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There was a glitch in time. Leo and Virgo were two angel siblings in Heaven who were waiting to be born and start their lives on Earth, but their parents hadn’t even met yet! If their parents didn’t meet soon enough, Leo and Virgo would soon fade out of existence, as their life couldn’t start without their parents. So they did what any normal two powerful teenage angels with lots of time on their hands did. They traveled over to Earth to find their parents and make them fall in love!
This should be easy, right?
Leo and Virgo had finally snuck into their (future) mother’s apartment. She technically wasn’t their mother YET, but that was about to change. If Leo could help it.
“I don’t like Earth that much. It’s weird, dirty, and full of kidnappers! Let’s just go back to Heaven,” said Virgo.
“No! We just got here and you’re already thinking about leaving!? What about the mission!? Getting our parents to meet and fall in love so we can be born!?”
“Forget the mission! I don’t want to be killed or murdered by a sus person or something!”
Leo face-palmed. “Well, we just made it to Mom’s apartment, and there’s no one here. We’re safe, at least for the time being, so stop worrying. You’ve seen Mom before, she isn’t worried about anyone kidnapping her.”
“Maybe it’s because she’s the kidnapper!” Virgo yelled.
This was ridiculous. Leo couldn’t believe his sister was accusing their mother of being a sussy kidnapper!
“Virgo, do you really think that our mother, Tangerine Grey, would be an evil kidnapper?”
That’s when Tangerine slammed her front door open, smushing Leo in between the door and the wall in the process. Virgo immediately turned invisible, though she knew on Earth her powers were limited. She couldn’t stay invisible forever, but she hoped she could at least stay invisible for as long as her Mom was in the room.
Tangerine had finally made it home. She couldn’t believe the day she had. Finally, she had moved to Topia city, and had gotten a job working at a major publishing company. Finally, her fantasy YA novels and children's books would have a major company logo at the bottom, and her professional writing life would begin! But before being able to write her own books, she had to be assigned a book project by the company, and she was assigned to work with a man named Giovanni on a NON-fiction book. The two were supposed to interview people about the mysterious detective that had gone out of sight for a while. Giovanni would write the story and Tangerine would illustrate it. But how could she!? She hated realistic drawings! Absolutely hated making them. But she promised her parents she’d be self-sufficient, and she promised herself she’d be a big name. Now what had become of her!? Working on some stupid detective book! But alas, this was the only way to snag a high-paying book deal and officially start her professional writing life, so what could she do!?
Meanwhile, Leo was busy being squished behind the door. Oh no, she’s home! Thought Leo. Unlike his sister Virgo, he couldn’t turn himself invisible, so he shrank to the size of a shot glass and ran across the floor, being EXTREMELY careful to avoid Tangerine’s huge footsteps.
He quickly hid behind the couch and resized. She’d probably take a shower or go to her room to think or something, there was no way she would stay in the living room. Thought Leo. Ah, why was he so clever?
That was what Leo was thinking until Tangerine collapsed onto the couch and grabbed the remote.
Leo’s mind raced. No! She was going to stay here! Why was he so stupid? Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Tangerine was oblivious to the fact that two kids might be in her home.
She switched on the tv.
And now, time for everyone’s favorite show, Party Tanks! The theme song came on with music that included a synthesizer and EDM beats.
Tangerine rolled her eyes and switched the channel.
-next, on Love vs. Hate.
“Ew! Stupid girly drama shows!? Turn Party Tanks back on!” Leo yelled, lifting his head from behind the couch.
Tangerine looked up at him. Leo looked back down at her. “What?” was all the boy said.
Tangerine screamed. How did this strange boy get into her house!? She slid off the couch and ran into the kitchen.
“Uh-oh. Wait! Wait!” yelled Leo. Running after her.
Now she was being chased!? Tangerine had to do something in self-defense! Then she got an idea. Tangerine quickly opened the fridge.
As soon as Leo got into the kitchen, he stopped short. Tangerine held a huge watermelon over her head, and looked straight into Leo’s eyes angrily.
“You! Get out! Get out of my house right now, or I’ll squash your head with this watermelon!” Tangerine yelled.
Tangerine advanced towards Leo.
“Wait! Wait!” Leo tripped and fell on the floor. He kept scooting himself backwards with his legs until his back hit something. He turned. It was the leg of the dining room table. He was caught.
Leo held his hands up. “I don’t want any trouble!”
Tangerine rose the watermelon over his head. “Too bad! You chose trouble the minute you broke into my house.”
“Wait! I’m- I’m here for you!”
Tangerine raised an eyebrow at the kid. “You broke into my home… for me?”
“No, no, I came to Earth in general for you! To help you out!” Leo said. This was partially true, after all.
“I don’t get it. What do you mean you came to Earth?” Tangerine asked.
Leo took a deep breath. “I’m an angel, from Heaven!”
“Yeah, right,” said Tangerine.
“No, I really am!”
“Prove it!”
Leo then snapped, and he went from teenager to a baby, pacifier in his mouth and all.
Tangerine’s eyes widened.
Leo then snapped into a five year old. “And that’s not all!” said his now high-pitched voice. “I’ve been watching over you your whole life! You knew you wanted to be a writer when you were the tender age of six. Ever since then you’ve loved reading about dragons and goblins and all types of fantasy, and you liked drawing them too. You have a mad obsession with chocolate, and your only true friend was a girl named Ruth from fourth grade.”
Tangerine nearly dropped the watermelon. She lowered it down to her waist. “I-you really are an angel aren’t you?”
“Yes!” Leo said with relief. He puffed out his chest and pointed a thumb to himself. “I’m your guardian angel! Think of me as the voice in your corner! Your genie! Your fairy!”
Tangerine laughed. “My fairy!?”
“Yes!- wait, no, I prefer guardian angel, but you get the idea.”
Tangerine chuckled. “You’re my very own fairy!”
“I’m not a fairy! I’m an angel! The fairy thing is just for reference!”
Tangerine laughed, placing the watermelon on the counter. “Then why are you just appearing now instead of earlier in my life, special ‘guardian angel’?”
Leo frowned. He couldn’t just tell Tangerine that she was his mother and he was her child from the future. That would probably screw things up. Leo chose his words carefully.
“I’m here… because you need me,” Leo told Tangerine, which was true in its own right. “I’m gonna help you make decisions and stuff, and get you on the right track in life.
Tangerine smiled. It felt good to have someone on her side. “Sure! Sounds good!”
Leo then shrunk down to the size of a shot glass, and flew up and sat on Tangerine’s shoulder. “Now, you’ve got a book to illustrate, so let’s get illustrating!” Leo snapped a graphite pencil into existence.
“Okay… fairy!” Tangerine giggled.
Leo turned to Tangerine annoyed. “Call me that one more time.”
“Fairy.”
Leo then poofed Tangerine’s graphite pencil away and traded it for a fat kindergarten pencil.
“Hey!” yelled Tangerine.
“What? You can still draw the illustration. It’ll just have to look like an over enthusiastic five year old made it.”
Virgo laughed quietly from the living room. Maybe things would turn out all right. She just had to find out the right identity for herself.
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What a funny name to use, tangerine...
Nice tale