The day the Tooth Fairy was arrested was just an ordinary day in October.
It was the Saturday before Halloween, and we were doing ordinary Saturday things.
I was at Uncle Emmett's and Aunt Rosalie's house. I spent the night there as I did on most weekends. We were getting ready to put on our costumes and go somewhere fun.
"Rosie, where's my super suit?" Uncle Em yelled, searching in their closet.
I sat on their big bed giggling and watching him. Within a second he went from looking in their closet, to pacing around the bedroom floor in pretend panic.
"Why do you need it?" Auntie Rose called from somewhere in the kitchen.
"To fight crime." He said to her and winked at me, his tone adding the of course.
I giggled.
Uncle Em was being silly, I knew that. He's a vampire, not a superhero, after all. He doesn't fight crime, but he does have arm wrestling matches with other vampires who will play along. So, I knew he was doing his – reenacting a scene right out of The Incredibles – for my entertainment.
"Oh no!" Auntie Rose responded, playing along. "Don't think you're going to go off and do some daring do; we have a hayride, a corn maze, pumpkins to pick and carve, and a kids' Halloween carnival to attend and oversee all day today."
"Geeze, Mom," My thirteen-year-old cousin, Edith said to Auntie Rose. "Your Saturday is booked…again. Why do you keep doing this to yourself?"
Edith was the type of person who enjoyed doing nothing on the weekend. She would be perfectly happy to sit on the couch watching TV from the time she woke up until bedtime. She also thought people who like to go to fun places on the weekend were crazy. She was boring and it really showed.
I rolled my eyes at the same time Auntie Rose sighed.
"Because I'm very ambitious," she said to Edith. Then she yelled to Uncle Em and said, "Emmett Cullen, don't think you're backing out of this one. I need you today. We're handing out candy at the carnival and I signed you up to drive the tractor for the hayride this evening."
Uncle Em's eyes were very big, and he blinked them a few times as he stopped pacing. He didn't look like he knew about this information before that moment, but I wasn't sure. Because I didn't ask, and he didn't say. He got back into character right then.
"But the worlds at stake," Uncle Em said in a dramatic way. "I must go save it, honey buns."
At this point he was back to fumbling in his closet while I was listening to him and my aunt going back and forth, all the while picturing the scene from The Incredibles in my mind, I was laughing now. Uncle Em smiled his goofy smile at me, which had me laughing even more.
From the kitchen Auntie Rose let out a deep, long sigh. By the sound alone, it was easy to tell she no longer wanted to play.
"Please, Emmett, just get ready." She said to him with a loud moan.
"Will do, love muffin." He called back in a singing-song voice.
"Nessie, sweetheart, I need you to get ready too." Auntie Rose's tone was sweet yet demanding as she called out to me.
"Will do." I copied what my uncle had said.
"Where's my super suit?" He mumbled to himself, and I was concerned.
"Uncle Em," I slid off of the bed and ran over to him. "Why are you pretending to be Frozo from The Incredibles?"
"Because it's funny and entertaining," he simply explained, looking into his closet instead of at me.
I wasn't sure who he was trying to entertain at this point, me or himself. I just wasn't sure. But I didn't wonder about that for too long. I was eight-years-old and loved it when he recited lines from my favorite Disney movies, especially The Incredibles and Big Hero 6. He does a great impression of Baymax, and my daddy says it's spot on, but my favorite character for him to pretend to be was Frozo. However, that didn't mean I wanted him to wear a super suit today.
I tugged on his arm to get his attention. It worked. He looked down at me.
"Yes?" He asked.
"You're not really going to dress like Frozo, are you?" I asked sweetly.
His golden eyes were on me, and I can tell he was considering it. I then stuck out my bottom lip in a pouty way.
"Well…" he let his voice trail off.
"You promised you would wear it." I reminded him. I wasn't talking about his super suit, and he knew it.
His face crumbled like a cookie. "Nessie, I know. And as much as I would want to dress like Frozo, or Mr. Incredible, as I was going to. I won't back out of my promise to you." He said and mumbled under his breath, "No matter how ridiculous I'll look."
"Yay!" I clapped my hands and jumped up and down.
"Now go get ready before your aunt says we're lollygagging." He pointed to the door.
"Okay."
I ran out of the room, speedy quick, passing my five-year-old cousin Raymond in the hallway. There was no time to talk to him, so I didn't. I went straight to Edith's room and shut the door. It was time to change out of my pink sparkly unicorn nightgown and into my costume.
I needed to get ready. I had a plastic bucket that needed to be filled up with candy.
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