Chapter Twenty-Five → You are the best thing that's ever been mine

The following weeks were a kind of torture on Tamara's mind, what kind of person would be so against her son being with someone like her? Was it really because she wasn't a fay, or was it something else. Sure, her family was a bit odd......

What with my father being a mad scientist.

Her older brother being slightly insane, walking around barely dressed. She was sure his newly dyed hair, that he had done in a fit of teenaged rebellion, didn't help her case at all.

Was it their penchant for sparing at 6am over waffles?

Hell, was it because they had a bio-mechanical engineered fish named Bob!?

Oh god, it was the undead living dolls that lived in their house wasn't it!? It was, it had to be.

Tamara had worked herself into such a neurotic worrisome fit, that she didn't even notice that she had wandered downtown, or more so, that Jarvis was trying to talk to her. "Hey, Tee, what's wrong? You okay? You look like you've seen a ghost."

"You hate me don't you? It's not your mom, she's just your cover. It's you, isn't it? But it's my fault, it's because of my weird family, with their weirdness that's surely rubbed off on me. It's them, you hate them, and you hate our fish and you hate our gnomes!" She was ranting.

"I hate your fish?"

"It's Bob's fault!"

"You named your fish Bob?"

"Shut up!" Tamara looked on the verge of tears, incomprehensible tears, but tears none the less.

"Shhh." Jarvis shushed, pulling the upset girl into a hug. "I don't hate you, i promise. I love you, and your family." He paused before adding as an afterthought. "And Bob."

Tamara chuckled, sniffling slightly. "Sorry, i was having a moment." She said, resting her head against his shoulder.

"I could tell." Jarvis smirked before pulling back slightly. "And you know what, i don't care what my mother says. I don't care what she says about me or you, cause you and me, we're the best and always have been. And we're gonna blow 'em away at prom."

"Prom?" 

"Yeah, it's sort of a dance slash mating ritual for teenagers, or so i've been told." Jarvis smiled gently.

"So this is you asking me to prom?" Tamara clarified.

"Yeah, and i'm kinda hoping this is you saying yes."

The girl just smiled before leaning in a placing a chaste kiss on the boy's lips. "So that's what? I'll think about it?" He teased, getting a playful slap on the arm from Tamara.

The week following Tamara's conversation with Jarvis left the girl much calmer.

Although Micheal's insistence that he could tame an invisible snake didn't help with the 'calm' feeling, mostly cause he was horrid at the instrument that was needed to charm said invisible snake.

It was Michael and his constant snake related squawking that usually ran Tamara out of the house, the girl hanging out at the empty school playground.

She would think and play and sometimes even catch butterflies, of course, that night also happened to be Noah and Boinky's birthdays, so she couldn't stay gone for long.

Noah thought the aging up sparkles gave him a fabulous flare.

Although he did point out that he had flare enough, being fabulous from birth meant he was always flare-tastic.

Boinky wasn't as sure about the sparkles, with a name like his, sparkles was the last thing he needed.

Luckily they didn't last long, which the boy was happy about. The first think on his mind was school and work and driving, the boy was quite the workaholic which was funny since he really really hated any and all technology. Noah on the other hand, well, he needed a date for prom, sure he was a freshman and hadn't even attended his first day of school yet, but he wasn't about to let something like prom go past without at least attempting to take part in it. 

So Noah ran across the street to his neighbor's house, his grandmother had made friends with the fay family when they arrived in town and besides having all the same classes as the couple's eldest son, Noah also knew he was one of the only cute out of the closet boys in town. The emphasis being on cute, really, their were quite a few others but, Noah wasn't that desperate, yet. "So, i was thinking. I know it's short notice, but you, me, prom? I bet we could turn some heads if we really tried." Noah smirked.

"You really think you can handle going to the prom with a fairy?" Nicholas asked, knowing even though there were a few fare folk in town, his family were the only who's bloodline was still pure enough to have wings.

"Funny, i was about to ask you the same thing." Noah smirked in a flirty way, he had no qualms with his sexuality and could easily poke fun at himself.

"Oh, i think i can handle it." Nicholas flirted back with a little lopsided smirk.

With an arch of an eyebrow, Noah leaned in a kissed the other boy quickly before waving a quick goodbye, it was after curfew and he didn't want his parents to get mad. "See you at school." He called behind him as he headed out the door.

"Oh you bet you will." Nicholas called after him in a slightly naughty fashion.

Chapter Notes:

Whee! Noah and Boinky grew up so cute, and no, i am never changing Boinky's name lol. Noah's personality is loosely based on my older brother's, who is very fabulous, really, just ask him lol. Nicholas is thanks to SP once again, i love that thing. I once made a fantastical Pyramus and Thisby couple with shining skin and wings and crazy hair, the whole nine yards, never really played them but they were in my bin and well, SP stuck 'em in the town. They have four kids now, Nicholas is their oldest. They don't have a last name, it's literally listed as 'Fairy' because again, i was never planing on playing them lol. I thought with Tamara and Jarvis having such issues with the race line between fay and human, it would be nice to have a mirrored relationship with even less "normal" circumstances but where no one gave a damn. So a bright blue winged boy with three toned hair dating another boy seemed as far from textbook "normal" as you could possible get, besides, he's so adorable.

Boinky's teen trait is workaholic and Noah's is flirty, they're too funny together cause they're so different from one another, like day and night, really. 

BLOOPER PIC!

I think i saw a Korean horror movie like this one time. Yes that is the child's hair and yes it did in fact move with her head, creepy!