Chapter Two

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Edward, the fairy, was waiting for me at the parking lot. I parked my truck and got out, walking right past him into the forest behind the school.

I walked and walked, hearing him follow, until I came to a little clearing.

"I know what you are." I said, not turning around.

"Say it. Out loud." I heard his beautiful voice say.

"F-f-fairy." I stammered.

"Are you afraid?" He said, turning me around to face him.

"No?" I said. How could I be afraid of a fairy?

"You really shouldn't of said that."

And with that, he pulled me onto his back and ran out of the clearing. But he didn't just run fast. He ran faster than a car. The trees whizzed past us, and I feared that we would crash into one.

After what felt like an hour, he stopped, in another clearing that was bathed in sunlight.

"You need to see who I really am. What I look like in the sun!" He yelled, stepping into the sunlight. I gasped.

His skin sparkled, as though diamonds were imbedded in his skin.

I giggled. "You're sparkling!"

"I know. Like a little pixie." He said in disgust.

"No, no, not like a pixie! You're even more beautiful this way." I said, reaching out to touch his arm, noticing how dull mine looked in comparison.

"There's another thing I haven't told you. I-I like hair." He said, eyeing my long, dark hair. "Hair is the key ingredient of Fairy Dust."

"Are you seriously telling me you're gay?" I said. He makes Fairy Dust!

"What? No! Fairy Dust isn't gay – it's a weapon! A weapon against those darn Pixies!" He said angrily.

"Pixies?" I raised an eyebrow.

"They live in Italy. And every day, they take people's hair to make their Pixie Dust! They run a hairdressers, where they keep people's hair. And ever since that first day I saw you, I knew, I had to have your hair. It smelt and looked so good. I had to stop breathing that first day, otherwise I probably couldn't have controlled myself! I would have cut your hair off then and there to make Fairy Dust!"

"Hair makes Fairy Dust? Are you kidding?" I couldn't believe it. Edward, a Fairy who makes magical Dust.

"Yes. Brown hair makes Fairy Dust that can shield us from the Pixie's Dust, Blond hair makes Fairy Dust that can make it's way up the Pixie's noses and attack them from the inside, Red Hair makes Fairy Dust that causes fire to chase the Pixies away, and Black hair makes Fairy Dust that will blind the Pixies temporarily. Some people's hair has special powers, like yours probably would, by the smell of it. It can give us the ability to read minds, predict the future, you name it!"

"Right… Tell me this, why are you and the Pixies fighting?" I said, still finding all this hard to believe.

"We're fighting the Pixie's every day to stop them trying to take over the world! They plan to invade the government and make a law that says all people must be bald! This will get them all the hair in the world, and they must not have it!" Edward said passionately, his hands balled into fists.

"Okay, so, you have to stop all the Pixies taking over the government? The Pixies who live in Italy… Running a hairdressers… so that people can not be bald, and the Pixie's will not be able to have all the hair in the world to attack you?" I said, making sure I got everything right.

"Yes!" He replied, excited I had got everything.

We talked about this topic for quite a while. And about Fairies. About how they are all beautiful, with the same abnormalities, and how, to become a fairy, you must go through initiation.

"Initiation?" I asked, curious. I wouldn't mind becoming a Fairy.

"Yes, we turn the hair into Fairy Dust – except, not the hair on your head. The hair.. down there." He said, slightly embarrassed.

"Oh. Oh, do it now Edward! I want to be a Fairy!" I pleaded.

"Not now, Bella, my love, first you shall meet my parents, they've been dying to see you. And anyway, the Initiation requires my whole family." He said, gazing into my eyes.

I was startled when he called me "my love" as though I was his. Well, I thought, that's what I want to be! We stayed in the clearing a little longer. We even kissed, which made me happier than ecstasy ever could, not that I'd tried it. Heh, heh.

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The Cullen's' house was amazing, and so pretty. It was like a big pink cake with purple icing. It was as if it had come out of a fairy tale. The Witch's candy house in 'Hansel and Gretel' was nothing compared to this house.

"There's another thing I haven't showed you." Edward said, taking off his shirt.

I stared at his back. He had wings. Big, beautiful wings that looked like they'd been pulled off a giant butterfly. They were pink, purple, blue, all sorts of wonderful colours!

"They're… amazing." I whispered.

Edward sighed. "Come on then, come meet the parents."
Carlisle and Esme were delightful, and so nice, and like their children, beautiful. Carlisle had blond hair that fell into his eyes, and looked too young to be a father to all the Cullen's. Esme had long brown hair that fell in delicate curls down her back, she also looked to young to be a mother.

"Well," said Esme, after half an hour of chat, "Initiation time!"

She sent me into the bathroom to cut off some… hairs from down there which she told me to put in the little pink cauldron in the middle of the lounge room.

She then told me to step aside for a moment while all the Cullens; Carlisle, Esme, Emmet, Rosalie, Edward, Jasper and Alice, linked hands around the cauldron, their wings glistening beautifully. They than began to dance around the cauldron, still holding hands, and sprinkling pink Fairy Dust into the cauldron, singing gibberish.

Then when the process was complete, Carlisle scooped the dark purple Fairy Dust out of the cauldron and sprinkled it over me.

I felt a tingling in my back as wings started to grow out of it, ripping the back of my shirt. I watched as my skin got even paler and I started feeling stronger, full of energy. I was seeing more clearly, I could make out every detail in the room, I could hear cars driving on the highway!

Edward handed me a mirror, the face that stared back at me from inside it was familiar, yet so different. I was, dare I say it, beautiful.
"Let's go to Italy and kick some Pixie ass." I said, smiling a perfect Fairy smile.

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