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Pulling up to the address Ms. Faragonda gave him, Helia noticed that some of the houses weren't even finished yet. Reaching his destination, he also noticed that there were different colored balloons tied on the mailbox.
'A party? Maybe I should come back later. NO! You've been waiting nine years to see her again, I can't chicken out.'
After thinking it over for ten minutes, Helia got out of the Audi parked across the street from her house and started walking towards the front door. Reaching the door, Helia took a deep breath, 'It's now or never.' He rang the doorbell and waited for someone to open the door. The more time he was outside waiting, the more nervous he got. Hearing a clank noise, Helia turned around and saw a girl around the age of eighteen, light ginger hair, big green eyes, wearing a pink romper and white vans, in the doorway.
"Hi. I was wondering if-" started Helia
The girl put a finger up, "Hold on a sec." She went back inside the house leaving the door open.
Standing a bit back, but still close enough to the door to hear the ginger's voice talking with someone else.
"Who was at the door Miele?" asked the second voice.
"Some guy. I'm guessing it's someone from work." answered the ginger, now known as Miele to Helia.
"Okay. Oh, before I forget can you make sure he eats something besides candy?"
"Don't worry about it. I'll make sure he's got some grub in his stomach."
"Thanks."
Hearing footsteps getting closer and closer to the door, Helia stepped back, using the railings for support.
"Excuse me, may I help you?"
Remembering her sweet angelic voice, Helia took another deep breath and turned around to face her.
Seeing her already big green eyes go even bigger, Helia began to worry that his re-appearence might have been a bad idea. About to turn his heel, he saw the most incredible thing; her smile.
"Helia!"
Helia sighed in relief, "...Flora. How's it going?"
"Wow! So, uh how long's it been?"
"Eight, almost nine years now. Crazy right?"
"Yeah."
"So, what are you doing here?" asked Flora.
"Oh! Uh..I was passing through and I couldn't resist. I remember how much you loved surprises."
Flora giggled, "Yeah, I do."
Helia smiled at the thought that she rememebered of the times they had all those years ago.
"Helia Knightly, wow! Just wow!"
Helia nodded and stick his hands in his jean pockets. Standing there for an awkward minute, Flora finally got out of her daydream.
"I'm sorry! I'm being rude. Would you like to come in?"
"Yeah, thank you." Helia slipped in through the door by her.
"You kinda caught me at a bad time, we're having a party." said Flora leading him through the kitchen towards the backyard.
"Would you like me to come back?"
"No, no. It's fine."
Helia and Flora moved out of the way of two kids that were running around playing tag.
Getting to the backyard, Helia saw that there were a lot of tables and chairs all around the first front section of the backyard filled with a ton of party guests. Mostly soccer moms.
"So, uh who's the party for again?" asked Helia.
"Ben. My son." answered Flora.
"Oh, you have a son?"
"Yeah!" Flora pointed towards the corner of the backyard where a little boy was being handed a sandwich from Miele.
Helia looked back at Flora who was smiling really big, obviously proud of her son. "How old is Ben?"
"He just turned eight today."
"Oh."
Flora looked back inside to see her bubbly blonde friend motioning her over to help with the goodie bags. "Helia, would you excuse me for a second?"
"Yeah, sure. Don't mind me."
Helia looked more closley back over at Ben who was eating his sandwich in the middle and not getting anywhere near the ends that had crust. Helia crooked his head towards the side.
'He looks familiar.'
Seeing Ben stand up and drop his sandwich on the nearest table, and walked over to the cake to grab a slice, Helia noticed that his eating habits aren't the only things that looked familiar. Ben has fair light skin, short caramel hair, and sea green eyes, wearing a white and blue stripped shirt with a grey pocket, blue-washed denim shorts paired with navy blue converse. Ben took his slice of cake and headed towards the back section of the backyard. Helia looked back and saw that Flora was busy with her blonde friend. He took this chance to try to get a closer look at Ben.
Grabbing a slice of the race car cake that matched the rest of the party's theme, Helia couldn't help but smirk. Feeling someone's eyes on him, Helia turned to see a few of the soccer moms whispering. Being the polite gentlemen he is, he just smiled and went to go find Ben.
Seeing him head towards the back, a dark skinned brunette walked towards her pink pixie cut friend. "Who was that?"
"I don't know Layla. I heard Flora call him 'Helia' but that's all I got out of their conversation."
"Tecna, did you just say Helia?"
"Yeah, why?"
"You don't know about 'Helia' Tec?"
"No, why? Is there something I should know?"
"Hold my hotdog. I need to have a word with Flora." said Layla walking back into the house.
"Weird," shrugged Tecna taking a bite out of Layla's hotdog. "She can get another one."
Helia found Ben standing by the entrance of the fence to the back section, eating his cake.
Ben noticed Helia came to stand by him and was starring at him. "Sup."
Helia took Ben's gretting by surprise. He expected him to be more respectful like his mother. "What's up with you?"
Ben just nodded and took a bite out of his cake simultaneously with Helia.
"So, it's your birthday," said Helia trying to break the ice.
"Guilty."
"It's a cool party."
"Dude, it's so freakin' sweet! And this moon bounce, it's epic!"
"Yeah, it is pretty awesome. Guess you got your mom to thank."
"Her along with the rest of my aunts. They planned this whole surprise party for me." Ben put his cake down on the table next to him and went inside the moon bounce.
When Ben put his cake down, Helia noticed that he had two moles on his left check stacked on top of each other. Now he knew that Ben looked familiar. Helia dropped his cake in the nearest trash can and walked back in the house to see Flora and her friend finishing up the goodie bags for the kids to take home.
"Flora, we need to talk."
~Hotel Aces; Riven and Nabu's Room~
"What do you mean he just left?!" yelled Riven into the phone. "He couldn't have just rented a car and leave! What kind of a hotel are you running?!"
Nabu took hold of the phone from his hands and hung up. "Your yelling isn't helping us find him, Riven."
"Well what do you want me to do?! I'm trying to get answers."
"We are too but let's try a different approach," suggested Nabu.
Walking through the door came in Brandon, Sky, and Timmy.
"Any luck?" asked Sky
"None so far."
Breaking the sad concerning feeling for their missing friend, Brandon jumped out of his seat and began dancing.
"What's with you?" questioned Sky
"The most amazing thing just happened to me!"
"What's more important than finding Helia?"
"GIRLS!"
The guys looked at Brandon with weird, worried looks on their faces.
"Girls? That's what's more important?"
"Did I mention that they're HOT GIRLS!"
"No, but don't you think it's more important to look for our best friend?" asked Timmy.
"Helia is old enough to look after himself. Besides, he's loaded like crazy. He doesn't need our help." Brandon flipped through his phone. After finding what he was looking for in his email, he passed it to Riven, "If this doesn't convince you then I don't know what will."
The boys huddled towards Riven and the phone and saw a picture of six girls in their bathing suits on the beach wearing two-pieces. The boys had been officially struck by Cupid's arrow.
"The blonde one there," pointed Brandon, "in the orange bikini, Stella, invited me to go meet up with her and her friends at a party they're throwing. Should I tell her that we're going?"
Snapping his gaze off the pale-raven haired beauty, Riven looked up and answered his friend's question, "Helias' a big boy. He's fine."
~Sunlight Hills; Flora's House~
"Sure. Stella could you give us a minute?"
"Right, I'll go finish these in the living room." said Stella taking the basket towards the living room.
Finally alone, Helia couldn't make the words he wanted to say come out so he improvosed, "So, I uh, just met Ben."
Flora nodded and looked out the door to the backyard and saw Ben talking to a few of his friends. "Yeah, what about him? He didn't say anything rude did he?"
"No, not at all. He's a cool kid."
"Thanks," Flora walked around the island and walked to the fridge to get out a couple of drinks.
"I couldn't help but notice that he's turning eight."
"I don't understand."
"You and me...you know?"
Flora looked up and laughed it off, "You're not trying to ask me if he's yours?"
"No, of course not!"
"Right," said Flora opening a cabinet and pulled out two glasses.
"He's not, is he?" asked Helia.
"What?" Flora turned around and gasped, dropping the glasses.
Helia ran over to check if she was okay. "Did you hurt yourself?"
"I'm fine, thank you."
Lifting her up, he carefully held her hands in his, seeing if any glass got stuck on her. "Let me help you clean up."
Flora and Helia cleaned up the glass together silently.
"To answer your question from before, no he isn't yours."
"Oh, then who's is he anyways?"
"He's mine."
~Sunlight Hills; Outside Flora's House In Nabu's Van~
"There's no where to park! You're going to have to go around Nabu," complained Brandon.
"Don't you think I already know that?"
"Why are there so many cars?" questioned Timmy.
"Probably for that party Brandon's little girlfriend is having." answered Riven
"Hey! She's not my girlfriend!...yet."
"Look! That Honda Civic is leaving," pointed Sky to the car that was driving away.
Nabu quickly drove in to park before anyone else got the chance to. "Damn it!"
"What happened?"
"We parked behind an Audi!"
"And?"
"And! The van is going to look like a joke next to it!" complained Nabu.
"Welcome to Suburbia brother!" cheered Riven, stepping out of the van to get a better view of the neighborhood.
"Let's get ready to party boys!" yelled Brandon wrapping his arms around Sky's and Timmy's shoulders.
"Quit it! You're acting like a five year old who just got a new toy." complained Sky pushing Brandon's arm off of his shoulder.
"Let's just go knock already."
~Sunlight Hills; Flora's House~
Flora and Helia turned towards the kitchen entrance and saw a light skin male, with hazel-grey eyes and light navy blue hair with side burns wearing red shorts, a white button up with the collar popped up.
"And who are you?" asked Helia
"The name's Nex and I'm Ben's father."
'This guy looks nothing like Ben!'
"I'm Helia. An old friend of Flora's." Helia went over and shook Nex's hand.
"Well it's nice to meet you."
"Likewise. Flora never mentioned she got married."
"Me and Nex never married." interupted Flora
"Oh, I figured you were since-"
"Nope!" said Flora trying desperatly to change the subject.
Someone must've been listening because suddenly the doorbell rang.
"I'll be right back." muttured Flora walking away from the awkwardness in the air to open the door.
Flora opened the door and saw five guys standing on her porch, "Can I help you?"
The brunette answered, "We're here for the party."
"I don't know who you are. You must have the wrong house."
"Are you sure?" asked the brunette. "Stella sent me the address-"
"Wait, did you just say that Stella invited you guys?"
This time a magenta spiked haired guy asked the question, "Yeah, why? Is there a problem?"
"Stella!"
The end of Chapter Two! So I bet you guys weren't expecting that! I added Nex into this story because he's new and not that many people have added them in their stories so what the heck! Let's add Nex to the drama! I was going to put Thoren but then he looks a lot like Ben so yeah, it doesn't work for the rest of the story.
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