From When They Fight

I walked up the stairs to my bedroom after having dinner when my parents were arguing relentlessly. It was awful, they never stopped no matter what. I couldn't even finish my dinner that night, halfway through I couldn't take it anymore. When I left the table to go up to my room they didn't even notice.

I looked forward to being in my room. I knew my other parents wouldn't be arguing. They never argued, they were always happy together. It gave me hope that love really did exist.

When I opened the door I froze. My two fairies were hovering above the floor in me bedroom. Instead of laughing or dancing or hugging each other like they always were, they looked angry with each other. Wanda faced him with fire in her eyes. Cosmo's fists were clenched in anger. It was an image that was all too familiar to me and I didn't know what to do.

"You never listen to me!" Wanda shouted.

"Because you're being stupid!" Cosmo shouted back.

Wanda snorted. "Oh you wanna call me stupid, huh?!"

"Shut up!"

"You shut up!"

They stared each other down for a moment then Cosmo disappeared.

Wanda's face slowly morphed from anger to sadness. Her rose pink eyes filled with tears. She sniffed as she wiped a few from her eyes.

I slowly walked over to her. "Why were you fighting?"

She looked at me in surprise that I had seen all of that. "It was a dumb reason." She reached out and gave me a hug. "I'm sorry you had to see that."

There were so many emotions running through my mind at that moment. I was disappointed, I was confused, and I was afraid. I had built up this conception of love based off of Cosmo and Wanda. I had never seen them fight like this before. If they really hated each other too, did love really exist after all?

"But…I thought you and Cosmo loved each other?"

"Honey, of course we love each other."

"Then why were you yelling at each other if you love each other?"

She held me at arms length. A look of understanding crossed her face and she looked me in the eyes seriously. "We don't mean to fight with each other. We try not to. We don't fight very often. Sometimes...sometimes Cosmo and I just get a little bit high strung. When you spend a lot of time with someone it can kinda be easy to get on each other's nerves sometimes. It doesn't mean we love each other any less. I promise."

"My parents fight all the time...do they still love each other?"

"I'm sure somewhere deep down inside they do. Now how about we go find Cosmo and make him happy?"

I nodded. "Okay."

Wanda poofed us into their house. The outside of it was deceiving but the inside was like a gigantic mansion. We were currently in the front hallway by the stairs.

"He's in the living room," Wanda said.

"How do you know?"

She winked. "I just know."

I followed her to the living room and sure enough Cosmo was sitting on the couch hugging his knees looking as sad as Wanda had been before.

I was nervous. I didn't know what to expect. Whenever my mother tried to make it up to my father he got even madder and pushed her away. I didn't expect this to go any better.

Wanda sat next to him and out her hand on his gently. "Cosmo…"

Within a split second he grabbed her hand and pulled her close to him for a tight hug. "I'm sorry Wanda!"

She wrapped her arms around his waist as a smile touched her face. "It's okay. I'm sorry too. I don't know what came over me."

"I'm sorry I called you stupid."

"Me too." She placed her hands on his face and looked into his eyes affectionately. "I love you."

"I love you too snookie," he said before placing a kiss on her lips.

I stood there in shock. There was no more yelling or getting mad. They apologized. They hugged and kissed. They still loved each other despite what had passed between them. It would be over and forgotten about and would never be brought up again. I now knew it was possible to fight and still love each other.