Misunderstandings


Wait, what!?~

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her hands laced with her partners, and he placed his hand on her waist, they hadn't opened their eyes yet. Jacklin was still giggling as they twirled, her hair bounced to the summer like beat, her parasols charms swaying in front of her smiling eyes.

Why do I feel like I've done this before?

Her eyes opened in mere slits and she looked at their hands. Her skin 'sun kissed' a darker shade compared to her partners peach porcelain colored skin. His hands were also larger than hers, but they were both calloused from work, jacklin doesn't like to wear work gloves and neither does this guy.

Her lips pulled back into a smile, whomever it was, was nervous, their palms were sweaty. Jacklin didn't mind tho', hers were too.

They were in their own world, eyes closed, not hearing what carter had said, until "Ms. Wilson" came out. She let go of his hands and turned around not noticing what had happened. People were clapping and carter put something on her head, she got worried and it showed.

She looked back at her partner and blushed scarlet, at that moment he opened his eyes and they widened on contact.

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Jacklin's p.o.v

I looked around at the stunned villagers, wondering what was wrong, until I spotted carter. His eye's were open and he knew what was going on. He snapped his fingers and time stopped, the birds stood their place in the air, shock stationed on everyone's face and he stepped closer.

"jacklin you need to calm down" his voice stern as he held me by my shoulders.

"what's wrong?" I questioned, eyes wide, everyone was still frozen, how'd he do that!? I would have asked, but I felt something blow against my back and turned my head, to look at the horror.

"The Hell?!" I shrieked looking at my back noticing more than one thing wrong. Carter calmed me down slowly.

"I'm sorry jacklin" he paused moving his arms off my shoulders. "but this is your duty" his voice finished off melancholic and stressed.

My heart hurt, I placed my hands on my chest and a part of me knew that bad things were to come. The dress changed into yet another one and my hair was almost long enough to drag on the floor, but it was straight and cotton candy like at once; sorta like Popuri's.

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The dress looked like the one grandma had. Long and different shades of faded purple at the ends. In fact.

This is the same dress! WTH!? Her eyes bulged out of her head as she examined it closer. Yup. She agreed to herself in panic. This is definitely grandma's dress. Her hand held her chin in thought for a second.

Her expression blanked and whatever was on her back shot upward and twitched leaving sparkles were she stood.

Who can help me? She asked lost in her thoughts, the one person she confided in betrayed her in the worst of ways and she couldn't ask cliff, he'd think I'm a freak her mind conjured up as she paced back and forth.

Her forehead felt funny, like it was being poked at and a thought came to mind. What if I'm stuck like this?

"you have to go home and relax" carter answered smiling with eyes closed at the panicked girl. She smiled at him, wide and face splitting, all the freckles across her face turned slightly pinkish she was smiling so hard.

"i can't keep these people frozen forever" he finished, shaking his head as jacklin ran off.

"what are you doing to that girl?" he half sighed looking to his left. A purple spark flashed leaving a mirror there.

"I'm just playing with my little Jackie that's all" she huffed crossing her arms at carter. He sighed and retorted calmly.

"what happens when her parents sense she's in 'danger'?" she blinked at him widely and smiled

"oh don't worry" she answered waving her hand. Her soft purple eyes curved knowingly. "they already knew this could happen when they married. And that didn't stop em'" she finished smirking, her purple wings fluttering slightly leaving multi-colored sparkles all around her.

She pouted and crossed her arms again "it's not my fault she couldn't visit" she turned around so carter couldn't see her glare at two riverside houses. "their the ones who moved to the city to start 'anew'" she air quoted turning around so she could get her point across.

"for a goddess you don't seem that tranquil" he replied dryly. She had a look of desperation in her eyes, she moved the stray hairs from her face and tucked it behind her ear.

"wouldn't you if you hadn't seen your granddaughter since she turned 6?" she sighed placing a hand under her chin looking away. A flash of purple came on and the mirror vanished and the villagers unfroze.

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10 minutes earlier

gray tried to avoid looking at her face even as they became partners. He didn't want to say anything to upset the 'amazon woman'. She laced their fingers together and gray was even more nervous; his hands were sweating.

He wiped his other hand on his pants and placed in on her hip. Anna and her gossipers went on about 'competition' for cliff which gray growled at. She giggled, causing Gray to look up alarmed; he furrowed his brow slightly.

Weren't her eyes brown?

He saw flashes of light form around the two as they twirled. He nearly tripped over her hair.

Wait..... what?

The gossipers screeched and pointed at them as carter placed a rosary on Jacklin's head. She turned back around to face them and nothing could be worse, they're eyes widened completely gasping at what they saw.

I was dancing, … with her?

A spark exploded from her back and periwinkle wings shot out and his eyes widened with shock as did everyone else. Then time stopped.

carter snapped his fingers and the birds started moving again and the village was in panic.

"Did you see that?!" someone screamed looking at the previous direction. "Where'd she go!?" the gossiper's shouted in unison looking in front of gray. Everything got quiet, until carter chuckled causing everyone to stare intently.

"I'm sorry I didn't mention this earlier" he paused straitening his posture "the goddess decided on her own behalf to participate in this years festival. She wanted to …. get to know the villagers better."

they all stared confused rick pipped up asking the question they all wanted to know, "you mean that girl was the goddess?" his voice cracking and his eyes wide.

Carter blinked. "oh not Ms. Wilson" he corrected their assumptions shaking his hands defensively. He looked away gazing off,

"she's just someone the goddess cares deeply for"

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"why don't they come off ?" jacklin panicked pulling at her 'wings' as she got a closer look in the mirror. Her hair was slightly purple and only at the ends, but that still didn't answer her question. She tried to relax but the question kept on coming back; not letting her calm down.

Why do I have this dress?

She already tried taking it off, but she couldn't, its like skin. "why cant I be a normal girl?"she moaned rubbing her head. Someone giggled behind her.

"who's there?" she reacted with a sour face. Seeing no one there she began searching for the source, even though it was right behind her.

Tired of searching and not caring about wrinkling the dress, she went to lay down; until she tumbled over a non existent rock.

"Bwaa!"she let out as she fell, short stopped by someone grabbing her waist.

"jacklin honey, you really should be more careful" she scolded pouting; then stopped to grip her in a bear hug. Jacklin blinked in confusion at this mystery woman behind her.

"oh, and before I forget" she stopped gripping and popped a book out of thin air in front of jacklin. A purple book with Jacklin A. Wilson, written in bold, fancy green and gold letters on the front.

" how do you know my name?" she asked forgetting they were also in her house, tilting her head back to see the woman towering over her; her eyes widened.

"your" the woman smiled widely as she let out the first word. "y-your!" she repeated stuttering moving away from the woman.

"yes, yes I am" she answered smiling

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outskirts of the city

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"when is she gonna call~!" a brunette whined with her head on the counter eying the phone. Hearing no response from her husband she picked her head up in her dirty white work gloves and glared at him in the kitchen, getting dinner ready.

Already knowing that she'd get her way one way or another he responded half heatedly

"why don't you call her?" he opened his eyes trying to focus on whats in front of him.

A light bulb popped over her head, "jacklin forgot lulu and some of her favorite hats, maybe we can bring them to her, for a surprise.... oh and her birthday gift too~" the woman pipped letting her loose hair fly about from its loose ties.

Again he didn't respond focusing on the stir fry he was making, he'd never trust her with cooking, she couldn't cook unless it was with a pot or the oven, other then that; she'd probably burn the house down.

Walking over, with her red work boots making muddy prints on the wood floor she grabbed his ear and began glaring at him.

"Before you wouldn't let anyone near her and guard her from 'danger'; now she's --" she never got to finish, their eyes darted over to the wall. After they married she nailed his straw hat to the wall so her husband couldn't get it, and he couldn't, for the 19 years they were married, but at that moment it fell to the ground.

She let go of his ear and they picked the hat up and looked at each other. Their faces fell, then the brunette had on the hysterics

"Don't worry jacklin honey, mommies commin' to save you!" she called running out the door with a tight hold on her husband hand and his on the hat.

"Tina, who's gonna take care of the ranch while were gone!" he called trying not to fall in the dirt.

"Ellen, Blue?! I don't give a damn our babies in trouble!" running into town like a mad woman, trying to get to the ferry.

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"we don't have any clothes packed, just to let you know"he teased smirking at the woman on the phone.

"yeah blue, were leaving today" she turned towards the man wearing a black short sleeved button down shirt letting the word "smart ass" fall out forgetting she was on the phone.

"i'm sorry, I wasn't talking to you" she pleaded through the phone waving her hand out defensively, as if he could see her.

"thank you.... ok, see ya latter"she hung up. Walked over and let her fists collide with the sides of his head and began noogieing him hard enough that she could have pulled his hair out.

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"you don't like being a 'normal' guy do you"she joked walking up their dirt road looking at him backwards, her low hair ties coming loose again. He had his hands behind his head, some of his purple hair caught in it.

He leaned over her face and smirked, "if I was normal, you'd probably never married me" and he pushed her forehead back causing her to fall on the ground and started walking off quickly.

"Jamie you ass hole!"she called before chasing after him.

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come on who didn't see that coming? ^,^ their my fave couple, so yeah

now I need to finish the family picture