Wow

Wow! It took me forever to update! Sorry about that people, but I had prom and we went to the beach for a few days right after for some post prom fun. (it's a big school tradition, everyone heads down to the beach) But yea the past couple of weeks have been dedicated to planning prom and all this other junk. Not to mention I had to turn in a shit load of papers I didn't feel like doing until last minute. Hence the late update.

Sorry once again, but her is my next chapter. Btw – Musa/Daniel haters will rejoice -

Magical Reality Check

Musa was never the type of girl to spend the night with a guy in his hotel room. Sure she and Daniel had fallen asleep together after a long night of cramming for a test at Devon and it happened with some of her other friends as well. But most of those times they had fallen asleep on the floor and woken up in a frenzy trying to get to class on time.

There were also those times that everyone was at her palace or someone's castle and they all watched a movie or had a party and everyone ended up staying the night since it was too late and everyone had a little too much to drink to go home. Those nights were usually the most fun and they were pretty innocent when Musa thought about it, there was some drinking involved, but they were a bunch of rich prep school kids that had access to whatever they wanted. The mornings after those nights usually consisted of a few people with hangovers and a very late breakfast.

This morning was different. Musa opened her eyes, still heavy with sleep to the afternoon sun shining in her face. For a second she thought she was in her room in Alfea when she felt Daniel's arms around her. She then heard her boyfriend's heartbeat and realized that she and Daniel had fallen asleep in his bed at the hotel. For a second she took the moment to relax in his embrace when she realized that she had school that morning.

"Crap!" Musa said loudly as she sat up and darted out of bed and Daniel's arms. She quickly ran around the room looking for her shoes.

"Baby," Daniel said soft sitting up rubbing the sleep of his eyes as he slowly sat up in bed. "What are you doing?" he yawned and looked around in confusion at Musa who looked like he was ready to freak out at any moment.

"Where are my shoes!" Musa yelled as she ran around the room feeling so wrong for some reason. Why was this so weird? He was her boyfriend and it wasn't like anything happened between them, and even if something did happen, it wouldn't be weird. Would it?

"Right there, I see that your ankle is all better" Daniel pointed to a spot on the floor right in front of her and laughed as he watched his girlfriend sprint around the room and nearly trip over her own two feet. She was so cute when she was in a frenzy like that. "What's wrong?"

"I have school today, not to mention I totally broke curfew," Musa said as she sat on the edge of the bed and put on her shoes. She then felt Daniel's arms wrap around her and pull her back into their embrace. For a second Musa let herself fall back into his embrace, but when he began laying a few kisses on Musa's neck, she knew that she had to stop things before she stayed their the rest of the day and got in even more trouble with school. "Okay stop, I need to go,"

Musa then pushed herself off the bed and began to walk out of the bedroom and into the hallway making her way towards the door. She really needed to get back to school and she began to think about how she was going to explain this. And it really wasn't Griselda she was afraid of, it was explaining everything to the girls. They had just found out about Daniel and she knew that they would wanted a more detailed depiction of him when she returned last night. But, she hadn't returned, she spent the night. And now she was going to have to explain that as well.

"I'll take you back to Alfea, just give me five minutes," Daniel pleaded and Musa agreed. Musa sat on the couch and tried to relax, but for some reason the thought of spending the night with Daniel was making her very nervous. Daniel then walked into the bathroom and emerged five minutes later ready to take her back to Alfea. They quickly exited the hotel and got into the limo.

Musa sat in the limo staring forward worried about what type of trouble she would be in with Griselda for staying out all night, she had not just broken the curfew but she disregarded it completely, and it was not like she had a squeaky clean record here to begin with. She pondered what was going to happen as she twisted the fabric from the bottom part of her shirt and chewed on her lower lip. "It's really not that big a deal," Daniel explained as he put his arm around Musa and tried to calm her down. "I mean it's one night. It's not like they go to every room and check that you guys are sleeping in your own rooms do they?"

"Well, we've been getting in a lot of trouble lately," Musa began as she laid her head on Daniel's shoulder. "I really don't want Ms. Faragonda to hate me,"

"Who could hate you?" Daniel teased lovingly and planted a kiss on Musa's forehead. "Besides what is she going to do, really?" Daniel questioned knowing that if you were a royal you were pretty much socially bulletproof. "if they even find out, you'll get a harsh talking to and a detention at most. Besides, I'm sure on of your friends covered for you,"

"I guess your right…" Musa said closing her eyes, she was still pretty sleepy since they were up pretty late the last night watching a movie. It really was an innocent night, they watched a movie on the couch and then talked and ate in his bedroom and finished the movie in there, they just happened to fall asleep.

Finally the two ended up at Alfea and said their goodbyes until Musa went home to visit for spring break, which was now only a few weeks away. "I'll see you in a few weeks," Daniel said getting out of the limo and giving his girlfriend on more kiss,"

"Okay, I'll see you then," Musa nodded and walked onto the quad as watched the car pull away and smiled. For the first time in a long time, she wasn't thinking about Riven. She smiled happily and walked over to her friends that were chatting away at the well in front of the school. She made a clear attempt to act like she had been there the entire time, but it wasn't getting past the princess of solaria. "And where have you been?"

"Oh I overslept," Musa said knowing the girls knew she was lying and by the knowing looks on their faces, she knew they didn't but it for a second. They had called her the night before and she told them she was with Daniel, that was before she and Daniel fell asleep in his bed.

"Mmhmm…" Stella said with a sly look, it was obvious Stella was going to torment her about what she had done last night, but she was more focused on finding out what Bloom had to dish first. "Bloom….Bloom hello what's up," Stella said trying to snap Bloom out of the trans she seemed to be in as she watched her coin fall to the bottom of the well. "What did you wish for?"

"I can't tell you," Bloom said as she turned around from the fountain and looked at the girls that were congregated around it, she couldn't seem to wipe a goofy smile off her face either.

"Does it have blonde hair and blue eyes ," Stella pushed on with a knowing look as the rest of the girls did the same.

"From the look on her face I'm betting it does," Musa teased happy that she was not going to be the one put on trial, for now. "Bloom…." She said waiting for an explanation.

"Brandon wants to go on a walk, what do you think that means?" Bloom said after a couple of seconds of hesitation.

"I don't know what going on a walk means on earth but on my realm, when a crush asks you out, we usually call it a date," Musa said playfully.

"So then what is it when someone spends the night with her boyfriend at the Palace Hotel?" Stella asked coyly and from the looks of it everyone wanted to know. "What would that be called?"

"It's…" Musa began as she blushed profusely. She didn't know why, nothing had happened. But, being put on the spot was not helping. "It's none of your business,"

"Uh huh," Stella said with a knowing smile.

"Nothing happened," Musa insisted.

"Okay Musa, we believe you," Stella said sarcastically and rolled her eyes.

"We fell asleep," Musa insisted feeling as if she needed to plead her case as looking down at the ground and fidgeting with her shirt again.

"You fell asleep," Stella pondered out loud skeptically. "Was it maybe because of some intense physical activity? Running or jumping perhaps, or maybe something that would be easier to do inside, since you two were alone in his hotel room….all night,"

"We fell asleep after watching a movie," Musa explained again. "No innuendos needed since nothing happened,"

"Fine, fine, fine," Stella insisted throwing her hand up in defeat." Nothing happened,"

"So Bloom, your date with Brandon…" Musa said changing the subject and luckily for her the change of subject stuck.

"Well she can't go anyway," Stella said taking the bait and switching the subject back to Bloom. "He asked her less than 72 hours in advance,"

"Maybe he's just being spontaneous, Stella," Flora defended.

"Actually, I have to agree with Stella," Techna said surprising everyone, it was usually Techna and Musa who disagreed with Stella. "Spontaneity is overrated. Advanced planning is a sign of respect,"

"And having a busy social calendar is a sign of self respect," Stella added. "Besides, what kind of cheap date is going on a walk? Plus walking totally limit's ones choice of dating footwear,

"It doesn't matter, I really wanna hang out with him,"

"Ooh la la, it looks like our Bloom is going on a date!" Musa said happily as the girls got up and made their way over to their next class, which they all happened to have together.

"Yeah, let's just hope she comes back the same night," Stella pointed out as she walked ahead of the pack, but turned around to see Musa sine the remark was clearly meant for her. Musa however said nothing, she only smiled and kept on walking.

"I can't believe our little Bloom is off on her first date with Brandon," Stella said as she peaked out the window and saw Bloom and Brandon walking off the Alfea campus. She then moved the drapery back in its proper place and sat in the common room with Flora Techna and Musa. "They grow up so fast,"

"Oh Stella," Techna said dismissively as she fiddled around with her mini laptop thing. "you really shouldn't pry so much, you will look like you're a gossip,"

"It's a little late for that," Musa pointed out from her seat on the couch ahs she tuned her guitar. It was a pretty well known fact that Stella was the queen of gossip around Alfea, she was the first to break the news that Amaryl had a nose job and that was why she could participate in magical combat 101.

"Well since it's so well known that I'm a gossip," Stella began. "What was your first date like?" Stella finished addressing Techna probably knowing that this would make her uncomfortable.

Techna looked up and blushed profusely before looking back down at her computer. "I um, well…" Techna stammered.

"Stella, leave her alone," Musa defended as she strummed her guitar when she saw the look on Techna's face. "Not everyone has been dating since they were five,"

"Fine, I guess I can pick on you since we just found out about Prince Cunningham yesterday," Stella said standing up and walked up to the couch and poked Musa on the arm. "So what' the 4-1-1 on him?"

"I told you guys pretty much everything yesterday," Musa said hoping her friends weren't going to make her repeat the reason she kept the relationship from them. "We have been friends forever and then last year we kinda started to date and well…yeah," Musa finished as she looked back down at her guitar an strummed a few more chords.

"So you guys just started dating out of the blue?" Flora asked looking up from the textbook she was studying. She didn't mean to push too much on the subject, but it was a little confusing as to how they went from being just friends to dating.

"Yeah pretty much," Musa said thinking back to when she and Daniel had begun dating. It did all start when he kissed her out of the blue one day. "I mean, it was kind of random when you think about it…"

"So what do think Bloom and Brandon are doing?" Flora asked noticing the look on Musa's face. She figured a change of topic might be nice.

"Walking," Stella said quickly and tried to turn the conversation back to Musa. "Not much of a first date, but hey I guess if Bloom likes him,"

"I think it's sweet," Musa said. "I mean it's nothing too flashy, besides Bloom isn't the kind of girl who needs a big to do over a first date,"

"I guess you're right," Stella admitted. "So, how was your first date with Prince Daniel," Stella said as her eyes went starry at the thought of Musa begin with a prince, since from what she gathered about Musa was hardly royalty oriented. Musa knew this was coming so she figured she would answer all their questions and get it over with. "It must have so romantic…" Stella said imagining it since it didn't take long for Stella to figure out that Daniel was pretty romantic.

"That's hardly any of you business," Musa stated.

"I think we deserve to know a little something about this boy," Stella said looking at Musa. "And way to pick'em. I mean as far as guys go he's quite a looker and not to mention he plays soccer, that is so hot," Stella continued to babble on, Musa was a bit confused as to how Stella knew this, but that was when she remembered that they all had a chance to talk before she and Daniel left to go off on their own.

"Really awkward," Musa said addressing Stella's original question, remembering back to that day. She wasn't all that excited about it since she had been out with Daniel a million times before that night, but everyone was making a huge fuss about it and it made her a lot more nervous. She remembered Leslie and the twins coming over to her palace and taking hours to figure out what she was going to wear and after that her aunt Galiena even came over to see her get ready and to give her a necklace to wear. It all made Musa very uncomfortable since she really didn't think that dating Daniel was going to be much different than being friends with him. But, the date was pretty boring since it was just the two of them and it was pretty clear that neither of them was expecting that them dating was going to be such a big deal. "Everyone made this huge fuss and the date itself was just a long silent dinner,"

"That's…weird," Stella said very confused.

"It really was, but then afterward we just hung out and it got a lot better," Musa said thinking about what they did after the completely awkward dinner. The two hung out watching a movie and that was probably the best part of the date.

"And how about you, Stella? What's going on between you an Sky?"

It was clear that Musa was trying to change the subject since she was never one to love to spill about every detail of her personal life, but Stella took the opportunity to talk about herself since it was so much fun for her. "Well last year we hung out a lot until I got kick out of Alfea…"

"From where we're standing, it looks like he wants to pick up where you left off," Techna said not looking up from the computer in front of her, so she didn't notice the looks on Stella and Musa's face. Techna usually didn't care much for idle chat about boys, but for now she seemed interested.

"Hmm, me and Prince Sky," Stella said. "It has a nice ring to it, he was telling me about the ski chalets that his family has in the Soramina Mountians, how amazing would it be to vaca there!"

"It's actually not that great," Musa pointed out. "Daniel's family and my family went there last winter, it was okay,"

"I hear the wildlife is beautiful there," Flora pointed out.

"It is, but there isn't much to do other than ski or look at the landscape," Musa said. "Stella, you should ask Sky about it, you that is if you can make it though the entire year,"

The girls had a good laugh about Stella's expulsion last year and then waited for Bloom to get home. Actually, it was just Stella that wanted to wait up for Bloom and grill her on everything that happened between her and Brandon, but she pretty much forced Musa, Techna and Flora to stay up with her.

The next morning Musa woke up after having a rather unsettling dream. She hadn't thought about Riven in a whole day, which was a personal record for her since he always seemed to be on her mind and that night she had the same dream about him that she used to have. And no matter how hard she tried to shake the feelings, she couldn't seem to stop herself from wishing that Riven wasn't with that witch. And even though she knew how awful he was for betraying his friends, she still wanted him.

This needed to stop, but unfortunately seeing her boyfriend and telling that she loved him still couldn't settle the feelings that were still floating around in the pit of her stomach. So, on her way to class with professor Palladium, she stopped and sat in the middle of the quad and called up someone that might have a solution. She couldn't tell the girls because she already felt horrible about everything that happened before and now what was she supposed to say? She had a crush on the guy that was responsible for almost killing her and hurting her friends and their boyfriends?

"Hello,"

"Leslie you need to promise you won't tell anyone, what I'm about to tell you and you need to help me," Musa demanded when he heard Leslie's voice on the other end of the phone.

"You know you can trust me, what's up," Leslie said picking up on the obvious concern and urgency in Musa's voice. "Please tell me you didn't get yourself into more trouble, Nate already filled me in on the whole thing with the witches. Really Musa you need to start picking your battles…"

"Can we focus here?"

"Sorry keep going, I promise I won't tell anyone,"

"So…. remember in the beginning of the year how Daniel and I kept getting in stupid arguments,"

"Vividly,"

"Well they were totally my fault, I picked fights with him, and I knew I was doing it,"

"Why?"

"Because I wanted to be angry with him so I would feel guilty about," Musa began and stopped for a second. She knew there was still a part of her that wanted Riven, but a bigger part that was way too hurt by everything that happened to ever be that stupid again. "About having feelings for someone else," Right then Musa heard the other end of the phone go completely silent and she felt even worse about he confession, but she really needed to tell someone.

"Musa…." Leslie said in disappointment and disbelief at the same time and Musa could hear the shame in her voice. "Wait did anything happen?"

"No of coarse not," Musa affirmed, she technically never cheated on Daniel. "But I wasn't exactly telling him all about Daniel. There was a lot of flirting,"

"And now? I mean Daniel is practically on cloud nine, please don't tell me you che-,"

"No," Musa stopped Leslie before she could continue. "There is nothing going on anymore and nothing ever happened,"

"Do you still have feelings for him?"

"I don't – I don't know, but I will never even consider him after everything that happened with him and everyone else and me," Musa said recalling the day before when Riven aided Darcy in trying to kill her. She still couldn't reason what was wrong with her. Why was it that she didn't want a person that was absolutely perfect for her. Daniel was sweet and caring nad he was never going to hurt her the way that Riven did.

"Oh my god…"

"I know and I told him I loved him!" Musa said recalling claiming her love for Daniel the night before. She had no idea why she did it. Maybe because it was nice to be wanted and after the day she had, it was a nice change. Plus, she thought if she told him that she loved him, it would be true and the feelings for Riven would stop.

"WHO!? That guy!?" Leslie nearly screamed on the other end of the phone and Musa realized that she made it sound like she had told Riven that she loved him.

"No Daniel!" Musa scolded. "I just said nothing happened with that guy,"

"Except for the fact that you still have feelings for him," Leslie reminded.

"Yeah," Musa said sadly wishing she felt the same excitement for Daniel that she used to and still felt for Riven. "I dunno what to do, but you can't let him know any of this, he's probably back at Devon by now so please," Musa begged. "I don't even talk to that guy anymore, but I can't let go of the feelings for him. I dunno what to do,"

"You know I won't tell anyone, but look Musa, you can't keep stringing Daniel along if you are feelings these for someone else," Leslie stated. (2) "It's not fair to him, and I know it can't be easy, but you might have to end things unless you can figure out a way to stop how you're feeling. But, I don't see how you're going to do that,"

"How did this happen?" Musa said more to herself than anyone else as she collapsed onto the bench that was by the well that she was sitting at just the morning before.

"Maybe you guys were never meant to be together," Leslie said.

"I'm not giving up on us," Musa said determined. "I will get over this and Daniel and I wil be back to the way we were," Musa was not going to let anything break them up now, she couldn't be the one to hurt Daniel, especially after he had been so good to her. "I need to go, I'll call you later," she finished as she got up and began walking over to the building.

"Okay, just remember what I said, it's not fair to him," Leslie repeated before the two hung up and Musa walked into class.

"I'm sure you must have heard quite a bit about this place already," Palladium began as he ushered all the girls in the Magical spell class into a room with a large computer. Musa gazed at the computer and around the room and had no idea what this place was, but by the looks of it she was going to find out. "This is it! The Alfea Magical Reality chamber!"

"let me explain to you what it is like inside the chamber," Palladium exclaimed after a very excited and borderline flamboyant display of excitement for this chamber, that earned him a few sarcastic comments from the students. "While the world is virtual, the reality is not, when it is cold, you will feel cold, And if a rock falls and hits you, believe me, you will feel it," He continued as he showed them another chamber.

"Wow now I'm even more excited to go in," Musa said sarcastically to Amara, who was standing next to her with a terrified look on her face.

"Some like to say that the magical reality test is what separates the fairies from the pixies," He continued. "I think it's true. Your assignment will be a survival test, the chamber will select a random dead planet that you must survive on, on your own. You may bring potion ingredients, but nothing else. You must rely solely on your winx to survive, as it should be"

"So do you think we could like I dunno, die in there," Amara asked Musa nervously.

"Chill," Musa advised. "I'm sure they will pull you out if you get in over your head, plus what's the chance of this thing going haywire?"

"I guess you're right,"

The girls were then dismissed from class and everyone went to go study. Musa was hardly feeling ready for the test. She sat in the library for hours trying to remember spells and ingredients for potions, but she was nervous. She had never been put in a survival situation before, and as for growing vegetation to help survival, she hardly had a green thumb, that was more up Flora's ally.

Luckily, the library was full of books that would help, but Musa couldn't focus. She kept thinking about what Leslie had told her and she was trying to push the thoughts she knew she shouldn't be thinking out of her head, but she couldn't. She tried not to think about Riven, but trying not to think about someone meant you were thinking about them since you were trying not to. So, that was horribly ineffective. After hours of reading about survival spells and remedy potions that could be made out of gilly weed (1) and polyjuice, Musa shut her books and returned to the dorm for some much needed sleep and hopefully a dream about her boyfriend.

Stepping into the magical reality chamber the next day, Musa didn't feel ready at all. "Good morning class, I trust you are all full of energy and ready to take your exams,"

"I'm not feeling ready," Musa said to Flora nervously.

"I think I forgot what I studied," Flora replied back in the same nervous tone.

Luckily for Musa, she didn't have to go first, Bloom was chosen and since she did study the most, it was a good thing. The girls got to watch as she readied her ingredients for a potion until the witches attacked the chamber. Nobody knew how they infiltrated the chamber, but for a few minutes there was sheer panic as to if Bloom was going to make it out alive. She did and everything was okay in the end, but that meant the mid term was cancelled indefinitely, which was a major plus. (3)

Right after class, Bloom and Stella went back to their rooms while Techna and Flora worked on an assignment together, leaving Musa to go to dance practice and deal with Karen.

As if she hadn't had enough going wrong in her life, now she had to go be on a team with someone that she had just gotten in a fight with. Musa thought about skipping practice, but that would be rude and she wanted to try to be fiends with Karen, especially since they had a rocky past. Karen had left Devon after a minor scandal with Nate had blown up into a big social coup. And even though Karen insisted she was over it and never cared, Musa still felt bad about everything that happened, even though none of it was her fault. While Leslie and Karen still had their problems, Musa was trying to remain neutral and this little tiff they were in wasn't helping.

"Look at you," Karen pointed out rather nicely when Musa walked into dance a little late but it looked like she had missed the whole practice since nobody was left in the studio, she had seen Musa return that morning in Daniel's limo and since then got a little upset that she was wrong that she hadn't caught Musa doing something wrong. "You're glowing, it wouldn't happen to be because someone spent the night with -"

"Oh shut up," Musa joked. "Nothing happened and are we talking now?"

"Look, I'm sorry that I accused you of -," Karen began as she pulled the CD of their music for the dance routine out of the player and put it back in the case.

"It's fine," Musa said. "I know you were just looking out for my relationship with Daniel,"

"Yeah, but it looks like you don't need me to look out for it," Karen said. "Looks like I was wrong…"

"Yeah…" Musa said looking down at the ground recalling her conversation with Leslie. "I mean I would never cheat on Daniel,"

"Right I know and I'm sorry I accused you of it," Karen said repeating her apology for the millionth time. But, then by the look on Musa's face, it was as if Karen knew that this was the perfect opportunity to get some good information out of the princess. "Something you wanna share?"

"What?" Musa asked a little confused.

"You look upset, that's all,"

"Oh well - ," Musa began but stopped herself. She knew she could trust Leslie with her secrets because of their past and the fact that they had been friends forever. But, Karen was a different story, sure she was nice to her and Karen hadn't done anything to betray their friendship so far, but Musa still wasn't sure if she could trust her. When Leslie found out they were friends, she made it a point to warn Musa about trusting her. But, Musa figured that was just some residual hatred she had towards Karen from all the drama that went down.

"You can tell me," Karen said supportively in a 'big sister' tone. "Maybe I can help," she said leaning against the wall and then

Musa gave it a little more thought and realized that Karen was in a very similar situation when she moved to Magix to go to school here, so she probably would be of some help to her. "Have you ever had feelings for someone when you know you shouldn't?"

"Umm I think we both know that I have," Karen said recalling the event that caused the rift between the two clichés. She then pulled out her phone from her back pocket and laid it down on the floor next to her.

"It's just, I really like Daniel I do, but lately I've been having feelings for this other guy…" Musa said looking at the floor and then back up to Karen, who had almost a smirk on her face. Musa would have been suspicious and thought she had made a mistake by telling Karen, but then she understood the look.

"I knew it!" Karen exclaimed. "sorry, but I totally called that one. But as for this guy, do you think he's more suitable for you than Daniel?"

"I dunno, I just, I never felt that same way about Daniel that I do for him and it's killing me that I'm feeling this way," Musa began, she was about to keep talking when Karen ended the conversation quickly.

"Well the bell will be ringing any minute, we'll talk about this later,"

"Okay, and thanks," Musa said as she got up and walked out of the dance studio.

Little did Musa know that her private conversation she just had was not only with Karen. As Musa walked away Karen, whose phone was open the entire time, put her ear to the cell phone and spoke to an unknown receiver. "Sorry you had to hear that, but at least now you know, call me when you get this message. It looks like we have a lot to talk about."

That little bitch! I wonder who was on the other end of that phone call – haha I think we all know!

1 Harry Potter reference, the two plots are very similar when you think about it

2 From the show 'what I like about you' when Val advises Holly to be truthful to her boyfriend when she is having feelings for someone else, unfortunately her boyfriend heard Val and then that opened a can of worms.

3. I found this episode incredibly boring, so I added this whole storyline to make it more interesting, plus it was sooo terribly Bloom based.

Next up – junior league

xoxo,

princessm