Hello everyone! I know it has been a while since I posted and I just want to say a huge thank you to you all for being so patient! Holidays are here in Australia so I will try to update more on this story and the other story. Thanks for being so patient.
This story took a while and I've been planning this one. I'm hoping to get a lot of reviews for it! If I get a lot of reviews, that will motivate me to write another chapter :) Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own winx club or any of the songs mentioned in this story
'What' and 'If' are two words as non-threatening and innocent as words can be. But when you put them together side-by-side, they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life. What if? The two most innocent words are now haunting Stella. What if Stella had never discovered Brandon's dirty little secret? What if she had spent more time with Brandon? No, this wasn't her fault; she didn't drive him away to Ellie, did she? What if she had spent more time with Brandon, would he still have cheated? The truth was, Stella didn't know. She thought that he wasn't capable of something like this, now she doesn't know what to think.
Stella sat by her bedroom window looking down at the hustle and bustle of the city of Magix. The hotel used to be so quiet until the girls became famous and things began falling apart. Now reporters camped outside the hotel to get the scoop on Bloom and Sky's marriage, Flora leaving the band, or anything just to make the gossip tabloids. Stella knew that they are looking for the latest scoop and she was determined to not let Brandon's infidelity get out, especially not on tomorrow's talk show. Not long ago, Stella had texted Brandon, the first contact since they broke up, telling him to meet her at the apartment. That was just under an hour ago. Stella watched the paparazzi outside on the street camped out like carnivores waiting for their prey. Stella rolled her eyes at how pathetic they acted. She refused to give them any satisfaction of letting it slip that the Princess of Solaria was cheated on by the squire of Erakleon. Stella was too caught up in her own thoughts that she didn't hear someone knocking on the apartment door. Stella watched as the paparazzi would go into frenzy whenever someone would leave the apartment complex.
"Pathetic" Stella said to herself "Completely pathetic."
"I do hope that you're talking about the paparazzi camped outside your apartment" a voice said from behind.
Stella jumped hearing another voice in her room. She turned her body around and saw Brandon standing in her bedroom door way.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you" Brandon chuckled softly.
Stella didn't respond. She turned herself back to look out the window again. She didn't want to speak to Brandon after what he did, but she knew that she had to, for the sake of his and her reputation, and the band's reputation. There was dead silence in the room as Stella looked outside the window. If any outsider had walked into that room, they would feel the awkward tension rising and could cut it with a knife. Brandon didn't say anything as he watched Stella look outside the window. The early morning sun was just shining through the window and its rays were cascading down upon her, lighting up her gorgeous golden blonde hair like it was the sun itself. He felt a pang in his heart knowing that he let himself be consumed with anger and depression that ultimately led him to let an angel like her slip away. Brandon was overjoyed when he received Stella's text to meet her here. He subconsciously thought that she would say something that he could do to fix everything, but by the way she was acting towards him, there was a small chance of that happening. But he didn't care at that moment. He was happy that she wasn't hitting him with another newspaper and that no matter what he wants from him, he's happy that she is trying to talk to him. Brandon couldn't take the silence anymore; he had to know why Stella wanted to see him.
"It's great to see you" Brandon said before he had a chance to think.
Stella ignored him again.
"You look beautiful this morning" he added trying to get her to talk.
"Save it, Brandon" Stella replied not looking at him.
Brandon immediately kept his mouth shut.
"Just because I asked you to meet me here, doesn't mean that you can go throwing statements like that like we're back together."
"I was just stating the obvious" Brandon said sincerely and confidently.
"Then don't" Stella sniped back. "I asked you here on a professional basis, nothing more."
"Then would you care to explain why I am here before the silence kills me?" Brandon asked sarcastically.
Stella whipped around so that she was now facing him.
"Finally, I can talk to your face and not the back of your head."
"Shut up, Brandon. I hate your stupid jokes. I can never have a mature conversation with you. Why is it so hard for you to have a conversation without making a joke?"
"I'm sorry, but you weren't talking to me before. I was trying to break the silence."
"Well excuse me, Brandon. It is very hard for me to form sentences in front of you, okay."
"Then why am I here?"
"Because I need your help" Stella yelled back.
Brandon's annoyance instantly subsided and he looked at Stella with concern in his eyes.
"What's wrong?" he asked taking a few steps towards her.
"It's nothing bad" Stella replied folding her arms over her chest.
"Then what is it?"
Stella sighed to herself trying to keep her emotions in check before she yells at him again.
"Elara Vega has asked 'The Winx' to be special guests on her talk show tonight" Stella explained.
"Really? Stella, that is fantastic!" Brandon said happily.
"I'm not done" Stella added. "When she said 'The Winx', she also wants Flora."
Stella lost some of her nerve and turned her back to him and faced the window.
"It's not just Flora she wants. She also asked for our boyfriends to appear on the show as well."
"Stella" Brandon said sincerely walking closer to her so that he was standing directly behind her. "Are you asking me to go on the show with you?"
Stella didn't answer him, she just slowly nodded her head.
"But you said Elara wanted the boyfriends" Brandon said confused. "We broke up, so, what exactly do you need from me?"
Stella sighed again and slowly turned to face him again. She slowly lifted her head so that she was looking into his chocolate brown eyes. The same eyes that she fell in love with and the same ones that dared to hurt her like they did.
"Tony doesn't want the public to know about our break up. It is bad publicity on us because we were the 'it' couple of the band. It is bad publicity on you and Sky, and it is bad publicity on me as the Princess of Solaria" Stella continued to explain. "Brandon, this may sound odd, but I need you to come on the show with me and pretend that we didn't break up and nothing happened with…..Ellie."
Stella cringed saying that girl's name. Ever since the incident with Brandon, Ellie had been MIA, only appearing whenever Tony was around. Apparently, while the girls wanted Ellie fired, Musa only demoted her to being Tony's assistant, not the band's assistant. Brandon, at first, thought that the idea was completely ridiculous. Why would Stella pretend that he didn't cheat on her? For the sake of her reputation was a likely story. Stella had never cared about her reputation, that's how their relationship started in the first place. She didn't care that he was a squire and what her father, the king, thought about their relationship. Now here she was, a few years later, asking him to pretend, her to pretend, all for the sake of her reputation, the band's reputation. As a boyfriend, Brandon supported Stella's decision as a musician, now that he's not, he's free to admit that the band is a horrible idea and Helia was right. Brandon was silent as he thought about Stella's proposal. He hated the idea of Stella selling herself and her feelings for the band's reputation but she asked for his help. She told him that she needed him. If there was any way of getting back in her good backs and in her life, in some form of another, then there was only one answer.
"Okay, I'll do it" Brandon answered.
Stella was shocked. She looked up into Brandon's eyes and saw the sincerity and love in them that she always saw whenever he looked at them. She couldn't believe that Brandon had agreed to this. She yelled at him, hit him with a newspaper and threw him out of her apartment, and that was all at the same time. Stella was overjoyed that he would do this for her, after all that had happened in the last 72 hours. Stella smiled and she pulled Brandon into a hug, her arms wrapped around his neck.
"Thank you, Brandon."
The time had finally come for 'The Winx' to appear on the most popular talk show in Magix. Everyone was backstage getting their make-up done and waiting for their turn to go on, everyone except for Flora and Helia, and Stella and Brandon.
Tecna and Timmy were talking to some of the sound and lighting technicians working for the show. Tecna was wearing black skinny-leg jeans with a purple elbow length sleeved top with a long silver necklace and black flats. Timmy was wearing a cream coloured sweater top over a long sleeved white collared shirt with jeans and cream coloured converse shoes.
Riven was sitting on a couch as Musa paced around the room messing around on her phone. Musa wore a red halter neck dress that went to the middle of her thigh and flared out at the skirt with red strappy high heels (1) . Riven wore a long sleeved dark grey collared shirt with black jeans and black pointy-toe shoes.
"Musa, would you stop pacing around" Riven said annoyed.
"No, it is keeping my nerves in check" Musa replied.
"Well, it's making me annoyed."
Musa ignored his comment and continued to pace around.
"What exactly are you doing on your phone?" Riven asked curiously.
"I am checking on the notes that I wrote to talk about while on the show" Musa replied.
"Are you serious?" Riven questioned. "You really wrote notes for a talk show? You don't even know what she's going to say."
"I still have to be prepared."
"Prepared? Ever heard of the term, 'winging it'?"
"Isn't that what you do when you get in trouble for destroying a Red Fountain air craft?" Musa asked sarcastically but coming across spitefully.
Riven scoffed in annoyance.
"You have some attitude, Musa" Riven said.
"You are one to talk"
"At least I'm upfront about it. Instead of writing notes about the show, maybe you should, I don't know, apologise to Flora about the whole recording studio incident."
"What?" Musa said stopping her pacing.
"It has been two weeks since then and you haven't even apologised for the way you acted."
"I've been too busy-"
"Too busy to apologise to one of your best friends" Riven interrupted.
"Yes"
Riven gave her an almost disgusted look.
"Oh, come on, Riven. She knows that I am sorry for what I said."
"Are you though?"
"No" Musa instantly replied.
Riven's eyes widened upon hearing Musa's sudden response.
"I meant every word that I said to her. It's not my fault that she took too much to heart and ran into the arms of a psycho ex-boyfriend."
"Who are you?" Riven asked in disbelief before storming away from her.
Musa shrugged Riven's comment off and went back to her pacing and phone.
Layla was holding her guitar sticks and was spinning them around in her fingers as Nabu sat next to her reading a book as he waited. Layla wore a brown knitted sweater top with the arms pushed up with black short-shorts and black converse shoes. Nabu wore a long sleeved grey shirt with a black t-shirt over the top with black jeans and grey shoes. Layla was spinning her sticks when she heard a commotion from the other side of the room. She subtly turned her head towards the direction and saw Riven and Musa almost arguing with each other.
Layla quietly chuckled to herself causing Nabu to look up from his book.
"What's up?" Nabu asked seeing Layla chuckle.
"This is going to be one interesting talk show" Layla replied.
"What do you mean?"
Layla responded by stopping spinning her sticks and used one to point towards Musa and Riven. Nabu followed the direction she was pointing and saw the commotion.
"I meant every word that I said to her. It's not my fault that she took too much to heart and ran into the arms of a psycho ex-boyfriend."
"Who are you?" Riven asked in disbelief before storming away from her.
Layla and Nabu quickly turned their heads back around before either of the two saw them staring.
"What is Musa's problem?" Layla whispered to Nabu.
"Do you think that she's changed, Layla?" Nabu asked.
"Of course she has. It has been slowly progressing but the thing with Flora had confirmed it. She's almost corrupted by this stardom thing and is taking it out on us. If she chucks another, 'spilling our secrets' thing, like she almost did to Flora on the morning show, (2) she is going to be slapped."
Nabu nodded to Layla thinking that her reaction was justifiable considering Musa's current behaviour.
Bloom and Sky were standing by the curtain watching Elara introduce her first guest: some big-shoot business man in town for something. Bloom couldn't care less about this guest; he was arrogant and big headed. Bloom wore a light blue flower pattern strapless dress with a long gold necklace, which matched her ring, and brown ankle boots (3) . Sky wore a short sleeved light blue collared shirt with black jeans and black shoes. Sky could sense that Bloom was a little tense so he moved closer to her and wrapped his arms around her and rested his head on her shoulder.
"Everything is going to be okay, Bloom" Sky reassured her.
"Brandon and Stella have to pretend that nothing happened, and Flora is going to be verbally attacked by her leaving the band. How is this going to be okay?"
"Because we will be there to make sure that it will be" Sky replied.
As soon as Sky said that, the door to the backstage opened and two people walked in. Everyone ceased what they were doing and looked up to find Flora and Helia had walked in, hand in hand. Flora wore a baby pink high waisted skirt with a white v-neck shirt and white strappy high heel shoes. Helia wore a long sleeved white collared shirt with a thin black tie on, black jeans and black shoes. Flora smiled timidly at everyone in the room. This was the first time she had seen everyone since she quit the band and felt a little uncomfortable at that fact.
"Hi everyone" Flora greeted warmly.
"Flora!" Bloom yelled and she ran up to Flora and pulled her into a hug.
Tecna and Layla followed her lead and joined in on the hug. Musa looked up from where she was and saw Flora hugging the girls. Musa didn't feel like acknowledging Flora for she believed that Flora was scared of fame and let the band down.
"It's so good to see you" Tecna said with a smile when they all parted.
"You too" Flora replied. "I'm really sorry that I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to you in person."
"Hold on there, Flora" Layla interrupted. "Let's not mention it. We don't blame you. We just want you to be happy."
"Thank you" Flora replied and she grabbed Helia's hand and held on to it.
"Good to see you too, Helia" Bloom said to Helia with a smile.
"You too, and may I say that you ladies look lovely" Helia replied.
Musa walked up to the group and gave a small smile to Helia and looked at Flora. Flora could sense a little anger directed at her by Musa and held Helia's hand a little tighter. Helia responded by giving her a reassuring squeeze.
"Hey, Musa" Flora said a little timid.
"Flora" Musa replied with no emotion and she turned on her heel and walked over to the curtain and watched.
"She's mad at me?" Flora asked the others.
"Not really" Bloom lied.
"Riven?" Flora asked.
Riven looked at everyone who had their eyes on him. He couldn't tell Flora the truth without hurting her feelings, and he couldn't lie to her because it would give her false hope. What was a man to do?
"I wouldn't go as far to say that she is mad at you" Riven said stretching the truth.
Flora smiled at him thanking him for the soft blow.
"Alright everyone" Tony exclaimed entering the room.
The sudden entrance he made, made the girls jump at little bit, including Musa.
"It is show time" he continued looking around.
Tony's face fell when he laid eyes on Flora and Helia.
"Oh, hello Flora" Tony said. "I wasn't sure you were going to show up, considering you left us hanging at our last performance."
Helia was about to say something when Flora beat him to it.
"It's good to see you too, Tony" Flora greeted warmly.
Tony ignored Flora's comment and walked over to the other girls in the room.
"You all look wonderful, even though I wish you girls wore something different" Tony said.
"Thanks for the back handed compliment" Layla whispered to Bloom and Tecna who snickered.
"Why are there only five of you?" Tony asked. "Where is Stella?"
"Here I am" a cheerful voice exclaimed entering the room.
Everyone turned around to see Stella walk in with Brandon, holding his hand. Stella was holding her ex-boyfriend's hand. Stella wore a white v-neck shirt with a black vest, black skinny-leg jeans and black ankle heel boots. She wore a long bronze necklace over her vest. Brandon wore a brown sweater shirt with dark jeans and brown converse shoes. The girls were absolutely shocked with the scene in front of them.
"Ah, Stella, you're here, finally" Tony said annoyed. "Glad you finally showed up. It must've been the cheater's fault."
After his comment, Tony looked away and walked over to the show's producer. Brandon looked down at the ground hearing Tony's comment. It felt like a slap in the face to him. He could feel everyone's gaze on him in the room, especially the ones from the girls. The guys still called him their friend, but as for the girls, that was another story.
"Hey everyone" Stella said unfazed by Tony. "Good to see you, Flora" she added hugging Flora.
"You too" Flora said a little confused.
"Hi, guys" Brandon greeted nervously.
"Brandon" the girls replied angrily.
Everyone was again quiet in the room.
"Okay, if nobody is going to acknowledge the giant elephant in the room, then I am" Layla interrupted the silence. "Why the hell is Brandon here?"
"Good to see you too, Layla" Brandon said sarcastically getting some confidence.
"Bite me" Layla remarked. "Oh wait; you did that to Ellie, didn't you?"
"Layla" Nabu warned seeing Brandon's face fall.
"Guys" Stella interrupted the banter. "I know what this looks like"
"It seems like you gave the cheater another chance" Layla rebutted.
"Layla" Nabu warned again.
"But, it is not what you think" Stella continued. "Tony said that all boyfriends had to be here."
"Stella, sweetie, didn't you two break up?" Flora asked nicely.
"Yes" Stella responded. "But Tony said that he didn't want any bad publicity, basically no one mentions Brandon and I breaking up."
"So you asked Brandon here to pretend like you two are together?" Bloom asked astonished. "Isn't that, I don't know, lowering yourself, Stella? You're gambling your beliefs and morals on reputation?"
"She means the band's reputation, Bloom" Musa answered for Stella. "She and Brandon were the number one couple out of all of us. If everyone finds out he cheated on her then we all go down."
"Again, you're throwing away your morals for the band's reputation? Whatever happened to your dignity?" Bloom said.
"Yeah, Stella, I mean you never cared about reputation before, why do you care now?" Tecna asked.
"Look, I didn't come here to be badgered by my friends. Yes Brandon is a cheating jerk-"
"Thanks" Brandon interrupted.
Stella whipped her head around to face Brandon.
"That was as nice as I could put it" Stella threatened before turning back to the others.
"But I like this band, and I don't want to lose it. As long as everyone here is nice to me and you are all still my friends, I will do whatever it takes to make sure that we are still on top. And I'm not losing my dignity over this, it's not like we're back together or are going to kiss, we're just going to leave out the fact that he's a two-timing, cheating jerk who should be eaten by dragons" Stella continued.
After that, she turned back around to Brandon and said, "There, was that better?" before she stormed off.
Musa watched as Stella stormed off leaving her and the others with Brandon. She laughed to herself hearing Stella's reference to Brandon before leaving.
"That was quite a show" Tony exclaimed walking over to them. "I watched the whole thing, very nice."
"Shut it, Tony" Riven scoffed.
"I'm just saying that would be better to see then a lovey-dovey moment, any day" Tony added.
"Thank you ladies and gentlemen" Elara said on stage to the live audience. "Welcome back and for tonight's show, we have a very special guest. Over the last few weeks you would've heard them in magazines and on television. You should've heard them sing on the morning show or even at their public performance a few days ago. Now you won't have any excuse for not hearing them after their release of their first album earlier on this week. They are the super-hot, super powerful teens from Alfea, please welcome, The Winx!"
The audience went into a frenzy as they clapped, stomped their feet and cheered and whistled as the six girls walked onstage with the chorus of 'Love is all around' playing the background. Elara stood up from her seat on stage and shook each of the girls' hand and gave them a kiss on the cheek. The girls waved to the audience and blew kisses to them. The crowd continued to cheer and whistle even after the girls sat down on the long couch next to Elara. The girls laughed as the crowd went wild and Elara smiled at them. After another minute, the crowd slowly died down and they were quiet.
"Wow" Elara said with a laugh.
The crowd laughed with the winx as Elara said that.
"Something tells me that you girls are well liked" Elara added causing another laugh from the crowd and the girls. "Welcome to the show, girls."
"Thank you, Elara" Musa replied. "We just have to say that being on your show is such an honour."
"Really? Because I was going to say that having you girls here was an honour" Elara replied and she turned to the audience and said, "Am I right?"
The crowd went wild again. Clapping, cheering and whistling like crazy.
"So girls" Elara began as the crowd died down again. "You girls have saved Magix and the magical dimension countless times. You all went from winx, to charmix, to enchantix quicker than any other student at Alfea, and now you girls are a band. Why the sudden change?"
"Well, Elara, it was thanks to Flora and Musa" Bloom began. "It started about a year ago when Alfea threw a talent show. Musa always wanted to be a musician, and is the fairy of music and is the Princess of Melody, so she wanted us to form a band to enter the competition. Flora was the song writer and all of her songs had led us to win the competition."
"That is so fascinating. What happened from there?" Elara questioned.
"A record producer from Sony Magix Music named Tony, approached Flora and wanted her to write songs for his company. Flora declined and said that it was Musa's dream to be a song writer so Tony gave her the job. A few months ago, Musa became a huge hit at the company and Tony decided to sign Musa as an artist, with the condition that we were her band instead" Tecna continued.
"And the rest is history" Stella added.
"It seems like you girls are living the high life" Elara commented.
"Yeah, but we do miss everyone at Alfea and helping others" Flora replied.
"I can understand that" Elara said. "I mean, you are the girls who took on the Army of Decay as freshman, saved the realm of Sparx from the Ancestral Witches, and entered the realm of Relix and defeated the Lord of Shadowhaunt. It must be such an adjustment from being those girls to being famous artists."
"We aren't going to lie, it was a huge adjustment" Stella said. "But we couldn't have done it without the support of each other and the support from our boyfriends."
"Your boyfriends, yes I read that article about all of you. Very cute and romantic stories I might add" Elara commented. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have the boyfriends backstage as we speak. Do you think we should bring them out?"
The crowd cheered and whistled with excitement.
"Well then, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome: Helia, Nabu, Brandon, Timmy, Riven, and Prince Sky."
The crowd went wild as the guys walked on stage waving and smiling to the audience. The guys shook hands with Elara and sat down with the girls.
"Welcome guys" Elara greeted. "Good to have you here."
"Good to be here" Sky said sincerely with his hand holding Bloom's.
"Each of you, are cute and have different personalities. But the thing that makes me smile is seeing how perfect you are for the girls. It is so refreshing to see stable people find love. How did you all meet?"
"Well, we all met the girls in their freshman year, our sophomore year" Sky explained.
"But I met Flora in her sophomore year when I transferred from art school to Red Fountain" Helia added with his hand on Flora's leg.
"I met Layla when she was in her senior year, when we were arranged to be married" Nabu added sitting close to Layla.
"Arranged to be married?" Elara said.
"Yes, my parents set us up with each other for marriage, but we didn't know each other. So he came to Magix to find out who I was and it just fit" Layla explained and kissed Nabu.
"That is so cute. Did you go through with the wedding?" Elara asked.
Layla and Nabu laughed. "We barely knew each other. We cancelled the wedding but we dated, which was good enough for our parents."
"The so nice. And speaking of weddings, aren't there wedding bells for a certain guitarist and prince?"
The crowd wooed as Bloom and Sky blushed.
"Yes, that's right" Sky said. "Bloom and I are engaged."
The crowd applauded.
"Have you set a date or made plans?" Elara asked.
"Honestly, the band has taken up so much of my time that we haven't planned anything" Bloom answered. "It works out well because I would like to stay engaged for a while. It's a special time and I want to enjoy it."
"Good for you, girl!"
"Where did he propose?"
"It was at my parents' wedding anniversary on Erakleon and Bloom and the girls had performed for my parents, and I just knew that she was the girl I wanted to dance all my dances with and show off to all Erakleon" Sky answered.
"Aww…" the crowd said.
"That is the cutest thing. Speaking of cute, Stella and Brandon, you two were named the cutest couple of the year in the magazine shoot you did. Any thoughts?"
Stella and Brandon laughed nervously as the camera focused on them. Stella subtly took Brandon's hand and held it affectionately.
"To be honest, it came as such as a surprise" Stella replied. "I mean, we thought that Flora and Helia would be named cutest couple, especially since Helia transferred to Red Fountain just for Flora."
"It wasn't just for Flora" Helia rebutted causing Flora to giggle.
"Keep telling yourself that" Stella replied. "Anyway, Brandon and I are just happy that everyone thinks were a cute couple and thank them for voting."
"Brandon, what do you think?" Elara questioned seeing Brandon sitting there a little nervous.
"I agree with Stella, it was such a surprise and we thank everyone for the votes. I'm glad to see that people can see how happy Stella makes me."
Brandon's comment caused Stella to look at him confused.
"I mean, she's like the light to my darkness. I may be a squire but she looked passed all of that and liked me for who I was. Every day with her is an adventure and I do not want to miss a second of it. Without her with me, is like missing a part of myself. She's the light of my life and no one could replace her."
Stella stared into Brandon's eyes and saw that he meant every word that he said. She saw all the love and sincerity in them and found herself wanted to tear up.
"That is so romantic" Elara said about to cry.
"She looked passed all of my faults. I don't know what I'd do without her" Brandon added.
"Ha" Musa interrupted with a laugh.
Everyone looked at Musa who sat there with Riven's arm around her shoulders.
"Looked passed all of your faults, that's a good one, Brandon" Musa said out loud.
Everyone's eyes widened at Musa's statement. Elara leaned forward in her chair wanting to hear more. Backstage, Tony stood with the producer with wide eyes too.
"What is she doing?" Tony asked angrily.
"What do you mean, Musa?" Elara asked intrigued.
"Stella may look passed some of the smaller faults that occurred in their relationship, like Brandon lying to her about his identity when they first met, or him almost getting married to the queen of Downland, but there is a major fault of his that she didn't look passed" Musa explained.
The crowd gasped hearing Musa's explanation.
"Musa, what are you doing?" Riven asked in shock.
"Musa, stop" Stella begged.
"Don't" Brandon added.
"Brandon cheated on Stella with our band assistant" Musa spilled.
The crowd gasped again and the girls and guys sat there astonished hearing Musa betray their trust. Elara leant back in her chair shocked as Musa sat there like nothing happened. Riven slowly retracted his arm from Musa's shoulders. Stella was gob smacked.
"Is that true?" Elara asked Stella and Brandon.
"No" they both replied in unison.
"Yes" Musa answered.
"Musa, shut up" Layla threatened.
"Why are we lying?" Musa asked innocently. "I thought that the media uncovered the truth and the truth is that Brandon slept with our band assistant after they took a break."
"What?" Elara said.
"Those two never had time to see each other and it turned into a huge fight and they decided to take a break. Brandon thought it was a break up and slept with our band assistant, while Stella meant a break from each other. That morning Stella discovered that Brandon slept with her while they were still together and broke up with him."
The crowd gasped again.
"You two broke up?" Elara asked in disbelief.
"They sure did" Stella now had tears in her eyes and Brandon wrapped his arm around her waist to comfort her.
"Musa, aren't you Stella's friend? Why are you saying all of this when clearly it's upsetting her" Elara pointed out.
"Because our manager, Tony, said that fighting and drama is more fun to watch" Musa replied.
Tony's jaw dropped backstage watching Musa say all of this. He looked at the statistics in his hand and saw that Musa was right.
"Musa, I think we should move on" Elara interrupted. "So Flora, we heard that you quit the band just after you released your first album, why is that?"
"I realised that the musical dream just wasn't for me" Flora answered sweetly.
"Oh and don't get me started on her" Musa said with a smirk.
Flora and Helia looked at Musa.
"Little Miss Perfect lied too" Musa added.
"I didn't lie, Musa" Flora defended. "I quit because the band wasn't for me. All of your lying and betrayal was too much! If being in a band with you was going to be like that then I wouldn't have joined in the first place. Betrayal and lying is not my way, Musa. That is why I quit."
Flora released a breath to calm herself before she realised that she went off in front of a live audience and on TV.
"This is great" Tony said happily watching the monitor. "Way better than I anticipated. Keep going, Musa."
"Lying and betrayal?" Musa questioned. "I get that betrayal belongs to Brandon, but lying belongs to you, Flora."
"Musa, don't" Riven said forcefully to her.
"You met with your ex-boyfriend and had lunch with him. He was such a jerk to you and you forgave him. Helia warned you about that guy, but you thought he was lying. It got too much that Helia broke up with you and left because you were apparently changing when all you were doing was having lunch with an ex. You went crying to him and that's when he attacked you. He could've done worse if it wasn't for Helia. You called him a liar when he was right all along. You left the band because he said it was either him or the band. You chose Helia. You made your bed, now go lie in it" Musa said.
Everyone again sat their gob smacked at Musa's outburst.
"You're mad at me for quitting?" Flora said with tears forming in her eyes.
"Yes" Musa said.
"You brought this upon yourself. You used something personal about us and used it to write a song. You said I drove Helia to leave me-"
"And you said that it was Flora's fault for running into the arms of her psycho ex-boyfriend" Layla interrupted.
"What?" everyone yelled.
Elara slowly leant back in her chair feeling the awkward tension on the stage.
"You knew Helia was right but you wanted to have faith in people so you let that cloud your better judgement so you didn't prepare yourself for the ex" Musa defended.
"You're blaming me for getting attacked?" Flora said.
Musa didn't respond. Flora now had tears running down her face, just like Stella. Helia had had enough. He held Flora's hand and stood up.
"We're out of here" Helia said forcefully.
"What?" Elara said confused. "You can't leave, we're in the middle of a live show."
"I'm sorry if my girlfriend is more important than a stupid show" Helia said angrily.
Helia held Flora around the waist and they slowly walked off from the couch and before they left the stage, Helia turned around to Musa and said, "I hope you're happy Musa. You have hurt your best friend in front of thousands of people" and they stormed off stage.
Stella and Brandon watched as Flora and Helia stormed off stage and decided to follow their idea. Stella stood up, followed by Brandon, who took her hand and began leading her off stage.
"You too?" Elara said gob smacked.
"I may have wronged Stella, but not as much as Musa has. I'm taking the girl I love away from all of this poison" Brandon replied and they too stormed off stage.
Tony watched the couple's storm off and had an instant brain spark.
"If the girls won't co-operate with us, then Musa will have a better career then them" Tony said to himself.
Elara watched the two couples leave the stage and turned back to the remaining couples.
"Well, not a dull minute on this talk show" Elara said with a nervous chuckle.
"Why don't we move on to Tecna and Timmy, you have not said a word this entire time" Elara said. "Tecna, you wrote two songs on this album: 'Story of Us' and 'What to Do'. How did you come across writing them?"
"Well" Tecna began thinking of a way to say this without Musa messing it up. "I was going through a rough time when I wrote those and decided putting my feelings down on paper. Before I knew it, I had two songs written down."
"If you don't mind me asking, by rough time, was this recent?"
"Yes, it was recent, but that is over now and fixed, like it never happened" Timmy answered.
"Never happened?" Musa began.
"Not again" Bloom sighed to herself.
"Timmy got his first speeding ticket because of that event" Musa laughed.
"What?" Timmy said surprised Musa knew about that too.
"Timmy lied to Tecna about working with a fairy at Alfea. He was never there for her and let her down, which was why he wasn't at the photo shoot, he was with the fairy" Musa explained.
"Yes, but he did tell me that he would be late" Tecna saved.
"No he didn't" Musa said.
"Yes he did" Tecna said annoyed.
"No he didn't" Musa rebutted. "Timmy almost kissed this girl, causing Tecna to feel unloved and rejected. That was the rough incident. Luckily though, Timmy realised he loved Tecna before he did something stupid-"
"Kind of like what you're doing now" Layla interrupted.
"And he sped to be there for Tecna. That is how he got the speeding ticket" Musa said with a smile. "Isn't that nice? He got a ticket just to be with her."
There was dead silence. Musa had now spilled private information about a third band member.
"And what was the point of you telling that?" Riven asked angrily.
"To show the audience Tecna's inspiration and to show what I nice guy Timmy is" Musa answered.
"It seems like you're doing this to get attention, Musa" Riven whispered.
"How dare you! I am not doing this for attention!" Musa yelled. "It's bad enough that Sky lied to Bloom and got into a fight with her before he proposed to her, or that everyone is here lying to Elara's face, now I have to sit here and say that I'm doing this for attention?"
"Musa, shut up!" Layla yelled.
"What? I'm not the one lying. It seems like the only people who haven't wrecked things are you and Nabu, and Riven and I."
"Musa, the only person who is ruining things, is you!" Bloom yelled back.
"I can't believe how horrible you're acting. It seems like you don't care about us anymore. All you seem to care about is this stupid band" Layla yelled. "Well you know what, you can have it Musa, because I quit!"
"Me too" Bloom added and the remaining girls and their boyfriends stormed off the stage leaving Elara with only Riven and Musa.
Tony smiled seeing this and ran on stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I like to take this opportunity to announce Musa's solo career" Tony exclaimed as the audience cheered in delight.
Musa stood up next to Tony and waved and smiled to the audience. It seems as though that the only people fazed by Musa's actions were the girls, the guys, and Elara. Riven sat on the couch watching his girlfriend wave to the audience. He couldn't believe how much his girlfriend had changed in only a few short weeks. Would Musa be able to come back from all of this in one piece?
(1) Reference to chapter 11
(2) Dress resemblance on profile
(3) Picture on profile
So there was chapter 17! I Hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I had writing it! Please review!
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~AngelAlexandra~