Groaning as I was waking up with a headache and a throbbing pain in my back, I looked around with fluttering eyes that were still trying to adjust to the light. “Ugh…what happened” I said as I slowly stepped out the bed.

“And what’s with my voice?” My voice sounded way huskier than normal as if I was in a roller-coaster and screamed my soul away.

Feeling the sudden urge to relieve myself I went towards the bathroom where the toilet was located. My mind was still in a daze trying to figure out what the hell abused my body. That’s when the memory from last night came fleshing back in.

“The hell was that?” That pain was insane. Was that even real? I guess that I was just strung by some heavy fever that left me so delusional that I even was able to feel pain. But that thought was thrown out the window when I felt the sting in my back conforming that I wasn’t delusional.

I opened the door and stepped inside the bathroom.

But what’s up with the pain in my back anyway? From what I could remember, last night it felt like something was trying to rip up my back.

Using my hand, I tried to touch the place where I felt the most pain coming from.

“Hm?” I could feel something weird on my back. “What the hell?”

I looked up in the mirror to see what was attached on my back. At first, I didn’t understand what I was seeing. I was even rubbing my eyes thinking that I maybe had some dirt in my eyes, but that was not the case. I also tried to shake my body hoping that it was Aiko pranking me by pasting it on to me, but that was also not the case and pulling it would only result in pain.

“Are. You. Kidding. Me?” The foreign object that was stuck on to my back was the same thing that I would always praise about in my story books about fairies.

Wings.

I had a pair of fucking wings onto my back.

I turned around to get a better look of the new addition on my back. It had around the same length as me and had a beautiful color gradient that went from mint green to lilac. It even had some glitters here and there. In short they were gorgeous.

I know that this new found discovery that took place overnight was suppose to delight me. I should even dance from happiness seeing how one of my childhood dreams became a reality, but in all honesty, I am freaked out of my damn mind.

This doesn’t make sense at all and that makes me freak out even more. I started to pace around in the bathroom.

“Why is this happening to me!? This doesn’t make sense. This stuff only happens in dreams or in badly written fantasy novels. Yeah that’s right, I must be dreaming.”

I closed my eyes and started to yell in my mind to wake up, because there is no way that this is reality.

In my frantic state of mind, I started to notice something.

I didn’t feel the cold bathroom tiles under my feet anymore. I quickly opened my eyes just to look at the ground that was suddenly further away from me.

I was floating. I was floating a good two meters above the floor. I couldn’t progress this in my head anymore and couldn’t contain the loud screaming voice that was escaping my mouth right now.

The screaming that I was producing, I guess, shocked my wings causing them to halt their flapping movement which caused my forehead to meet the bathroom tiles, hard.

I guess everyone must have heard the commotion from downstairs, because I could hear them running up the stairs.

“Ayako!?” Mom screamed as she slams open the door. Dad and Aiko also stepped inside.

The relief that I felt from seeing my mom at that moment made me well up in tears.

“Mama…*” I said in my crying voice.

Mom embraced me. “It will all be fine dear. It will all be fine…” I buried my face in the crook of her neck welcoming the comforting warmth of my mother.

“I think that I’m going crazy mom.” I sniffled.

She used her thump to wipe my tears away. “Sshhh…You’re not going crazy I assure you that. Come let’s get you to the living room where your dad and I are going to explain everything.” She helped me up and started to guide me towards the stairs. On my way I couldn’t meet Aiko’s eyes scared what her reaction towards my pair of wings was.

…

“Here.” Mom said as she sat me down. “Be at ease, do you want some tea to drink?” Dad asked

I stared at my mom and dad as if they suddenly started to grow a second head. “What I want is the truth with an explanation that you guys should have given me earlier. I’m panicking right now because I’ve got no clue what’s happening to me right now!” I said angerly.

Mom flinched at the raise of my tone.

I felt a hand resting on my shoulder. “Ayako.” Aiko said calmly.

Realizing what I’ve said I looked up to see my parents faces contoured in guilt which cause guilt to well up inside of me as well. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that.” I whispered low but loud enough for them to hear.

Mom shook her head. “No, you’re right. We should have told you earlier.” Mom and dad both sat down on the couch that was on the opposite of where I sat. “You too Aiko, sit down. You’re like our second daughter and deserve to hear the truth too. Besides you’ve already seen Ayako like that so it wouldn’t hurt for you to hear us out too.”

Aiko sat down and held my hand. “Yes, I would like to hear the truth too, but I’m sure that whatever the truth is that in the end Ayako is still Ayako, my best friend.” She gave me a small squeeze. I glanced at her and smiled softly. Happy that her attitude towards me hasn’t changed.

Mom sighed deeply preparing herself for what she was about to tell us.

“Ayako, you’re a fairy.” She said with a serious tone.

Even though I could already guess that I may be a fairy I was still baffled to hear it for real.

Taking our silence as a sign mom continued talking.

“You’re the fairy of nature, a nature fairy. The nature fairy is a rare type of fairy, but it’s told that they are very powerful creatures. One of the characteristics of a nature fairy is that they are really loved by the nature and animals. So much that they would even protect them from harm ways. There’s also this m- “

“hold on a second.” I said interrupting my mom. “So, if I understand this correctly, I’m basically A•ng from ©vatar The Last A$rbender*?” I asked.

Aiko facepalmed herself in embarrassment. “Ayako…please try to swallow your sarcastic comments next time.” She said in frustration.

“It was an honest question.” I grumbled lowly.

Mom laughed slightly. Even though I don’t know if it was because of my silly question or because she is glad that I’m not that effected by the truth even though that’s not true. I’m super effected by it! because if that’s the truth then that can only mean that…

“No, you’re not him. Being the fairy of the nature doesn’t mean that you’re only able to use nature magic. It’s just that nature is your specialty. You can still do a heap lot of other magic.”

I frowned deep in thought.

“What’s wrong?” Dad asked seeing my expression.

I hesitated a little bit. “I’m adopted, aren’t I?”

The all stared at me in shock. “What are you saying Aiko?” I asked.

“What am I saying? It would be strange if that wasn’t the case! They don’t look like me, they don’t have wings and they aren’t wearing some kind of bracelet like I do!” I pointed at my bracelet that I got for my birthday.

“What does that have anything to do with it?”

“It got everything to do with it. Think about it, they could only give it to me on my 16th birthday hence the day that I “awaken”. So, I am guessing that this bracelet is meant to keep my powers in check or maybe at least hide my wings from the public eye. At least I hope that, because I still have to go to school on Monday and I can’t enter the building like someone who celebrates Halloween way too early.”

Hearing my explanation my parents both sighed. “You’re right…we aren’t your real parents.” Dad said.

“What!?” Aiko yelled in shock at the affirmation that they just gave on my accusation,

I couldn’t stop the tears streaming down slowly from my face after hearing them say that. Thinking how everything we had was fake. The fact that beside not looking like them that I don’t even share the same blood as them. Scared out of my mind hearing them say that they may have never loved me.

I wiped my tears away. Now is not the time to be crying the tea* hasn’t finished being spilled yet.

“but that’s not all, is it?" I asked.

My mom nodded. “Yeah that’s not all. We also knew your biological parents.”

"What?"

A/N

*Mama = ママ a way of saying mom (okaa-san お母さん) as a child. I chose this word because Ayako felt so vulnerable and emotional that she wanted to be with her ‘mama’ that bad that she became childish if that made any sense at all.

*A•ng from ©vatar The Last A$rbender* = I obviously meant ‘Aang from Avatar The Last Airbender’. I just censored it. Why? Because you can say that it has also to do with the Japanese culture or to be more specific Asia culture (Please correct me if I am wrong). There is a thing that if a brand name is being said in a show without having the permission from the company to use it that you have to censor it. Of course I don’t know about cartoons and such, but I thought that it was fun to put it here.