From stone to flaming red.

XIV

"blue Grace! Blue! I told you!" Red told Grace as she was holding a bouquet of red roses. "I thought you told me Red!" Grace told her. Red had woken up early and left Chloe alone in her bed to go to Grace. Red was meeting with her in the library for days now. Chloe had woken up and headed to the library as well because she knew that something was up. She had just arrived and barged in. Grace quickly hid the roses behind her. "Chloe!" Grace said. "Okay. You two either tell me what is going right now or whatever this is it's over." Chloe looks over at Red points to her then at herself and hits her palms on the desk. Grace and Red look at eachother. "Good morning to you too." Red said. "Leave the good out of it." Red looked at Grace. "Chlo please I need you to trust me nothing is going on we're working on a project for history class." Red told her. "Oh really? Because I don't remember the professor assigning anything to us." Chloe said upset. Red looked at her. She thought for a second and then an idea hit her. "ugh fine I'm working on an art project which I didn't want you to see." Red tries to salvage what they were up to. Grace's eyes widen and look at Red. "really? And the roses that Grace is hiding behind her back?" Chloe said without looking at Grace. "They um..they are going on the project!" Red thought quickly. "And who would hate them?" Chloe said as she slowly started softening her look feeling embarrassed. Red's mind got stuck for a moment. "The teacher!" Grace said quick. "The teacher would hate them because she hates the colours red and brown together." Grace said when Red gave her a look that said "wtf are you saying". To their surprise Chloe believed them. "oh..." she said looking at her hands. "I mean. Purple roses are better anyway." Chloe said. "Actually who picks roses when you have thousands of other flowers to choose." Chloe said. "wait you don't like roses?" Red said as her eyes widen. "I do but they're not my favorite." Chloe said. "Then what is?" Grace says when Red hits her with her elbow. "Not that we care what your favorite is just out of curiosity" Grace said anxiously. Red sighed and touched her forehead. "I have two actually. Bluebells and Amaryllises. They're beautiful in their own way but they are extremely rare to find." She told the two girls with a big smile on her face. "well my favorite flower is you." Red told her as she was looking at her admiring her pretty smile that lit her eyes. Chloe and Grace looked at her shocked. "Did I say that out loud?" Red asked. "um girl..yeah." Grace said. Chloe blushed and got nervous. "i..um. I got to um. Go." Chloe started loosing her words. "Um yeah yeah you do and we got to really hurry up to get this to class so chop chop Grace. I'll see you later Chloe don't forget about tonight." Red said as she was pulling Grace from her wrist and exiting the library while Chloe left from the other door. "what was that?!" Grace asked her. "I don't know what that was but the thing I do know is we got to find queen Mal right now."  Red said. "Wait what?!" Grace told her. "How are we going to get to queen Mal?" She asked. "Um actually I'm gonna get to her. You'll go and set these up for me." Red told her as they finally got in the dorm. Red handed Grace a white long sheet, blankets and other things that you will see later. "Oh alright." Grace said. "I have to get those flowers." Red said. "How the hell are you gonna find them? We don't have such flowers here." Grace asked her. "I know what I'm going to do don't worry."  Red told her. "Now quick we only have 6 hours left to set everything up and get ready." Red told Grace. The girl left with everything in her hands heading to the enchanted lake as Red headed to Uma's office.

knock knock. "Come in!" Uma answered to the knocking. "Hey.." Red said nervously. "Oh hi little one. How are you?" Uma told Red when she saw her entering her office. "I'm okay. I kinda need queen Mal's help for little something." Red told her nervously. "Of course hon. Imma call her right now to see if she is busy. And if not I can take you to her." Uma said. "Thank you so much principal Uma." "hey stop with the politeness. When we're alone call me Uma." Uma told her winking while she was calling Mal. "Hey fish bait." Uma said when Mal answered the phone and she had it on speaker. "What do you need shrimpy." Mal said giggling. Red assumed that these nicknames were inside jokes. "I have our little friend here Red. She needs your help with something." Uma said looking at Red who was sitting there still. "Do you think you have a minute?" Uma asked her. "For my baby? Of course I do. Send her to my office." Mal said. Red eyes shined from joy listening to Mal and Uma's conversation. After what they been through she was closer to them than any other kid in the school, just like dizzy with Evie. "Okay sending her now." Uma said. "Bye bae." Mal said over the phone. "Bye bye" Uma responded. She hang up the phone and looked at Red. "Okay you can go.." Uma paused for a second. "Only if you tell me what you need." Uma smiled. "I need her to make me some flowers with her magic." Red told Uma. "Flowers?" Uma said. "Don't we have flowers here?" Uma asked Red confused. "They are rare flowers." Red said. "Oh okay I see. Tell me how the date goes." Uma said. "I never told you that." Red giggled when she was heading for the door. "How many times do I need to tell you that I know everything? Go now." Uma told Red.