Disclaimer: The Fairly Odd Parents is not mine. If it was, I'd be working on new episode ideas right now, and not posting another crappy installment to this story

Author's Notes: The reviews I've gotten have completely blown me away! I really don't think this was that great, but you guys do! Trixie21 - I can assure you that isn't the only typo you'll catch! And to the person who told me Cosmo was out of character, yes, I know, and I'm trying harder than heck to work on that. He and Wandissimo were really hard for me to write for. Well, Enough with the author's note and on witht he story!

Chapter Three - It Gets Better and Better/Testing

As bad as my night was going, there was must have been enough room for more bad stuff, because Athena was a real jerk! She was popular like Venus, but she wasn't nice and funny. She was stuck-up and rude.

You could tell Venus hated her right off the bat. When she asked Athena what she thought of the new movie that came out a few days ago, her answer was, "It was okay, but I'd expect a hick like you to enjoy it more."

Summer and I looked at each other. We knew this wasn't going to end well.

"And what do you mean by hick?" Venus said through her teeth. She scares me when she does that.

"Well, for one thing, you're outfit is totally last season," Athena answered. "And blue hair is way too retro. I dyed mine blood red a long time ago."

Venus cares a lot about her clothes and stuff, and almost every boy I've seen before talks about how great she looks. Getting comments like that is what gives Venus her hyper personality. If you said anything bad about it, it wasn't good.

"Oh, you little—"

"Veens!' Summer shouted and turned the magic off of her wand. "Just let it go, hun, you look great."

Through her teeth again, she said to Summer, "I don't think I can handle a whole night of her."

A waiter came up and asked us what we wanted.

"I'll take a soda," Summer answered.

"Make that two," Venus added, trying to smile and be nice. Then she turned to me like she was going to ask if I wanted to be the third one on the list. I shook my head since I wasn't really in the mood for anything. Who would be after a night like mine?

"I'll have an iced tea." Donna said. She gently put her hand on my shoulder. "It's all right," she whispered to me. "She didn't love him anyway."

My over-active imagination beat Donna's logic, so I still couldn't feel happy at all.

"And you, miss?" the waiter asked Athena. She ordered bottled water.

The conversation between Venus and Athena didn't go well at all. I felt really bad for Donna and Summer. They each ad to control one of them. Me? I just sat there, completely bummed. If only I could have been Wandissimo. Then maybe I could—

"Wanda!" I heard Donna yell. I turned around and there she was; my swirly pink angel! I almost jumped up and flew to her, but Venus put her hand on my knee to keep me where I was.

My mind was racing as Wanda moved over to our table. I was so glad she was friends with Donna!

"…and this is our friend, Cosmo." I missed the rest of Donna's sentence, but that was all I needed to hear.

"I think we've seen each other before," Wanda said to me.

Boy, did I!

"Uh, yeah," I answered. Then she pulled up a chair from another table and sat right next to me!

"Are you okay, Wanda?" Summer asked. "You look sort of…peeved."

"More than ever!" the angel answered. "Wandissimo had the audacity to propose to me!"

Audacity? I definitely wasn't familiar with that one! But I didn't need to know it. I could tell by the tone in her voice that she didn't say yes to that jerk after all!

"Are you serious?" Donna and Venus asked at the same time. They were good actresses when they wanted to be.

Wanda nodded. "I told him no and left him there with his fancy ring. He wasn't worth it at all. All he saw in me was swirly pink hair and my popularity."

"Good for you, Wanda! There's plenty of better fish in the sea!" Venus said, then she closed an eye at me.

"Venus, do you have something in your—" Before I could finish, Donna poofed away my mouth. She gave it back in a few seconds.

"Do you want to be able to date her?" she whispered to me. I nodded.

"Then don't say anything stupid!"

Venus looked at us with an eyebrow raised. Donna just smiled nudged me and Venus nodded, saying she got it

The waiter came with our drinks after that. As soon as he left, a then looked at me and said to Donna, "So, where'd you pick up the moron?"

"He's not a moron!" all the other girls, even Wanda, said at the same time. That surprised me. Wanda didn't even know me and she defended me. I really really liked her then.

"Well, he looks like a moron," Athena defended her rude statement about me. "Only an idiot would wear that suit with that tie. And green is so out this year. And besides that, anyone who would befriend you hicks is clearly—"

Before Athena could say anything else, Venus grabbed Wanda's wand and shattered the water glass, causing water to fly all over the part of the table we all were sitting at. Wanda jumped back so she wouldn't ruin her dress, I think, and she ended up leaning against me. I felt shivers go up my spine. It was incredible!

Summer poofed up a rag and tossed it at me so I could wipe all the water off the table. Athena jumped up and yelled, "Donna, your tacky friend is…horrid! I'm going back to my hotel."

When she poofed off, Venus sighed in a relieved way. While she and Summer talked to Donna about Athena, Wanda moved away from me and said, "Sorry about that."

I wanted to say that it was no problem, and that I liked having her really close to me, but I couldn't find the right words to tell her, so I just said, "It's okay."

She smiled at me, and I felt my heat melt. She was beautiful, gorgeous, stunning…I really wish I knew more words to describe her.


As I entered the diner, I noticed Donna waving me over to the table she and a group of people were sitting at. I saw Cosmo with the crowd, so I immediately flew over.

"Well, you already know Venus and Summer," Donna said. "This is my cousin Athena, and this is our friend, Cosmo."

I wondered why Donna introduced me to Cosmo when I'd already seen him and his handsome face. The most logical reason I could come up with was that she was the only one who knew I liked him.

I pulled up a chair and sat down next to him. I couldn't help it. There was just something about him that made me feel so…I don't know. But I liked it a lot.

I noticed Summer was eyeing me. "Are you okay? You seem sort of…peeved."

Well, duh! I just got proposed to by the most awful fairy in all of Fairy World! When I told them, Venus smiled and said something about better fish in the sea. Boy, was right! And I was sitting next to what may have been the best.

But maybe Cosmo didn't think that about me.

No, Donna had implied that he liked me at the mall the other day. I had to figure out a way to see if that was true. While I was thinking, I noticed that other girl—whatever her name was—was staring at Cosmo in a way the said that she was about to laugh. "So, where'd you pick up the moron?"

"He is not a moron!" I screamed to my own surprise. Why was I defending him? I didn't even know him!

I noticed out of the corner of my eye that Cosmo was staring at me with a look of gratitude in his eyes, as if no one had ever done that for him before. It didn't make much sense to me, since the three other girls had stood up for him, too. Should I have taken that as I sign? I didn't know. Wandissimo was my first boyfriend, and all he'd ever given me was swirly pink hair comments.

Out of the blue, Venus grabbed my wand and shattered the glass in front of that terrible girl. She was sitting right across from me, so the water cascaded over the able right towards me.

It didn't take me long to figure out that it was the perfect opportunity to find out what Cosmo really thought. I jumped back as if I didn't want to ruin my dress and ended up squished next to Cosmo, clutching on to his sleeve.

Unfortunately for me, this plan only showed me what I thought of him, because my body tingled all over. It was never like that when me and Wandissimo touched.

Donna poofed up a rag and Cosmo wiped up the water, which was my cue to loosen my hand from his suit (which he looked absolutely sunning in, by the way). While Venus, Donna, and Summer talked, me and Cosmo started up our own conversation.

"Sorry about that," I said in a quiet voice, just to see how he'd react. He stammered a bit before he told me it was all right.

"I…I saw you with The Tooth Fairy tonight," I said to him, hoping he'd tell me they weren't together.

"Oh," he answered. "She was just giving me dancing lessons. She's real pretty and stuff but…I…yeah."

He looked like he wanted to add more, but he never did. I thought it was kind of cute.

"So, are you breaking up with Wandissimo now?"

Another sign? Maybe…

"Been there, done that," I answered honestly. "He was never right for me."

Cosmo gave a sigh of relief. I was convinced; he really did like me!

Venus looked over at her best friend and smiled. Without moving her eyes away, she asked, "Hey, Wanda, the four of us were planning on going roller skating tomorrow afternoon. D'you wanna join us?"

"Sure!" I answered happily. I was hoping I'd get to spend a little more time getting to know Cosmo. And roller-skating was my favorite activity. We picked it up from the earth kids a while back. It was a nice change of pace to use my legs for once.

I noticed Cosmo's face light up after I agreed to join them. I inspected him a bit more. His eyes were amazing, his hair was even better up close, and his smile was somewhat infectious. I thought of how much more there might have been to him.

I didn't need to take my fishing rod out anytime soon!