(Sky POV)
Its been a week since I have seen Bloom. I heard through the grape vine that she has been getting better but I still feel bad of where we left things. So, today when Camila is going wedding dress shopping I am sneaking out to Pyros to…apologize.
When I get there I expect Mya to be there, in the cave but she is nowhere to be found. Then I go looking for any signs of life in this cave and start to slightly panic when I hear or see nothing. I find Blooms room. Her door is a jar open. I finally here shuffling around in there, and stat to push open the door.
"Bloom?" I am expecting to see her still propped up on her bed, but there she was carefully picking up things off her desk. I see she must still be in pain if she is holding her stomach.
"Can I help you Sky?" She says plainly without even turning around, grunting as she reaches over her desk to grab a flash light.
"I think it's the other way round Bloom." I mention as I rush over to her and grab the torch myself. She gets back up and looks at me. She then snatches the torch and walks over to her bed, and places the flashlight in a backpack on top of it.
"And where do you think you're going?" I walk over to her and she very noticeably rolls her eyes.
"Sky, how many times do I have to say to you, ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" She huffs out in frustration and walks past me back to her desk.
"Fine…" I brush off, and pull out my own threat. "So if I was to ring Flora right about now…."
Bloom freezes in her search for whatever she was looking for on the mountain on top of her desk. She turns around, eyes piercing.
"You wouldn't." She says.
"Oh, I think I would if you don't start thinking more rationally." I state. Bloom slightly growls. She then comes back to me and shoves me with her shoulder as she past back to her back pack.
"Flora has enough on her plate right now, so just don't stress her out" Bloom says. She finishes zippering up her backpack. She is then once more about to go back to her desk but this time I stop her.
"Where are you going Bloom?" I am expecting a whiting reply but she sighs instead and looks up at me.
"Its on the resort realm, A woman named Kira lives there on in the jungle and I am paying her a visit." She says honestly.
"And you're planning on walking there, in your condition." I say, sceptical if she even realizes what she is doing.
"Yes."
"What if something happens to you."
"It won't."
"How do you know that?"
"I don't, but I am going any way." With that she turns around, painfully puts on her backpack and looks about ready to go. I think for a second, and before I really think it through I say it.
"I'm coming with you"
Bloom stops at the door way and turns around, her face full of disbelief." Huh, Yeah right."
"You better believe it, I have Flora's number on speed dial… or I could call Stella-"
She actually growls at me then slaps her hand to her forehead." Fine, but if your start asking me any questions I don't like, I'll be calling Flora to fix you up." She threats and continues her path out her door. I don't know why I thought of doing this. This is going to be very awkward, but I rather her be safe.
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It's been two hours walking around in the jungle, and Bloom just looks straight ahead and walks. Holding onto the straps of her backpack. Camila , my father and mother are going to kill me. I text her , that I was not going to be there tonight. I haven't had a reply yet, which isn't a good thing.
Its already getting dark and by asking Bloom, were only half way there. She finally stops and I nearly bump into her from the surprise. She chucks her back pack off as we stand in a small clearing of grass.
"Let me guess, from your spontaneous idea of helping me , you have no gear on you." She mocks with a slight laugh.
"Ya' Think" I hiss and collapse onto the ground. Bloom does it more gracefully. Sitting crossed legged and placing the backpack in her lap. She leans over it, moving her long red hair to one side so I can see the nape of her neck. Also the slight burn scare from the water stars year ago. The time when we were still together…
I'm glad I am wearing my practical clothes today, since I am hiking in the hot hummed jungle. Bloom wears leggings , hiking boots and a tight blue top .She doesn't even seem hot at all, must be the dragon fire effect.
She scuffles around in her bag then pulls out a bottle of water.
"Catch!" She says without looking up and before I know that bottle of water has made its way to my head
"Ow! What the hell." I whine, and Bloom just shakes her head and laughs.
"My, My. Prince Sky can't even catch a bottle of water. What happened to the hero who could defeat a beast twice his size." She mocks and I get vey agitated.
"Haha…" I say sarcastically." What happened to the girl I knew three year ago?"
She looks up lazily at me, with a slight scowl." I don't like that question Sky, two more of them and you're out of here" she warns and I put my hands up in surrender as she pulls out a bottle of water for herself. She takes a few long sips.
"Why did you bother to let me come anyway?" It's a fair enough question to ask.
"You're as stubborn as an Ox, and you know what they say." She pauses to look up." If you can't defeat them, join them."
I take a sip of my water. It helps with the heat. "So this Kira person…" I begin and she sighs heavily.
"She has something I need to get, there's only one left in this dimension and it's going to help me." She says and pull out a sleeping bag and lays it out without getting up.
"And this something is?" I question, needing more.
"You'll find out soon enough." She teases me." Since you so desperately to wanted to come on this trip with me, mind getting the fire wood." She more orders than suggests, so I pull myself up and do what she wants.
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Its dark now. Very dark. But the crackling fire aluminates everything around us, including Bloom who sits across the other side of the fire. A blanket draped over her legs. One hand holds a book in her lap, the other an apple she bites every so often.
I'm in charge of cooking duty, as she says so I am stiring a pot, that she has made magically hover over the fire. When it's done, Bloom moves the pot away from the fire and places it by her side. She then reaches over and grabs a bowl and a ladle. She places them to the side and then pats around her area with her hands, as if searching for something. Then she stops and holds up a rock, average size.
"Here we go" She whispers and she holds the rock out in both hands and closes her eyes. The rock shakes a bit and the next thing it morphs into a grey bowl. She then opens her eyes and hands me her newly made bowl.
"That's impressive." I comment as I ladle some soup into her bowl and then mine.
She shrugs. "I learnt that in freshman year, nothing big, although then it was bigger than anything to be able to do that , well… for me at least"
She shuffle around in her bag again and pulls out two spoons, and hands one to me.
"Yeah… what are you reading?" I ask as I look at her book. It's a drawing of a little girl with a blue dress, blonde hair who seems to be talking to a blue long creature with a smoke pipe and glasses. She looks at her book before answering.
"Alice in Wonderland." She says with a small smile, as if remembering something.
"Who in where land?"
"It's an Earth book you idiot" she frowns " And it's a classic"
"What's Wonderland?" I have never heard of it before. She gives me an un-deciding look.
"You're going to laugh if I tell you." She says, taking a moth full of soup.
"How do you know that, come on tell." I demand, she just rolls her eyes.
"Find Wonderland is a different land filled with unique creatures, an evil red queen, a mad hatter and most of all magic…"
"So pretty much it's like the magical dimension." I furrow my eyes brows, what do people on earth read?
" It's hard to believe Sky but I didn't grow up with magic, warriors and fairies. I grew thinking all of those things were just stories, like this one… My dad use to read me all kinds of stories like this, filled with the adventure, magic and true love. My dreams were filled with it, but now it's not all that it's cracked up to be…" She laughs at herself, hopelessly. Bloom never told me about this. Not when we were together. The way she acted, was like she always was here. But I forgot that there was whole another side of Bloom. The earth girl, a time when she didn't have magic.
"So, if you never came to this dimension, if you still lived on earth and had no idea about this life, who would you be?" I see in the shimmering light of the fire Bloom thinking a soft but sad smile on her face.
"I would be a writer or artist, go to college and on weekends come visit home with my parents. Help my mom in the flower shop. "She pause as she closes her book "One day probably meet someone, bump into him on the streets or accidently pick up his coffee order instead of mine because I was in a rush at my new job. One thing leads to another, get married have kids. Go to his parents for the holiday's every second year then the other with mine. Grow old…"
The way she says it as she looks nowhere in particular, like it's a dream that's long been lost.
" I keep going over t in my head, you know?" She smiles weakly then turns to me." What if I hadn't found Stella that day? Would I still end up here… I use to dream of stuff like this, and now it's become my reality and my old life has become a dream…"
Bloom looks torn in two. I never realised how much she changed from earth, we never discussed it. She has given up so much, and I guess she really didn't have a choice. This adventure she wanted has become more then she bargained for.
"Would you go back?" I ask and I watch her intently.
She laughs" No. that's the funny thing isn't it. I have friends. A better understanding of who I am. Even though it feels like a burden sometimes. I wouldn't have it any other way." She smiles happier now. Throughout our talk I haven't touched my soup and I finally take a mouth full its cold.
"Egh, greats." I whine, and swirl in around. Bloom places her hand over mine on the bowl and warms the soup, her eyes a fire orange as she uses her magic. Beautiful. He hands on mine create warm tingles through me( and its not he magic) she then suddenly retreats back and awkwardly smiles.
"So better get some rest, believe me ,long day tomorrow."