"Poof?" I said looking around, nothing there "Poof, where are you?' I started looking everywhere in the entire isle, he wasn't anywhere in sight. I went back and forth in the next row of isles, calling his name and hoping he would show up.
I decided to let the manager tell everyone in the whole store to stop what they were doing, and start looking for my baby. I was determined not to rest until I knew that Poof was safe again.
When every fairy in the whole store was searching for him (Most of them was unhappy about the search, yet they did it anyway. I forced them too.) When I was searching in an isle I already looked through, Timmy and Cosmo arrived. Cosmo was carrying a Mother's Day card in his hand.
"So you lost Poof huh?" Timmy asked me. I looked at the two boys with tears in my eyes.
"YES!!" I cried and began crying.
"How you know it was Poof Timmy?" Cosmo wanted to know. "How do you know it wasn't another fairy baby that she lost?"
"Cause maybe Poof was the only fairy baby in the store?" Timmy said.
"How do you know?" Cosmo asked. "There are a lot of fairies in here that we haven't seen yet. Maybe one of them had a baby and lost it somewhere in this store. And now they're making everyone in the store look for their lost baby."
"Cosmo, he was very descriptive of the baby." Timmy told him. "He said that the fairy baby boy was round like a basketball, purple eyes, has eyelashes, purple pants, has a magic rattle instead of a magic wand, has one hair on his head, and likes to say "Poof poof" a lot. Now doesn't that sound like your baby?" Cosmo thought a minute.
"Nope!" He finally said. "That doesn't sound like Poof at all. You must be mistaken for another baby Timmy, Poof' will never run away from home, until he's grown." Timmy pinned Cosmo down on the floor grabbing his shirt collar.
"Look Cosmo!" Timmy shouted at Cosmo. "Poof is not here at this moment, so obviously your irresponsible wife has left him alone, wondering off, and now he's lost!" Cosmo pushed Timmy off of him and got up of the hard floor.
"Timmy, don't you dare call my wife irresponsible!" Cosmo shouted at him. "My wife is responsible at everything!" he looked at me. "Aren't you honey?" I floated to a corner and sighed.
"What's wrong Wanda?" he asked me.
"Cosmo." I started. "I wasn't responsible today."
"What do you mean?" I looked down at the floor, tears forming in my eyes.
"Because I…I…" I sniffed.
"You what?" I couldn't hold it in any longer. Suddenly, I burst into tears.
"I LOST POOF!!" I cried, putting my head in my hands.
"You did, how?"
"I left Poof alone in the shopping cart while I went to ask for diapers, and when I returned he was gone! I feel totally guilty, if I haven't done that, and took Poof with me to find the diapers, none of this would've happened. I feel stupid; I must be the worst mom ever!" I cried harder. Cosmo came by my side to comfort me.
"There, there." He said. "Remember not to cry over spilled orange juice. Maybe Poof is just playing hide and seek with you, I'm sure he'll come out eventually."
"Cosmo." I said. "Poof is not playing hide and seek, he is lost and now we need to look for him!"
"Don't worry Wanda!" Timmy piped up. "We'll help you find him even if it takes the whole night."
"Or when we get lazy and tired, and we don't want to search anymore!" Cosmo added.
"Thanks guys." I told them. "Hopefully it won't take that long!" So, the search began.
5 hours later, there was still no sign of Poof anywhere. We checked the whole store 15 times; Cosmo and Timmy were getting tired, for it was really late.
"Well we searched every nook and cranny of the entire store 15 times, and there's still no sign of Poof anywhere. I'm starting to feel like Poof left the store hours ago!" Timmy said, exhausted.
"But he couldn't have left the store." I told him. "He's only an infant."
"Wanda, can we go home now and rest?" Cosmo asked me." Please, we're exhausted, and the store's going to close at any minute."
"We're not going without Poof!" I told them. Cosmo opened his mouth like he wanted to say something, but I knew what he was going to say, so I continued talking.
"And I don't care that the store is closing, Poof is my baby and I'm not leaving until I know that he's safe and I can see him! We're not leaving this store until he's fond, and that's fi…"
"Excuse me ma'm." the manager said to me. "I'm really sorry we couldn't find your baby, but the store's closing. I'm afraid you'll have to leave." I looked around the area. Every fairy that helped look for Poof were all looking at me.
"I have to go to bed early so I can work tomorrow." A fairy said.
"And I have to go to the dentist in the morning." Another fairy said.
"If you want we can continue tomorrow and hopefully…" the manager told me, trying to calm my sprits.
"YOU FAIRIES MAKE ME SICK!" I erupted, interrupting the manager. Every fairy looked at me shocked, even Timmy and Cosmo. "Giving up like this and telling me you're tired" I began to have tears in my eyes. "I bet you'll all go home, and not care about rather I find him or not! So just go to your stupid beds, and forget this stupid thing has ever happened! Just go!" I rushed outside, crying.
"Is she going to be ok?" A fairy asked Timmy.
"At this rate she won't be." He told her. "But don't worry, everything will be fine again, just go home to your bed and rest." Then Cosmo and Timmy came outside to comfort me. I was still crying.
"Uh Wanda?" he asked me. I looked at him.
"Yeah?" I asked him, wiping away a tear.
"If you want Cosmo and I can help you search out here a little bit."
"What?" Cosmo asked. "Timmy, I thought you wanted to play video games with me before we go to sleep!"
"Really?" I asked him, ignoring my husband's complaints.
"Sure!" he said. "Anything that'll make you happy."
"Oh thank you!" I said hugging him tightly. Then we got to business, and started looking for Poof.
2 and a half hours later, we were still searching!
"Well Cosmo, it's official." Timmy said. Cosmo looked at him. "Your son is a mighty good hider! If we were playing hide and seek, Poof will win for sure!"
"Yeah," Cosmo agreed. "I really wish that we were playing hide and seek at this moment." Timmy looked at his watch and gasped.
"Oh my gosh!" he shrieked. "It's 5 minutes after 11 at night!" We better go home before mom and dad totally kill me! He let down his watch hand. "Come on Cosmo, we got to go!" Cosmo started following Timmy then stopped, realizing that I wasn't following them. Timmy stopped too.
"Coming Wanda?" my husband asked me.
"No." I told them.
"But why?" Cosmo asked. He and Timmy were shocked.
"I must stay here and continue looking for Poof." I answered. "You boys go home without me; I'll see you when I find him." Cosmo and Timmy gasped again.
"You're staying here by your lonesome?" Cosmo asked. "Well I won't let that happen to you, for I'm staying with you!"
"No Cosmo." I reassured him. "You must go with Timmy, it's getting late, I can take care of myself."
"You won't get scared?" Timmy asked me.
"I won't get scared." I told him. "There's really nothing at all to be scared about in Fairy World, except Anti fairies, but they won't appear for a while now, so I'm perfectly safe."
"Do you want us to come back tomorrow to help you find him?" Timmy asked.
"No, no." I said. "You better stay home. I already forced you to do this laborious task, you deserve a break. I'll be fine on my own."
"Are you sere?" he asked.
"Yes I'm sure. Now take Cosmo and go!" Timmy started walking up the ally. He stopped and looked at Cosmo.
"Cosmo?" he asked. "You coming?" I looked at Cosmo; he was sniffing and wiping tears in his eyes.
"Aw Cosmo." I said to him. "Don't cry. I'll be ok!" Then Cosmo hugged me.
"I'm going to miss you!" he sobbed.
"And I'll miss you too." I admitted, hugging him. Then I looked at him.
"I promise Cosmo as soon as I find Poof, I'll return home."
"Promise?" he asked.
"Promise!" He hugged me again.
"Ok, you better go." I said. He let me go and went towards Timmy.
"Bye Wanda!" he waved. "Good luck, find our son, I'm counting on you!"
"Bye I will!" I waved as Cosmo and Timmy poofed away. When they were gone, I began searching again.
Oh Poof, I told myself. Where could you possibly be? Don't worry, mommy will find you. Then I felt sleepy. And before I knew it, I had fallen fast asleep in the bushes.