Sorry for dissapearing like that< I justforgot to publish a lot of the chapters!!! Anyways, this is part 10 and other parts might come today or in the following days !!
The rest of the day Beth spent her time in the room. She decided that her room was too empty for her, so she managed to find a flat piece of wood, some ropes (not for hanging herself) and something to secure the swing to the celling.
It took a while to make holes in the wood, making sure that it was big enough to put the ropes in. After that, Beth made a wind platform to try and put the screws into the celling. She didn't had a hammer, but she did had some thick heels in a pair of her boots, working just fine for a hammer replcement.
Once she was satified, Beth took the piece of wood and rope and hanged on the celling. It was safe? Absolutly not. Did Beth gave a fuck? Absolutly not. Once it was fixed, Beth sat on the new swing that was in the middle of the room. She starts to swing on it, giving a test to see if it will break under her weight. Somehow, it didn't broke, and bow Beth has a personal, functional swing in her room.
After a few minutes of just swinging in her room like a maniac, Beth finally goes to take a shower and prepares to go to sleep.
Once she sat on her bed and put her eyemask on, she tried to find a comfortable potition to sleep, but her back was feeling sore and her head funny. "Why the fuck I can't get comfty..." Beth wondered, as if she didn't just felt and hit her head that day. She tossed in her bed for a long while, and when she finally found a comfortable potition, she didn't felt sleeply. At all. Beth burries her head into her pillow and screams loudly, hopping that will tire her out. She was wrong.
She put her head back on the pillow and closed her eyes, forcing herself to try and fall asleep. But everything felt too loud and distracting. She could hear a few dorms away Jessica's voice and her friends laughting loudly, too loudly. But it was also a new noise. A male voice.
Beth had enough of this bullshit and sat up and throws her legs off the bed. She takes the firts pair of shoes she could find, in this case, a pair of black stilletos, and got out of her room.
She made her way to the dorm where Jessica stays and burts the door open. "SHUT THE FUCK UP!! I CAN HEAR YOU CLEARLY FROM MY ROOM AND SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP. AND DON'T YOU DARE TO SCREAM JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE HOPPING ON VIRGIN DICK IN YOUR USED UP HOLE!!!" Beth basicly scream at them, pissed off at their loudiness. Beth didn't care of she looked ridiculos in her pijamas, or that she still had her eye mask on.
All the people in Jessica's dorm freeze. They didn't expect Beth to threaten and scream like that. They were horrified, because they had a feeling that Beth would kick their asses if they made Beth mad. They just nodded and closed the door, afraid to even breathe too long.
Beth turns her back and takes her eyemask off, and rubs her eyes. She blinks a few times. "What do you want from me now? You already humilied me enough."
"And how did you managed to sense I was here?" Tecna, being the one who was behind Beth.
"The air, dumbass. I can feel the shape, and magical energy for as far as know, and yours isn't that unnoticable." Beth rolls her eyes before raising an eyebrow. "And what the fuck are you doing here?"
"Watch your language here. I can write you up. That's called inapropiate language and it's not allowed here." Tecna tries to be the one in control of the situation, Beth looked like she didn't gave a single fuck. Tecna sighs and says in a more relaxed tone. "I was about to yell at those classmates of yours to shut up, but you did a good job. A bit too detailed, but still straight to the point."
"They were being loud as fuck, you're talking like an old dinasour and I was trying to sleep." Beth says before turning to the direction of her dorm room. "
"Dinasour?! I'm not that old, Beth. I'm just four years older than you!" Tecna basicly spits that old. She never expected to be called old, or in such way. "You better learn to shut up, or I will personaly take care that you won't be able to open that mouth of yours. And keep your mind out of the gutter, I know what kind of toughts you have at this age.
"Oh, what? Shock me like a dog or something? Please, you're not scaring me. At all." Beth says as she walks away and goes back to her room. She puts her eyemask on and throws her heels of her feet. She feels quite good about the fact that she managed to make Jessica shut up.
Beth laid on her bed and pulled ber blanked on, curling up besides her row of plushies on her bed until she falls asleep. Her night is mostly dreamless, expect for a few moments when Lina's voice or face momentarly pops up, making Beth feeling all fuzzy and comfortable.
At the time Beth wakes up, she sits in her bed, and judging by the sounds around her, it's already morning. She mentally prepares herself to be flahsed by the morning light as she takes off her sleeping mask.
As she gets up and streches herself by doing handstands, she feels rather...cunty for some reason. She feels way more confident, and she has a gut feeling that today she is going to stand her ground.
Beth quickly look in her doufle bag, her belongies not fully unpacked, just some essentials, and took out a black pair of jeans, some tops and a speficic pair of black sunglasses. She put the clothes on, living the way she looks before doing her makeup with the help of her pocket knife, acting as a mirror and adding some accesories, and finishing the look with the black pair of stilletos.
She looked in her pocket knife at her reflection for a few moments before walking out of the door.
While she was walking down the hallway, she hears a voice calling her. "Beth! There you are! I've been looking for you all morning. Where have you been?" Stella walks up to Beth before seeing her clearly. "You know what? That outfit is a really good excuse to be late. You're forgiven."
"Late...for what?" Beth looks at Stella with confution.
"Well, we are going to Red Fountain, and you'll met the guys." Stella says as she grabs Beth arm.
Beth, knowing that resisting will be absolutle useless, let's herself be dragged by Stella, mentally preparing herself for interacting and breathing near boys.
Stella takes a look af Beth's face and frowns. "What's with the long face? You look exactly like a cloudly sky."
"It's just....I don't really get along with boys, and I'm kind of worried..." Beth says flantly.
"Worried about what? Nothing bad will happen to you. You've got us after all. And I'm sure my Brandon won't do anything bad to you." Stella says with cofindence, wanted to make Beth's worries fade away.
"No. I'm worried that I will lose my shit and murder someone." Beth says as if murder is the most comon thing in the world.
Stella looks a bit uneasy. She can't deny that the way Beth talks about murder so causually isn't a bit...creepy. She smiled nervously, and soon enough, they were the other side of the gate. "Hey, guys! I found Beth!"
"And why you look like you seen a ghost?" Bloom looks at how scared Stella looks.
"Nothing! It was nothing! Just Beth joked around." Stella says, trying to hide her uneasinest.
"I wasn't joking." Beth says bluntly.
"Okay, I wanna hear the joke now." Musa says as she looks at Beth.
"I said I was worried that I'll lose my shit and murder somebody." Beth says as she begans to walk with her hands behind her back, jumping from one foot to another, humming very, very softly.
"Damn, no wonder Stella wanted to water that down as a "joke." Musa says as she walks next to Beth.
"Well, I'm pretty sure Beth won't hurt anyone. She looks too sweet." Flora says as all of them began to walk.
"Looks can be deciving. And Beth clearly is a living proof of that." Aisha says while looking at Beth with a hint of pride.
"Well, Beth looks like a small innocent thing." Flora says as she goes and adjusts Beth sunglasses.
"And sure she isn't. I heard her once talking how she'd kill a person only with cleaning suplies. That's cool as fuck." Musa says as she grins down at Beth.
"Well, her ability to think of ways of murder it's....interesting." Tecna says as she keeps an eye on Beth, making sure she's okay.
"Yeah, I know I'm kind of a physco. I know sane people don't think like that." Beth says bluntly, not really carring about the fact taht she doesn't see herself as "normal".
"Beth, you are not a physco. Stop being that hard on yourself." Bloom says as she thinks Beth is just thinking negatiavly about herself.
"Bloom, I don't feel guilty when I hurt someone who hurt me in the past. Not even a bit of emphaty. I find enjoyment in that. It makes me laught. I am a physco." Beth rolls her eyes. "Stop trying to cover it up. I'm not feeling sorry for that. I always been like this."
"S-so you find enjoyment in...hurting people?" Stella says nervously.
"Oh, don't worry. I don't go around killing people left and right. Unless I have good enough reasons." Beth shrugs as she continues walking.
"That means we must way or way fast in Red Fountain before some poor soul gets into a fight with Beth." Aisha says with a grin.
"And if a poor soul gets in Beth's way, that's free entertaiment!" Musa says.
"Are you guys encouriging violence?" Tecna ask, her tone a bit to flat to be a joke.
"Beth won't really hurt anybody. She may find some enjoyment in others pain, but I think she still has a good heart." Flora says, still clinging to her idea that Beth at the end of the day is just a child.
"Of course I won't, it's the middle of the day, there are too many people, and cameras. I'll get caught instantly and get my ass dragged into an asylumn." Beth says like it's the most normal thing in the world. Maybe in her mind, it is. But who knows.
"You could've saved your face if you didn't opened that mouth, Beth." Tecna facepalms herself.
As they walked towards Red Fountain, Bloom had a burning question in mind, her curiosity peaked. "So how you discovered you were a bit cray cray?"
"Well, in primary school, I wasn't in my best mental state, I'll admit, but some kids were picking on me. And one day one of those kids started pushing me, so I broke his arm. Every adult there forced me to apologies, but deep down I couldn't care less." Beth shrugs.
"Damn, broke his arm?" Musa whistled. "That's so cool."
"So how many amrs have you broke ever since then?" Stella ask with a smirk.
"Lost count a long, long time ago. And probably would do again. I have nothing to lose." Beth grins slightly.
"Yeah, just a bit of detension, but that is nothing to you, right Beth?" Bloom chuckles.
"Yeah, nothing I can't handle." Beth grins wider.
They all arived in Red Fountain and went inside. Beth looked around the building, never going that much inside in her hangouts with Lina. She couldn't shake a gut feeling, making her a bit sick in her stomach. "What the fuck...? Is deodorant here a rare gem or something? Or is something bad going to happen? You're being paraniod, Beth." She tought to herself.
Tecna glances at Beth for a moment. She knows that Beth isn't really excited to meet the boys, or if they would get along. But the slight greenest Beth's face wasn't really helping. She takes a few steps back until she's besides Beth and wishpers, so that she doesn't cause a scene. "Everything's okay?"
Beth took a deep breath and shakes her heard. "I don't know. Something's wrong but I don't know what."
"It's okay. I'll keep an eye around things. And try staying by an open window. You don't want to vommit all over the place." Tecna says as she looks over the group.
"Yeah, it's not like I'm good at firts impresions anyway. But thanks, Tec" Beth grins cheekly, despite her face being almost green.
"No problem." Tecna says quitely, making sure that Beth doesn't puke in the middle of the hallway.
Musa glances back at Beth and Tecna and pipes up. "Beth, I didn't knew you were cosplaying the Witched Whict of the West! We can sign some songs from that musical Witcked if you'd like!" Musa says excitently before Aisha shoves her.
"Musa, Beth's feeling sick, not cosplaying!" Flora frowns at Musa.
"It's okay. I'd love to scream my fucking lungs with you one day." Beth chuckles slightly before she feels the nausea climbing in her throat. Tecna quickly pulls Beth's ponytail down to make sure her head is not looking down.
"Tecna! Isn't that a bit to harsh...?" Flora asked, clealry getting corcerned.
"She is fine. I'm not aplying that much force." Tecna says calmly, observing the way Beth started to feel a bit better.
"Umm, Beth, you sure you okay? We could get you some water or something. You're face is giving "I saw the most ugly dress on somebody and it was proud of it"." Stella looked at Beth.
"Yeah, I'm better now..." Beth tooka deep breath as she tilds her head back to its normal state.
"Okay, Beth, we are here. Try not to blow somebody out of the window,okay?" Bloom says as she opens the door.
"Even if you have the Dragon's Flame, you can't ask for mirecals Bloom." Musa says as she goes inside the dorm.
Beth mostly looked down, not in the mood to pretend to keep eye contact with anybody and lets herself be dragged by Tecna by her ponytail, who marches into the room to the nearest window and puts Beth on the windowstill like a toodler.
"This is Beth? She looks a bit...pale. Is she sick or it is something else?" Sky asks as he takes a better look at Beth.
"No, this is how I am. Pale as a corpse." Beth says flatly, glaring at Sky
"Hey, hey. Let's not start on the wrong the wrong foot." Brandon say as he goes between Sky and Beth. "I heard from Stella you aren't really fond with the idea of being with a guy." Brandon says, hoping that changing the subject would help ease the tension.
"Have you took a look at girls? They are more complex then most boys pretend to be. Those little boys thing just a flirt or two would do the trick. But girls try learning your interests and are far more prettier than boys could ever be." Beth says as she leans her back on the wall.
"See? I like ladies too. We have something in comon." Brandon says with a smile.
"You're sure she isn't just confused?" Riven walks in the room and Musa just glares at him.
"Now, sweetie, you do remember you have a head up, right?" Beth says as she slides her sunglasses on her nose, talking to Riven like he's a little child. "The upper head is for thinking."
Riven turned red to the face. He didn't walked in the room for a minute and a fifteen year old was already making fun of him. He tried to hold himself back, knowing that if he tried something else, he's just digging his own grave.
"You did not!" Aisha burts laughting, enjoying the way Beth makes fun of Riven. Musa for her part, just shoots Beth a greatful smile for making Riven shut up without a big argument.
"I know you didn't come to the ball." Helia walks up to Beth and holds something behind it's back. "But I think every fairy deserves the gift." He said as he takes out a beatiful flower. The same flower every fairy got at the Anniversary ball bertween the friendship of Red Fountain and Alfea.
"Ummm...thanks? What I'm supose to do with this..." Beth says as she takes the flower by its stem and holds it upside down. She didn't sounded mean at all. Just confused. Very confused.
Stella faceplams so hard it echos. "My goodness, she doesn't go outside that much that she doesn't even know what do to when she recives flowers!"
"The only reason why Tecna got a bit of color on her face is because she tans off the screens! Otherwise she'll be just as pale as Beth." Musa grins widely.
"Excuse me? I don't "tan" at screens!" Tecna glares at Musa.
"She isn't entirely wrong, Tecna. Your screentime was above 16 hours yesterday." Timmy says as he got out of his room.
"And on who's side are you?" Tecna glares at Timmy and puts her hands to her hips.
"I-I was just making an observation!" Timmy stamered, not liking getting in arguments when they can be avioded.
Meanwhile ,Beth looks like she's debaiting to open the window all the way and just throw herslef out and just let herself fall headstraight to the ground. Flora, seeing the way Beth looks at the window, walks next to Beth and takes the flower. "You could put it in a vase. Or I can try to put it in a pot and see if it's going to grow a new set of roots." Flora says as she puts a stran of her bangs behind her ear.
"Yeah, you can do that..." Beth says quietly.
"Okay, I think this is the time to leave!" Bloom says as she goes out of the room befire any argument could happen.
After all of them walked out and exits Red Fountain, they were walking back to Alfea through the forest.
"I'm so proud of you for not blowing anyone's head off, Beth." Bloom says as she pulls Beth closer to her. "And you handled yourself pretty well with Riven."
"But what thing made you think Riven isn't exactly the nicest person?" Stella asks with a sly grin.
"I just sensed that he is a walking red flag. He looks like he was a lot of unsolved problems and like to take on other people just to feed his damaged ego." Beth says as she puts her sunglasses on her nose. "And it's like that head can compare to my heels." She says as she puts her fingers to measure the height of her heel and holds that height up.
"Definitly. That lenght is way to high from the reality of their size." Tecna says with a slight smirk.
"But don't forget not all boys are like Riven, Beth. Some of them are quite friendly and actually nice." Flora says as she looks at Beth's flower.
"And I know once you get to meet with Nabu, you would get along pretty well." Aisha says smilling.
Beth just continuing walking, but something wasn't right. Beth couldn't put the finger on it, but she knew that they weren't safe. She keeps glancing back and forth, but there was nothing out of the ordonary. But there was a stillnest on the air that made Beth even more suspicious.
"Beth, what's wrong? There's nothing to be paranoid." Stella says as she walks, not really taking Beth's paranoia seruously. Well, until an icy attack hits the ground and all the them stopped.
"Oh, for fuck's sake! Why those witches are so cowardly?!" Musa says as she tries her best not to go herself and make sure those witches are dead.
"Come on, girls, we know what do to." Bloom says to the rest of the girls.
"Yeah, yeah. Winx Enchantix!" Stella says, wanting to take Bloom's spotlight in a friendly manner.
Everybody was looking left and right, getting ready to attack the Trix. They decided to stay hiden behind trees. Beth especially keep an close eye, knowing it would be much harder for her in a 1v1 fight.
She kept hovering around, looking left and right, and trying to see if can sense any magical trail, but Beth was left empty handed. She keep flying between trees, quite making a big disntance between herself and the Winx, whict was not ideal at all.
"Look, all alone. Now I shall get rid of that flying pest!" Stormy says as she finally found Beth in a more vulnarable state. "Twister of Rage!" Stormy cast a powerful purple lighting towards Beth.
Beth manages to dodge it in the last second before it became a tornado that sucks everything near. She looks up at Stromy with a cheeky grin. "You aren't the only one who fucks with the wind, you old bitch! Tornado swirl!" Beth says as she spins her hand and creates a tornado.
Stromy just laughts. "Oh, you think you can scare me with a little breeze?" She says before actually gettimg hit by the tornado. It was much stronger than Stormy inniatally tought and was caught off guard. She crashes into the nearby by.
Beth, sensing the oportunity to get away alive, decided to take action. "Air bubble!" Beth makes a small section of air and try to make it into sleeping gas, as much as Beth can make in the moment and just enough to by her time to escape.
Stormy get's caught in Beth's trap and starts coughing and glares up at Beth with nothing but hatred and shame. "Y-you won't get away with this, pixie!"
Beth quickly flies in zig zags, trying to be harder to find. She knows her speels are way to weak to hold a witch like Stormy for too long, and she doesn't have enough time to concentrate on the air and try to find the Winx. "Ugh, what the fuck should I do? I can't just fly back to Alfea, I'll put the whole school in danger, and that "barrier" is mostly as effective as my defence." Beth tought to herself. But right when she tought she had a chance, she could hear that somebody was after her, and judging to the speed were flying, it was Stromy.
When she was flying and thinking, Beth felt something wierd...a sort of a little booster.
She looks down at herself and see the wierd charm and bag attacked to her fairy form. She doesn't know what exactly it is, but one thing was for sure. She activated due to her desire to escape and proctect herself. Beth touches the bag, and an idea comes to her mind. If she can manipulate the air the way she does, maybe she can turn the air into a dense mist. She felt like she can pull it off. So Beth put her hand in the bag and takes out a handful of magical mist. "Everending Mist!" And the mist spread like wildfire around her.
It made Stromy slow down, and Beth let a sigh of relief. At leats for a few seconds she was save. But she could feel Stormy going after her. The mist was slowing down, but not completly stopping her.
"Oh, you're so dead, you little pixie!" Stromy shouts through the woods.
"Don't be so sure about that. Shockwave!" Beth could hear Musa's voice and the soundwaves she'd sent to Stormy and the way Stormy is throw away at leats a few feet away.
Beth then accidently crashes in Musa, and Musa just hugs her. "I found you firts! I'm suprised you managed to stay your groud for that long, and even agains grumpy stormcloud." Musa says as she pulls Beth back and looks at her. "Oh, you mamaged to active your Charmix! Come on, let's go back to the girls, it's better if we are all togheter." Musa says as she pulls Beth by her arm and began flying.
"Active my what?" Beth says as she lets herself be dragged by Musa.
"I'll explain once we meet the girls." Musa says as she glance at Beth."Damn, that some really dense mist here! I can't see a thing." Musa says as she relied on the sounds around her to get around.
It took a while for Beth and Musa to get around due to Beth's mist, but soon enough they can hear other voice.
"You won't get away with this, Icy! You need to either fight or go away!" Bloom shouted.
"And make everything easy for you, Bloom? I don't think so!" Icy says with slight exciment in her voice.
"Then I'll force it out of you! Fire Ray!" Bloom says as she sends the attack towards Icy, but all the Trix decided to just dissapear into thin air. "Not again!"
"Just like last time, they run away like little cowards." Aisha says as she rolls her eyes.
"Well, they know we are just too glamorous for them to win in a fight." Stella says with a sly smirk.
"And leave us with little to no information about their motives, or why they are targetting Beth in the firts place, or how they escape from their imprisonent or why thier spells are a bit more effective than the last time when we had to deal with them." Tecna says as she looks at at leats four difrent floating screans, frustated with the lack of information she has to work it.
"Well, Bloom really managed to kick Icy's ass and flew away like how Beth flew when she tried to defend herself. I never saw a fairy that bad at defense." Stella says.
"And now you decide to share with the class this information?" Tecna says as she moves one screen from her view just to glare at Stella.
"Oh, oupsie, hehe." Stella chuckles nervously.
While the girls were talking, Beth looked around the place and found a really big piece of ice. She breaks a small piece and pops it in her mouth, enjoying the coldest and crounchinest of the ice.
"Flora, you were right! I did found Beth in the north of the forest!" Musa says as she lands on the ground.
"I'm so glad that the forest told me. I'm so glad Beth is safe and sound." Flora says as she finnally sees Beth. "Beth, don't eat that. It's dirty!" Flora shouted at Beth.
Beth just stops eating ice and rolls her eyes and walks to a tree and leans on it.
"Oh, and Beth managed to activate her Charmix by her own." Musa adds.
"Wait, all on her own?" Tecna glances at Beth with a subtle pride in her eyes.
"Okay, I hate being left on the dark, so when somebody will explain what the fuck this Charmix is?" Beth says with a rather inpatient tone.
"So, Charmix is earned when a fairy manages to overcome their biggest weakness or fear. And acts like a booster." Bloom says with a smile.
"And you managed to use it without even knowing what it is and keep your ground agains a powerful witch." Tecna says as she closes all the screens and walks to Beth only to ruffle her hair, more like an "I'm proud of you." rather than a mocking gesture.
Beth giggles slightly, quite enjoying the feeling even if she doesn't admint it. "Thanks...but stop that, it tickles."
"Ohhh, so Beth here is ticklish~" Stella says with a really huge grin.
"No, I'm not." Beth tries to argue but Tecna just pokes her on the sides, making Beth laught harder. "I'm pretty sure Stella was making an affirmation, not questening." Tecna says as she keeps pocking Beth.
"Tecna, let Beth breathe, she's almost red of laughter!" Flora says as she tries to save Beth.
"Okay, okay, last one to Alfea does Beth's detension." Aisha says as she takes off and distracts anyone.
It was Valentine's Day and Beth couldn't care less. She never was fond of this day, mostly because of how marketable if was made, despite being a day about romantic love, but also because of the cheezy couple in public that look a few seconds away from fucking eachother. But it was quite nice. It was the weekend and most of the loud students were on dates and it was more quieter in the hall.
Beth just lays on her bed, wanting to be lazy all day. Her eyes were glancing from the note she found the day before. The note was full of Lina's writting, explaning the fact that for the next 3 days she won't be able to meet up with Beth because she needs to stay with her mom and help her. She lets a small sigh, not really having the energy to go and get up. She kept overhinking all the interactions that she made tomorrow. She cringes at the tought she was so confident in herself, and she wishes that she could just disapear into thin air and never come back. It's a painful reminder why people don't like her. She loud, she's annoying, and sometimes straight up corny. It made Beth wishing she was already dead, or just never born at all.
Beth's toughts kept spiring in a way only loneness can make, thinking that if she died, nothing will really be affected. The world would be a much better place. The world will not be forced to use its resources on the waste of a person she is. She tought at how many innocent lifes that deserved to be alive, at the meanest people having to live comfortably while the actual good people have to suffer. She knows how unfair the world truly is.
Maybe it was the loneliness Beth that made her think that way. Or maybe just the angst of being a teenager. Or maybe just the knownlendge of not seeing Lina for a longer period of time makes Beth's mind go into the darkest places. Who knows?
Beth's depressing moments were interrupted by a fast paced knocking on the door. She didn't wanted to answer the door, or to make an effort to show that she heard the knock. But the knocking was impatient, and Beth's patience was running thin.
She sighed and yelled. "Leave me alone! I don't want to talk! Whoever is out there!" Beth says as she turns to her side and just lays there.
"I know this day makes every single gal feel lonely as fuck, but that's not an excuse to stay in your room locked all day." Musa's voice was heard trough the door.
"I don't care! just let me rot in here! You do have better things to do than to interact with a horrible person like me!" Beth shouts to Musa as she puts her pillow over her head.
"Beth, I'm not going to let you "rot' in there. I'm sure you aren't a corpse." Musa says in a playful tone. "Now come out before i break the door down~" Musa says in a melodic one.
Musa holds the door handle and gives it a hard push. The door just opens easily, not being locked in the first place. Musa didn't expected the door to be unlocked and is caught off guard, but she quickly gains her balance back.
"Girl, did you slept with the door unlocked?" Musa asks as she looks at Beth laying in her bed.
"Who cares? Maybe I could've finally get lucky and somebody would've murdered me or something." Beth says as she makes no effort to look at Musa.
"That's just lot of bullshit, Beth. What happened to the girl from yesterday?" Musa says as she looks at how lack of care Beth is giving to this interaction.
"She killed herself." Beth says almost emotionless.
"Come on, Beth! You don't have to bring - in this!" Musa says as she becomes exhauded dealing with Beth's angst. Musa looks around Beth's dorm room out of curiosity. "Damn, your room is small, no wonder you're acting so depressed. I would've feel depressed too if I was living in this mouse house." Musa mumbles under her breath until her gaze locks on the swing in the middle of the room. "Wait, you have a SWING in your room?!" Without waiting for Beth to react, Musa runs to the swing and takes a seat.
Musa starts swinging in the swing, excited to test it out. But the swing had other plans. As Musa was swinging back, the swing broke right in half, the wood not being the best quality and not made to bear the weight of a healthy body. Musa hits the wall behind with a heavy thud.
In the meantime, Aisha walks in the room and covers her mouth with her hand as she starts laughting. Beth after hearing the impact, she sits up and chuckles softly.
"What's so funny?! i don't have a date 'cuz my ex? I don't know what he is anymore is having way too much problems and keeps dumping on me like I made them and now I just got body-shamed by a fucking swing!" Musa yells as she rubs her head.
"To be honest, I think the swing was only working for skeletons like me. YOU don't have nothing to feel ashamed for, Musa." Beth says with a small amused smile on her face.
"Just a perfect way to make my day better. I can't even go to McDonald's to get the 50% discount for couples. And with Aisha won't work 'cuz all the Magical Dimension knows she's enganded with Nabu." Musa says as she gets up with the help of Aisha, who lends her a hand.
"And why this guy Nabu isn't here?" Beth asks.
"Let's just say he had a really bad accident and he can't come here, or do much activities that require to move that much. But he will very soon get better." Aisha says with a hint of nostalgia.
"Oh..." Beth says quietly, feeling a bit bad about Aisha's situation, and how sad she looks at times, even if she tries to hide it. Then an idea pops in Beth's head. "Hey, Musa? Since I don't have the most femanine features out there, how about put some baggy clothes and pretend that I'm a boy, since society tends to belive hetreo relationships better than gays ones?"
"You're a fucking genius...." Musa says quietly, a huge grin spreading on her face. "Just say with what I have to work."
"The doufle bag in the wardorbe." Beth says as she sits up on the bed.
Musa runs to Beth wardrope and opens the door. She does notice the many holes in the doors, but she does not question them. As soon as she sees the doufle bag, she unzips it and looks inside it. "You sure you don't have anything else? Here I could only find a good beanie." She says as she pulls out the beanie.
"Maybe the box with a splash of black nail polish? I think there are some old clothes that you might find useful...." Beth says as she rubs her eyes.
"The box it is then." Musa says as she looks around the room and finds the respective box under the desk.
"You aren't found of an organize room, Beth?" Aisha says as she looks around Beth's messy room.
"I just find my stuff easier that way. I mostly don't unpack 'cuz I find the stuff way easier than having them hanged in a closet or something." Beth says as she finally gets up from the bed.
Musa is looking in the box and she does find some pieces of clothing that could work for their plan. She takes them out and puts them on the floor. "It could work really well, since you also have a pretty deep voice compared to the avarage girl. You just have to tie your hair in a way to look a bit uncared off, since boys don't usually pay that much attention to hair than you do." Musa says as she walks out of the room to give Beth the privacy to change. Aisha does too, closing the door after herself.
Beth sighs as she starts to change from her pijamas. It doesn't take much time, since the outfit is rather simple compared to Beth's usual style filled with a ton of accesories. After a few minutes< Beth walks out of her room.
"I'd say I did a pretty good job." Musa says proudly.
"She does look like a shy little guy. It might work out." Aisha says.
"Yeah, like a submisive little twink." Musa grins wickedly.
"I'm not submisive nor a twink!" Beth glares at Musa, looking rather offended.
"Are you sure about that?" Musa says, teasing Beth.
"I'll slit your throat if you call me a submisive twink one more time." Beth says as she gets way too workout out.
"Not even a "roof roof"?" Musa says as she pretends to be disapointed.
"Bitch, I'm going to push you down from the roof if you continue with this bullshit!" Beth says with annoyence.
"I'm going to duel with some kids from Red Fountain, to take my mind off things and to humble them down a bit. Try not killing each other at McDonald's!" Aisha says as she walks away.
"Bye Aisha! Have fun making those kids cry!" Musa calls out. She turns to Beth and motions her to follow her. Beth follows Musa and tries to calm down a bit.
Once they arrive at Alfea's gate and waiting for the bus, Musa speaks up. "You sure you're okay? You looked pretty depressed earlier."
"That's because I am depressed. I'm just good at hiding it." Beth says in a much calmer tone than back in the hallway. "Just, don't feel sorry for me. Sometimes life is pretty fucked up, but I've learnt how to live with that. I do have some smalls moments of joy recently."
Musa stays quiet for a few moments, feeling a bit of an ass for the times she did pick on Beth. "Just...don't hang yourself, okay?" Musa says quietly.
"Well, hanging would take a lot of effort, since i don't have a rope, expect the ones from my swing, and I would have to cut my hair and braid my hair to act as a rope. It's easier to just cut my neck." Beth stops mid-rant before her eyes go wide in relazation. "Ohhh, you meant not to kill myself...oups." Beth says quietly.
Musa chuckles at Beth's reaction. "Nobody taught you how to comunicate properly, I'm right?"
Beth nods slightly, wishing she could just disapear. Why she felt so - ? Maybe because she was called out so accurate? Who knows?
Fourtunely the bus arrived and the two of them got up. They took a seat on the back rows, not wanting to attract any unwanted attention from the other passagers on the bus. Beth looked uncomfortable, feeling like all the people were staring at her, judging every single detail about her. Musa patted her shoulder, trying to ground her to reality. Even with her headphones on< she could see that Beth was tense.
"You want one?" Musa says as she changes her headphones to a wired pair so that she could share with Beth.
Beth nods slightly, not minding having a distraction from the other people in the bus. She takes the headphone from Musa's hand and puts it in her left ear. She closes her eyes slightly as she leans on the bus sit, feeling herself relax slightly.
Musa smiles at the sight of Beth relaxing a bit since she got on the bus. "You don't like taking the bus, huh?" She asks quietly.
Beth shakes her head slightly, careful not to accidently take Musa's headphone off. "You can find the strangest and most disgusting people here. I hate taking the bus when it's busy like now. And I can't forget about those couples who look a second away from fucking." Beth replies in a quiet so that people won't overhear.
"They are the worst. And they most likely to break up after a few days." Musa says with a disgusted look.
"And don't get started at the pet names. "Doll" is the worst. Like why are you, as a man, calling your female parterner after a toy that is meant to be controlled. It gives me the ick, like the man just wants control over conection. Men and with their big ass egos and sexism." Beth rolls her eyes.
"I've never tought that way about that pet name. And you're kinda right. Honestly creepy and disgusting." Musa mumbles under her breath. "So, what do you want from McDonald's? I just want like a BigMac and some Coca Cola, not really much."
"Just some chicken nuggets." Beth says as as she plays with one of her strans from her bangs.
"Okay, I'll order and do the talking. To keep the act up. And but many chicken nuggets? Don't be shy now, I'll pay for it." Musa says, teasing Beth.
"I don't know, like eight?" Beth says as she counts on her fingers, like she's trying to visualize how much are 8 chicken nuggets. "Yeah, eight."
"You struggle with numbers or something?" Musa asks, slightly confuse but also curious.
"Yeah. I have dyscalculia. Basicly I struggle with simple math, I still count on my fingers and I can't read clocks. At all." Beth sighs as she looks out of the window.
"Didn't knew that existed, but, okay..." Musa says before getting ready to get off the bus. "Beth, at the next station, we get off, okay?" She says as she puts the MP3 player back in her purse.
Once the bus stopped, they both got off. Beth looked around, being her first time in Magix City. It was way bigger than she imagine it to be, and more overwhelming. The difrence between scents, sounds and light makes Beth want to just hide in the shadows, where most people aren't. She keeps walking behind Musa's back, trying to make herself as invisible as posible while keep walking in Musa's pace. Musa, sensing the way is acting, starts humming softly. She knows her singing is having a effect on people, and it might help in Beth's situation. Beth does look a bit calmer than before, wihtc is good.
They soon arrive at McDonald's and they find a empty table by the window. Beth took a seat and plays with some tissues that were there. Musa quickly goes and orders for both of them. She quickly comes back with their order number and recipe.
"Did you manage to get that discount?" Beth asks, tilding her head.
"Yup! This made my whole week! One of the best way to spent this day!" Musa grins from ear to ear.
"I'm glad that you're happy." Beth says as she stacks the tissues in a tower.
They both waited for their order number to be called. They both waited panciently, knowing it was busy mostly because of the discount. Soon the order number was called and Musa gets up and takes the tray. She sets the tray on the table and gave the chicken nuggets to Beth.
They both start eating their food, being comfortable just eating and not forcing any kind of small talk. Musa takes out a small bottle of some kind of sauce, probably spicy and puts it in her burger. Once they were done eating, Musa speaks up. "Hey, Beth, mind if I ask you a question?" She says keeping her volume down.
"Why are we whispering this low? But sure, I don't mind." Beth says as she finishes her chicken nuggets.
"I don't want to sound rude or anything, but are you 100% sure you're not the p-word?" Musa asks worriedly.
"The p-word? What so you mean? Pee-pee? Piss? Popcorn? What was that toast filled with shit and loads of Es? Oh, Poptart?" Beth asks, confused as fuck.
Musa leans closer, and takes a deep breath and mouths something very similar to "pregnant". She looks around, making sure that people are not eardropping.
Beth just shakes her head. She understands that she gets sick a lot and gets dizzy a bit too often, so she isn't that offended at the question. "It's just...the air around is so polutted and I usually don't eat that much because I don't have that big of an appetite, it would be a wonder if I'm going to eat anything else today if I'm being honest. I am fine, and nobody touched me. And honestly, I don't even know how the duck really gets in." Beth says quietly as she plays with the empty box of chicken nuggets.
Musa nods as she gathers all the litter they'd made into the tray and gets up. "It's okay. And if you want, I can explain. With as many details as you wish." She takes the tray and puts into the place where empty trays are put.
"Oh, no, no, no,no! I'm okay!" Beth says with a high pitch, the idea of a detailed comversation like that making her feel very umcomfortable and adkward. She quickly gets up and follows Musa.
"If you say so." Musa says as they leave the building and take the buss back to Alfea.
While they were riding the bus, Musa gives the other headphone to Beth while she takes her phone out and scrolls through her contacts until she finally picks a number. Beth doesn't hear that much of the conversation due to the music in the headphones, but she can tell that Musa is talking with Aisha. The call wasn't a long one, and Musa closes her phone and takes back the right headphone.
"Aisha will be back at Alfea when we will be." She says quietly. "To make sure none of us is alone. We can hang out if you want."
"Yeah, sure. I'm not in the mood to rot in my bed and be depressed to be honest." Beth says as she plays with the wire of the headphones.
"See? I don't think you are the same grumpy gremlin from morning." Musa says as she puts her arm around Beth's shoulders. "You just needed food."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Beth pretends to be annoyed to be annoyed as she leans on Musa.
"But seriously, I know being a teenager sucks. And I know being misunderstood as fuck sucks even more. I don't want to sound like a nagging parent, but just try not to do anything drastic..." Musa says as she takes a more curly stran of Beth's bangs and strats bouncing it up and down.
"Yeah, yeah....." Beth says rolling her eyes.
They both stayed quiet, just listening to the music as they were waiting to get off at tge right bus stop. After a few minutes they finally get off the bus and went back in Alfea.
Beth was hanging around in the Winx's apartament with Aisha and Musa. They were hanging around in Musa's room.
"So, what the hell are we supose to do now? It's almost late afternoon and I'm not in the mood to got out again." Beth says as she sits on Tecna's bed like she owns it.
"Talk? I don't know." Musa says as she takes a bottle made of glass and takes a sip of it. She sets it on a small nightstand.
"Talk about what?" Beth says as she crosses her legs.
"About youself. I can't come up with a better topic right now." Aisha says as she lays on Musa's bed.
"Ummmm, I used to eat all kinds of stuff and ended up in the ER multiple times...?" Beth says, not really sure if that is a good conversation starter.
"And what kind of stuff?" Musa asks , getting curios.
"Flowers, batteries, some rocks, a spoon." Beth counts on her fingers.
"You really sure were a strange kid. Who the fucks eats a spoon?" Musa asks a bit wierded out.
"A kid with too much curiosity and energy?" Aisha says with a teasing grin.
"And too much strange object left in the open." Musa adds.
Meanwhile, Beth gets a bit thristy and takes the bottle made of glass and drinks it all, thinking it was water. Beth didn't found much difrence, is was just a bit more spicy, but not the kind of spicy was used to. She turns to Musa and points to the bottle. "So what kind of spices did u put in your water?"
Musa freezes for a moment. The fact that Beth, who looks so little, managed to drink almost a full bottle of vodka in one sip and not even make a face it was shocking to say the least. But also how much Beth can handle her alcohol. She glances at Aisha. "Hey, so how about I get Beth more of that "water"? For sience?" Musa asks, her curiosity over the roof.
"Are you crazy?! This is a really bad idea?" Aisha frowns as she looks at Musa.
"Eh, what's the worst that could happen? Beth could walk in a straight line if I ask her." Musa says, unfazed of Aisha's concern.
"I don't know, something called "alcohol poisoning"?! Beth is still a minor, it could go bad very quickly!" Aisha says firmly.
"Oh, please, you sound exactly like Tenca right now! Where's your sense of advanture? And I will ask if she wants to or not. Consent and shit." Musa shrugs.
"Maybe because you need a bit of reason? And Beth's already has alcohol in her system, I don't think Beth is capable of making any decitions." Aisha says, trying to be reasonable.
"Yo, Beth, want more water?" Musa asks Beth, who was exploring the room and looking at the electric keyboard Musa has laying around.
"Yeah, sure, why not?" Beth shurgs as she walks to Musa.
Aisha facepalms and takes a deep breath. "I'm not the one who will be cleaning her vomit after she pukes."
Musa gets up and walks up to her closet where she keeps her stash of alcohol. She takes out a new bottle of vodka and sets it on the table. She takes the cap off and make sure it doesn't slide off the table. "Okay, Beth, just say if you feel wierd in any way. Just talk to us."
Beth nods as she goes to the table and takes another long sip of the bottle. She sets it down, and Beth does feel a bit wierd. "I do feel.. a bit wierd-ish..but I like it. Yeah." Beth says as she walks around the room, trying to get used to this new feeling that is spread all over her body.
"Beth, just sit down if you feel like it. Don't push yourself if you do feel too unwell." Aisha says, not wanting Beth to do something stupid.
"No, no I don't feel sick. Just funny. Very funny." Beth says as she walks around her a few moments before taking a seat on Musa's bed and starts talking. "Did you knew I used to make all my boy toys die...?"
They both share a look, knowing that Beth might says some things she woudln't normally say when sober. Musa tilds her head. "You were beating up boys all your life or something?"
Beth shakes her head, looking at Musa's eyes, her eyes glassy and her cheeks red due to the alcohol in her system. "My mommy made me some dolls made of raght. We didn't really had much fancy shit, but I was soo happy that she made me dolls..." Beth says with a hint of nostalgia and longing. "She made me like...three dolls. She told me one of them is a girl, and the other girl was her best friend, and the last one was the boy....But I didn't wanted the boy and girl to have babies...So I found a knife, took his head off and burried him next to my mommy's veggies..." Beth says with a slurred voice.
Aisha's eyes go wide at the story. She could tell that Beth wasn't bullshiting, her voice having a almost innocent way of telling that only a little kid could have, but some of the details are a bit...concerning. "How old were you when you did that...?"
"Ummm....about 2 years...I think..." Beth counts on her fingers.
"Well, at leats you knew who you are from a young age." Musa puts her hands behind her head.
"And you somehow didn't cut yourself. That is impresive for a clumsy kid." Aisha says as she puts some more pillows on Musa's bed.
Aisha and Musa made sure to prepare the bed for when Beth will be way to tipsy to stay awake. Meanwhile Beth wonders around, her thoughts free of any filter and reason.
"Lina? Where are you...?" Beth slurs as she calls out for Lina in Latin, her brain not distingusing the languages Beth knows, only the message she wants to say.
Beth was walking and ended up in the nearby woods. She didn't had the best balance on her feet, clealry drunk. She leaned on nearby trees from time to time, but her heart, freed from any fear or doubt wanted to keep searching for Lina, even though her rational part of her knew that Lina had personal issues to solve.
Meanwhile, Aisha was bringing a spare blanket from another room and turbs to Musa. "How's Beth doing?"
"Well, Beth is sitting right here!" Musa says as she glances at the bed and her eyes go wide when she looks at the empty space whwre Beth was supose to be. Fuck! Where did she go?! I swear she was here!" Musa says as she gets up and starts pacing.
"And she's drunk and alone and it's dark outside. This could get really bad fast !" Aisha says as she walks to the balcony. "We could go to Pixie Village and maybe the pixies could help. We could cover more ground."
"It's for the best. Come, on. Enchantix!" Musa says as they take off and fly to Pixie Village. "No wander Tecna wants to put a tracker up Beth's ass." Musa mumbles softly.
They both soon arive in Pixie Village and land near it, careful not to damange amy of the houses. Piff is the firts one to notice them and flies to her bonded fairy. "Patotatitopa?" Piff babbled softly.
"We are looking for Beth. She vanished from Musa's room and we need to find her as soon as posible. Maybe you can call Lockette here and she'll help us." Aisha says in a urgent way.
Piff nods and flies away, most likely to get Lockette. Soon after, she comes back with Lockette and Tune. Lockette looks up at Aisha and Musa. "So what's the matter?"
"Beth got lost and she drank a bit too much of adult liquid." Aisha quickly explains. Lockette takes out her wand and tries to find Beth's location. "It's so tricky, is almost like she's everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Her magical trail is very messy, but I'll try my best."
"And you're involved in this, aren't you?" Tune looks at Musa with disapoinment
"Hey, hey. It was just a sip, not to think about Riven and stuff." Musa tries defending herself.
"And you still learnt nothing! You drunk again and now you put Beth in danger! You should be ashamed of yourself!" Tune scolds Musa.
Musa doesn't say anything, hating to be scolded and just looking down at the ground. Shw did felt slightly quilty about her decitions, but it soon turns to determination. She raised her head, a determinet gleam in her eyes. "Then I'll find her and make sure she's safe and sound."
"Now, that's how a proper fairy is acting. See her mistake then try to fix it." Tune says.
"I found her and it's stable!" Lockette says as she points to her wand.
"Then lets go after it!" Aisha says as all of them took off after the direction of the wand.
Soon enough, they cam see a figure who looks like Beth stumbling in the forest. Aisha aproaches carefully then she wraps Beth into soft Morphix, making sure Beth doesn't feel in danger and becomes agrresive. She walks over to Beth and crouches down at her level. "You're okay, Beth?"
"I was looking for my air..." Beth slurs in German, looking at Aisha very seriously. "Without her, I can't breathe...I can't live..." Beth slurs in Russian this time.
"What the fuck? Beth's drunk drunk. She's not even speaking English right now..." Musa looks at Beth, very confused.
"Let's just bring Beth back to Alfea and make sure to put her to bed." Aisha says before turning to Piff, Tune and Lockette. "Thanks for helping us. We are very greatful for your help."
"No problem. At leats everybody is okay now." Lockette says as they turn to leave.
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They were back in Alfea. Beth was changed into her pijamas, sitting on Musa bed.
"Now, Beth, don't run off without telling anyone, okay? We were worried sick about you." Aisha says as she pulls the blanket over Beth.
"As worried sick as you're about to be sick tomorrow. Forgot to tell that thing." Musa teases Beth, while Beth just grabs her arm and pulls her as close as posible. "Huh..? Nonesense.."
"Oh, you're a cuddlebug!" Musa says excitently as she makes herself on her bed and pulls Beth close to herself.
Beth sighs contently, letting herself be held like this. She closes her eyes and murmurs. "I love hugs..."
Musa nods as she lets Beth rest on her shoulder. "Oh yeah? You can always hug me. I don't mind."
"You think sissy won't mind hugs either...?" Beth asks as she burries her face into Musa's neck.
"Who's....sissy?" Aisha asks, genuinely confused.
"Y'know....Tec...sissy.." Beth says, as she just makes herself more comfortable and keeps clinging to Musa.
"Oh, so Stella was right. You two are just like sisters. And yeah, if you ask her, I don't think she'd mind." Musa chuckles softly, finding adorable at how unfiltered Beth is right now.
Aisha was bringing a bucket in case of emergicies, she goes and ruffles Beth's hair. "Can't say I'm suprized."
"Y'know what I also love..?" Beth slurs.
"What else do you love, Beth?" Musa asks as she starts rubbing her back.
"Your humming...is so beatiful...I love it..." Beth slurs as she keeps her hold on Musa tight.
"Awww, thanks!" Musa says before deciding to hum softly. It was as calm as a lulaby, and she strokes Beth's hair, hoping that would put her to sleep.
"I feel very funny..." Beth slurred as she begans to relax, and very soon, shr falls asleep.
"How much do you think Beth is going to be asleep?" Musa asks quietly, afraid of waking Beth up.
"Judging by how drunk she is, and now is like 20 I think until tomorrow afternoon. We all are going to have so much fun tomorrow." Aisha says with a sarcastric tone. "You will get your ass scolded by Tecna for allowing Beth with alcohol, despite being a minor, Beth would spent the next day pucking her guts out and laying in here like she's dying and I will have to suffer your whining."
"But you still hanging out with me, 'cuz you're my best friend." Musa says grinning up at Aisha.
"Don't make me chamge up my mind." Aisha says as she walks out of the room, not meaning any of her words. She won't trade her friendship with Musa for anything in the world.