Glitter Isn't Always Pretty
By: LadyNightSky
Summary: AU from Second Season on."I'm the kind of girl that you glance at briefly on the street, than forget about. I'm the very definition of ordinary, of normalcy…" Flora's life may seem perfect, but that just shows how much you know. She's always been the wallflower, the one that fades quietly into the background. That's all about to change.
A/N: Hey, Flora can't be perfectly sweet all the way through. This is just her venting her true feelings.
This is like an abstract re-write of the Second Season, since I didn't like it much at all, from Flora's viewpoint in the form of diary entries. In the future, it might include miscellaneous Winx girl and RF boy diary entries/thoughts as well.
September 8, 2005
Dear Diary,
I'm the kind of girl that you glance at briefly on the street, than forget about.
I'm the very definition of ordinary, of normalcy.
My friends, on the other hand, are the embodiment of everything beautiful and wild and good in life.
When we go out, my friends glitter while I fade quietly into the background.
Bloom has power and strength, and a magnetic pull that draws people to her. Musa has huge talent and a personality that makes her unforgettable. Stella has a sparkling, irresistible demeanor and beauty that is revered by all. Tecna has intelligence and wit, a brilliance that sets her apart.
And me? I have the reputation for being a shy, naïve, conservative little girl. I've always been the wallflower, ever since elementary school. I came to Alfea hoping to escape my status as a prude, to leave my past behind me, to find true friends…to find true love.
And I have done one part. The Winx are like an extension of me, the part that wants to be crazy and spontaneous and unpredictable, the part I can't seem to draw out, but a part of me nevertheless.
Occasionally they forget me; I can't blame them. Occasionally they tease me, which hurts a million times worse. "Goodie two shoes" when I'm merely pointing out the trouble we could get into. "Killjoy" when I ruin a prank. "Ice princess" when I don't go to dances.
Apparently, my extensions are also the cruel parts of me.
But it's a moot point. They're my best friends, and it's part of my job as a friend to put up with their elbow-jabbing.
Love, on the other hand, is a bit different.
Do you know how horrible it feels when your friends blow you off to hangout with a pack of steroids they have the audacity to call boyfriends?
Or when Valentines' rolls around and everyone is counting how many pink, perfumed hearts and boxes of chocolates they've gotten, while you haven't even gotten so much as a smile from your friends at the blood red roses you grew especially for them to wear?
Alfea's officially starting classes tomorrow. All day today, Bloom made me sit around while she made "coochie coo" faces at the blonde load of meat she calls her soulmate, when I could've been researching my newest Lilify Flower.
I know I sound really bitter, but if I had a boyfriend, I'd NEVER ditch them for him, not matter what he looked like or how good a boost my reputation would get when people found out I was dating him.
It's kind of corny that I'm keeping a diary, and the girls would tease me mercilessly if they ever found out, but I need someone to hear me out, even if that someone is a green stack of papers bound in pink leather.
I've put a Level One Security spell on this book anyways. I want to get better grades this year, and the last thing I need as a distraction is my secrets spilled all over school.
Well, goodbye diary, the girls are calling me for some reason or other now, and I better go.
Flora
A/N: Yes, Flora is very OOC and the Winx Girls sound very bitchy. Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, aren't they?
Well, please R&R, it'll only take about ten seconds of your life and I want to know if this is worth continuing.
:)Bee