Hey guys, sorry I'm late. Wait, am I? I lost track of time. I was super busy over the holiday with family stuff that I time flew by so fast. Ugh! Anyhoo, thank you everyone who reviewed my last chapter!

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Chapter 10

"You found WHAT?" I practically squealed with delight that morning over breakfast when Wizard told me the breaking news he had for me. I stood up the very next moment and started hopping around, doing the boogie happy dance around the table.

Wizard was obviously not all that happy with how I reacted since it caused the table to almost flip over which made the plates all fall off the table. Including his unfinished breakfast. But I didn't care because all that I cared about at that moment was that Gale found a cure that can cure me!

"Witch. Just so we're clear, this may help. It's still a 30% of working…"

And then he just had to break my happy bubble. I stopped dancing and flopped down into the chair, lifeless once more as he started to clean the dishes.

"Way to ruin the moment, Wizard." I mumbled, kicking him softly in the back while he was picking the broken plates.

"Oh, I apologize that all of the research I worked hard on finding a cure for the screw up you caused on yourself is fruitless. Really sorry…" He grumbled back in monotone, but it was obvious that sarcasm was dripping from his every word. I was surprised for a moment at the fact that he actually used sarcasm, but then I just got annoyed when he reminded me that it was my own fault this happened and kicked him harder in the butt. But then…this time he didn't just take my kicking in silence…he grabbed my leg and pulled me down from the chair before I could even react.

"OWW!" I yelled, falling onto the floor with a loud 'thud'.

"…puh."

"Don't you dare laugh, you stupid mean jerk!" I started to hit his arm repeatedly with my fists. Of course, I can never win him in magic, so physical is the way to go for me when it's against him.

"Okay okay…puh."

"I said don't laughhhhhhh!" I started to whine, my hits getting harder and harder.

"Okay, I'm sorry. Let's get started then..." He said, wrapping both my hands by the wrists with one hand to get me to stop hitting. His hand was so big…and warm…I blushed at the contact and pushed him away, getting up by myself and running off to the bathroom.

"I-I'm gonna take a shower first then!" I yelled back, running headlong for the bathroom.

"Sure…Be careful of the-"

And before he could finish his sentence and before I even noticed it, I ram straight into the door, falling back onto my butt once again.

"So…shall we get started?" He asked with all seriousness as he stood in front of me, one hand holding an old ugly textbook and the other holding a glass of water.

I nodded obediently, still embarrassed with the door incident that just happened a few minutes ago. I didn't pass out and that made the whole situation even worse since I had to sit through his small laughing fit.

"…Okay." And before I knew it, he threw the water that was in the glass right into my face. I shrieked in surprise since the water was cold. Sputtering and coughing at the water, my body started shrinking and in just 5 seconds, I turned into a kid once again. Thank god the dress I was wearing also shrunk.

"Sorry about that…" He apologized, but it didn't sound like he was very apologetic about it since he was smirking, looking down at me since now, he's wayyy taller than me. I looked up with my teeth gritted in anger and frustration.

"Bet you wanted to do that for a long time, don't you Wizard?"

"…Yes."

"Hmph!" I jumped onto his foot with both feet and that caused him to yell in pain for a second which was enough for me. "So? Now what?"

He didn't answer me, but instead opened that book of his and flipped to some page and started saying some incantation I didn't really understand.

"Blah-blah-yuk-blah-blah-blah-yuk-yuk-yuk-BLAH…"

"…"

He didn't really say that, but it sounded so weird and complicated that that was what I heard instead. I just stared at him with a 'wth?' look on my face while the words he was spewing went through one ear and went out the other completely.

Pointing a palm towards me, he started to make some hand movements, making an oval two times, raising it to the air, and then pointing his arm back at me again. He was still going 'blah blah blah' so I didn't really focus on what he was doing but instead started to bite on my nails out of boredom.

And then before I could react or do anything at all, a beam of light hit me directly in the face, causing me to flip over backwards.

"Ughh!" I grunted (as un-lady-like as it may seem, I do grunt in pain), moaning from the dizziness as the little froggies that have started jumping around my head. Wizard hurriedly came to my side and knelt down on one knee to check to see if I was okay.

"You seem fine…" He drew his own conclusion, pulling me up before I could even protest. I tried to stand up properly but due to the impact from that stupid beam of light that hit me IN THE FACE I was still dizzy. That gave me a perfect excuse to lean onto Wizard.

"Well, on the good side…you're back to normal now…" He patted my head in congratulations. I looked down at my own body and just like he said, I was back to normal. I squealed with delight for the second time that day and did my boogie dance again, this time pulling Wizard to dance with me. Of course, dancing for him seemed to be just standing there and having me move his arms.

It got awkward fast. So I tried to lighten the mood by squealing some more.

"YAY! M'I kcab ot lamron!" I said but then quickly closed my mouth when I just realized what I just said. I frowned, puzzled with what I just said. Was that in another language?

"…?" Wizard stared back at me also with a puzzled look on his face. He motioned me to say something again.

"Poop?"

"…" We were both silent since what I said just now seemed normal, so we shrugged it off and I went to the kitchen to make some celebratory hot cocoa. I made two mugs and handed him one, "Tnaw emos?"

I gasped again when I heard what came out of my mouth, dropping the mugs onto the floor to close my mouth. Wizard groaned since he had to clean up again. He snapped his fingers and this time, the broken mug pieces and the hot spilled cocoa instantly disappeared.

"Draziw! Tahw si gnineppah ot em?" I screamed at him, clutching at his collar and shaking him with all the power I had in my skinny arms. He stared at me for a little while before he looked like he had some clue as to what was happening and then instead of answering me, he burst out in a fit of chuckles. How dare he? At a time like this when my life could very well be in jeopardy and he's having a chuckle fit! I shook him harder.

"Pots gnihgual ouy poopmocnin! Ym efil si ta ekats ereh!" But whatever I said at that moment only made him laugh harder. His body was already shaking from laughter and he had a tear falling from his eye. O-m-g, I had never seen him laugh this hard before.

"Pots tiiiiiiiiii!" I whined, shaking him lighter and lighter since I was getting tired. He wiped the tear off his face and finally started to calm down.

"Okay…okay, I'm sorry…I'll fix it for you. I used the backward spell you see. It reversed your curse, but it's also going to reverse everything else too." He took out the book once again and flipped to some page, "There's a counter spell…I'm sure it'll help you with your…new problem…puh."

"…" I didn't want to talk anymore, scared that it'll send him in a laughing fit once more so instead I made a throat slicing gesture and then pointed at him. He smiled and patted my head in comfort.

"Don't worry…I'll fix it…"

And for some reason, I knew that he could truly help me. So I closed my eyes and just waited for him to do his mumbo jumbo.

I didn't see what he did but then something hit me in the head again but he caught me before I fell. I was pulled in to lean into him so that I wouldn't fall over backwards, causing me to lean into his body.

"How are you…feeling?" He asked with a concern look in his eyes. I didn't answer back immediately because I was scared that it didn't work, but I finally answered.

"Let go of me…" I mumbled, pushing myself off of him as I tried to hide my blushing face away from him.

He smiled with relief, "Seems like you're back to normal…"

"Yeah…thanks." I mumbled again and walked over to the kitchen to make another cup of hot cocoa. I handed him one and sat down in a dining chair. He sat across from me with his cup of cocoa, blowing the steam off to cool it down. He looked like a kid at that moment…reminding me of him laughing his head off a moment earlier.

"You were laughing just now."

"…And?"

"And? You were laughing just now! I have never seen you laugh that hard before in my life! Has the fairy godmother finally made you into a real boy?" I cooed at him before taking a sip of my own hot cocoa. He shook his head while frowning, taking another sip before answering me.

"Yes…I can laugh too. I am still human, despite whatever distorted way you think of me."

"I just thought you were a soulless robot with no emotional fiber in your being that's all." I said, batting my big goo goo eyes at him as I attempt to feign innocence. He sighed and shook his head again.

"Oh…and before I forget…" He said, summoning a glass of water in his hands. I immediately knew what he was about to do but before I could run away for at least turn my back at him, he threw water into my face again. To my dismay…I still turned back into a kid. He must've liked throwing water in my face because he looked so happy and satisfied when he did it.

"Guess it didn't work…" He shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly as if the whole thing wasn't a big deal, "I'll try again next time…"

"Don't bother…I don't want you helping anymore. I'll just find Granny to help me since she can fix anything, unlike someone." I leered at him.

"I'm guessing you're talking about yourself…seeing how you're weaker than me in magic." He leered right back with a proud smirk on his face. Ugh! I hate him so much! I pouted and puffed my cheeks out to make it obvious to him that I'm at him. Well obviously I had to be angry at him. I was having such a suck-assy day. I had my hopes up, then depleted, then slammed into a wall, then got hit by a beam of light, got my hopes up again, it depleted again, got hit once more by another beam of light, and got pwned by Wizard.

He seemed to have caught my emotions because he put down his mug and asked, "…What do you want?"

I still refused to smile even though he was willing to give me anything I wanted for the assy day he gave me, so I answered with my lips still pouty and my cheeks still blown up.

"Pizza…and a coke…" I mumbled. He nodded in agreement and got up, walking over to me and pulling me up to stand too.

"Then…let's go to the Brass bar…they have good pizza there…"

I would've been excited at the prospect of getting my wish come true, but then I froze when I realized where he was taking me.

"A…A bar? Is that really necessary?"

"…You can't expect me to cook it for you…I don't know how…and neither do you…"

That was true…I can cook but I'm not that much of an expert in the food department, only desserts. Same goes for him, minus the desserts part. But I still didn't want to go to the bar where there were a lot of humans. Who knows what they're thinking…

He gave my back a comforting rub, "…Don't worry…I'll protect you…let's go." And he dragged me out of the house, down the stairs (where he practically had to carry me since I was unwilling to go), and to the bar (where he dumped me onto the ground the moment we reached). And then knowing that I was going to complain, he dragged me inside the bar.

Before we went inside, he tried to console me for one last time.

"You're still in your kid form…no one will recognize you…"

Although that was true…wasn't he supposed to fulfill my wish to make me happy? Dragging me to a human bar is NOT, and I repeat, NOT making my day any better at all!

Okay…maybe eating pizza in a human bar did make my day a teensy weensy better. The pizza that they served there was soooooo good! I was already mouth watering just by looking at the menu when I saw the multiple toppings that I can have on my pizza.

Finally, something else other than mushrooms!

When the pizza arrived, I stuffed my face and ate the entire pizza all by myself while he sat there drinking red wine and looking relieved.

People had greeted the Wizard and for some unfair reason, they seem to be okay with him! They gave him 'hey's and 'hi's and were even smiling! Someone even came to ask for their fortune told! Did Wizard put a spell on all of them before we went inside? I was introduced as his nephew who was traveling and although I don't want to admit it…I was actually happy that people were treating me kindly for once.

It was actually…nice to be with humans…

We finally left the bar. I was so tired and full that I had him give me a piggy back ride back home since he was still supposed to make it up for the bad day I had. It must have been some kiddy thing when it comes to being full and piggy back rides since I fell asleep along the way home. My arms around his neck tightened slightly and I leant my head against his warm back and silently, I wished to myself that I can stay like this with the Wizard forever. I yawned loudly and then before we reached home, I fell asleep.

Gale's POV

I felt the Witch gave a sneeze and then feeling a little weirded out that she sneezed on me, I felt the extra surprise weight that suddenly appeared on my back. I turned my head to look and saw that she had turned back to her normal form already and was still sleeping soundly. I couldn't help but smile when I saw how peaceful she looked.

I was glad that she had a good time tonight at the bar with the humans, no matter how hard she tried to hide it, it was obvious by the way she was glowing with happiness. She had always feared humans…scared that they were going to try to kill her again like before. We're still going to be living with humans for a long time…so I really had hoped to help her overcome her fear. Hopefully it worked tonight.

With the extra weight on my back, I started to walk slower and slower by the minute. All I had was red wine on an empty stomach, so of course it effected slightly on my ability to walk straight.

…But I wasn't complaining. I was actually enjoying it a little bit…I turned to look at her again and then smiled at the familiarity of it. Back when we were younger, I used to give her piggy back rides all the time since she liked it.

We finally reached home and when I finished tucking her into bed, I couldn't help myself but stroke her hair.

"Sweet dreams…Vivi…"