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her. They were the most fascinating creatures
she had ever seen. The window was cracked open slightly so she could hear them
conversing. “Why do you always complain when you don’t get your way?” the girl
said.
    The boy frowned at her.
“You know that I’ve been waiting for this event all year, but do I get to go?
No! Instead, I get to come here and miss all the fun stuff.” He crossed his
arms abruptly.
    “Stop being such a
baby!” The girl moved toward the boy, intending to push him off the window
ledge.
    Kristina sneezed,
startling the girl and causing her to lose her balance and fall backwards off
the window ledge. Quickly, the fairy flapped her wings so she didn’t hit the
ground.
    Seeing the girl fall,
the boy couldn’t help from laughing, which in turn almost caused him to fall
off the ledge as well. Kristina found it quite funny also, and she, too, began
to laugh along with the boy.
    The girl fairy looked
flabbergasted. “Do you always go sneaking up on fairies’ conversations to try
and cause accidents?” she snapped at Kristina.
    Kristina, taken by
surprise, stopped laughing and stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to
answer.
    “Well, maybe you were
right, Looper. This does seem to be a waste of our time,” the girl said to the
boy, who was still sitting on the window ledge, chuckling.
    The boy wiped the
laughter tears from his eyes. “What did I tell you?” he said. “Let’s get out of
here. I can still catch up with my friends if we leave now.”
    Kristina didn’t want
them to leave, so she tried to think of a way to make them stay. She turned and
looked around the room and saw that the chocolate cake from the night before
was sitting on the coffee table under a glass dome. “Could I offer you some
chocolate cake?” she asked quickly.
    The girl fairy seemed
about to snap at her again, but instead, she pondered what Kristina had said
and answered, “I guess we could accept your offer, seeing what trouble you have
put us through.”
    Kristina quickly went
to the coffee table, removed the glass dome topping the cake, cut a large piece
of cake, and laid it on the plate. “Would you like to come in and eat it? It
might be easier than setting the plate on the ledge.”
    The girl looked at the
boy and then back at Kristina. “I suppose so,” she said.
    The fairies crawled
through the crack in the window, the boy first and then the girl. As the girl
was crawling through she got her wing stuck and, without thinking, Kristina
reached out with her finger to help pull her wing through. The fairy pushed her
away abruptly. “Well, you sure aren’t very smart now, are you? Don’t you know
that if you touch a fairy’s wing you can prevent the fairy from ever flying
again?”
    Kristina looked
dumbfounded and didn’t know what to say.
    The boy looked at
Kristina, sympathetically, and then he looked at the girl. “Come on; give her a
break. She is trying to be nice to us,” he said.
    “Okay. I guess I should
have let you know about the wing bit. Let’s just forget it,” the girl fairy
said.
    The fairies flew over
to where the plate of chocolate cake was sitting on the coffee table and landed
on top of it. They scooped the cake up with their tiny hands and then stuffed
their mouths full of it. “Rumalock does know how to make great
chocolate cake,” the boy fairy said with his mouth still full.
    The fairies were
enjoying the cake so much that they seemed to forget that Kristina was sitting
on the couch. She cleared her throat to get their attention. They looked up at
her, and the boy, whose face was covered with chocolate, said, “Oh, I’m sorry.
I guess we should formally introduce ourselves.” He stuck out his tiny hand,
covered in chocolate. “My name’s Looper.” Then he pointed to the girl fairy.
“And that’s my grumpy sister, Clover.”
    Kristina took his tiny
hand between her fingers and gently shook it. Clover didn’t offer her hand.
    “I’m Kristina,”
Kristina