I just came back from a holiday and wanted to give you a new chapter :)
I do not own Winx Club, unfortunately, and some of this dialogue is from Friends so I do not own some of that.
I almost cried writing this chapter so you may want a box of tissues. I hope that you all enjoy :)
Flora was furious. Here Brandon was in the most perfect relationship that Flora wished she could have back again, and Brandon is ruining the best thing he has. Brandon, someone she thought never to keep any more secrets since freshman year, was standing in someone else's apartment, after spending the night with someone not his girlfriend. The thought of it sickened her.
"Brandon" Flora began trying her best to stay calm. "Shouldn't you get your wallet?"
Brandon nodded and walked over to Ellie and took his wallet from her.
"So..." Flora said uncomfortable. "Stella's bag..."
"Oh right" Brandon said and handed her the bag.
"I'll see you later, Ellie" Flora said and she walked out of the apartment closing the door behind her.
Flora did her best to ignore the information she just received. She didn't want to believe that Brandon would cheat on Stella, she didn't believe in the word cheat, she hated affairs, divorce, and cheaters. It made her sick in the stomach. She hated these things because it went against everything she stood for, it got in the way of love, and that's what was making her sick.
"Why me?" Flora whispered as she leaned against the wall. She stood up straight and started walking down the hallway towards the elevator.
"Flora" Brandon called running out of the apartment towards her.
Flora turned around and saw Brandon running towards her.
"What is it Brandon?" Flora asked not amused.
"About what you just saw-"
"I didn't see anything" Flora denied.
"I know what it looks like-"
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Flora, please, please don't tell Stella-"
"Tell Stella what? All I saw was you hanging out with Ellie holding Stella's bag and leaving your wallet in Ellie's bedroom."
"Stop pretending!" Brandon yelled at Flora.
Flora stumbled back at his sudden outburst.
"I'm sorry, just I've been stressed since I woke up this morning" Brandon said. "Just, I know you are the last person who wants this hanging over their heads, especially after the whole Eric/Helia thing, but please, please, don't tell Stella that I che-"
"DON'T!" Flora interrupting pointing her finger at Brandon. "Don't even finish that sinful word, Brandon."
"Cheated" Brandon finished.
Flora immediately slapped Brandon on the cheek. Flora gasped at what she just did.
"Brandon...I-I'm so sorry about that" Flora said embarrassed and shocked.
"It's okay, I deserved it" Brandon said rubbing his cheek that was turning red. "Just please, don't tell her, I beg of you."
"Brandon, why are you asking me to do this?" Flora whined.
"Look, I'm sorry. I wish you didn't have to find out this way either. I don't want anyone finding out at all, just, I love Stella too much to hurt her with something that was a drunken mistake."
Flora was silent.
"You really love her?" Flora asked him.
"Yes...a million times yes, of course I do. We've been a couple for years. I have been your friend for years, why would you suddenly ask such a question?"
"Gee...I don't know Brandon, maybe because I caught you doing something that I am completely against, thus losing some of my trust in you" Flora answered sarcastically.
"You're right. But please, I love her more than anything in this world, I'd die before I let anything happen to her" Brandon said. "Just please promise me you won't tell her, I'll tell her later, I promise."
"...Fine!" Flora said caving in. "But you have to tell her."
"Yes, I'll tell her before she leaves to the recording studio."
"Good. Thank you" Flora said, and with that she got into the elevator and left.
Meanwhile, Stella ran all the way to Red Fountain and knocked on Brandon's door.
Sky opened the door.
"Oh, hi Stella. What are you doing here?" Sky asked confused.
"I'm looking for Brandon. Is he here?" Stella asked.
"Um, no, he might be off relaxing after last night's party" Sky said leaning against the door, almost looking like he was going to fall back asleep.
"What happened last night?"
"Huh?"
"What happened last night?" Stella repeated.
"You remember... Ellie's party last night" Sky said.
"Oh, right. Where is he?"
"I don't know, they danced together, and he was still there when we left, and we were the last ones to leave" Sky said.
"WHAT!" Stella screamed causing Sky to wake up and realised what he said.
"No...no...no" Sky said trying to calm Stella down.
The ruckus caused Riven to wake up and he walked up to Stella and Sky.
"Brandon spent the night at Ellie's?" Stella said.
"No he didn't" Sky replied.
"But you just said" Stella rebutted.
"No...no...no" Sky said rubbing his head.
"That's good; just keep rubbing your head. That'll turn back time" Riven joked.
Stella had tears forming in her eyes and she ran off.
"Sky..." Riven began. "Brandon is going to KILL you."
Brandon walked to Stella's penthouse and knocked on the door. Bloom opened the door.
"Hi Bloom"
"Hey Brandon. Stella isn't here" Bloom explained.
"Do you know where she might be?" Brandon asked.
"She did mention going to Red Fountain to see you. She might still be there" Bloom answered.
As soon as Bloom replied, her phone began ringing and she answered.
"Hello?" Bloom answered
"It's Stella"
"Hey Stella, Brandon is here and he is-"
"I don't want to talk to him" Stella said
"Why not?"
"Because"
"What's wrong?" Bloom asked.
Brandon looked at Bloom and knew that Stella had found out, and he was in for it. At least Flora kept her word, not like someone at Red Fountain. When he finds out who told Stella, there will be hell to pay.
"Nothing! I'm on my way back home and I do not want to come home with him there"
"Alright, will do. Bye Stella."
Bloom hung up the phone and turned to face Brandon.
"Sorry Brandon, but we are really busy right now. Can you come back later?" Bloom asked.
"Yeah sure" Brandon said and he walked off as Bloom closed the door.
Brandon stood by the elevator and was confused.
"Why was Bloom being so nice?" Brandon wondered. "If Stella had told her, then she would have been horrible, but she wasn't. Which means that Stella didn't say anything, which means that I still have a chance to talk to her."
Stella arrived at the hotel and took the elevator. Stella stopped the elevator at the mail room and picked up the morning newspaper. Stella went back into the elevator and arrived on her floor.
When she stepped out of the elevator, Stella saw Brandon sitting outside the front door. As soon as she saw him, her eyes flared and she glared at him. Brandon looked up and saw Stella glaring at him. Now it looks too late to talk to her.
Inside the penthouse, the girls invited the other guys over to hang out. Flora couldn't bear the thought of being in the same room as Helia, it brought back too many memories, so Helia decided to stay at Red Fountain to study.
"So, are you guys coming to our performance tonight?" Bloom asked laying her head on Sky's shoulder.
"Of course we are. Why wouldn't we?" Sky answered.
"I don't know, we were just asking" Bloom answered giving Sky a kiss.
All of a sudden, everyone heard yelling and stomping heading for the penthouse door. Everyone looked at each other and ran into Musa's bedroom.
In the main living room of the penthouse, Stella was trying to close the door on Brandon.
Brandon was trying to force the door open.
"Come on Stella, come on. Talk to me! Please!"
In Musa's bedroom, the boys immediately slowly closed the door and they could hear Stella's ranting from the living room.
"What is it?" Layla asked.
"Nothing" Nabu answered.
Everyone walked over to listen to the door.
"Stella said that everything was okay" Tecna said remembering that morning.
"What are they talking about?" Bloom asked.
Flora looked down at the ground. She knew what they were talking about. Somehow, Stella had found out. And now they were arguing about it. Flora kept the secret so that they wouldn't break up, and now, it looks like her efforts were in vain.
In the living room Stella was storming around the living room.
"Stella?" Brandon said from the living room.
"Just get away from me" Stella ordered.
"No, it was a mistake! I made a mistake! Okay?" Brandon reasoned.
"A mistake! What were you trying to put it in? Her purse?" Stella yelled.
"What is going on out there?" Bloom whispered.
"Brandon, you cheated on me!" Stella yelled.
The girls all gasped in Musa's room.
"Oh my god" Layla said.
"How could he do that?" Musa said gobsmacked.
"Yeah, well, I guess the two of them had a fight, and Brandon got drunk..." Riven began.
"Oh!" Bloom said.
Layla walked over to the guys and hit them on the heads. "You guys knew about this and you didn't tell us?"
"He had sex and we get hit on our heads" Riven complained to the others.
"Don't hurt them, I knew too" Flora defended the guys.
The girls spun around and stared at Flora.
"How?" Bloom asked.
"I caught him" Flora informed.
"What!" the girls yelled.
"No..no...no" Flora quickly said. "I saw him in the girls' apartment."
Flora didn't have the heart to tell them that the very person, who betrayed Stella, was the very girl who they trusted. Even though Ellie did a terrible thing to Stella, and a little bit Brandon, she still felt like Ellie didn't deserve to lose her job over a mistake on both parties.
"You know what" Stella began as she opened the front door. "I want you to leave! Get out of here!"
"No!"
"Just get out! Now!" Stella demanded
"No! No! I wanna stay. I want to talk about this."
"Okay! All right!" Stella said slamming the door. "How was she?"
"Uh-oh" Timmy said with everyone's ears against the door ears dropping.
"What?" Brandon asked confused
"Was she good?"
"Don't answer that" Riven said in Musa's room
"Come on Brandon! You said you wanted to talk about it. How was she?"
"Awful!" Sky said
"Horrible" Riven said.
"She was not good. Not good" Nabu said.
"Nothing compared to you" Timmy said.
"She was, she was different" Brandon answered.
"Ooooh!" The boys all said.
"Uh-oh" the girls said. They knew that Stella was going to go nuts.
"Good different?" Stella said angrily.
"Nobody likes change" Brandon replied.
"He's a dead man" Riven said.
Stella raged at that point and picked up the newspaper and started beating Brandon with it.
"Okay, okay, okay, okay" Brandon said repeated protecting his head from the newspaper.
"Should we do something?" Flora asked moving away from the bedroom door.
"Yeah, never cheat on Stella" Riven joked.
Musa looked at him and hit him on his chest.
"I'm sorry, okay, I'm sorry" Brandon said causing everyone to listen against the door again.
"I was disgusted with myself, and this morning I was so upset and then got your message and I was so happy, and all I wanted was to get out of her apartment as fast as possible but Flora caught me."
"Whoa! Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. What time did you leave?"
Brandon didn't answer, he just looked at the ground.
"Oh my god. You were there this morning? You were there when I was there? You were hiding behind the door!"
Brandon handed Stella back the newspaper and she started beating him with it again.
"And Flora caught you! How DARE you blame my friend for discovering your sinful act!" Stella yelled as she hit Brandon with the newspaper.
"Listen. Oh hey, hey, the important thing was that she meant nothing to me" Brandon said moving closer to Musa's door.
"And yet she was worth jeopardising our relationship!" Stella yelled and she threw the paper at Brandon, missing and hitting Musa's door. Everyone jumped back at the sound.
"Look, I didn't think there was a relationship to jeopardise. I thought we were broken up" Brandon defended.
"We were on a break!"
"That, for all I knew would, could last forever. That to me is a break-up."
"You think you're going to get out of this on a technicality?"
"Look, I'm not trying to get out of anything. I thought our relationship was dead!"
"Well, you sure had a hell of a time at the wake!"
In Musa's room, the others were still ears dropping.
"You know what, I don't think we should listen to this anymore" Sky said moving his head away from the door and went to open it.
Layla stopped him. "What are you doing? You can't go out there."
"Why not?" Timmy asked.
"Because they'll know that we've been listening" Tecna informed.
"God! And to have heard it from Sky!" Stella yelled.
Everyone turned to face at Sky.
"Board the door shut, we're never leaving this room" Sky said moving away from the door.
"Come on, Stella!" Brandon said cutting back to the living room. "Like I wanted him to tell you, I ran all over the place trying to make sure that that didn't happen!"
"Oh, that is so sweet" Stella said sarcastically. "I think I'm falling in love with you all over again."
Hours passed and Musa was on the phone. Everyone was still trapped in Musa's bedroom.
"Hi, it's Musa. Listen, someone's going to have to reschedule our recording time" Musa said speaking to Tony.
"It's been hours" Tecna said staring out the window. "How long will this last?"
"It's Stella, she holds a pretty good grudge" Layla replied.
"This can't be the end for them, can it?" Flora asked sadly.
"I just can't see them getting past this, Flora" Bloom said gobsmacked.
Back in the living room, Brandon and Stella were sitting on the couch.
"Don't you realise none of this would've ever happened if I didn't think that we had broken up" Brandon reasoned. "There is nothing in this world that would keep me away from you, Stella."
"Alright. Let's say I had slept with someone else. Would you have been able to forgive me?"
Brandon paused for a moment. "Yes I would."
"You'd be okay if you knew that the guy had kissed me?"
"...Yes" Brandon replied less sure this time.
"You knew that our hot..."
"La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la! " Brandon interrupted covering his ears and screaming. "Okay, okay, yeah, I would have been devastated but, I would still want to be with you. Because it's, I mean, it's you, Stella."
"Awwwww..." The girls said in Musa's bedroom.
In Musa's bedroom, everyone was laying on the bed staring at the ceiling.
"They're going to get through this, aren't they?" Flora asked.
"Yeah, come on, I mean, it's Stella and Brandon, they've got to" Tecna replied.
"What if they don't?" Nabu asked.
There was a long pause from everyone in the room.
"What, now you're not even talking to me?" Brandon asked moving to Stella sitting on the same chair looking out the window again. "Look Stella, I'm sorry, okay, I'm sorry, I was out of my mind. I thought I'd lost you, I didn't know what to do. Come on! Come on, how insane must I have been to do something like this? Huh? I-I don't cheat right, I, that's not me, I'm not Riven!"
"Whoa!" Riven said backing away from the door.
Musa looked at him giving him a 'come on' look.
"Darcy" Musa said to him.
"Yes, but I didn't cheat" Riven reasoned.
"She was a witch that tried to take over the universe and stole the Dragon Fire. You're right, yours is worse" Musa said turning back to the door.
"Okay" Riven said putting his head back to the door.
"Hey, it's 3 in the morning" Musa began. "They don't know that we've come home yet. You notice how neither one of them are wondering where we are. Stella had completely forgotten about our recording time."
"Yeah, you know, people can be so self-involved" Layla joked.
"You know what, you know what" Brandon said standing up. "I'm-I'm not the one that wanted that, that break, okay. You're the one that bailed on us. You're the one that, that ran when things got just a little bit rough!"
"That's..." Stella began disgusted.
"That's what?"
"That is such a load."
"Okay, well here we are. Now we're in a tough spot again, Stella. What do you want to do? How do you want to handle it? Huh? Do you want to fight for us? Or, do you want to bail?" Brandon asked sitting down next to Stella. "Look, I, I did a terrible, stupid, stupid thing. Okay? And I'm sorry, I wish I could take it back, but I can't. I just can't see us throwing away something we know is so good. Stella, I love you so much" Brandon added giving Stella a kiss on the cheek.
"NO BRANDON!" Stella yelled stand up and moving away from him. "Don't! You can't just kiss me and think you're going to make it all go away, okay? It doesn't work that way. It doesn't just make it better. Okay?"
"Okay, okay, okay" Brandon said calming.
"I think you should go" Stella said softly.
"What?"
"I really think you need to go" Stella repeated softly.
Brandon stood up and moved in front of Stella.
"Okay, okay. This morning, I heard you say that there was nothing so big that we couldn't work past together..."
"Yeah, what the hell did I know?" Stella yelled.
"Look, look, there's got to be a way we can work past this. Okay," Brandon said and he took a hold of one of Stella's arms. "I can't imagine, I can't imagine my life without you."
Suddenly, Stella began to cry.
"No" Stella said crying. "I can't, you're a totally different person to me now. I used to think of you as somebody that would never, ever, hurt me again after freshman year. God, and now, I just can't stop picturing you with Ellie, I can't."
"Ellie!" Musa yelled softly in her bedroom.
"Did you know about Ellie, Flora?" Bloom asked turning to Flora.
Flora looked away from them. Oh how Flora wish Helia was here right now, so that he could hold her close and keep her safe and comforted.
"Ellie is so fired!" Layla said angrily moving back to the door.
Brandon slowly backed away from Stella as she continued.
"It doesn't matter what you say, or what you do, Brandon. It's just changed, everything has changed. Forever."
In Musa's bedroom, the other girls were now crying too.
"Yeah, but this can't be it, I mean" Brandon said sadly.
"Then how come it is?" Stella asked.
Another hour later, the others were still trapped in Musa's bedroom.
"They've been quiet for a long time" Flora said.
"Maybe she killed him?" Riven joked.
Everyone turned around and death stared him.
"Let's go" Sky said.
In the living room, Stella was sleeping on the couch and Brandon was gone. The rest of them finally emerged from the bedroom. They all waved goodbye as the guys started to walk quietly out, as Flora and Bloom placed a blanket over Stella.
Musa waved goodbye to the boys and got ready for bed. She changed into her pj's and went to the vanity desk to brush her hair. The soft brown brush ran through Musa's hair, turning it from a messy beehive to a silky shine style that will stay there until morning. As Musa brushed her hair, she looked at herself in the mirror. She couldn't shake the conversation that she had with Tony the other day.
Right now, she has a break up story right on her doorstep ready to be her inspiration for a new song. But is it really worth possibly losing Stella's friendship?
"I either leave the band as we are now, and lead it to a dead end...or save our career but lose one of my best friends over it" Musa thought as she brushed her hair.
"What is more important to you?" Musa's consciousness said in reply.
Musa turned off her light and went to bed hoping that the next morning she will have her decision made.
There's chapter 13! I almost cried writing this. I hope that you all have enjoyed this chapter :) Holidays are over so I won't have much time to write, but I hope that this chapter will sustain you until the next update :)
Thanks for reading!
~AngelAlexandra~