The Way I Loved You

one

"Remember to just be yourself, okay?" my mam lectured me as we parked outside of Alfea where students were bustling around.

"Okay mam, I love you," I leaned forward and kissed her cheek before exiting the car and dragging my luggage out of the boot.

Once I finally had everything sorted I headed into the courtyard which was like a human maze. Every step you took fifty people walked in your path and every step back resulted in knocking into someone.

I had lived in the realm of Solaria my entire life, my dad was part of the Solarian army so I had been raised in the palace with Princess Stella who I was told also attended Alfea.

"Lost?" I turned around to face a blonde boy who was nervously tucking his hands into his jeans and looking down at me with these charming blue eyes.

"Totally, do you know where the fairy hall is?" I asked looking around at all the different buildings with confusion.

"That's the fairy hall," he pointed at an ancient building that had a pair of rustic wings at the entrance signalling it was a fairy hall. "I'm Sky," I turned to looked back at the boy who was smiling sheepishly down at me.

"I'm Winnie, thanks for helping me," I beamed up at him with a soft smile as a crowd of students bumped into us and I dismissed the conversation.

I entered the Winx dormitory to which I found out I was sharing a room with the princess. I was always fearful of Stella when we were kids, she had a lot of authority and made sure people were aware of it.

"Getting changed?" I asked the blonde who was holding up outfits against herself in the mirror, she had taken up a vast majority of the room signalling the power she held.

"People have seen me in this outfit, I plan to never wear it again," she replied coldly making me laugh at her snobbish behaviour. I plan on getting as much wears out of my outfit until someone single-handedly tells me to change.

I decorated my side of the room with cute fairy lights and fake vines, I could feel Stella's cool glare on me the entire time however I dismissed her.

There was an orientation party tonight where the students could mingle and get closer however it was more of an opportunity for students to get drunk on premises under the teachers noses.

"You are seriously wearing that?" Stella asked judgementally as she eyed my casual outfit.

"Yes Stella and I think you have a visitor," I responded while pointing to the door where a ginger girl was stood gawking at Stella's light orb.

"May I help you?" Stella snapped at the girl as I rolled my eyes at her rudeness. Stella honestly had too much of an ego.

"Yeah, are you changing?" the girl asked as she watched Stella flick through outfits.

"I am," the blonde replied coolly as she held up an ugly rainbow skirt, for being a princess with an unlimited amount of clothes she sure chose the ugliest.

"I thought the orientation party was a casual thing," the girl pondered.

"It is, Stella is just a little bit wrong in the head," I responded as Stella glared at me.

"People expect me to care how I look," she replied with a fake smile while eyeing me.

"Anything else?" Stella asked the girl again who went back to staring longingly at Stella's light orb.

"Yeah, that's magic, how do you-" Stella cut the girl's question off with a sigh.

"Look, I'm a mentor not a teacher. This is something you'll learn your first day of class, fairy magic is linked to emotion. It can be fear, hatred, love. The stronger the emotion the stronger the magic," Stella lectured her.