Of Hearts and Mirrors
Ep.7-A Moment of What?
A/N: Quick note about Ryan: He is constantly being chased around by Trixie and Veronica, basically satire on fangirls and always going after their favorite characters. (Please check out HeartlessSlayer's DA page for more info.) This time, it's the opposite...and he doesn't like it at all. Which makes it funny. XP
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Before Angela came to stay with Cosmo, Wanda, and Timmy...Ryan used to have a good morning sleep. But now that she was here, he couldn't even get a wink...it was either because Angela moved around a lot during the night...or that that she was currently sparring with a punching bag. The fairy opened an eye, casting blue onto his companion before he groaned and rolled over in his blankets on the floor.
"Geez, Angela...it's too early to be making noise..." Angela said nothing but kept punching the bag in her pajamas. Ryan tried to flop onto his side and get back to sleep, but eventually he got tired of attempting to, and pulled his wand from under his pillow. Angela pulled her arm back to punch the bag, but he poofed it away, causing her to hit nothing but air. In doing so, she toppled onto the floor.
"Owwie..." She moaned as she rubbed her nose in pain. Ryan smirked before he closed his eyes.
"I warned you." Angela proceeded to the blanketed lump on the floor and pushed it lightly with her foot. She wanted to kick him or do some other bodily harm, but she wasn't mad enough to do so.
"Jerk! It's my morning activity before I start my day!" Ryan yawned.
"Then start your morning in the afternoon. I want a few more minutes of sleep..." She grabbed the blanket and pulled it, unrolling the fairy onto the carpet.
"Too bad...you woke up enough to rant about me...so stop being a lazy bum and get up." Timmy poked his head into the room as Ryan stood up.
"...Hey lovebirds...it's time to go to school." He greeted. Ryan was about to turn and snap at him that they weren't lovebirds, but he bit his tongue as he saw the interested look on Angela's face. No use trying to fix up the day..it was already ruined the moment he opened his eyes.
"...May I come?" She asked. Ryan was about to say no, but Timmy got to say something before him.
"Why not?" Ryan glanced sharply at the younger boy as he poofed into his clothes.
"...Because I don't think she'll appreciate Crocker discovering another species of magical people." He hissed between his teeth.
"Oh...well it's not like he has ever heard of pixies." Timmy pointed out.
"...That's not the point...what makes you think that Angela will be able to hide her magic powers...when pixies don't bother to disguise themselves anyway? Crocker will catch a whiff of magic, and BOOM, here comes another magic hunt. Only this time he'll be saying, PIXIES! Instead of fairies."
"But like I said, he's never heard of pixies!" Timmy argued. Ryan crossed his arms.
"She's not going, and that's that." Angela gritted her teeth before she punched him in the face.
"IDIOT FAIRY! Stop making decisions for me!" Ryan rubbed his sore jaw.
"...So says the girl that was lost in Fairy World." He muttered under his breath. She walloped him again, this time harder.
"Shut up! I hate you and your self-righteous, 'oh I'm going to save the damsel in distress! Hur hur hur! Maybe I'll get laid! Hur hur hur!' If you think I'm THAT easy, you are dead wrong."
"What? NO! I'm not like that! Why are you making such a big deal out of it!"
"Because I can make decisions on my own!" Angela yelled. Ryan was taken aback that she felt strongly independent...but that wasn't the point he was trying to make.
"...It's not brain surgery to say that I don't want you to be captured by a butterfly net by that psychotic teacher!"
"I'm not stupid enough to get captured! What kind of girl do you think I am?" Angela snarled.
"The kind that almost got herself killed by her ego if a certain someone wasn't there a few weeks ago!" Ryan snapped. She clenched her fists.
"Why are you bringing up the subject again? It's done, it's over! I'm here, and not lying in some filthy alley, dead as a doorknob!"
"..That's not the flipping point! The point is that I actually care about you enough to decide what's best for you!"
"Then damn it all, you made a mistake of rescuing me." She sneered as she walked off to use the bathroom. Timmy sat on the bed with a bowl of popcorn before he realized that he still had to go to school.
"Hey...um...mind if you poof us to school?" He asked meekly, careful not to infuriate the fairy any more than he was. Ryan glanced angrily at Angela's retreating back.
"...As long as SHE stays here." He snorted before a plunger collided with his head.
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"...I am not believing this..." Ryan sighed in frustration as he found himself poofing to the school...with Angela. After their hefty argument, he just didnt want to deal with her. She reminded him too much of himself, and he couldn't remember a time where he argued that much in his life.
Suddenly, they heard fangirlish squeals...mostly going by,
"FWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! IT'S RYAN!"
"...What the!" Angela blinked as two girls practically zoomed over to them, one of them blond and a cheerleader...the other, a brunette and looked to be the most popular girl in school. They almost tackled the poor boy to the ground, until Angela stepped in.
"...Hey...can't you see that he doesn't like being tackled?" She asked.
"Hi Ryan." Trixie greeted, fluttering her eyelashes at him.
"I saved you a seat at the popular kid's table if you wanted to sit with us..."
"Please...stop stalking me." Ryan groaned as Trixie and Veronica followed him into the school. Angela scowled and shook her head at the blindness of the two girls.
"There's no big deal about an airhead like him!" She yelled before she started fuming to herself. She completely forgot about Timmy until he spoke up.
"...But you seem to make one heck of a big deal about it." He slyly said. Angela gave him the famous Sanderson glare before she headed into the school with him.
"...Apparently we have a new student in our class today...her name is Angela Sanderson." Crocker said, gesturing to the uniformed girl standing beside him.
"Who is NOT...in fact, a cousin of Timmy Turner. ...But more of a friend of Ryan's who transferred here from a private school." He then gave the evil eye to them.
"FAIRIES!" He spazzed before he sat at his teacher's desk.
"Hi." She greeted, immediately getting the attention of the boys in the class. Her eye twitched at the hormones she could sense from them.
"You're pretty." They said dazedly as she starting walking down the aisle of desks.
"...Uh, thanks?" She asked. Trixie fumed to herself as she watched the new girl get all the attention from the guys. At this point, she made a mental note that Angela was officially her rival within the 5 seconds she was in the classroom. In the meantime, Ryan was having the same old problems...
"Can't you two just leave me alone?"
"Why won't you be our lover?" Veronica whined.
"...I'd rather stick my head in a beehive than be your lover." He said shortly before he stuck his head into a book and blocked out their screeching rather talently.
"But you're like, the nicest guy ever!"
'Curse my kindness...look what you have done to me.' Ryan thought. Crocker just cringed as usual at their innecessive squeals, and started to teach as soon as Angela sat next to Timmy. As soon as lunchtime came, Ryan dashed from his seat and went outside. But his few minutes of peace was shattered as Trixie and Veronica found him hiding behind a bush. He let out a cry for help as they latched onto his leg and dragged him out of hiding.
"Let go! I'll sue ya for harassment!" He threatened. The two girls just giggled before they pounced on him.
"...HELP!" Angela and Timmy were walking towards a spot on the playground when they heard noise.
"I bet that's Ryan hiding away from Trixie and Veronica." Timmy said as he headed towards that direction. Angela felt slightly upset at these words, seeing that the whole time they were in class, they just wouldn't keep their hands off the fairy boy. But determined not to let that get the best of her, after all, they were just girls...she walked past Timmy.
"...Hey Ryan, I was wondering if you'd like to..." She stopped in mid sentence as her eyes came across the two girls clinging onto Ryan like he was the last lifeboat on a sinking ship.
"Oh...you're...you're...doing something..." Angela mumbled. Ryan tried to shrug, but he was overpowered by hugs.
"I'm kinda tied up at the moment." He explained, wincing at the lack of air. The pixie girl nodded a little.
"...I can see that."
"...If you don't mind, we're busy...so when you're popular, come back later, mmmkay?" Trixie asked sweetly. ...About as sweet as a lemon.
"...I guess...I'll see you later." Angela said as she walked away. Ryan couldn't help but feel guilty, but the feeling was wrenched away as he once again was locked in a battle to pry them off him. He didn't see the pained look on her face as she joined Timmy again.
"...Is something wrong?" Timmy asked. Angela shook her head.
"N..Not at all."
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Ryan hadn't been able to talk nor see Angela, because she was totally immersed in the school activites. Eventually he would find the guilty feeling in him deepen as the peacefulness that usually was in the castle...shatter on impact the moment their eyes met once more.
"...Have fun today?" Angela asked flatly as she walked past him, heading toward the movie room. Ryan scratched his head in confusion. Why was she acting snooty all of a sudden?
"...Well...no...I didn't." He answered plainly. Both of them were trying not to dare each other to bring up the subject of what happened today...but it popped up out of nowhere.
"...You seemed rather shocked that anyone pays attention to you." She said coolly. The fairy put his hands in the pockets of his jeans and leaned against a nearby wall.
"I don't like that type of attention...it gives me the creeps." He muttered. Angela stopped but didn't turn around.
"...You're a ladies' man, aren't you?" Ryan blinked, wondering why she said that out of nowhere.
"If you think that being hounded by two girls is fun...then you are definitely a pixie." He joked. The pixie girl didn't see the humor in it and continued walking down the hall after a few minutes.
"Hey wait...I didn't mean it like that...I thought you were joking with me." He said, following her. The pixie girl kept walking, trying to lose him within the many rooms of the castle, but Ryan was locked onto her like a missile.
"..Are you avoiding me?" He asked as they passed through the main hall where Cosmo and Wanda's wands were stored.
"..No." She mumbled as she headed towards the bedroom. Before she could disappear into it, Ryan finally reached out and grabbed her hand, turning her around.
"It seems like it." Angela shook her head.
"I'm not avoiding you! I just feel extremely uncomfortable right now." She said, avoiding his eyes.
"...Uncomfortable? How? Tell me...maybe I can help you with a problem you have?" He asked softly. Angela shook her head harder before she yanked her hand away from him.
"I don't have a problem! ...Just...just leave me alone!" Ryan let her go and stepped back a little.
"...All right...I'll leave you be...just...stop trying to avoid looking at me. Am I really that horrible to look at?" Angela didn't say anything, nor turn her head.
"...Please...all I ask is that you look straight into my eyes...and tell me what is wrong." She slowly looked up, slightly trembling.
"...Today, when I saw those two girls hanging all over you...I couldn't help but feel angry...but the thing was, they didn't do anything to me...it was like, I didn't like what they were doing...and I don't know why..." He studied her before it slowly dawned on him.
"...Angela, are you...experiencing jealousy for the first time?" A horrified look came over her before she pushed past Ryan and shut the bedroom door in his face.