CHAPTER TWENTY

ROMANCE AND MORE PLOTS

Jeff Tang looked at his daughter a little intently. When she didn't answer, that confirmed what he'd suspected; Trixie was still keeping her like of boy things a secret.

"Honey," said Jeff, "you're still hiding your like of comic books and video games from Timmy? Why?"

"Because," said Trixie, "Timmy will think I'm weird."

"I doubt that Trixie," said her father, "Timmy probably wouldn't care; in fact, he probably would think it's great."

Trixie looked down a bit and said,

"But what if Mom and Grandfather are right? That liking such stuff is not very ladylike OR proper."

Jeff put his arm around Trixie and said,

"Oh my darling daughter, like I told you, your mom acts like she's annoyed by our love of "so-called" lower class entertainment, but deep down inside she has a grudging respect for us. As for my father..," Trixie' father paused and then said, "my dad and I have never exactly agreed on that to say the least. I wouldn't worry about it."

After Anti-Cosmo had finished communicating with Foop, he turned to his co-conspirators. He, then, spoke,

"Hopefully, my wife and son will be here soon. In the meantime, we need to go back to the original plan. I panicked when I saw how strong the link was between A.J and Turner and rushed the plan. I won't make that mistake again."

"So," said Remy, "what's our first step?"

"Well," said Anti-Cosmo, "Remy, I'm sorry old chap, once we get out of here, you're going to have to go back to the Dimmsdale Psychiatriac Institue until Friday."

A.J. went into the guest room. Upon seeing it was A.J., Cosmo, Wanda and Poof appeared in their true forms. Wanda looked a little puzzled and said,

"What's taking Timmy so long?"

"I think my mom is talking to him about his mom and dad."

"Oh," said Cosmo, "do you think she's going to tell him about, well, the town council plans to do?"

"No," said A.J., "none of us are supposed to tell Timmy or his parents about this. Hopefully, though the entire thing will become a moot point. The Turners seem to be doing a little better by him."

"I hope so too," said Wanda.

A.J. looked out the door to make sure that Timmy wasn't coming and then he said in a low voice to Timmy's godfamily,
"But if it DOES happen, Wanda, Cosmo, Poof, he's going to need all of you more than ever. Regardless of how his mom and dad treat him, they are still his parents. " A pause. "And there's a good chance he's going to lash out at all of us, and he'll probably say things he won't mean or will end up regretting. We'll just have to have a tough skin about it and remember no matter how hard it is for us to hear Timmy lash out at all of use, it's going to be worse for him."

Trixie and her father broke away from their hug. The Asian-American girl said,

"Thank you Dad. I'll think about what you said."

"You're welcome, sweetie."

Rebecca came down the stairs. She looked at her daughter and husband and said,

"Are you two ready?"

"Yeah, honey," said Jeff, "let's go."

In Jorgen's office, the Toughest Fairy in the Universe had been monitoring Chester, Timmy Turner, and A.J. The enhanced security around the three boys was still being maintained. After feeling confident that they were safe, Jorgen got up from his desk and headed to his Frappe Mocha machine. Suddenly, though, a piece of rope appeared in front of him, and it floated away from him.

"Ohhh. ROPE!," said Jorgen, "it's like string only MANLIER!"

And with that Jorgen started running after the floating rope. It led him out of his office.

Anti-Wanda and Foop appeared. Foop started looking through Jorgen's desk; it didn't take long to find it. The Anti-Fairy baby pocketed it and then said,

"Okay, Mother, let's go."

When he heard no answer he looked toward his mother. Anti-Wanda had picked up Jorgen's Frappe Mocha with her feet. She consumed the beverage as well as the china mug. Her son shook his head.

"Come on, Mother," said Foop and they both disappeared from Jorgen's office.

"No," said Remy, obviously upset, "I don't want to go back THERE."

"Remy," said Anti-Cosmo, "it's just until friday, I promise and remember it was a part of the original plan. Plus Friday the thirteenth is the day our magic is at it's most powerful. Anyway, you can do what we talked about from the Dimmsdale Psychiatric Institute."

Remy looked like he was going to say something else, but then stopped himself. As much as he hated to admit it, this was the best plan they had.

"Okay," said Remy, "you're right Anti-Cosmo. This is the best way to do things. However, how are we going to break out and not have Jorgen notice?"

That was when Anti-Wanda and Foop appeared.

Anti-Cosmo smiled and said,

"You're about to find out Remy my dear chap."

A.J. heard Timmy come up the stairs and he turned to Timmy's godfamly.

"Look," said the young genius, "we'll talk more later, okay?"

They all nodded and the Timmy entered the room.

"Hey buddy," said A.J. "I guess we'd better meet Chester and Mark at the Dimmsdale Dump. Hopefully, they won't fight over eating the garbage."

Everyone laughed and Timmy said,

"Yeah, it was weird enough having a human best friend do things like that; knowing an alien does it just brings the weirdness factor up several notches."

Suddenly there was a poof and Cupid was floating there.

"Timmy," said the God of Love, "I need to tell you something."

"Well, well, well," said A.J. with a little bit of derision, "look who finally decided to show up WEEKS after Valentine's Day is over; the only holiday representative to take a holiday on his own holiday. All of us had a pretty lousy Valentine's Day. My girl robot shocked me several times. Of course, if I'd had a real girl to go out with that day, I wouldn't have had to build those Frankenstein like robots for me, Chester and Elmer." He then turned to Timmy and added, "sorry I didn't build one for you buddy, but I figured you were going to try to ask Trixie. I didn't think it was necessary; I wasn't trying to leave you out."

"That's okay, A.J.," said Timmy, "no offense but I found those robots a bit creepy. And you're right, I was going to ask Trixie."

"Of course," said A.J., glaring a bit at Cupid, "she might have said yes, had Cupid not shot those Anti-Love arrows at her. I mean no Timmy shouldn't have taken your arrows, but you didn't have to split him and Trixie up."

Cupid folded his arm and did his own glare

"Are you through, bub," said the God of Love, "you better be careful or I'll make sure Molly says "No" to you when you to ask her to the Friday the 13th dance, next Friday.

Jeff Tang's father sat at his desk in his den. It looked like he was going to have to call another "friend" to take care of this situation with the Turner boy and his beloved granddaughter. He picked up the phone and dialed it.

"Hello, I need you to do something for me," said Nguyen Tang, "I need you to start embarrassing Timmy Turner again. You know with the thrown food and the booing."

There was a pause as the elderly Asian listened. He frowned. Nguyen then spoke,

"What do you mean you don't want to do that anymore. You're suddenly developing a conscious? I mean you sabotaged the band tryouts that Timmy was a part of so he'd get tomatoes thrown at him. It's a little late in the game to start feeling guilty. Besides, who else but me would have the money to finance your ever changing new dreams, Bickles?"

Timmy looked at A.J. somewhat slyly and said,

"A.J., buddy. Do you have a "thing" for Molly?"

"Don't be ridiculous Timmy," said A.J., "besides you're taking the word" and with that he pointed at Cupid, "of this fairy. I mean he clearly didn't realize that Trixie was in love with you or else he would have known that Trixie remembered the Darkness incident."

"For your information," said Cupid, "that was NOT me. That was Anti-Cupid. I've been trapped inside of butterfly net since before Valentine's Day. Anti-Cosmo tried to infiltrate Fairy World and he used Anti-Cupid's help."

"Whoa," said Timmy, "But why would he replace you and interfere with my love life? I mean he could have taken over Fairy World without doing that?"

Cupid drew in a breath. He knew what he was about would upset Timmy and probably Chester and A.J., but Jorgen told him they needed to know.

"Timmy," said the God of Love, "I don't want you to panic, but Anti-Cosmo wants to try to make you his evil godchild again, and he's using Remy Buxaplenty to do it. As a matter of fact, you Chester and A.J. have been under heavy magical security because Anti-Cosmo fears all three of you boys."

Anti-Cosmo, Remy and Anti-Cupid were now outside of their cell. That was when Anti-Cosmo aimed his wand and this time three dolls of him Anti-Cupid and Remy appeared again.

"Remy groaned and said,

"Didn't you already try dolls."

"Yes," said Anti-Cosmo, "but the dolls weren't what tipped Jorgen off; it was seeing Anti-Binky. Trust me, Remy, Jorgen is not all that hard to fool."

"What about her?," asked Anti-Cupid pointing at the napping Momma Cosma.

"She's not all that hard to fool either," said the head Anti-Fairy, "now, everyone we'll begin implementation this coming friday."

And with that wands were waved and the evil gang disappeared.

"Remy is loose," said Timmy a little nervously, "that means he's going to try to kill me again."

"Actually Timmy, no," said Cupid, "Anti-Cupid, Anti-Cosmo and Remy are in Abracatraz Prison. And even if they weren't, Anti-Cosmo doesn't want you dead; he's just using Remy to try to lure you into his trap. Like I said, he's terrified of you, Chester and A.J."

Timmy frowned and said,

"Why? He's never been frightened of me before."

"Well," said Cupid, "Jorgen's going to talk more to you three tomorrow when you get back from church. All I can say is that there is a link between all three of you boys and its getting stronger."

"That explains how A.J. entered Timmy's dream," said Wanda "and why Chester sensed it."

Cupid nodded. A.J. looked up to the God of Love. The African American boy felt really embarrassed by his outburst, and he said,

"I'm sorry Cupid. I guess I was just so upset about not having a date or a girl I kind of took it out on you."

"That's okay," said Cupid, "Anti-Cupid did a lot of damage while I was imprisoned."

Then Timmy smiled and said,

"Well since you're the real Cupid, I guess you were right. A.J. has a thing for Molly. Although you might have some competition from Dwight."

"Timmy," said A.J. a little exasperated , "I do not have a "thing" for Molly and anyway if I did, Dwight and her have broken up...." A.J. stopped himself when he realized he was revealing something that only he knew.

"Wow," said A.J.'s buck toothed friend, "I didn't even know that. So it looks like you will have somebody to go to the friday the 13th dance with after all."

"Timmy," said A.J., "I really don't feel like talking about this right now. Let's just get ready for the day of us doing guy stuff; going to the video arcade, to the comic book store outside of town. Right now, let's just concentrate on our completely girl free environment.