Authors Note-I absolutely love this chapter. This is the reason I wrote everything else and didn't just make it a oneshot.

A few weeks later, and the graduation dance was in full swing, and everyone was having fun. Everyone except for one pink haired fairy in a yellow taffeta dress. Wanda floated miserably in one corner, wondering where her date was.

Jon, Pall and Giorge noticed, and floated over to her.

"Wanda, what's wrong? Where's Cosmo?" asked Pall.

"I don't know," she answered miserably. "He never showed up."

"That's not like Cosmo. He wouldn't do something like that," said Jon.

"Looks like he has though," said Wanda sadly.

"There's got to be a good reason. Don't worry Wanda, we'll find him for you," Giorge assured her. "Come on, lads!" The three friends left the crowded gymnasium.

Juandissimo floated over to Wanda.

"Who were those three?" he asked suspiciously.

"Just some friends of a friend," she answered. She desperately hoped they'd find Cosmo.

"Wanda, you seem upset. Perhaps if you danced with me it would make you feel better?"

"No, I don't think so," she answered. "How about you dance with those girls instead? They look kind of lonely."

"Ah, if it will make you happy Wanda, I suppose I can," he sighed. Wanda gave a wry smile when she saw Juandissimo was able to make the sacrifice of dancing with someone else very easily. They seemed very happy with arrangement too. Now would be perfect for a chance to be with Cosmo. Wanda sighed sadly. That was, if Cosmo ever came…

Jon, Pall and Giorge had reasoned that Cosmo would be at his house, and they were absolutely right. He was sitting in his room feeling angry and sad, with a good pinch of sulkiness thrown in. He doubted if Wanda would even notice that he wasn't at the dance. She probably had heaps of guys paying attention to her, like her boyfriend (who she had never managed to break up with, he reminded himself angrily) and those three 'friends' of his.

Someone knocked on his door, making him jump.

"Cosmo, those friends of yours are here to see you," called Mama Cosma.

"I don't care!" shouted Cosmo. There was a slight scuffle outside his room, as if someone was trying to get past Cosma to his door.

"Cosmo, we're not leaving until you let us in," yelled Jon's voice.

"Then you'll be here forever," Cosmo retorted.

"Cosmo, you do realise your door isn't locked, and we can come in anyway," said Pall.

There was a pause from inside Cosmo's room.

"No," he answered eventually, sounding sulkier than ever.

Silently thanking their friend's stupidity, they entered the room to confront Cosmo.

"Why are you sulking in here when there's a beautiful fairy waiting at the dance for you," asked Giorge bluntly.

"What? Which beautiful fairy?" asked Cosmo, mystified.

"Wanda, you idiot! She's been waiting all night, and she's pretty upset you haven't shown."

"Oh Wanda," said Cosmo with disgust, narrowing his eyes. "Why don't one of you cheer her up. She seems to like you."

Jon, Pall and Giorge looked at each other to see if one of them knew what he was talking about. Apparently none of them did.

"Cosmo, what are you talking about?" asked Pall.

"Don't pretend you don't know what I mean!" Cosmo snapped. "I'm the stupid one here, not you!"

"O-kay," said Giorge slowly. "But if we were the stupid ones, how would you explain it to us?"

Cosmo glared at them. He couldn't figure out if they were making fun of him or not. He turned to confront Jon. "I saw you in the library with Wanda. You seemed very friendly. Then I followed you back to the Shed." He turned to the others. "They were in there for hours. When they came out, I overheard them. 'Don't tell Cosmo,' she said. 'He wouldn't understand. It might hurt his feelings.' Well Wanda was wrong and right. I did understand and it did hurt my feelings that she was cheating on me with my best friends!"

Jon, Pall and Giorge glanced at each other. They were starting to understand a lot of things. Cosmo wasn't finished though; he seemed to be getting angrier. "And that's not the worst of it. Jon said he couldn't do it the next day, so Pall would. Did you take it in turns or something? I thought you guys were my friends.!" After he finished his rant, Cosmo burst into tears.

"Cosmo, you idiotic green-haired moron!" said Giorge exasperatedly. "Is that what you think we were doing?"

Cosmo nodded, wiping the tears out of his eyes. Why were they insulting him? Shouldn't they be begging his forgiveness?

Pall began to chuckle. "No wonder you didn't go to the dance tonight Cosmo. You must have thought she had guys lined up all over Fairy World!"

Jon flew over to Cosmo, looking him in the eyes. "Cosmo, we were helping Wanda study for her exams. She was really stressed about them, and the guys and I were doing her subjects, so we could help her."

Cosmo's mind ground at maximum speed to process this new information. They were helping her study? Not…

"She didn't want you to know because she thought you feelings might be hurt if you knew she had to ask someone else to help her. She knew you wouldn't understand the stuff she was studying."

Cosmo sniffed and wiped his eyes again. Even to him it made sense. "But what about that day in the library when she hugged you?" he asked Jon.

"Wanda was really upset. She was upset she couldn't break up with Juandissimo, plus she had a heap of schoolwork to do. I was just a shoulder for her to cry on. I could tell she'd prefer it was you."

"In fact," added Giorge, "at almost every one of our study sessions, Wanda talked about you. About how much she loved talking to you, how much fun you were, how kind you were, how great you were, how you weren't like anyone else… It got kind of sickening after a while."

"So…so she really does like me?" Cosmo asked, hardly daring to believe it.

"Cosmo, she loves you."

Cosmo grinned. The anger and sadness he had felt were all but forgotten. But soon he stopped smiling and a panicked look crossed his face. "Guys, you've got to get me to that dance!"

Wanda sat outside in the warm night air in the rose garden that had been poofed up specially for that evening. All night it had been filled with couples, but now they were all inside for the last dance. The group of girls had kept Juandissimo distracted for the entire evening, but it hadn't really mattered. Jon, Pall and Giorge hadn't come back, so either they hadn't been able to find Cosmo, or he hadn't wanted to come. She sighed sadly. She would never find another fairy like Cosmo. She knew this wasn't some silly teenage crush. This was true love. How could she be happy with anything else after that? Was she doomed to spend the rest of her life alone?

"Wanda?" said a voice behind her. Wanda's heart lifted and she spun around. Could it possibly be…?

Out of the shadows came Cosmo, dressed in what appeared to be a suit borrowed from one of his friends.

"Cosmo!" she squealed, and flew into his open arms, hugging him tightly. "Where were you? I thought you weren't going to come."

"Wanda, I made a terrible mistake. It's okay though; Pall, Giorge and Jon helped me fix it. The important thing is I'm here now."

"You sure are," she said, sighing happily. She looked contentedly into his eyes, and he gazed back into hers. With the romantic setting, and their love for each other, only one thing could happen. Almost as if there was an unspoken signal between the two, they moved closer, closing their eyes, closer…and their lips met for their first real kiss.

It was Cosmo's first kiss, and he felt a glorious tingling spread through his body. Even though he didn't have any experience with things like this, he was sure not every couple had a special kiss like this. It signified they were meant for each other with every cell in their bodies.

Wanda felt the same tingling Cosmo did, and it surprised her. She had been kissed by Juandissimo, but it had never felt anything like this. Cosmo was totally different to Juandissimo in every way. His hands hovered lightly on her waist, as if afraid to be touching her even this much.

Eventually the kiss ended, but the tingly feeling didn't. They hugged each other close. Wanda knew then that she would share many kisses with Cosmo in the future; but she would always remember their first. Even though he had an extremely short memory, Cosmo knew he'd always remember it too. He had felt sad when their kiss had ended, and he wanted to kiss her again. He knew she had enjoyed it; maybe he was even a better kisser than Juandissimo. The thought of the look on Juandissimo's face if he knew that made Cosmo grin.

The noise of fairies leaving the gym told Cosmo and Wanda the dance was over.

"We'd better go sweetie," she said quietly, and Cosmo reluctantly stopped holding her. She immediately missed the feel of his hands on her.

"Wanda, I only just got here. I don't want tonight to be over yet," Cosmo whined.

"Neither do I," she whispered.

Cosmo held her hand and, raising his wand, poofed them away. Wanda looked around to see where they were.

"The hill," she said, nodding with approval.

Cosmo moved forward, gently placing his hands on her waist again. Wanda slid her arms around him, and leant her head on his shoulder. Cosmo played with her hair, running his fingers through its soft pink swirliness.

"I love you, Cosmo," she said. He shivered when he heard her say that and his heart leapt higher than it had all night, even when they were kissing. His friends had told him all the time that she loved him, but it felt so real when Wanda said it herself.

"Ow," Wanda complained. Cosmo's hand had gotten caught up in her hair.

"Sorry," he muttered, trying to pull it out.

"Ow, Cosmo, you're making it worse," she said, as Cosmo tried to yank his hand free.

"Hold on Wanda, I've nearly got it!" he said encouragingly, bracing himself for one last pull. Wanda saw what he was about to do.

"No, Cosmo, don't do…aaahh!" Cosmo had finally pulled free, but it had been pretty unpleasant for Wanda. Furthermore, one of his shoes plus two buttons from his jacket had gotten caught up on her dress. He desperately tried to separate himself from Wanda by pulling at his coat with one hand and pushing Wanda away with the other.

"Let me do it, Cosmo," she said, trying to fix things, but Cosmo brushed her away.

"No, no, I can do it, let me try." He struggled to get untangled, but instead got more and more caught up. Eventually the inevitable happened; his wings got twisted up in the mess and he fell to the ground, dragging Wanda down with him. It was quiet for a while.

"Wanda?" said a small voice from underneath her.

She sighed. "Yes?"

"Can you help me please?"

Wanda got up and knelt next to Cosmo, though it was difficult because he seemed to be caught up on her dress in every way possible. She set to work, slowly unhooking and untwisting until they were free.

They sat a little apart from each other after that. Cosmo carefully reached out a hand to hold Wanda's.

"Wanda?' he said.

"Yeah sweetie?"

"I love you too."