Planning is never fun

"Oh my god you're alive James!" Fawn wrapped her arms around the pirate's neck. "I knew that kiss would work." James let out a hearty chuckle. "Hehe, I knew it would work too."

"Thanks guys, for coming here this late." said Tink.

Rosetta yawned. "I didn't want to. I need ma beauty sleep." Vidia rolled her eyes. "Well we still gotta get Zarina her present. I say we start wrapping it now." She looked at James and smirked. Fawn rubbed her hands together and laughed evilly.

A few hours later at Zarina's house...

"Zarina... I love you so very much... Can I ask you something?"

"Yes... James?"

"I-I really hope I could spend the rest of my life with you."

Zarina looked at James with happy tears in her eyes. "Me too James, me too."

James looked down and let out a melancholy laugh "Heh, I guess now I'm suppose to propose."

The alchemist couldn't believe it. It's too good to be true. And it is.

She watched in horror as James' face vaporized before her eyes and was replaced by Yang's sinister one. He laughed. "He's never coming back. You'll never see him in your life ever again."

Zarina felt like she was drowning in her tears. "No... NO! I can't. This can't be true..."

She sprung up from her bed, sweat covered her forehead. As she gingerly touched her cheeks, she realized that they were damp from the tears that were streaming down her face.

"Is this what I get for leaving Pixie Hollow in the first place?" Zarina climbed out of bed and went to the kitchen for a midnight snack. As she looked at her cabinet, she found almost half of the food were James' favorite. The thought of the pirate made her lose her appetite. The knife on the counter reminded Zarina the time James taught her how to use a sword and how he would compliment her when she's good.

The alchemist shook her head vigorously attempting to shake the pirate's face off her mind. She walked to the living room and plopped herself down onto the couch and sat there for a while until she realized that this was the spot were James would used to sleep at night.

The next thing she remembered is that she started bawling before she fell asleep on the couch.

The next morning...

Vidia flitted around Zarina's house after the sunrise. She was told to make sure that Zarina leaves her humble abode so the other fairies can start planning the surprise party.

The fast flyer peered into the window and found Zarina lazily lying on the couch and starring at the ceiling. Vidia sighed and decided to take matters in her own hands.

*knock* *knock* "Hey Zarina, you home? Can I come in?"

The knock disrupted her trance and Zarina sat up and groggily walked to the door and opened it. "Oh, hey Vidia. What brings you here?"

'Take her out for a walk, get her out of the house.'

"Umm... So I know you didn't really feel like celebrating your birthday. But I thought a special someone like you should uh, join me for a walk around the Hollow and check things out." Said Vidia, pathetically.

Zarina looked at her with a bored expression. "I know what pixie hollow looks like and what's in it, I don't need to "check things out" like some new born fairy."

Vidia searched her brain for an excuse and found it. "Oh but it's your birthday, and I was thinking of letting you try out some winds for me cuz you know... WOW new talent to try out... sounds fun!"

The alchemist inwardly rolled her eyes. Vidia should know by now that if she wanted to try another talent, her pixie dust can provide her with that experience. But she knew that Vidia wouldn't back down until Zarina agrees so she just rolled with it. "Okay fine... I had nothing else to do anyways."

After the two fairies left the house and were completely out of sight, Tinkerbell and the others (including James) sneaked into Zarina's house and started decorating.

"Okay! I'm in charge because I'm a tinker. Sil and Rosetta, get some paint and make a huge banner and hang it up; Dessa, go pick up the cake from the cook fairies; Fawn, go make sure that James isn't suffocating in the leaves."

Everyone scowled at Tinkerbell. "What's your job then?"

"Pshh, I'm supervising of course."

Rosetta whispered into Silvermist's ear "I told you fairy mary was starting to rub off on her."

"Come on now, chop chop! We only have 3 hours until Zarina and Vidia are back."

About 2 hours later...

Tinkerbell agreed to let James out of his leaf wrapping for now because he was really dying in there and they really needed an extra set of hands to help. Iridessa came back half an hour after her departure to the cook fairies, and brought back the chocolate cake that was supposingly Zarina's. To her dismay, Tinkerbell's face almost blew up all over the cake because if there's one thing she knew about Zarina, is that she likes vanilla, not chocolate. Dessa had to go all the way back to the bakery and get a vanilla cake baked from scratch so obviously that ought to take more time than Tink originally had in mind.

After James had finished moving the furniture, he decided to take a break, after all his back was still sore after a fricken bullet was pierced into it. He sat down on the sofa and looked around the room, everything looks pretty good.

Then he read the banner "Happy 8th birthday, Zara!"

He did a double take. 8th birthday?! His soon-to-be girlfriend is only 8 years old?! Maybe they were missing a '1'. Yeah that makes sense. She should be 18 years old.

"Hey guys? It says 8 years old on the banner." Stated James.

Rosetta looked at him perplexedly "Yeah? So what?"

James sat there, shocked. "You mean she's actually 8 years old?!"

"Yeah, I'm turning 9 next month, and tinkerbell is 7, she's the youngest." Answered Silvermist, as if it was no big deal.

James was astonished "Why do you look so old?" That came out rather tactless. All the girls gaped at him before they attacked him. After each fairy had delivered a slap to the pirate's face, James gingerly touched his face in pain and siad "You know... you spelled 'Zarina' wrong on the banner."

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