They Make Each Other Happy
One afternoon I was riding my bike with Cosmo. He was making huge puddles and obstacles in front of us.
"Here comes a big one!" He said.
I went at it at full speed but the puddle was A LOT deeper than expected. We seemed to be underwater and saw fish and even a submarine. After a few seconds we resurfaced, soaking wet.
I felt something in my hair and pulled out a fish. "Where were we?"
"Might have been Atlantis," he said shaking water out of his ear.
"Did you ride bikes when you were a kid?"
"Oh yeah, all the time. We eventually upgraded to drag racing."
"What's that?"
"You go down steep hills in a homemade go kart."
"Is that safe?"
"Well...I'm still alive. Come on, I'll show you how to make one."
We settled in my backyard making a go kart from scratch. It turned out to be a lot of fun and I painted a princess on it.
While we worked, I noticed Cosmo's wedding ring on his left ring finger. It had paint splotches on it but it was still shining gold. I noticed it had the word "forever" engraved on it.
"Cosmo?"
"Yeah?"
"Why do you love Wanda?"
I watched as he looked surprised by the question for a second, then looked deep in thought, and finally his face morphed into a smile.
"Why do I love Wanda...gosh, um...well, she's perfect really. She's smart, beautiful, loving, compassionate...she fixes all my mistakes and doesn't complain about it. She makes me happy. I always mess things up but the one thing I ever got right was marrying her...does any of that make sense?"
I nodded. "It makes perfect sense," I said with a smile.
"Good," he said sounding relieved. "It's not every day I have to put into words why I love Wanda...I just do."
"Well I think that's very sweet," I said. "Looks like we're done."
"Let's take this baby for a ride!"
We took it to the top of the biggest hill in the neighborhood and got in.
"Ready?" I said.
"Go!"
We flew down the hill at top speed….maybe we picked up speed too fast. We were headed straight for a tree!
"Slow down!" Cosmo exclaimed.
"I can't! We forgot to put in brakes!"
We were going to crash! I braced myself when suddenly Wanda appeared in front of us. She waved her wand and a big cushion appeared where the tree was. Our crash wasn't so scary after all.
A second later she was next to us with her arms crossed.
"Hey snookie," Cosmo said nervously. "Wanna give it a try?"
Wanda looked like she wanted to say a million things to scold us, instead with another wave of her wand we were out of the go kart. "If you're going to endanger our godchild, at least put in brakes," she said before kissing his cheek.
Later that evening, Wanda was helping me with my homework. I liked when she helped me, she was good at spelling and I wasn't.
I was distracted though. I asked Cosmo why he loved Wanda and he gave me the sweetest answer. Now I wanted to know why she loved him.
"How do you spell contemplate?" I asked.
"Try sounding it out."
"Con...tem...plate...oh I get it!"
"Great job!"
As I wrote I looked at her wedding ring. It was the same as Cosmo's, bright gold with forever engraved in it and smaller to fit her dainty finger. I thought about their wedding picture and imagined them putting the rings on each other's fingers for the first time.
"Wanda?"
"Yeah sweetie?"
"Why do you love Cosmo?"
She smiled the way he did when I asked him. "Because he's perfect," she replied. "He's the kindest, sweetest, most handsome fairy I've ever known. He loves me for who I am and he takes care of me. He's easy to laugh with and have fun with and he makes me feel free...he makes me happy."
She got a far off look on her face for a moment, she seemed to be swept off into thoughts of him. After a few seconds she turned back to me. "Why do you ask?"
I shrugged. "Just curious. You always seem so happy together."
Suddenly Cosmo appeared with pizza. "Who wants pizza?"
"Did you make it?" I asked wearily.
He laughed. "No silly, I ordered it."
I took a slice. "Yum!"
Wanda kissed him. "Thanks love."