It was July of 2018, and the fairies were laying in their cupboard. They hadn't seen Rachel for almost a year. Their cupboard was still as dark as ever, and they were sure that everything had fallen down.

They had gone to Pixie Hollow many times, but they hadn't seen Rachel. Mayah was beginning to wonder if Rachel had forgotten about them.

Suddenly, the door to the cupboard opened. "Fairies!" said a voice.

The fairies jingled excitedly. It was Rachel!

She looked a bit older than the last time they saw her. She smiled and took Mayah out. "Oh, girls, I am so sorry I haven't talked to you for so long! I've just been so busy!" She looked at Mayah. "Oh, I forgot I made this dress for you," she said. "You look so pretty!"

"Thank you," jingled Mayah.

Then, Rachel looked into the cupboard. It was a sorry sight. All the hammocks had fallen down. So had all but one of the pictures. There was a huge spiderweb taking over the room. In the middle sat a spider.

"Spider!" cried the girl. "Cassy, can you tell it to leave?"

Cassy smiled to see the human girl at last. She flew over to the spider. "Please leave," she told it. "This is our house, not yours."

The spider was unhappy. "I don't want to leave, I've been living here for the past few months," it told Cassy. "This is my home too."

Cassy frowned. "Okay, but you've been warned. There is a human that doesn't like spiders, and she will probably remove you."

"What did the spider say?" asked Rachel.

Cassy jingled, then remembered that Rachel couldn't understand her.

Rachel said, "I'd better get a light to see that spider better," Rachel said. Then she grinned. She walked over to her bed. When she came back, she was hiding something behind her back.

"Sophie, I have a surprise for you!" she said.

Sophie was wide awake. She flew out of her bed to Rachel's face.

Rachel pulled a red flashlight from behind her back. "I finally got it! Sorry for making you wait for so long."

Sophia grinned. "Finally! Thank you, Rachel!"

The other fairies jingled. They were happy to finally have a light.

Sophie flew over to the switch on the light. "Can you push it?" asked Rachel.

Sophie tried. She pushed the switch, and with a click, the light turned on. Sophie was ecstatic and fluttered around happily in the beam of light.

"Can you turn it off?" asked Rachel.

Sophie flew over and pushed the switch back. It shut off. Sophie quickly turned it on again.

Rachel set the flashlight inside of the cupboard and asked Sophie to bend the light to the spider. She did so happily. It was then that Rachel noticed the seriousness of the mess in the cupboard.

"Oh, man, we have to clean again," Rachel said. She grabbed a stick to remove the spiderwebs, but then the spider moved, scaring Rachel.

"Aah! Mom, there's a spider in the cupboard!" she screamed, running out of the room.

The spider hid behind the fallen-down pictures as Rachel got her mom.

Rachel's mom entered the room. She looked in the cupboard. The fairies were quiet as Rachel's mom, wearing yellow rubber gloves, looked for the spider.

"I don't see it, Rachel," her mom said. "You'll have to take everything out. Use these gloves." She gave the yellow gloves to Rachel.

The gloves were a bit big on her, but they worked. Rachel's mom went out, and Rachel began taking things out. She dusted off the beds. "I wish there was a helper-talent fairy who lived here," she said as she pulled out all of the stuff. "But we have to do it alone."

The fairies dusted themselves off and flew out of the little room one by one.

"I hope that spider isn't still in there," Melon said. She shuddered. "I hate to find out there has been a spider living with us for this whole time."

"Yeah, and maybe crawling on us," Elsie put in, "while we were sleeping."

Breeze's wings twitched. "I hate spiders," she proclaimed.

"It's too dark in here," Rachel said.

Rachel pulled out the pictures that had fallen down. Then, she saw the spider.

"Cassy, look away," Rachel said, grabbing a piece of toiletpaper with her gloved hand. Cassy squeezed her eyes shut as Rachel smashed the spider. Cassy heard a spider's scream as it was squished.

Cassy shuddered.

"I'm sorry, Cassy, but it was the only way I could get it away," Rachel said. She walked out of her room. She came back in without the squashed spider a few moments later. She also wasn't wearing the rubber gloves anymore.

"Alright, now we need to take all the hammocks out," Rachel said.

She pulled all the hammocks out of the room. Soon, there was nothing left in the room except for tape stuck to the walls and ceiling, and the one picture that hadn't fallen.

"Tinkerberry, can you take all the good tape off the pictures?" asked Rachel. Tinkerberry took all the electrical tape off the pictures. Some of the pictures tore a bit.

Rachel pulled the masking tape off the pictures. Then she said, "You know what, I don't think these pictures are going to work. We're going to have to throw them away."

"No, don't do that!" cried Tinkerberry.

"Don't worry, I can make some more," Rachel said, catching Tinkerberry's distress. "But for now, one picture will work fine."

Tinkerberry drooped her wings.

Rachel then pulled all the tape off the walls and ceiling of the cupboard. There was a huge pile of tape now on the floor outside of the cupboard.

Then, Rachel began the hardest part, unrolling the masking tape from the hammocks. It was mostly silent as she worked. A few times, Rachel wondered why she had thought this was a good idea.

Suddenly, from outside of Rachel's room, the fairies heard a deep bark. Tinkerberry was afraid, and began jingling frantically.

"Don't worry, it's just my dog, Bailey," Rachel said.

Cassy was surprised. The last time she had seen Bailey, Bailey was just a tiny puppy. How big was she now? Cassy wondered.

Finally, Rachel was done with the hammocks.

"Now we are ready to redecorate!" Rachel proclaimed.

She took Sophie's bed and placed it in the corner. Sophie flew over to rest on it. Rachel put the other beds in each corner. Then, she was ready to put the pink shelf in.

Everything had fallen out, so Rachel piled it back in and set it up. But everything fell out again.

"Ferni, could you help me put everything back in?" asked Rachel.

Ferni flew over to it and put everything back in. But when Rachel put the fake flowers on top, everything fell out again.

"Oh, well," Rachel said.

She folded the cloth from the hammocks into squares, then laid them on the ground. The fairies flew over to theirs and laid down.

The flashlight was at the front of the cupboard. "You guys can turn on the light whenever you want a little light," Rachel said.

The fairies jingled contentedly. Then, Rachel heard her mom calling her for supper. "I'll see you girls soon!" she said, closing the door.

It was dark again, but the fairies knew if they wanted light, all they had to do was turn on the flashlight.