The complicated mess of Avaloran love life, or: How your first love can not always be your true love, but lead you into the right direction.
Plot:
Convinced that Elena will not return his romantic love, with everything else she has to worry about, Mateo closes himself off from Elena's way into his heart and goes out with Rita because she shows romantic interest in him.
But when Rita turns out to be Carla in disguise, who has been spying on him all along, he is heartbroken. Elena stays by his side as his best friend through it all. And Mateo realized that his attraction to Rita was just an unconcious distraction and projection to protect himself from possible rejection by Elena.
When the Queen sees Carla and Mateo dance again, she becomes jealous and confesses her own love. Carla watches the Queen and Royal Wizard dance, overjoyed to have helped them getting together after so many years.
Meanwhile, Gabe sees Elena as well and remembers her fondly, full of contentment. He has long since moved on from his crush on Elena in the beginning of his career. When Elena rejected his advances, he realized that it was only a fantasy. Pushing him onto the path that lead him to his true love. Now he is more than happy being pulled into a dance by Naomi.
Just as Gabe, Naomi cannot help but remembering her first love,too. When Vi left to sail the world, Naomi felt heartbroken. And just as her feelings for Gabe started to blossom, Chloe pulled him away from her like a whirlwind and Naomi had almost given up on love.
But Gabe realized his own feelings for Naomi with Chloe's help and came back to his special someone and the Norberg Lights.
Naomi and Gabe are unaware of Chloe's involvement and emotional sacrifice respectively.
Chloe is happy that Gabe has fun now, but she cannot stop the heartbreak when she is alone.
Hector reluctantly comforts his daughter, but instantly answers his soft words with boasting. After all, he is the one to arrange for Alonso to come to Norberg that day.
Chloe and Alonso have been promised to marry one day. They are not in love at this time (… yet) but have started to become friends and Chloe is delighted to see him again.