From The Moment They Got Married

The following weeks that I spent with Cosmo and Wanda were the most fun I'd had in my entire life. We went on endless adventures together through the stories I read all the time in books, we went around the world and saw exotic places, we had space battles, and safari's, and went on a submarine journey. I quickly learned there were things I couldn't wish for. I couldn't make Joey at school fall in love with me and I couldn't wish for breakfast after 10 a.m. but I didn't even care. I was having so much fun that I barely noticed my parents arguments.

And I was fascinated by Cosmo and Wanda's love. I had never seen anything like it before. They were kind to each other, they always complimented each other, and made sure the other was okay. They were affectionate, they held hands, they gave each other kisses. Just the way they looked at each other was baffling to me. If this kind of love really did exist on earth, I wanted to have it one day.

We were walking home from school one day, Cosmo and Wanda disguised as my dogs as they often did so no one would know they were fairies.

"So there is one thing I've always wondered," I said.

"What's that kiddo?" Cosmo asked.

"Do fairies live on earth? Like, how come I've never seen one before?"

"Well for one thing, fairies are masters of disguise," Wanda said. "You probably have seen one and just didn't know it. And fairies don't live on earth when we're not with kids."

"Then where do you live?"

"In Fairy World," Cosmo said.

Now I was curious. "Where is that?"

"It's right past the moon, you can't miss it...well humans miss it all the time actually."

"What's it like? Can we go there one day?"

"Of course," Wanda said. "Tell you what, there's a big festival in Fairy World this weekend, it's called the Fairy Festival, it's a big holiday. We'll go spend the weekend there and you can see everything."

"Won't my parents know I'm gone?"

"We'll figure something out."

That weekend we came up with elaborate plan to convince my parents that I was spending the weekend with my aunt and uncle. With a little bit of magic, they totally bought it. With a wave of their wands, we were in Fairy World. I was not prepared for what I saw.

Everything was a million times more bright and colorful than on Earth. The ground was made of frosty pink clouds and sparkles. We seemed to have appeared in the middle of a city intersection, there were buildings everywhere and even a shopping mall down the street. Fairies bustled back and forth around us, I noticed them all giving me curious looks as they passed. The fairies were fascinating, they all looked different with different colored hair and hairstyles and different clothes. Back home, everyone dressed so plain in comparison.

"Wow," was all I could say.

"Where to first?" Wanda said.

"I say we take her to Fairy Fro-Yo," Cosmo said. "You haven't lived until you tried it Amelia."

I walked with them down the block and went into Fairy Fro-Yo and found that it was an ice cream shop. We went up to the counter and were greeted by a bald fairy with big purple eyes.

"Hi Cosmo and Wanda," he said in a high voice.

"Since when do you work here Binky?" Cosmo said.

"Since the beginning of the month. I got tired of working at the bank. Who's this?"

"This is our god child Amelia," Wanda said. "We're giving her a little tour of Fairy World before the festival."

"You're going to love it," Binky said to me. "What'll it be?"

We ordered our ice cream and it was by the far the best I'd ever had. After that Cosmo and Wanda continued to give me the grand tour of Fairy World. We went to the park, to a whole bunch of really neat stores, I tried food that I'd never heard of and it tasted way better than anything I'd ever had on earth. We went to Mount Fairymore and Fairy Falls and a ton of other places before we had dinner at Taco Bell.

At the end of the day we were walking down the street in a neighborhood and I had been rambling on excitedly for the past 20 minutes. Finally we stopped at a house. "What's this?"

"Home sweet home," Cosmo said poofing up a key. He unlocked the door and I was amazed for the millionth time that day.

Their house was beautiful. We entered a large foyer with a tall spiral staircase that I full intended to slide down before the end of the day. There were photo and paintings on the walls. I went down the hallway and began to explore. To my right was the kitchen. To my left was a library full of bookshelves and comfy couches. At the end of the hallway was a cozy living room with a large brick fireplace. I paused to look at the big framed picture over the fireplace.

I walked over to it and looked at it with fascination. They looked a big younger, Wanda had curly hair down her back and Cosmo's was messy as usual. She looked lovely in a fluffy white wedding dress and Cosmo wore a white suit. They appeared to be at the altar, it must have been taken right after they said "I do." Their arms were around each other and the way they looked at each other was a look full of love and devotion.

My parents never talked about their wedding. There were no pictures. Seeing Cosmo and Wanda's wedding picture, how they looked just as happy then as they were now and how they were proud to put it on display made me happy.

"I take it you like the house," Wanda said chuckling at my excitement.

"It's beautiful...I like your wedding picture," I said pointing up at it. "Are there more?"

"Of course. Let's go find our wedding album."

I followed her to the library and watched as she flew up to the top shelf and pulled down a big photo album. Then she came back to me and we sat down on the floor. She opened it to the first page. The first picture was one of them at the park we had been to today. Wanda's long hair was in a high ponytail and Cosmo placed a kiss on her cheek. She was holding out her hand which had an engagement ring on her finger.

"We took that after Cosmo proposed to me," she said. There was a big smile on her face, I could tell she enjoyed revisiting this.

Cosmo came into the room. "I brought candy," he said holding up chocolate bars. "What are you looking at?" He came over and sat next to us. "Hey I remember that," he said when he saw the picture.

Wanda turned the page. On this page they appeared to be getting ready for the wedding. In one picture Wanda wore her wedding dress and she was getting her hair done by two girls in purple dresses, one had really long icy blue hair and the other had curly blonde hair and green eyes.

"Those are our friend Sparkle and Dana," Wanda explained.

In another picture Cosmo was wearing his white suit, the jacket tossed over the back of the chair he was sitting in. He was writing "I do" on his forearm with a sharpie.

That made me laugh. "Really Cosmo?"

He laughed as well. "I didn't want to forget. I was so nervous, as soon as I got up to the altar I forgot everything, until I saw her anyway."

Wanda kissed his cheek. "You didn't even need to look at it."

Wanda turned the pages and there were more pictures of all their friends sitting in the church. They hadn't had a big wedding, it seemed to be just a few friends and I couldn't see anyone who looked like family members. "Where are your parents?" I asked.

"They didn't come," Wanda said kinda sadly. "They didn't approve of our relationship. We ran away to get married."

I was shocked by that. Cosmo and Wanda were perfect to me. How could anyone not approve of their relationship?

Before I could say anything more, Wanda turned the page again. This time there were pictures of her walking down the aisle, them at the altar together holding each other's hands, putting rings on their fingers, their wedding kiss. The same picture that hung over their fireplace was also in the album. Next was the reception. There were pictures of them cutting their wedding cake and dancing.

I was fascinated by every picture. My godparents looked so happy in every single one of them. What was crazy to me was that they were still happy now 5,000 years later. I thought about my parents for a moment. They never talked about their wedding. I wondered if they had ever been this happy.

We got to the last page and closed the book.

"The end," Cosmo said.

I giggled. "It's not the end, you're still together."

He hugged Wanda. "Well it's the end of that part." He kissed her cheek. "The story continues."