Brainstorm

Light Immortal Despair

The sun was already gone when we entered the party area, which was filled with students, colourful lights and music. "This is what exactly?", Bloom asked and stopped in the centre. "The east wing of Alfea. It was used for war preparations, but since there hasn't been a conflict for a while, no one comes down here. Except for tonight", Terra explained and looked around. "You need a beer", Aisha told Bloom and they walked away to get drinks. Musa, Terra and I went somewhere else, getting drinks or some snacks. Musa noticed something in Terra. "Looking for somebody specific?", she asked, but Terra denied. "I'm just looking for somewhere to put these down." Musa opened the mysterious box and took one of the brownies out. "Are these...?", she wanted to ask, but the Earth Fairy agreed immediately. "I can be a cool nerd", she assured and I giggled uncomfortable. With those edibles she surely wanted to impress Dane, not the best move in my opinion. Musa exchanged a look with me for a second, seemed like she agreed, before someone else grabbed her attention. "Look who showed their face. With mum's Tupperware, no less", Sam greeted and his sister felt attacked. Instead of making the situation worse, he introduced himself to Musa and me. Seconds after, Dane broke through the crowd and smiled at Terra. While these two had their moment, the Mind Fairy grabbed my arm and dragged me with her. Finally, I had the opportunity to ask the question on the tip of my tongue.

"You didn't tell her?!" I blurted and she shushed me. "It's her brother, that's gonna be so weird", the Fairy apologized, but I shook my head. "I guess so, but it will be weirder if you don't tell her and she finds out her own." "Yeah yeah, I will tell her", she promised and I giggled. "When you're getting married or what." Gladly she smiled, too and whispered: "Shut up!" Her eyes twitched for a second and I turned around to get a look at Sam. "Get him, tiger!", I meowed, chuckled and passed her. "Hey, are you good, alone?", Musa asked me and turned around to see me nodding.

Lonely, I wandered through the people not sure what I should do or why I was even here. A slight fog covered me, but then a voice appeared. "Hey Lynn", a blonde girl said next to me. "What are you doing out here all alone? There's a party going on!" I blushed and hoped the make-up would cover it. "Hi Stella", my voice cracked and I smiled. "Come on, let's get you a drink", she grabbed my arm and pulled me inside. The majestic silver dress shimmered in moonlight, her golden hair flying in the wind and her warm, soft hand holding mine already made me feel drunk. As we were inside the loud music and hot air hit me in the face and back to reality. While we walked over to a bar I noticed Bloom, Aisha, Sky and Riven having a Beer-Pong-fight, which just got out of control. Bloom, Sky and Riven went to talk about something, while Aisha left. Since Bloom's face looked kind of disturbed, I wanted to find out what they were talking about, and maybe safe my friend if they're getting her in trouble. "I'm going to get snacks from the other side", I let Stella know and walked over to be closer to the trio, yet not seen. "...but that didn't matter to Stella", Riven just snorted and continued. "...and she showed everyone what a legit psycho she was." That was going to be interesting, and I looked over to the blonde. Good, she was still sitting at the bar. "What's that supposed to mean?" Bloom said what I was thinking. "Stella used her magic to blind her. On purpose." My body cramped and the cookie I picked up fell back on the plate. "She blinded her best mate", Riven explained, but Bloom chuckled. "That can't be true." "Yeah", Sky murmured. "That's the story." Without further information Riven left the table and so did I.

Stella handed me a drink as I was back and grabbed a cracker. "Thanks, but I don't drink alcohol", I stated and she nodded. "It doesn't have any in it, but it's just as tasty", she winked and then raised her eyebrows. "Let's go somewhere else", she then whispered and I noticed Sky coming our way. "Stella, we need to talk", he clarified and I looked at Stella. "I can go, if you want", I hinted, but she shook her head. "No, stay." Then she turned to Sky. "About what?" He sighed and silently said: "About Ricki." "Sky...", Stella wanted to stop him. Was this the girl she blinded? Even if it felt unpleasant standing next to them and listening, I wanted to know more. "Some things matter, Stella. Some don't. Whatever people think about you, doesn't matter", Sky shouted and his eyes crossed me. "Is this some sort of Silva thing you're going through?", she asked, trying to avoid this topic. I wasn't sure if it was only because of me or if she didn't want to talk about it in general. However, Sky got serious and Stella asked him if he was drunk. "I thought you said you weren't drinking.", she said disappointed and I got a bad feeling about how their relationship was going. "I'm sick of lying, Stella", Sky assured and her voice began to tremble. "Well, suck it up because what people think happened with Ricki is what happened. Ok? That's the end of it, Sky", she finished and turned to me, I looked away shyly. But Sky didn't want the conversation to end. "It doesn't even make sense. Riven was talking about it earlier." "To who?", Stella asked slowly. "To Bloom. She barely believed..." "Yeah, but she did believe him, right?", Stella asked and sounded scared. Did that imply, that Riven's story was wrong? Should I question that story and ask her about it later? Should I just pretend I didn't hear all of that? I couldn't stay silent after Sky's next words. "I backed it up. You can't see how it's a problem? Staying with you after you purposely blinded your best friend makes me look at best like an arsehole, and at worst like an absolute psycho!", he shouted and the forced smile faded from the Light Fairy's face. "I thought it didn't matter what other people thought", she joked and was interrupted by a phone's noise. While Sky checked his phone, she gave me guilty and sad look. "They killed the Burned One", Sky told us and left. Stella let out a sigh and closed her eyes for a moment. Then she told me to follow her.