clothing but the boy fairy just shook his head in disappointment Clothes can’t hide who you really are Sabrina he said Even in her dreams Puck was a pain Now she was awake and thankfully dressed in her pajamas A cool breeze drifted through her bedroom window causing the model airplanes hanging from the ceiling to sway back and forth She watched them for a while imagining her father building them when he was her age He must have put a lot of effort into the models They were beautiful Sabrina checked her alarm clock 3 00 a m Now was a good time she decided There were no emergencies to deal with no impending chaos and best of all no prying eyes Her little sister sister Daphne was still asleep snoring softly into her pillow She wouldn’t wake until morning Yes now was the best time Sabrina slipped out of bed knelt down and reached under the bed to a loose floorboard From beneath it she retrieved a little black bag
She then tiptoed to the bathroom Once there she closed the door and flipped on the light Getting the room to herself for more than a few seconds was a special treat There were a lot of people living in the big old house In addition to the sisters there were Uncle Jake Granny Relda Puck and of course Elvis the family dog who often used the toilet as a drinking drinking fountain They all shared one tiny bathroom and privacy was in short supply Sabrina spilled the bag’s contents into the sink It was a small but treasured collection of make-up make-up she quietly bought whenever the family went into town tubes of lip gloss eye shadow mascara mascara blush and foundation All right here goes nothing she whispered First she smeared on the foundation but it made her look like a ghost To balance it out she put on blush Then she applied mascara which was thick and gloppy and she poked herself in the eye with the eyeliner pencil After smudging some lipstick on she took a step back to peer at herself fully the mirror
Sabrina nearly cried She looked like the joker from a stack of playing cards She was hideous How was she supposed to learn how to use this stuff She needed her mother Veronica would know how to do makeup She would explain all the things Sabrina was feeling but didn’t understand understand like why Sabrina’s appearance was becoming becoming more and more important to her It seemed like just yesterday when she couldn’t have cared less about how she looked but now It felt as if all she could think about was how others might see her She hated herself for it Luckily no one in her family had noticed her new preoccupation most important Puck If he discovered she was visiting the bathroom in the middle of the night to primp he would never stop making fun of her Sabrina scrubbed the makeup off her face and was about to go back to bed when she heard something bubbling in the toilet The lid was down so she couldn’t see what was causing the noise but she had her suspicions Before Puck had moved into the house with the Grimms he’d lived in the woods Modern conveniences mesmerized
mesmerized him none more so than the toilet He loved to flush it over and over and watch the water water swirl around and disappear For months he was convinced toilets were some kind of magic until Uncle Jake explained how plumbing worked The newfound knowledge only increased Puck’s fascination and it wasn’t long before he was conducting scientific research research to discover what could and couldn’t be flushed down the tubes It started out with a little loose change but the items quickly grew in size marbles wristwatches doorknobs balls of yarn even once scoops of butter pecan ice cream Granny finally put an end to the fun when she caught him trying to flush a beaver he’d found in the woods Ever since the toilet regularly coughed up Puck’s experiments Last week Sabrina had found one of her mittens floating floating in the bowl Now apparently something else was making its way to the surface She hoped it wasn’t the missing TV remote But when Sabrina lifted the lid she found something something so shocking she would likely fear toilets for the rest of her life A little man was sitting in the bowl
