Make My Heart Flutter

I snuggled in closer to my bed, to keep warm. It's been a long day today, I had a 3 hour football practice. So as soon as my head hit the pillow I was pretty much knocked out. I had to get a good amount of shut-eye because we had a game tomorrow. It was our first game, and we get to wear our jersey's to school tomorrow. I was thoroughly excited, I'm gonna look pretty sick as a starting junior on the team. I hope it impresses Brooklyn. Brooke, just thinking about her gave me butterflies. Brooklyn was beautiful, i've liked her since first grade but she's never really acknowledged me. Hopefully that will change soon enough. She was tall, with blonde waves that fell passed her shoulders. She was smart and athletic and just absolutely perfect but every time I have to opportunity to speak to her I just screw it up. But everything is going to change after tomorrow, i'm a starter on the varsity football team and I'm sure she'll be impressed. Smiling with that last thought, I drifted off to sleep.

My head shoots up as I hear a loud bang in the kitchen. 

"What the hell was that?" I whisper to myself as I quickly dart out of my room, down the hallway and into  the kitchen where the noise came from. I scan my eyes through the kitchen, and realize the noise has come from a pan that had fell of the counter. How the heck did that pan fall? My parents were both sleeping,  it's the middle of the night. I go to pick the pan up and set it back on the counter. I shriek as something glowing flies out of from underneath the pan. It flies around the kitchen for a good 5 minutes while I'm in shock, not able to move no able to speak. I have no idea what this creature is but i can't get myself to move, its glowing and beautiful. Finally the thing stops flying around and hovers directly in front of face. I stumble backwards falling on my arse as I realize that this creature is my mother.

"MOM.. what... why are you small? Why do you have wings?" I stutter.

"Niall, son, there's something i have to tell you" she says with a face that looked to be filled with guilt. i was still frozen in shock, was i dreaming? She places her tiny hand on my cheek and says, "Niall I'm the tooth fairy." THE TOOTH FAIRY? What? now I know for sure I'm dreaming. I reach over and try to pinch myself awake, I winced at the sharp pain in my shoulder but it did'nt wake me up.

"wh-what?" I ask my mothers face stares back at me. She doesn't say anything for a while leaving me completly confused. 

"Yes, I'm the tooth fairy, but not the only one. There's a lot of explaining i have to do now that you know about me." what does she mean now that i know about her? "When I was a little older than you, I discovered my aunt. She was also a tooth fairy, and there's a rule in our world. This is the part your not going to like, Niall, but there's nothing you can do about it."

"What? What is it?" I question still on the ground.

"Niall, you will have to become a tooth fairy, you're an outside source and you discovered me. I'm so sorry i didn't want this to happen I wanted you to live a normal life, but i got stuck under that darn pot." This is not happening, No, I'm dreaming.

"What are you saying? I'm not becoming a tooth fairy no." i practically spit back at her. She looks at me with apologetic eyes.

"Niall, honey, there's nothing we can do about it. you'll be killed if they find out you know and you haven't become one. You only have three nights each week you go out and collect kids teeth. You can morph into and out of a fairy anytime." Nothing was making sense. What is she talking about? Tooth Fairies aren't real. What am I 5? What if I'm not dreaming, what have I done to deserve this. My life has been flipped upside down. I get up and sprint back to my room and stuff my face under my pillow.

"I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming" I repeat to myself several times. Tomorrow I'm going to wake up and things will go back to normal. I'll start my first football game and impress Brooke. Because. this. is. all. a. dream.

Although soon enough I figure out it was not, in fact, a dream.