A Day in Town

"Welcome all you sporty people to Active Mania, it's a beautiful day so why not get a new bike and go for a ride, or get a new board and go for a glide? It's all up to you, just be Active!"

"Doesn't he ever get sick of saying that? So it may change now and then, but his voice is so annoying. I don't know why I even bother to come in here, I already have most of this stuff, I just don't use it much now because of school, and because I don't have anyone to go with… wait what am I saying, I have great friends, I'm sure they would go with me if I asked them, we all had a great time before." Feeling a little sad as all her friends were probably having fun, a reassuring thought came back to her.

"Layla I know I can trust you as well, and if you ever feel sad or lonely, just come and talk to me"

"Maybe I should talk to Bloom, but I don't know what to say to her… Hi Bloom you know how you said I could come and talk to you? Well this is one of those times, I was wondering if… Oh I don't have a clue what to say to her…"

"Excuse me miss? Layla turns around to see the shop assistant standing behind her.

"Is there anything I can do for you? You have been standing there for a while?"

"Oh sorry, no I'm fine thankyou." The shop assistant walked off, clearly a little puzzled.

"I hope I wasn't thinking out loud again like I have done before."

She decides that there is no point standing in the shop doing nothing. Walking out the door she passes a tall person with a hood covering his face. This was the first time she's actually looked at them, although she hadn't seen him before. She finds a bench and sits down. Unaware that she is being watched, not by one person or two people, but three.

"Sky what am I going to do? She's been so sad and lonely for awhile now."

"I don't know Bloom, but if you two are really good friends then I'm sure you will think of something."

"I might go and talk to her later today, I think we should be watching that guy instead, we still haven't figured out what he is doing."

Layla was still deep in thought when the "mystery man" came and sat down next to her. Not noticing she continued with her thoughts. He seemed to be thinking of something too. Bloom was sick of this. She was sick of Layla being sad and she was sick of watching this guy follow her around all day. So being bold she starts making her way to the man.

"Bloom where are you going?"

"Don't worry I'm not going far."

Arriving behind the man she taps him on the shoulder.

"Excuse me" The man just sits there, he doesn't even move

"Excuse me" He still stays the same. Bloom quite sick of not getting a reply, grabbed him by the arm and dragged him away.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" Pulling him arm away from her grip.

"You shouldn't just walk up to people, start poking them and then just drag them away, have you any idea what I may have been doing?"

"Yes in fact, I do know what you were doing and I'm sure you want to continue doing it too. You have been following my friend around all day, but it wasn't only today was it, you were outside her room the other night weren't you?"

"Hmm, I thought you looked a little familiar."

"What? So does that mean that you have been following me too?"

"No, I haven't been following you, but I know for a fact that a fairy shouldn't have been out past her bed time last night, and that I could get you into a lot of trouble if I were, lets say, let it slip to Faragonda."

"Well I could get you into just as much trouble Mr Mystery Man, you were on Alfea grounds when you shouldn't have been."

"Ah, young lady, Miss Faragonda knows I'm there and what I'm doing, I don't think it would matter much if you told her about me."

"Well then seeing as you have told Faragonda what you're doing there, maybe you could tell me too?"

"Oh, no I don't think so, this is none of your business, so if you wouldn't mind, I have I job I must do." With that the man walked off in the opposite direction. Bloom walked back to Sky.

"What was that all about?"

"Believe me you don't want to know, it's really complicated, I'll tell you about it later, I think Layla will be ok for a while, I'll talk to her later as well. Let's go have some fun."

"Ok, so where would you like to go?"

"Nowhere in particular, let's just have a look around and I'll tell you when I see."

Walking around shos she sees nothing that really interests her, she thought that spending time with Sky would help her to forget what she had almost done, but it just kept popping back into her mind.

"Bloom, do you want to grab something to eat?"

"Yeah sounds good, and the park isn't too far away, should we call our friends and tell them to meet us there with their lunch or should we just go alone?"

"I think we should just go alone, you know how rare it is for it to be just us."

They walk off to go and buy some lunch. Just by luck all their other friends had the same idea.

"Hey Bloom, Sky, we were just buying lunch and then going to the park to eat, do you wanna join us?"

"Yeah why not?"

"I told you we didn't get to be alone very often"

"Yeah I know, but they asked so we might as well."

The group of friends all have their lunch and are making their way to the park when Bloom notices another person not too far behind.

"Sky, can you take my stuff? I have something I need to sort out."

"Course I can, don't be too long." He gives her a quick kiss on the cheek and watches her run off.