Maple's Journey to Elizabeth's house My fairy's name is Maple because she smelled of maple fresh out of a maple tree. Her hair is pink like a beautiful pink rose blossoming in the spring. She is wearing a lovely three layered skirt made of flower petals taken from some of the most beautiful flowers in the world. She lives in the forest deep in the heart of Scotland. Most of her friends are animals. Once she decided to take a trip to Central Park, and this is the story: Early one morning Maple woke up and decided to go out to her mailbox and check for any mail. When she got there she found a letter from her dear friend Elizabeth. Elizabeth was a flower fairy who lived far away in New York City, in a place called Central Park. She went right back in her cottage to sit down and read her letter. Elizabeth told her all about how she liked living in Central Park, and all the exciting things there are to do there. Maple thought how nice it would be to go and visit her friend in Central Park. So, she packed her bags and called for her stork, Zippy and told him to take her to New York City. When she arrived in Central Park, she said to herself, "Boy, this is a cool city! Elizabeth wasn't kidding when she said it was fun to live here. I hope I can find her house soon!" Maple tried to ask the squirrel how to get to Elizabeth the Flower Fairy's house, but the squirrel said, "Who the heck's Elizabeth?" Maple answered him, "Elizabeth is my friend, she lives here in Central Park. Don't you know her?" "Listen your Fairiness, there are tons a fairies here, how am I supposed to know where your little fairy friend lives? Listen, why don't you go bother those pigeons over there. They're real nosy, they know everything!" Maple looked around, and there were no pigeons anywhere. So she said to herself, "I guess I'm gonna have to find my way there all by myself " She set out to find Elizabeth's house. As she was thinking about which way to go, she suddenly spotted a little road. She decided to take the road to see if it would lead her to her destination. She had been flying for a couple miles, when she started to get hungry. She shouted, "Where can I get some food?" Suddenly, a nice, warm, soft Fairy Scone fell out of the sky, and landed right in the palm of her teeny fairy hand. She thought, "This will satisfy me 'till dinner". After eating her scone, she walked and walked along the path hoping to find Elizabeth's house. She passed Fairy house after Fairy house, but none were Elizabeth's. It was just starting to get dark, and Maple was getting tired. She sat down on the curb, and thought to herself, "When will I ever find Elizabeth's house? It is getting late, and I am getting hungry again. I may possibly starve out here in the dark!" She went to get up and hit her head on something hard. She turned around and saw that it was a mailbox. The name on the mailbox was "Elizabeth the Flower Fairy" Maple was so excited that she ran into the house and said, "I'm finally here!" Elizabeth was glad to see her friend Maple after all these years. She made her dinner and showed her to her room. Maple had a wonderful vacation and is now safe and sound in her home in Scotland. - Sarah