Spellbound

Chapter 12

CHAPTER 12:

Charlotte laughed, but when he looked at her seriously, she jumped back so fast she fell off the tire. "Y-you're crazy."

He looked at her and helped her off the ground, looking amused.

"Were you adopted?"

Actually, kind of. She has been found in a field near the city at the age of four, and the Blackthornes had taken her in.

"You could call it that, but what does that have to do with me being a three inch tall humanoid with wings?"

"You lived with the fairies until they sent you out. It doesn't happen to everyone. And fairies aren't Tinkerbells. They're basically humans with special abilities. You know, persuasion, the weather, flying, that sort of thing-"

"I am on a tire swing with a lunatic." Charlotte was repeating under her breath. "An attractive lunatic."

Of course he heard her.

"Two-thirds. I am attractive" he winked "and we are on a swing together, but I'm not a lunatic."

"You're not?" Charlotte said disbelieving. "Nope. Just a weather fairy." "Wait a second- did you cause this storm?" "Guilty." He didn't look guilty in the slightest. "So If you're a weather fairy, what am I?"

He looked bemused. "I thought it was obvious."

"Obviously not obvious enough."

He said, "You're a persuasive fairy."

"Does that mean I can fly?"

He did his little grin at that. "All fairies have one or two gifts in common. Beauty and flying. Well, more like gliding, but close enough."

Charlotte wasn't sure if she should run away from this crazy, or what; but she decided to stay, if only to see what he would say next.