Mielou

Here is the next section of my story ‘One More Time’. If you haven’t read the first section then I recommend doing so.

Warning: If you ignore my recommendation then the segment bellow may baffle and frustrate you.

If you have read the first section, then you may have been confused as to why Lilette walks into ‘a steam.’ Don’t worry, she’s had a grammar check and now walks, more appropriately, into ‘a stem.’

Sure enough it was her best friend that had called her “where have you been!?” Mielou asked sceptically in a way that a curious Fairy would and not an angry parent.
“Oh, you know, here and there...” replied Lilette trying to hide her embarrassing tale, but she knew her attempts would be unsuccessful.
“What are you embarrassed about?” said Mielou “tell me!” this time Lilette felt not jealousy towards the Fairies, but anger. Who decided that they should have the gift of reading emotion?

“I hate you sometimes” hissed Lilette half joking, Mielou giggled and opened her eyes wider hinting for Lilette to tell her story “It’s not that embarrassing, Mie, it’s not a story worth telling” Mielou frowned at Lilette’s unsatisfactory answer and cupped her hands together to beg.
“Pleeeeese? Pretty please? Oh, why won’t you tell me?” and so, due to Mielou’s unique magical persuasive ability, Lilette told her all about her rather embarrassing day, which did little more than highlight what a klutz she is.

Once the story was told Mielou giggled at her friends misfortunes, sipped some lemon juice and straightened up the bow poised in between the spikes of her short black hair.
“Where did you get that bow?” Lilette asked, she was genuinely curious as to where this unfamiliar bow had come from. Mielou blushed and smiled a little, without needing supernatural emotion reading abilities Lilette could tell exactly what this meant.
“he gave it to you, didn’t he!?” Lilette squealed, now completely over having to reveal her embarrassing story. Mielou nodded shyly and tried to avoid catching Lilette’s gaze, but she couldn’t hold back her excitement for long and soon went into a long winded spiel about the Fairy boy who lives in the Mushroom next to hers.
“..... and you know I’ve fancied him for like ever, so when he came knocking on my Mushroom, I almost exploded! That’s when he gave me this bow. He said he made it especially for me ‘cause he thought it would go nice with my green eyes! And guess what? When I put it on he goes: ‘wow, you look so pretty’ and then I think I actually did explode!......”

As happy as Lilette was for her friend, the story made her feel lonely and she couldn’t help wishing that she had a neighbour so wonderful.
Mielou caught onto this mood instantly “oh, I’m sorry Lette, I’ll shut up now” she said understandingly, Lilette was glad to have her miserable mood read by Mielou, they turned to their meals and ate in silence for a while.

Lilette had been mistaken when she thought they were eating strawberries and sultanas because in front of her was a piece of raspberry and a raison, both of which were topped with lavender syrup. Lilette was relieved that it was a raison and not a sultana, sultanas are very wet and sticky and more than often she gets brown juice all over her white dress.

Then, rather unexpectedly and out of the blue, Mielou said “I’m soooo jealous of you, right now!” Lilette looked at her in disbelieve, as she went on to explain herself “these chairs aren’t designed for Fairies, it’s pushing my wings into my back. Ah. Soooo uncomfortable!” Lilette laughed as she looked back to see the transparent pink, pointy, dainty wings coming from the centre of Mielou’s back. They did appear to be a bit squashed. Mielou continued with her complaining “And do you have any idea how hard they are to clean? Oh my god, it takes forever and that’s not even the worst of it! I wish I could travel by wind, it would be soooo much better!” Lilette couldn’t agree, so, for the following ten minutes, the two of them casually debated whether it was better to have wings or not.

Their debate was inconveniently interrupted by the sound of bells “could everyone please look this way, I have a few words I would like to say” Lilette, along with everyone else, looked over towards the back of the hall and saw Cassidy standing on a white wooden box. This box did little good, for she was very short. All the Elves and Fairies shifted in their chairs trying to get a better view of the stubby blonde haired woman, who just so happened to be Lilette’s mother.

She gave a suggestive cough, making everyone settle into place and perk their ears up.
“I would like to start by thanking the Fairies for being, as they always are, such wonderful quests.” She spoke with authority, but Lilette could make out her motherly tone seeping through. After a few murmurs of approval from the Elves, she continued “Now. As a special treat, Elthador and I-” she gestured towards Lilette’s father “-have decided to take you all up to the mountain peak for some, well deserved, moonlight dancing!”

Shrieks of delight filled the hall as friends turned towards each other saying things such as “Oh, I simply adore moonlight dancing!” and “I haven’t been up to the mountain peak in quite some time!” and Lilette could have sworn she heard “we can push Lesley off the tip!”

Lilette turned to find Mielou biting her lip in excitement “do you think he’ll dance with me?” she whispered, looking uselessly behind her to make sure he wasn’t within hearing distance.
“Is he even here?”
Mielou frowned a little at the thought of this possibility and began scanning the room for him. Lilette looked too, although she didn’t know exactly what to look out for.

When Mielou spotted him she let out a small, quiet gasp and looked towards her lap.
“He’s here” she whispered, staring indomitably downwards. Lilette searched the room frantically curious, and could only presume that the googly eyed boy, who was all but drooling at the sight of Mielou, was the Fairy they had been searching for.