Chapter 2: Invitations
"Darling, that looks amazing on you!" Stella exclaimed, she was so loud that she almost cracked the mirror she was standing in front of, along with her best friend.
"But...I think it's a bit too pink..."
"Yeah, that's what I thought too, Musa" Bloom agreed.
Stella pouted, folded her arms and turned away from the mirror.
"Try this one," Tecna said and handed her friend the dress.
"That looks amazing Tec, where did you find that?" asked Layla who amazed at the beauty of the dress.
"It was in the pile of dresses that Stella looked through," Tecna replied casually.
"Who knew Tecna had fashion sense?" Stella remarked coldly.
Flora whacked her around the head with her purse and glared at her viciously.
"Thanks Stella..." Tecna said, offended.
"I'm sure she didn't mean it," Bloom assured Tecna and gave her a warm smile.
"Yeah, it was probably one of her attempts at a joke and they always fail and so did that one!" Musa laughed as she struggled into the dress that Tecna gave her.
"Thanks, Musa!" Stella stated, quite hurt by her comment.
"No problem!" Musa winked and admired herself in the mirror; suddenly she started laughing when she saw Layla's reflection in the mirror. Layla was laughing her head off because Stella had gotten offended and Musa couldn't help but laugh as well.
"What are you girls laughing about?" Flora asked when all the others, apart from herself and Stella cracked up.
Musa breathed and wiped a tear gracefully off her face, "Don't worry!"
"Musa, that dress looks tacky..." said Stella when everyone had calmed down.
Bloom stared at Stella as if she was mad, "And to think you said that Tecna had no fashion sense!"
"Yeah, are you feeling alright Stella?" Layla asked jokily, going up to her friend and feeling her forehead to see if she had a temperature.
"This dress looks beautiful on Musa!" Flora exclaimed not getting the joke.
Everyone stared at Stella who just looked away and pouted, "Just telling you what I see."
Tecna rolled her eyes, "Girls, she's just jealous that I picked the dress and she didn't. And she's mad at us for laughing at her too," Tecna explained and forced back a smile.
"Tecna, I think your right!" Layla exclaimed and shook her head at Stella.
"How can you be so heartless?" Bloom asked her.
"Yeah, this is Musa's wedding and your giving her the wrong opinion!" Flora added.
Musa scoffed, "She'll live, just leave her alone and tell me what you think?"
All at once, all eyes turned to her, excluding Stella's and everyone had cheesy grins on their faces and admired their friend who did a little twirl in front of the mirror.
"Perfect!" they all exclaimed and Musa smiled at them. Then she went over and hugged Tecna gratefully.
"How did you know this would be the one?" asked Musa curiously.
"In my data-base, I have your size and length, and taste so I knew what you'd like and what would suit you, and plus this dress matched your size and height." Tecna answered proudly and her friend wrapped her up in her arms once again.
"I think we have a new fashion queen now!" Layla said extra loudly and then looked over at Stella who seemed to be fuming.
All the girls strained to hold back their laughs but they didn't have to wait too long, because Stella stormed her way out of Musa's massive palace bedroom and as soon as she'd shut the door, peals of laughter burst out from inside.
"Yeah right," Stella said under her breath as she walked along the long hallway, she mumbled about how that dress was tacky and that she was still the fashion queen and no one could change that. Sadly, there was no-one to hear her.
"What the...?" Riven stopped midway, too confused to finish as he rubbed his eyes to have a clearer look at the card in front of him.
He stared blankly at the wedding invitation that he held tightly in his hands.
But this was no ordinary wedding card, this was a royal wedding invitation and it was for Princess Musa's wedding.
Riven's mouth fell open and he blinked several times to make sure nothing was wrong with his eyes.
"How could she be getting married?" he asked himself out loud.
Musa was his girl; he wouldn't let some other guy sweep her off her feet.
Then he heard a loud knocking at the door and he cooled himself down, then walked towards the door. He opened the door a tiny bit and five men came barging in without warning.
"Dude, did you get the card?" Brandon asked
"Sure did, man," Riven replied and then sighed.
"We didn't understand, so we decided to come here to ask if you'd arranged a wedding with Musa without telling us!" Sky explained horrified.
"I think I would have told you guys if I was getting married!" Riven pointed out and started getting angry.
"Did she speak to you about this?" Nabu asked as she scanned his own wedding invitation.
"If Musa had, then why would I be so mad?" he growled as a reply.
"Relax Riven!" Helia frowned, "There must be something behind this!"
Everyone turned their heads towards Timmy and stared at him, Timmy went red and felt uncomfortable.
"Well...?" Riven asked impatiently.
"Huh? Oh!" Timmy exclaimed, "I...don't know," he admitted and bowed his head down in shame, he always had something to say but today he was lost for words for the first time. It all just seemed too real for him and he just couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation.
"I'm gonna kill you!" Riven hissed angrily and started getting up. Helia and Nabu wrestled him down and restrained him.
"Dude, we can't rely on Timmy all the time!" Sky pointed out.
"Should we call her?" asked Brandon and looked around the room but no-one seemed to have heard that, they were too busy checking their wedding invitations making sure it wasn't a mistake.
"I think the best thing to do is find more infor-" Timmy said but then was cut off.
"No, really dumb-ass?" Riven said sarcastically and then rolled his eyes which only earned him a firm nudge from Helia.
"You didn't let me finish!" Timmy said frustrated and fixed his glasses on his nose, "If you want me to help you, then you're going to have to listen! As I was saying-the best way to find out more is to go and ask Musa about this directly, the phone won't be much help because she could disconnect."
Sky nodded then praised Timmy for his genius brain. Riven felt sorry for he'd said but didn't dare apologise.
"Dude, he deserves an apology," Brandon pointed out and then raised an eye-brow at Riven.
Riven looked at him and then at Timmy and he noticed the hurt in his eyes.
"Look...Timmy, I'm sorry. Everyone knows how smart you are!" he sighed and gave Timmy a small smile. Timmy appreciated what he'd said and smiled back, clearly accepting the apology.
"Finally, that was as easy as taking candy from a kid!" Nabu said sarcastically and shook his head at Riven's stubbornness.
"Well, when are we getting there?" asked Helia.
"We could go now, if none of us are busy?" Sky suggested.
"That depends, because you and Brandon have some important word on Eracklyon!" Riven said and stood up, smirking.
"Not as important as this, we totally ditched it and came running here with the rest of the guys!" Brandon bit back, grabbing his invitation.
"'Totally'- seriously? Brandon, you're turning into that stupid girlfriend of yours!" Riven laughed.
Brandon glared daggers at Riven but then was pushed out the door by Nabu and the rest of the boys followed them.
Riven's apartment was in Magix so the boys decided to get a ship from redfountain to get to Melody, which was Musa's planet. It would be much faster than taking the 'magical transportal station' in Magix that they all arrived by.
The boys walked quickly to redfountain, having a race at certain points in the middle of the process. When they finally arrived, they pleaded Codatorta for a ship and because that didn't work, Helia asked his grandfather, Saladin, for a ship and then they headed off. They galactic traffic wasn't too bad so they got there pretty quickly.
The boys arrived in the palace gardens in no time and they were walking towards the palace at top speed when they realised a blonde fairy they knew was walking through the gardens as well.
"Stella!" Brandon called, waving at his girlfriends and he ran up to her and was followed by the others.
"Hey snookums, why are you guys here?" she greeted and eyed all of them.
"We got these..." Brandon showed Stella the invitation card that he and the boys had received earlier that morning.
"Oh um...these are..." Stella began hesitantly
"We know what they are, you dumb blon-" Riven began but then Nabu covered his mouth in the nick of time before he ruined their chances of finding out valuable information.
"Is Musa really getting married?" asked Brandon, diverting Stella's attention back to himself.
Stella laughed awkwardly and stood just there, fidgeting with her fingers and looked at each of them.
Yay, drama! Will Stella tell the guys everything or will she find a heart and keep it a secret?
You'll have to keep reading to find out!
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