"Oh my gosh! Me too!"
For the whole afternoon, Chloe had been hanging out with the kid at the playground the whole day, they even went out to have ice cream for lunch! And then went back to the playground to play some extreme hopscotch.
Chloe had found out that his name is Hans, he usually sneaks away from his house because he thinks his parents are boring so he always goes to the playground every Tuesdays and Fridays to play by the sand pit or go on the swings early in the morning. Oh! and he is 8 years old, his height is 3' 9" feet, and weighs approximately 61 pounds (Yeah Chloe measured it for the last two, but don't get freaked out, it's a Chloe thing).
Chloe said "Your zodiac sign is Aries too?! We have so much in common!"
Chloe and Hans are chilling on the swings, still holding their ice cream, well their 4th and 3rd servings of ice cream respectively.
Chloe continues on "Ok, ok, do you also think that video games can be a potential platform for young kids to develop skills and experience new concepts if used appropriately and respectfully?"
"Uhh... sure miss." The shy kid talks back.
"Oh yeah! We have like 432 things in common, my little munchkin! I think I'm comfortable calling you my best best best friend from now on!"
Chloe's staring at her ice cream, fiddling with her thumbs.
"Miss, are you alright?"
"Yeah, yeah Hans, don't worry... I'm okay..."
"Are you sure?" The kid asked, with a concerned look on his face.
"Yeah, I'm fine..."
Then Chloe suddenly snaps "NO! NO I'M NOT! I MISS TIMMY! I MEAN IT'S NOT LIKE I HATE YOUR COMPANY BUT MY DAY FEELS SO WEIRD WITHOUT HIM! YOU KNOW WHEN IT'S SUMMER AND SCHOOL IS GONE? AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE GOING OUT IN AWESOME TRIPS AND YOU'RE JUST SITTING HOME DOING NOTHING? IT FEELS LIKE THAT RIGHT NOW! LIKE MY DAY IS COMPLETELY UNEVENTFUL WITHOUT HIM! SURE I CAN DO STUFF ON MY OWN, LIKE MAYBE LOOKING AT THE STARS IN MY TELESCOPE OR LIKE RESCUING STRAY ANIMALS OR SOMETHING BUT I HONESTLY JUST WANNA HANG OUT WITH TIMMY!"
Clearly not even frightened by Chloe's outburst, he spoke "Do you mean the guy that you've been talking about for like an hour when we got our ice cream?"
"Yeah, Timmy!"
"Miss, you have some serious issues." Hans commented.
"Well..."
"Why don't you just go to him?"
"Because I was mad at him because..." Chloe pauses for a second, checking the time based on the position of the sun (Because you know? Chloe) and immediately realizing her play. "OH NO! I FORGOT I HAVE TO BE AT THE THEATER BY NOW!"
"The what theater?" Hans asks.
"No time to explain, little munchkin, gotta go!"
"Umm... ok miss, good luck!" And so Chloe heads off, with Hans waving goodbye behind her.
At the theater
"Ms. Carmichael! Oh my goodness, my little worker bee, you're late!"
"Yes, sorry Mrs. Ross! I had to grab my princess costume from home."
"Well chop chop young lady! Curtains rise up in 40 minutes! Get your makeup on! Double time!"
"ALRIGHT TEAM! TONIGHT'S GONNA BE FABULOUSSSS!"
Before Chloe makes it to the little actresses' change room, she gets stopped by the main character of the play, the "knight in shining armor."
"Oh what do you want now Tay?" Chloe blurted out, clearly annoyed.
"I can't wait for our ending scene together!"
The lead actor, Tay was basically Chloe's "Tootie", they met each other in their first year in Dimmsdale High and are in the same drama class for 4 years straight. Like Tootie, Tay is always trying to impress Chloe in order to get her heart, and just like Tootie towards Timmy, Tay thinks that Chloe is incredibly hot. While Chloe does appreciate his efforts, she only thinks of him as a friend because he acts very desperate to the point where Chloe just thinks he's clingy, but she likes how he pushes himself to his limits to impress her.
"Oh... yeah... our ending scene..."
"You know, I'm actually wearing lip balm right now..." Tay said, showing his lips in a totally not bizarre fashion.
Yeah... Chloe and this "Tay" guy are supposed to have a kissing scene at the end of the play, right before the curtain comes down, even though she sends a ton of complaints to Mrs. Ross, their drama teacher, Chloe is forced to kiss no matter what. Tay is celebrating that as a victory and so he creepily brags about it to Chloe.
"Yeah, umm... excuse me, I gotta go..."
"Ok, ok, can't wait for the show to start!"
"Now I know how Timmy felt when I bragged about the play to him... now that I think about it... maybe he shouldn't have come, I don't want him to see me and Tay doing that thing at the end..."
Meanwhile...
Timmy and his fairies got to their own seat situated at the very back of the audience, with the fairies disguised as foamy fingers and "Go Chloe!" signs. Just a few seats ahead of them, Timmy's mom and dad are sitting down, with Timmy's dad trying to pick anything up with his huge magnet thing.
"Honey, do you really need to do that right now?"
"Look! So far, I got someone's braces, a clothes hanger, and someone's shoe!"
In the meantime Timmy turns towards his fairies "Hey guys, don't you think this is a little over the top, with the foam fingers and all?"
"Oh c'mon sport! She's your best friend and our godkid! You should get into the spirit!"
"Remember what Chloe's mom said, that woman is still giving me goosebumps!" Cosmo shrieked.
Poof talks in a terrified manner... "Poof, poof..."
The curtain comes up and the show finally starting, the opening scene fills the stage with a bunch of peasant characters in their poor little village.
The whole plot of the play is about a bunch of poor villagers getting terrorized by a dragon living in a nearby cave, the dragon had also kidnapped a princess from a far and distant kingdom and so they live in the cave together, a travelling knight hears the tales and rumors about the dragon and (huge shocker) the knight slays the dragon and saves the princess and the village. Or at least that's what the writers of the play intended.
"I have never seen that guy before, the knight?" Timmy asked.
After slowly observing him, Wanda responded. "Yeah that's the lead actor. Tay, I think his name is..."
"To be honest, this is just some horrible writing by the author, trying to add another character..." Cosmo confessed.
The show was doing great for the opening scene until it continued through, the students clearly didn't rehearse very well, props were either missing or not supposed to be on stage at the moment, and some have forgotten their costumes and/or lines, and that results into the play being a major disaster.
However, Chloe excelled where all her peers didn't, she was the only thing keeping the entire thing alive, and was the main centerpiece of the production. Tay also kept up with Chloe, working together with her as a team to carry the play! Partially because of a determination to impress Chloe but Tay also seems to be a pretty decent actor.
Everything seemed fine and it looks like it was actually going to turn out great! Until smoke erupted from the stage and lightning crackled in the building.
"Oooh! Aaah!" The audience cheered, impressed by the special effects.
Foop!
A huge robot dragon mech magically appears on stage, spewing fire and magic all around the theater. Tay, thinking it's some sort of a surprise from their drama teacher, carries on with the play. But somewhere inside the dragon mech, Foop is piloting the horrible metal beast.
"Alas, your end has come dragon!" Tay says, assuming he can actually beat the thing, as Foop's dragon sends the boy flying off stage, by the flick of it's tail.
The dragon opens its mouth to show a speaker in his mouth. "Hi sorry folks umm... sorry, I'm looking for my arch nemesis Chloe Carmichael? She's supposed to be around here somewhere... She's about this big, this tall? Oh never mind, ALL OF YOU SHALL PERISH!" The dragon then breathes fire inside the building, to show off its strength.
More "Ooh's" and "Aah's" come from the audience.
However in the back of the crowd Timmy and the fairies are panicking. "Aahh Chloe's in trouble! Cosmo, Timmy! We need to help her!" Wanda whispers loudly.
"I have a plan guys!" Timmy says as he does a team huddle with his fairies.
Unlike everyone else, Chloe knows exactly who's piloting that dragon and so she stands up against Foop.
Chloe appears onstage, holding defiance in her eyes. "Foop?! Leave those innocent people alone! It's me you wanted right?!"
"Ooh great, there you are! Hi Chloe! Love that new princess outfit girl! Sorry, I'm having a hard time on my anti-fairy homework and I'm trying to blow off a little steam. Can you maybe help me with this "math" thing? But hold on, we can do that RIGHT AFTER I DESTROY YOU ALL! PREPARE TO PERISH!"
"EXCALIBUR!" Tay shouts, charging towards the extremely painful looking dragon, following the script that he was supposed to slay the dragon.
"Uh, you people are so stupid! I'm an actual fire breathing mechanical dragon! Look! I can even do magic! I'm real!" Foop throws the knight to the crowd, making him unconscious.
Then Foop's dragon looking quite disgusted from the reaction of the audience turns towards Chloe. "This is so boring! Chloe let's go!"
"Reach for the sky..." Timmy enters stage right, the spotlight shining down on him.
"Timmy! You actually came!"
The dragon makes a dramatic surprised face. "(Gasps)* We got the duo together! Now this is gonna be fun!"
Timmy was wearing real knight armour that he had wished up, along with a mace and a shield. With the fairies out of sight in order to hide their identities, just in case.
"Why are you even doing this Foop? I thought you were cool!" Timmy yelled.
"BECAUSE TERRORIZING IS FUN!" The dragon's speaker yelled back, before trying to hit Timmy with its tail.
Foop uses the dragon to breath fire directly at Timmy, but Timmy crouched down, holding the shield in front of him.
The dragon then flies, with Foop using magic to make Timmy's mace and shield turn into bats. Afterwards, the dragon lifts off and drop directly on top of Timmy, which Timmy barely managed to dodged.
Chloe, who is still on the other end of the stage, cried out "Timmy! Hurry up or else he'll cause more damage!"
Hearing Chloe's words, Timmy pulls out his dad's giant magnet, aiming it directly towards Foop's dragon, he then sets the device on to full power, hoping that will show results.
Timmy drops the magnet on the floor, with the magnet's strength rising up to full power, slowly the dragon's long neck starts to drift towards the magnet but when the magnet finished warming up, the dragon throws itself head first into the magnet, making the wooden floor of the stage collapse and equipment from the ceiling to fall on the stage. Now the dragon is left in pieces, covered on top of junk and debris, as a huge dust cloud fill the building.
The audience cheers, with a few occasional whistles and "woo!'s".
The dragon lays down, defeated. And without the threat of a giant deadly killing machine anymore, Timmy and Chloe ran up to each other, sharing a "victory hug".
They locked into an friendly embrace until Timmy spoke first. "Hey umm... sorry for how I acted this morning..."
"Don't worry about that, I forgive you... I probably should be the one saying sorr-"
The pile of debris started moving, Foop was still inside the whole thing, giving Timmy and Chloe a bunch of questions to answer.
Timmy and Chloe jumped on top of the pile towards the cockpit of the dragon, that's still buried by props and fallen equipment "Foop! Why? You promised me that you'll behave from now on!" Chloe shouted, trying to tell him through layers of metal and debris.
Foop responded but with a shy, more normal voice. "Umm, promise me you won't tell anyone? Ok?"
"We promise!" Timmy said.
Foop opens the cockpit window of the mech, pushing away the remaining debris off. Smoke comes off the cockpit, as Timmy and Chloe finally see Foop.
"I JUST HAD MY FIRST GROWTH SPURT! I'M A RECTANGLE! LOOK AT ME! I'M A MONSTROSITY!" An aged up Foop looks up, screaming at the top of his lungs.
Somewhere, in the middle of the crowd, Poof is having a laugh attack.
Chloe makes an effort to cheer him up. "Oh Foop, don't worry! Looks aren't important, umm... what matters is what is inside the heart! Besides this is all completely temporary! Just be yourself ok?"
Timmy is slowly failing to control his laughter, after seeing Foop shaped like a rectangle for the first time.
(Heck, even the author had a laughing fit after imagining a rectangular Foop.)
"You really think so Chloe?"
"I believe in it."
"NO YOU'RE LYING! THAT IS FAKE NEWS! YOU'LL RUE THE DAY YOU EVER LAUGHED AT FOOP, I WILL RULE THIS WORLD AND CONDEMN YOU ALL TO ETERNAL SUFFERING!"
And so Foop teleports away to Anti-Fairy World, clearly still having issues with his shape problem. Now after all said is done Timmy and Chloe are left on the stage, with Timmy still wearing his knight armour and Chloe wearing her princess costume...
"Well that was weird..." Timmy said.
The stage fell silent, until the school's drama teacher started chanting out from backstage. "Kiss, kiss, kiss."
Chloe and Timmy looked shocked, with big O's forming in their mouth, Chloe looks more surprised out of the two, realizing her situation.
"Whoa umm..." Chloe's cheeks start burning, avoiding Timmy's eyes.
Soon the crowd joins in too, more voices contributing to the effort. "Kiss, kiss, kiss."
"Well this is a little embarrassing..." Timmy confessed.
"KISS!" Cosmo blurted out, before receiving a knock on the head by Wanda's wand.
Finally, when the chanting had spread through the entire auditorium Timmy and Chloe locked glances, and gazing onto each other's eyes, exploring them, wandering, getting lost in them...
"Should we..." Timmy whispered, removing his knight's helmet.
"(Fangirl scream)* EEEK! THAT'S MY SON! MY SON IS FINALLY GONNA KISS A GIRL!" A voice in the crowd had stood out.
"Yes... I think we should."
Timmy pulls Chloe closer, grabbing her hips with one arm, brushing a lock of her hair to the side...
Chloe was surprised at first, discovering how Timmy was so good at this.
"Hmm... it's almost like he practiced." Chloe thought, smiling, giggling at Timmy's charming grin.
And so she relaxes, loosening her arms, inviting Timmy's lips to hers, their faces just inches apart...
And then they kissed...
Slowly and steadily, romantic and passionate, they start to kiss like they've been lovers for a long time. Perhaps they've had a secret longing for each other after all these years that even they didn't even notice...
A happily ever after kiss.
With Timmy's hands on Chloe's hips and Chloe's arms around Timmy's shoulders, the curtain is slowly laid down, the big red cloth signalling the end of the play, followed by loud clapping and cheering from the audience.
Yet, while all of this was happening, Cosmo and Wanda's hands are on top of Poof's eyes, shielding him from all the horrors of the real world.
