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Flora arrived back to her room via the Riven express. He had walked all the way up to her dorm room, and a confused Bloom had let them in. As Flora trudged off to her bed, the tear stains still visible on her face, she could hear Bloom out in the hallway talking to Riven. She was obviously surprised to find that he had escorted Flora home.

A moment later, Bloom glided back into their room and plopped down on Flora's bed.

"You want to talk about it?" She asked the lump under Flora's covers.

Flora shook her head from underneath her sanctuary. She wasn't sure if Bloom could see the movement from under the comforter, but the redhead obviously got her drift because she didn't question her further. Flora had already cried herself out (with the exception of a few straggler drops remaining in her tear ducts), so Bloom needed not fear an emotional outburst. They sat there quietly there for a few moments.

"I haven't seen Riven in a while…" Bloom muttered, more to herself than to Flora. "He was looking pretty good…" she trailed off and said no more.

Flora wasn't listening to Bloom as she said this; instead she was freeing the remaining tears and composing herself for the talk she wanted to have with Bloom. When she declared the tears gone, she threw back the blanket and sat up, Indian style.

"Hey, Bloom, can I talk to you about something?" she asked hesitantly.

"Course, anything" she replied, now curious as to what was on Flora's mind. She was probably hoping that Flora was going to provide a detailed explanation of her morning.

"Well…" Flora didn't know how to begin. "I've been kind of worried about you lately." Bloom made to interrupt her, but Flora put up her hand in a plea to continue. "I know this is your way of getting over Skye, but it's been a month and a half, Bloom. You've been so busy lately that I hardly ever see you any more, and I miss you. Can you promise me you'll ease up on the dating? Just so we can have some more time to be what we are: friends. Please?" she begged.

Bloom was about to speak, then stopped, obviously pondering Flora's request. She seemed to see reason, because the next thing that came out of her mouth was "all right, I'll ease up."

Flora smiled, "thanks Bloom." She said, and gave her friend a hug. After a while, Bloom pulled away, a new curiosity visible on her face.

"So what was Riven doing walking you home? Are you two, like, a thing now?" There was a burning curiosity behind her words. Flora blushed.

"No, he and I are just friends" She stated matter-of-factly.

"Oh. Did you talk to Musa about—" Bloom asked, but Flora cut her off. "Yes I talked to Musa. She's perfectly fine with it." This seemed to relax Bloom, and after that the two fairies just talked. They chatted the day away, not even paying attention to the silly, little thing called time. Bloom wanted to know all about why Flora had arrived to their dorm in complete hysterics. So Flora re-capped the whole, gruesome story and Bloom gasped in all the right places.

"What a nasty little liar!" she exclaimed afterwards. "I can't believe he did that to you. He's not worth your breath, Flora; just forget about him, and hope he suffers from guilt." Bloom wanted to say more, but was interrupted by a giant yawn coming from Flora. She checked the clock, to find that it was midnight.

"Wow! Have we been talking that long?" she asked herself, surprised.

"I guess we should be getting to bed soon…" she trailed off. Flora nodded her head vigorously, and plopped back down into bed and encircled the covers around her. She cuddled deeper inside, grateful to be warm and cozy.

Bloom got up and prepared for bed. As Flora was dazing off, she heard Bloom's voice out in the corridor. Bloom was purposefully keeping her voice down, not wanting Flora to hear; her voice was softer than a whisper.

"Hey, I know this is out of the blue, especially since it's me, but can you meet me at Red Fountain tomorrow during lunch? I need to talk to you about something." Flora heard Bloom say. Half asleep, Flora frowned; Bloom had promised to ease up on the dating.

"Okay, see ya then." Her cell phone popped shut, and Flora heard Bloom's footsteps as she made her way to her own bed. Flora hoped that Bloom was still planning on keeping the promise she'd made to her.

Slowly, sleep drifted closer and closer to her, until Flora's eyelids felt as heavy as two elephants. At the far reaches of her consciousness, Flora recalled that the following day was Sunday. She needed to get up early in order to make it on time to her weekly conference with Riven at sunrise.

Ugh! I'm not going to get any sleep! Flora complained internally.

Yeah, but at least I'll get to see him…

And then she was asleep, racked with happy dreams.