Chapter 8: The Necklace
Last time: "Sure whatever. It's typical Bloom would hang out with nerds but with cute hot guys I don't see it happening in her future." Taylor commented taking off her scarf revealing a gold necklace with a huge red stone in the middle. "The necklace from the picture" Timmy said softly to the others. Bloom looked at the picture in her hand and realized it was the same thing.
Summary: Bloom and the boys discover Taylor, one of Bloom's cousin has the necklace. Can Bloom get it back without revealing her secret?
"Uh can you boys help me with something?" Bloom asked quickly.
"Yah sure" Sky replied. Bloom waited for everyone to go upstairs she looked over and saw Timmy examining the necklace.
"Would you cut it out?" Bloom asked pulling him upstairs. They went into Bloom's room where the others were waiting.
"Something going on between you two?" Riven joked seeing them hold hands.
"No I was dragging him away from my cousin before she dropped the insult bomb on him." Bloom said letting go.
"I think she already did that" Timmy replied.
"Ok ok so what do we do about the necklace?" Bloom asked.
"Ask politely for it?" Helia suggested.
"No it won't work she won't give it to me" Bloom said then looked over at Sky and Riven.
"What?" The two asked.
"But she might give the necklace to a couple of hot looking boys." Bloom said smirking.
"NO!" The boys shouted.
"What if she tries to kiss us or something?" Riven asked.
"I'll stop it trust me. Just flirt with her try to get her to give it to you then bring it upstairs I'll make a copy give her the fake and then you guys will have the real one. There mission accomplish." Bloom said.
"You'll get a bad grade if you guys can't get the necklace." Timmy pointed out.
"You minus well do it" Helia said.
"Fine" the two other boys replied.
"Great let's go" Bloom smiled. She brought the boys back downstairs.
"Ok you guys go flirt I'll be here with Timmy and Helia to make sure everything goes well." Bloom explained as they were standing outside the living room. She peeked in and noticed her cousin sitting on the couch reading.
"OK go and remember you don't have girlfriends." Bloom said pushing Sky into the room.
"We can't just go in there and say hi." Sky said.
"Yah Bloom you'll have to introduce us to her" Riven said. Bloom rolled her eyes and lead them into the living room.
"Hey Taylor these are my friends Sky and Riven they wanted to sit down and get to know you before they have to leave. So have fun you two." She said leaving them with her cousin and went back into the hallway. She hid with the other two specialists behind the wall next to the doorway.
"So how are things going?" Sky asked slowly. Bloom looked over at Helia and Timmy who looked confused. "
This is going to be harder than I thought." Bloom whispered to them.
"Well they've never started conversations with other girls except your friends." Helia pointed out.
"Would you like to join them?" Bloom asked.
"I'm good." He said. Taylor closed her book and looked up at the two boys.
"Why do you guys hang out with Bloom?" She asked putting her book on the coffee table.
"Well she's nice and pretty." Sky said.
"Nice and pretty? That's it?" Bloom asked herself quietly.
"Hey Bl.." a young girl said before Bloom grabbed her and put her handover the child's mouth.
"Keep quiet and I'll make you whatever you want later." Bloom whispered to the little girl.
"Hot chocolate with extra whip-cream and marshmallow." The girl replied when Bloom moved her hand away. Bloom nodded.
"Alright bye" The little girl said and ran upstairs.
"Look Bloom usually doesn't hang around with cute guys so what ever you did to grab her attention it worked." Taylor said.
"We didn't do anything." Sky said. "
Ok look Bloom's last relationship with a boy didn't go so well." Taylor explained.
"What do you mean?" Riven asked.
"Bloom was sort of an outcast in school she didn't fit in anywhere. She had only two friends Katy her cousin who went to the same school as her and Andy who was sort of a nerd." Taylor explained.
"No no no" She wan't supposed to tell anyone." Bloom said.
"Why not" Timmy said.
"Because it's a secret. Block your ears both of you." She said.
"Well Bloom's kind of group leader for us." Riven said.
"Really I don't believe it. Bloom was never good at stating how she feels in front of people speaking out or leading a group." Taylor said.
"Is she good at anything?" Sky asked.
"Singing." Taylor said. The two boys looked at each other.
"She never told you that oops that was a secret." Tayor said. Bloom rolled her eyes. She walked into the living room and over to the shelf of dvds.
"Bloom what are you doing?" Taylor asked.
"Oh just getting a movie for the younger kids to watch just keep talking and pretend I'm not here." Bloom said. She started making a lot of noise moving dvds on the shelf trying to decide what to grab.
"So where was I?" Taylor asked trying to ignore her cousin.
"Bloom stop you're mmaking me lose my concentration." Taylor ordered.
"Sorry I finally got a movie." Bloom said holding up the dvd
"Pinochio" Bloom said.
"Good now leave." Taylor ordered
"Don't worry I'm leaving and beside you should not be telling them about my past." Bloom said walking by the sofa where Sky and Riven are sitting. She took the dvd and whacked Sky on the head with it. Riven sat next to him laughing. Bloom took the dvd and smacked him then walked out of the room.
"Ow" Riven said softly rubbing his head. Sky looked over towards the hallway who was making weird gesture with her hand around her neck. Sky raised an eyebrow. Bloom looked around in the hall that she was in and noticed a piece of paper and pencil under a table. She crawled over and grabbed them. Quickly writing on it she crumpled up the paper and threw it into the living room. The piece of paper smacked Sky in the head and landed on his lap. He looked at the ball then at the hallway where Bloom was gesturing him to open it. Sky opened the piece of paper and saw the words Taylor' necklace written on it.
"So umm that's a nice necklace." Sky said hiding the paper in his pockets.
"Thanks my boyfriend bought it for me." Taylor said dreamingly.
"Where did you get it?" Riven asked.
"Why do you want to know?" Taylor snapped.
"Oh well umm.." Riven started.
"My mom is into unique jelewry and we wanted to know where you bought it so I can by one for her." Sky cut in.
"Oh well my boyfriend bought it for me at some weird yard sale in the town we live in." Taylor answered.
"May we hold it?" Sky asked.
"No you'll run away with it and won't return it to me." Taylor said and walked out of the room. She looked over at Bloom and the boys.
"Really Bloom do you think I'm that dumb to hand my necklace over to a bunch of strangers." She said.
"No" Bloom said softly.
"We better get going." Timmy said.
"Hold it you're not opening a portal in the middle of my house." Bloom ordered them.
"Well where are suppose to open one?" Sky asked.
"Out in the ally way I'll show you." Bloom said grabbing her coat.
"Mom I'm going out for a bit." Bloom shouted upstairs.
"Ok be back soon." Her mother replied.
"Don't worry I will." Bloom answered.
"We do a lot of shouting in the house." Bloom said. The boys nodded. She lead them outside and started walking down the street not saying a word.
"Well here you go dark ally way where no one will notice." Bloom said pointing to a long narrow space between two brick buildings.
"Bloom about what your cousins said." Sky said softly.
"It's not important and besides you didn't need to know about it." Bloom said not looking at the boys.
"I gotta go I promised one of the younger child I would make her some hot chocolate." She said and turned away before any of the boys could say anything else. The boys said nothing and opened a portal for home. Bloom returned home and went right to the kitchen. She quickly made some hot chocolate with extra marshaellow and whip cream.
"This my hot chocolate. "A little girl asked poking her head into the room.
"Yep" Bloom answered. She took the hot chocolate and left the room. Bloom went into the living room and watched some tv with Katy and Taylor. Her cellphone went off scaring everyone in the room.
"Hello?" Bloom asked. Before anyone on the other line could say anything else Taylor snatched the phone from Bloom.
"Hello Bloom's not available right now." She said into the phone.
"Taylor give me the phone" Bloom ordered.
"No" She replied and continued talking into it.
"Taylor hand it over now I need to talk to them." Bloom ordered.
"Sure whatever." Taylor said into the phone.
"Who is this?" She asked into the phone.
"Timmy I'm one of the boys that was just over Bloom's house." Timmy said on the other line.
"Right which one were you again?" Taylor asked.
"The nerd" Timmy replied.
"Ewww go away you freak." Taylor said throwing it across the room. Bloom watched her phone crash to the floor and broke it.
"Do you know how much that cost?" Bloom asked.
"Sorry you should really block that nerd off your cellphone." Taylor said.
"He's my friend." Bloom replied.
"Whatever" Taylor said walking off while looking at her nails. Bloom watched her leave then went to her broken phone that was falling apart. She piked it up and went up to her room. Bloom looked at the broken and realized that it couldn't be repaired. She sighed trying to figure out what to do next. She heard her watch go off and closed the door.
"Hello Bloom how are things going?" Saladene said. "
Great my cousin killed my cellphone so I won't be able to connect with the boys for a while." Bloom said.
"Well do you want me to get the boys?" Saladene asked.
"No it's ok. I'm busy and won't be able to talk to them tonight." Bloom said quickly. She really wasn't in any mood to talk to Sky and Riven about her past.
"Look the necklace is here. My bratty cousin owns it and I'm having a hard time getting it from her." Bloom said. "
Good keep an eye on it and make sure she doesn't touch the gem." Saladene warned her.
"Why not?" Bloom asked.
"We're not sure yet. We're still working on it." He answered.
"Ok and I'll try to find away to fix my cellphone." Bloom said holding it up and watching the battery fall on the floor.
"You wouldn't by any chance know a spell to fix cell phones would you?" Bloom asked.
"Sorry I don't." Saladene replied.
"It's ok" I gotta go bye." Bloom said and turned off her watch.
~Redfountain~
"I can't get to Bloom" Sky complained to his friends.
"Maybe you dialed the wrong number." Helia suggested.
"I've been using speed dail" Sky said.
"Maybe you wrote it in wrong." Riven suggested.
"No then I've wouldn' been able to call her all these years." Sky said.
"Maybe something happened to her phone." Brandon said.
"She's very careful with it" Riven said.
"Timmy what happened when you called her?" Nebu asked.
"Well her cousin picked it up, then when I told her my name she asked me who I was, I said I was the nerd so she freaked out I heard Bloom yelled a smack then lost connection." Timmy explained.
"So Bloom threw her cellphone across the room?" Riven asked.
"No but her cousin probably did." Brandon said. Sky quickly started to dial another phone number and left his friends.
~Earth~
"Back at Bloom's house the phone was ringing. Bloom lying on her bed and grabbed the phone from her nightstand.
"Hello?" Bloom asked.
"Hey Bloom it's me" a voice said from the other line.
"Sky what are you doing it's dangerous to use this line right now." Bloom said recognizing the voice.
"Well Timmy got cut off from the earlier call, and we tried to call you back but it wouldn't get through." Sky explained.
"Well my cousin murdered my cellphone." Bloom replied.
"That's what we thought." Sky said.
"Look I can't stay on for long I gotta go." Bloom said. Before Sky could say anything else she hung up.
"So what did Bloom say about her past?" Riven asked.
"Nothing she hung up." Sky said.
~Earth~
"Bloom put the phone back on the receiver and looked at her cellphone.
"You Bloom your phone could be fixed under warenty" Katy said standing in the doorway Bloom's bedroom.
"No I can't" Bloom said.
"Taylor" Bloom called after the girl walking down the hallway.
"What?" She asked walking into Bloom's room.
"Why did you tell them my secret?" Bloom asked.
"Bloom honey, if they were your friends they would know everything about you," Taylor said.
"They don't know every single detail of my life I don't every detail about them." Bloom said.
"Then how do you trust them?" Taylor asked.
"I don't know I guess getting to know them and having a chance to spend time with them." Bloom said.
"Whatever" Taylor said and walked away.
"Wow she's annoying" Katy said.
"I know." Bloom said. Man I can't believe I have to watch her. Bloom thought to herself.