Everyone looked all over the shed for Twinken the Dream Maker, but they couldn't find him anywhere.
"I found him!" the Winkster cried, spotting Twinken.
"Where?!" said Dani.
"He's outside!" said the Winkster, then gasping and saying to his sister, "Winkette! He's on top of our house!"
"What?!" said Winkette. "He is?!"
"Come on, everyone!" the Winkster said to the group. "We have to get Twinken back!"
Everyone runs out of the shed and onto the backyard grass as they all look up and see Twinken flying right above the twins' house.
"Where is he going?!" Winkette cried.
"Is he leaving?!" Aaron cried.
"Twinken, come back!" Baby Bop cried.
As he was above the Winkster and Winkette's house, Twinken released many magical sparkles that looked like the effects of a firework sparkler.
"What is Twinken saying, Barney?" the Winkster asked Barney.
"Well Winkster," Barney said. "He's telling us that he knows what my dream is.
"What is your dream, Barney?" Winkette asked.
"It's a special time, a special place," said Barney, "and sharing it all with the people I love."
Twinken then slowly flew down towards everyone on the ground. Barney caught the little fluffy guy in his arms as everyone sang "I Love You" as they were all happy together during this special moment.
"Awww, that's nice..." Baby Bop said, as she smiled sweetly.
The little dinosaur girl then starts to yawn.
"Speaking of dreams," BJ said, "I think it's time you were getting to bed, sissy."
"Okay BJ," Baby Bop said, then saying to the group, "Goodnight everybody."
She then said to Twinken, "Goodnight Twinken.
Twinken giggles.
"See you later, guys!" BJ said to everyone.
"Goodbye everyone!" Baby Bop said.
"Bye-bye, Baby Bop!" Barney said, waving to the two dinosaur siblings. "So long, BJ!"
After everyone said goodbye to Baby Bop and BJ, the dinosaur kids magically disappeared. However, Baby Bop forgot her yellow blanket and went back for it.
"Heeeeeey..." she said, looking for the blanket. "Where's my blankie...?"
Baby Bop then spots her yellow blanket and picks it up, revealing that she was invisible as nobody could see her.
"Oh there it is!" she said, with a giggle.
The blanket magically disappears.
"I wish I could turn invisible like that..." Winkette said to the Winkster.
"Me too..." the Winkster said. "That would be fun and interesting..."
"Well well well…" Mike said as he chuckles, "Barney, this is a-"
Everyone noticed that Barney was gone. But he wasn't really gone. The purple dinosaur had just reverted back to his doll form. And there he was sitting on the Winkster and Winkette's swinging bench that was hanging on the twins' back porch. And Twinken was sitting right next to him.
"Wow...Barney sure is amazing," Rhonda said. "It was so great to meet him for real."
"Glad you finally told us about him, Dani," Mike said to his daughter. "Barney is a very nice guy and a very good friend for you and Aaron."
"Thanks Dad," said Dani.
She then starts to yawn, too.
"Tired?" said Mike.
"Mmm hmm..." said Dani, rubbing her eyes.
"Well, it is past your bedtime," Mike said, looking at the time on his wristwatch. "Why don't you and your mother and I go home now?"
Dani didn't want to go home since she still wanted to be with the twins, especially Winkette due to the child really liking the woman and can now call her her friend.
"But I don't want to..." Dani said, in a sad voice.
"Why not?" Mike asked. "It's late."
"I want to stay with Winkette..." Dani frowned, as she looks up at Winkette.
"Awww Dani..." said Winkette. "But my brother and I have to go to bed, too."
"Yeah," the Winkster said. "Grown-ups need their sleep just like children."
"But we can always hang out with each other another day," said Winkette.
"Okay…" said Dani.
"I have to go home, too," said Aaron. "My parents are wondering why I'm not sleeping."
He then looked at the Winkster and said to him, "Oh. Winkster?"
"Yes Aaron?" the Winkster said.
"Are you mad at me...?" Aaron asked.
"What did you do to make you think I would be mad at you?" the Winkster wondered.
"The whole thing while we were in our make-believe airplane today," said Aaron, feeling bad. "Especially after Winkette was forcefully ejected from it and you had to risk your life to save her..."
The little boy looks down in shame.
"Actually Aaron," the Winkster said, "I'm the one who should be sorry…"
Aaron looks back up and looks at the Winkster again.
"I yelled at you multiple times during our flight," said the Winkster. "I only was concerned for Winkette's safety. I get really bad anxiety whenever my twin sister is in harm's way...But I should have never taken my anger out on you. It made me remember how much I cannot stand to yell at children. I should've just kept my big mouth shut, that way I wouldn't have reached boiling point that ended up happening. Aaron, I know you didn't mean to put my sister at risk. You only meant well."
The Winkster sighed sadly as he said, "I'm really sorry, Aaron..."
"It's okay, Winkster…" said Aaron. "I forgive you."
"Y…You do?" said the Winkster, all surprised. "But Aaron, I-"
"I understand you care a lot about Winkette," said Aaron. "She's your sister. Your twin sister. So I'm not mad at you for that."
"Oh…" said the Winkster. "But what about for me calling you a name insult?"
"Mr. I-Actually-Don't-Know-How-To-Fly-After-All-So-I-Should-Have-My-License-Revoked?" Aaron recited.
"How did you remember all that…?" the Winkster asked, shocked that the boy knew all the words in the right order.
"I don't know," said Aaron, with a small shrug. "I guess I just do. But don't worry, I'm over it. And I can laugh about it now."
"Well, that's good," said the Winkster.
Dani yawns again as she was really tired.
"We better get home so your father and I can put you to bed," Rhonda said to her daughter. "Let's go, sweetie."
"Okay Mom…" Dani said.
"Wait!" the Winkster said. "Before you leave…"
The Winkster grabs the Barney doll and hands it to Dani as he said to her, "I believe he is yours."
"Thanks Winkster," said Dani, accepting the doll.
"Sorry we took him from you yesterday," said the Winkster. "Winkette and I just wanted to have fun with our little pranks."
"It's okay," Dani giggled. "I guess I got a trickster to look out for now."
"Make that two!" the Winkster and Winkette said.
"Right!" said Dani. "Well, I better get home and go to bed."
Dani hugs both twins as she said, "Goodnight Winkster."
She smiles at Winkette and said to her, "Goodnight Winkette…"
"Goodnight Dani…" Winkette said, hugging and smiling at the child in return.
"Have a safe trip home," said the Winkster. "We'll see you real soon."
Dani winks at the twins, while they wink back at her as the girl goes back home with her mother and father. And after she left, Aaron went back home to his parents after saying goodbye to the twins. Now the Winkster and Winkette were the only ones left in their backyard.
"Well Winkette," the Winkster said to his sister. "Looks like it's just you and me now."
"Yeah..." said Winkette.
She turns to the swinging bench and notices Twinken was gone again.
"Where did Twinken go this time?" she wondered.
The Winkster then remembers something that was said in the book about the dream maker.
"Winkette…?" he said to his sister. "I think he's gone for good now. Into the great beyond..."
"What are you talking about...?" Winkette said.
"Well," the Winkster said, "the book said that the dream maker only comes to earth every one thousand years, so..."
"Oh…" said Winkette.
Just then, Winkette spotted a doll version of Twinken the Dream Maker sitting on the swinging bench as she gasped quietly.
"What is it, sis?" the Winkster said.
Winkette points to the Twinken doll.
"Oh!" said the Winkster. "There's Twinken! And he's a doll!"
The twins run over to the doll as Winkette picks it up.
"I don't understand," Winkette said. "What's going on here...?!"
"I don't know!" said the Winkster.
"Can someone up there explain this whole thing to us?!" Winkette said to the night sky as she looked up at it.
Because she was talking to the sky, there of course was no answer. All there was were the sight of the many stars and the moon.
"Winkette..." the Winkster said to his twin sister. "You're talking to the sky again..."
"I'm sorry, Winkster..." Winkette sighed. "I'm just so confused about this."
She looks at the doll and asked, "Does he have the same coming to life mechanism like Barney does or is he just a regular doll that doesn't do anything?"
"I'm not sure," said the Winkster. "But either way, it's fine. And even if this Twinken is just a regular doll without magical abilities, it's not the worst thing ever."
"But that means we'll never get to see our dreams again," Winkette said. "At least not clearly..."
"But Winkette," the Winkster said, "at least we got to see our dream clearly tonight.
Winkette looks at her brother as she said, "That's true."
"Yeah," said the Winkster. "And it did make you cry."
"Hey, you were crying, too," Winkette said.
"Yes I was," the Winkster said. "And now that I think about it...What you said earlier today might had something to do with our dream."
"What do you mean, Winkster?" Winkette asked.
"After we performed at the fancy French Chez Snobbe restaurant for the diners and staff today," the Winkster said, "you asked me if it's possible for us to get an actual musical gig someday. And I said that you will never know. And now that what happened tonight, when we both saw our dream up close and in person together more clearly, I think now that our dream might be a big possibility in the future."
"Winkster...?" Winkette said. "What are you trying to tell me...?"
"That our dream might actually come true someday," said the Winkster.
"You really think so, Winkster?" said Winkette.
"It might," said the Winkster. "Like I said, you will never know."
He then said to his sister, "Winkette, I am very proud of you."
"What for?" Winkette asked, a bit confused. "Was it something I did or said?"
"I noticed how much more confident you became today," the Winkster said.
"Really…?" Winkette said, not realizing this. "I have...? But how, brother...?"
"Well, for starters," the Winkster said, "you were feeling really down yesterday when we took Barney from Dani and Aaron. You said you think I'm better than you when it comes to pranking. Winkette, just because I was the one that started the tricks and jokes before you did, doesn't mean you're not good at it. Like I said, you have really improved a lot since we were children."
"I guess that's true," said Winkette.
"You guess?" said the Winkster. "Winkette, that IS true. And also, going back to today, we went on a big adventure. Something that nobody has ever done before, like you said in your very own words last night when you wished upon a star."
"Yeah," Winkette said. "We did go on quite the adventure today."
"And you know," the Winkster said, "you started getting upset when we kept losing the egg. And the whole thing about the clowns at the traveling circus supposedly outtricking us and others as well as that juggler that tricked us in such an awful way that you really thought all hope was lost. And when you were going through the five stages of grief while we were hiding from the downpour under the big top, I told you to never give up and keep trying in order to get what you want and be successful. Oh! And I shouldn't forget this, when the people in the Chez Snobbe restaurant were staring at us because of our fashion choices, AND when Mike questioned that as well as our normal personalities and voices, I think you realized that you didn't have to change anything for anyone. From our love for very colorful things to the way we communicate with each other. Winkette, not everyone is going to be nice to you. And not everyone is going to be nice to me either. And you certainly cannot please everyone. So the best you can do is not pay attention to people's mean opinions and do and wear what you want as long as it makes YOU happy. So yes, I believe today, you gained so much confidence and developed a better self-esteem and you now feel a lot better about yourself. Wouldn't you say so, sis?"
Winkette started to really think about all of this and concluded that her brother was very right.
"You're right, Winkster," she said. "I did realize a lot of new things about myself. And those things are very good."
"You learn something new every day," said the Winkster. "Just always remember, sis...Never give up. Even when you get stuck."
Winkette smiled at her brother.
"Don't ever start giving up," the Winkster sang. "Even when you're out of luck. Remember when you get stuck, you can do anything."
"With courage and confidence," Winkette sang, "you'll jump over any fence. To worry makes no sense, cause you can do anything."
"Anything, anything," the Winkster sang. "Anything you do, can change your point of view."
"A lemon got so dismayed," Winkette sang, "until he made lemonade."
"That's how dreams are made," the twins sang together. "You can do anything. Anything, anything."
"Show your friends that you," the Winkster sang, "know just what to do."
"Anything," the twins sang. "Anything at all."
"Can make you feel you're ten feet tall!" Winkette sang.
"There you go, sis!" the Winkster said, happily.
"Oh thank you Winkster!" Winkette said, happily as well.
"Of course, no problem!" the Winkster said, then continuing to sing, "It's simple as ABC."
"A quitter, I'll never be," Winkette sang.
"It's up to you and me," the twins sang. "Cause we can do anything! Anything...We can do...anything!"
Once they finished the song, Winkette smiled at the Winkster as she gently grabbed his hand and held it.
"Aww Winkette..." the Winkster said, smiling back.
The brother and sister hug each other close.
"I love you, brother..." Winkette said to the Winkster.
"I love you, too, sister..." the Winkster said to Winkette, as he kisses her cheek. "Let's be getting to bed now. Tomorrow is a brand new day."
"Okay," said Winkette.
As the Winkster went into the house, Winkette picked up the Twinken doll, held it in her arms, and looked up at the beautiful night sky and she started to talk to it again.
"Thank you for making my wish come true," she said to the many stars in the sky. "I had a lot of fun today. Especially with my twin brother, who I love the most. This adventure will be a great memory I'll always remember…"
She smiles and said while looking at and hugging the Twinken doll, "I will never forget this..."
"Winkette, are you talking to the sky again?!" the Winkster said from inside the house.
He comes back outside and picks his sister up as he says to her, "Come on, let's go to bed."
Winkette blushes and giggles as her twin brother carries her into the house and closes the door.
Everything may have started off as not so great in the beginning. With both twins being worried about what people will think of them. For how they dress, for how they act, and for how they look physically. But today, the Winkster and Winkette made many new friends before, during, and after their big adventure while figuring out the egg's origin as well as the dream maker and its abilities. The two learned that they didn't have to change for anybody and that not everyone was going to accept them, just try to be around good and respectful people in the best way they can. And with both their confidence and self-esteems improving and changing for the better, the two realized the truth and continued to do what makes them happy and not care about on what society and the world in general thinks about them. And as the Winkster said to his sister to help her feel better about herself, you should never give up and keep trying if you want something. And that if you tried, even if it's just a little bit with a good amount of effort put in it…you can do anything!
THE END
