It's been one week after the Rock World Tour incident and Trollex and I were closer than ever. 

We've been working on repairing the reef from the incident, which wasn't going so well. None of us techno trolls can figure out how to make the coral grow back, the DJ booth, EEvery time I was with him, I felt my face turn red.

Sometimes I could catch him blushing too. 

One day we were sitting in Trollex's room, writing another song. I laid on the bed while he sat at his desk with paper and a pencil. We spit balled ideas back and forth till a maid named Irene came in with a letter. "Your majesty, you have a letter."

Trollex got up from his desk and swam over to her as she handed him the letter. "Thank you Irene." He said with a smile.

She smiled back at him. Trollex turned around in my direction and opened the letter. He unfolded the card as a voice came out of a pop up.

Dear Trollex,                                                                                                             How are you doing? Hopefully I'll be able to hear all about it. Anyway, I was wondering if you wanted to come meet up with the other leaders. I think we are meeting at Symphonyville, tomorrow at noon, but I'll let you know if there are any changes. Also if Roxie wants to come, she can. She and the leader seem to be getting along super well.                                                                            

         Hope to see you guys,                                                                                                                 Poppy 💖🦄🌸

We both looked at the cut out of Poppy, which slowly turned to Poppy, Branch, Barb, Delta, Trollzart, Quincy, Essence, Trollex, and me. The nine of us said "Yay! Bonding!"

We both looked at the card and smiled. Oh Poppy. I thought.

"Are we going to go?" I asked.

"Yeah, I think so." Trollex said as he swam over to his desk, pulled out a new piece of paper, and started writing.

Dear Poppy,                                                                                                                 Of course Roxie and I will come. We will try to be there early. See you then.                  

                     Trollex 💚💙💜                                                                                                                                                                                           

He folded the letter and slipped it into an envelope. "Irene, could you send this to Poppy?" He asked.

"Of course." She nodded as she took the letter and left. 

"After we finish our song, we should start packing. We're probably going to be at Symphonyville for a night." Trollex said as he turned to me.

"Yeah, true." I said. "But let's finish the song first."

After we finished up the song, I went home to go pack. 

I swam home with my head lifted up high.

I swam into my house and got my suitcase out. I usually wouldn't need much luggage, but I wanted to pack some nice clothes since we were going to Symphonyville.

After I finished packing some clothes, I flopped down on my bed. I picked up my phone and read "10:37" in pastel rainbow ombre numbers. 

I turned my head on my pillow and fell asleep quickly.

~~~

My alarm went off and shocked me awake. I jumped a little and slammed my alarm off. I rubbed my hands down my face. I peeled my eyes open and hopped out of bed, already full of energy.

I quickly swam to my kitchen, got a quick breakfast, and grabbed my suitcase on the way out. 

I was swimming so quickly that I bumped into someone. I closed my eyes as I braced for the impact.

When the two of us hit, I dropped my suitcase, causing it to open and some of my luggage fell out.

"What the - YOU!?" The troll yelled at me. I opened my eyes to see none other than Shi.

I sighed. "I don't have the time for this, I got to go." I responded as I gave her an eye roll and started to pick up my luggage.

"Me!? I'm not the one annoying you all the time, you're the one always bumping into me!" Shi yelled back furiously.

"I may not be perfect, but at least I'm not you." I said as I closed my suitcase, crossed my arms, and smirked at her. She was super upset at this point.

I picked up my luggage. "Now I'm gonna need you to put your few remaining brains cells together and listen. I got to go. Good-bye." And I swam away.

I rushed over to LED Palace to see if Trollex was packed and ready. 

Sure enough he was...the question was if he was awake...and he wasn't.

The guards had let me into the palace as I creaked the door open to his bed. He was laying on his left side, his right side facing me. He had his neon green dreadlocks flowing down his body and bed.

I sat down on the side of his bed and looked down at him lovingly. But then I got an idea.

I smirked at him before I reached for his phone and went to see when he set his alarm for. He had set his alarm for eight, while it was six fivety-eight.

I glanced quickly back at Trollex to see if he had woken up, then back at the phone and started typing. I ended up turning the alarm to seven.

I set the phone back on the nightstand and got up in case he was spooked.

The alarm went off and Trollex literally jump of his bed and to the floor. He opened his eyes and glared at me. 

At this point I couldn't hold the laughter in. Trollex sighed and reached his arm behind him to shut his alarm off.

I put my face above his head. "Good morning Sleepy Fins." I said with a smirk.

He couldn't hold in his smile anymore. He sat up and nudged me with his elbow. That made me giggle a little more. 

He turned to his dresser, grabbed his hair tie, and tied this hair into a high ponytail.

"Come on, we have to get going." I said when I stopped laughing.

"What!? It's only seven!?" Trollex said in playful anger.

"So, Symphonyville is, what, three hours away?" I said responded.

He opened his mouth to say something, but then took it back and just glared at me, knowing I was right. 

He grabbed his suitcase and we started to head to the classical trolls home.

~~~

We basically just swam the way, talking and laughing.

When we got the closest we could to Symphonyville by water, we got out and went to the elevator next to us.

We went into the elevator that lead us above the clouds.

The whole town was made of pastel yellow buildings with instrument carvings as windows and doors. The ground was all cloud. When we lowered onto the ground, it felt fluffy and soft of the bottom of my fins.

I pulled out my phone real quick to check the time. My phone read "10:19".

"Greetings, I didn't expect expect you two till a little later." 

We turned around to see Conductor Trollzart.    

"Hehe yeah, that was because of her." Trollex said pointing to me. I just rolled my eyes at him.

"Well, however, we did get your room set up, we didn't have enough empty rooms for everyone, you we set you two up with a room together." Trollzart said with a smirk. 

"Uh, yeah, that's fine." Trollex said as the two of us blushed.

"If you two would like, after you get settled into your room, I could give you a tour." Trollzart offered.

"That would be nice, thank you." I said, still blushing at Trollzart's room arrangements.

Trollzart nodded and led us to the place we're staying. Once we flew in, Trollzart stayed at the door. "Just call me when you're unpacked, then we can do a tour." With that being said, he flew out.

Our place had dark gold walls with pastel yellow designs. The floor was wood and had a fluffy pastel yellow rug with golden glitter. There was a fancy tan couch behind the rug and two chairs like the couch on opposite sides of the rug. On the opposite side of the couch was a stone fire place.

We went into the bedroom to see a king-sized bed with a pastel yellow bed cover with a red floral design. Next to the bed, there were two brown, wood patterned bed stands with my side having a phone. Above the bed were two lights above each side of the bed.

We both set our suitcases on our sides of the bed, I got the right and Trollex got the left. We started to unpack, but I wanted to hide the dresses and make-up. From what I know, Trollex doesn't know about the dresses and had never seen me wearing make-up, so I decided to surprise him. 

Once we got everything unpacked, I swam over to the phone on my dresser and dialed Trollzart's number, which was also on the nightstand.

When Trollzart picked up the phone, he was the first to speak up. "You two unpacked?"

"Yup, we just finished." I said and glanced over at Trollex who sat on the bed and laid his head on his pillow.

"Okay then, I'll be over in ten." He said over the phone.

"Okay, see ya." I said as I hung up.

I laid down on my side and looked at Trollex. He looked back at me with a loving look.

For the next 10 minutes, I picked up my book on my nightstand and read while Trollex started brainstorming for songs in his black notebook with his name in neon rainbow letters. 

Both of us looked up from our books when we heard a knock on the door. Trollex set down his notebook and opened the door to see Trollzart.

Trollex called back to me that Trollzart was here. I set my book down on my nightstand and swam over to them.

"Also, Delta is here as well, so she will be joining us, if that's fine." Trollzart told us.

"Yep, that's fine." Trollex said. 

Trollzart led us over to the center of Symphonyville, where Delta already was. She looked at the two of us and smirked. We both rolled our eyes.

"Stop doing that, we're just friends." I said smiling.

"Yeah, we're just friends." Trollex said as well.

Trollzart and Delta exchanged looked. "Sure~." They both said, still smirking.

"Anyway..." I said looking down at my phone. "It's ten twenty-three, we only have probably thirty-seven minutes before everyone comes."

"Right, this way." Trollzart said as he motioned us to follow him.

~~~

After thirty minutes, we decided to head back to welcome the others.

~~~

When we got back, it was eleven o' five according to my phone.

Trollex, Delta, and, I decided to head back to our places while Trollzart greeted the other leaders.

"Yeah, I need to get ready, I need to get into some fancy wear. Y'all 're lucky you don't need to getten yourselves ready. It tires me out sometimes." Delta said looking at me and Trollex. Little did she know, or anyone for that matter, I was dressing up.

We went home, while Trollex flopped back in bed and started working on songs again, I snuck a dress and makeup out and headed to the bathroom.

After I was done, I was wearing a strapless neon purple dress with frilly transparent purple sleeves with purple roses. I was also wearing a pair of matching flower earrings. I had purple glitter eyeshadow with hot pink blush.

Trollex knocked on the door. "Hey, are you done getting ready yet? It's eleven forty-one, so we should get go-." Trollex started to say as I opened the door.

Once he saw me, he stopped talking with his mouth still open to talk, but nothing came out. I could see a red hue came onto his cheeks. It must had been contagious because I started to blush too, so much it came though my make-up.

"Y-you look...amazing!..." He managed to spill out. He still had his jaw down a little.

I giggled and closed his mouth gently with my right hand as I grinned slightly. "As you said. We've got to go." I said, still giggling a bit. He nodded slowly and flowed me out the door as if he were possessed.

~~~

After a short ten minute walk, we reached the Ballet Ballroom, where Trollzart told us to meet him.

We walked in to see a whole bunch of trolls from different genres, mostly classical, setting up for a party.

Of course there's a party. I though. We're trolls.

We walked to the back of the ballroom to see a door that said "Leader Meeting" on it in fancy lettering.

Trollex gently knocked on the door, but there was no response. We exchanged looks before he knocked again. Trollex turned the knob slowly and pushed the door open to reveal a long table with many chairs, but no one was inside.

"I bet they're on their way." I said as we hovered in.

We sat down in two chairs next to each other and talked till Trollzart, Quincy, Essence, and Delta came in.

Trollzart wore his every day robe, but did put on a bow tie. Delta wasn't wearing her hat, but she did have her sheriff pin pinned to her teal dress she was wearing. Quincy was wearing a his usual clothing while Essence had her hair down and a pearl necklace. 

"Hey everyone." Trollex said as I waved. 

"Hey you two, how's life been?" Quincy asked taking a seat next to where his wife sat.

"Pretty well, construction's a lot right now, the coral won't grow back properly, so that's a problem. Other than that, just fine." Trollex said. "I wanted to say that though before Barb got here, I don't want to make her feel worse."

"Ahem."

Everyone turned to the door to see Poppy, Branch, and Barb.

Poppy had her blue flower petal dress on, her headband with a large blue flower on it, and a pearl bracelet instead of her hug watch. Branch had his hair pressed back and was wearing a black tuxedo. 

And Barb...well... "We couldn't get her to wear anything." Poppy said.

"Same here, Quincy wouldn't put on anything else." Queen Essence said with a small chuckle.

Quincy just responded by rolling his eyes. "Now you'll all see why I don't wear a full on outfit, If I don't have to do it, I'm not." Trollzart said motioning to his robe.

"Yeah, but sometimes you should dress up for certain occasions." I said to the three of them.

"I got to agree with them. I'm not even wearing much but I feel like I'm being choked." Trollex said as he slipped a finger under the neck tie strap and pulling in to loosen it. I hit him with my elbow under the table with a smirk.

All us girls except for Barb exchanged looks. "Anyway, what's the sudden meeting about?" I asked.

"Just wanted to get together, you know, catch up, talk about how rebuilding's going..." Poppy said, counting on her fingers.

Once Poppy mentioned "rebuilding", Barb looked down, along with her ears. I motioned Poppy to stop and she stopped right away.

Everyone took their seats and we all started talking. We avoided the topic of construction, but we did talk about how our ruling had been from the past compared to all the tribes being together.

"Branchy has been helping me recently with parties and ruling in general, so has our Snackpack, but Branch has always had my back." Poppy said as Branch proudly nodded beside her.

"Well, we are so glad to have our son back." Essence said.

"Yes, they have really been a help with calming everyone down, both Cooper and D." Quincy finished.

"Pennywhisle has been trying to help out recently, and how could I say no." Trollzart said, followed by everyone laughing.

"I've been doing a lot of cleanin' up lately, Clampers has been wantin' to help, but I'm just too afraid of her gettin' hurt." Delta explained.

"Roxie, Beat, and I have been working together to calm everyone down and to...fix some damage." Trollex said glancing over at Barb, hoping to not upset her.

"What about you Barb?" Poppy asked.

This seemed knock her out off some thoughts. "Oh, uh, not much..."

"You alright?" Poppy asked.

"Um, yeah, I'm just fine..." Barb said.

Poppy slowly nodded. 

"Barb...I think I speak for all of us here, but we all forgive you, we understand that you have changed..." Essence said.

We all nodded in agreement.

"Thanks..." Barb said.

"Okay, now to start the meeting. So I was thinking-" Poppy started to say, but was cut of by a voice outside.

"Hey everyone! It's time to start the party, which means it's time for our traditional starting dance!" The outside voice said, followed by cheers from the crowd.

Trollzart got up. "Oh, I forgot to mention. Us classical trolls have a tradition where we dance before every party."

"Well in that case..." Poppy said before pulling Branch to the dance floor.

We all laughed and followed them.

Quincy brought Essence to the dance floor while Hickory asked Delta to dance. Trollzart took the hand of Allegra, a female classical troll. Barb refused to dance with anyone.

I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around to see Trollex, blushing. "W-will you dance with me...?" He said as he bowed with his hand out to me.

I blushed a lot and took his hand. "Y-yeah, s-sure."

The music started to play in the background. 

Trollex pulled me to the floor. He placed his right hand on my hip and the left on my shoulder. I put my left hand on his hip and my right on his shoulder.

She slowly spun around in circles as the two of us said nothing. We both blushed more and more as we danced on.

"Trollex, I-I've been meaning to ask..." I said quietly while still blushing.

"Ask what?" He asked.

"W...will you be my boyfriend...?" I asked nervously.

Trollex pulled me a bit closer. "Yes! I've been meaning to ask the same thing."

I was surprised by his response. "R-really?"

His eyes met mine, and I have never realized how gorgeous they were. 

He just nodded, which made me smile. 

The music cut out, which meant the party began, and so did the leaders meeting.

Trollex and I broke the hug up, but still held hands while blushing.

When we hovered back into the meeting room, everyone was looking at us, since everyone got there before us. 

"So you two are finally a couple now?~" Delta asked with a sly smirk on her face.

Trollex and I looked at each other and smiled. "Actually, we are." Trollex said.

"Ha, took you long enough." Trollzart laughed.

"Eeee! I'm so happy for you two!" Poppy squealed. 

"Trust me, love is one of the best feelings you'll ever feel." Quincy said, kissing Essence's cheek. 

"Okay, now, back to the meeting." Poppy said before going off, talking about ideas for staying in contact and other things.

But I wasn't paying too much attention, because I was more focused on Trollex.

I now feel so relieved to know my feelings weren't just one way.