Chapter 7- Integration inspired tale
Ella walked into her room across the hall from Angie's and next door to Alexis. At first the red headed fairy had been surprised to see none of them had been placed with each other, but they had arrived very last minute and they were in the same dorm and that was all that really mattered.
The inside of Ella's and her roommate's, a fairy by the name of Sparks, room was painted in a very light shade of yellow. Unlike the living area the room was very, very bright. Not being use to so much light at once Ella shielded her eyes and searched for the plug. There was no way all of these lights where needed at this time of the day. Just as she was about to turn off an exchange cord, a voice stopped her.
"Who are you and what in light's name do you think you are doing? How dare you turn off my lights." Ella looked up to see another girl; Sparks, tower over her. An easy thing considering Ella was only almost five foot two.
The blue eyed girl got up off the floor, as she did she eyed her roomie, even though she wasn't that different than Ella herself, something was very strange about her, something that made her seem like a Barbie doll-plastic and un-life like. Sparks had long nearly floor length silver hair and narrow copper colored eyes that dig right into the other fairy. As if her appearance wasn't abnormal it's self, her clothing made her look- was what they would have called back home- let's just say it wasn't the kindest thing to say.
"Sorry, about that. The lights where extremely bright-"
"The way I like them," Sparks got up in Ella's face, "Now, who are you?"
Ella's eyebrows knit, why was she being Gibbs-ish? "My name is Ella, I'm your roommate-"
"So Ella, where are you from?" Sparks then when onto to circle the red head, who looked at her puzzled. "What is your power, red?"
First the Fellowship and a wannabe criminal agent, what is next? Ella rolled her bag over to her side of the room. "First of all, my name is Ella. E-L-L-A, not "red", it isn't that challenging of a name." Ella gulped nervously; normally answering a question such as this wouldn't be a big deal. But considering Earth wasn't actually her place of origin and her parents where banded from the very place she was now expected to call home, she wasn't positive what her answer was. "I'm from Andros."
Sparks gracefully walked in her six inch heels towards Ella's side of the room. The girl had placed her laptop case and backpack on her bed and was starting to pull out some of her comics and Earth books, which caught Spark's eye. With her long fingers, she picked up one of Ella's comics and flipped though the colorful pages. "This doesn't look like any comic I have ever seen," she put it back down, picked up a book about fairies by Ella's favorite author quickly the fairy leafed though a few pages and glared at a nearly colorless Ella. "And you said you are from Andros, correct?" Sheepish, Ella nodded. Very glad she had left all of her Winx products back in her room on Earth, now that would be hard to explain.
Sparks sat down on the bed, crossed her legs and grinned. "Now are you going to actually tell me the truth, or must I go to the headmistress for answers." She pressed her full lips firmly together, "Now, tell me again. Who are you and where are you from?"
Ella began to panic, aside from her parents, her friends and their families as well as Faragonda where the only ones who knew of Ella's family's banishment, she knew very well that if the wrong person found that information was discovered not only Ella but her parents would be in a lot of trouble. There was no way she could tell the truth, Sparks was onto her. But Ella was a writer; she could come up with a story off the top of her head, maybe if she used her skills a cover story could save her.
"Fine, you caught me." Sparks looked impressed with herself, Ella wanted to roll her eyes, and she had to get a roommate with an ego. "The truth is my family does a lot of traveling. We move all of the time and our lives get really stressful so my parents bought a vacation home on Earth we spend all of our holidays at, and after a while I became a fan of some of the Earth stuff."
"Oh," Sparks got up. "Then what is your power?"
Ella smiled to herself, once again her story skills saved the day. "To be discovered. My parents really didn't use their magic a lot and my mom didn't go to Alfea or anywhere, they are more about academics. But when I said I wanted to go to Alfea they supported me, so here I am."
Going off the look on her roommate's face, Ella was confident that she had believed every word. "Oh." Was all she could mange as she returned to her side of the room.
Before Ella could have any more questions sent her way, she inquired. "What about you, what are you the fairy of?" Sparks tossed her hair over her shoulder and rambled on. Note to self, when Sparks goes into Gibbs mode, ask her anything about herself and you are home free. Making sure Sparks believed she was caught on every word Ella nodded her head every few lines.
"So, girls what is your roommates like?" Angie asked as her and her two friends walked to the dining hall.
"Well, Sparks is an NCIS agent in training that has an ego the size of Cloud Tower. She integrated me like I was a criminal. "Who am I? Where am I from? What's my power?"" Ella shock her head remembering her encounter.
Angie looked to her friend and lowered her voice, "What did you tell her?"
Ella scanned the area around them to make sure no one was really listening. "A cover story she believed hook line and sinker. Don't worry," Ella reached into her jean's back pocket and pulled out her iPod and waved it. "I may not get internet on this here, but I still can use my recording app." The fairy took off the ear bubs she had around her neck, handed them to her two friends who listened.
Angie laughed and high fived her friend victoriously, "Nice one!"
"What about you Alexis, you have been quite."
"My roommate is so mean and negative!" Alexis covered her face.
Angie wrapped her arms around the other blonde, "Don't worry. You aren't the only one with a mean roommate. Mine called me a maid." She looked at her friends who were puzzled. "Can you believe that? Me- a maid, just because my mom was a Lady in waiting does not mean I am going to be one nor a maid."
Ella laughed, "Our roommates, such kinder spirits." The friends laughed and lightly joked around with one another about their roommates.
Angie stopped laughing, "Guys. I think Ella has the right idea. Saying our true origins might not be a good idea. If the wrong person catches wind of this our families and ourselves could be in a lot of trouble."
"So we can never say where we are from?" Alexis frowned.
"There is one other way," Angie and Alexis looked at their friend. "Find a way to prove our parents didn't do anything wrong."
"Um, don't you think that is a bit ambitious? It wasn't that long ago we discovered our powers, faced the fellowship and so forth. Now we have arrived at Alfea, catch up with our classmates and stop the fellojerks before it is too late. Don't you already think that is a lot to deal with being first year students?"
"It is, but I fear if we don't do something about that it could become our biggest down fall."
"She's right. Time is of the essence, and lady luck is not on our side."