I never really liked this episode and since nothing remotely interesting happened, I added a bunch of scenes to spice things up.

Secret Guardian

"Are you okay Stella?" Musa asked as she and Stella left their magical defense class taught by Ms. Griselda. Going to a class taught by her was enough to elicit this question, but Stella had taken a real beating today since everything in class was based on drawing from your magical source of power and Stella's source was currently in the hands of the witches.

"A keek bug beat me," Stella repeated for probably the hundredth time.

"You were off your game, I wouldn't worry about it," Musa encouraged, even though it looked like Stella was fine, Musa could tell she had been a bit down since she lost her ring to the witches. They walked through though the grand corridor into the Alfea quad and began on their way over to their dorm.

"Well you beat a junior," Stella complained. "So you have nothing to worry about, my grade is hanging by a thread,"

"That's true," Musa confirmed. "But, it's probably because you're Stella minus your ring, when we get it back I'm sure you'll be back to your old self,"

"I hope so," Stella said perking up. "Those witches really need to get a life, I mean come on they're seniors and they have nothing better to do than annoy us? Talk about pathetic,"

Musa laughed as the two walked back over to their dorm when Musa's phone went off. She grabbed it out of her pocket and was ready to pick up when Stella playfully grabbed her phone. "Stella, not funny give it back," Musa said seriously hoping it wasn't Daniel calling. She was now determined on not mentioning Daniel until her friends were sure she didn't have any feelings for Riven. Musa didn't want them to think that anything was going on with some other guy while she had a boyfriend. So she would make sure whatever there was with Riven wasn't visible and then tell her friends.

"Ooh la la," Stella said looking at the name that appeared on the screen. "Who is Nate? Boyfriend maybe?"

Relived that it was just Nate calling, Musa smiled and allowed Stella to have her fun. "More like best friend," Musa said trying to take her phone back from Stella, who wasn't convinced by Musa's argument, and was giving her a skeptical look. "He's dating my other best friend Leslie and stop giving me that look; he's like my brother,"

"Oh well, I'll leave you to talk to Nate," Stella said handing Musa back her phone. "I'll be in my room, if you need me," Stella finished as she happily walked back to the dorm as if nothing was bothering her. Musa swore she was like a five year old sometimes, upset beyond belief about something one minute and the next she was hoping along as if nothing could ever go wrong.

"Bye Stel," Musa said as she turned around and walked further into the quad. She picked up her phone at last, just in time to because Nate was ready to get her voicemail. "Hello!" Musa exclaimed happily. She had been in a very good mood over the last couple of days, probably because things between her and Daniel had managed to smooth over and she hadn't seen Riven since the day they lost Stella, so she had no mixed feelings to deal with. Sure, there were her dreams that were causing her to some doubts about her feelings for Daniel, but whatever she felt for Riven was a crush. She would ride it out and Daniel never had to hear about or get hurt over something of such little consequence.

"You seem awfully happy," Nate pointed out in an equally amused tone.

"It's been a good week,"

"I bet," Nate began. "Daniel's been walking around humming, it's a little unsettling for me, but hey the guy is always in a good mood now,"

"Aww," Musa said happily. The whole long distance thing was a strain on both of them but it was god to hear that he was happy.

"How's dance?"

"Good, Karen says hello," Musa joked. Karen and Nate had a very brief, very stupid fling when Nate and Leslie were on 'a break' and ever since then they had been a bit awkward with each other, which was odd since Leslie and Karen managed to remain friends.

"Funny," Nate spat out with sarcasm. "You know, you don't see me pulling out skeletons from you're closet,"

"That is because I don't have any," Musa pointed out, she had managed to remain relativity innocent when growing up in a world where money could buy you in and out of all the trouble in the universe.

"Please that might work on someone like Penelope or you're new Alfea friends," Nate teased. "But, remember I've known you for almost as long as Daniel has,"

"And you should remember, that I have managed to keep a clean record,"

"So have I," Nate began. "I mean it's not spotless, but the messes have cleaned up,"

Musa laughed and continued into the quad and sat down by the tree she always sat down at. "Yeah, I'll bet how's Devon,"

"Good, we miss you, but we're getting though it," Nate commented with a sly laugh. "And Alfea, please tell me you've been good. Not partying too hard?"

"Again, let's remember I am the one with the clean record," Musa reminded. "Besides Alfea is actually a lot different then Devon. Partying goes on, but not too much and drinking is pretty much none existent." Back at home, Musa was accustomed to drinking at every occasion, shopping, hanging out, manicures, any activity possible was usually accompanied by a martini. Not that she really took part in much of that, but most of her friends did enjoy martinis as if they were water, not that they were constantly drunk or anything. It was actually a talent when Musa thought about it, nobody really got out of control except for the out and out party animals, but other than that it was more a social thing. They had the means to do whatever they wanted, and most of them did. "It's actually really nice, and you know what's weird, you brought up Penelope and I actually just started talking to her again."

"I'm sure it is, and yeah she was telling us about it last night," Nate said. He knew Musa wasn't really a big drinker, she did enjoy the occasional martini with her friends, but she usually went to a party to dance, not drink.

"Last night?"

"We were actually just partying with Penelope last night, she got hammered," Nate explained.

"I'm not surprised, that girl needs to slow down," Musa said recalling Penelope's party girl ways.

"Yeah really," Nate said in a jesting tone. "She needs to stick with Isabelle's motto on drinking,"

Musa had almost forgotten about this little mantra that Isabelle practically swore by. She said it every time someone had a little too much to drink, which was usually any night they went out to party, as a motto to stick by. For a few seconds Musa forgot it, but it came back to her and she couldn't help but say it proudly into the phone. "One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!" (1) Musa said and immediately began to laugh at how funny it was, eliciting a few stares from fellow students in the quad that heard her burst into laughter after counting hard liquor.

"That's the one," Nate confirmed with a laugh. "Hey, I should get going, I've got class in a few minutes. But, I need to tell you something, it's actually the reason I called,"

"Sounds serious," Musa said sarcastically noting the carefree tone in Nate's voice.

"I might be coming to Magix in a few week," Nate said and heard silence at the other end of the phone.

"Uhh with who?" Musa said after she swallowed the lump in her throat. She was not ready for her two worlds to collide.

"Probably just me," Nate explained. "My dad is meeting with some of his old buddies and is dragging me along so I figured I could see you."

"Sounds great!" Musa said excitedly but felt guilt at the same time. Was it was bad thing that she didn't want to see her boyfriend? Well, she wanted to see him, just not here.

"Yeah, but its not for sure, just throwing it out there,"

"Well call if you are coming, it'll be fun!"

"Yeah, okay," Nate agreed. "Okay I gotta go before I'm late for Minchin's class again,"

"Oh good luck," Musa said feeling bad for Nate. Mrs. Minchin (2) was one of the meanest professors at Devon, she strongly resembled Griselda except she was probably worse.

"Thanks, talk to you later M, bye,"

"Bye," Musa said hanging up her phone and walking over to her dorm room.

Musa walked into her dorm and heard the girls talking in Bloom's room so she headed over to her room. There she saw Bloom sitting in front of a large book reading something. "Here it is again," Bloom exclaimed as she leafed through the book.

"Okay so give us the 4-1-1 Bloom," Musa said sitting down on Flora's bed and listened to Bloom explain everything she had learned about Stella's ring.

"Do you know about this Stella?" Bloom asked to Stella.

"Well yeah, I know about all that starlight stuff," Stella said a little defensively hoping she didn't sound completely ignorant. "But the other stuff makes me think I should have it reappraised."

"Think this is why the witches might want your ring, it might have major powers or something," Bloom urged.

"In that case we better go get it back," Flora suggested.

"We have to get it back, I'm like totally useless with out it," Stella wined.

"That's true, in magical defense class she got beaten up by a keek bug," Musa joked recalling what happened earlier that day. When Bloom finished explaining what she found, the girls parted and went to class.

Musa however did not have any other classes left of the day so she decided to go practice some of her dance routines since they were performing one of their routines soon. She stayed in the dance gym for a while and when she finished there she realized she still had the rest of the afternoon to herself.

She had yet to go explore the lovely enchanted forest. It was talked about a lot and she wanted to see it, that and Silent Falls. Musa decided to walk over to the end of campus and wander for a bit, she was never really allowed to do that when she was at home since her father demanded that palace guards know where she was every second that she was at the palace. Plus, she figured that if she did get lost she could just call Techna and get directions back.

It was a really nice day, but Musa looked up and saw clouds were starting to gather, she smiled happily when she thought it might rain. She loved the smell of rain and so far, she had not experienced it since it was sunny almost everyday in Magix. The slight calm and feeling of serenity in the air was a tell tale sign that she was getting the rain she hoped for. Musa walked over to a large rock that sat next to the edge of the lake and took of her shoes and let her feet skim the top of the water.

She was beginning to love Magix, everything about it was amazing. There was the awesome night life in the city and then just miles out of the city, the atmosphere was calm and peaceful and with beautiful places like this, Musa never wanted to leave. Just then she heard what sounded vaguely like a leva bike. Musa ignored it for a minute, but then from out of the woodwork, walked Riven not noticing or choosing not to notice her sitting there. She took the chance to appreciate what was before her, he was built like a Greek god, his arms were amazing and she could faintly see abs from the outline of his clothes. What was it about him that made her so taken and flustered, whatever it was, Musa was beginning to like it.

"Talk about constantly having a dark cloud looming around you," Musa said sarcastically as the sun became covered by gray clouds. Since Riven always seemed to be in a bad mood when she saw him, she figured it made perfect sense that she say it, but he didn't look up and for a second, Musa swore that he didn't hear her since he was a good distance from her.

"Blaming me for the weather?" Riven asked not looking over to her, but that comment made it known to Musa that he noticed that she was there. She then looked over to him and his face was lacking it's usually iciness. Instead a smile that he was probably trying to stifle was peaking through the scowl.

"Actually, I kind of like the weather like this," Musa said as she leaned back on her arms, outstretching her body, which managed to catch Riven's attention as his mouth went dry. She said it as if almost implying that she liked it when he was around. Almost. "It's pretty peaceful,"

"Just wait for the thunder, princess," Riven said mockingly as he walked along the water's edge acting as nonchalant as he possibly could, throwing in as much arrogance as he could. If he was going to push her away, he was going to do it right. "We'll see how peaceful and happy you feel and how long it takes for you to go running home when it starts to thunder,"

Musa rolled her eyes and ignored Riven. She was sure that nobody bought the whole 'I just don't care' routine and yet he continued to keep it up and he ended up looking like a jackass to people who just met him, like her. But Musa figured that if he managed to make friends with such great guys, he had to be pretty nice too, but something was holding that part of him back when others were around. And now, Musa was bent on bringing it out in him. She was ready to send back a sassy remark when she felt a few rain drops hitting her face.

She looked over to Riven who had noticed as well. He looked up and they got into another one of their staring contests. Nobody was around and they could easily talk to each other the way both of them wanted to and yet there was something holding the both of them back.

Instead of saying anything, Musa stood on the rock and carefully jumped off landing gracefully onto the ground. "As much fun as this is," Musa said with a genuine smile to Riven, who was in complete awe of her, "I think I should get back before I catch a cold,"

Riven nodded and walked over to his leva bike and started the engine. He then shouted to Musa who stopped and turned around and looked him square in the eye as if challenging him. "Get on," Riven commanded from his seat on his leva bike as the rain began to fall harder and it was clear that it was not letting up anytime soon. He may have resolved to not speak to her, but he was a hero in training and this did count as being somewhat heroic. Or that's what he kept telling himself.

"What?" Musa said not realizing that he was talking to her, but there was nobody else around.

"Did I stutter? Get on or get soaked," Riven spat out but no matter how hard he was trying to hide a smile, Musa could see one forming along his face. It didn't really make much sense, she was going to get soaked either way since his leva bike lacked a roof of any kind, but Musa was not about to pass up the first nice thing she had ever seen Riven do.

Musa nodded and got on the back of his leva bike. Musa wrapped her arms around Riven's body, feeling a tingle go through her entire body as she held onto his. She had no idea however, that Riven was being even more strongly affected by her. She had never been on one of these before and she was a bit scared that the second they started moving, she'd fly off the back. "Hold on," he said curtly and began to speed over to Alfea.

The rain began to fall faster on the two, but Riven managed to handle the speed and the weather conditions just fine. They finally got to Alfea a few minutes later and Musa promptly got of the bike and handed the extra helmet back to Riven. "Thanks," Musa said.

"You realize it's still raining," Riven said with his helmet still on, he had kept it on so she couldn't see how effected by her he was, plus she couldn't see him gazing at the clothes that were now stuck to her body showing every curve.

Musa nodded and turned to walked away, but right before she did, she decided to say goodbye. "Bye Riven," she said sweetly almost mocking him and his constant gloomy attitude. "And thanks,"

"You're welcome," Riven said genuinely hoping the roar of his engine would overpower what he had just said. He had forgotten that he was talking to the musical fairy who had picked up on not only what he had just said but the tone in which he had said them.

Feeling very happy, Musa turned around to go inside and heard Riven sped off as she did. Once inside and sure that Riven couldn't see her, she jumped around like a giddy little child in the empty hallway. After she had gotten that out of her system, she walked calmly into her room where Techna gave her a skeptical look. "Where were you?"

"I went over to the forest and got caught in the rain," Musa said unable to get the smile to off of her face and she was unconsciously humming a tune to one of her favorite songs. Techna managed to pick up on the mood and wondered how someone could be so happy about being soaking wet from the rain.

"What has you so giddy?" Techna questioned.

"I just like the rain sometimes," Musa said happily as she walked over to her window and looked out in the direction of Red Fountain, thinking about her unexpected rendez vous with Riven. She then tore herself out of the thought knowing she couldn't let Techna know or even have a hint toward her feelings for Riven, not that Techna would know that she had seen him there. "I should get changed, I'm soaked," Musa said still smiling uncontrollably.

"Alright," Techna said skeptically as Musa walked into her bathroom.

When Musa got out of her bathroom she heard all the girls discussing Stella's ring in Bloom's room. She got dressed and went over to the room and took her place against the wall, just as she had when they discussed what the name of their group would be.

"How are we going to get my ring back?" Stella asked worriedly as she paced around Bloom and Flora's room. "I can't do anything without it,"

"And we have that major quiz in spells tomorrow," Techna said only making Stella even more nervous.

"That quiz counts for almost half our grade," Flora said not helping to calm her down. "We have to get your ring back or you'll have no chance to pass,"

"I got it!" bloom said excitedly. "We can cast a hypnosis spell on the witches while they're sleeping and then we can get them to giving us the ring,"

"Oh yea, that's perfect for revenge on the witches. But wait a sec, detail, how are we gonna get into cloud tower?" Stella asked.

"I know where to download a map of the interschool tunnels," Techna said adding to their plan.

"We'll go right after light out and be back before everyone wakes up," Bloom said excitedly as the plan came together.

The girls waited until lights out and carefully snuck out of their dorm via the balcony and flew off Alfea grounds. Once they reached the forest, they used the trees for cover until Techna came across an interschool tunnel entranced and led the girls in. The tunnels were like caves, dark, damp and very uninviting.

Once in the cave, Techna pointed the girls in the correct direction, and since there weren't many twists and turns in the cave, it was pretty self explanatory when it came to navigating.

"Techna, where's you map," Flora asked worriedly when she realized that Techna was guiding them around the interschool tunnels with no map.

"After I downloaded it, I memorized it," she answered as if memorizing whole maps was the most normal thing in the world.

"I'm still surprised she memorized the cafeteria menu for the rest of the school year," Bloom said as they made their way through the dark cave.

"So Musa, where were you all day?" Stella asked after a couple moments of silence. There was a clear tension in the air since finding her ring in cloud tower and then stealing it back from the witches was a daunting task. "I haven't seen you since like this morning,"

"Playing in the rain," Techna answered with a slight giggle.

"I wasn't playing in the rain," Musa corrected as a smile grew on her face from her encounter with Riven. "I was taking a walk through the forest earlier and chilling by the lake and it started to rain, but I like the rain so I took my time getting back," she explained conveniently leaving out that she had met Riven there and he was the one to bring her back to Alfea.

"Ugh the rain," Stella said as if repulsed by the very thing that help keep the entire universe alive. "It always frizzes my hair, I can't stand it when it rains, I mean I guess I could use some straightening serum, but that always tends to get sticky and who wants stick hair. But I guess it would work if - " Stella began to babble when Bloom cut her off.

"I think that's the entrance!" she said excitedly. She ran over to what she looked like a door into cloud tower and sure enough it was.

"We're here," Flora exclaimed sounding a little confused expecting the journey to cloud tower to be harder. "This was easy,"

"Almost too easy," Techna said suspiciously as she looked around the school.

"So this is it?" Musa asked looking around the school. She was half expecting to see monsters running around the halls and a melody of witches cackling seeping thought the school. She was expecting this place to look more like a haunted house, but it looked more like the old house that Stella was taken to when the witches took her ring. All she could see was a bunch of different winding staircases.

"It's not as scary as I thought it would be," Flora said verbalizing everything Musa was thinking.

"I think it may be creepier than it looks," Bloom warned.

"There room in on the second floor," Techna said pulling the girls back into the task at hand.

"Let's go and get'em," Bloom said as she picked a set of stairs and began to climb them. Musa looked around the halls and noticed there were no witches wandering the halls. That was probably because it was midnight, but weren't witches most active at night? Or was it bats? That was when Musa's mind starting drifting to all the stereotypes about witches, surely there was one witch in this place that didn't want to pluck off her wings. (3) She continued to think about that when they finally got to the witches' room.

It was pretty much just what Musa expected, except she wondered why all three of them shared the same room. They all had strong personalities, how was it possible they could they live in the same room together. She pondered they thought as they looked around their room. Musa immediately went into the closet to see if there were truly skeletons were in there as Techna said a lost object spell, since the objects spell took awhile they all decided to poke around the witches' things.

"What's this?" Musa said walking into what looked like Darcy's closet, picking up something that looked like a baton. "Think this is for cheerleading," Musa said laughing at the thought of the witches cheerleading.

"Looks more like a whip," Stella said looking at it. "Kinky,"

"Thanks for image Stella," Musa said not as interested in the baton anymore. All of a sudden a bunch spikes poked out of the baton and Musa quickly put it down.

Finally after a few more minutes, Stella found her ring and the girls exited the dorm room as quick as possible. The girls then followed Bloom out of the room; expect they weren't going back the way they came. "I just wanna check this room out, it has the only other book that goes with the other one from the restricted vault,"

Musa and the rest of the girls went into the library and began to look around at the books. While Musa poked around the library looking at different books that they had. 'Covens and creatures' Musa read and opened to book and saw gruesome pictures of how giant bugs were eating smaller bugs. After quickly shutting the book, Musa walked back over to Bloom who was shuffling through a book with her name on it. They had a minute till the interschool tunnel closed so all the girls were pretty nervous. Just then Musa heard Bloom let out a shriek and the book she was looking at came alive.

"The wall is hot, there must have been a dark magic spell used," Techna said as the girls gathered and door to the library disappeared. She tried to shoot through the wall, but it only appeared to make the wall even thicker. It was clear that someone knew that they were in the school and were now trying to mess with them.

"Now what?" Musa asked looking at the door that seemed even stronger after Techna tried to bust through it.

"Power convergence," Techna asked and the girls quickly transformed and converged their powers and managed to keep the doors open and they ran through the hole and into a hallway. Musa and Techna led the pack through the hallway that seemed to be never ending and it took a couple second but Techna realized what was going on. "I think this is some type of illusion spell,"

The girls finally stopped to catch their breathes when they all realized that they were going to have to figure out another way to get out of the school. "You memorized the map, didn't you?" Flora asked Techna as she tried to catch her breath.

"Yes, but this isn't on the map, it's as if it's changed."

"Hey does anybody hear that," Bloom interrupted when she hear a low screeching sound coming closer and closer.

"Red Catapow," Musa exclaimed as the red creatures began to surround the group of fairies. "We had those in my realm,"

"Are they bad," Bloom asked nervously.

"They got into my friend's castle," Musa began.

"What happened?" Bloom asked nervously as the bugs began to surround.

"I never saw her again," Musa failed to mention that the creatures only sent her to the hospital and it was Hazel's parents that moved her to a separate school, but this way the girls would be more cautious around the bugs. "One bit and we're done for,"

They put up a fire shield and it seemed to working for a few minutes, until it looked like the bugs were actually getting stronger until Flora finally summoned the natural predators of the Red Catapow and when it finished stomping on the bugs it was gone. Flora looked very proud that they could banish the pests while being environmentally sound.

After Musa took a deep relaxing breath thankful that the bugs were gone, but a couple seconds later they began to reform and create a huge slimly monster. "Wait till you get close then strike,"

"This is supposed to be the grand ball room," Techna said looking around the small potion room.

"Stella, look at all the fire," Flora scolded.

"Hey when it comes to bugs, you can never have enough fire," Stella said. "Haha good one Stel," she told herself. Then the fire began to surround the girls.

"Way to go," Musa said as the fire began to surround them. The whole situation seemed very hopeless.

"Bloom what are you doing," Stella asked as her best friend walked into the fire with a blank stare on her face. "Bloom!"

"We have to stop here!" Techna said urgently hoping that one of the girls would find a way to stop Bloom since it was clear that Bloom was planning on walking through fire. But, miraculously Bloom managed to survive the fire, in fact she opened a portal that opened into the interschool tunnel.

The girls finally got back to Alfea and found that they were extremely tired after staying up all night and wandering about cloud tower. And the feeling of fatigue had become very familiar to Musa since she had been lacking sleep due to dance, Daniel and everything else going on in her life. And as if it weren't bad enough that she probably would only feel better after getting sleep she didn't have time for, the girls were also stripped of their powers because they went onto Cloud Tower grounds and they got a nice stern talking to by Faragonda and Griselda the second they got back to Alfea in the morning. (4)

The girls sat silently in Stella's room after they were given their punishments, some more upset then other. While Musa and Stella seemed to be looking on the bright side, no powers meant no classes and that meant she had time to catch up on everything she had put on the backburner. Bloom and Flora were pretty upset about everything since they would have to make everything up and Bloom was more concerned about the witches coming to get some sort of revenge on them.

Musa sat on a chair and mindlessly pondered how ever since she got to Alfea she had been getting in trouble. The first day she had gone to Magix and broke curfew and then there was the whole situation with the Mystro and the girls messing up his kitchen and hosing down Griselda. But, it wasn't really her fault any of those things happened, not that she was blaming the girls, but she had never been the one to get in trouble for anything. At Devon Prep it was always Nate, Daniel and Brian that were stirring things but with the occasional help of the twins and Duke. She and Leslie has managed to stay on the right side of the disciplinary system.

Most of the time.

It was hard to forget the time that they all went in together to play a prank on headmaster Charleston. They had snuck into his office and placed a number of childish pranks all over ad then they spied on a staff meeting and managed to figure out a way to sabotage the entire school assembly and the whole prank scheme ended when Nate and Daniel hotwired his car and it ended up at the bottom of the school's pool. It was probably one of the best days of her life, but for months after they were all in detention and they were lucky they weren't kicked out of the school.

Musa smiled at the memory and went back to her room to go get some sleep before she needed to get to dance practice. "I think I'm gonna get some sleep," Musa said and walked over to her room. She didn't hear any response from the girls since they were all pretty preoccupied with their own things, but she went back to her room and napped for a while.

A couple hours later, Karen came knocking at the door to the girls' dorm. "Oh hey Karen," Stella said cheerfully. She as supposed to be in Stella's class, but since Stella was held back a year because of the potion lab incident, she wasn't. But, the two did know each other. "Looking for Musa?"

"Yeah, we have practice and she's late," Karen said with a rather serious tone.

"Oh okay, I'll get her," Stella said sensing Karen's tone and not wanting to push her mood any further.

Stella walked into Musa's room where the musical princess was in a peaceful slumber and woke her up abruptly. "You better get out there, she doesn't seem very happy,"

"Why not?" Musa said trying to get her dance clothes on as fast as possible.

"No idea, but I would hurry," Stella said as Musa threw on a shirt and ran out the door. She saw Karen and sensed the anger so she stayed quiet. Was Karen upset because she was late?

"So what did you do yesterday," Karen said as they got out to the quad breaking the uncomfortable silence.

"What?" Musa asked noting the accusing tone in Karen's voice.

"Don't think I didn't see him dropping you off yesterday," Karen said disappointedly. She had seen Musa get dropped off by some mysterious Red Fountain guy and she had thought the worst. "Rainy day rendez vous? Is this why nobody knows about Daniel, so you can cheat on -"

"Whoa slow down, you have no idea what you're talking about,"

"Why were you with him?" Karen asked being uncharacteristically bossy that day.

"What does it matter to you," Musa said getting rather upset. She already had this argument with Daniel, why was she having it with Karen. "You have no idea what you're talking about and – ,"

"I saw you get off his bike all hot and wet," Karen began in a disappointed voice. There were so many girls that cheated on their boyfriends, but she never thought Musa would be one of them. "Then you practically skipped into school, seems a lot more giddy than a person would be if someone gave them a ride,"

"I don't know what you saw, but I was stuck in the forest when it began to rain, and I was perfectly fine walking back by myself but he offered and I didn't feel like getting a cold so will you just drop it!"

"You seem awfully defensive," Karen pointed out calmly while Musa was fuming at the accusations.

"Well, I'm sick of being questioned when it comes to my fidelity," Musa ranted. "God do you think I am so pathetic that I'm going to fall for the first guy that smiles at me?" Then Musa stopped and realized that was exactly what happened, not that she would ever let anyone know that. "When have I ever given reason to be questioned like that!"

"I'm just repeating what I saw and it seemed a little more than innocent," Karen said not sure how to answer. Musa wasn't the type of person to cheat so she did have a point. But, Karen knew a guilty face when she saw one and she had known Musa for too long to know that there wasn't something going on, but maybe it wasn't what she thought. There could have been a million reasons for whatever happened that day, it was probably best to drop it.

"Well it wasn't," Musa said curtly.

"Okay then, let's go practice," Karen said still not believing Musa was telling the truth.

"Sounds good to me," Musa said as she put a smile on her face and walked into the dance practice.

Musa walked into practice realizing there was only so long she could dance around the secret she was hiding from her friends, her boyfriend and ultimately, herself.

1. My best friend says this all the time and it is so true. Funny stuff.

2 .Ms. Minchin is the horrible etiquette teacher in the novel "A Little Princess" I love love love that book.

3. Anyone else not too cool with the stereotype thing with the witches and the faires?

4. As I said earlier, I hate this episode. It is way too Bloom based and it's boring so I cut the whole Cloud Tower thing short and added my own fun.

Next up – Grounded! Boys and girls party together in an empty school!

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