The Pixie: Part 2

After my close call I was much more careful not to be seen. With the little boy trying very hard to find me again, so he could show his mother he was telling the truth, I was forced to save my shenanigans until after dark.

I had confessed to my mother how close I had come to being captured. As I had suspected she had been extremely angry. I had to endure the "When I was your age I would never have....." lecture. I wish I had just kept my mouth shut, she never would have found out.
"Mom, I didn't know he had seen me before!" I whined
"That's because you were to busy goofing around to notice!" Mom yelled

Mom rarely raised her voice so that's when I knew I was in real trouble!

"How many times have I told you, you cannot be seen!"

"Four thousand seven hundred and eighty two" I mumbled

Wrong answer! Pixie dust flew off mom like sparks!

"You're grounded!"

"But Mom! Serina's party is this weekend!" My voice was shaking, I was near tears.

"Well she's just going to have to have it without you there!"

I stomped to my room and threw myself on the bed and cried myself to sleep. All tolled I had been grounded for a month. It had been the most boring month of my life. Now, unless I was with Mom or my stinky little brother I wasn't allowed outside.

Occasionally, I would hear the little boy searching for me out in the garden. From my vantage point, in the hollow tree at the edge of the forest, I watched as he looked under the carrot fronds and cabbage leaves. He dug in the mounds between the rows and when his mother sent him out to get vegetables he would dig in the empty spaces where the vegetables had been. Thank goodness he thought we lived in the garden! He would never find us in our tree house.

Tonight I am going to sneak out and fly over to the garden to pull yet another prank on them. I'm going to pull up all the carrots and hang them from the roof, like those lights the little boy's father puts up when it snows. If Mom finds out she'll ground me again, though. Part of me getting ungrounded was no more pranks. Yeah right, like that was going to happen, he he.