Okay, so this is gonna be a rather long story about how Cosmo and Wanda met. I hope you like it! I do not own The Fairly Oddparents.
(FYI: I'm basing Wanda's friends on the ones depicted in "School's Out: The Musical" during Floating With You. And Cosmo's friend Gem is an original creation of mine.)
Forever's Beginning
It was a bright and sunny summer day in Fairy World, and everyone was out enjoying it. Except say, for one pink haired fairy, who couldn't seem to smile, even if she tried.
"Oh come on Wanda," Her blue haired friend spoke to her as they walked down the street. "You know how guys can be! It doesn't matter if Wandissimo looks at other girls, he doesn't do anything with them!"
"But Andi, it's gotten to the point where he doesn't pay attention to me! It's like I don't even exist! He's too busy flirting with every other girl he sees. And" she added. "He's so vain! If he's not looking at other girls, he's looking at himself."
"Look," Andi started, "all I'm saying is that you should think it over one more time before you dump the sexiest fairy in school. Okay?"
"Alright." Wanda unenthusiastically agreed.
Though Wanda already knew that she wouldn't. She'd been unhappy with Wandissimo for a long time now. Sure he was sexy, exotic, and knew how to sweet talk a girl, but that wasn't enough. Wanda wanted someone who wanted her and only her, someone who would actually listen and care. Someone genuine, who actually loved her. Not someone who just kept her around as eye candy. She'd wanted to leave Wandissimo for a while now, but she just never got the chance. Whenever they were together, they never seemed to be alone. There were her friends who would ogle over him, her father and sister who would praise him, and the girls that would flock by the dozens just to get a look at him. He may be a jerk, but Wanda thought that he deserved a clean break up.
Wanda was so lost in her thoughts that she hadn't noticed that they arrived at their destination. Her, Andi, and their friend Scarlett agreed to meet up at the local diner for lunch today to discuss their senior prom. Wanda thought it seemed ridiculous to talk about something that was months away, but she humored her friends nonetheless.
Wanda and Andi entered the restaurant and searched for their friend. However, Scarlett had found them first.
"Yoo-hoo! Over here!" She screamed from a booth by the front window. Wanda and Andi waved in response and went to sit with her.
Meanwhile, out back, two workers were chatting away.
"Hey Gem, why do you do that?" The green haired waiter asked.
"Because Cosmo," the red head paused for a moment to take another drag of his cigarette, "I don't wanna puss out on anything. Life's about takin' risks and trying new things. And I'm hell bent on tryin' it all." He chuckled. "Plus, it don't hurt that my ma hates it."
"Okay." Cosmo agreed. He never did understand Gem all that much. Gem was always looking for trouble and Cosmo couldn't seem to get away from it. Cosmo was accident prone, VERY accident prone, and had been for as long as he could remember. When he was four, he turned his father into a fly, at six his pet dragon had burned his house down a few times, and by 10, he'd already blown up Fairy World twice! No matter how hard he tried no to, Cosmo always seemed to find a way to mess things up.
It sometimes made him wonder how he and Gem were such good friends. They'd been friends forever, and they often referred to each other as brothers. But they were total opposites. Gen didn't care about rules, and always did whatever he felt like, whenever he felt like it. Gem would never listen to his parents, and he barely tried in school. Gem didn't seem to care about anything, except of course, for Cosmo. Gem would always watch out for his dim-witted friend, and for that Cosmo was grateful.
Gem stomped out his cigarette and opened the rusty back door.
"Come on Cos, better get back in before the boss catches us."
They both went back inside, only to find their manager, Big Al, waiting for them.
"Gem! Get over to table 19 and get bussin'! A big party just came in!"
"Sir, yes sir!" Gem said cockily with a false salute.
Before he could get yelled at some more, Gem flew off.
"And you!" Al pointed a finger down at Cosmo, "Table three has been waiting for their food for 20 minutes! Get over there!"
"Ye… Yes sir. Sorry!"
Cosmo grabbed the tray and darted over to the table as fast as he could.
"So Wanda," Scarlett started. "How are things between you and Wandissimo?"
Wanda cringed. She hadn't yet told her friend about her intentions of leaving him. She'd wanted to put off telling her until after she'd done so. Andi was understanding and would support her decision, but Scarlett… Not so much.
"Well," Wanda began. "I've been thinking about it, and I've decided that I don't want to be with him anymore…" She finished off sheepishly, preparing for the outburst she was sure to come.
"WHAT!?" Scarlett screeched. "How could you NOT want to be with WANDISSIMO!? He's so sexy and popular!"
"Well that doesn't mean anything if he doesn't care about me!" Wanda retorted.
"Oh look," Andi said quickly, trying to distract her friends. "Here comes our food."
"Don't be ridiculous Wanda!" Scarlett scoffed, completely ignoring Andi's comment. "He always says that he loves you!"
Wanda was furious at this point. "Well maybe I don't love him! Now drop it!"
At that moment, someone listened to her, but it wasn't Scarlett, rather it was their waiter.
Alrighty guys, that concludes the first chapter of my first ACTUAL story! Just a warning: The next chapter is going to be divided into two: Cosmo's POV, then Wanda's. And for anyone who's curious, I've roughly laid out the story: It's gonna run from their first meeting to their wedding, and it's looking like 20 chapters (give or take a few).
