Days Plans

Nixi was shaken awake by someone and she raised up her little head. She opened her eyes and saw that it was Chase who was shaking her awake. His eyes twinkled and he seemed to actually be in a good mood. "Wake up little Ixi… you don't want to be late for the first day of second grade do you?"

"Ahhh! Wahh!" Nixi suddenly lunged out of the bed, only to end up knocking over Chase and herself onto the floor. The boy gaped at her in shock.

"I don't get exactly what the matter is…" Chase commented.

"I don't want to be late," Nixi commented. "I get made fun of… enough as it is."

Chase's face had turned dark when the Ixi had told him this. "First… I woke you up early… second… your made fun of at school Nixi?"

"It isn't a big deal…" Nixi commented. "I'm just the odd duck out… the odd duck always gets made fun of."

Chase suddenly glanced at the ceiling. "Your right… they typically do… but we can be odd ducks together I geuss."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Nixi asked.

"Well… I'm going to be going to the Neo Faerie School after awhile… I am not exactly looking forward to it… I didn't like it the last time… and… I'm far behind everyone else… and I don't want to learn to use my abilities…" Chase commented.

"But you could do so much good with your abilities," Nixi commented, only to have Chase rub her head.

"I'm glad you at least have some confidence in me… I'm a Dark Faerie you know… I haven't a clue how any of those abilities can be used for anything good. I've also never heard of a Faerie that was good, truly good and that was a Dark Faerie," Chase bit his lip.

"I have…" Nixi commented, sitting in the boys lap.

"Yeah… and who would that be…" the boy muttered, not looking her in the face.

"You… dummy," Nixi commented. Chase suddenly turned his face toward her, his cheeks turning pink. "I have tons of confidence that you will never go bad."

"Well… tell me about this teasing at school Nixi," the boy changed the subject.

"I get called a hooved Poogle, stuff like that… and all the popular Neopets are painted pink and they tell me that because I'm such a loser I should go change my color to grey… but I like who I am," Nixi commented. "Doesn't everybody?"

"You are so asking the wrong person Nixi… no, not everybody likes who they are," the boy muttered.

"And who might one of these people be," the little one asked.

"Me… Nixi… me," the boy muttered and looked back up at the ceiling. "Expessully after yesterday… I have the feeling being friends with me is going to cause Ameril and Rose problems…"

"You at least seem less depressed then you were before," Nixi commented.

"Kind of… I think I've gotten over the worst of it… I know I belong somewhere… but the bad feelings are starting to come back… and it isn't about me feeling like I belong somewhere… I know I do now… but if all I do is cause mother trouble… because that is what is going to happen with me being adopted by her…"

"We'll get through it… just like before!" Nixi chirped.

"You know… I feel I can be myself around you," Chase smiled. "You, mum and Benny."

They both got up off the floor and they went down the stairs to the kitchen where the library Faerie was busy bustling about making breakfast. She glanced over at Chase. "Well… it is so nice to see you smiling this morning… after what happened yesterday."

Chase's face suddenly soured. "Did you have to remind me about that… what those to girls did hurt… and not just physically."

"Chase…" she started. "Well, I can't offer any words that you won't take as something that is meant to cheer you up."

"Nope," the boy commented, stirring his oatmeal. He spooned a mouthful into his mouth.

"The Battle Faerie is going to come to give you your first flying lesson," his mother commented. Chase suddenly swalled the oatmeal wrong and began to cough and sputter it out.

"No! There is no way!" the boy stammered out. "There is no way your going to get me to learn to fly!"

The Library Faerie glanced at his pale face and shook his head. "Are you going to argue with me that you aren't going to go to the Faerie School too?"

"Yes!" Chase's eyes were wide. "I am the most mistfit out of all the Faeries!"

"Perhaps if you learn to fly…" the Library Fairie commented. "The Battle Faerie thinks it will do you some good."

"How so?" Chase raised an eyebrow.

"Well… she thinks that your fear is holding you back and you need to get more confidence in yourself,"

"Not going to happen… it is so not going to happen!" Chase muttered.

"Sometimes one doesn't have choices in the matters at hand… and considering that Faerieland is in fact up in the sky… you are going to have to work on this fear of flying. The Battle Faerie gave me this address for you to meet her at,"

"You're not going with Chase?" Nixi muttered.

"No… I have the shop to attend… otherwise I would work with him myself… it is the one thing I could do in school…" she then looked at Chase. "I know exactly what it is like to not be at the same level as your peers."

"Except there are differences…" Chase muttered.

"Child… things will be all right,"

"No… they won't…" Chase commented. "After what those two girls did… I do not want to go outside ever again."

The older Faerie sighed. "Well Nixi… off to the school bus with you… we'll see you when you get home…"