Flora woke up to find herself in Helia's bed and with Helia's arms wrapped around her waist. Instead of moving, the brunette wanted to stay in his arms forever.
She soon blush thinking about last night. Helia has been the first and only person she has ever made love to and last night only remained her how Helia always left her satisfied.
She moved her head up to gently planted her lips onto Helia's own. It lasted for a few seconds before she stopped.
Helia was soon heard talking in his sleep. "Flora, you are the best. I love you."
"I love you more than anything. You mean everything to me Helia and without you I feel so empty." Flora whispered.
Flora felt Helia's arms wrap tighter around her waist. She rested her head on his chest, wanting to stay in his arms forever.
Helia awoke to his alarm clock ringing. He extended one hand over to shut it off before turning to his right side to see that Flora was gone.
He sat up and looked around the room to see that Flora had left without a trace.
'I wanted to see her before she left.' Helia looked around to see that the ring wasn't in the room also. 'At least she didn't say no to the proposal. It is a good thing. I have to see her.'
Helia got up to take a quick shower.
Flora landed on the balcony of her and Bloom's room before transforming into her civilian form.
Walking into the bedroom Flora saw Bloom lying on the bed, Aisha on her bed while Tecna, Stella and Musa were sleeping in their sleeping bags.
Tecna had short purple hair, light skin and green eyes. She had on green shorts with a purple blouse.
Musa had long blue hair, light skin and blue eyes. She wore a red blouse with red and black shorts.
Stella had long blonde hair, light skin and orange eyes. She wore a yellow night gown.
Aisha had on green shorts with a light pink blouse.
Bloom wore a blue night gown.
Not wanting to wake them up Flora tip toed to her closet. About to open the door she stopped when Musa called out. "Missy, where have you been?"
Flora turned around to see that Musa and the other girls were sitting up.
"Hey girls." Flora put on a nervous smile.
"If Helia hadn't told us where you were we would have been so worried about you." Bloom stated.
"I am sorry. I didn't expect to stay overnight." Flora blushed, thinking about last night.
"Well… well… well judging by the rock on your finger I can safely assume that you and Helia have made up and now getting married." Stella noticed the ring on Flora's finger. "That means Nex is history and everything is back to normal."
Flora looked at her finger and only just noticed the ring.
"What happened between Helia and I yesterday doesn't change anything right now." Flora stated as she moved over to take a seat next to Aisha. "I didn't notice the ring or else I would have taken it off."
"What are you going to do then Flora?" Aisha asked. "It's clear that you still have feelings for Helia or else you wouldn't have slept with him."
"It isn't fair to Nex either to be dating him when you still have feelings for your ex." Tecna added.
"The truth is Nex and I are not dating. He did help me out when Helia left and we became friends." Flora confessed. "He has a crush on Krystal and wanted my help to make her jealous. I don't really agree with the method used to find out if Krystal likes Nex or not but I wanted to help him out so I agreed."
"Why didn't you tell us from the beginning?" Musa asked. "We would have understood."
"Cause I didn't want anyone…" She looked at Stella. "…to set me up with guys."
"I know some guys that would like to date you." Stella sung.
"Well I am not interested in dating anyone right now." Flora checked the time. "I thought by the time I saw Helia again I would be over him but I am not. Yesterday confirmed that I truly love him and I want to spend the rest of my life with him."
"Do you want to sit down with Helia and talk to him?" Musa asked. "It's so clear that you two love each other."
"I will talk to him but not right now. I want Helia to sweat it out for a while and I also want to help Nex with his love life or lack of it." Flora said as she stood up. "I have a class to teach soon."
Someone soon knocked on the door. Since Flora was already standing she went over to open it. She saw Nex.
"Nex, what are you doing here?" Flora questioned. "I am kinda busy right now."
"It's important. Can I come in?" Nex asked in a stern tone.
"Sure." Flora let him in.
The others got up, ready to give the two some privacy.
"No, don't go. This involves all of you." Nex stopped them.
Flora closed the door before Aisha said. "Spill it."
"Princess Krystal came to me a few days ago to ask me for a favour. She knows that Flora and I are communicating often and wanted me to ask you for the location of a powerful Gem. Its name the Gem of Power." Nex admitted. "She was going to offer me something in return and I was tempted. After spending the night thinking about it I couldn't do it. As much as I want to be with her my gut is telling me that something is wrong."
"Okay, I will go talk to her." Flora offered. "I am teaching her class today and the good thing is that it's the only class I have today. After that I have the rest of the day to grill the Princess about why she wants the Gem. Thanks for telling us Nex."
"Thanks Flora." Stella smiled. "The rest of us are booked for the day."
"No problem." Flora replied.
Flora was standing in front of a group of girls wearing purple wedge shoes with a mini purple pleated skirt, white strapless blouse and purple jacket.
She said to the class. "That's it for the day. Have a good day."
The girls got up and soon began to evacuate the room.
Flora soon spotted Krystal. She had on a mini white and purple dress with purple wedge heel shoes.
"Krystal, can I have a word with you?" Flora called out.
Krystal stopped walking and told nodded. She walked up to the brunette while the rest of the fairies headed out till no one was left in the room but the Linpehians.
Flora used her magic to lock the doors so that no one can interrupt them.
"Yes Flora… I mean Professor." Krystal said, facing the brunette.
"I heard you want the Gem of Power. Can I know purpose you want the Gem for?" Flora asked.
"What? Who told you that?" Krystal wondered, having an idea who it was already.
"Princess, let me help you out and I might not go to Miss Faragonda about this situation." Flora sounded sincere.
Krystal nervous said while holding her head down to look at the floor. "I wanted the Gem to have enough power to get the person I desire."
"You wanted the Gem to make your crush like you back?" Flora raised a brow. "Wouldn't it be easier to tell the person how you feel? Who knows he might return your feelings."
"The thing is that the person is a Professor here and is currently dating someone else." Krystal admitted.
"Even though it isn't against the rules to date a Professor here, don't you think the teachers here are a bit too old for you?" Flora mentioned, thinking about all the male teachers at the school.
"Not all. The Professor I am talking about is about the same age as I am." Krystal replied, shyly as she closed the gap between her and the brunette.
"What?" Flora knew the only Professor that young was…
"The Professor I am in love with is you." Krystal confessed standing in front of Flora.
She then closed the gap and was about to plant her lips onto the brunette's own.
Flora quickly used her hand to block Krystal from kissing her.
The lavender hair Princess backed away when she felt Flora's hand on her lips.
"Krystal, I am sorry but I don't like you like that. I am in love with someone else." Flora widen the gap between herself and the Linephian Princess.
"Nex." Krystal had the impression they were dating. "Am I not good enough?"
"Princess, you are good enough. Not only are you intelligent you are also pulchritudinous, charming and kind. Anyone would be glad to have you by their side even me. It's just that my heart belongs to someone else and I feel like I would be cheating myself and you by doing anything romantic and intimate with you."
"Nex, is a wonderful guy. I can see why you fell for him and accepted his proposal." Krystal noticed the ring as she held her head down, sadly.
"Nex is not the guy I am in love with." Flora admitted. "He asked me to pretend that we were dating to make you jealous. Clearly that didn't work or else you would be all over him right now."
'Helia.' Krystal thought, upsettingly. "I understand, Professor."
"Krystal…" Flora began.
"I have to head to my other class, Professor." Krystal bolted out of the room.
Flora sighed. 'I have to tell Faragonda about this. I have a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.'
Helia walked through the halls of Alfea high wearing blue jeans with black shoes and a white shirt.
He wanted… no needed to talk to Flora. He wasn't going to give up without a fight. He loved her too much to step aside.
Reaching Flora's dorm room he knocked on the door.
The door soon opened to reveal Nex. Since the girls knew what was going on between him and Flora, he was talking to the other girls about his feelings towards Krystal and what he should do.
"What are you doing here?" Nex questioned, pissed that he had hurt Flora.
"I am here to see Flora." Helia replied, feeling jealous for the first time in his life. "I didn't expect to see you here but since you are, can I have a word?"
"Not a chance." Nex rejected his offer. "I can tell you still have feelings for Flora. You broke her heart and that is unforgivable."
"You don't think I know that?" Helia felt his heart breaking, to see the man that he thought is dating the woman he loved the most.
Nex heard the anger, disappointment, sadness and regret in Helia's voice.
"Look, I am sorry Nex. I respect you as a person and as a fighter but I love Flora too much to just step aside willingly." Helia confessed. "Without her I don't have a life or a heart. She is my best friend, my Goddess and my soulmate."
"Wow!" Nex was caught off guard by what Helia said.
"I shouldn't have said anything especially to you." Helia prepared to turn and walk away.
When he turned around he saw Flora standing from a distance.
Instead of talking Flora signalled him to follow her. Helia did as told without any second thoughts.
Reaching the vegetable garden Flora stopped. She asked Helia, without looking at him. "You remember when we planted this?"
"Yes, we spent the entire day carefully planting every seed." Helia nodded. "I was trying to work up the courage to ask you out on a date."
"I ended up being the one that asked you out at the end of the day." Flora added. "That was one of the happiest days of my life. Every day with you was like a blessing, and an irreplaceable gift. Sure we had our good times and bad times but each moment spent with you was truly amazing."
"Flower, I know you heard everything I said to Nex and I meant it." Helia wanted so badly to hold her in his arms. "You are my best friend. Not only do I like you but I am in love with you and every day without you felt like a day wasted. I did write a letter to you and I gave it to someone to deliver it to you but that didn't pan out. What I should have done was tell you when we were on our date and whisper it to you or write it down somewhere and told you myself before leaving."
"That would have made me feel a lot better." Flora told him. "It hurt so much not having you with me. I felt like I was dying not knowing where you were, if you were alright, if you had left me and began dating someone else."
Flora whispered the last part but it was loud enough for Helia to hear.
"The moment you and I met my heart became under your care. I have and could never love anyone as much as I love you." Helia noticed that Flora was still wearing the ring. "You know I am planning to continue fighting for your heart till you turn me away or reject me. As much as I respect Nex I am not going to stand aside and at least not put up a fight."
"What will happen if I reject you?" Flora placed her hands on the left side of her chest.
"I will have to respect your decision and back away." Helia painfully said, not wanting Flora to reject him.
Helia saw as Flora took off the engagement ring and handed it to him. "Here you go."
Helia sadly took it, knowing what that meant. "Good bye, Flower."
He used one hand and cuffed one of Flora's cheeks before moving his head down a little to kiss Flora's lips. He wanted to kiss her and taste her one last time before he left Alfea. He stopped after a minute passed, turned around and walked away.
Flora stopped him by saying. "Helia, you didn't let me finish."
Helia stopped. He didn't want to turn around and face anymore rejection.
Flora continued. "Nex and I aren't dating. We were only pretending to date to try and make Krystal jealous. Even if I wanted to I could never date much less be with someone else the way you and I were. You are my first and only love. The first and only person I have or will ever make love to. You are also still my best friend despite everything that has happened recently and I am absolutely and totally in love with you Helia. I gave you back the ring not as a sign of me rejecting your purposal but as a sign that I want you to ask me again. I want you to get down on one knee and ask me for my hand in marriage."
Helia lit up as he turned around. He hurried over and quickly wrapped his arms around Flora's waist before passionately kissing her lips.
Flora kissed him back, feeling complete once more. He lifted her up, not ending the kiss and spun her around.
Ending the kiss, Helia admitted. "I love, love, love you Flora of Linephia."
"I love you too, Helia." Flora smiled, ready to give their relationship another chance.
Krystal was standing from a distance watching Helia and Flora becoming a couple again.
A dark energy was seen around her as her eyes turned black.
"Flora, you and your friends are going down." Krystal muttered as Icy's control of her got stronger.
Krystal then disappeared.