could hear a voice call me. When I finally opened my eyes, only to meet Mirta's. Looking around it was clear that I had been transported back to my room. In fact I was on my bed... Was that whole thing just a dream? But then again it just felt so... real. It's hard to describe. Since at the same time the logical part of your brain, is trying to justify the event as a dream. But then the other part of my brain says it's something bigger. And with magic being real, I don't know which one to believe.
But dream or not, it must have been intense considering Mirta woke me up. "Did I talk and trash around so loudly in my sleep, that I woke you up?" I asked her. First words I had spoken to her in a whole month. It's hard to believe it's been that long since we have not talked.
"Well yes and no." She says while scratching her head. Her first words for me in a month. It's still hard to fathom I let my fears create such a distance between us. "Yes you were trashing around and talking in your sleep. Talking about finding something. Must have been an intense dream." So it was just a dream. Yet why is such a simple explanation so hard to believe. "But no that's not why I am here." She continued.
So she actually had something to say to me in the middle of the night. Rather than me sleeping waking her up. Then again she isn't even dressed up in her pajamas. "Then tell me Mirta, why were you about to wake me up at this hour?" I say and look at the clock radio next to me. 00:15.
"Well I first need to ask you a question and it's very sensitive to me. So please answer honestly, no matter how much your views differ from me or not." She said looking at me dead seriously in the eye. I nodded at her in response. "Good."
What she was about to ask, sounded all familiar to me. "What do you think about fairies?" It left me bit dumbfounded at first. Not only did she ask me this in the middle of the night, looking all serious. It reminded me of my last day in Alfea. How I asked all of the Winx Club what they thought of witches, in hopes that they wouldn't be too negative. Unfortunately my fears were correct, which is why I still haven't told them why I left.
So is this why she is asking me this? Is she really a... fairy? "A-are you a fairy?" I asked it out loud and it left her equally dumbfounded as I was. She blinked a few times and looked like she was gonna burst out laughing, only for Lucy's snores to remind her to why not do that.
"Nope. Still a witch as far as I know. But it's important for me to know what you think. So please do not sugarcoat it Bloom. I want a 100% honest answer." I wasn't sure if I was glad or not to hear that she wasn't a fairy. On the other hand it might have been helpful to have someone, with the same experience. But I didn't want her to leave either. I'm sure it Mirta wouldn't care about being neither or expect being afraid of my and Lucy's reaction to it.
But now I needed to think if I wanted to answer her question honestly or with lies. Even though it's personal for others to know, that I don't even dislike heck I like other fairies, would be social suicide here. Then again already being with Mirta kind of is. So why lie? For once I can tell my true opinion without fears of others making my life a hell. And it felt so relieving.
"I don't think we witches are that much different. I think it's stupid that we are constantly fighting over our differences. That fairies are seen as losers who should be attacked. We should find a way to heal this divide, and see that we are not so different after all." I responded to her and judging from her expression and her sigh of relief. It was what she wanted to hear from me.
"Great so I can tell you what why I am here." She said with little too much enthusiasm. Almost managing to wake up Lucy in process. Mirta looked around sheepishly as she realized this.
"So what is this thing you so want to tell me about?" I ask her with curiosity.
"It's not about a thing, it's about a person." She responded increasing my curiosity about the topic. "I want you to meet her." She said and I just blinked and groaned in response.
"Really Mirta this late?" I asked with a sleepy voice as I looked how late it is.
She in response moved closer to me and tried her best shot at giving me the puppy dog eyes. "Please Bloom I want you to really meet her. We have to meet late night so no one can see when we meet up. Please just this once. I promise if you don't like each other, I will make this up." Maybe I had enough of Mirta's begging or maybe I caved to her attempt at the puppy dog eyes. Regardless I caved in.
"Fine Mirta fine. Lets go meet her just this once." I said and got up but Mirta stopped me.
"I don't think you intent to meet her while wearing pajamas."
After getting dressed, me and Mirta were sneaking around the halls of Cloud Tower. After all we didn't want to get caught in the curfew. We had made it to the exit. All we would need to do is open the door and we would be outside.
"Is the course clear?" Mirta asks and I look around. No one is seemingly looking. I nod at her and she opens the door, revealing the beautiful night sky outside. "Come on lets go." Mirta says and starts walking outside and I follow her, closing the door behind me.
I caught up with Mirta and began walking by her side. "So can you tell me about this person?" I ask trying to make a chat and get to know this person Mirta so wants me to meet in advance. After all the walk is gonna be quite boring. Might as well make it fun by having a nice conversation.
"Well I don't want to tell much about her really. I want you to see her, without any assumptions you get from me. But in case it wasn't obvious she is a fairy. That's why I was so afraid to talk to you after you saw me try to get to one of our meetings." She says. I let inside my head a huge sigh of relief. That Mirta was there only to meet this person, rather than suspecting me stealing the codex. Unless this is her way to trap me and the person she wants me to meet is Griffin or Faragonda. Or a team of police officers. I couldn't put that possibility aside, even though I doubt Mirta would do something like that.
"So that's what you were doing there." I simply stated the obvious to her.
"Yeah. I had to call off that meeting, cause I was afraid you would get suspicious and find out. But now I feel just stupid" She said and lowered her head. "Now that I know what you think about fairies. I'm sure you wouldn't have seen me being friends with a fairy as that big of a deal." She told me and was right. I might have been only offended that she hadn't told me she had a secret friend. But who am I to judge her. Considering all the lies, I told the Winx about me being a witch. And all the lies, I have told Lucy and Mirta to hide everything done with the Trix.
There was about a minute or two silence until I decided to continue the conversation. "How did you even become friends with a fairy?" I asked the question at her. I was curious as well, since if Mirta was able to be friends with a fairy. Maybe some of the fairies aren't as judgemental to witches.
"Well it's a long story."
We had finally stop walking stairs of cloud tower or roads and entered the forest. "Well we have time." I said and moved the first branch out.
"Alright. It all began last year. When me and Lucy started going to Cloud Tower. Me and Lucy had been friends for a very long time by that point. However a rift between us was beginning to form." She said and sighed at the memory. "You see Lucy always wanted to be popular. I think it was because at one point, she was the most popular girl in school until, it was found out she was a witch. Our old school was heavily against witches. I think that hurt her deeply. And why she is so keen on acting so much like a stereotypical witch. Since people didn't accept her for only being a witch." That was horrible and reflected all the fears I had during my last few days in Alfea. Maybe that's why so many Cloud Tower witches act the way they act. They had been excluded by others for only being a witch.
"Because Lucy wanted to be popular, she would act exactly as others wanted to become popular. But there was a huge problem and that was me. I especially then was very vocal about my ideas of fairies and witches being together. And off course those ideas are incredibly unpopular here. So just her being my best friend hurt her social standing immensely." She continued to explain.
"At first she would try to change me, to act like a stereotypical witch. But I wouldn't do it. So over time we would hang out with each other less and less. While she would try to impress this group called the Trix. I'm sure you have heard them by now. But in case you haven't. They were a group of senior witches, who were probably the most powerful witches in school. And they would constantly bully and attack people they perceived as less than them. So they were the most feared witches in school." I cringed at how she explained them, like I had not heard about them. If she only knew how familiar I was with them.
"Now don't tell Lucy what I am about to say. She would be very angry with me, if she found out that I told you about this. But the best example is probably when she entered Miss Magix competition. You see. She had agreed with the Trix that in exchange for doing their homework for the rest of the year. They would use their magic on her and allow her to win the competition. I told her not to go, since I had no idea if the Trix would keep their promise. And even if they did, it would still be cheating. She didn't listen to me and did it anyway and won the competition. To her feeling popular and loved even for a small moment was worth it." I pretended to be surprised. I couldn't tell Mirta that Darcy had told me this months ago. But it is nice to have a more detailed version of the story.
"I would constantly tell Lucy to stop being with the Trix. But she wouldn't listen. Eventually we were so far apart that... that..." Mirta was starting to get more and more emotional. "She said to me, that I was a loser and that she never wanted to be associated with me ever again." She said and was clearly trying to hold back the tears, from remembering the painful memory. I pulled her into a comforting hug. I didn't say anything just let her get this out of her system.
After she calmed down she was ready to continue the story. "That's when I met her. It happened by accident. I was in the same spot, where we are going right now. I often went there, to avoid being harassed in the Cloud Tower. I would often just lay around or study spells. Then one day she came there, when she simply found herself going the wrong way in the forest." She explained and I could see her happiness increasing, as she begins to focus on the better memories.
"She was scared of me first. But then I explained to her, that I didn't want to hurt her. After that we just started talking. And I found out she was in a similar situation as I was. Though her situation wasn't nearly as bad as mine. After that we just connected. We kept talking and talking endlessly. And we became best friends just like that. After that we would always confine to each other. She would always be there for me, while I would always be there for her. When anything bad would happen to me. She would Comfort me and make me feel better. When I have doubts that perhaps witches and fairies shouldn't get along when I have been harassed for my ideals. She would be for me and tell me how I shouldn't give up just because it's hard. She is always there for me and I always try to be there for her." She explains with a smile. I can feel her energy becoming more and more positive, just by her remembering this friend.
"She sounds very nice." I commented.
"Trust me. She is probably one of the most nicest person, you will ever have the pleasure of meeting." She assures me and makes me want to meet this person more and more. "Anyway me and Lucy finally made up in summer. After the Trix graduated, she stopped hanging out with them. And also none of her new witch friends visited her during summer. So she eventually came back to me and apologized for everything she had done to me in our first year. I accepted her apology. Under the pretenses that she will never do what she did to me again." She explained. So that was what that argument was about, when Mirta was angry with Lucy pitching that idea for ruining Alfea's party.
"Unfortunately I do not think Lucy would take it well, if she learned about this fairy friend. Which is why I haven't told her yet. And that's why I didn't tell you also. I was afraid if you knew about this, you would do the same thing Lucy did me a year ago." She said and put her head down part in shame that she thought of me that way. And part in fear of what Lucy would think.
"We're almost here." Mirta said and moved away a few branches from trees and I saw the spot. It was a nice sized circle, where there wasn't any trees. There were only beautiful flowers here and there in the ground but it was mostly grass. In the middle of the spot stood a woman. An all too familiar woman. She had tanned skin and beautiful long brunette hair with blonde streaks. She was wearing a yellowish-green off-the-shoulder crop tube-top that had puffy sleeves. She had a pink short skirt that was decorated with strawberries. She had two sets of yellow bracelets for each arm and two large golden hoop earrings.
I was shocked as I looked at the person in front of me. "F-flora?" I managed to ask my former friend with my voice full of disbelief.
"Bloom?" She asked me with equal amount of shock and disbelief.
"Y-you know each other?" Mirta asks both of us with full of surprise.
Flora turns to look at Mirta with smile in her face, though there still was a hint of surprise in it. "Me and her used to go to Alfea together." She explained and now was the turn of Mirta to look at me in disbelief.
"You went to Alfea together!?" She asks me with voice full of shock. I retort to smiling at her sheepishly. Even though the lie or rather hidden truth in this case was finally exposed. I didn't resort to lying to get out of the situation or fear. I just smiled. Like a great weight has been lifted here.
"It's a long story." I simply responded to them. Though from their unsatisfied faces, they wanted to hear it. "But if you want me to tell it. I can keep it short." I offered them back.
"That would be nice." Flora replied with a smile. "Having an explanation why you left without saying anything would be nice." Flora responded.
"Alright. Well I'll guess I'll start from the beginning." I said to them. "It all began over a year ago on Earth. I was just having a nice time relaxing in the park. That's when I saw Stella. The princess of Solaria." I elaborated to Mirta. "Anyway she was fighting this ogre and couple other monsters. Despite me not even knowing I had magic I helped her defeat them. During the fight I let out some accidental magic that helped us defeat the monsters."
"Anyway she passed out after the fight. When she woke up she told me how I was a fairy and I should go to Alfea. Me being infatuated with magic naturally said yes. There were few events after that but eventually I was enrolled in Alfea. I met Flora here and Tecna and Musa. We would then form the winx club. As the Winx Club we had few adventures together and hung out a lot."
"But it was downhill from there for me. I was failing classes and was unable to do even the most basic spells. People naturally thought it was because I had known magic for such a short time. But my spells were doing completely different things. And then the seed was planted by one of the Trix. Because in one fight we had, I was unable to transform and she said that she wouldn't be surprised if I was a witch. After that I went to Alfea's headmistress Faragonda to confirm this. And she did confirm that I was indeed a witch."
"I left to go back to Earth. Where I would practice my magic for the rest of the year. And then enroll to Cloud Tower. The reason they did this was, because the Trix knew me and we weren't exactly friends. Had I gone there that year, they would have made sure my life in there was gonna be hell."
To which Mirta nodded. "They treated me like trash there. I don't know what they would have done to you. But I'm sure it would have been thousand times worse than what they did to me." Mirta responded.
"Anyway this year I went to Cloud Tower and met Mirta and Lucy. And I guess that brings us to today." I continued finally finishing my explanation.
There was a minute of silence after that. Until Flora spoke out. "Why didn't you tell me Bloom? Or for the fact of the matter any of us? I would have accepted you as a witch." She said with a wondering and sad voice.
"I was afraid. I was afraid of what you would think of me. That's why I asked you what you thought of witches." I explained to her while I was starting to get emotional as well.
"Bloom I would have accepted you. I don't even remember saying that bad things of witches. And Tecna's answer wasn't that bad." Flora said back with her comforting voice. Oh I missed it so much.
"It wasn't you or Tecna for that matter, why I didn't tell you. It was Musa's and Stella's answer. They basically said that there is no good witch in this universe." I said as I began tearing up. "I couldn't handle their reactions. That's why I also didn't tell you. I knew you'd tell them and then they would..." I couldn't finish the sentence as tears of both sadness and joy started flowing. Having to face those buried memories was hard but finally being able to open up to someone was a great relief as well.
"Come here." Flora said and pulled into a hug. "You know Stella and Musa. They are rash and if they had learnt about you being a witch, they would have apologized." She says while holding me in a hug.
I just let it all out of my system. While Flora was being my comfortable shoulder to cry on.
Finally I calmed down and let go of her hug. "So much emotional stuff so far." Mirta commented and I gave her a mischievous smile.
"So now that I had that little emotional moment. How about you Flora? How did you and Mirta you know meet and become friends?" I asked her wanting to know her side of the story. And especially since Mirta said Flora had been in a similar situation to her. Did the Winx kick her out?
"Well it's a long story." Flora muttered that all familiar phrase that we had heard so many times today.
I motioned at Mirta first and then me. "Mirta told me her story and I told you my story. It's only fair that you tell us your story from your perspective. Besides I want to know how our nature fairy here found herself in a friendship with a witch."
Flora pondered for a minute and then smiled. "Alright but it isn't all sunshine and rainbows."
"It all began after you left Bloom. After that I just started to become more and more distant from the rest of the Winx. Now there wasn't any big fight that broke us up or anything. It was just gradually they would just hang out with me less and less. Until we barely even saw each other. Only when Musa and Tecna would pass by my room." Flora explained.
"Why did you start seeing each other less?" I asked with hint of sadness and curiosity.
Flora thought about it for a minute. Like she hadn't ever thought why that was. "I think you were just the glue that held me together with them. Think about it. I don't share a room with them, while I do like nice clothing I'm not a fashion freak nor am I a total music or a technology freak. It's just that I'm not that... material girl compared to them. And I wasn't even crushing on any of the specialists unlike Stella with Brandon, Tecna with Timmy and Musa with Riven." Did I just hear correctly or did she say Stella started crushing on Brandon? What was Sky just not compatible with her or what? Or did I just hear things "So in the end I just got quietly left out more and more."
"Which made me a target for the bullies. The Winx would always defend me if they attacked me in front of them. So the bullies just figured out, that they needed to attack me when I wasn't around them. Because of that, I started looking for more secluded areas to be in my free time. And so I usually chose the forest. Since it's so large and few others fairies are around here. Then one day I just accidentally found myself in the same spot as Mirta here." Flora said and points at Mirta with a smile.
"I won't lie, I was a bit scared that she might attack me. Cloud Tower witches aren't known for being friends with fairies. But I calmed down after she explained to me she wouldn't do so. After that we just talked about all of our interests and our situations. And we could relate to each other on so many levels. So we basically became best friends the moment we met. Though can you say we are best friends when she and I were each others only friend at that time? Anyway then we just would meet here and keep in touch. Talk to each other about our worries. Sometimes just listen to nature, drink some tea or even practice our magic." She said as she finished with a smile. "I guess there are other things I could say but that basically brings us to today."
"At least it's nice that you met Mirta. Even though my disappearance caused a break between you." I said with some amount of guilt. At least some part of me blamed myself for what happened between them.
"I wouldn't trade our friendship for anything right Mirta?" Flora asked the red head witch. Who nodded in return.
Deciding to switch the subject. I asked her a completely different question. "So Flora. You didn't take advantage of the situation. And snag Brandon away now that I was gone.?" I asked her with mischief in my voice.
"Sky." Flora said rather flatly leaving me confused.
"What about Sky? Don't say Stella dumped him for Brandon?" I asked her remembering previously what she said about Stella being with Brandon.
"No. Brandon and Sky had switched identities. The man you think was Brandon was really Sky. And the man who Stella thought as Sky was really Brandon. Trust me. Despite being distant from the Winx at that point. Even I had to endure Stella during that period, when she found out the supposed prince she was dating was just squire." Flora explained to me. Making me feel like a fool and someone who had been manipulated.
Why does it even matter to me? This part of my life is long over. "Why did Sky lie about who he was?" I asked her with the hope that at least he had a good reason.
"He said for once in his life, he wanted to feel like a normal person. He wanted people who were around him not because he was a prince. But because of who he was." She explained making me feel both understanding and relief. But the feeling of betrayal was still there. I get wanting to see what it was like to be a normal. But it just doesn't feel like a good enough reason to lie to me like that. Would he have told me the truth if I'd known him for longer. "Oh and there were rumors, that there were terrorist threats on his life. Which is why Brandon pretended to be him" Flora added and if that was the reason I guess I can accept that.
That is if he eventually told everyone once he was able to trust them. "Did they tell the Winx the truth eventually?" I asked with too much hope.
What came out crushed that hope. "Bloom they never told anyone that. The Winx found out when there was this specialist event and for some reason Stella's boyfriend didn't invite her to there. They sneaked inside the event and found out there. Stella was so angry at Brandon and broke up with him. Tecna and Timmy's relationship stalled for weeks. Eventually they made up but it was months later." Flora explained me the juicy events.
"There's one more thing I need to tell you as well." Flora said with this time hushed voice and I knew it was gonna be bad. "You had a crush on him didn't you?" Flora asks and I reluctantly nod at her. She sighs at this. "Well then what I'm gonna tell you might hit you really bad." She warns me.
"Just say it." I tell her.
She sighs again. "Alright but don't say I didn't warn you." She says and looks at me nervously. "He's engaged Bloom."
And just like that my world stopped. Whatever the deception I felt he did when he hid his identity, is nothing compared to this. Him engaged? There must be a logical reason. "H-he got engaged after I left?" I asked her. Desperately hoping that he just met a girl he really liked. And decided despite not knowing her a long time just marry her. A foolish thing to do yes. But not deception.
"No Bloom. He was engaged well before you even met." Flora said and while unintentional, she just twisted the knife in my heart even more.
This time I felt tears coming and there were not tears of happiness in this one. I felt tears of rage, betrayal and sadness. All of a sudden I felt like a cheap whore. Brandon no Sky I thought that name bitterly could see that I liked him. And he was giving me signals back. Yet he was engaged and what would that make me. His mistress? That's all I was to him the whole time. Just his cheap mistress that he would lead on. Heck he even did that to me at the party. Well after my time with the Winx.
"That bastard." I said with bitterness in my voice. Mirta moved closer to me and pulled me into a comforting hug.
Flora looked at me with a sorry expression and sighed knowing I was going to react this way. "There's more to it Bloom." Flora said and I looked at her almost offended. What did Flora think could explain what Sky did to me? Leading me on knowing full well he was engaged.
"What then?" I asked with bitterness clear in my voice.
Flora sighed with mixture of exhaustion and relief. "He didn't choose to be engaged Bloom. The marriage is arranged. I don't think he even loves her Bloom." Flora explained and just like that so much of the anger at Sky was washed away being replaced by sympathy.
I can't imagine what it would be like to be engaged to a man I don't love. I just can't see it happening. And the thought of arranged marriages being around just sounded so out of date and barbaric. Something I wouldn't imagine being in the all advanced magical dimension. And yes I know that there are still countries on Earth where arranged marriages are a thing.
And to think that Sky is stuck in one. I'm still angry at him but I can't stay mad at him for that. Was he looking for someone he actually wanted to be with? Does he even have the power to call off the marriage. Or would he lead this woman around as his mistress for rest of her life?
Letting out a deep breath I calmed down. Mirta let go of me. "Do you think he was looking for someone he would actually love?" I asked Flora.
"I don't think. I know that was what he was doing. He kind of admitted it himself." Flora told me erasing my doubts. "I think he considered you. He was visibly saddened when you left Alfea. And I remember after the back to the school party how much he was insisting that you had returned. I remember that the winx and even I began looking around the campus to see if you had returned. After all the most common theory why you left was because your grades were too low. Off course we didn't find you. But it looks like he wasn't lying when he said you were there. Even if your reason there was not so noble." Flora said as she started rambling on the subject.
"Anyway he was seemingly so excited about your return that, I think he still considers you to some capacity." She continued. Confirming everything that I thought about the guy.
"I want to see him." I stated. "I need to at least get some closure. And while I'm not sure if I'll ever be together with him. More like if I will be able stop myself from punching him. Especially if he cannot do anything about the marriage. And that he led me on in a fools quest the whole time. I absolutely will not be his mistress. But I need to see him and have a face to face conversation. And determine what our relationship should be." I told Flora.
"I can give you his number." Flora said to me.
"That would be nice." I responded and Flora pulled out her flip phone. She pressed her password and opened her contact list. She then selected Sky's contact and shoved me her phone, so I could get his number. I pulled out my phone and made a new contact and typed the information I saw on Flora's phone's screen.
"Actually now that I think of it. I'm not sure if I switched the names after I learned that Brandon and Sky had switched identities. So this might actually be Brandon's information." Flora said as she realized this rather embarrassing detail. "I'll give you Brandon's info just in case." Flora said and picked Brandon in her contact list. I then copied his information and added a bit of humor to the ID by naming it Brandon (maybe Sky).
"I think you should also add my number so we can keep in touch." Flora said and then moved to her profile that contained all of her info. I added that as well.
With all of these contacts finally added we would now continue our conversation. Now that I had finally calmed down. "Alright Flora. But one thing you still haven't told me why you didn't take advantage of the situation. And take Sky for yourself?" I teased her which caused her to blush with little embarrassment.
"You know. Me and him just don't have chemistry." Flora said with the tone "can we switch the subject please?"
"Well have you met someone else. Or is Flora going to be bound only to nature for rest of her life?" I asked her teasingly again and this time she blushed. It was not the embarrassment kind of blush. Oh no it was the crush blush. Like a child I pointed at her. "Flora has a crush!" I exclaimed enthusiastically.
"No I don't." Flora denied with a futile attempt.
"Yes you do!" I exclaimed. "I know that blush from anywhere. So who is the lucky guy?" I asked her and leaned closer to her.
"Alright alright you caught me." Flora said and raised her hands. "His name is Helia. I met him at a red fountain event this year. He's Saladins nephew and was in Red Fountain. But he quit it to pursue arts. Anyway he's a pacifist and an artist. But he still saved me when a monster attacked red fountain." Flora described as what I could only say sounded like the perfect guy for her. To even think she would have even considered Sky compared to him sounded insane.
I leaned even closer to her then. Making my enthusiasm about this subject known. "Alright Flora tell me every juicy detail about this. The romantic dates, the time you must spent just looking at nature, oh you you said he pursued arts? Has he made he painted you yet. Oh that would be so romantic." I said to her with too much enthusiasm.
Then I noticed her face. And she looked disappointed to say the least. "Bloom there hasn't been any of those." Flora responded calmly but disappointed.
"Why?"
She sighed at this. "I just haven't been brave enough to ask him. What if he doesn't like me Bloom?" She asked me with a worried tone. It was so wholesome to see her worrying about this. This is just the escape I have needed for the past two or three months. Ever since the Trix ruined the peaceful Cloud Tower life.
"Flora what's there not to like about you?" I asked her back.
She couldn't respond to for a minute. "What if he just doesn't think we match?" Flora asked with insecurity. That was all she could come up with after thinking about it. "And besides I want to be on the safe side. So I got Layla to check out his room and what he is doing to see if he likes me."
I would have told her to just go for it. Had it not been for her mentioning this Layla person. "Who's this Layla?" I asked her.
"Oh. Off course you wouldn't know her. She's a new member of the Winx Club. She joined Alfea this year and she's also my new roommate. She kind of took your bed. Anyway me and her have become friends and she has made me closer with the Winx Club recebtky." Remembering what Flora said why she had become distant. This new girl almost sounded like...
"Have they replaced me already?" I asked little offended. Most of it was playful though part of me really felt like they just wanted a replacement.
"Don't worry you and her are completely different people. The only thing that I can think of she has replaced you in. Well other than taking your bed. Is becoming the leader of Winx Club. And trust me it's a good thing since Stella and Musa are too rash and Tecna is too unemotional." She explained and I mean she's not wrong. "Anyway I also fear she has also gotten a bad habit from you as well. That being she has been pulling them into very dangerous situations."
Now that I think of it, the time I was part of the Winx, was riddled with plenty of dangerous involvements mainly because of the Trix. "What kind of situations?" I asked her with worry in my voice.
"They first met Layla outside of Alfea. She was in a horrible shape and it was because. Well there's this guy named Lord Darkar. And he kidnapped pixies. You know what they are right?" To which I nodded at her remembering the steal. "Darkar was going to torture them until they revealed where their village is. And no I do not know why he wants to know that. Anyway she tried to free them alone but she was too weak against him alone. And she was only able to rescue one of the pixies."
"After her wounds were treated she wanted to rescue the pixies again. The Winx and even I wanted to join her. But Faragonda said she wouldn't allow us to go to Shadowhunt where the pixies were contained. We eventually convinced her to let us go through this survival test, which mimicked Shadowhunts environment. Anyway I failed it. I couldn't even transform in that. Same with Tecna. Stella and Layla passed it. And Musa was able to transform but her sound blast didn't do well in a cave. But Faragonda allowed her to come with Stella and Layla since she thought Stella and Layla wasn't going to be enough there."
"It was a good decision. From what I heard they might have died there if it wasn't for her. Anyway they went to Shadowhunt with Sky and Brandon. They were able to free the pixies but only because of our new professor in Alfea. His name is Avalon and he's a silver fox. I think half of the girls in Alfea have a crush on him." Flora finished with that.
"Sounds intense." I commented.
"From what I have heard it was. But because of that I actually ended up bonding with one of the pixies. Maybe I should bring her here one day." I gave her an uncomfortable smile back. My experience back in Cloud Tower had made me shy of them. Like all of pixies know what I did.
"But it's nice that because of her I'm getting closer with the Winx. Since she is kind of becoming that glue you were. But I hope she won't bring them into too much trouble." Flora said and then looked at her clock. Her eyes widened at it's number.
"Oh it's this late already. We have been talking for a long time." She said getting up. "Bloom I need to ask you one question before we go."
I shrugged at my shoulders getting up. "Ask away."
"I think I should tell about this to the Winx." My eyes widened at this in shock. Anxiety started to boil up immediately.
"NO!" I yelled back with terror in my voice.
"I know that you think that they will hate you Bloom. But I assure you they will not. I think it would be helpful for you and them, if you were reunited." She said with growing determination.
I put my hand in front of me. Not even wanting to think about this. "Not now Flora not now. I'm meeting them when I'm ready to. And that moment is not now Flora. I'm not ready to see them again." I pleaded at her with growing desperation.
Flora looked disappointed at this. She gave a disappointed sigh and responded. "Fine Bloom I won't. But I promise you. At some point you will have to meet them again. Whether you want to meet them or not. You can't avoid them forever." She said and began walking away towards Alfea.
"Goodbye Bloom for now. Stay in touch this time." She said and waved at me.
"I will." I responded with not that much enthusiasm. Still thinking about the thing Flora just said to me.
After that me and Mirta began walking down the path back to Cloud Tower. We avoided the same branches we avoided when we went here. It was awfully quiet. We really didn't speak much. Until Mirta decided she wanted to break the ice.
"Not much of a hangout that was. Since I kind of was the third wheel. But I didn't want to ruin your reunion." Mirta said with some level of awkwardness.
I smiled at that. Reunion. A word I certainly didn't see happening this day. "Thanks for reuniting me with her. Even if unintentionally." I said and chuckled at my own words. "But Mirta one thing." I said and she turned her attention towards me.
"What is it?"
I chuckled a bit before I even got the words out. "If you have further plans on reuniting me with someone. Can you please do it any other time, than in the middle of the night." I said to her and started laughing with joy.
We did that until we reached Cloud Tower and finally went to rest.
YES this chapter is done. This is THE chapter I have basically wanted to release ever since I brought this story back to life with chapter 4. Now I must say the character tags are dated. Since originally from chapter 4 onward, this story would have been half in Bloom's perspective and half in Flora's. Flora would have been kind of our eye in the Alfea. And as you can see some things have changed since then. Like for example I said in the chapter 4 AN that Sky and Brandon wouldn't have got caught. But I wrote that AN 2 years and 8 months ago. So this story has changed and now I think they got caught. Anyway I think it's kind of funny, how originally I thought I would struggle to get this chapter even 1500 words. Instead this chapter is over 8k words. Flipping word creep, why has every chapter since 6 become so long? Hopefully I did not overwhelm you with all that stuff.
Anyway I want to thank all of you who reached out to me by PM about that view thing. I got various feedback. But funny thing is that Chapter 11 did great numbers. So that's nice. Anyway reason someone threw the views falling was because of the darkness of chapter 9. Should I perhaps tone it down a bit. Did I go too far? Anyway if you are concerned about that for future chapters don't be. Basically from this chapter onward the violence will be at the same level as the show. So if you can stomach the show you can stomach this. And no I have not censored future chapters because of this. It was always the plan. 9 and 11 to lesser of extent were more of anomaly's when it came to the darkness. So maybe I should tone it down a bit. Now let's answer the review I got.
Jean D: I haven't watched pop pixie so I have no idea how these elves work. So I don't think I can write them properly. And having a small companion like Pixie comes with problems. Sure they can have few good moments. But sometimes I feel like they can drag the story down and feel forced. So I don't think Bloom will be getting any companions. If I want to write a pixie moment it will be with Flora.
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