Excerpt: From Tomorrow 'Til Yesterday

[…W]hen this story began I was trying to fend off my latest uninvited guest. A flower fairy, about the length of my hand, as dainty as a snowflake and as pretty as a picture, whatever that means. She was also being incredibly stubborn.

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“You need to go away.” Tamesis insisted, glaring down at the small figure who was smiling up at her from her palm. The fairy’s wide blue eyes spoke of her complete attention to the human’s words, and her relaxed seat in the girl’s hand told of her utter dismissal of them. They were an interesting pair. The much larger girl with her pale skin, green-tinted gray eyes and shoulder-length black hair standing stiff and tense, with the little rainbow-winged, petal-clothed, sapphire-eyed fairy relaxing in the hand held at human eye level.
“But I want to talk to you!” the little creature chirped, fluttering her sheer iridescent butterfly wings in what would probably have been an endearing manner to anyone but Tam. “I’ve never talked to a human before!”
Tamesis glanced behind her, trying to make sure that no one had noticed her escape. She’d been in math class when she’d spotted the little face pressed up against the corner of the window. Luckily she sat in the corner, and by the time that this seventh-hour class came around every day, the sophomore’s math teacher had deteriorated into little more than a zombie, droning on about radians and sine. Tamesis wasn’t the first of the students who sat in the back to make their escape from the unalarmed corner door into the woods. However, with her record, if she happened to get caught outside, with or without fairy, she would be in deep trouble.
The girl sighed in disgust. Fairies. Why is it that in fairy tales, they always provide immense assistance to the hero or heroine, while when it comes to me they make me into a delinquent?