Kissing the Fae

Chapter 2 - Little Fairies

As the head of the Faye region, Letisha should be the perfect epitome of perfection. A lot of fairies were expecting her to stand preeminent above all leaders of the other lands. It motivates her, honestly. Their expectations challenged her but in some ways, it made her feel sick. Whenever she thought her day would come soon, the time wherein she would shower everyone with failures, her heart just felt numb. 

What would be her people's reaction once she falls? Would they get disappointed? Or help her stand up again? Each time she asks herself that, she couldn't help but shake her head in dismay. 

Expectation sucks were her all-time favorite phrase so in the past years, she learned not to expect. 

"A meeting would be held in the main hall the day after tomorrow with other regional leaders. Everyone's expecting you to come up with a good speech," Rin reminded her. 

Her eyes snapped open. "Speech for what?" 

"Like the usual? Opening speech and the closing remarks, too?" Rin stood on the classic book resting on her side. "You always do that, though. You should get used to it. Weaving words full of lies. That’s your expertise, right?”

She flicked her tongue and sat on her leg in the huge root of the tree, letting the other one fall on the ground, barefoot. She was in her favorite spot in Enchanted Forest, her home with Rin.

The fairies mostly live in the green forest, they were close to dryads, too. It was easier for them to get in touch with nature with their help and protection. Letisha has a good relationship specifically with the Hamadryad, where she always sleeps. The tree was a good apprentice and promised not to let it be ruined by anyone.

She heaved a sigh and took the pin from her wavy ginger hair. It was a pink rose with white little flowers around it.

As if on cue, a white unicorn appeared on her side from nowhere, two more little fairies sat on the root, a deer positioned itself on her back, there was also a squirrel, a butterfly was riding on its back.

“Hello, little fellas. How are you?” She smiled at them.

“Rani Letisha—“

“Just Letisha, Tia.”

Tia, whose wings were green, stopped.

“Just Letisha, we missed you,” Zah, the orange one spoke. “This place was in deep silence for a month. We haven’t heard you sing for a while now. We miss your voice.”

Her eyes smiled. “I was busy keeping up with the Sisters from Sylph,” she reasoned out.

“The Sisters? What did you do?” Tia asked accusingly. Rin let out a chuckle who was flying mid-air, fixing her hair.

She was no longer surprised. These fairies were friends since day one and they most likely shared the same attitude except for Zah.

The sides of her lips rose up. “Making them believe that true love exists.”

“It is?” Zah was unsure. “I mean, I’ve heard a lot of love stories from other couples out there in different regions. They ended up having a happy ending which was rare in the Faye region.”

Her brows shot up. “And what really happens after happily-ever-after?” She ignored the fae’s comment about her land.

They all heard a soft, long grunt behind her. Their eyes snapped at the deer who was staring at her, patiently waiting for her to sing.

She laughed and handed the pin to Rin, who later pinned her hair again. Letisha raised her hand in the air, she chanted foreign prayers, then a green crystal ball appeared on her palm.

Everyone went silent. Even the white unicorn laying on its stomach, ready to listen.

She closes her eyes and uses her sense of hearing. She stretched out her arm, the palm was open and when the instrument she asked for landed on her grasp, she opened her eyes.

“I’m so excited! It feels like I haven’t heard your angelic voice for decades!”

“We were just gone for a month,” Rin fired back at Tia.

“Good for you that you stayed with our Rani Letisha wherever she goes,” Zah said sarcastically.

“I invited you two to come along but you were just too shy to expose yourselves in public.”

Rin has stopped flying. She was sitting at the edge of the book with crossed legs, palms resting on her both sides.

“I wouldn’t be able to sing a song for you guys. But I could play this Lute for you. Is that alright?”

Suddenly, the silent squirrel jumped on her back, then climbed up to her shoulder. She looked at it.

If animals could talk, she would prefer talking to them all day rather than listening to the fairies fight around her.

“She needs to keep her voice, fairies. She will have a long talk a day from now,” Rin explained, referring to the speech she talked about earlier.

Letisha rolled her eyes when she remembered it. Speech, speech, speech…

It was tiring for her to think of what nonsense she would spit. She has been doing it for quite some time and the other leaders still don’t notice that she has been telling them the same thoughts over and over again.

At first, it was okay. Letisha doesn’t really care but, she had enough of their stupidity. Why can’t they notice it?

“They’re too stupid,” she uttered out of annoyance.

“Who?” the fairies asked in unison.

Letisha smiled awkwardly and shook her head. Her mind can’t just keep its thoughts by itself. It needed to be voiced out.

“Let’s start, little fairies. I don’t have that much time left.”

She positioned her fingers to the string and began strumming. The squirrel jumped down and rested on her leg, closing its eyes as it listened to the soothing instrumental song she started playing.

Slowly, Letisha closed her eyes and started remembering the Queen who taught her.