Royal Heartbreak

"Ready," Ali said with a wicked smile as she and Musa stood in front of the door of the dance studio at Alfea. It was 4 in the afternoon which meant that dance practice would be letting out in a few minutes. After weeks of planning and figuring out how to exact her revenge, Musa with the help of Ali had figured out exactly how to make Karen pay.

"Of course, although you seem to be having a lot more fun with this than I am." Musa had been working on a way to get Karen exactly where it hurt and it looked like she had finally figured out a way how. Most of the actual work was done, now all they had to do was watch as Karen saw what they had done.

"Well cause I'm a bitch," Ali replied as if it were the most normal thing in the world. She then pushed the door open with her hand and looked at Musa. "This should be fun,"

"Ali, you missed the entire practice," Karen scolded when she saw the brunette walk onto the hardwood floor of the dance studio. "Take your place in formation, and sorry but all of our practices are closes, if you want to see the dance you'll have to wait till we perform it next," Karen said to Musa dismissing her from the room.

"About that," Musa began as she walked up to Karen, gently slapping a folder against her palm. "How about you read this over really quick," Musa handed the folder over to Karen, who looked like she hadn't the least bit of care for what was in it, but she read it anyway.

"The Alfea guidelines for extra curricular activity…so?"

"Well as you can see, everyone participating needs at least a 'B' average –," Musa began before she got cut off by an irritated shot by Karen.

"Which I have,"

"Yeah just barely, and you didn't let me finish," Musa said, still in the polite voice that she had begun with. "It also states that all leaders of these activities need to have a clean discipline record, it's okay if you forgot out that. Ms. Enchantra, you the activities director, overlooked that small detail as well."

"What's your point," Karen asked with a worried look forming on her face.

"I think you know, but I'll help you out since you're not exactly he brightest crayon," Musa said as she grabbed the folder back and pulled out the last page. "This is your Alfea disciplinary record and it looks like you've racked up quite a lot of demerits, so many that Enchantra has revoked your spot as captain of the team,"

"What!"

"It means your out, dumbass," Ali yelled from her spot in formation.

"Okay, I'm still on the team and we need to elect a new captain and since you're still off the team, you get no say," Karen said trying to find a whole in their plan.

"Actually, last night I gathered the team and they voted on me for captain," Ali said stepping out of formation and taking Karen's place in the front of the team. Karen then turned to what used to be her team and looked upon them with disgust, finally she knew how Musa had felt when she was betrayed by everyone around her. "Actually they voted for Musa, but as you know she's not on the team, so I guess it's me,"

"Yeah, but that's not it," Musa said in a tone mocking sympathy. "Once we got a look at your transcript, we may have left it on Enchantra's desk and she became a little worried for your grades. So, she called Ali to her office, since she is now in charge of the team, and they decided… oh Ali, why don't you tell her,"

"We decided that it would be best if you didn't participate in the team for the rest of the year, so you could get your grades up," Ali said with her wicked smile still in tact.

"But that left an empty spot on the team," Musa added.

"So I reinstated Musa," Ali added. "And since she was the one who the girls here picked initially to be their captain, I relinquished my power to her,"

"Musa's record isn't exactly spotless either," Karen threatened. "I would hate for this whole thing to happen to you,"

"Yeah, so would I.," Musa looked at Karen with a little confusion, did she really thing that Musa was so dumb as to not cover all the bases with her information. Obviously, she wasn't going to let there be a hole in the plan that Karen could use against her. "Which is why I found my file and replaced it with one less, well colorful," Musa explained. "Don't worry, I still have to go to detention for the minor indiscretions I've committed, but that will be under Faragonda's watch and without any proof or record of my misbehavior there isn't much anyone can do,"

"What fun!" Ali exclaimed happily out of random just to rub it in.

"So to sum it up, I'm captain. You're off the team and now you get to spend every weekday from 2 – 4 in tutoring club, instead of dancing," Musa said happily. "But don't worry, you can try out again next year for the team, and if I think you're ready then you'll be on the team for sure. Till then, you'll have to leave, these practices are closed,"

Karen walked out of the studio horribly ashamed, but still with the dignity that she always walked with. One thing was for sure, Musa had finally gotten to her. "Have fun with your little team, but you should watch your back," Karen threatened.

"And you should spend less time on yours, skank," Ali shot back before Musa could say anything in retaliation. "Just give up and go,"

By the next day, word of Karen's total humiliation had spread throughout the school and Musa couldn't help but take a little happiness in that. Karen hadn't even shown up for her classes that day, apparently she had decided to take an impromptu trip back home for a bit. She knew that it wasn't right to do that to someone, but she had it coming and it was time Musa stood up for herself and prove she didn't need a royal army or her friends to stick up for her.

"You know this probably means Karen will be retaliating," Techna was never the kind of person to go along with plans to conspire against people, unless those people were the Trix and that hadn't changed after Musa had told her the whole story about what she and Ali did to Karen, since Techna had heard about it in class that day.

"I know, but what is she going to do?" Musa asked with some bravado, she had never pulled something like this off before and there was a strange high and feeling of invincibility that came along with it. "I mean there's dance team and there's you guys. Both of which I'm sure won't turn on me, and she already ruined my relationship with Daniel so there isn't much left,"

"Just be careful," Techna warned and continued on doing her work. Musa nodded and walked out of the room to go to class. There wasn't much that could bring her off the high she was on.

"Tomorrow is the day of the royals," Techna said out of the random after hanging up the phone as Musa walked in the door after he class had finished. She had called Timmy to 'ask him for help' on a math question. Why the best math student in the school would need pointers was beyond Musa, but she didn't hassle Techna about it, it was so obvious how much the two liked each other. "Timmy says it's one of the biggest days for the school,"

"Oh, I think I heard William say something about that," Musa said as she read over some notes that she was about the play on her flute, she recalled when William was babbling on and on how his family was originally invited to be the guests, but they couldn't make it so some other family was invited. He said that he might still go since Saladin had said that he still hoped to see William there. Musa looked up from her instrument to see Tehcna's confused face and she explained. "Oh he was this guy from the ball I was talking to; he's an old family friend. Anyway, yeah I hard him talking about it and saying that it was kind of fun. He might go,"

"Oh so you've been invited?" Techna asked in an almost jealous tone, maybe she wanted to go to this thing, or maybe Timmy hadn't asked her to come. He wasn't exactly smooth when it came to asking out girls.

"I wasn't really paying attention, but I really don't want to go," Musa pointed out. The Day of the Royals was supposed to be one of the biggest days of the year for the boys of Red Fountain. The school was a private academy so it accepted a lot of generous donations from benefactors, many of them being royal families that had members of their respective families attend the prestigious heroics institution. So, the day of the royals was basically meant to show off all the accomplishments of the students to one guest royal family. It was one of the days that many of the guys trained for all year and if one of them just happened to have family visiting as the honored guest, the stress to perform well was doubled. "I mean I guess it sounds fun, but I've had my fill of royal events. Plus, I think if I he invites me then he's gonna think it's like a date and that would be really off mark, it's best I just avoid the situation,"

"Yeah, I guess," Techna said somewhat sadly. "I mean I would rather do something else anyway,"

"Exactly, we'll have some fun tomorrow," Musa resolved, she could tell that Techna was a little disappointed that Timmy hadn't invited her. She was sure that Techna really didn't want to go to see the fencing matches so it had to be that she was feeling a little rejected by the guy she liked. And Musa could definitely relate. "Who needs heroics?"

"Yes, I think we are all perfectly capable of saving ourselves,"

"Exactly," Musa agreed. Techna then went on to start doing some work on her computer. Meanwhile, Musa began to work on her mastery of the flute, it was one of the few instruments that she had left to master. She had begun practicing it earlier that year, but she slacked off a bit during mid terms, but now her fervor to master the flute was a strong as ever. She began to play out a classical composition when the Stella, Flora and Bloom walked into the room.

."Techna, we need a map of Red Fountain," Flora said as she cut into Musa's flute composition.

"Are you guys going tomorrow?" Techna asked. She had jumped to the conclusion that this had something to do with the day of the royals, which made Musa pretty sure that she was a little bothered Timmy didn't invite her.

Nope we're sneaking in," Bloom seemed pretty determined about this and since she was sneaking in, that meant Brandon hadn't invited her either. What was with these boys?

Sky didn't send an invite?" Musa asked Stella. Of all the little pairing that had emerged in the group, Sky and Stella seemed to be the strongest since they had a little something start the year before, that was before Stella got kicked out.

"Nope neither did Brandon," Bloom added

"And Sky's parent's are gonna be there," Flora pointed out. Musa got a little more interested since she was wondering which family would be taking the Riley family's place at the festival. But one thing that confused her was that he had said that the prince's fiancé was going to be coming as well. Musa didn't know if Sky had any older brothers but she had never heard him mention and impending weddings in his family.

"They're the guests of honor," Stella said proudly before realizing that Sky hadn't invited her to something where his parents would be. "Wait, do you think that's why he didn't invite me, because his parent's are going to be there?"

"Maybe," Musa said bluntly.

"No of coarse not," Flora said sending a 'shame on you' look to Musa, who could only laugh, it was a little fun messing with Stella since she was such an easy target.

"Then why?" Stella said through a heavy pout.

"Maybe they found out about you getting kicked out," Musa said not helping at all. "And he's a little embarrassed,"

"Musa!"

"Just kidding…well sort of,"

"I'm not so sure about this guys, maybe I should just stay here tomorrow," Bloom said sadly, she didn't want to get in trouble for sneaking into Red Fountain, but what were the chances of getting caught?

"But, you want to go," Stella insisted.

"Okay fine, I guess I really do want to go,"

"Great then it looks like we're all going!" Flora said happily.

The next day everyone decided to get up early and try to figure out a cohesive plan as to how they were going to get into the school without being caught. Musa thought that maybe they could just get invitations from William, but then gave it another thought. She really didn't want to owe him anything. "Why can't we just walk in?" Stella said when they arrived at the campus.

"Because there is security, not to mention secret service here," Musa said. She didn't know how someone, especially Stella, would not know about all the security that surrounded royalty. Since she could walk, Musa was followed by big men in suits ready to take a bullet for her at any moment, she was sure that the royal family of Eraklyon had requested some security since they were going to be a such a public event.

"Or we could just run in," Bloom offered.

"And then get shot when secret service thinks we're trying some elaborate kidnapping attempt," Musa said once again shooting down their ideas. But after everyone gave her the same annoyed look, she gave up. "Fine let's just trick him and run in. He looks like an idiot anyway,"

"Ooh there's a race you guys," Stella said peaking in through a crack in the door after they managed to sneak into the day of the royals, unfortunately all the main doors into the stadium where all the seats were, we closed and guarded on the inside by secret service. So there was no getting in, they would have to settle for a partially open door. "It looks like it just started, cute uniforms,"

The girls quickly huddled around the crack in the door to see what was happening, but Musa couldn't see a thing. Maybe I should have just gone with William, I would have had a nice seat She thought, but she had to admit sneaking in with her friends was a lot more fun than sitting with William in the Royal Box. He would probably be going on and on about some trip to a ski chalet or his polo match. "Hey there's Brandon and Riven," Flora said pulling Musa out of her thoughts as soon as she heard Riven's name.

Stella managed to get the door open more so that they see more. Musa managed to kneel down and watch as the guys raced around the stadium on their leva bikes. Even though she knew it wasn't a race, Musa hoped Riven came in last or he fell off his bike or something awful like that. But, nothing of the sort happened, and as soon as they got off their bikes, the dragons came out of the stables. "And now, ladies and gentlemen, from lands distant and unexplored, the mustang dragons!" Came over the loud speakers as the beasts fly out on to the stadium floor. "These wild and dangerous beasts are the fiercest dragons in all the known realms. But fear not, for our sophomore's have mastered the art of dragon wrangling. Using only their mind energy, they will control creatures once thought uncontrollable."

"What happens if they can't control the dragons," Flora asked with concern.

"Well I think the point is to show off the fact that the students can handle this," Musa said as she stared out at the guys. She knew that the heroes didn't have any magic, but they managed to wrangle the beasts with subtle hand movements and concentration. That was when noticed that Brandon and Riven seemed to be murmuring something to each other, which was odd since they weren't exactly friends anymore. Musa tried to listen closely, but the crowd was too loud and she could only pick up on a few things.

Riven was baiting Brandon into doing something stupid. Why does he have to be like that? Musa asked herself feeling even more embarrassed with herself for still liking a guy that clearly didn't deserve. But, it looked like Riven's baiting was starting to get to Brandon and the normally calm squire's patience was running thin. Just then the dragons seemed to go haywire. The dragons then turned on there specialist and took an attack stance. "Okay, maybe they can't handle the dragons," Musa admitted.

"Oh my god! Watch out Sky!" Stella shrieked when she saw the dragon that he was supposed to be controlling turn on him as well and roar loudly at him.

Just then the floor beneath the specialist began to rumble, so much that even the people in the stands could feel the temors. "Okay I don't think this is a part of the Day of the Royals," Stella said just as the rumbling stopped. "Was that like an earthquake or something,"

Then, all of a sudden a large collapse in the ground was heard and the girls turned and looked back into the stadium to see an enormous cloud of dust rising from where the boys were. After a few more seconds, another crash was heard and two faires all of a sudden flew up into the air and as the smoke started to clear Musa could make out who one of them was. "Who is that?"

"Eww, Princess Diaspro," Musa said almost as if she had a sour taste in her mouth. She had met her once at a ball that was thrown by her parents. Musa was only there to show the Harmonic Nebula's support for Icsis (1) since the King and Queen had recently asked the Harmonic government to join them in a sanction against an oppressive realm. After Musa's father gave his support they all went to this ball to show it. The entire night Diaspro walked around like she was god's gift to the world, luckily Leslie conveniently put a piece of food right in Diaspro's path so that she fell into giant cake sitting in the center of the ballroom.

"You know her," Flora asked as all the girls watched the two battling fairies, it was obvious however that the one fairy was giving a beating to Diaspro. "If she keeps getting hit with those attacks, she's not going to be flying for much longer…"

"I met her once…still trying to forget,"

"What crazy lunatic is attacking her!?" Stella shrieked almost as if she cared what was happening to Diaspro. "And ruining the show! What a loser!"

"Oh crap," Musa said in a gasp when the dust began to clear and she saw who it was attacking Diaspro. "That's our crazy lunatic,"

"What is Bloom doing!" Techna asked as all four of the girls struggled to see more of what was happening. Musa watched as Diaspro feel to the ground from Bloom's attack and then Brandon ran over to her to help.

"Oh! Sky!" She gasped as she ran to and held onto the boy Musa knew as Brandon.

"What…" Musa said in confusion as she and the girls struggled to peak into the door crack and watch what was happening.

"You worthless fan! His name isn't Brandon!" Diaspro said. Wait! The Prince of Eraklyon is engaged. Musa remembered hearing William talking about it at the ball. If Brandon wasn't Brandon then…

"It is Sky; Prince of Eraklyon, and my beloved fiancée." Yup. Musa thought as she confirmed her suspicions, Brandon is actually the Prince. But that begged the question, who was Sky, or the brunette boy they knew as Sky, actually?

"Move it's my turn!" Stella shrieked and pushed everyone else away, just as the scene was becoming more enticing to watch. Luckily for Musa, she had supersonic hearing so she put her ear against the door and listened intently at what was going on.

"Squire! Over here now!" The king yelled out in anger. Musa listened closely, since the last thing she had seen was Bloom knocking Diaspro right out of the sky and seeing Brandon, or Prince Sky, help her out.

"Yes my lord," Musa's eyes went wide when she heard Sky, or Brandon since that was the name of Sky's squire, answer the man who was supposed to be his father. Musa immediately looked to Stella who looked like she had just been hit by a bus. After a few seconds Stella's eyebrows furrowed in anger. "Squire! WHAT!"

Stella, who was now too shell shocked to move, so Musa moved over to where Stella was to see what was going on now, knowing Bloom was probably not fairing too well after finding out the Brandon was actually Sky and engaged to a bratty princess.

"We need to get Bloom, the guards are coming," Flora said looking down to the stadium. The king had ordered that she be escorted out by the royal guard, even though Sky had ordered them to stand down, they knew that Bloom was in no condition to walk out of there alone, she could barely stand.

"Let's go," Musa said a she walked out of the stadium and into the school as her friends followed. She had been in the school a few times, whenever mixers or dances were held at Red Fountain, the dance team usually needed to know their way around since they always made an entrance and since they needed to know the back ways so that they could get ready for a performance without being seen. "This is the specialists' entrance," Musa said as she walked in, but right before she could make it out onto the stadium floor, they were stopped by security. Musa expected no less.

"Princess Stella and Princess Musa now if you want to keep your job I suggest you move!" Musa said as she pulled out her harmonic I.D. she didn't expect them to know her by face only, but that should have been enough proof to get her through. She had never really been one to pull rank on people, but this was an emergency and besides, she was pissed. "Now!"

The guards moved out of the way and Musa, Techna, Stella and Flora entered the corridors that the specialists used to get onto the stadium floor. They walked out to see the entire crowd looking at them; they had become the show instead of the boys. "Bloom," Flora said, looking at Bloom who was still standing, staring at the ground.

Sky ran to Bloom and grabbed a hold of her hand before she could get to her friends and she turned around and looked at his face, he looked just as shocked as she did for some reason. But before he could say a thing, Musa and Techna ran up to Bloom and pulled her away from the lying prince.

"I think you're fiancé is calling, you're highness," Musa snapped angrily as Diaspro ran to Sky's side and gave Musa an angry look. Musa grabbed Bloom's hand away from Sky, not dropping the furious glare she was shooting at Sky. "Come on let's go Bloom,"

"Please just listen to me," Sky pleaded pathetically. "Please let me explain!"

"I think you've done enough," Techna said as she whipped around and looked at him with anger in her eyes. "Leave her alone,"

Flora and Techna walked with Bloom in between them, quickly so that nobody could see the tears that were now falling from her eyes, while Musa had stayed behind to make sure that Stella was okay.

Musa and Stella seemed to get to each other a lot since their personalities clashed a lot, but it didn't change the fact that they were good friends and Musa knew that Stella wanted to get out of here, but the princess of Solaria walked through the corridors slowly, as if she were walking through a foot of sand. "Hey Stel, come on let's get back to Alfea,"

"I want to kill him," Stella said angrily looking up through clenched teeth. "He lied about everything,"

"Trust me, I've been there," Musa said, as she tried to pull Stella away from the school. "It was best to just get out of here, come on Stel,"

Musa knew that the real Brandon would probably come out here as well to talk to Stella, and she knew that Stella was in no condition to talk to him right now, so it would be best to get her away from the campus as soon as possible. Stella nodded and began walking, this time at a normal pace along with Musa, so they were able to catch up with Bloom. Techna, Musa and Flora walked in a crowd around the two heartbroken girls as they finally started getting off of the Red Fountain campus.

"Stella!" Musa heard from behind her. She turned to see the brunette squire that she used to think was Sky, running after the crowd of girls, probably wanting to do the same thing the real Sky wanted to do. Apologize and explain, admittedly it was probably best that they all talk about this and figure it out, but the boys needed some time to think about the gravity of what they had done.

So, Musa decided to go on the route of guilt, it usually worked really well. Even Daniel feel deep into it's effects, as far as she could see at the ball, he was hurt by her refusal to speak to him. Musa simply turned back and put he hand up as a signal for Brandon to just stop trying.

After seeing a desperate look of sorrow from Brandon's face. Musa and the rest of the girls continued back on their way to Alfea, not that they were too excited to get there since they would probably be in detention forever since they had just created a huge scene. But, it was better than staying here.

Once on campus, the girls were ordered to go directly to Faragonda's office. Everyone looked to Stella and Bloom to see how they were holding up, while Stella looked like she was ready to kill someone, Bloom looked like she was ready to burst into tears any second. Musa wasn't sure if getting a angry lecture from Faragonda was going to put either one over the edge.

The girls stood in Ms. Faragonda's office all in a line in front of her desk silently waiting for her to say something. They, well Musa and Techna, had explained why they were at the day of the royals and She was so angry and everyone was sure that she was not going to be able to keep her cool for this one. "You left the school grounds without permission," Faragonda began finally after what seemed like an eternity of silence. "Used your powers irresponsibly and ruined the day of the royals. You sullied the Alfea name in front of some of the most important people in Magix,"

"This is all grounds for expulsion," Griselda pointed out. Musa stopped breathing for a second, she couldn't be kicked out of school, she was a good person! It wasn't as if she was like Nancy, the sluttiest girl ever who had a different guy walking out of her room every morning, even though it was very against the rules to have guys over. Or, Paula who was constantly high off something she smoked. Musa got good grades and this was absolutely no fair.

"Griselda is right, and we will meet with the council to see if you five will be invited back to Alfea next year," Faragonda said.

"It's all my fault," Bloom said as she hung her head. Musa looked over to her and it looked like she had managed to gain some composure.

"Normally we would suspend your powers, but at this point in the semester I suggest dilution so that they can continue with all their classes,"

"That's fine," Faragonda answered.

"A fifty percent dilution will keep them out of trouble," Griselda said with a smile, almost as if she was waiting to punish them for something.

"But we told you how the boys lied to us," Stella complained, leave it to Stella to find some type of silver lining to the dilemma.

"That is no excuse, you have abused your privileges and disregarded your responsibilities," Miss Faragonda nearly yelled. "You have disgraced Alfea,"

"I am very disappointed in all of you," Miss Faragonda once again. "You may all go, but we have to speak to you Musa,"

Musa stopped and watched as all her friends left the room. What could they possibly have to say to her? She wasn't the one who went ballistic on Diaspro. "What's going on?"

"As for you Miss Musa," Griselda said. "You will still be the captain of the dance team since Enchantra swears that you have not committed any other acts like this in that past, I would disagree but I just can't seem to find any documentation,"

"Your father also called," Miss Faragonda said. "I have yet to return his call, but I do not know what to say about this situation. I just thought you should know,"

"Okay," Musa said nervously. She wasn't the one who had gone into the records vault, that was Ali, and how she managed to get in there and not get caught was beyond her grasp. But Ali said that they was no way that she could get caught, so Musa didn't have to worry about accidentally telling on her. And with her father calling, she was getting even more nervous. "Thanks, I guess,"

"Yes well be warned, anymore slip ups and you will not only loose your place on the team, but Alfea as well," Faragonda said and then her from her office.

While Musa, Techna and Flora were still affected by the events that had played out today, it was nothing like Bloom and Stella. They were both emotionally involved with Sky and Brandon and this was a huge slap in the face. Bloom went immediately to her room, while Stella acted like nothing was bothering her and walked over to Bloom's room with her friends.

"How...could…..he ….do that?" Bloom said through sobs as she laid on her bed with her face in a pillow. It wasn't bad enough that he had lied to her about who he was, but being engaged to someone else while leading Bloom on just wasn't right. "I'm so stupid!"

"I'm so sorry sweetie," Flora cooed as she rubbed Bloom's back and tried to make her feel better, but nothing was going to comfort her right now. "You couldn't have known that he would turn out to be like this, you can't feel bad about this,"

"Yeah Bloom, it wasn't right of him to lie, but trust me you'll get through this," Musa said. She was the one person in the room that actually knew how Bloom was feeling, hurt betrayed and most of all foolish for ever believing a word he had said. "But at least you found out now, I mean before thing ever got serious you know what kind of person he is,"

Stella sat silently looking out the window and playing with her hair, the usually very vocal fairy was caught in her own problems right now. She had also been lied to and even though she wasn't going to cry about it, it was obvious that she was feeling a similar heartbreak.

"But he's not a bad guy!" Bloom defended, many would say that she was in denial about the whole situation, but Musa was able to see where Bloom was getting it from. Brandon, actually Sky, was never a bad guy. He hadn't been known to play the field and as Musa got to know him she never suspected him doing something like this, sure one could question her judgment since she never thought Daniel would cheat on her either, but still this wasn't the Sky that she had known. "I don't get it, I mean if he liked me then why wouldn't he break off his engagement or if he loves that girl why would he ever have -,"

Bloom stopped again only to start crying again, so loud in fact that she couldn't hear her phone ringing every couple of seconds. "We need to forget about those losers," Stella said finally speaking up after almost an hour of silence, which had to be a record for her. "They are obviously not worth our time or tears so just forget it," Unfortunately, her attempt at being strong was crushed when her voice cracked with emotion and tears began to well in her eyes, she immediately darted to her room and locked herself in.

Techna, Flora and Musa looked at each other to try to figure out who should go after Stella and see if she was alright. Since Stella was not the type who liked to show any type of embarrassment or feelings of vulnerability, Musa decided to go see her, since she was the exact same way.

Musa managed to pick the lock with a quick spell and open the door to Stella's room. She found Stella sitting alone on her bed holding her pillow to her chest as tears rolled down her cheeks.

"I think maybe you should talk to him," Musa said softly as she picked up Stella's phone, that had been ringing for awhile. She had seen the look on Brandon's face when he came to explain everything to Stella, he looked absolutely horrified when he realized that he may be loosing Stella and even though at that moment at Red Fountain, Musa was angry at the both of them, she could start seeing their side since she the anger that clouded her mind had vanished. "At least hear what he has to say before you shut him out, I mean not today, just later," Musa said calmly as she sat next to Stella on her bed.

"Like how you were hearing out what Daniel had to say," Stella snapped angrily. Musa knew that the anger wasn't meant for her, it was just directed her way, so she didn't let it get to her. "Do you really think you're the best person to be handing out advice?"

"Stella, I'm just saying that when you're feeling a little better you and Brandon should talk –," Musa began again trying to make Stella see her logic, but as Musa recalled she wasn't very good at taking anyone else's advice right after she and Daniel broke up, so she couldn't expect any more from Stella.

"I never want to speak to him again," Stella demanded, her face becoming angry as the tears stopped falling. "That stupid squire isn't even worth my time, I just can't believe that I risked my future here for that worthless nothing."

Musa wanted to slap Stella at that very moment, but she was going to let Stella be angry for now, it was what she needed. Plus, Musa didn't want to end up getting in a screaming fight with Stella either and if they continued down this conversation, that was where it was headed. "Alright Stel, I'll just leave you alone for awhile, if you need anything I'm here okay," Musa said as she walked out of the room. She saw Stella nod, but she didn't say a word.

Musa walked back into Bloom's room to see how Bloom was fairing, which wasn't exactly much better. Bloom, however, had stopped crying. She was now sitting up in her bed silently playing with the tassels that decorated the side of her pillow that was resting in her lap. She looked up at Musa with her blood shot eyes, "Musa can I talk to you?"

"Yeah sure," Musa said. Techna and Flora left to room to see if Stella needed anything while Musa sat across from Bloom. She knew she could talk to Bloom because Bloom would probably take some of the advice she had instead of throwing it back in her face, like Stella had. Even though Musa hated it when Stella did that, she usually had a point.

"Am I stupid to still want him?" Bloom asked bluntly, the second she began talking, tears began to form in the corners of her eyes, but Musa knew that the sobbing stage was probably over now. "After everything, I know I shouldn't and that Stella is probably right – ,"

"Stella's angry, she doesn't know what she is saying right now," Musa said. "And I don't think it's stupid for you to still want him. I mean what he did was wrong on so many levels, but before all that you two got close and it's not strange for you to want the past back,"

"Do you think he loves that girl?" Bloom asked so quietly as if she didn't want Musa to know that she had asked that. Bloom tended to wear her heart on her sleeve and Musa could she that she had developed genuine feelings for Sky Musa had actually given that some thought since everything had happened. If Sky was engaged in high school, as an underclassmen no less, then it probably wasn't him getting down on one knee. She had heard of betrothals a lot and she knew that her aunt was in no way above getting her betrothed to someone. Luckily for Musa, it wasn't Galiena's decision and Musa had made it very clear to her family that she would be the one finding her husband.

Maybe Sky was betrothed and couldn't get out of it. He did have freewill, but Musa knew how much family pressure could shape someone's thinking. "I, I don't think he does because I –," Musa stopped, she didn't want to get Bloom's hopes up, maybe Sky was a huge jackass that planned on never telling Bloom about his fiancé. "You know what, nevermind,"

"No, please keep going," Bloom said thinking she was going to get bad news.

"I think he's probably betrothed," Musa said and remembered Bloom probably knew nothing about the subject. "I mean it happens a lot still and usually their parents have had this type of contract that their kids will get married at a certain age,"

"Do you think that he –,"

"I am not making any excuses for him, I mean he had no right to do that to you. But, I think you guys should maybe talk before you get too carried away with anything," Musa said. She was not too happy with the boys at Red Fountain, but that was no reason to completely write them off, everyone makes mistakes and she wanted to give the guys the benefit of the doubt, at least for now.

"I can't believe I'm actually going to get expelled for this," Bloom said drying her tears and looking back down at her bed. "This is all my fault,"

"You can't be too down on yourself, try to get some sleep and we'll sort this whole thing out tomorrow," Musa cooed and walked back in the room as Bloom crawled into her bed, hoping for some sleep, but probably not going to get any. Bloom got out of bed ten minutes later and sat on her balcony for almost the rest of the night.

"So I didn't see that coming," Musa said one in her room where Techna and Flora had taken refuge after trying to help Stella. Stella was in her room, wanting to be left alone and Bloom was in her room trying to get some rest, under Musa's orders.

"I can't believe they did that!" Techna said still reeling from the events that had unfolded that day. "Do you think Timmy knew about this, I mean he didn't invite me, this migh –,"

"I doubt he knew," Musa stopped Techna before she could continue. "I mean judging by the look on his face, he was just as surprised as we were,"

"I still can't believe they went on for a year and a half without anyone catching on," Flora said. Musa had also found that particular piece of information interesting. For a man who knew so many royals and royal families, Saladin had really dropped the ball on this one. Musa had thought that Sky was blonde when she had first met him, but she simply passed off what she thought was correct as holes in her memory. How could an entire school system not realize that a prince and his squire had switched places? "I mean that must have taken a lot of work,"

"Yeah and for what?" Musa said. "Just to see what it would be like to switch places? That is probably the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I mean you don't see me switching places with Stella to see what it would be like to be a ditsy blonde,"

"Hey Musa, here," Flora said handing her cell phone over to her. "It's been ringing non stop for like twenty minutes, I think it might be urgent,"

"Thanks, I should call Isabelle back, I'll talk to you guys later," Musa said with a wave as she took her phone and went onto the balcony. "Hey Isabelle," Musa said when Isabelle picked up the phone. "You will never believe the day I've had,"

"I've been calling you all day, where have you been?" Isabelle demanded in an urgent tone. "I've got to tell you something,"

"I went to Day of the Royals," Musa said not really picking up on her friend's tone, that or completely ignoring it. "And since we weren't invited we decided to sneak in and once we were there we found out that Sky and Brandon had switched places for the last two years! Can you believe that!"

"Whoa that's crazy," Isabelle said trying to get back to her point.

"I know, but worst of all it turns out that Sky, the real one, has a fiancé and she and Bloom got in a huge chick fight in the middle of the battle grounds. After Faragonda found out she was pissed. She threatened expulsion, but you don't think she'll do it do you?" Musa said in one breathe. Luckily, Isabelle could get everything Musa had just said.

"I hardly think it matters now," Isabelle interrupted finally after getting a word in the conversation. "I was at your palace earlier today to say hello and pick something up for my dad and I may have over heard your aunt trying to convince your father to pull you out of Alfea,"

"What! Why?"

"All I heard before one of your stupid maids blew my cover, was that your aunt thinks that Alfea isn't good for you, apparently you're in a downward spiral. Then, I heard your father say that he was going to get in touch with your head mistress," Isabelle informed. "You better hope today's little slip up doesn't get mentioned in their chat,"

"But what if Faragonda decides not to expel us, I mean she seemed pretty angry," Musa reasoned not wanting to accept the fact that she may actually have to leave the school she was in love with. She hadn't brought it up with the other girls since they had enough to deal with, but there was a very real chance that she wouldn't be invited back to Alfea. But if she was, she didn't want anything to stop her from coming back. "Besides, it's not like I was the one who attacked someone in the middle of the day of the royals,"

"I'll try to see what else I can dig up and I'll cal you back," Isabelle said trying tot calm Musa. "Look I'm sure it's just one of your aunt's empty threats, no biggy,"

"Okay, I'll try to get on Ms. F's good side for now,"

"Okay, don't worry we'll figure this out,"

Musa hung up the phone and leaned over the balcony and looked out in the direction of Red Fountain. It was as if no good could come from that direction, boys switching identities and lying about it, or joining the side of evil. Maybe it would be best if she just went back home and continued high school at Devon Prep, she knew everyone there and it was familiar to her. Nobody would dare mess with her and she had never had her heart broken there, whereas since she started Alfea it happened twice. She wouldn't have to see Riven, even though she knew she wanted to. Then again, Alfea had become her home and even with everything that happened in the past few months, she couldn't imagine leaving it.

"This sucks," She said to herself as a cold breeze swept across the campus as if signaling worse things to come. "Oh wait!"

Musa quickly dialed a number into her phone and waited for an answer. The call went to voicemail, but this was urgent so Musa left a message. "Hey William it's Musa, I was kind of hoping I could talk to you about something…" (2)

1. In the episode 'The Wrong Righters' they say that Diaspro is the Princess of Icsis.

2. So William is just a character I am using since I need a character and he is useful. He's too concerned with himself to really make much of a difference but he serves a purpose. So let's see what his purpose is…

Okay so I hope you liked the episode. I know a lot of you were hoping for some Brandon/Stella or Bloom/Sky drama, but that isn't really the point of my story, especially since I absolutely love Musa/Riven (you'll see that to be very apparent if you take a look at any of my other fics) anyway, next up is 'Senior Witches go to Earth'

xoxo,
princessm