(Bloom POV)
Why is it these days, day after day I'm doing and saying terrible things. Kissing and engaged man, yelling at my friends, Telling Stella and Layla that Flora was pregnant. I had no right doing that. And she had no right telling them about Erendor. But still, my mum always told me never to sink to someone level. Even though Flora will always be the sweetest person I know, it was probably just the hormones that made her spill my secret. But I should not have said her special news. I am such a terrible friend.
And last night after that fiasco I went to the Solarian gardens, knowing Flora, hoping she would come down to visit but she never did, so I never got to apologize. So this morning I woke up in the Sunabeam roses bush, I fell asleep in them last night. And I just realized I had my sleeping bag from my jungle trip and a nearby bench
I jump out of my skin when my phone starts to ring. I fumble around when I find the thing and hold it to my ear.
"Hello?" I say while yawning into the phone and picking leaves from my overly tussled hair.
"Bloom, is that you?" The voice on the other end says, he also sounds slightly panicked.
"Yeah… who is this?" I am tired and completely out of it.
"Heila, is Flora with you?" It comes out in a hurried rush of stress.
"No… Heilia what is going on?" I ask , sitting up and starting to become uneasy myself. I hear Heila whisper a curse over the phone.
"Flora didn't come home last night. I thought…" he drifts off.
"Last time I was with her was yesterday, she was with Stella and Layla in the Solarian Palace." I mention.
"I know, I called them to, they said Flora was coming back to Linfea when the said good bye to her. So last night when she didn't come home I just thought she slept over. So you didn't see her after you saw her last."
I think for a second, I feel like the answer is yes but I dint see her after I spoiled her news. "No… Heila she might have been upset or something, would she have gone anywhere else, seen anyone else."
Heilia is silent for a bit" No, she would have told me. She never lies, especially now when she is pregnant, not once so far has she really been able to hide things unless she wants to… where is she?"
Oh god, I think maybe I did this. I made her upset and she ran off or something. For all I know she could be hurt.
"Heila, have you called everyone else?" I question, pushing my guilt aside having to find my friend.
"Yes, I called you like 5 times but you wouldn't pick up." Heilia comments, frustrated and overly stressed. And why wouldn't he be? I am not usually a heavy sleeper. I would have woken up and got the phone. Something doesn't feel right.
"Sorry, are we having a meeting or what?"
"Yes , right now in Solaria."
" I will be there in one minute, literally." And I hang up the phone. I brush myself and try to get some more leaves out of my hair. I fumble out of the bushes with my backpack, containing my important package I got from Kira and head to the castle. I stop though, on the coble stone path between the rose bushes. There is a dark navy feather lying there. It's just like a ravens feather. Never seen a raven in Solaria before, I think.
I pick it up and keep walking till I make it to the castle. Come to think of it my head really hurts, I reach up and feel a bump at the back of my head. I shrug it off thinking I slept on a rock last night or something.
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Everyone was in the meeting room. Talking in groups, yelling over one another. When I stand nearer to the round table people all stop to look at me.
"What the hell happened to you?" Stella announces first when seeing me. I must look as bad as I feel. Not to mention the leaves still in my hair.
"Not important right now" I scowled, not in good mood. I look over at everyone and Sky catches my attention I blush and instantly look away." Any progress?"
"Nothing, it doesn't make sense, we said good bye to her at the doors she said she was going straight home." Layla says standing with Heila and Brandon. Heila looks wiped out. I nod and it looks like people start to go back to their other conversation.
Timmy and Tecna look like they are on their computers looking at security footage or strange occurrences on the news. Stella, Musa , Riven and Sky are discussing something a rather about weapons and spells. I don't know much about technology and today I am going to avoid Sky at all costs so I head to Layla, Brandon and Heila.
"-Look so are you sure Flora said she was going home , she can't have just disappeared like this." Brandon asks to Layla.
"Positive" Layla looks like she has said that for the billionth time." Stella and I said if she wanted to visit the gardens to help ease her mind cos she was upset , but she said no , I am going straight home. We have been though this ten times Brandon." Layla hisses.
I look over at Heila, who is staring at nothing in particular. "Hey" I say while putting a hand on his shoulder, he looks at me." Where going to find her "
Heilla forces a soft smile and nods and puts and hand over mine on his shoulder and nod back and look back over to Brandon and Layla still questioning each other, I go back to Heila.
"You try calling her." I ask an easier question.
"Like every five minutes, he phones not off though, which is weird she should be picking up." Heila sighs deeply. Why doesn't that surprise me, I think I know something it's like it's on the tip of my tongue but I can't grasp it. I can't form the memory.
"Something doesn't add up…" I whisper to myself . Heilia looks like he is about to question it but Sky comes over to our group and Brandon and Layla stop talking. I don't even want to talk to Sky, and his expression means the feeling is mutual.
"Heila, are you sure you don't know where she is." Sky questions sternly. Heilia looks a bit offended.
"Yes, I called her sister, Rose. She is looking with her friends across Linfea. She is not at Alfea, I rang Faragonda." Heila informs.
"Are you sure?" Sky persists. Why is Sky acting like this? Can't he see Heila is stressed out to the max.
"What are you trying to say Sky, that I am incapable of finding my wife?" Heila spits out. I have never seen Heila this angry in my life.
"No, its just what your told me yesterday Flora could be needing a bit more help-" Sky tries to finish. Wait, does he know Flora's pregnant?
"What, so you think I should have kept a closer eye on her, That I am not doing a good enough job because she is missing." Heila gets a bit closer to Sky.
"I didn't mean it like that, those went the right words-" Sky tries to explain in a confident a manner . I don't like where this is going. Heila looks beyond reason at this point.
"Heila calm down this isn't helping-" I try to step in between the two, trying to calm an enraged and stressed Heila down.
"Your practically saying it's my fault!" Heila yells. Now everyone is watching the fight unravel.
"Well… you said yesterday you were going to check up on her at the palace-" Sky starts to say. Wrong answer…
"That's it!" Heilia shouts and lifts up his fist. I manage to step between them to stop the soon to be fist fight but that doesn't happen.
"Heila, stop-" I scream but get the fist meant for Sky in the face, the impact sending my on a whirl wind into the big round table. I slam my head on to it and then the world goes black.