BFDI All Over: Flower in Bloom

Retaking the Plunge Part 1

Flower looked up at the night sky, still processing everything that happened. Her, a finalist, after previously being the very first eliminated. She couldn't help but reflect on some things...what she used to be like, how everyone hated her. She liked to think she got better...she thought she did. People were treating her somewhat nicer...but she wasn't sure if she earned it.

"I wish I could take it all back." she said to no one in particular. She remembered doing a lot of awful things. Punting Ice Cube in the air, bullying her own team, destroying recovery centers, just because. Suffice to say, BFDI was a number of years she did not look back on fondly.

Flower looked around the empty field and noticed something laying nearby...it was blurry and square and...

The BFDI. The Announcer must've left it there, unknowingly

Flower let out a small 'humph'. She still had absolutely no idea what a BFDI even was. Why was she so excited over it then? Well, that was simple...everyone else got excited over it. And then Four offered a BFB to boot...and she didn't know what that was either and, yet, she gave up saving her business for it.

"Why would I even want to win you?" she asked. Maybe she'd just give it away to Gelatin, if he wanted it. Would that convince people that she was nicer? Did they even need convincing she was nicer? Was 'nicer' even a word?...more nice? She didn't know and she didn't care.

Fueled by her frustration, Flower gave the BFDI in front of her a hard kick...

And that's when her vision faded.

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Flower's eyes shot open. She was laying on the ground and it was day time. She must have overslept. The announcer would probably be announcing the votes relatively soon. The first thing that struck her as odd was the grass she was on. It felt different, a lot less soft. She looked up. The area looked different, it was now more a plane...why did she recognize this place? It was like she was recalling something. She looked around, and that's when she saw...them.

"Yeah, I know. She was so surprised."

"Really?"

"Oh for sure, I mean, it wasn't very big..."

Flower rubbed her eyes a bit to make sure. Yep, there they were, Pencil and Match, outside the EXIT. Their voices also sounded different, higher in pitch. Flower looked around. Gelatin wasn't there, nor was X or his garden or anything. The nostalgia she was feeling suddenly all made sense...this was the day they met the announcer and heard of Dream Island. The day all of their lives got way more complicated. . The day a few days before...she fell into that box . To say that Flower remembered her time in the TLC was an understatement. Just hearing those letters thrown together made her skin crawl. She pushed it to the back of her mind. She just had to focus...this was just some dream...some...dream...wake up, Flower, come on!

Flower opened her eyes again and looked at her hands...her stubby little hands, then back up at the three...why couldn't she wake up?

"Oh, I remember that. I am so gonna get revenge on her!" Ice Cube announced to the two BFFs. It was just then that one of the three, Match, finally noticed Flower.

"Ugh, don't look now guys, but I think Flower just heard that."

Flower was suddenly face to face with a few angry looks (and one confused look from Bubble, who had just shown up). She quickly tried to walk away, only for Icey to run up to her and get up in her face.

"I want revenge!" She demanded, looking up at her with the best angry face a tiny ice-block could manage.

After brushing aside the slight nostalgia from hearing that again, Flower sighed. There was only one way to get out of this quickly. She simply held out her arms and said, "Okay, sure."