Okay this episode was all about how Bloom discovered she was adopted, so that leaves Musa free during spring break. What happened during her break? I guess you'll have to read and see.
Meant to Be
"It's a pity your father couldn't be here, but he's a busy man so who can blame him," Musa's aunt Galina said as she cut into the food on her plate and ate it as if she were scared to put more in her mouth. She then looked up at Musa, who was hardly following the rules of proper etiquette, which she had done on purpose to piss off her aunt and it looked like it was working. "Remember darling, chew like you have a secret,"
"Where are my manners," Musa asked sarcastically as she loudly clapped her table napkin in the air and than placed it on her lap. "I was eating like a commoner,"
"You joke, but you kids don't even realize how important things like this are,"
"Well, if I'm at an important gathering with important people, I'll be sure to be Miss Manners," A clear stab at her aunt, but like a lady, her aunt Galiena let it go. Musa loved her father, but the rest of her family was an enormous pain, that was probably why she had gotten so close to her friends, they were the family she would have chosen if she could choose, plus they all went through similar issues. Her aunt Galiena was the type of woman to force you to take etiquettes lessons for years no matter how much you begged to be good. Aunt Galiena was like 90 percent of all royal old people, stuck in her ways and completely out of touch with reality.
"You can't ruin my mood," Galiena pointed out happily. "I have some news for you, the Crescendian Royal Family wants to throw a grand gala in the summer and they want it to be hosted by you and Daniel. How splendid does that sound?"
"Splendid!" Musa said as she cut into her food and rolled her eyes. Since she could remember, she and Daniel were being pushed together and for awhile their families gave up when it looked like they were purely friends, they figured a friendship was good enough to keep the alliance alive, but after they began dating everyone went into a frenzy and began planning their wedding.
"I know isn't it. I can just imagine you two standing on the balcony of the Crescendian palace watching as your guests arrive," Galiena said happily. "And more good news! I am the head chair on the hospital board and there is a gala and it would be so perfect for you and Daniel to attend, it's in Magix and I know you won't have school that day so –,"
"What did you check my schedule or something," Musa asked very annoyed. She knew her aunt was happy about her and Daniel getting together, but it wasn't because Musa was happy. It was because Musa was dating the Prince of Crescendo and it annoyed her so much when her aunt took it upon herself to show off something that didn't concern her in the least.
"Everyone will be there and how perfect will it be, you have to miss Daniel terribly when you're at Alfea," Galiena explained as she continued to eat in a way that continued to infuriate Musa, but she couldn't just come out and yell at her aunt, so she 'took it like a lady'. "Besides it is at these types of parties where you can make your family proud,"
"By showing up with a prince," Musa said spitefully as she stood up from the table and threw her napkin on her plate. "I'm full, this was a lovely lunch, just lovely, but I have some things to do," Musa said and marched right out of the dining and into her room to get changed. She knew she probably angered her aunt, but there was only so much 'polite punishment' she could take.
After changing in her room, Musa went down around the palace and wandered for a bit before walking onto the back fields. Thinking about how much fun she was planning on have with her friend on break.
"Whoa girl," Musa cooed as she stood at the stables in the palaces as she tried to calm her favorite white stallion. It was the second day of her spring break and she had gone home to see everyone, but so far all she had done was sleep off the jet lag and get into the stables and ride the pure breeds that her palace had to offer. "Shh… Jasmine what has gotten into you?" Musa asked the horse clearly not expecting a response, but the horse did calm for a few minutes giving Musa time to see if there was anything or anyone else in the stable that could have spooked her.
Nothing. Musa simply shrugged off her horse's behavior and opened the door to Jasmine's stable spot. She gently ran her hand over Jasmine's main and then took a brush to groom her properly. "I've missed you," Musa said as she grabbed a sattel and prepared to take her horse out on a ride, but suddenly she started acting up again. "Oh Jasmine, you're so fussy today," She said as she climbed off the horse and looked again to see what the problem might be.
"You know, I'm thinking that horse just doesn't like you," Said a familiar voice from being her. Musa turned to see none other than Daniel walking towards her with a bouquet of flowers, she expected nothing less from her boyfriend now. "Personally, I don't blame her,"
"Very funny," Musa said dryly as she quickly closed the stable door, so Jasmine didn't go running off into the gardens. She then walked over to Daniel and gave him a kiss. If had been weeks since she had seen him last and it was nice to be in his arms once again. Musa pulled back and looked at him with a sly smile. "But, if I recall Jasmine hates you, ever since that time you rode her straight into the back woods and then so gracefully, fell off and broke your leg,"
"That was hardly my fault," Daniel said as he wrapped his arms tighter around Musa and gave her another quick kiss on the lips. "Jasmine hadn't been trained yet and I was 8,"
Musa and Daniel had always enjoyed going horseback riding, ever since they were kids and from as far back as she could remember, they had always raced. The day that she had brought up was when she and Daniel had snuck away from their nannies and came to the back stables of this very castle. They had decided on a race around the entirety of the castle gardens and Musa had chosen 'Ruby' her horse that she was taught how to ride on. Daniel on the other hand, chose Jasmine, who at the time was just purchased from the breeder and had yet to be trained. They raced until Daniel lost control of Jasmine and was kicked off in the woods behind the palace. It took days of crying and weeks of begging to keep her father from putting the horse down, but Jasmine was let off the hook and ever since then, for some odd reason, she was Musa's favorite horse. "Yeah but you chose to race her, and as you learned time and time again…you can't beat me," Musa replied smugly as she once again mounted Jasmine and got ready to ride. "But, you are more than welcome to try,"
"Is that a challenge, princess?" Daniel said slyly as he walked over to another horse and prepped it for a ride. "Because, I recall winning a few races myself,"
"You mean when I let you win," Musa called out as Jasmine trotted out of the stable with Musa riding her. "But hey, you wanna lose, be my guest."
"I think me and Black Magic here will be just fine," Daniel said as he got onto his horse and caught up to Musa. "And this time, I'll try not to completely crush you," Daniel said as he got close enough to give Musa a kiss on the cheek and then race off on his horse, literally leaving Musa in the dust.
"Come on Jas, let's win this one," Musa yelled as she did a quick pull on the reins and prompted the horse to nay loudly and gallop off in Daniel's direction. She then blew past him and yelled something that he only just managed to catch. "Even when you cheat, I'll still win. You can't get anything past me Mr."
Something about the last thing she said stuck with Daniel and it seemed to be bothering him for the rest of the day, although he didn't show it. The raced finished in a few minutes, and Musa came out to be the victor. The two then trotted through the palace grounds and caught up on everything they hadn't mentioned on the phone. Finally, when they were both done with riding, they made their way back to the stable.
"Were you ever planning on tell me you came home?" Daniel asked as he and Musa removed their riding helmets and put away the rest of their riding gear. Musa had come home late a few nights ago and she had spent the day before trying to adjust to the time difference and today she had just spent with him.
"Well, if I told you then how could I go out with my other boyfriend?" Musa joked as Daniel put his arms around her and gave her an un amused look. She gave a quick laugh at his expense and continued. "Sorry. But, I was sleeping all of yesterday and today we raced, well that and I had a fun lunch with my aunt. And, by the way, I totally kicked your ass. Besides I kinda wanted to surprise you since you are always surprising me. I figured it was my turn,"
"Whatever Musa," Daniel said jokingly and leaned down to kiss her. "I'm just glad that you're home," Musa didn't know why, but whenever she was alone with Daniel everything seemed to be okay. There wasn't any drama, no he said – she said, everything was good and it made her become a lot more confident in their relationship, even when her feelings for Riven began to kick up inside of her. She was now an expert at suppressing them and it was almost as if they didn't even exist to begin with. Almost. "So how was lunch with your aunt?"
"Same old," Musa shrugged. "Bad food, good manners and the planning of our wedding,"
"Ah so the usual?" Daniel said and laughed it off. They were both pretty used to all of it, but it didn't bother Daniel as much as it did Musa and for the life of her she couldn't figure out why. "We should mess with them one day and say we're engaged,"
"Yeah and then we tell them we're not, we'd get married anyway," Musa said imagining the scene if she actually did get engaged to Daniel. It was a lot to think about in high school so she tried not to. "So what are the plans for tonight? I assume we're doing something since a day just isn't a day with a party to top it off," she joked.
"You read my mind," Daniel said as they began to walk into the castle. "The girls are going to one of the clubs tonight and there's a big party there for a certain princess's homecoming. So be ready at 8, I'll be here to pick you up then,"
"Okay," Musa said as she and Daniel walked down the marble foyer to the castle doors. "So, what will I do for the rest of the day?" She asked innocently as she wrapped her arms around him and laid her head on his shoulder.
"You can miss me," Daniel said with a smirk as he turned to face her. He then bent down and began to kiss her, more passionately than either of the expected, but Musa just went with it. They did have a few weeks to make up for, plus, Musa felt like she had to be more affectionate with Daniel since she still felt a guilty about they way she felt about Riven and in some twisted way, this made up for it. Well, she thought it did.
That night, Musa and Daniel arrived at the club and promptly went inside to meet their friends. The club was filled with all the same faces that Musa had seen at her goodbye party and as she linked arms with Daniel, they walked over to the table with all her close friends waiting for them. "Hey guys!" Musa said as she approached the table and everyone got up to greet the musical princess. "One hell of a party,"
"Thanks," said the twins in unison. "We thought you'd like it, everyone in here was hand selected," Annabelle said as she looked around the room proudly.
"You talk about people like fresh produce," Musa pointed out and began laughing. ":And I have to say, I've missed it," The party then progressed naturally and everyone was having fun at the table eating and catching up. That is until Leslie noticed someone walk into the party, that Musa could only guess wasn't invited.
"I can't believe she came here!" Annabelle whispered quietly, but not quietly enough since the one person she was to keep it from hear her.
"Who came here?" Musa asked looking at the door and seeing a short girl with curly blonde hair walk in the door. She could hear Leslie and Isabelle mutter awful things about how she looked and the style of her dress, so naturally Musa was driven to the conclusion that they did not like this girl.
"A big, fat nobody," Penelope said as she leaned into Justin. "She just transferred into Devon and she thinks she's the best thing to ever happen,"
"And the funny thing is, she has absolutely nothing to back it up," Annabelle said. "She's not nobility, she's not even new money. And for the past like three months she's been trying to weasel herself into our group, like that is ever going to happen." When Annabelle said that got Musa thinking about something Annabelle said on the phone with her a few days ago. - I know what you're going to say, but she is one of those girls. Trying to climb the social ladder and sleeping with Justin is her way in, or so she thinks, not to mention he and Penelope are always so on and off,-
"Laurie Lovell," Leslie said crossing her arms. "Even I don't like her,"
"Poor girl," Penelope said looking over to the petite blonde then back to the martini in her hand. "She doesn't even realize that she's the only penny in a diamond mine. It'll be fun destroying her,"
"I don't understand why you guys have to be so mean to her," Musa pointed out as she took another sip of the drink that Daniel had brought her. "I get that she's trying to 'climb the ladder' but why don't you just let her try, we all know she's not going to get anywhere," Musa continued logically.
"We would have," Isabelle began shooting an angry look across the table over to Daniel before looking back to Musa. "But the little bitch did something she knew she really shouldn't have done and now she has to deal with the consequences, not everyone gets to walk away without a scratch,"
"Wow," Musa said with a laugh as she leaned back in her chair and leaned into Daniel, who still had his arm around her, but now looked a lot less comfortable, not that Musa noticed, she was still to intrigued by the drama that had unfolded in her absence. It was funny the amount of trouble some girls got themselves into, it was usually the ones who had no idea what they were up against and even though Musa knew she shouldn't be laughing at someone else's expense, she couldn't help it. Her friends may be seen as bitchy, but they were just when they dished it out. The only people they messed with were the ones that deserved it. Besides, they were the ones that kept peace around here; there was a certain balance they provided. If nobody crossed them, then everything would run smoothly and if there was a small social 'hiccup' they would take care of it in order to keep everything they way they liked. "So what did little Blondie do anyway? Or the better question would probably be who?"
The whole table fell silent and everyone looked at each other and then back at Musa. For a second Musa didn't get what was going on, usually the twins were the first ones to dish gossip about the happenings of other people, but the silence meant one thing, whatever happened was in fact a big deal, not just another drama. "Wait seriously who?" Musa asked with a little concern in her voice, now really wanting to know what happened. It couldn't have been too bad since everyone was still her and still pretty much on good terms. But now matter how much she thought about it, the question remained.
After a few more seconds of silence, Musa was ready to ask what was going on when Annabelle began to explain. "I'll tell you later, promise," Musa would have pressed on, but she could tell that it was something that they didn't want to discuss in such a public setting, so she let it go for now. But, she did want to know what was going on.
After a few more minutes of awkwardness, conversation picked up normally and they began to hang out like they normally did. Nate or Musa would make a joke, that would fly completely over Isabelle's head and she would laugh about 10 minutes afterwards. (1)Leslie would comment on what someone was wearing, while Annabelle would drool over some guy. Just like old times. Then of coarse everyone would get up and dance about half way through the night.
Alfea was nice, but there was something about coming home that Musa loved. She loved being around her old friends and the people she had known since she was a kid. She loved knowing that no matter what happened in Magix, she had amazing friends to come home to, ones that would always be there for her.
"She doesn't look evil," Musa said as she and Daniel walked off the dance floor and over to the table to take a break. Musa had noticed Laurie looking in her direction every now and then and couldn't help but wonder why. If she really was the conniving, backstabbing bitch that everyone made her out to be, than Musa could only guess Laurie was looking at her because Laurie wanted Musa's place on top. Musa ignored it, but she knew she had left a few people disgruntled because even though she had left Devon, her spot in the inner circle was still in tact, and there were definitely people who were hoping for an opening in the group. "But, I guess I'll trust Leslie's judgment, I mean she's are a lot better at that sort of thing than I am. Do you know what happened?"
Daniel, who was sitting close to Musa, pretended that he hadn't caught any of that because he was far too uncomfortable to get into it. "Hmm? Sorry baby I just zoned out for a second,"
"Never mind," Musa said. The guys rarely ever got into the detail of what was going on with everyone. It was usually the twins who took care of anyone that stepped out of line an if it was a bigger problem then it was Leslie and Penelope that stepped in. When Musa thought about it, the only time she got involved was when there was n enormous scandal going on, which happened more than one would think. The last social coo that Musa was involved with was when Karen was under fire. Musa felt a little bad about what happened, but Karen bounced back. But the boys, they were blissfully ignorant to everything that was going on. "Anna is gonna tell me later,"
"Uhh yea, well baby it's getting kinda late," Daniel said looking at his watch. It was pretty late. "How about we get outta here?"
"And do what?" Musa said with a sly smile. "Cause I am not tired at all,"
"I dunno," Daniel said as he and Musa stood up and he put his arm around her waist. "Let's see, how about something I'm really good at. And something that will help you release all that extra energy you have," He finished with a sly smile and gave her a quick kiss on a cheek.
"Guitar Hero!" Musa said loudly as she laughed. "Since it's like the only thing you're good at, and I'm being nice..."
"Ouch, the gloves are off tonight," Daniel said as he and Musa made their way to the door until they were stopped. On their way out, the twins called Musa over to tell her about their plans for the rest of spring break and as Daniel walked over to the twins as well, he was suddenly pulled into a corner.
"You need to tell her," Leslie said firmly after pulled Daniel into the corner. "We've done enough lying for you,"
"What are you talking about?" Daniel asked knowing exactly what Leslie was talking about, but not wanted to admit it. It was clear by her face she was disappointed in him and clear by his face that he was ashamed of what he had done.
"We have all been ignoring this for too long," Leslie said to herself and Daniel. "Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. We all pretty much knew, except Nate, he's still in the dark about all of this, we figured telling him would be just about as bad as telling Musa's dad what you did," The girls were literally torn in two trying to figure out what to do in the situation. They had loyalty to both Daniel and Musa and in order to protect one, they would be betraying the other and it was something they were all fed up with, it was time to face what they all knew was coming.
"Why do I need to tell her," Daniel asked thinking about a way he could get around this.
"Because if you don't that little skank will," Leslie reminded. "The only reason the girls and I haven't sent her running home in tears and those ugly last season shoes is because she could have told Musa at any moment. And we wanted you to be the one to tell Musa what you did. It will be a million times worse if she finds out from someone else,"
"I can't," Daniel said firmly. "She'll never forgive me,"
"You will put everything in jeopardy if you don't!" Leslie reminded. "If you don't tell her, I'll have to and she'll come to realize that he boyfriend not only cheated, but he didn't have enough honor to tell her himself. You'll push her away a lot more that way. Not to mention if Laurie does tell Musa, that's it, it's over. Musa will find out and she'll find out that we knew but never told her and then there is even more problems,"
"Why can't we just get rid of Laurie," Daniel pressed on. "I mean it wouldn't be the first time you girls got someone expelled from Devon, or made them want to leave. Besides, we all now she has no power, her parents can't get her back in here, even if they wanted to. Why can't we just boot her outta here, problem solved?"
"Because you cheated on my best friend and you need to be punished for it, that's why," Leslie said and swiftly slapped him at the same time. "I hate that little bitch and I know that it takes two to cheat and she is a lot at fault as well, she was clearly in it to climb the social ladder, but I am not cleaning up your mess, Daniel," Leslie said as she walked away and left Daniel to go to Musa and confess everything he had done. "You're so lucky that we love you because if we didn't, you'd be done,"
"What was that about?" Musa asked as she and Daniel walked over to his car. Something had been off all night and Musa wasn't the only one to notice it. Nate, who was also in the dark about everything that was going on, were talking for a bit and he had admitted that things were different over the last few weeks.
"Oh Leslie wanted to see if we wanted to go to the beach later," Daniel lied. Musa didn't question him further since it looked like he was telling the truth. Musa decided to let it go since if there was something big going on, then someone would have told her by now. Maybe they were having an off week or something. "Come on baby, let's go,"
Back at the castle, Musa and Daniel walked into the game room and Musa walked over to the TV while Daniel took a seat on the couch. "So what do you wanna do?" She asked as she walked over to the large collection of video games she owned. She and Daniel were both pretty competitive people so video games were usually a good choice for them, especially since everything felt a little tense that night. "Fine, I'll pick," Musa said after a few minutes when she didn't get a response from her boyfriend. She then grabbed a DVD and put it into the TV and looked back at Daniel. "What's wrong?"
He was sitting on the couch with a dead stare and it didn't take long for Musa to deduce there was something wrong here and that was probably why everything was so off that night. "Can we talk?" Daniel said as he looked up at Musa and then immediately back at the floor, unable to make eye contact with her. Musa nodded and sat next to Daniel on the couch and waited for him to say something or explain.
"Daniel, what's wrong?" Musa asked fearing she wouldn't like what she was going to hear. She hadn't seen Daniel like this before, he had been upset before, but this was different, it was as if he wanted to say something but couldn't. "You can tell me,"
"I don't –," Daniel said and stood up and walked to the other end of the room, unable to sit so close to Musa. "I don't think I can,"
"Don't be silly," Musa said as she stood up and walked over to Daniel and put her hand on his shoulder only to remove it when he flinched to her touch. Musa really had no idea what was going on, just earlier that date everything was fine and now it was different. He couldn't look her in the eye, he couldn't even be around her. "Come on, you can -,"
"I cheated on you," Daniel spat out before she could finish. After a few seconds Daniel turned around to see how Musa had reacted. "Musa?" He ventured hoping that under some miracle that she would forgive him and not end things between them.
"Wh –What?" Musa said even though she heard him perfectly fine. Musa felt like she had just been punched in the stomach and suddenly there was a horrible tightness in her chest. It took a few seconds for what he had just said to register, but when it did, she felt sick. That was when she began putting together the subtle hints that she hadn't put together before. It was not just being betrayed by her boyfriend, but also by her best friend. How could he do ever do that to her? "You cheated on me," Musa repeated and felt even more constriction in her chest when she said it out loud.
"Musa, I am so sorry -," Daniel said knowing not what else to say.
"And worse that girl that you brought into this is going to burn for this!" Penelope and Justine were just fine at the party, and she had just passed it off as them getting back together, but Annabelle must have meant Daniel. Then, at the party the girls were basically ready to kill that girl, Laurie. It was her.
"Okay," Annabelle said taking a deep breathe. "I think I saw…. Okay well I saw…Justin. Yeah I saw Justin cheating on Penelope and I have no idea what to do,"
"I know what you're going to say, but she is one of those girls. Trying to climb the social ladder and sleeping with D-," Annabelle stopped and luckily for her Musa didn't pick up on her little faux pas. "And sleeping with Justin is her way in, or so she thinks, not to mention he and Penelope are always so on and off,"
"Well I wouldn't tell Penelope until I was sure," Musa advised. There was no telling the amount of problems that would erupt if there was a false rumor like that being spread around. "And if you are sure, you should tell Penelope."
She felt like an absolute idiot, how did she not pick up on this earlier? Musa was now beyond the hurt that she felt and she became consumed with anger. And while a part of her knew and liked the fact that Leslie, Penelope and the twins would not take the matter of Daniel sleeping with Laurie lightly, and they would probably ruin Laurie for good. They were her best friends and when one of them got hurt, they all felt the pain of it and there was no way that her friends were going to let this slide by. Another part of her was angrier at Daniel than anyone else. "I mean it was her wasn't it? You slept with that girl and now I'm not the only one who is getting hurt by your dumbass actions,"
"Please just let me explain," Daniel said, but that only prompted Musa to get angrier. He walked over to her only to receive a slap in the face and when he recovered from the first one, he received another slap, leaving his face red and burning. Musa then turned around and began walking out of the room until Daniel stopped her again. "Musa, don't – ,"
"What can you possibly tell me that will make this okay?" Musa continued angrily not being able to control her volume. Even though the thing she wanted to do most was walk out of there and fall to pieces, she was much too angry to do anything else. "Hmm? What Daniel? Are you going to say you love me? Because we both know that's a lie,"
"Musa please, I -,"
"Or what? Did she seduce you? Poor little Daniel had no choice but to jump into bed with her because he couldn't control anything in this situation," Musa mocked with fake sympathy now stomping back toward him angrily. "I don't fucking care if that slut showed up in your room naked, you knew what you were doing and you knew it was wrong, but you continued anyway. But should I really be surprised? Prince Daniel has to get what he wants and if he feels lonely then I guessi should have just known that you'd get someone to make you feel better."
"Just let me explain,"
"You ruined everything!" Musa yelled after a few more moments of silence this time unable to keep the tears from falling from her eyes, Daniel had nothing to say that would make things better or make Musa less angry. "You don't even realize it, do you? I trusted you Daniel and you do this! You killed our relationship for what?"
"I'm sorry," Daniel said finally making eye contact with her, with obvious remorse in his voice. He had never really been able to see Musa this upset, which was why he never wanted her to find out, and even though Musa refused to believe it, he never wanted to hurt her. Unfortunately for him, Musa was not going to let this go easily.
"For what Daniel!" Musa asked sternly. "For sleeping with that skank or for single handedly destroying everything we have,"
"Hold on," Daniel said sternly looking up in shame and in anger. He walked towards Musa and finally looked her in the eye and mustered up all the courage he had. "Why don't you look me in the eye and say that I am the only one that bailed on this relationship. Look me in the eye and say that I was the only –,"
Daniel was cut off by a swift slap across his face with a lot more power than before. "How dare you," Musa said with her entire body trembling with anger as tears came streaming from her eyes. "How dare you even insinuate that! I've done nothing that would ever betray you, don't you even dare say something like that,"
"You've changed," Daniel said in a low voice clearly showing hurt. "And what's worse is that you shut me out, I know what I did was horrible, but I'm not he only one who bailed out on this relationship,"
"Don't give me that, we grew up, we changed, Daniel! I'm not that same little girl that would make forts out of bed linens with you, things have changed! I'm sorry if things are a bit different but - , "
"No Musa!" Daniel yelled back even louder and this time Musa could hear the hurt and anger very clearly in his voice. "You've changed. You've decided that this isn't what you want and I'm sorry, but I wasn't gonna wait around here like an idiot to see if I was still what you wanted,"
"What so this is my fault?" Musa spat out knowing she had abandoned this relationship before he had, but she was not going to let go f the anger, that was all she had left. "It's my fault you decided that sleep with some slut, that by the way just used to you get into our crowd. How does it feel Daniel, please tell me how it feels, because I would never do something like that."
"I never said that it isn't my fault," Daniel said looking up from the ground gritting his teeth together. "From the beginning, since we were kids, it's been me and you! The palaces, the fancy parties, everything you went through I went through and now it's like I'm dating a complete stranger. And hey if you're done with me that's fine, but don't go around pretending like we are okay,"
All the guilt that had built up inside of her made it nearly impossible to see him the same way she used to. "Stop it! Stop making me look like the villain here! I am the one that had been faithful to you, I'm the one that could have been sneaking around with guys behind your back, and nobody would have found out. But I didn't!"
"No but you wanted to!" Daniel shouted and looked at Musa. The blood drained from her face and at that second she knew that Daniel knew about her feelings for Riven in one sense or the other. But on some level, Musa knew it was going to happen, this was the guy that knew her better than anyone, he had been there for every second, every bump in the road, Musa was foolish to think she could hide this from him. She had thought that maybe he had an inkling from his accusations earlier, but now…how could she explain this? "Don't think that the little things haven't gotten by me, I know that you had feelings for someone else and you clearly tried to let that slip by me. Look me in the eye and tell me I'm wrong. Don't lie to me, is there someone else?"
"I never cheated," Musa said firmly not denying the accusation.
"You might as well have,"
The room fell into silence at the stalemate, but Musa refused to be as responsible for this break up as Daniel was. "Stop it, you cannot pin this on me so stop trying. I am not going to stand here and let you put your guilt onto me!" Musa said as tears began falling from her azure eyes once again. "You cheated. You did it and you have to deal with what comes next and god I hope it was worth it because you and me are done!"
"Musa, I'm sorry," Daniel said walking over to her and pulling her into his arms, he couldn't see her cry, it hurt too much. "It meant nothing please don't end this,"
Musa wanted so badly to just wrap her arms around him and allow him to comfort her, but she couldn't. The anger was still to close to the surface and she couldn't just forgive what he had done to her. "No," Musa said as she put her hand out and pushed Daniel away from her. It was over. With tears still falling from her eyes, Musa looked up at Daniel and tried to gain some composure. "Get out,"
"Baby, don't do this," Daniel said trying desperately to get Musa to reconsider what she had just decided.
"Get out," Musa said stepping away from him and with sadness and anger she dismissed him. "I'm not your baby anymore,"
Daniel knew when he had lost, and he had just in essence, lost Musa. Musa then exited the door in the back of the game room that lead to her room, while Daniel went the opposite direction to the castle foyer. Walking through the empty castle, Daniel knew what he had just done was the right thing, but he wished he could take it all back. Taking a deep breath, Daniel walked down the last step to see Nate, Leslie, Penelope and the twins standing at the bottom of the steps waiting for him. Before he could say a word, Leslie stepped forward and gave him a hug, even though he hardly deserved one, Leslie knew he couldn't be taking this well. "The maids told us you were here, you told her?"
"Yeah," Daniel said with a look of shame on his face. "It's over," Daniel finished as he walked past Leslie silently and past everyone.
"I'll go," Nate said knowing that while Musa was the victim here, that Daniel was not walking away from this without a care. Plus he needed to do some yelling at Daniel since Leslie had just clued him in on what happened. "I'll come by in the morning to see Musa," he said as he grabbed his keys and headed towards the door in an attempt to catch up to the prince of Crescendo.
"And that leaves Musa," Annabelle said as she took a deep breathe and looked at the other girls. "Do you think that she knows that we knew?"
"Hardly matters," Penelope said as they began to follow Leslie up the stairs and into Musa's room.
Musa lay in her bed with her face stuffed in a tear stained pillow. She had never felt so alone in her life. This was the last thing that she needed, first it was Riven to basically stab her in the back and now the one guy that was supposed to be there for her completely let her down. It was as if she only feel for guys that would hurt her. And the worst part was that Musa truly believed that Daniel was incapable of doing so.
Since she was a little girl, there were few constants in her life. There was her father and then there was Daniel, while she had become close with her other five friends as well, from the beginning she and Daniel had always had each other's backs. When her father wasn't around, that left Daniel and she still had a hard time believing that it was true. How could he put everything in jeopardy, Daniel wasn't stupid, and she knew it wasn't worth it for him to cheat and yet he did.
"Musa…?" Musa looked up when she heard a knock at her door and then Isabelle's voice followed. She was so consumed with anger towards Daniel that she had forgotten all about the fact that her friends knew that he was cheating and they didn't tell her. That just added to the betrayal she was feeling. "Sweetie, can we come in?"
"No!" Musa yelled through her pillow sounding like an angry child. She was angry at them too, but she did want to talk to someone.
"Musa please," Leslie said as she moved to the door and tried to make Musa open the door. "Open the door or I swear to god Musa Adara Dannington, I will kick it down!,"
Leslie hardly had a gentle touch, but she knew when her friends were hurting and she also knew that Musa was angry but she needed to talk to someone right now. After a few seconds the girls standing outside the door could hear Musa's light footsteps coming towards the door and then heard the door unlock, and even though Musa made nw attempt to open the door and welcome them in, rather she walked back to sulk in her bed, they invited themselves in anyway. "Musa we are so sorry," Isabelle said knowing the best way to open was with an apology.
"You knew!" Musa blurt out without turning to look at them. "How could you not tell me that my boyfriend was cheating on me?"
"We wanted to tell you, but it wasn't that easy and if you think about it you will know why," Annabelle pointed out as all of the girls took a place around Musa and tried to talk some sense into her. They were all stuck in a bad situation and even though they wanted to tell Musa, they couldn't just rat on Daniel without being 100 percent positive.
"Yeah well…" Musa said stubbornly. She understood completely as to why her friends failed to mention that Daniel was cheating, but still she needed to be angry at someone and since she had kicked Daniel out of her palace, it was her friends whom she would take it out on. "I'm still angry,"
"Musa, we are so sorry," Leslie and rubbed her back supportively trying to make her feel better. "I know this hurts,"
"How could he!" Musa wailed out as she laid her head back on her pillow and began sobbing once again. "It's like our entire relationship, it's nothing now!"
The girls sat looking at each other not sure as to how to approach this situation further. A few clichés like 'you're better off with out him' or 'he's not going enough for you' just weren't going to cut it. They could have told her that she would eventually move on from this, but how could they possibly lessen the pain of being betrayed by someone that has been so close to you for so long. "You'll get through this," Annabelle cooed.
"Yeah sweetie, look you and Daniel will get past this eventually," Isabelle said.
"I don't want to ever see him again," Musa said finally sitting up in bed and facing her friends. "He actually had the audacity to blame his cheating on me!"
"Well, hun you aren't completely blame free in this," Leslie pointed out. "I mean there was that one guy…"
"How did he even find out about that," Musa said wiping the tears from her eyes.
"We don't know, but we knew he knew," Isabelle said. "It's no excuse, but at least it's some explanation as to what happened. We are the only ones you told right?" Isabelle asked. Secrets between them were kept under tight lock and key, but if Musa had let it slip
"Karen…" Musa said as she put everything together. Karen was the only other person that knew and now Musa felt like even more of a fool. She could take some comfort in the fact that it was reasonable for her to trust Daniel, since he had always been rather trustworthy. But, Leslie had warned Musa about Karen and Musa had ignored the warnings and continued to be friends with her anyway, she even divulged a pretty big secret to her. How could she have been so stupid!
"You told her!" Leslie practically screamed. "After everything that happened you actually trusted her! She has like a million reasons to hate us, you basically gave her a loaded gun and painted a target on your back."
"I don't think the lecture is helping…" Annabelle pointed out.
"Too bad," Leslie spat out. Leslie was the one who told you everything you didn't want to hear because she knew that it needed to be done. While the twins were less abrasive when in this situation, Leslie would say what needed to be said and it was usually the most helpful. "You of all people should know you can't just trust people that easily, especially not after things like this happen,"
"I know," Musa said as she looked back down at her satin sheets and played with the beadwork on the top of it. For some reason she thought that just because she wasn't in Devon anymore that the nature of people, mostly teenage girls, had changed. No matter if you were a fairy, witch or pixie, they were all under the laws of nature and everyone got jealous and everyone wanted vengeance when they felt they were wronged. (2) Why she thought it would be any different in Magix she didn't know. "But, it's not like it changed what happened. Daniel cheated and it's not like I can blame Karen for that, no matter how much I wanted to. Besides, we don't know that she is the one who told him,"
"Who else could it be?" Leslie pointed out.
"I dunno," Musa admitted. "But I don't think she would do that, plus Daniel had known me forever, maybe he could tell that I wasn't being honest." She signed and looked back at her sheets and began tugging at the beads once again. "I can't believe it's over,"
"Look, it's not like this has never happened before." Annabelle said reassuringly. "People break up and things change, but you'll get passed this,"
"I dunno if I will," Musa said, she knew she wasn't thinking straight, she had just broken up with Daniel and t would take time for the wounds to heal, but for now all she wanted to do was hurt him back or make it known that he was out of her life. "I know this is wrong, but I want him to go through what he had put met though, I want revenge,"
"You already put him though what you're feeling," Leslie pointed out calmly. "If Karen told him you had feelings for someone else before he cheated than that's probably why he did it, you already hurt him. My guess is that he found out about that and then he cheated. So he could get revenge on you,"
"So this is my fault?!" Musa asked taken aback as she felt more tears begin to well up in her eyes. Were they taking his side? Musa was the one who managed to keep her pants on when they hit a rough patch and she was being blamed! It made no sense. "I was the one that was faithful!"
"No Musa, that's not what she's saying," Isabelle cooed. "Daniel is the one that ended the relationship when he cheated and it is something that he can't just be excused from. But, you can't pin this whole thing on him. You did have feelings for someone else and that can really hurt someone, I mean we can only guess what Karen was telling him or what type of proof she offered. Daniel could have been thinking that you were cheating on him. I'm not saying what you did was anywhere as bad as what he did, but come on do you really feel like he's the only one that messed up?"
"But I can't help how I feel," Musa said immediately putting her guard up when she began to see the logic in Daniel's side of the argument. She didn't want to be logical right now, she was wronged and she wanted to be angry.
"Yeah, but honestly. When you liked this guy do you think you would have let something happen if things had progressed between you two? Honestly," Leslie asked knowing the answer and knowing that Musa may not have actually gotten over this other guy.
"Yeah," Musa said. If Riven tried to kiss her back when she didn't hate him for everything that happened, she probably would have let him kiss her and she probably would have like it. "I probably would have let it happen, I'm just as awful as Daniel,"
"Neither of you are awful," Leslie said loosing the sharpness that she had earlier. "You felt guilty for every second you weren't thinking of Daniel. And trust me Daniel hasn't been sleeping easy since it happened either."
"I'm still angry at him," Musa said unable to help it. She was pissed and she knew she had every right to be. "I don't think I am going to get passed this anytime soon…"
"Well, it's a good thing that we have a lot of chocolate cookie dough ice cream," Penelope said as she opened the door and walked in to Musa's room. "Now I think this is the part of the night where we trash talk him until we are so full of ice cream that we can barely move,"
The next couple of days Musa spent alone. She stayed in the castle and insisted that nobody come and visit her, considering everything that happened, her friends let her do so. But, unfortunately for Musa, her aunt hadn't gotten the message. While Musa was laying on her bed and mindlessly flipping through the channels on her tv, the door to her bedroom suddenly burst open.
"What in the world are you thinking," Said Musa's aunt Galiena as she marched straight up to the princess and addressed her angrily. "Are you out of your mind girl! How dare you do something so stupid! You have no idea the mess your stupidity has caused,"
"Excuse me!" Musa said sitting up in her bed and facing her aunt. "First off, it is not polite to yell! Musa said in a sarcastic tone in a voice mocking her aunt's, an act that clearly angered Galiena even more. "And second, how dare you come into my room and start yelling at me for no reason." Musa said as she walked off her bed and began walking in any direction that faced her aunt.
"Don't you lecture me," Galiena warned. "I knew I should have had a stronger hand in raising you, your father has let you go wild and do whatever you please and not care about any of the consequences. How dare you break up with Prince Cunningham,"
"What!" Musa said whipping around with anger. She had thought that her aunt came barging into her room anger about something like not using her salad fork or something, but this was hardly any of her business. How did she find out anyway? And how could she be so heartless, person was not supposed to yell at you after you end a relationship, they were supposed to try to comfort you. And this was her aunt, how could she be so cold to her own flesh and blood?
"Apparently the boy isn't eating and he's been acting strangely all week," Galiena explained without considering the fact that this might be a sore spot that Musa may have for the particular subject. "And then I get a call from Sophia Cunningham and she heard from some person at the hospital charity board that you two have split and then –,"
"That is none of your business," Musa shot back with absolute surprise that her aunt would actually pry so much into her private life.
"It is when you are messing up a centruy's old alliance it is my business," Musa knew that there was some pressure on her to keep her relationship with Daniel afloat because of the fact that their realms had been so close for so long, but she was not going to be with him simply for that reason. But, that wasn't what pissed her off, it was the fact that her own family saw the political gain provided by the relationship rather than Musa's happiness, and even though she knew this already, it wasn't fair that they were making her do something she didn't want. "Your childishness is going to cause realm wide ramifications if Daniel decided that he doesn't want to be allied anymore because of the heartbreak you caused!"
"First of all, Crescendo needs us as much as we need them!" Musa yelled. The Crescendian army was very powerful and it was great to have as an ally, but Musa also knew that the economy of her realm was also very attractive. "And second he broke my heart by cheating on me., so don't even get into this with me! Musa finished as she felt tears beginning to gather in her eyes. She was so angry that she couldn't help it.
"Oh stop being a child, there are something's that you will need to live with if you are going to be a princess,"
"No I don't, and this discussion is over," Musa said sternly. "I am not going to let any of your old fashioned crap get in the way of what I want,"
"Ugh, you are just like the commoner mother of yours," Galiena said in a disgusted tone.
"You will not talk about my mother like that," Musa said sternly.
"Well it's the truth and it's high time you come to grips with that, your mother wanted nothing more than to marry a prince and she did," Galiena seethed angrily. Even though Musa knew this wasn't true hearing someone say that about your mother
"And do you wanna talk about coming to grips with the truth? How about you face the fact that you will never be queen and get your own life," Musa yelled with fury. It was pretty well known that Musa's aunt felt slighted that she would never be queen. She was older than Musa's father, but being as her father felt that she wouldn't be a fitting queen since she had no husband or children, she was denied her birthright and the crown was passed to Musa's father, who only took the throne because it was his father's last wish, and he, Musa's mother and Musa became the new royal family. "Stop trying to control me in some pathetic attempt to live through me! Have you ever wondered why you aren't married? Maybe it's because you are a rude, classist, wannabe, but never- gonna- be, queen!"
"You stupid girl!" Musa's aunt said and swiftly slapped Musa across the face. "Do you realize who you are talking to, you half bred princess?"
Musa grabbed the side of her face and looked at her aunt with shock. "Do you?" Musa said angrily. "Because I am the princess of this realm, while you are nothing! That's right, I get to wear the crown you always wanted. And as princess, I have the power to kick your old ass out, so leave!"
"Excuse me!" Galiena said taken aback by the threat.
"You heard me," Musa said with an evil smile on her face, this was the moment she was waiting for, for a long time. "You want me to act like a princess? Well than by royal decree, you are now banned from this castle, now get out before I have security escort you out. Now that wouldn't look very good now would it?"
"Your father will hear about this," Galiena said as she turned around and began walking out of the room. Even after basically being told that she was a nothing, she left with her nose high in the air.
After the door shut Musa looked at the door for a few more seconds and could not believe what had just happened. Did she really just yell at her aunt? She felt bad for being so blunt, but it felt so good to finally get back at her for years of verbal abuse from her aunt. She had heard enough times that her mother wasn't royal from her aunt and even though she didn't like it, she kept her mouth shut for the sake of family, but today was the last straw.
Musa sat back down on her bed and felt pretty good about herself since she was finally able to vent some of the anger she had towards everything in her life at something and it just so happened that her aunt actually deserved it.
The rest of spring break carried on as it would have if she had never met Daniel. The girls had decided to go on a separate vacation without any guys, since it was a very sensitive subject. They all went to Leslie's beach house on the Amarian coast, known for it's beautiful shorelines. It had taken a lot to get Musa out of her room, but she finally put on a brave face for the sake of the vacation and tried to have fun, but her heart was breaking the entire time. And the fact that there were separate vacations made things worse.
Was this how it was going to be from now on? Was she going to be the reason that they couldn't be the group they had always been. Musa blamed Daniel for it all, even though she knew she deserved a lot of the blame as well. This really had ruined everything, when they were together and even before that, their group was inseparable, even when their were problems, they were never this big. Maybe if the breakup hadn't been so messy, then something could be salvaged, but that wasn't the case. Everything was destroyed and as far as Musa could see, the damage was irreparable. She had no idea as to what was going to happen now.
Musa sat in her room at Alfea staring blankly out the window, replaying the entire past week in her mind over and over.
She couldn't believe everything that had happened. In a matter of days, everything was different, everything changed. She hated everything that was going on and even though Daniel had hurt her so much, a part of her missed him. Spring break was now over and it was back to the hustle and bustle of the school year, but Musa welcomed anything that kept her mind off of what happened in the past week and a half.
"Hey girls!" Musa heard from outside her room, Stella had just arrived. She had been the first to arrive back at the dorms after break, but she had yet to get up from her bed. Musa knew she should go out and greet her roommates, but she couldn't get herself to move, she didn't want to e asked anything about her break for the fear of bursting into tears was still to imminent.
Instead, she decided to sit alone in her room and watch as the wind carried fallen leaves off the ground only to let them fall back down again. Maybe this was for the best, why would she want someone that was capable of betraying her like that.
It wasn't meant to be.
Uh oh! It looks like the perfect couple is no more!! And that's how i planned on getting Daniel outta the picture...for now ;)
1. There's always one of those kinds of people in every group
2. Witches aren't the only ones that can be bitchy, and I know for a fact that when you have everything, you're not so nice when others try to take it.
Witch trap is next - lets see what this little tsunami leaves in it's wake.
xoxo,
princessm