Lenora's green eyes twinkled as she leaned forward, staring at her reflection in the water. Her ears pointed at the tips and her cheeks sparkled green, as if they had glitter on them. In the reflection of the water you could see something with a teal color twitch from behind her. She turned and examined her wings, watching as they stretched and receded repeatedly. Her back relaxed as she took in her surroundings and stood upright. The dirt below her felt cool as she pressed her bare feet further down. The sound of a twig snapping made her wings twitch and her eyes widen; she proceeded to turn invisible and pick her bracelet up from the ground.
Two hikers walked past, a man and a woman. Lenora's watchful eye cautiously peered down from the top of a tree. She snapped her bracelet onto her right wrist, forcing her to turn visible and look more human, and jumped down from the branch- landing with ease. She remained barefoot in a pair of jean shorts and a cut up old t-shirt. Following her instincts she ran the opposite way of the path the couple were on.
No one could know. It was the deal she had with her mother. No one finds out about her and she gets to keep her abilities. It wasn't something she could, or would, risk; losing her abilities would make her mortal. Being mortal was the worst possible thing that could happen to a magical being. Elves, mermaids, sprites, werewolves, wizards: they could deal with the loss of their abilities; the last two more so than the others. Mermaids are connected to the waters; and elves, sprites and faeries are connected to the Earth.
If she lost the one thing that made her feel special, being a faery, then she lost everything. Her soul, her mind and her body; being a fae is what makes her.
"How do you aim this thing?" Alex whispered to herself, eying the bow in her hands carefully.
"You've used it before! You'd think you would remember," Harper explained to her as they watched Lenora studying with Max goofing off beside her. "How hard can it be? Just aim, and shoot!" Alex glared, fearing that the obvious had completely slipped through Harper's mind.
"Harper! I have to aim for the butt; and you know what I can't see? His butt! They're sitting down, so this is going to be harder than expected." Alex replied with a scowl on her face.
"Why are we doing this again?"
"Because Max is clueless to the obvious."
"You mean oblivious?"
"Sure, I guess, look- I don't need a vocabulary lesson right now! I need to make Max fall in love with Lenora, with this arrow!" Alex pointed to the arrow in her hand with the heart on the end of it.
"I'm gonna get a drink," Max stood and looked down to Lenora, "you want anything?" Alex saw this as her chance and aimed the arrow, watching as it hit it's target. Max jumped and hearts flew from the arrow, encasing him. When they dispersed, Max grinned and leaned down. Alex fist punched the air and then her smile faded as she saw that Max was hugging and caressing the couch cushion.
"Uh, Max? Are you alright?" Lenora asked, watching as Max started to kiss the cushion.
Max sighed content and replied, "just fine."
"Oh that's it!" Alex whisper/yelled to herself. Harper followed Alex to the lair and watched as she pulled out a potion. "Can you get me two glasses?" Harper nodded and came back with two glasses, sitting them in front of Alex.
"Why do you need the glasses?" Harper asked as she watched Alex smile devilishly before pouring the potion into each glass. A puff of smoke came from each glass and Alex giggled.
"They each take a drink of these glasses, and poof!" Harper jumped at Alex's exclamation, "they're in love!" Alex whispered to herself, "I hope it counteracts the arrow." Alex hurried out of the the lair and towards the stairs.
"Honey, can you-"
"Not now mom!" Alex shouted towards her as she continued to run. Theresa lifted her hands and shook her head.
"I don't want to know what she's up to." She continued to clean the tables and shake her head.
Alex placed the drinks in front of Max and Lenora and smiled. Lenora raised her eyebrow and eyed the drink, then sniffed it. Max sat the cushion down and picked his up before chugging it.
"What did you do to it?" Lenora asked, lifting it to see it from the side where the light could hit it.
"Nothing! C'mon, just drink." Lenora obliged and started to drink it. A green line passed from Lenora's head to Max's and the two sat their drinks down then looked at each other.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Lenora asked angrily, glaring at Max.
"Why are you still here?" Max counteracted, glaring back at Lenora. They stood up and continued to argue back and forth.
"Great! The anger potion!" Alex groaned to herself. Lenora and Max were nose to nose, glaring at each other.
"I hate you!" Max shouted.
"I loath you!" Lenora screamed back. Max grabbed the back of Lenora's neck and angrily pressed his lips against hers. Alex's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open; Harper stood beside her with a matching reaction.
"You're a horrible person," Lenora ground out at Max.
"Ditto." Lenora grabbed the front of Max's shirt and pulled him into another angry lip lock.
"It didn't work the way we wanted to, but at least it worked." Harper gulped, watching at the two continued to angrily kiss the other.
"Until the potion wears off," Alex added. "But for now, I'm perfectly content with what's happening."
"What's going to happen once they figure it out?" Alex looked at Harper and blinked, not having thought of that.
"I... don't know. I guess we just run." Alex shrugged and watched as Max ran his hand up the front of Lenora's shirt. "Whoa!" Alex pulled Lenora away from him and smacked his arm. "You do not fondle a chest at your age!" Alex sternly explained to Max as Lenora fought against her.
"Tell that to the one who was just running her hands down my backside." Max replied angrily, starting towards Lenora once more. Alex pressed him away, trying to keep the two apart. "And the front of my pants." Alex's mouth dropped open and she started to mimic a fish as she looked at Lenora.
"I'm so stupid for doing this. Just don't kill me once the two of you wake up from this potion." Alex grabbed them by their hair and slammed their heads together. The green light passed once more and they looked at each other shocked.
"You groped me!" Lenora shouted at Max.
"You molested me!" Lenora gasped at Max's statement and started to beat him with her bag.
"At least things are back to normal now." Alex left the room in a hurry before the two could change their attention to her.