At the dinner table, Lila was chattering non-stop. "I found fairies in a tree!" she said. I got one, but it bit me and I let it go."
Her mother laughed. Surely this was all made up, but Lila could tell a good story.
"But they left their pixie dust," Lila continued. "And I got it! See?"
She pulled a bag out of her pocket and opened it. Surely her mother would believe now. She showed it to her mother.
But her mother just laughed. "That's just glitter in a leaf," she said. "But good story."
Lila was indignant. She had shown her mother real pixie dust, and she still thought it wasn't real! She stood up and ran into her room, slamming the door. Her mother would never believe her!
Lila put the Tinker Bell DVD into the player again. Now that she knew for sure that fairies were real, she was going to enjoy it even more. She patted the bags of pixie dust in her pocket as the movie began.
The baby laughed, and the laugh went into a dandelion. The seeds floated across the sea until they reached Never Land. Vidia guided it to the tree, and then Terence poured pixie dust onto it. It became a fairy! Queen Clarion appeared and greeted the fairy. Then she put pixie dust onto the fairy's wings and taught her to fly.
Suddenly, Lila paused the movie. She had pixie dust! She could make a fairy! Then her mother wouldn't be able to say fairies weren't real. And she would have her wish. She would have a fairy of her very own!
Lila raced out of her room and found her mother sitting in a rocking chair feeling Isaac.
"Has Isaac laughed yet?" asked Lila.
"No, I don't think so," her mother replied. "Why do you ask?"
"No reason," Lila replied. "Can I play with Isaac when he's done eating?"
Her mother smiled. "Yes, of course!" she said. "It's good to see you finally wanting to do something with your brother."
Lila nodded and ran back to her room. "Tell me when you're done!" she called, and then played the rest of the movie.