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Tinkerbell was having a wonderful time with her friends; Iridessa, Rosetta, Silvermist, Vidia, and Fawn. It's quite unfortunate that Zarina and Periwinkle can’t join but well, what can you do? The friend group was simply having a chat around the grass about whatever came to mind; their talents, their hobbies, their lives; that sort of thing.
“And then Sled started to choke.” Rosetta laughed, “Guess there was SNOW he could handle the heat.”
Everyone laughed except Vidia, she had better taste than that.
“Geez, Ro, that’s pretty COLD of you,” Fawn laughed; which caused everyone else to do the same. Vidia still didn’t find it funny.
“You girls are way too easy to please,” snarked Vidia.
“You’re just jealous,” Tinkerbell snarked back.
“No, I’m not! I can tell great jokes about my boyfriend.”
“What boyfriend?”
“Shut up! You don’t have one either!”
Tink paused for a moment, silence was in the air. The grass around them moved along with the wind—distant voices, birds chirping, Silvermist licking her lips—but there was nothing.
Tink’s eyes looked down on the ground, expression unreadable; her brow furrowed slightly. Was she thinking? Did she not have a comeback? Or did Vidia touch something deeper than intended?
The silence stretched.
Vidia shifted her legs, the ground cracking slightly beneath her. The others were also experiencing discomfort as their eyes were looking anywhere but at Tinkerbell. It was just a joke, a cunning remark; Vidia didn’t mean it!
Why do her friends have to be so dramatic?
More importantly, what can she do to help?
Just then, Tink finally responded; she laughed, hard. Tink laughed so much but so quickly that she was out of breath. Finally, a response came.
“Sorry, everyone. I didn’t mean to scare you girls. I was just pixie-turing my response; and how I watched Vidia eat dust when I remembered that there’s a slight Ter in your story. Hope that ence-rs your worries.”
“…What?” Everyone said.
Suddenly a voice greeted, “Hiya, Tink!” The voice was Terence who came flying down to the friend group; when his feet met the ground, he greeted, “Hello, ladies,” to the rest.
“Hey, man-friend,” Tink weirdly greeted. She didn’t need to specify that Terence was a man.
“What are you girls up to?”
“We’re just making puns. Except Vidia, she has no taste.”
“I’m the only one WITH taste here!” Vidia defended.
“Mind if I join?” Terence inquired, “Could be fun.”
“Please,” Tink playfully scoffed, “you just want to spend time with your lady-friend and her friends.”
“Does my lady-friend not want me to?” Terence coyly asked as he sat down with the group, a hand away from Tink. No one was sitting that close to her so Terence was met with no complaints, only questions.
“Well, maybe if you land a joke or two,” Tink remarked.
“I certainly can! The question is, tink you can keep up?”
“I’ll leave you in the dust if YOU can’t keeper up.”
“Ooh~ Fiesty~ But I’m afraid you can’t knock me down.”
“Please, my victory is set in stone.”
“You’re over the moon if you think that!”
“Ha! I’ll blue you out of the park!”
“Don’t ex-scepter it.”
“Oh, cham on, really? Oh mile, you’re already losing. I’ll give tea a pass for now though. I’m pretty merciful, after all.”
“That’s far from true from my experience. Want me to rat you out?”
“I think you’re just mirroring.”
“I thing you’re just being sharp.”
“Don’t pull a wing over it, man.”
“Well, can we take a break? ‘Cause I think we’re going a bit too fast.”
“Please do!” This desperate plea came from Vidia, who was simply done with the puns. So was the rest of the girl group; not the puns, it was the not-couple they had problems with.
Rosetta started, “As much as I love the puns, I agree with Vidia, sugar.”
“Why?” Tink and Terence asked simultaneously.
“Because we wanna know if Terence is your boyfriend,” Iridessa answered, desperate for answers.
“I am,” Terence answered straight.
“Terence!” Tink yelled, “You agreed we let them figure it out themselves.”
“They did, I just confirmed it,” Terence answered calmly, amused by his girlfriend’s grumpiness.
“Since when?” Fawn asked.
“Sometime after the Blue Moon Festival but before my first summer camp,” Tink explained.
“Well, how did it go down?” Silvermist eagerly asked, “It must’ve been so romantic!”
The couple looked at each other before beginning their tale; it was a tale, to say the least.
Terence: You start, my firefly~
Tink: Well, if you insist, my helper~ Ok, so…
Tink: “Hey, Terence!” I called out. Acorn-head was busy cleaning in my house while I was working on my new invention.
Terence: “Yes, Tink?” I answered.
Tink: “Do you have a crush on me?” I questioned.
Terence: This caught me completely off guard. I mean, I wasn’t expecting that she knew about it!
Tink: Hey!
Terence: Don’t ‘hey!’ me, honey. You only knew then because Fairy Mary was getting tired of us flying around each other.
Tink: …Ok, fair.
Terence: Anyways, I settled on nervously saying “Y-Yes?”
Tink: “Why?”
Terence: “Well, I-I always love how you make these amazing gadgets. I love how you’re able to figure things out, a-almost instantly. Yeah, y-you do have a temper and get into a lot of trouble but everyone has flaws. You’re confident, smart, beautiful, and I-I can’t imagine how I lived this long without you.”
Tink: I was staring at him while he confessed his feelings for me. I knew he had liked but to that extent? It really made my heart beat faster.
Terence: What can I say? I always deliver!
Tink: I thought that was Zarina.
Terence: Oh, shut it, you.
Tink: Make me~
Terence: Later~
Tink: Hehehe~ You better!~
Terence: Heh, definitely. Anyways, your part?
Tink: Ah, right. I said, “Terence, that’s the sweetest thing anyone ever said to me. But… I’m sorry; I don’t feel the same way. I mean! I do, it’s just— I don’t know you that well. I’m sorry.”
Terence: In my head, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, that wasn’t actually that bad.’ Though, my words to her were, “It’s okay! I wanted to tell you my feelings, not have it reciprocated.”
Tink: Did you really want to just TELL it, though?
Terence: I mean, I wouldn’t mind… Besides, you came around! You have no room to complain.
Tink: Right…
Terence: Ahem, anyways! Our story, Tink.
Tink: Right. We basically went back to what we were doing after that.
Terence: I was pretty livid; I finally said it! While Bell here was internally fighting with herself. Sorry about that.
Tink: It’s fine; I may haven’t realized then but my feelings for you were changing… Over the course of a month, that is.
Terence: During that time, I felt more free. I didn’t have to worry about getting your love anymore since I knew you didn’t like me that way.
Tink: Which, ironically enough, made me fall in love with you.
Terence: Funny how that works.
Vidia: So… what happened next?
Tink: Well, it was nearly the end of the month. Terence went to my house and I invited him in to hang out; he also brought snacks which he did more often after he confessed.
Terence: I just wanted to be a good friend.
Tink: Well, congrats, I’m your girlfriend now, Acorn-head.
Terence: Red-face.
Tink: Dust-nerd.
Terence: Tink-nerd.
Tink: Dirty rat!
Terence: Dainty hands!
Tink: Annoying speck!
Terence: Well, ouch.
Tink: Not sorry.
Fawn: Can you two do this somewhere else? I already had my fill with animal mates; thank you very much.
Tink & Terence: Sorry!
Terence: Going back, Tink mustered up how she felt about me. It was something like, “Oh, Terence. Your kindness filled my heart with so much love for you; I just couldn’t resist anymore. I love you!”
Tink: That is NOT what I said!
Terence: But it was something like that.
Tink: Ugh. But he’s right; so after that we dated for a while and we’re a couple now!
Vidia was first to react, stating, “Well, that was anti-climactic.”
Rosetta chimed, “Yeah. When I confessed to Sled, it was like a love story; two fairies, separated by a border. However, will they find love now?”
Silvermist added, “Well, they do. Also, I didn’t know you met Sled before the border was disbanded.”
“Well, Tink ain’t the only one that met someone across the border. Of course, we still stayed on our sides but hey, it still counts.”
Terence clapped his hands, “Welp. It was fun hanging out with you, ladies. But I have places to be.”
“Like my house?” Tink teased.
“I have a very nice, smart, and beautiful girlfriend. Why wouldn’t I go to her house?”
“Creep.”
“Crybaby.”
“Gullible.”
“Hothead.”
“Annoying.”
“Pushover!”
While the couple had their little fight, they flew off; leaving very amused and mostly confused.
“They were terrible when they weren’t together,” Vidia complained, “I can only imagine terrible things now.”
“That’s the plan!” Tink and Terence shouted from the sky.
Vidia grew a bit more irritated, then sighed, “I swear, if those get any worse, I’m moving to the Winter Woods.”
“We’ll visit!” Tink shouted.
“Well, feel free not to.”