Chapter 10: Moving on...

Poof and Gabriel were going to Baskin Robbin's to celebrate Gabriel's parents getting back together. Poof felt like just walking instead of poofing them there, but Gabriel was okey with that. And, whether you would consider it good luck or bad luck, he learned something he would have never learned by waving his rattle.

He had been floating while Gabriel was walking, when out of the corner of his eyes, he thought he saw Timmy. He floated closer to get a better look when Gabriel said "Hey!" from behind him. Poof turned around and shushed him, signaling him to follow. Poof and Gabriel followed the boy that looked like Timmy up until Gabriel saw sensor rays where Poof was about to float; which was in between two buildings near a dark corner and some dumpsters.

"Stop! It must be a trap!" Gabriel said. "If you want to spy on the boy, we should do it on the roof!"

Poof nodded and waved his rattle. The roof was square, and he had his fairy godparent, so Gabriel wasn't worried about safety. He looked down with Poof.

The boy that looked like Timmy actually WAS Timmy. There was a secret meeting going on, with Timmy, Big Daddy, Mama Cosma, Cosmo and Wanda.

"Guess he didn't see me!" Timmy said when he noticed it had been about ten minutes and the sensors didn't set the alarm. "Good."

"What is this meeting about?" Big Daddy asked.

"Timmy has addressed a concern he had about 'Plan D'." Wanda said.

"Which one was Plan D?" Cosmo asked.

"The one that worked." Timmy said, not sounding enthousiastic about it at all.

Plan? Poof thought to himself. What plan?

"Oh, now I remember!" Cosmo said. "The one with the Godzilla!"

"King Kong, ya idiot!" Big Daddy said to Cosmo. "And that was Plan C!"

"I thought Plan C was the one with Chip Skylark!"

"What?" Wanda asked. "Cosmo- we didn't have any plans with Chip Skylark!"

Cosmo, for no real reason, replied to Wanda in song. The song was sung to the tune of Chip Skylark's Shiny Teeth, and I guess if you wanted to name it- you would name it Whiny Teen? To tell you the truth though, Cosmo actually thought he was singing Shiny Teeth, but he obviously didn't understand the lyrics.

My whiny teen, hey charquole!

Just like- duh- Mars- in plays!

My whiny teen, air- autumn!

Bad Tootie- two- I aaaace!

My whiny teen, I glove then

and- hey y'all- glove meeeeeeeeee!

People talk- the Nile- dress to see thee file!

My whiny teen and meeeeeeeee!

My whiny teen and meeeeeeeee!

My whiny teen and meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

"Cosmo!" Timmy yelled. "Stop it!"

"Then tell me which plan had Chip Skylark!"

"None of the plans had Chip Skylark!"

"What about Britney-Britney?"

"NO!"

"Didn't our songs have ANY good singers of the seventees?"

Wanda interrupted. "Cosmo, first of all, Britney-Britney and Chip Skylark aren't singers from the seventies! Second, none of our plans had singers! Third, let Timmy talk!"

"Two more things: eleven- we stink at planning!"

"We do not!" Timmy said. "We succeeded at getting Poof to sign the contract, which brings me to discuss..."

"Wait!" Cosmo interrupted again. "I thought our plans were to try to get concert tickets for a group of whiny teens- which reminds me- Chip Skylark has a song called Shiny Teeth about whiny teens- Wanna hear it? My whiny teen, they charquole..."

"I WISH COSMO WOULD BE EXCUSED FROM THE MEETING!" Timmy yelled loudly, getting more and more fed up with him by the minute.

"-People talk- the Nile- dress to see thee file!" Cosmo kept singing the song even as two body guards Wanda had poofed up carried him away.

"Okey, finally!" Timmy was getting really frustrated. "The point is that I feel bad about what we did to Poof!"

"What'd they do?" Gabriel asked. Poof shrugged.

"We really broke his heart- making Wanda turn into Marie and then turning Cosmo into a little boy..."

"By the way Timmy!" Wanda interrupted. "I'm glad you told us to change Cosmo's hair to blonde, that would have been a dead giveaway!"

Poof couldn't believe his ears. So Marie didn't really kiss that other guy! I should've known! I should never have signed that contract! Gabriel didn't ask Poof questions, mostly because he was only four and couldn't follow a lot of what was going on. Poof was about to start crying, but instead he focused more on his anger and frowned. He poofed Gabriel to Baskin Robbin's and didn't say a word.

At the end of the day, Poof and Gabriel got back from Disney World. Gabriel had Mickey Mouse ears and Poof had some cotton candy. They had the best godparent/godchild day ever, but it was shortly coming to an end. Poof sighed, he knew his time was almost up!

"Poof, that was the best day evar! Can we pwease do dat stuff again tommowow?"

Poof waved his rattle and gave himself a voice. "Gabriel, I'm sorry, but I can't be here tommorow."

Gabriel's smile dropped. "Why not?"

"This is my last day as a godparent."

Gabriel looked rather sad. "You're leaving? Why?"

"I just have to, okey? I don't really want to explain it all..." It didn't feel fair to Poof that his parents were going to spend years and years with Timmy and already had lots of memories, unlike Poof and Gabriel. Why couldn't we have all those memories too? Then Poof thought about the adventures his had with Timmy his mom told him about... like bringing Timmy's old gerbil back to life, and going in an old cartoon, and saving the world about two million times even before Poof was born! They were such wonderful stories to tell... it gave Poof an idea.

"Gabriel, do you want me to stay a little longer?"

"Yes."

"I will, but it will come with a price. Do you like listening to stories?"

"Yeah, but only good ones!"

"Well, you're in for a treat! I've got a ton of stories about my parent's days with Timmy!"

"Who's Timmy?"

"Well, I'll start from the beginning. This may take a while..."

Poof was right. Sleep deprived, Cosmo and Wanda and Timmy all looked at their watches. 11:55 PM. How long was Poof going to wait, he was only allowed to stay until tommorow!

"I'm BORED!" Cosmo yelled.

"We all are!" Wanda told him. "Poof should be here any minute, that's the rule!"

They looked at their watches. 11:58. Wanda got out an old typewriter and wrote a short story about a fairy waiting for the bus. 11:59. How slow is time going? She thought.

Finally,at exactly 12:00, Poof appeared. He was very tired.

"Poof (yawn), why did you spend so much time there? What were you doing?"

"For your information, I was talking!"

Timmy gasped. So did Cosmo and Wanda. "You talk?"

"Oh whoops! Forgot to poof this temporary voice away! I'm being charged by the hour!" He poofed his voice away, and said a tired "Poof, Poof!"

"Charged by the hour?" Wanda asked. "Magic doesn't cost money!"

He poofed his voice back. "But my phone does, and so does the app for giving a fairy baby a temporary voice."

Timmy looked confused. "Wait, wasn't Cosmo supposed to give your phone back to the store?" Timmy and Wanda turned and glared angrily at Cosmo.

"COSMO -YA IDIOT!" Suddenly, Big Daddy appeared, very angry. "How many minutes a day do you spend downloading apps on that phone?" While Big Daddy was yelling at Cosmo and Timmy and Wanda tried to calm him down, Poof looked at his phone. Hey- an app for cloning yourself! Only six hundred thousand dollars! He cloned himself and his phone so his clone could have a phone. His clone showed Poof the fine print about that app. Oh, six hundred thousand dollars per clone! Oh well, I don't have to pay a cent!

About six hundred clones later, Timmy finally had the sense to take the phone away. "We should go to bed guys, it's 1 o'clock in the morning!" Everyone went to bed except for Cosmo, who found a phone in the garbage can. "Hey cool! An app for spending money! Only $1800!" Cosmo spent a few hours charging more on Big Daddy's phone, while visions of dollar signs danced in Big Daddy's head.

Poof ran to his room and jumped on his bed. He was now six months old- exactly three months since he had to give up godparenting. He finally had a moment to himself since, true to what the contract stated, his family had him entertained 24/7. This was Poof's only moment to himself.

Poof's Journal: Day (I Haven't Been Keeping Track So I'll Just Say "Day-) 5?

Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote in this. Let me just explain a few things:

1) I'm not friends with Marie anymore because my family had this plan and- okey, I already know what happened and I'm not explaining it because that will make me even more sad!

2) I erased Gabriel's mind after telling him all those stories, so it's not like I'll be seeing him again anytime soon.

3) Mom isn't a jerk, I guess. She doesn't hate humans, she has the "Hall of Fame" about her best godkids in the the castle to prove it! But she isn't as close to humans as I am, her dad wasn't a godparent so she never grew up with humans like I have. I'll just have to except facts, Mom thinks I'm weird to like a human. She doesn't hate me for it, but she broke my heart and destroyed my one true chance at love. Will I forgive her- eventually. Will I forget about it- no.

Poof thought about Marie, beautiful Marie. Did he even deserve her? He looked down at his feet. He looked down a long time, feeling sorry for himself. Then something big occured to him...

I can see my FEET?

He looked in his mirror. His feet and hands had grown bigger, and his legs and arms were longer. The single little hair now had two neighbors. He was also less round and was starting to form a head. Maybe in about a month or so, he wouldn't be round anymore! That made him happy and sad at the same time.

He sat back down and thought about what else to write in his journal. Suddenly, he figured maybe growing up wasn't a bad thing. He would make his own choices as a grown-up, and wouldn't need to be bossed around anymore. Feeling on top of the world, he wanted to write one more thing;

4) Some day, maybe years from now, I know I'm gonna find Marie again! I just know it! And I won't let anyone talk me out of it or trick me again, Mom will just have to except it one way or another!

Cause I'd give anything just to be with her again.