When the girls walked off stage the crowd gave a standing ovation.
"Wow that song was really good. I never knew she could write like that." Riven and the rest of the guys sat down.
"The song was nice, but she really needs to stop whining about her break up." All the guys looked at Jaclyn with angry expressions, especially Helia. Jaclyn didn't seem to notice. "I mean who ever broke up with her must have had a good reason. Who would want to date someone who whines all the time?"
"That's it!" Helia stood up and slammed his hands on the table. He wasn't going to let anyone talk about Flora that way.
Nabu stood up and put his hand on Helia's shoulder to calm him down. "Yeah I know man. I don't know what is taking our smoothies so long. Why don't you and I go get them at the bar ourselves." Nabu led Helia away from Jaclyn.
"I..I can't do this Nabu. I broke up with Flora for this mission even though it's the last thing I want to do. But now she is talking trash about her. That is the final straw."
"Come on Helia. I know what she said was totally mess up but we need to keep going with the mission. Not just for Saladin but for everyone on planet earth."
Helia sighed and relaxed a little. "You're right. But just make sure she doesn't talk about Flora like that again."
"Deal." The two of them headed back to the table, where they saw that the girls were sitting as well. They saw Helia and gave him a glare.
"Hi Nabu!" Layla went and hugged him. "Helia." Layla barely gave him any attention.
"Hey Helia, sorry but I need to go. My dad wants me home. Can I see you tomorrow?" Jaclyn asked.
"Yeah sure. Same place and time?"
"Sure, see you then." She gave him a hug goodbye and left.
Helia tried to ignore the looks coming from the girls. "So guys…where's Flora?" He noticed she wasn't sitting at the table.
"She left and went back home. Though I don't know why you would care." Musa said turning her attention to Riven, but then she noticed Hunter in the corner of her eye. "Hey girls look its Hunter!"
"Let's go talk to him real quick. I'll be right back snookums."
All the girls ran up to Hunter, except Roxy.
"Hey Roxy why are the girls so eager to talk to that Hunter guy?" Sky watched the girls talking.
"Oh well…um…I don't know if you really want to know."
"Come on tell us."
"Well the girls want Hunter to ask Flora out."
The guys didn't respond they all just looked at Helia, "But…but…but why would they do that?"
"Well they saw how much you hurt her and they want to distract her."
Helia just looked down. He couldn't even imagine Flora with some other guy. It made him sick to his stomach.
"Do they even think Hunter is interested in Flora?" Timmy asked.
"Well yeah. Apparently he gave her a bouquet of red roses after her performance today."
Helia's head shot up at that comment. He sent Flora some pink roses, but he did not realize that she had gotten another one also. "Well I just want her to be happy."
"I know you do Helia, but can I ask why did you break up with her in the first place? From the reaction I am seeing right now you seem to still love her."
"I do still love her, more then you can imagine."
"Then why break up with her and shatter her heart?"
Roxy looked at him with kind eyes, unlike the rest of the Winx. Helia wanted to tell her the truth. He wanted to tell Flora the truth but his uncle told him he couldn't. "I…I don't know."
Roxy just looked at him, not judging him for his actions. "Well I know that if you broke up with Flora then there has to be a good reason. I hope you two can sort it out and be together again."
"Thanks Roxy, that means a lot." And it really did. None of the other girls seem to realize how much pain this was putting him through.
"Well I have to go and help my dad with the crowd. You guys are helping out tomorrow right?"
"Yeah." Nabu said.
"Okay good. We need all the help we can get. This contest is bringing in a lot of business." Roxy walked back to the bar when the other girls returned with smiles on their faces.
Helia knew that what they were about to say was about Hunter and Flora, and he didn't want to hear any of it. "Hey I'm gonna go home now. I still need to write our song for tomorrow. See you later guys. And good night girls." He stood up and walked away.
"Whatever, who needs him around." Stella huffed.
"Actually we do, he is our song writer after all." Riven defended.
"Well anyways, we succeeded. Hunter totally has a thing for Flora. He says he is going to ask her out tomorrow."
"Are you sure that's such a good idea Stel? I mean she and Helia have only been apart for a couple of days." Brandon asked.
"So? Helia asked some other girl out so why can't Flora be with a new guy?"
"Hey, you have no idea what is going on with Helia. He is really messed up about all of this." Timmy said.
"Whatever. I just want Flora to be happy again." Stella answered.
The Next Day…
"Okay Helia, everything seems to be going well with you and Jaclyn. I think she might actually like you. Now you need to ask her to meet her parents." Nabu was there to help Helia while the others were working at the Frutti Music Bar.
"How am I suppose to do that?"
"Easy, just tell her that you want to ask her out on a real date, but you want to ask her father's permission first. Say you are old fashion."
"Why couldn't she have been interested in the magical wizard type? You seem to have a plan for everything."
Nabu laughed. "I guess I'm not lucky like you."
"Yeah, I'm soooo lucky." Helia put as much sarcasm as he possibly could into that last sentence.
"Now go get her tiger." Nabu pushed Helia towards Jaclyn.
Jaclyn saw Helia and smiled. "Hey Helia, how are you?"
"Oh I'm good. How about you?"
"I'm great now that you are here. What would you like to do?"
"Well Jaclyn I actually wanted to ask you something."
"What's that?"
"Well, you see I would really like to ask you out on an actual date, but before that I would like to meet your father to ask for his permission as well."
"That seems a little old fashion."
"Yeah I know. That's just how I was raised. So it that okay with you?"
"Yeah I guess that would work. Actually my dad might like that idea. He's pretty old fashion also and over protective of me. How about you meet him tomorrow?"
"That sounds perfect." Awesome if he could meet Jaclyn's dad soon then maybe he could finish with this mission early Helia thought.
The two of them walked around and got to know each other some more.
At Love&Pet…
"So Flora have you written a new song for tonight?" Bloom was stocking the sheleves in the medical area.
"Yeah I have a song. Since yesterday's song was so slow, I wanted to do something with a faster beat. Something you can dance to."
"You know I love to dance." Layla walked up to join the conversation. She had just finished putting the pets through a tough obstacle course.
"Yeah I know Layla. That's why I was thinking maybe you could do a dance routine while I was singing."
"That sounds awesome. But I have an even better idea, why don't you dance with me?"
"No way. I can't dance."
"You also said your couldn't sing and now look at you."
"Fine, I'll do it."
"Well in that case I think we should close the shop early today and work on Flora's song." Bloom went to tell the other girls.
"So Flora, what's the song called?"
"It's called Listen to Your Heart."
"I like it. Another inspiration from Helia?"
"Kind of, but like what the song title says, I listened to my heart and then the words just came out."
"Well whatever your heart says, we will always support you."
"Thanks Layla. Now let's go and dance."
At the boys' apartment…
Helia fell onto the couch.
"So how did this date go?" Sky asked. He was watching Riven and Brandon play video games.
"It was alright. I learned some more about her father and her. But I have to say that she is a little creepy. She is all into things that are dark. Like her favorite color is black and she loves heavy metal."
"That does sound creepy. Maybe we should have made Riven ask her out. They sound perfect for each other." Brandon joked.
"Shut up man!" Riven shoved him. Everyone else just laughed.
"It's just that every minute I am with this Jaclyn girl the more I miss Flora."
"Don't worry man, it will be over soon enough." Nabu came and sat next to Helia.
"Maybe not, I mean the girls are already trying to get that Hunter guy to ask her out. By the time I am done with this mission she will have a new boyfriend." Helia put his head in his hands.
"I'm sorry to change the subject, but do we have a song for tonight's competition?" Timmy asked.
Helia got up and started heading for his room, "No, but I have an idea for it."
"How do you always have an idea? I have always thought song writing to be extremely hard." Sky asked.
"It's simple really…I just listen to my heart."