He waved away an enormous moth with the comic. It danced clear, then fluttered right back in front of him. He focused.It was no moth; it was a girl, n... more than six inches tall, with green wings and bobbed red hair.A fairy, in fact. He smothered his warning skepticism. There was a fairy in his garden! She liked him! Don't scare her off!He dropped comic and cock, smiling in admiration. Her body was slender, with a smooth crease between her legs. Her wings weren't attached merely at her. ?Good. I won't be happy until this is sorted out," said Laura. ?But thatto one side, how did everything else go???Everything was ok. Absolutely fine," said Paula. ?But at least I knowmy ?past? now. I was a tomboy.??Ok, while you're at it, let me have your PE kit so I can wash it," saidLaura.Paula went up to her room afterwards and decided on doing some revision.She needed something to take her mind off the matter of the bullies.Besides, if all went well, the problem would be short lived.?I was. He had a long, thin, cruel face, and a narrow moustache with points at the end. It wasn’t clear to Brigid what was happening, but she saw money change hands. A short while later, Uncle Davie drained his ale pot, stood and leaned over her. ‘Now me fine girl, ‘ he said, breathing the fumes of ale and pipe tobacco into her face, ‘You’re to go with Mr Fergus here, and be a good girl, like your mammy said.’ The child turned to stare at Mr Fergus in bewilderment. When she turned back, her uncle was. There was me, my mother and father, my older sister, my younger brother, and my little sister, all packed into that 850-square-foot home. So I used to go to Marias even-smaller house out in the back yard to watch television by myself on Sundays, in order to take a break from my not-so-small family for a while. Freddy and his mother would normally be at church on Sundays. And Maria actually encouraged me to spend some much-needed alone time in her little house, whenever she and her son were away.