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A bright golden light shone down on my sprawled form, illuminating the blankness behind my closed eyelids. They groggily opened and I flinched, momentarily blinded by the light shining directly in my face. I sat up and ran my hand through my tangled mess of hair that had yet to be brushed. My heavy eyes were still swimming with black dots. As I blinked, I realized that it was still dark outside. I groaned and closed my tired eyes again, leaning against the pillows.
"Ellie?" An excited girl's voice brought me to a more stable sense of awareness. I opened one of my eyes just a crack. The tiny silhouette of a young child stood in the doorway, holding a flashlight. I groaned in response. "Ellie, I found her! I found the Tooth Fairy!" The little girl hopped over and sat down next
to me on the bed, turning the flashlight off with a clicking sound. She opened her palm slowly for me to see. I tilted my head and looked at her quizzically, and she returned the blank stare. " Ellie, don't you see her?" The child had a look of confusion, and shock, along with something I couldn't quite put my finger on. I shook my head. "Ellie, please! She's right here, in my hand!" She was practically begging. Her imagination was so vivid. She couldn't have been trying to fool me. My little sister never lied to me. Could she be right? Was it possible that the Tooth Fairy was real? Lily was just a little girl, though. What did she know? "Ellie!" I snapped out of my ponderings and looked at her, when I saw something very peculiar.
Her short, honey brown hair was glinting in the soft silver moonlight , as if it was covered with freshly fallen snow. A shiver racked my spine, and when I looked around, I saw frost forming on the window, swirling into beautiful patterns that I hadn't seen before. Was it possible for this to be a dream? There wasn't any way of finding out. Sudden drowsiness caused me to forget about the frost, and I looked back at Lily when something cold hit the back of my head. I don't know what happened, but all I could see after that was Lily's big, brown, innocent eyes staring up at me. And I realized that she really wasn't kidding. I smiled at her, and saw something shimmering in her hand. It was about the size of a hummingbird, but with much more vibrant colors. I gasped and before I was able to make any sounds, Lily quickly cupped her free hand over my mouth. "Shhh!" She held her finger up to her lips and smiled. I grinned back with wide eyes. A tiny laugh escaped my lips in excitement. My little sister giggled back, and we both broke into a fit of laughter. We both quieted down quickly in fear of waking our sleeping parents, and Lily placed the Tooth Fairy on the bed. The fairy placed something in Lily's open hand and closed it, giving it a little pat. She flew up quickly and zoomed out of the open window, barely looking back at us.
I peered at Lily's hand in curiosity, and she opened it, holding up the item for me to see. It was a quarter. I bit my lip to refrain from making any noises, because I was ready to squeal. I laid down on my bed, even though I probably wouldn't be able to sleep anytime soon. I motioned for Lily to come lay down besides me, and she curled up under the covers close to me. A memory suddenly surfaced in my head and I sat right up. Lily murmured, "What is it?" I jumped out of bed, unable to lay down. "What? What happened?" Lily sat up, too.
I knelt down and began speaking in a hushed yet excited tone. "Remember when you weren't born? No, wait. When I was six, and you weren't born, I saw Santa Claus." Lily's eyes widened, even bigger than you would think possible. "It was Christmas Eve, and I fell asleep on the couch when I was watching television. Mom and dad were on the other couch, and they were almost asleep." Lily leaned forward and brought her knees up to her chin. "I heard a really loud sound and I woke up. And there he was! He was putting the presents under the tree. And he smiled and jumped out the window." I closed my eyes, reliving the moment.
"Was he downright jolly?" Lily asked in wonder. She yawned. The poor girl was tired.
"You bet he was. He had the reddest cheeks, and the happiest smile, and blue eyes almost as big as yours!" I got back in the bed, still smiling. I wonder who else is real, I thought to myself.
"Is the Easter Bunny real?" Lily must have been reading my thoughts. I shrugged.
"Probably. I bet that they're all real. Every single one. The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman...wouldn't it be strange if Bigfoot was real? I don't know. I heard that he was sighted in Minnesota. That's pretty close to here. Anybody else you can think of?" Lily was snoring by now. I sighed and walked over to the window, mesmerized by the frost patterns still glittering. I chuckled since I knew that this had never happened, that this was all just a freakishly vivid dream. It would all be forgotten. The Tooth Fairy, the memory that was probably just one that my mind had dreamed up, the frost on the window, and the mesmerizing golden streams of sand outside...wait, what? I snapped out of my deep thoughts and pressed my face up against the window like a little kid waiting for the ice cream truck. I opened the window and cool air caressed my face. One of the streams of sand snaked right into the open window, zipping through the room like a dragonfly, wandering until it started swirling over Lily's head. My wide eyes and shock quickly transformed into laughter and, once again, excitement. I ran over and jumped onto the bed. The sand twisted and leaped, forming into extremely detailed animations, with leaping dolphins and space shuttles rocketing throughout the room. "Wow..." I slowly whispered. My hand reached out by itself. I barely even realized that I had no control of it. The sand swirled around my arm, getting closer and closer to my face. It crept farther and farther, glowing and reflecting off of my face. It reached my shoulder and seemed to caress my cheek. But then it reared back like a snake ready to strike, and The last thing I remember was blacking out.
That was more than four years ago.
Did you like it? Did ya? did ya? DID YA?! Okay, at least I got that out of my system. Sorry. Just so excited! Yeah, this is almost a complete re-write of my other fic. Just a new character, plot, blah, blah, blah. Don't you just love using bold font? I don't know. Sorry. I keep on saying sorry, don't I? Oh, well. See you soon, my lovelies! ~CRJ