A Fairly Loving Father
"Cosmo, come in here!" I heard my wife scream from the fishbowl. I was playing "Space Wars" with Timmy on his V cube when I heard her voice.
"Coming Wanda!" I shouted back. "Just as soon as I destroy Timmy's space ships."
"Cosmo, you come here this instant!" Oh oh, Wanda sounds like she's really mad at me for something. I decided to go and see what's bothering her. I put my controller down on the ground just as Timmy destroyed my last spaceship.
"Gotta go sport!" I told my godson. "Wanda sounds really upset about something, I'll be right back!"
"Well don't be too long!" Timmy told me. "I'll get us ready for another round!"
"You do that." I told him. "I won't be too long, I hope!" With that I left my godchild alone, playing with the V Cube Controller. I poofed into our castle, and went to our kitchen. There I saw my wife, and my son: Poof. My wife was feeding Poof some baby food while he sat on his highchair, when she saw me she put the spoon down on Poof's highchair, and glared at me.
"What's wrong dear?" I asked my wife.
"You didn't feed Poof while I was in Fairy World buying him diapers again did you!?"
"I didn't forget, I just…" I wanted to say that I didn't have time, but then I saw Wanda's narrowing eyebrows focused on me. I smiled, and then sighed; there was just no way that I could lie to her, when she gives me that look.
"Fine!" I finally said. "You caught me; I forgot to feed him again. But how did you know that I forgot?"
"Because when I got home I heard him crying, and pointing to his baby food saying "Dada! Dada!" like he always does when you forget to feed him."
"I'm sorry Wanda!" I told her with tears in my eyes. "I was just too busy playing with Timmy."
"You always say you're sorry whenever you forget to feed our baby!" She told me. Then she went to comfort me.
"Cosmo." She began. "You're a new father now, which means you have to stop playing with Timmy all the time, and take care of whatever our son needs. Remember you're responsible too for Poof's actions until he's 18. Cosmo please help me with this, I can't raise our son all on my own. Please Cosmo as your wife, would you help me out with this, and be more responsible?"
"Don't worry, I will!" I promised, cheering up.
"Thanks Cosmo!" She said, and then hugged me.
"Well you can go now!" She said, letting me go. "Be careful next time!"
"I will" I prominced her. I kissed her on the cheek, and then went back to Timmy.
"OK Timmy, I'm back!" I told him when I was a fairy again, and picked up my controller. "Let's play, I'm ready for anything!"
"Cosmo, what was that all about? Timmy asked me.
"Oh, well Wanda was just mad at me for forgetting to feed Poof again. Nothing really." I told him. Timmy looked at me for a moment, and then turned back to the screen.
"Well ok." He said. "You know you got to be more responsible for Poof too."
"Yeah, I know." We started playing.
A few minutes later, I was down to my last spaceship (Timmy had all of his still left like always.) I was playing hard, Timmy's ship got behind mine, and stot a laser wiping my ship away. I lost the battle!
"Darn it!" I said, throwing the controller on the floor. "I'll never beat you at anything!" I went to by the window and sighed, frowning at the floor. Timmy put his controller down, and then went over to comfort me.
"Relax Cosmo!" he told me. "I'm sure there's at least one good thing you're good at!"
"Like what?"
"Well you're…" he thought a moment. "You're good at being Wanda's husband."
"Well yeah but, I'm not good at anything else." He thought some more.
"You're good at being an idiot!"
"Thanks a lot! But I bet even a starfish is a better idiot then me." I sighed again. "Let's face it Timmy, I'm useless!" I began to cry with my hands over my eyes. Timmy won't give up, he thought some more, and then snapped his fingers.
"That's it!"
"What's it?" I took my hands away from my face, and looked at him.
"Cosmo, we got to find your inner talent, something you're good at!"
"But Timmy, I told you before I have no talent, I mess everything up, I'm nothing but a loser."
"That's not true; everybody's a winner at something! We just got to figure what that something is, now come on and let's go hunt down that talent!" With that he started dragged me outside.
"Timmy, what are we doing out her?" I asked him when we were outside. Timmy let go of my arm. He went into his garage, when he returned he had a basketball in his hand.
"Timmy!" I said. "I thought that we were talent hunting, not basketball hunting."
"Relax!" he reassured me. "We are. This upcoming question is like the easiest question on the face of the planet." He held the basketball towards me. "Now what color is this basketball?"
"What does this have to do with me?" I asked him.
"It'll prove that you're a winner at something. Now what is this basketball's color?" I looked at the basketball in my god kid's hand long and hard.
"Purple?" I finally said.
"Nope! Not purple, try again!"
"Blue?"
"Nope!"
"Black?"
"Cosmo come on, it's not that hard! Look at the ball!"
"It's hard for newborns and for dogs that can only see in black and white and…"
"Cosmo!"
"Ok ok jeez! No need to be commanding about it!"
5 minutes later, I guessed all the basic colors that I could think of. Timmy said I was close when I said "red."
"OK Cosmo, do you give up? Timmy asked.
"Fine, I give up!" I sighed.
"It's orange Cosmo!"
"I thought it was orange!" I lied. Timmy glared at me, and then we moved on to our next activity.
"OK, next we are going to do is dribble the ball gently like so." He began dribbling the ball. I looked in amazement. "See you dribble it by pushing you hand down on it." He grabbed the ball, and handed it to me.
"OK, now you try!" I took the ball from him.
"I won't let you down Timmy!" I promised him.
"Good, now let see you do it!" I dropped the ball, it bounced back up, I looked at it, and SMACK! It hit me in the face! I fell flat on the ground.
"Cosmo! Cosmo!" Timmy shouted, running by my side. "Are you all right?! Speak to me and say something!" I sat up and turned to him.
"Yeah, I'm all right." I told him and stood up. "Man, that's one mean ball!"
"Let's take it from the top!" Timmy muttered, and grabbed the ball.
A few mess ups later (from me), we decided to play a little basketball for fun. I was of course losing. The score was 9-0, but I tried my very best. Timmy made the last shot when Wanda appeared with Poof. Poof was asleep in his crib. Timmy cheered for his victory.
"Glad to see you two having fun!" Wanda told us. "Now it's time for Cosmo to take Poof to the zoo for father and son bonding."
"Father and son bonding?" I asked. "That sounds gross!"
"No, I mean spending time with our son."
"Can't you do it? I'm too busy with Timmy, trying to find my "inner talent."
"Can't! I got to go celebrate Father's day with Big Daddy and my sister!"
"Father's day?"
"Ooh that reminds me!" Timmy suddenly said. "I got to go and make pancakes for my dad before he wakes up, bye!" He began for the door. "Have fun you two!" He went inside, shutting the door behind him.
"Can't we just stay here?" I asked my wife.
"No, you got to take Poof to the zoo." She told me. "You already take Poof to Charlie cheeses too much, Poof never been to the zoo before."
"Fine, but I'll mess up again." Wanda went over and toughed my shoulder. "No you won't, as long as you keep your eyes on him." She let go of me, looked at her watch, and gasp.
"I better get going!" She kissed me. "Bye honey, have fun with Poof!" And with that, my wife was gone! I grabbed Poof who woke up from his nap.
OK Poof!" I told him in my arms. "To the zoo!" I poofed us to the Fairy World Zoo.
At the zoo we saw every animal there (even the dolphin and bird shows Poof loved petting the stingrays at the aquarium).
We sat on the brick ledge outside across from the meer cats. I herd my tummy growling. I was hungry. I went to go get some ice creams, and told Poof to stay put while daddy was getting ice cream. At the ice cream stand, I waited in line, than I asked for two ice cream cones. The man gave me to ice creams. I headed back toward the brick ledge.
"Ok Poof, I got our ice creams. Now let's go and…" I gasped when I got to the ledge, and dropped the ice creams to the ground. Poof was missing!