My Sort of Fairy Tale Ending by Anna Staniszewski

Author:Anna Staniszewski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2013-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

“Jenny, what are you doing?” said Luken, tugging on my arm. “We must go.”

“It’s them,” I whispered. “I found them.” I started to put my hand on the glowing glass of the cell, my fingers shaking, but Luken grabbed my wrist and yanked it away.

“Are you mad?” he said. “That amount of magic could kill you!” Then the anger on Luken’s face melted away as he glanced inside the cell. “These are your parents.”

I nodded. My parents. They were really here. The image the queen had shown me was real.

“Mom!” I cried, finding my voice. “Dad!”

“Jenny, stop!” Luken hissed. “Someone will hear you. We must go.”

I ignored him. I had to get to them. I had to make sure they were okay.

Frantic, I ripped off my sneaker and chucked it at the cell door. It hit the glass with a dzzzz that sounded like a fly in a bug zapper. The shoe fell onto the floor, every part of it glowing. When the light faded, my formerly white sneaker was black and charred.

I grabbed the shoe again, ready to throw it as many times as it took to get some of the magic to wear off. If that didn’t work, I’d start throwing my whole body against the cell door.

Luken grabbed my shoulders. “Jenny, please. The fairies will find us, and then you will be able to do nothing to help your parents.”

I wanted to scream at him to leave me alone, that I wasn’t going anywhere until my parents were free, but he was right. I couldn’t break into the cell, and the last thing we needed was to get caught. Then I’d never have a chance to come back here.

As I took a step away from the glass, my head was spinning like I’d been holding my breath for too long. Even as I pulled my burned shoe back onto my foot, I couldn’t stop looking at my parents. Before I knew it, tears were trickling down my face.

“Are you unwell?” said Luken, like he’d never seen tears before. It wouldn’t surprise me if fairies never cried.

“No, I’m…I’m…” I didn’t know what I was. “We have to get them out of there.”

Luken nodded. “And we will, but the guards could return at any moment.”

He was right, but as I wiped away my tears, I still couldn’t move. Now that I’d found my parents, I didn’t want to let them out of my sight. What if I never saw them again?

I wished I could at least make sure they were okay.

“Wait,” I said, an idea blooming in my brain. “You’re a fairy, which means you can do the creepy dream thing.”

Luken let out a long sigh. “Technically yes, fairies are able to access dreams. But it is nothing I approve of. Our dreams should be our own.”

“Please, I need to know if my parents are okay. Can you look into their dreams and see what’s being done to them?” I glanced down the long corridor. “To everyone? Why

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