Save the First Dance

I have found myself typing this story in school instead of taking notes. I don't know how other schools do it but my school requires each student to carry a laptop with them to class and instead of notes, I've been writing about Musa. I think you would agree that this is a lot more interesting that the fundamental thermo of Calculus. Also, as a senior I have very little work that I will actually do, so that makes my schedule consist of going out with my friends, dance and writing this. So hopefully these updates will stay at a steady pace. Unless I get hit with a ridiculous paper that I have to do or something…

Anyway…

Save the First Dance

Musa woke up to the sun shining directly in her eyes, maybe picking the bed by the window wasn't the best idea. For she could get herself to sit up she heard her roommate's techno sounding alarm go off. Instead of waking with the sun, Musa stuck her bed back under the pillow and tried to get a couple more minutes of shut eye, though the effort was in vain since a couple second later she could hear Techna shuffling around their room.

"Good morning Musa," Techna said as she stood in her pajamas in front of her laptop and checked her email. Musa simply nodded as she sat up in bed struggling to open her eyes. "Not a morning person I see,"

"I prefer sleeping at midnight and waking up a noon," Musa stated. Techna laughed and grabbed her towel and proceeded to go into the bathroom. Musa sat upright in her bed and looked over to her nightstand and looked at her cell phone. There was a text message from Daniel, - Have a good first day, baby. - As much as she wanted to call him, she needed to get ready for class, she was already on Miss Griselda's bad side, and she didn't need any more of the Alfea staff to dislike her. With that Musa put her phone back on the nightstand and grabbed some clothes and headed off to the other bathroom, she may have needed to share a room but she did get her own bathroom, which was nice.

"Good morning students," said professor Enchantra. "Welcome to potions class, I except all of you to work hard this year, but I promise you will enjoy this class, especially later this year when we begin our love potions unit," She said as a few girls cheered.

Musa sat their idly training random music notes on her paper thinking about the night before. She wondered why those witches were looking for Stella in the first place. She must have done something to piss them off last year. Musa pondered that thought for a few more moments and then tried to turn her focus back onto what the professor was saying, but it was all pretty much the same old introductory stuff. Don't mess around with unknown chemicals and potion ingredients, wear goggles, and Musa's favorite rule, that she was sure was just added after Stella's dismissal from the school. No unauthorized potion lab use and all volatile materials are under lock and key, students must get special permission to use them.

The professor continued to talk about classroom rules and regulations and then went over the classroom syllabus. It was becoming increasingly hard to stay awake, normally Musa was a good student, but she just couldn't get into the rhythm of 8 am classes after a long summer of partying. Luckily, the long lecture on how to act properly around potion equipment ended and Musa had just enough time to squeeze in a nap before lunch.

Musa walked into the common room and heard Bloom and Stella talking about her powers in her room, she would have offered some help or advice of some kind, but she was far to tired. Instead, Musa fell on top of her soft bed, not making the effort to take off her shoes or get under the covers. Finally about an hour and a half later Musa felt someone gently tapping her shoulder. She opened her eyes and saw Flora looking down at her with a smile and her head tilted. "Wake up Musa, it's time for lunch," she said softly and Musa nodded and sat up without saying a word.

"Thanks Flora, I'll be down soon," she said sleepily as she sat up in bed looking very similar to the way she looked that morning.

Lunch at Alfea was very much like what was seen in the movies, except it was a lot tamer. Most of the girls were friends with each other and they were all chatting about what they did over their summers and for those girls that had just become friends with each other, they were talking about their origins and all that other 'get to know you' introduction stuff. Musa saw her new friends sitting together.

Musa said hello to everyone and ate her lunch as the girls chatted about Bloom's inability to use her powers. Musa offered a few helpful solutions, but it seemed more like Bloom was frustrated more with herself and needed to vent, but that was what friends were for. "Well, maybe with some more practice you'll be about the control it more," Musa said trying to cheer her up since it was clear that advice was pretty useless.

"You just have to take it day by day," Stella said continuing in Musa's comforting tone. Musa looked up and felt bad for Bloom, she had to be dealing with so much, she just discovered magic and now she was far from home and it had to be a bit emotional and scary. There was no way that this was going to be easy for her.

"Yeah, I hope tomorrow is better," Bloom said dejectedly as she played with the food on her plate. The girls continued their conversation until they were interrupted by Miss Faragonda making an announcement.

"Young ladies, your attention please," Miss Faragonda said trying to get the room to settle down. In a couple of seconds the noise in the room died down and she continued. "I have a very exciting announcement to make. As is the Alfea tradition, we will kick off the new school year with a formal dance, our back to school gala will take place tomorrow night and our special quests will be the boys from Red Fountain School for heroics and bravery.

Musa immediately felt a bit uncomfortable, she didn't want to be the only one there not dancing with someone, but at the same time she couldn't just hang around a new guy. Or could she? She could always be friends with new guys and leave it at that, Musa quickly let go of the thought within a couple of second after she realized how petty she was being with herself. "We hope you will be warm and friendly hostesses and make them feel right at home,"

"But not too friendly, chaperones will be there and love spells and crush potions are strictly forbidden," Griselda added. It made Musa smile a bit, she figured Griselda would be the one to point out that the girls needed to 'behave' and she would probably be the only chaperone doing any real disciplining.

"But dancing is encouraged and the boys will bring surprise gifts for all, so I'm sure you will all have a lovely, time," Miss Faragonda said jumping back into the announcement. "I remember my first dance at Alfea, I met my husband there, well anyway it will be…"

After lunch and another class Musa took her books and settled against a tree in the quad (1), she looked over to her cell phone and saw a missed call from Isabelle; she was ready to call her back when she heard someone call her name. "Musa, Musa Dannington," said a voice from behind. Musa turned around to see a very familiar brunette girl walking her way.

"Karen!" Musa said excitedly as she stood up from the grass and walked over to the brunette and gave her a hug. "I haven't seen you in such a long time!"

"Well, I spent the summer here in Magix," Karen said flicking her mahogany hair over her shoulder. "My parents were a bit upset, but I had an amazing time here, I didn't even know you were coming here, what happened to Devon Prep?"

"I could ask you the same question," Musa pointed out. Karen Drayton was the daughter of a Lord and Lady in Crescendo and she was closely acquainted to the Cunningham and Dannington family. She was a year older than Musa, but she had gone to the same school as her until she decided to go to Alfea when she was old enough and Musa rarely saw her after that. It had completely slipped her mind when she got her that Karen also attended the famed school for fairies.

"Well you know after the whole me and Nate scandal, I had to leave," Karen joked. Referring to a time when she had dated Nate, now Leslie's boyfriend, for about a week. They went out only so Karen could get her now boyfriend, Lucas, jealous. And Nate did the same to get back at Leslie for some childish stunt she pulled. It was all a very big immature series of events that everyone involved tried desperately tried to forget about and cover up, there was no need to blemish their impeccable reputations.

"God I hope you're kidding," Musa said between laughs.

"You know I am, but you still haven't answered my question. What brings you to my side of the universe?"

"So now it's your side," Musa protested jokingly. "Anyway, my mother came here when she was younger and I decided that I wanted to come here too. Plus, there's nothing like a change of scenery,"

"Well pardon my surprise, queen bee," Karen answered with sarcasm. "But you know as well as I do that the main reason people of our stature leave our little world of gossip and glamour is because of a scandal. And when I first saw you here I was really hoping nothing too vicious happened."

"Don't worry I'm okay," Musa insisted. "And who would mess with me, I mean come on I am queen bee," Musa said changing her voice a bit to sound like a conceited prick, the kind of girl that seemed to be very prevalent in her world of gossip and glamour, as Karen called it. She was never the type of girl to spread gossip and act like she ran society, but she still became the center of much of the Devon Prepatory social circle.

"But yay! You're here now!" Karen replied happily. "And just in time, it's like fate." Musa looked at Karen with a confused expression when Karen began to elaborate.

"Dance team, we are holding try outs for freshman in a week, but one of the girls can't be on the team this year so we need someone for the dance tomorrow," Karen began. "And we used to be on the Devon dance team together, I know that you can bring a fierce performance,"

Musa laughed. "Thanks, so what's the dance like?"

"It's a hip hop number of course and it's about 4 minutes, all 8 count routines with three major formation changes,"

"Okay, I can definitely get that by tomorrow," Musa said inadvertently sounding cocky.

"Well miss thing, you may need to step up your game," Karen began. "We all wanna look perfect for the boys at Red Fountain, don't we,"

"Not all of us are boy crazy, besides you have a boy friend,"

"So do you, doesn't mean we can't look and appreciate good handy work on god's part. And how is Daniel,"

"He's good, I miss him, but all in all things are good," Musa said as she began to feel her face heat up and her cheeks began to gain some color.

"Aww look at you, you're blushing," Karen said poking fun at Musa. "Well nothing better than falling in love with your best friend, right?" After Karen said that Musa began to question weather she was in love with Daniel, again. She loved him, there was no doubt in her mind about that, but did she love him in a more romantic sense. For her entire life she saw him as her best friend and now she was becoming increasingly confused with her feelings. Was she mistaking feelings of friendship for more than what they were?

After seeing Musa's face go into deep thought, Karen decided to lighten the conversation since it was apparent that the musical princess seemed a bit uncomfortable. "So how do you like the school?"

"It's kinda weird to see everyone being friendly to each other," Musa stated. Where she was from, school was like a jungle. She was a part of the 'ruling class' and they basically set all the social rules of the school, the drama came from the people trying to climb the social ladder and the 'ruling class' obstructing their ascent. Frankly, she was sick of all of it and it was so nice to go a couple days without being filled in on the latest rumors and how to run damage control. "But, it's a nice change,"

"Get used to it, you're no longer a Devon Dragon," Karen assured her. Dragons were the mascot for Devon Prepatory and it seemed to fit the school very well since everyone was a bit vicious. "Alfea Fairies are a lot more welcoming,"

"I'm starting to get that impression,"

"Good, it's going to be an awesome year, I can feel it," Karen said gathering her things. "I have to go, but dance is today at four, I suggest you get there a bit early so you can get used to the dance gym,"

"Okay, I'll see you later," Musa said and walked over to her next class. After her final class of the day Musa headed off to the dance gym in a hurry so she could hopefully pick up the entire dance routine by the next day.

Finally, after hours of practicing, Musa finally got the dance routine down cold, and decided to head back up to her room and sleep, since it was already pretty late at night. Musa opened the door to the common room and heard nothing and figured that everyone was in their room, so she walked through the dorm quietly when she saw Stella spread out on the couch reading a magazine and watching TV, apparently at the same time.

"Someone is getting in a bit late," Stella said as she looked up from her magazine. Musa looked at Stella, who was lounging on the couch with her hair up in a messy bun, no makeup on and in baggy work out clothes. She was a bit surprised to see Stella looking so; well the best word for the description was frumpy. Musa found that her first impression of Stella was way off mark; she was not the self diluted princess Musa thought she would be. And she was so glad that it turned out that way, Musa was looking forward to getting to know her new roommate, and she honestly seemed like the Magix version of Leslie. "So where were you Miss, get lost in the forest with a Red Fountain boy?"

"I was at dance practice," Musa smiled and let out a laugh and walked putting down her bag and collapsing on the couch next to the Solarian Princess. "God I'm tired, we're performing tomorrow at the dance,"

"You're on the dance team!" Stella squealed happily. "That is like the hardest thing to join at Alfea, how are you in before tryouts,"

"One of the girls dropped out and Karen said that is I could pick up the entire routine by tomorrow then I'm on the team. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be," Musa said laying her head back on the couch and closing her eyes. "Where is everyone?"

"Out cold, me and you are the last ones awake, it's been a tiring day." Stella answered. "But the first day always is,"

"True that," Musa said letting out a heavy sigh. "And I still need to get up early to tweak the dance to make sure I have it down,"

"Then I suggest going to bed," Stella pointed out and then picked up the remote to the TV and shut it off. "I think we could all benefit from some shut eye, we need to be looking our cutest tomorrow,"

Musa nodded and headed off to her room. Musa cracked the door open a bit and quickly slide through the small opening and took a quick shower. She probably would have called Daniel, but about 10 seconds after she hit the sheets, she was asleep.

The next morning, Musa woke up early, despite her uncontrollable urge to get back in bed and sleep for a couple more hours. But, she needed to make sure she had the dance routine down and she didn't want to end up looking foolish in front of her whole school not to mention the heroes of Red Fountain. She only had one class that day and it was in the late in the morning so she could go practice her dance in the morning and get to class. Then she would have the rest of the day to relax before the dance. Musa walked to the dance gym when she heard her phone ringing in her pocket.

"Hello," Musa asked not knowing who was calling, she had forgotten to check the front screen.

"Hey baby," said Daniel's voice from the phone. "Forgotten about me already?"

"Hey!" Musa said excitedly. "Of coarse not, I've been a bit busy. Guess who I saw?"

"Who?"

"Karen Drayton, I totally forgot that she goes here," Musa answered.

"Oh yeah Karen, she spent the summer there too," Daniel added. "When did you see her?"

"Its such a funny story, turns out she's on the Alfea Dance team and we bumped into each other yesterday. And then we were talking and she needed someone to cover a girl's place that couldn't do a performance and she asked me to take her place!" Musa blurt out excitedly. "And if I do well, then I'm on the team and I don't have to wait to

"That's great!" Daniel exclaimed supportively. "When's the performance?"

"Tonight at the ball," Musa said forgetting that she hadn't talked to Daniel the day before so he didn't know about the ball. Finally, after a pause Daniel spoke up.

"Ball?" Daniel asked with a surprised tone. It was clear from the tone in his voice that he was a bit uncomfortable.

"Umm yeah," Musa began. "It's a back to school thing that the Alfea girls are throwing and we, or well the head mistress, invited…" Musa said quickly hoping that Daniel wouldn't be feeling insecure about the whole thing. She knew that the one thing that bothered Daniel the most about her leaving to go to Magix was that she would be around a bunch of heroes all the time.

"They students at Red Fountain," Daniel finished for her.

"Well, yeah…." Musa said then said nothing. She wasn't quite sure what to say, surely he knew that he had nothing to worry about, but should she tell him that or would that raise suspicions in his head?

"Cool, good luck, I'm sure you'll be great," Daniel said trying not sound like it bothered him, even though it really did. He really wasn't comfortable with his girlfriend being at a ball all alone surrounded by a bunch of strange guys and worst of all she would was on the dance team, meaning she would also be dancing in front of them. Suffice to say there was a twig of jealousy in his voice.

"Daniel you know that you have nothing…" Musa began not sure of what to say.

"I know baby don't worry about it," Daniel said covering the worry in his mind. "Have fun, and just relax about the dance, you'll be fine."

"Thanks," Musa said really relieved that he wasn't feeling threatened. "I was actually pretty a bit worried. The dance is a lot harder than I thought it would be. "

"Come on, you know you're an amazing dancer, almost as good a dancer as you are a singer," Daniel encouraged.

"Thanks, I needed that, Musa said honestly letting out a small laugh. "I'm actually going to practice the dance one last time right now,"

"Okay, well you go, Ill talk to you later," Daniel said. "And if any of those heroes in training try to mess around with you, call me," He said in a mocking tone, but Musa could sense that there was still a hitch in his voice as if he was trying to sound calm.

"You don't need to worry about that, baby," Musa said in a cute voice. "And thanks so much, I'll call you later,"

"Okay bye, have fun," Daniel said.

"Bye," Musa said and hung up the phone as she walked into the dance gym.

She dropped her dance bag on the gym floor and with a heavy sigh Musa walked over to the stereo system and turned on the music. She practiced for the next couple of hours and then went off to class.

After class, it was early afternoon and Musa walked into her dorm expecting to go to her room and getting in a nap before she had to start getting ready for the dance. But, when she passed by Flora and Bloom's room she noticed that all of the girls were trying on their dresses. She wanted to walk by quickly, since she was tired and didn't feel like changing into her dress, but then she heard Bloom's voice inviting her in. "Hey, Musa let's see your dress,"

Musa smiled decided to hang out with her new friends, it was the least she could do. She didn't want them to feel like she didn't want to be around them and it was nice that she had people that wanted to make an effort to really get to know each other.

"Okay, let me go get it," Musa agreed with a smile even though all she wanted to do was sleep. She walked into her room and over to her wardrobe and pulled out her dress. She quickly changed and walked over to the door and gave one last longing look toward her bed and let out a small whimper. She was really tired! She walked over to Bloom's room in her dress and with a smile on her face asked, "So what do you think?"

"Oh my god! Is that a Gisele Spellera (2) original!" Stella screeched when Musa walked in. "I saw that at her show like a week ago, I wanted it so bad, but someone got it already!"

"Oh yeah, my best friend from home was there and she got it for me," Musa said as she walked into the room and took her place against the wall as Stella pulled out her dress. Musa was going to wear a pretty red halter dress that she had, but it was kinda revealing and she didn't feel very comfortable in it, plus who was she trying to impress? She had remembered that Leslie also told her that this was the hottest new look coming down the runway and in some way she felt like she was doing her best friend proud by wearing it to the dance tonight.

"Well, it's really cute, you look awesome in haute couture," Stella complemented and then went over to Bloom's bed where her dress was laying out. "A party is only as good as what you wear to it and this party will be an excellent party, behold an Iwink Wizrahi, I maxed out the credit card daddy gave me, but I had to buy it, it was calling out to me. Buy me, Buy me,"

"It's nice Stella," Musa said. She remembered that Iwink Wizrahi was one of Annabelle and Isabelle's favorite designers. They had actually become one of his VIP's because they spent so much money at his stores and now they were given first preference on his entire line at all of his fashion shows. "And it's so totally you,"

"Yeah, but my ring doesn't go with it," Stella said biting her lower lip. Musa then zoned out for a second, feeling as if she were going to fall asleep from against the wall when Bloom spoke up with her little dilemma.

"I'm worried, Brandon will be there and this is all I have to wear," Bloom said standing up and showing all for the girls her normal outfit. Musa was going to offer Bloom one of her dresses to borrow (3) since she had brought a few. But then she looked at Bloom and saw that she probably wouldn't fit in her dresses and before she could offer some advice Stella offered Bloom a solution.

"No friend of mine is going to feel apparel shame, there is a simple solution to any fashion dilemma, shopping," Stella said in a voice full of conviction. Musa couldn't help but roll her eyes at the serious tone that Stella used to describe something so meaningless.

The girls headed back to their rooms to change out of their dresses and then met back in the common room so they could go to Magix to find a dress for Bloom, well every girl with the exception of Musa who had laid down on her bed and was making no attempt to get up. "Musa we're leaving now, come on let's – " Techna began when she saw Musa laying on her bed.

"I'm coming," Musa said with her head in her pillow. Techna laughed and walked out of the room and shouted, 'you have five minutes in counting' right before the door shut.

The girls arrived in Magix with Bloom, who looked like she was worried and Musa could understand why. She didn't know this Brandon that Bloom wanted to impress, but she was willing to help anyway she could. They went to every store in Magix looking for dresses and all of the girls' different style preferences began to show when judging different dresses. Stella was more of a fan of revealing while Musa and Flora liked more subtle dresses.

After going into about the fifteenth store in Magix, the girls exited it and followed Bloom as she made her way to another store she suddenly stopped and turned to her friends.

"You go back," Bloom said after a few hours of searching and no luck. "Go get ready, I meet you guys back at the dorm,"

"You sure Bloom," Flora asked looking at her forlorn friend.

"You can text me if you need me," Stella confirmed. All of the girls headed back to Alfea and let Bloom go and try to find something to wear that night.

The second Musa got back to the dorm, she realized that she had about three hours before she needed to get ready so she opted to sleep instead of practicing the dance, again. Musa figured that if she didn't have it down by now then there was no use in trying to get it by tonight and besides she had been dying to go back to sleep since that morning. Musa walked over to her closet and quickly got out everything she needed for the night and then collapsed into her bed and feel asleep almost immediately.

A few hours later Musa was jerked awake by Stella running into her room screaming. "MUSA! Please tell me you can sew!" Stella said in near tears when she revealed that her dress had a rip on the back of it from what looked like a heel digging into it and fringing the fabric.

"I uh, I guess I'm okay at sewing," Musa admitted still half in a daze from being awoken so suddenly. She sat up in her bed to see the princess of Solaria now sitting on the ground in her dress holding the part of the dress that was torn as if it were a hurt puppy. "where are Flora, Techna and Bloom," Musa asked through still hooded eyes hoping she could go ask one of them to help her.

"Techna and Flora are at Carrie and Elsie's dorm room," Stella said on the verge of tears. "And Bloom still isn't back,"

Musa looked at Stella and she couldn't help but giggle inwardly, she was ready to have a heart attack over a simple dress, she was sure Stella had others she could wear, but Musa decided to humor her since the wrong word could tip Stella over the edge. "Okay, get me some thread and some scissors, I think I can hem this," Musa said and Stella obeyed obediently. Musa had taken etiquette for years and one of the boring things that was an 'approved' activity was sewing. So she had learned sew, needlepoint, and knit. And even though those times were some of the most boring in her life, they did come in handy at times.

"Okay, I'm done, let's see it," Musa said and Stella stood up and went to the mirror.

"Oh Musa! You fixed it thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She said over and over again.

"No biggy, but be careful this time, I don't think this dress can take another heel trying to stab it," Musa joked Stella simply nodded excitedly and scurried out of the room so that Musa could get changed into her party outfit.

The ball began with all of the Alfea girls entering the ballroom after all the boys had, it was as if they were making a special entrance for them, well actually, they were. Musa looked at all the guys as she walked into the ballroom and admitted to herself that some of them were really cute. Just then, she saw one specific specialist with magenta hair leaning up against the wall with a scowl on his face. Usually such attitude would repel any interest Musa could have had, this guy was kinda hot. And as Karen had said the day before she didn't have to feel guilty about 'appreciating good handy work on god's part.'

With that thought in mind, Musa continued to look at him until she almost bumped into Stella who was walking in front of her. She quickly corrected herself and gave one last look over to the not-so-happy specialist when her eyes met his. He was looking at her too! He had the most intriguing violet eyes she have seen and there was something about him that made Musa want to know more, it was weird but she never felt like this before. She had been courted by and flirted with many guys before, but this feeling was so different. Musa's heart began to race and quickly turned back around not knowing what else to do. This time she didn't dare look back over to him, but she didn't stop thinking about him and wondering if he was still looking over to her. And he was.

"Hey you have 10 minutes to mingle and then get to that backroom to change and we'll be performing in about 15 minutes," Karen said rather quickly from behind Musa, pulling her out of her day dream about her mysterious magenta haired specialist.

"Oh um yeah, okay I'll be there in 10 minutes," Musa said trying to hid the flustered look on her face. Unfortunately, for her, Karen had known her for awhile and she saw something about her that was a bit off.

"What's up Musa?" she asked suspiciously.

"Nothing, I'm just getting a little nervous,"

"Oh okay," Karen accepted not really believing her for a second. But, she could get the truth out of her later, for now she was already pretty nervous herself about the dance team's first performance of the year. "Go to that room back there, your outfit for the dance is waiting and we have about 10 minutes to get ready so be quick," Karen finished and then quickly walked off to join the rest of her other friends, leaving Musa with her new group.

After all of the girls were in the ballroom, everyone dispersed into their little groups of friends and the ballroom strangely resembled that of one for a 6th grade dance. The boys seemed to be on one side with the girls on the other. Granted there were some exceptions, mainly by the older students from both school, but the majority were separated. Musa and her little group stood around and chatted for a few minutes until Musa realized that she needed to get changed. "Okay guys I have to go get ready,"

"Okay bye Musa," the girls said and while she was walking away she heard a certain princess of Solaria yell. "Good Luck!!" Musa turned back around and smiled and then walked into the changing room.

"Attention students," said Ms. Faragonda to the crowd of students. Everyone quieted down except the seniors, who pretty much ran their respective schools. When they finally quieted, Ms. Faragonda continued. "As many of you may know, the Alfea Dance Team performs at every social event between our schools. So once again this year, our dance team will display their talents with a dance number. Please help me in welcoming our dance team girls,"

With that the room went dark as the initial clapping died down and Musa and the rest of the Alfea dance team walked onto the dance floor. She stood, looking to the floor, in her starting position with her heart almost beating out of her chest. She was never they type of person to get too nervous before a performance, but this time she was pretty on edge. Maybe it was because it was in front of her new classmates, but she knew she why she was feeling this way, but she refused to accept it. She refused to accept that she wanted to perform well in the hopes that she would impress the guy that she had a very brief moment with, if you could even call it that.

The music began and everything fell into place. Musa hit every move to perfection and every single formation and stunt she did was to the tee and everyone was impressed with the team's performance. Musa moved to her final spot on the dance floor and followed the music into her last step and hit it hard and dramatic, and then went right into her ending pose. The music stopped and she looked out into the crowd and managed to make eye contact with him once again. She looked at him, still breathing heavy, and gave a the sexiest smile she could muster. Everyone always told her that she looked very 'come hither' at the end of a dance performance, so she figured she would use it to her advantage. He gave the same indifferent look, but they continued their eye contact until the spotlight faded and the lights came back on and Musa heard her name being called.

"Musa you were amazing!" Stella said running up to the princess.

"That was so good, you're such a great dancer," Flora complimented.

"Yes it was very good," Techna added.

"Thanks so much you guys," Musa said a bit flustered, partially because she was just dancing and mostly because of the guy she kept seeing. Musa looked over her shoulder and saw Karen talking to some other girls and she figured she could take this opportunity thank her for helping her out. "Hey let me catch up to you in a second, I want to go thank Karen for letting me perform. And I really need to change back into my dress," The girls nodded and Musa began to make her way back to the back room.

Once in the room, Musa approached Karen when Karen noticed Musa coming to her and smiled. "Damn Musa," Karen said proudly. "I forgot how great of a dancer you were, welcome to the Alfea Dance team," she said with a big smile as Musa looked at her with a little disbelief in her eyes.

"Really!?" Musa almost screamed.

"Of course! You would have to be crazy to not put you on the team, we actually want you to sit in on the try outs as well, to see who we should put into the team," Karen said fixing up her hair and getting ready to walk back out to the party. On her way out she made one last comment that she thought would make Musa smile, "If only Daniel saw you dancing like that, he'd be all over you in a second,"

Karen walked out of the room leaving Musa feel guilty more than anything. For the past hour or so she had completely forgotten about Daniel. And what was worse was that she was constantly looking at or thinking about that guy. I didn't do anything, we looked at each other and that's it. It was nothing, we looked at each other, we didn't even talk. Its no big deal. Musa told herself over and over again trying to push away the feelings of guilt that were welling up inside her.

She slipped her dress back on and was ready to walk back outside and tried not to think about what was making her feel so bad, but she couldn't help it. What made things worse was that she knew that Daniel felt a bit threatened by the possibility of her finding someone here. But, Musa didn't want anyone else, and this guy was just some random person that she would probably never see again, so why did it matter? She was with Daniel for a reason, they were so great together and she did have genuine feelings for him. This brief lapse in judgment meant nothing, nothing even happened! Snap out of it! Musa managed to convince herself that the guy she kept looking at was nothing and that the feelings that welled up inside her were nothing as well.

"So, guess what," Musa said walking up to Stella, Flora and Techna excitedly. "Wait where's Bloom?"

"I have no idea," Techna said looking around the ballroom. "I'm sure she'll be here soon, so what's your news,"

"Oh, I am officially on the dance team," Musa said excitedly.

"Wow that's so great, way to go," Flora said and Techna nodded.

"That is so perfect, you were really great out there," Stella commended. "And now that your on the dance team, your in a totally in with all of the Alfea seniors."

"Thanks," Musa said unable to contain her smile. She was thinking back to a few days ago when she was leaving home. It seemed like forever ago, and even though she had spoke to all of her old friends at least once a day, they seemed like a part of her old life. She really felt as if she had created a whole new world her in Magix and she felt so silly about being so worried about coming here, even if it were completely justified.

"Hey girls," Bloom said drawing the attention of their little circle. She looked worried and a bit flushed when she walked up. Musa then noticed that she had yet to change into a dress, maybe she hadn't found one when she went off on her own in Magix.

"Bloom, what too you so long," Techna asked as she walked up to them.

"What's the matter?" Flora asked when she saw the worried look on Bloom's face.

"Umm, well I don't want to get everyone in here freaked out, so lets talk out in the hallway," Bloom said still not dropping the worried look. Musa and the rest of the girls nodded and followed Bloom into the hallway and listened to what she had to say.

"The witches are here," Bloom began. "They have a whole plan to sabotage the dance,

"Ugh," Stella said with an exasperated sigh. "What are they gonna do?"

"I heard them casting some freaky spell on the gifts the boys are gonna give us," Bloom answered with a worried look on her face. Musa was more then surprised to find out that the same witches that they had fought with before were coming back for revenge. When she went to Devon Prep there were no real rivalries with other schools, most of the drama took place inside the Devon walls. Even though she was a little nervous to think about what the witches might do, she was still intrigued by the situation. "It had something to do with a snake rat," she finished sounding a little unsure of the last thing she said.

"A snake rat?" Techna questioned looking upward and rubbing her chin as if in deep thought. "Let me consult my database, snake rat," Techna began again. "Venomous swamp creatures that can cause projectile vomiting with one bite, gross," She finished with disgust.

"Eww," Stella said with a cringe. "I know why they're doing this, those witches are so jealous of us, they wish they had a chance with the Red Fountain boys," Stella said with superiority and annoyance in her voice. Musa thought for a second about why the witches were here, it surely couldn't be about the Red Fountain boys, they didn't seem like the kind of girls that like guys that followed the rules. Musa was about to ask, but Bloom began talking again ready to answer Stella's question.

"Well actually the witches are not after the boys at all," Bloom said still in the same serious voice. Musa nodded when Bloom basically proved her assumption. "What they're after is your ring, Stella, we have to so something,"

Musa began putting things together in her mind at that moment. She knew she heard one of the witches ask for Stella when they fought them in Magix, and since they obviously didn't get what they wanted that night, they were back again. And now she finally knew why they were after Stella, they wanted her ring. Musa thought for a few seconds and then though of what they could do. "It's cool, we can handle it, we'll just go back to the dorm and get the ring right now,"

"Its too late, look," Flora said pointing out two Red Fountain students that were bringing a huge chest into the center of the room.

"No snake rats," Musa said after a brown haired boy opened the chest. Maybe the witches conjured a dud, they didn't look like the brightest crayons in the box when they had their run in with witches.

"Well the spell said that they'd hatch from inside the eggs," Bloom pointed out.

"We need a counter spell and fast," Stella said. "Come on lets form a circle," The girls did as Stella commanded and made a circle, hand in hand. "Focus your winx, now let's link our powers together." (4)

"Let all the dark magic be reversed, make the eggs like they were before they were cursed," They all said together. Finally, at the end of the chant Musa could feel her magic coursing through her and when she opened her eyes she noticed a small glow over all the eggs that vanished a second after she blinked again.

"Spells are exhausting," Stella said with a heavy sigh as she knelt over and rested her hands on her knees and tried to catch her breath. Musa then saw the same brown haired student walk over to Stella and hand her an egg. Musa looked at him and wondered if he was Prince Sky, probably since he was gushing all over Stella, but Musa thought that he would look different, when she gave it some thought, she really thought she met him before at a ball that Daniel's father had thrown.

"Let me see it, Flora remember that Tundra spell from teen fairy," Musa asked taking the egg that the may-be- Sky gave to Stella.

"Yeah, sure do, I can use it to give those witches a taste of their own medicine, it will turn the thing they covet into the thing they hate," Flora said almost getting malicious smile.

"Alright, go for it," Musa then looked back over to the guy near Stella again who looked like he had just tried to comprehend advanced nuclear fission and its connection to neural impulses in the corpus collasum (5).

Musa simply let it go and walked back into the ballroom as Bloom went and changed into her dress. She went over to talk to Karen and some of the other girls from the dance team that she had become friends with. After a couple of minutes she saw the rest of the girls walk back into the ballroom and she excused herself to go back to talk to them.

"A prince just asked me to dance!" Flora said excitedly as the group reassembled.

They got into another clump when Griselda and Faragonda walked over to them. Miss Faragonda had a huge smile on her face while Griselda had the same cross look that she always had. "Young ladies, we just had a great idea, Princess Musa should perform a hip hop number for out guests,"

"Okay…that would be alright if you really want me to," Musa said even though she didn't have anything prepared. Musa was a little surprise that Faragonda wanted her to perform a hip hop number. She had always been told by her aunt, grandmother and many other people to only perform the classics and that modern hip hop was vulgar and unlady like, but Musa loved it the most. Besides, she did love to sing and maybe singing, something that always seemed to relax her, would help to get her mind off of the guy she kept thinking about.

"Well, seeing you sing might be some fun," Stella teased when she saw the nervous look on Musa's face.

"Well if your half as good at singing as you are at dancing," Flora said with a smile trying to make Musa less nervous.

"Well, I need some sheet music so I can quickly rehearse a song," Musa said allowed.

"Just do one you know, and something we can dance to if it's not too much to ask," Stella said with a grin. Musa figured Stella wanted to get some more time in with Prince Sky, someone Musa had yet to officially meet.

"Okay, I know a lot of songs by heart," Musa said to herself and her friends. "Okay let me go get ready and can you guys tell Miss Faragonda that I just need five minutes,"

The girls nodded and walked away and Musa went toward the stage that was in the ballroom, the dance team would have used it, but their dance required more space then the small stage could offer. After a few minutes of Musa listening to her ipod and playing the song over and over again, Musa got the hang of it and figured she would sing and do a few hip swivels and that's about it to keep both the crowd and herself engaged in the song, besides it was hard not to move your hips to a hip hop number.

"Attention all, we have another treat for you this evening. A member of our new freshman class whom you just saw perform with the Alfea Dance team is the lovely Princess Musa Dannington. And now she had agreed to grace us with a song, so please enjoy," Miss Faragonda said announcing Musa again.

Musa got on stage and waited for the music to begin and when it did, it was like all the worries washed away and all she could do was sing. "I've been looking for a driver's whose qualified so if you think you're the one then step into my ride. I'm a fine-tuned supersonic speed machine with a sunroof top and gangster lean…"

She made her way across the stage when she noticed a certain face in the crowd, well not in the crowd; he was up against a wall, again. But, Musa now knew those eyes anywhere. It was him! "You look like you could handle what's under my hood, you keep saying that you will boy I wish you would," Musa kept singing on and she could feel something amazing every time she looked at him or when she saw him looking at her and the few times that they made eye contact, that sent electricity through her.

Finally, her performance ended and when she looked up he was no longer there. She couldn't help but feel her heart and hopes fall slightly when she didn't see him there and at this point, Daniel was the last person on her mind.

After Musa finished her performance she bowed after the applauded and then walked over to her friends, on the way there many people came up to her to complement her on her abilities as a dancer and a singer. Finally she got to her friends that were standing in a way similar to the way they were before, except they were standing with whom Musa still assumed was Prince Sky. "Musa that was great," Flora said.

"Oh Musa, this is Sky," Stella said excitedly. She was standing next to the guy she had been crushing on for awhile, Stella had told them it was Prince Sky of Eraklyon, and Musa could have sworn that she had met him once, but this wasn't him.

"Nice to meet you," Sky said warmly.

"Yeah, nice to meet you too," Musa said back politely still looking at him closely wondering why she thought he looked familiar, yet not who she thought. "Have I met you before, I swear I have, you look so familiar,"

"Umm, no I'm sorry I don't think we have," Sky said looking very nervous, which made Musa a bit suspicious. "Wow that was a great performance," Sky said with a smile that made Stella melt being sure to quickly change the subject. "Both performances were great," he quickly corrected himself after he realized Musa had been on the dance team performance as well.

"Thanks so much," Musa said beaming, everyone had complemented her on the performances and now that she was a part of the dance team so she was having an awesome night.

"Oh and this is my friend Brandon and this is Timmy," Sky said introducing the two as they walked up to the small group. The blonde on did look familiar, oddly, but Musa made nothing of it since she was wrong about Sky. (6) "And Riven was with us, but he's probably somewhere getting himself in trouble,"

Timmy and Brandon laughed while the girls stood their confused and then Brandon brought the conversation back to something they would probably be able to talk about.

"You were really good," Brandon complimented and Musa, again took it as graciously as she had before.

The group talked for a bit and got to know each other and then Brandon walked away claiming he wanted to say hi to someone, but only Sky and Timmy knew that he was really doing, looking for Bloom.

"Hey where's Bloom?" Musa asked wondering if she caught either of her performances.

"I have no idea, she was just here," Stella answered.

"Better find her, Brandon has been asking for her," Sky said with his arm now around Stella.

"She might still be getting ready, we should go find her," Techna insisted. The girls nodded and Stella reluctantly pulled away from Sky and followed Musa and Techna and Flora.

When the four walked out of the ballroom, they were heading toward the dorm area when they saw Bloom on the grass outside the ballroom.

"Bloom where were you," Flora asked as she and the rest of the group walked up to the fairy that was still in her normal clothes. Bloom explained to the girls about how she was attacked and tried to save Stella's ring, but failed. And then, after explaining to her how Flora's spell of the month from Teen Fairy worked, the girls headed back in and waited for Bloom to finally make her entrance to the party, since she had been in and out all night and it looked like Brandon was getting a bit restless.

"So gimme the scoop you guys, what did I miss?" Bloom asked when she finally got back into the ballroom. The girls filled her in on everything and they danced the rest of the night away.

The ball was a huge success; she had a lot of fun with her friends. She walked over to her bed gratefully, since it was where she really wanted to be all day and collapsed into it. Musa closed her eyes and fell asleep, still unable to get those piecing violet eyes out of her head.

1.Let's just say there was a tree there

2 I dunno sounds cool

3. I don't know why they didn't do that. I mean they all look the same freaking size!.

4. This is a lot like power convergence…no?

5. I would love to know if the two are related, although I doubt it. The corpus collasum is the tissue that connects the hemispheres of the brain btw. Women have larger ones which is why we tend to be better multi taskers

6. I'm sorry but I refuse to believed that with so many royal in one place that they all haven't met at some royal party before. So Musa has a suspicion that she casts aside.

I threw in some MxR! I love it and next chapter is when the two lovebirds meet!

xoxo,
princessm