Chapter 7 Family Reunion
Summary: Bloom returns home and meet up with her relatives again.
Last time: Bloom turned around and waved bye before she entered the portal and went home.
~Earth~
After entering the portal Bloom found herself in an alleyway. She walked on to the streets and found herself in the center of town. She pulled on her direction and headed towards her parents house.
~Alfea~
By the time Bloom got home, her friends had read the not taped to the door of her bedroom.
To: The Winx Club
Sorry I went home on this short notice. The break up Sky and I had I can't handle it here. I need time to talk to my parents about it at home. I should be back in time for the exam.
Bloom
"What? She went home." Flora asked reading the note. The other girls were crowding around her to read the note as well. Stella angrily walked out of the school and over to Redfountain. She went up to boys' dorm and started banging on the door. She continued banging until Riven came and answered the door.
"Stella, what are you doing here?" He asked.
"Where's Sky I need to talk to him." She answered.
"Come in." Riven sighed.
"Hey Stella what's up?" Sky asked seeing the blonde girl poke her head in his room.
"You know for someone who goes easy on break ups did not do it easy enough." Stella said.
"What?" Sky asked confused.
"Here she left this note this morning on the door of her bedroom." She said handing Sky the note.
"OH" he said reading it.
"Stella why are you here?" Brandon asked with the rest of the boys trailing behind him.
"Hey sweetie I'm just here to clear some things up with the royal pain." Stella said. The other boys looked over at him.
"She's blaming be for being to harsh with the break up on Bloom." Sky said.
"Just because you're royalty doe not mean you can go around hurting every girl you go out with." Stella said coldly.
"The only other girl I've been with is Diaspro and that was through an arranged engagement." Sky replied. Stella lifted her hand up high and was ready to slap Sky, when Brandon held her arm back.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"Stop Stella you're not going to hurt him." Brandon said. She lifted her arm that was free but her boyfriend also stopped it and held it back. She then swung one of her legs and kicked Sky in the chest with her high heal sandal she was wearing.
"STELLA STOP! I'M THROUGH WITH YOU BEATING UP MY FRIEND. JUST BECAUSE SKY BROKE UP WITH BLOOM AND SHE HOME DOES NOT GIVE YOU RIGHT TO HIT OR KICK HIM. IF YOU KEEP DOING IT FOR US THEN IT'LL BE OVER US UNDERSTAND?!" Brandon yelled at her. Stella stopped and looked at him with tears in her eyes. She said nothing but broke herself free from his grip and ran out of the dorm.
"Stella wait" Brandon called after her but she didn't turn around. She kept running down the hall. Brandon walked back in the room took a book and threw it at an empty wall. The other boys remained silent.
"I should tell Bloom about this tonight." Sky said.
~Stella~
Stella ran back to Alfea, letting tears run down her face. None of the girls noticed her until she slammed the door shut of her room.
"Stella what happened?" Flora asked walking over to her friend.
"Brandon threaten to break up with me if I didn't stop hurting Sky." Stella said in between sobs.
"Well he's sort of right you can't hurt some one just because he broke up with your best friend and no longer wan to be a couple." Layla said.
"You're right." Stella said.
~Earth~
Bloom was walking down the street until she got to the house of her parents. She rang the doorbell until her mother came to the door.
"Bloom you're here n time." She said hugging her daughter. Bloom walked in with her things.
"So anyone else here yet?" Bloom asked.
"Nope you're the first one here." Vanessa said.
"Ok I'll go upstairs and get settled in." Bloom said dragging her things up the stairs. She went into her room which was the same way she had left it. Bloom was busy unpacking her things. Throwing clothes, notebooks, books, pictures and a few other things she brought home from school. She slowly was putting things when she heard a knock at the door.
"Come in" Bloom said taking a hangers out of her closet and throwing them on the bed.
"A tall girl red hair about the same length as Bloom's. She wore a pink long sleeve shirt with a pair of pink leggings, a jean mini skirt. and pink ankle boots.
"Look at you Katy all in pink" Bloom said.
"Yah and I see you're still in blue." Katy replied with a giggle. She walked over to Bloom.
"So unpacking?" she asked.
"Yah I just got back from school" Bloom said. Katy stood by the bed seeing no room for her to sit down.
"Who's this?" Bloom asked picking up a picture of Bloom and Sky. It showed the two lying together on grass in the park.
~Flashback~
Bloom and Sky were lying down under a shady tree in the park together. They weren't dating yet but they were good friends then. The two were lying against each other which they neither of them had minded. They were actually taking a nap. Bloom had her head against Sky's shoulder and he had his arm around her. The two woke up hearing the clicking noise of a shutter going off a camera.
"Stella" Bloom said surprised getting up.
"What just taking a picture of you two." Stella said showing Bloom the picture.
"Why?" Sky asked.
"Oh no reason" she said and walked away. A week later Stella had the picture developed and got two copies one for Bloom and one for Sky which they both kept and liked.
~End Flashback~
"BLOOM!" Katy yelled in Bloom's ear.
"What?" Bloom asked.
"Who's the guy sleeping with you?" Her cousin.
"Oh he's a friend that's all." Bloom answered falsely.
"OK!?" Katy replied knowing that the fact was not true. She picture on the bed and walked back over to the doorway.
"Let's see what Christmas specials are on." She suggested.
"Ok" Bloom said. She quickly grabbed the orb that blocked surround sound from the room and went out in the hall.
"I have to talk to my parents about something first." She said and knocked on the door of her parents' room.
"Ok I'll meet you down there." Katy said and continued down the hall.
"Mom Dad I need to tell you something." Bloom said from inside her parents' bedroom. her parents were sitting on the bed reading.
"What is it dear?" Vanessa asked.
"I need to tell you the real reason why I came here." Bloom said softly. Her parents looked up at her.
"Look I didn't really come here for vacation. I came here for a mission." Bloom said.
"A mission?" Her mother asked.
"Yah I'm here because Valtor is here, He's searching for something powerful and I have to find it before he does. The boys would have done it but two of them volunteered to do it so I agreed to. But the others don't know about it." Bloom explained.
"Don't worry we'll help you if you need to but just try your best to enjoy having fun with the family." Vanessa said quietly.
"Thanks" Bloom said and ran down stairs. She sat with her cousin on the couch spending an hour on deciding on what to watch.
"There's nothing to watch." Katy complained.
"Ok then let's put ornaments on the tree." Bloom suggested. Over in the corner of the living room was a tree that almost reached the ceiling. Next to it were couple of boxes filled with ornaments. The two slowly unpacked the ornaments and starting hanging them on the tree. The grownup soon came down and helped as well. Bloom held up two glass balls one was pink and the other was blue.
"Which one?" Bloom asked holding up the two balls.
"I don't know and don't forget all the other balls in the box." Katy replied hanging up a mini ballerina.
"Right." Bloom answered.
"There how does that look?" Katy asked looking at the tree. Bloom did not reply.
"Bloom" Her cousin called her name. She looked over and saw Bloom pulling out her cellphone.
"Who called?" Katy asked. She looked at the caller ID and saw Timmy's name.
"Who's he?" Katy asked.
"A friend." Bloom answered then talked into the phone.
"Hello?" She asked.
"Hey Bloom" Sky said from the other line.
"Oh hey pick a color." Bloom said.
"Ok why?" He asked.
"I just need to hang something colorful so pick a color." She answered.
"Ok blue." He said.
"Thanks" Bloom said hanging a blue ball on the tree. "
So now to business." Sky said.
"Ok Bloom said looking over to see her cousin pressed her ear against the phone.
"Can you hold on a minute." Bloom asked into the phone.
"Can I help you?" Bloom asked her cousin.
"So who are you talking to? she asked.
"A friend" Bloom answered.
"Are you sure he's not you're boyfriend?"
"No"
"What does he want?"
"Nothing" Bloom started heading up stairs.
"Sorry private business." Bloom said.
"Katy leave Bloom alone and put up the lights." Mike ordered.
"Fine" Katy answered and walked back downstairs. Bloom went back to her room and dialed the dorm number to the boy's dorm.
"Hello?" Brandon answered the phone.
"hey sorry for the quick hang- up. My cousin was trying listen on the conversation.
"Yah you might not want her to do that." Brandon said.
"I know. The other boys around?" Bloom replied.
"Yah hold on a minute." Brandon said.
"Hey you guys Bloom's on the phone." Brandon called out to the boys.
"Oh cool put her on speaker." Sky suggested.
"Bloom hold on you're going on speaker." Brandon said turning his phone on speaker so all the boys could talk to her.
"OK Bloom we're all here." Brandon said.
"Hey everyone." Bloom responded. Everyone said a quick hello.
"Got any facts for me?" Bloom asked.
"Nope so far nothing but we're still researching." Brandon said.
"Bloom does Earth have any strange or interesting artifacts?" Timmy asked.
"Yah we have museums but they're all closed now because of the winter holidays." Bloom answered.
"Ok a few of us might need to come over tomorrow." Sky said.
"Ok I'll have to..." Bloom said before she was interrupted.
"Bloom" a voice called her name from outside the door. Bloom looked.
"Bloom open up." The voice yelled again and started pounding on the door.
"Hold on a minute." Bloom said into the phone then sat on it.
"Come in" Bloom said. The door burst open and Katy walked in.
"So still on the phone?" She asked.
"Yah I was just about to hang up."
"Oh well your mom made us hot chocolate." Katy said then walked out.
"I'm back" Bloom said into the phone once her cousin left.
"Ok let me know so I can get permission from my parents first." Bloom said.
"Ok one of us will call you tomorrow. " Bloom said.
"And I think Sky wanted to talk for you a bit." Nebu said.
"Ok" Bloom said closing the door again.
"Ok so what's happening." Bloom asked once the other boys had gone offline.
"Well Stella came over and continued to hurt me." Sky replied.
"Why?"
"Because I'm the reason you went home."
"Well that's what we agreed on."
"I know and I'm sort of regretting it now."
"Well now you can't because I'm already here. And don't worry I'll talk to Stella."
"What are you going to say? My ex- boyfriend called and told me what happened?"
"I don't know I'll just say Brandon told me."
"Don't pull him into this."
"You both pulled me into your mission so you're going to have to go with whatever I say."
"Right we did agree on that, but also agreed on something else."
"What?" "A date"
"Right we'll plan it after the mission."
"I gotta go now."
"OK bye"
"bye" Bloom and Sky both hung up the phone. Bloom sat on her bed and looked over at the picture of them lying on the grass. She sighed then got up and went downstairs.
~Redfountain~
Sky sighed and met with the other boys. "So what's happening?" Timmy asked.
"Not much she's hanging out with one of her cousins and plans to yell at Stella for hurting me." Sky said.
"If she does that the girl wil know you two are still dating." Timmy said.
"I know she said Brandon would be the one that told her. "Sky said.
"Why me?" Brandon asked.
"Because we're the ones who pulled her into this." Sky answered.
"That seems reasonable." Helia reolied.
~Earth~
"Stella you said you were going to talk to Sky not beat him up." Bloom said. She decided to call the girls to let them know she was ok.
"Bloom how did you know about this?" Stella asked.
"Brandon told me."
"Why would you care you're not dating Sky anymore?"
"Stella just because we broke up doesn't mean we can't be friends."
"Ok but he deserved it"
"I don't care if he deserves it or not just don't hurt him again ok?"
"Fine I won't hut him again. bye"
"Bye" The two hung up the phone.
"You broke up with Sky?" Vanessa asked hearing her daughter talking into the phone.
"No it was just an excuse to let the girls know why I was home." Bloom answered.
"Does he know about this?" Her mother asked.
"Don't worry he does we planned it together." She answered.
"You had a boyfriend?" Katy asked as she just heard what they were saying.
"No" Bloom said.
"Why don't you two get some hot chocolate off the stove." Vanessa suggested.
"Ooh sounds good to me" Katy smiled and race into the kitchen.
"Uh mom some of the boys might becoming over tomorrow for the mission is that ok?" Bloom asked.
"Of course just let me know tomorrow." Her mother answered.
"Here Bloom I have you're hot chocolate." Her cousin said with whip cream covering her mouth.
"Thanks and you know you have a little something on your mouth." Bloom giggled.
"Whoops that's embarrassing." Katy laughed out loud.
"So what was that about boy's coming over?" She asked after she calm down.
"Oh it's nothing they were going to help me with some school work but it might not even happen." Bloom replied.
"OK we'll just have to see about tomorrow." Katy said walking up stairs to Bloom's bedroom. Bloom rolled her eyes and went upstairs as well.
"Man my life's nothing but a lie to them." Bloom mumbled to herself the went into the room.