Disclaimer: do not own any characters from this book, "Wings." All rights are reserved to author of this book Aprilynne Pike.

This is my first fanfic so please comment and review even if you don't like it.

Note: This story takes place about two months after Wings. If you have not yet read Wings I would suggest not reading this do to spoiler alert.

"See you tomorrow, David." Laurel said walking up the porch steps of her house. She shuffled over to the refrigerator to grab a Sprite. As soon as she opens up the can, Mom entered the kitchen.

"Oh, Laurel you're home already?" Mom looked at Laurel with a perplexed look. "You sure do walk fast now don't you," a smile tugged at her face.

"David gave me a ride home." Laurel replied nonchalant.

Mom, began to smile some more. Ever since Laurel and David had officially started "dating" she had been happier to see David. I guess seeing her daughter at the age of fifteen finally having her first boyfriend makes her giddy. Now Dad wasn't as hot about the idea of his daughter finally starting to see men.

"Mom, David and I are um…going on a picnic tomorrow on the Orick property." Laurel paused for only a moment. "I hope that's okay with you, Mom."

"Yes, its fine, Laurel it's just you'll be so far away from us on a date" Mom began to blubber, "If anything were to happen to you I just—"

"Its fine David will protect me," And Tamani, Laurel thought to herself and smiled. The conversation finally ended with Mom going to the bathroom in order to blow her nose. In that short time Laurel slid up stairs to her room.

Later that night at dinner Mom and Dad made conversation but Laurel remained silent and slowly picked away at her mandarin orange salad. Laurel sipped her sprite, the bubbly feeling making a sharp contrast with the citrusy flavor of the small oranges in the salad.

Finally, Laurel excused herself from the table and quickly lay down on her bed. Thinking about tomorrow, Saturday with David. Though eventually the conflicting thought of Tamani floated into her mind. She imagined the first time they met. Tamani tripped from behind the tree as I was playing my guitar by the river. His inhumanly beautiful black and green hair. The she remembered the time they kissed and her hands were locked into that beautiful hair. Then right on queue David bumped Tamani out of her thoughts. This was going to be a lot harder than I thought, Laurel thought as she drifted to sleep.

The next morning the gentle breeze coming from Laurel's ceiling fan blew hair across Laurel's face awakening her. She yawned once then walked over into the bathroom and checked the space in between her shoulders for any bumps. With Tamani not around as much anymore Laurel couldn't be as sure any more. Though fortunately Tamani had set up a whole romantic ambiance for David and hers picnic in Orick, he wasn't a bad guy. Or at least that's what Laurel had assigned him to do a few days before when she'd last saw him.

Laurel walked down to the kitchen to grab another sprite in order to wake up. Once she had worked her way through half the can there came a knocking from the front door. Laurel opened the door to reveal Chelsea in sweatpants and a hoodie. Chelsea waved to Laurel as she walked inside.

"Ready for our jog, Laurel?" She smiled.

Just because the cross-country season was over didn't mean Chelsea stopped training. Laurel decided to join Chelsea on her Saturday jogs now. Ever since the run in with Barnes, Laurel decided it was important for her to be fit.

"I'll be right back," Laurel said as she quietly jogged up the stairs. She quickly threw on some old gym shorts and a T-shirt. Finally before leaving her room she pulled on a pair of tennis shoes. "I'm ready," Laurel said as she came back down the stairs to Chelsea.

Laurel's breath came out shallow has Chelsea and her rounded the corner past the school. They had already run two miles from Laurel's house. The sun was threatening to break through the low cloud cover as Laurel starred off into the distance. Laurel turned her view to look over at Chelsea, her face was red with tiredness but she didn't show it at all.

They jogged over to the front steps and squirted water into there mouths. Laurel huffed and puffed as she chugged half of her water bottle, the plant side of her making her ridden with thirst.

"Easy, Laurel if you drink all of that you're going to have a cramp on the run back." Chelsea said a concerned look on her face.

"Ok," Laurel stopped drinking and took a few breathes. She knew a cramp wasn't going to happen with her, it just wasn't part of her anatomy to get them. "Ready to go," she said without hesitation.

"I guess I am if you are," Chelsea smiled and began jogging back towards Laurel's house.

The run back was much harder than the run to the school. It was as if Laurel had a monkey on her back. Her form was starting to fail on her and her arms began to flail. Her feet banged sloppily on the asphalt of the street.

"You, doing ok Laurel?" Chelsea asked easily control her breathe.

Laurel nodded and continued with her sloppy jogging. Her house was only a few blocks away now. The morning fog began to clear up as Laurel's house came into view. A spark of hope rose in Laurel, she was almost home.

After Chelsea left Laurel went upstairs to take a shower. She turns the faucet and let the warm water immerse her. She smiled and giggled thinking about David and how surprised he'd be once he found out about their picnic. Laurel ran her fingers through her blonde hair letting her fingertips slowly let go of the ends of her hair.

The towel brushed against Laurel's scalp as she dried her hair. She had put on a loose fitting, teal camisole and a pair of worn jeans, it was very casual and she was with David so she knew he'd approve. Laurel raced down the stairs and into the family room to wait for David. She sank into the couch as she turned on the television. Once Laurel heard the familiar sound of a car coming up the driveway she picked up the picnic basket and yelled to Mom, "I'll see you later, I love you," as she jetted out the door.

Laurel shut the door as she sat down in the passenger seat and reached across to kiss David on the cheek. "Hey," she said trying to hide her enthusiastic tone as much as she could.

"Hey," David replied adding one of his warm smiles. "Seat belts on," he continued as he backed out of the driveway.

Laurel looked up to see Mom waving from the front door; she waved back as they headed of to Orick. David turned up the radio as we left Cresent City and head out for the long drive ahead. Laurel couldn't start any conversation without giving away the surprise and the fact that, Tamani had helped her out on this. Words continued to try and bubble out of her mouth as they came closer to Orick.

The tires of the car crunched on the dirt road going to the cabin. The car juggled up and down in the divots and bumps, bringing back memories to Laurel. Laurel nearly jumped out of the car when it came to a stop; she picked up the picnic basket and ran to the backyard. A small table was set up with bug repellant candles that gave off a good scent, how thoughtful. A red and white checkerboard table cloth was set on top of the wooden table, along with white dish plates, napkins, and silverware.

"Wow, looks like someone planned ahead of time," David said with warmth in his voice.

Laurel set the picnic basket next to the table and began to open it when David sat down across from her. "Do you like it?" She asked as she pulled out a turkey, lettuce, tomato sandwich out for him.

"How could I not?" David grabbed the sandwich and began unwrapping it.

Laurel began to eat her salad in order to be able not to mention Tamani in their conversation.

"So, what did you do today? Oh let me guess you prepared this." He smiled grabbing Laurel's hand under the table.

Laurel was silent she couldn't answer until she came up with a clever reply. "Yeah, my parents and I were up here a few days ago when I set this up. I was just hoping it wouldn't rain."

David looked suddenly perplexed.

"What's wrong?"

"So, these candles stayed light for two or three days?" David's brows furrowed.

"Okay, so I received some help," Laurel replied still leaving the answer a bit cloudy.

"A little help as in from your parents or as in crazy fairy stalker help." David began to become a bit angry. It was slightly out of character but Tamani did that to him.

"Tam's not a crazy…" Laurel suddenly went quiet.

"So it was that fairy. Why would you get help from someone who's trying to win you over, Laurel?" David began to look concerned not for himself but for Laurel, overall he was still worrying about Laurel.

Laurel did one of the very few ways to avoid the subject, she kissed him. She kissed him to keep his mouth shut and to keep it from questioning her. Though when they parted so David could get air, she sensed he would question her again, but it wasn't his voice that came out.

"Am I interrupting something?" A familiar voice sounded from behind Laurel.

David began to glare and turn possessive. Laurel knew only one thing could do that to him. Tamani.

Part 1 end

End note: Don't worry Tamani fans there will be more Tamani in the next part. In the mean time I hope you enjoyed the story. This will be a multiple part story.