AN: whoo! First Winx story ever, so excited to get this under way! Basically this whole fic is going to be based around Valentines day at Alfea, so of course its a romance fic, but also a comedy! It's going to be pretty light-hearted, so no villains or battles or anything, it's completely focused on the girls and the red fountain guys and their relationships. And yeah, I know its not actually anywhere near Valentines day..but hey, just roll with it : p.

I'll also just quickly tell you what pairing will be in this fic... basically just all the canon pairings, except for Layla. I didn't want to include Nabu in this..since he kind of died and all and that's a little depressing. So she doesn't really get a pairing (Sorry Layla fans!) but she does get her own little storyline at least, all the Winx girls do! Also I'm making it so Bloom and Sky, Stella and Brandon,Musa and Riven and Tecna and Timmy are already together, but Flora and Helia aren't, just saying that now.

Oh, and just in case it wasn't obvious, I don't own Winx club or any of its characters.

So I hope you read and enjoy this story! : )

Bloom sat at her desk, only half listening to Professor Wizgiz's lecture as she doodled on her textbook. I mean seriously, the guy was a magical Leprechaun who was teaching them how to magically transform themselves into anything they wanted, how did he manage to make this class so boring! Now that was a real magical skill. Bloom looked over to the rest of the classroom, at least she wasn't the only one not paying attention. Musa sat a few chairs away but Bloom could see the small headphones, half hidden by her long hair, no doubt blaring away as she tapped her foot lightly. Flora staring absent-mindedly out the window, day dreaming no doubt. Layla had her her head on the desk right behind Blooms, looking just about ready to fall asleep, and even nerdy old Tecna was tapping away on one of her instant messaging gadgets instead of taking down notes.

"Hey, bloom!" Bloom looked over as she heard a sharp whisper come from the desk next to her "Do you think the off the shoulder look, or the halter neckline would look better with the shoe's I'm planning to wear?" Stella asked, holding up and pointing to a magazine she had in her hand. Stella was the only person bloom knew who tried to coordinate her outfits so thoroughly. Bloom quickly checked to make sure professor Wizgiz was still facing the front of the classroom before reaching out her arm to grab the magazine off Stella for a closer look.

The magazine page had four pouty looking models on it, all in bright red, white and pink cocktail dresses, and in big bold lettering at the top of the page it read "Hottest looks for Valentines day: Steal the man of your dreams heart with these fabulous new fashions". Oh yeah, She'd forgotten about that.

Valentines day was this weekend.

Bloom flipped the magazine shut to look at the front cover. They'd made sure to include a lot of Valentines related headlines for this weeks issue.

"How to make him notice you, without looking too desperate"

"7 tongue twirling tips to make that kiss sizzle!"

" The top 20 cutesy pet names for your boyfriend that he wont actually hate!"

"Is your boyfriend losing interest? Take our quiz and find out!"

...Who writes this stuff? Bloom thought, as she scanned the page, skipping past the first three headlines with barely a second glance. However, the last one managed to catch her eye...

'Is your boyfriend losing interest?'

She let out a sigh. Lately she couldn't help but feel that Sky had been acting...strange. Well, you couldn't call it 'strange' ,maybe distant was a better word? No, that didn't really sound right either...Bloom didn't know how to put into words how Sky had been acting. It wasn't as if he was being mean to her, he was still his usual sweet self, they even went out last Monday to the movies on a date. Its just that for the last few weeks they had been hanging out, bloom always got the feeling that he had something on his mind, something he wasn't telling her...something he didn't want to tell her. Bloom didn't want to imagine that it was another girl. It was just a feeling she had, and it worried her.

Just as Bloom was about to re-open the magazine to take that quiz, Stella hissed across from her desk "Hey, your not even looking at the page I showed you! There's only two days until the Valentines day dance and I still haven't chosen my outfit so can you please take this issue seriously Bloom!"

Oh, yeah, couldn't have a Valentines day without a Valentines day dance could you? Bloom had forgotten about that too.

As Stella went to snatch back her magazine while the Professor was still distracted, she noticed her friends sad expression, and immediately felt bad for snapping at her "Hey, Bloom?" She said cautiously "Its actually okay if you want to keep reading the mag, I'll just ask what you think later, kay?"

"Oh, Stella, Its not that" Bloom sighed "Its just stuff with Sky. My minds just preoccupied is all"

Stella frowned and leant closer to Bloom "What? Is everything all right with you two?"

Bloom shrugged "Well, yeah, but kind of No at the same time and...I just don't know, you know?"

Stella paused, trying to work that sentence out in her head "Uh...kinda?"

Just as Bloom was about to have another shot at trying to explain what she meant, Professor Wizgiz whipped his head around from writing on the blackboard "Girls, you do realise I can hear you back there, don't you?" He frowned.

"Well if I had realised that professor, I wouldn't have been talking, would I?" Stella shrugged with a small smile, the rest of the class trying not to laugh.

Professor Wizgiz only frowned harder "Don't you use that cheek with me Miss! Now I don't want to hear your voices for the rest of the lesson, Its not fair of you to distract the girls who actually want to learn!"

It took all of Blooms will power not to scoff as he said that, she doubted there was one person in this class who was actually paying attention anyway. And of course, as soon as Wizgiz's back was turned again, Stella whipped her head back towards Bloom "So you two haven't broken up have you? Did you have a fight?"

Bloom shook her head "No, nothing like that. There's just been this change in him lately, how he acts around me and-"

Bloom was cut off by Stella suddenly letting out a loud , dramatic gasp "Oh my god!" she said, eyes wide "Did you guys finally have se-"

"NO!" Bloom practically yelled, blushing bright red.

"RIGHT! That's it,I'm tired of listening to your chattering, both of you stand outside the classroom for the rest of the lesson! Out! Shoo!"

Bloom and Stella zipped their lips and quickly grabbed their books before they were practically pushed right out the door. They heard Musa mutter softly under her breath as they walked past her "Buuusted!", and then the doors were slammed behind them. Stella huffed, putting her hands on her hips as the two girls stood there in the corridor.

"Ugh, rude!" she said, as if she hadn't been the one interrupting his lesson. Then she just shrugged her shoulders "Well,whatever, now we have a chance to talk all we want, right Bloom?"

Bloom gave a small smile, she didn't even know if she wanted to talk about it any more, even just thinking about it made her worry. It wasn't as if sky had kept things from her before, with the whole fiance thing awhile back.. " I dunno Stell, It's probably just me worrying over nothing, don't worry about it"

Stella just gave her friend a worried frown "You sure? You guys are still going to the Valentines day dance together, right?"

Bloom gave a small nod "Of course, It's not like we've stopped going out or anything. Things will probably tun out fine anyway"

Stella reached out and out a comforting arm around Blooms shoulders "Yeah, I'm sure they will" The two girls smiled at each other in friendship "And you know what might cheer you up in the mean time,a shopping day! We'll organise all the girls and go down to the city for a big old shopping spree! Whatta' ya say?"

"I say you just want to go shopping for your own Valentines day dress" Bloom smiled knowingly.

"Well, there's always that reason too" Stella winked, and both girls laughed.

"And what exactly are you two laughing about?" The two girls jumped as they heard a familiar stern voice coming from behind them. There stood Griselda, arms folded, an unamused look on her face.

"Ah, uhm, nothing miss" Bloom said hurriedly, rapidly trying to think of an excuse to tell her as to why they weren't in class right now. Stella didn't look worried in the least, she was probably so used to Griselda's death glares by now they didn't even phase her. The two fairies stood there awkwardly as Griselda looked them over.

"Well, don't just stand there. We have a job for you, follow me" and with that the started strutting forward down the corridor.

Bloom and Stella blinked and looked at each other in confusion. Job? But Griselda was already racing ahead (That woman was a fast walker!) of them, and they couldnt stop and think about it as they hurried their steps to catch up too her.

"But miss" Bloom started "Professor Wizgiz told us to wait outside his classroom!"

Stella shot her a look "Yes, wait outside because, uh, we finished all our work early, and um, the work was just so brilliantly done that we were intimidating all the other girls and their inferior work, so it wasn't as if we were in trouble or anythi-"

Griselda cut her off before she could finish "Don't start spinning any pathetic excuses Stella, Professor Wizgiz has already informed me about your behaviour in his class so I wont buy it" she said dryly.

Sometimes it sucked having teachers who could communicate magically. Word spread fast in this school. Stella just pouted and rolled her eyes. "So ,yes Bloom, I know Professor Wizgiz told you to wait outside but I had a better idea of what you two could be doing with your time, if you don't want to use it to better your knowledge of magic that is" Griselda continued talking as she led the girls to the east wing of the school "You'll be volunteering to help in the school library for the rest of the afternoon"

Both Bloom and Stella's jaws dropped "What! But Miss, all we did was talk in class!" Stella said indignantly.

"And should you have been doing that?" Griselda snapped back immediately.

"Well...no" Stella admitted sulkily "But come on, all afternoon?"

"Yeah!" Bloom cut in "Its not like we were saying anything rude either, it was just about Valentines day stuff.."

"I don't care what you girls were talking about, the point is you shouldn't have been talking at all!"

Bloom and Stella both winced and stopped arguing as Griselda sounded a lot harsher when she said that. This was a pretty good hint that they should just stay quiet for the rest of the trip down to the library, but since when did Stella take hints? She gently nudged Bloom to get her attention, and whispered to her "The old bag must be moody this time of year since she's probably never gotten a Valentine in her life!" Before Bloom even had a chance to let out a laugh, Griselda grounded to a halt in front of them, slamming her foot on the floor. She turned around to face the two,absolutely fuming.

"Fine, you want to be like that? NOW you've gone and earned yourself another few hours of work! Expect to stay in that library well into the evening!" She pointed down to the end of the hall were the big library doors stood "I'm sure the librarians will enjoy your assistance" she hissed.

Bloom and Stella looked at each other, they knew when they were beaten. There was no arguing there way out of this one. They slowly started shuffling down the corridor to the library, looking sheepish.

"Sorry for that Bloom, I didn't mean to get us into more trouble, honest. Looks like I just struck a bit of a nerve with old grumpy pants back there.."

"I can STILL hear you!" Griselda's voice echoed through the hall behind them, the girls winced and bloom glared at Stella.

"Stella, you really need to learn to stop talking sometimes, or at least learn to whisper better!"

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Bloom and Stella had the most UN-pleased expressions on their faces that you can imagine, as the dumpy head-librarian led them past rows an rows of towering book shelves as she pushed alone a little trolley, stacked with a couple of boxes of books.

"Now girls, what I'm going to have you do for me today is very, very exciting!" she twittered as the two girls rolled their eyes at each other.

They highly doubted anything in this place could be considered exciting.

"You two are going to be cleaning and sorting out the old library storage room!"

….they were right.

They were both led to what seemed like the furthest corner of the massive library, behind all of the shelves and into a dingy corner. At first there seemed to be nothing there, but if you looked hard enough, you could see the small outline of a door along the panelled wall. The librarian gently pushed it inwards, opening it to reveal a small set of stairs leading downwards. The girls looked down into the chamber with dread.

"We haven't had anyone down there in so long to sort it, years even! Really it should be my job, but, ah..well" she gave an awkward smile, and patted her stomach, then gestured towards the staircase. Referring to the head-librarian as 'dumpy' before, really was quite generous. In non-polite terms the woman really was quite fat, and then when you took a look at the extremely narrow passageway leading down to the storage room...

"Oh, I get it!" Stella said suddenly "Its because your too fat to get down there right? And that's why you needed us to do it!"

Bloom cringed at Stella's blunt statement, the girl was so oblivious sometimes!The Head-librarian wasn't as vicious as Griselda, and was actually a very sweet lady, so instead she kept her cool and just gave a stiff smile."Well, short answer, yes. Basically all you need to do is to take these books-" she pointed to the boxes on the trolley she had been pushing "-and sort them where they need to go. I've put little sticky notes on all the front covers and they match up the labelled shelves downstairs. It's pretty easy and I'm sure you'll figure it out quickly once you get down there" she smiled as she picked up and passed one of the boxes to Bloom and the other to Stella.

"Hey, these are actually pretty heavy!" Bloom said as the box weighed down in her arms. She guessed there must've been around twenty books in each box.

"Well, have fun girls! And once your done doing this job, just come back up at me at the front desk and I'll have a few other little jobs for you to do" and that was the last thing the Head-librarian said before she grabbed her little cart again and headed off back down the aisles of books, leaving Bloom and Stella to head down the narrow staircase to 'have fun'.

The narrow staircase led to an equally narrow stone corridor, and it was lucky there were dingy little lights on the ceiling, as there were no windows to let light in. They followed the passage way until it came to another small door. Bloom managed to nudge it open with her side, still holding the heavy box of books, and the two girls entered. As soon as bloom put her foot down in the room a small cloud of dust sprung up from the floor, and the smell of mildew hit them.

"Oh, gross!" Stella coughed, waving the dust away from her face "That lady wasn't kidding when she said this place hadn't been touched in years!"

Bloom silently agreed as she looked around the room. It was pretty small, only about as big as her bedroom, with only a few rickety looking shelves lining the walls. Books were haphazardly stacked and placed everywhere, with only a few actually sitting neatly on the shelves. Both girls dropped their heavy boxes to the ground, while Stella went over to read a small engraving carved into one of the shelves "This one says 'Out of date historical books'?" she read. Bloom looked down into one of the boxes

"Oh, I think this one might go there" she said, reaching down to pull out a thick, blue book. On the front cover was a bright pink slip of paper, with scrawled handwriting that read 'To go in Out of date historical books section'.

Stella shrugged as she took the book and stuck it on the shelf next to the others "The old lady was right about this too, It IS easy"

Bloom reached down into the boxes to grab more books "I know! We'll probably get this job done so quickly!" she said happily, until a thought came over her "Oh, but she said she has other jobs for us to do once were finished anyway, It's not like we get to leave early.."

Stella gave her friend a sly smile as she moved along the shelves "Or it might just take us sooo long to get done, because I think I might need a ten minute break between each book that we put up, since Its just such strenuous work!" She sat herself down on one of the small towers of books 'I mean we are princesses after all"

Bloom just laughed and gave her friend a high five "I like the way you think!"

and that's just what the two did. They'd put a book up, sit down and chat for ten minutes, get another book and out it up, chill for another ten minutes and so on and so on. Sure it was lazy, but hey, they didn't think they deserved the punishment in the first place. After two hours had passed the dumpy librarian had come back, and they heard her yell down to them from the top of the staircase, asking if they were alright and what was taking them so long. Stella had only yelled back, cheekily, that they were doing just fine and they were doing the best job they could do. The librraian would end up checking on them every half an hour after this, each time sounding more exasperated and impatient, but as Stella pointed "What? Its not like she can walk down and come drag us back up is it?" and would just call back out the same answer as before. So the girls ended up having a pretty decent time talking about the dance and Valentines day and the boys.

"Ugh, going out with Brandon has gotten so boring lately!" Stella sighed, as she sat down from putting up another book, Bloom sitting down across from her.

"How do you mean?" Bloom asked.

Stella shrugged "I dunno! Its just that when we first started going out he used to do stuff like sneaking out of Red Fountain to visit me in the middle of the night, or we'd both ditch class and go on dates in the city, or surprise me with huge bouquets of flowers when I finished class!"

Bloom just nodded. She remembered herself and the rest of the Winx club being pretty jealous years ago when all this happened.

"But nowadays...It's just like all we do is meet up in the city, go to the same place to eat, then go to the same place to watch a movie and then then the same place to go shopping afterwards, Its just so predictable!"

"So you don't enjoy spending time with him any more?" Bloom said, tentatively.

"What? No, of course not! I still Love him more than anyone else and I know he loves me too...I'm just so bored! Even just one exciting thing every few weeks would be fine, not ideal, but fine. Better than nothing!" She sighed "I'm half hoping he'll do something fantastic this weekend, you know, some grand romantic gesture for Valentines day!". Stella played with her bracelet absent-mindedly as Bloom yawned and stretched.

"Hey, I wonder what the girl are up too right about now?" she wondered.

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"Thank god its Friday!" Musa exclaimed loudly as she leant back in her chair.

After the days classes had ended, the Winx girls (Sans Stella and Bloom of course) had decided to go into the city to hangout, they'd done a little window shopping, hung out at the park and Right now they were all seated in a booth of a local ice cream parlour, right next to the window.

"Yeah, Professor Wizgiz's glass today almost put me to sleep it was that boring!" Layla said, digging into her small bowl of chocolate ice cream.

"Layla, it did put you to sleep! We were watching" Musa laughed, swiping a spoonful of Layla's ice cream as she did so.

"For real?" Layla blushed "Whoops, my bad. And hey, you have your own ice cream!"

"Yeah, but it's not chocolate" Musa said, reaching out her spoon for another swipe until Layla flicked it out of her hand. Musa just stuck out her tongue childishly and the two girls laughed at eachother.

"Well the class could have been worse" Said Tecna as she finished the last of her milkshake.

"You mean we could have ended up like poor Stella and Bloom?" Flora asked.

"Exactly, Its almost half past seven and they still haven't texted us!" The girls had over heard Professor Wizgiz earlier in the classroom , right after he'd kicked out Stella and Bloom, informing Griselda of their behaviour and that they should get a detention for it. "They must've really copped it bad if they're still out this late" The girls went quiet, feeling bad for their friends.

"I'm sure they'll be alright" Flora spoke up "We'll get back to Alfea before curfew and I'll bet they'll be sitting there waiting for-..."

Flora stopped talking, and her eyes widened. The other girls looked at her.

"Um, flo? ...Are you alright?" Musa asked, worriedly. Flora didn't even reply before she suddenly snapped out of her stupor and practically dived under the table. There was a pause. .hell was their friend doing "Okay, seriously Flora, what's up with you right now!" But then it became clear when Tecna tapped Musa on the shoulder and gestured outside the window to everyone. All three girls suddenly got it.

Helia was walking this way.

Flora had obviously spied him coming down the street towards the ice cream parlour . She gently raised her head to peek over the edge of the table, seeing if he would walk past. Her face was already blushed pink by this point. She glanced over at her friends. They all had knowing smirks on their faces. Flora blushed even harder "Oh shut up.." she said embarrassedly, still not coming out from under the table and the girls laughed.

"Flora, seriously, why don't you just ask him out?" Musa said, matter of factly.

"I cant do that! What if he says no!"

"He wont say no!" Musa butted in "Stop being so negative about it and just tell him how you feel instead of avoiding him forever"

Tecna leant her head under the table to talk to flora too "And Its not as if you can avoid him for forever anyway, even if you wanted too! All of the Red Fountain boys are going to the Valentines day dance this weekend so your bound to run into him"

Musa suddenly had an idea "That's it! A perfect opportunity! Instead of saying outright that you like him, you could just ask him to the Valentines Dance instead!"

"Hey, that's perfect!" Layla chimed in "Even if he says no, which I bet he wont, you can just play it off like you were asking him as a friend in the first place"

"Its the best way to see if he's interested in you back Flora, and no chance of embarrassment" Tecna added.

"No chance of embarrassment? Of course there's a chance of embarrassment!" Flora spluttered from under the table "If he rejects me that's definitely embarrassing, not to mention heart breaking!" flora quickly toned down her voice once she realised some people were staring, she was a hysterical girl hiding under a table after all "Even if I did want to ask him to go with me, which I guess I kind of do, every time he comes near me I get too nervous to say anything normal!My voice goes all funny and I turn red...he must just think I'm a total weirdo or something"

"Who would think your a total weirdo?"

All four girls jumped at once as a figure appeared right next to the table. It was Helia! While the girls were busy trying to calm down Flora, they hadn't even noticed him walk right into the ice cream parlour! He stood there, smiling down at Flora, an amused look on his 's mind instantly went blank. She tried to stand up, forgetting about the fact she was crouched under a table, and bang, smacked her head hard.

Smooth

"Ow!" she said lightly, clutching her head in pain. Helia and the other girls winced as they heard her head hit the solid plastic of the table, Musa tried to stifle a giggle and Layla put a hand over her mouth, embarrassed for the both of them. Tecna gave a swift kick to Musa's leg to shut her up.

"Um, need a hand there?" Helia asked politely, offering out his hand to help Flora up. As soon as Flora put her hand into Helia's that she had turned bright red. Not a good look. He pulled her up to her feet, but Flora kept her eyes focused straight towards the ground. It was hard enough being around Helia in the first place, having to face him after being caught hiding under a table and then being dumb enough to stand up under it? Almost impossible "Um, thank you...Helia"

Helia smiled down at her "Your welcome Flora"he said with a light laugh. Oh god, it was too much, she couldn't take it! He was probably laughing at her hysterically in his head, if he didn't think she was weird before he definitely thought it now! Flora wrenched her hand out of his grip.

"Oh, wow, look at the time, I think I'm going to be late for my daily, um, fencing..lessons" she blurted out nervously.

Fencing lessons? The girls and Helia stared at Flora.

"So, um, better get going and nice seeing you today and thank you for helping me up off the floor, wait, I already said that, so yeah...bye!" and with that she practically bolted out of the Ice cream parlour, her almost untouched sundae still sitting on the table. Helia just stood there confused. The other Winx girls slid themselves out of the booth past him, with Musa saying "We'll see you at the dance this Sunday" as she passed him, before joining the others to hurry after Flora.

"Wait!" Helia called out as Musa turned around "Did I say something wrong?" he asked,looking worriedly out the window to Flora, who was half way down the street by now, followed by the other girls.

Musa gave an awkward laugh as she went to the door herself to catch up "Of course not. She...she just really likes her fencing lessons...is all". She then quickly left, to avoid any other questions, leaving Helia now standing alone in the ice cream parlour.

"I didn't even know Flora took fencing lessons.."he muttered quietly to himself.

AN: If your reading this, thanks for getting through the first chapter! I know its really short (by my standards anyway) but this is only the beginning, and the next chapter will be up very soon. And I know this is a pretty slow start, But next chapter the girls will find the book and cast their spells...so that's where everything starts : review and tell me what you think so far though, I love hearing what you guys have to say and I'm keen to talk to some fellow Winx fans : ) and I always reply to reviews as well, and accept any constructive criticism you might have, I always want to improve!