Sophie threw the windows of her room open angrily. It was so unfair. The stupid girl had it coming. She said the Easter Bunny was not real! Sophie knew he was. They all treated her like she was a baby, for believing in legends and fairy tales. Fairies were real too. She knew that.

But her mother would not listen to reason and had grounded her when she had learned that Sophie pushed her classmate into a mud puddle. She crossed her arms over her chest as she sat on the windowsill, sulking.

She had been supposed to go to the park with her friends today. They would play at pretending to be spring fairies, getting the park ready for the egg hunt this Sunday. They must have had so much fun while she stayed here, not allowed out of her room except for supper. Sophie sighed, staring out in the direction of the park longingly.

She could still play here, on her own. She could pretend that she was a princess locked in a tower by an evil witch jealous of her beauty. She could pretend that her prince would soon come to free her and carry her off into the distance.

Sophie stood up and straightened her back in a pose that she hoped was regal. She pulled her blond hair over her shoulder and arranged it in a way that she found properly princess-like. She stared out the window with the look of profound sorrow of one who had spent her life alone, separated from her true love. She silently prayed for her prince to come.

"What are you looking so sad about, Soph?"

Her regal demeanor fell away with a startled cry. Jack hanged upside down from the roof, grinning at her. He flipped around and crouched on the edge of her window instead, now almost eye-level with. She threw her arms around his neck.

"Mom won't let me go out! I was supposed to go to the park and play at being a fairy with my friends but I pushed a girl who said I was an idiot for still believing in the Easter Bunny and now I have to stay here! But he's real! I know he is."

"Whoa, calm down there Soph. You don't have to convince me the Easter Bunny is real. I know."

She blushed, feeling a little silly. Of course he knew.

"S-sorry... I just... I wished they wouldn't all stop believing. I don't want to grow up," she said, sniffling.

"Hey there, don't cry. How about we go play together at the park, you and me? You can be a fairy and I'll be... I don't know. We can figure that out."

"But mom won't let me go outside!"

"What she doesn't know won't hurt her. Come on! Just hang on to me and I'll fly you there."

Sophie smiled as she wrapped her arms around his neck and let her prince carry her away from her prison.


A really short one, but I wanted to write something with Sophie.