"Hey girls you go up and rest. I'll close the shop."
"Are you sure Flora?"
"Yeah totally Layla. You guys go and start working on a new song for the competition."
"Okay thanks." Musa and the rest of the girls went upstairs to their apartment.
Flora started putting everything away when she heard her phone ring. She saw that it was Helia.
"Hey sweetheart, what's up?"
"Are you okay you sound upset?"
"Wait…what? You are breaking up with me. But why?" Tears started forming in her eyes.
"Fine, never talk to me again." Flora hung up the phone and ran upstairs.
Everyone looked, surprised that Flora had finished up so quickly. Then they saw the tears.
"What's wrong Flora?" Layla asked.
"Helia just broke up with me on the phone."
The girls gasped.
"Are you sure? Helia loves you." Tecna asked.
"I'm sure. I just need to be alone for awhile." Flora walked to her room and shut the door.
The rest of the girls looked at each other. Stella was the first to say anything. "I'm calling Brandon. There has to be a reason for this." She pulled out her phone. "Hey Brandon."
"Hey Sunshine, what's up?"
"Helia just broke up with Flora. Do you know why?"
On the other side Brandon had a worried look on his face. He knew why but he knew that he wasn't allowed to tell Stella. "Actually I don't. I'm just as shocked as you are."
"Alright well I was just wondering. I'll talk to you later. Love you."
Stella hung up the phone. "He says he doesn't know."
"Well we have to do something?" Bloom said.
"I think we should just leave her alone. When Riven and I broke up, all I wanted was to be alone for a while."
Grudgingly the others agreed and went to their rooms to get ready for bed. Little did they know that Flora was at her desk, working on something.
At the Boy's Apartment…
Helia put his phone on the table and his head in his heads. "That was the hardest thing I have ever done."
"Don't worry man. It will work out eventually." Riven said.
"I'm not so sure. She sounded pretty upset."
Brandon walked in with his phone in his hand. "Stella just called me asking why Helia broke up with Flora."
"You didn't tell her about the mission did you?" Timmy asked.
"No of course not. I said I had no idea why. Man, I totally hate lying to the girls. The last time we didn't tell them about our mission they were so pissed."
"I know, but we need to follow orders. So Helia what are you going to do now?" Sky and everyone looked at him.
"Well I will eveuntually have to find this girl and get to know her. Then ask her out." Helia shivered at the idea of being with someone that wasn't Flora."
"Well from what I read in the mission file, her name is Jaclyn. Here's a picture of her." Timmy handed it to Helia, all the guys gathered around him.
Jaclyn had pale skin and long black hair. She had red on the tips of her hair. She had gold eyes. In the picture she was wearing a black miniskirt, an off the shoulder red top, and red wedges that wrapped around to her knees.
"Well look at it this way Helia, at least she is easy on the eyes. You could have been assigned to a total dog."
"RIVEN!" The boys yelled.
"What? I'm just saying."
Helia stood up and headed to his room.
"Hey man, I was just kidding."
"It's not you Riven. I just want to be by myself right now." Helia went to his desk and started to write.
Love&Pet…
The next morning all the girls were in the kitchen having breakfast. It was the first night of the performance and they were all pretty nervous.
Flora walked in and grabbed a muffin from the table. "Good Morning!"
"Um…good morning Flora." They all looked at her with worried looks.
Flora noticed. "I'm fine girls. I realized that there is no point in thinking about it. Helia and I are over. End of story."
"Are you sure Flora? We all know how much you love him." Layla asked.
"Yeah I'm sure. Actually I have something I want to show you guys." She pulled out sheets of paper. "I wrote a song yesterday. I was hoping we could sing it in the contest tonight."
She handed it to Musa first. She looked over it for a bit. "Wow this is really good Flora. But are you sure? These words are pretty strong?"
"Yes. I'm positive."
"Okay well then I want you to sing it. You wrote it, you sing it."
"Um…alright I guess."
The girls went down to get ready to open Love&Pet.
With the boys…
"Look there she is." Nabu pointed to a table in the food court of the mall.
"Well we found her, but how am I going to get her to notice me. I can't just go up to her and say 'hey, I know about your father. Wanna date?'"
"Actually I have an idea. Just stay here." Nabu went over to Jaclyn.
Helia watched, he couldn't hear them but he saw Nabu point to him and Jaclyn smiled. Nabu walked back to Helia.
"So what did you tell her?"
"I told her that you thought she was cute. Then I invited her to the Frutti Music Bar."
"Now why would she want to do that?"
"Because I told her that our band would be playing there."
"WHAT?"
"Yeah, what girl can resist a musician." Nabu smiled, proud of his plan.
"One problem. None of us can play any instruments."
"No problem. I'll just put a spell on the instruments like last time."
"Um…okay. I am only going along with this because of the mission. But you will be the one to tell the guys."
"No problem."
Helia was now even more nervous then before. He didn't know how he was going to pull this off, especially with Flora in the contest as well.
"Oh and by the way Helia, we will need you to write a song for tonight."
"Great…just great."