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The abandoned house

It's been already 25 years since Luz Noceda step one feet on the Boiling Island, all of her fantastic adventures transformed in novels that narrates the experiences in this mysterious and dangerous land. She cannot stand her dream of becoming a witch in the human world and choose a more realistic option for the society, being novelist of fantastic adventures, stories that had succeed. In that period of time she met a person that was special in one time of her life, there relationship was short but, it grow something that united them. A boy named Juan Carlos Noceda.

During all the time, Luz was living with her mother and the rest of his Latin family in his homeland, Republica Dominicana. Which made it more difficult to her to return to the island being so far from the portal that she knew. When she moved out to her old house with his son, she saw that the portal had not been open, so if it was there or not it will not matter.

Carlos is very different from her mother in almost every aspect, but physically they do look alike. Carlos was more skeptical and don't believe in the wonders of magic, and he thinks that all the stories that his mother has told him since little are nothing more than made up stories, a portal to another world? a house that walks a talks? books that came to life? a monster of fears? demons and witches? nothing of that can be real, just another big stories of my little crazy mother.

Unlike his mother he was a very good student, skilled in sports and a little popular in his new school, but that did not prevent him from being bothered by other children's, children influenced by the ideology of their parents, and their parents conversations about Luz. These little crashes gradually accumulated in a physical fight in the school yard, that ended with a school suspension before the summer came in. His mother was very worried, so that evening they had a talk.

-So, are you gonna tell me what happened this morning with the other kids?

Asked Luz, sitting on the edge of his son bed that he was back to her just observing the wall, he was a little angry.

-You know you can tell me anything, i'm not mad at you for what happened, but it is a strange behavior of you, you are not like this mi amor.

Said posing his hand on her son which abruptly pushed her away, rising from her position.

- My behavior is not strange, you are! They have bothered me since the beginning of the years because you behave like little girl with all those fantasy tales, even at your age! Why can't you be like a normal mom!

Carlos said all the bad things he accumulated, but seeing the the reaccion of Luz, he regret immediately, she was crestfallen clenching her fists, that made him lower his head, he wanted to apologize but the words won't come out being both in a complete silence that seemed eternal.

- I will try to act better from now on, but, those stories, they are not invented so don't say that.

With resignation, Luz got up leaving his son's room closing the door, leaving a deaf feeling in his chest, they were stories, nothing but stories. It was impossible for them to be true, her mother would be crazy if she actually believed that she lived all those things in her novels. Getting up from his bed, he searched among the books in his room for the volume 1 of the novels his mother published. The supposed star of the great adventure.

-"I was just waiting for the bus to take me to comply with the regulations of the status quo, but the destiny didn't want that, a little howl stole my book and in the desperation to get it I follow him through the grove behind my house, then i saw an abandoned house."

Carlos started to think, sowing a pinch of doubt before his outright denial, what if that old house was there? they were in his grandmas house, the one in the book, that means that hut will be behind them.

The sun was about to hide , if he wanted to verify this was the moment or would have to wait until tomorrow. If he wanted not to get caught he sneak through his window and taking only his headphones and the book, went into the silent forest as the sun went down.

In the meantime Luz was thinking about all the things she lived in the past, seeing somethings that she kept from all of the adventures, the cape, some glifs that she had not seeing in a long time, the pen with the light that isn't shining anymore, and the grom crown..

- how will they be? how will she be? Amity..

She still remember them very well, now they might seem different, maybe they have a family, completed all the goals, taking differents paths, she will loved to know all of that, loved to see her friends again.

While walking in the forest listening to music, he saw it, an a deteriorated house with the doors closed;

-" Noticing that the bird rushed to enter carrying a sack with a lot of different things that would have stolen, crossing the door i was no longer in the world that i knew."

-Okey I just have to open the door, i'm not nervous or any of that.

He said to himself with his hand trembling, approaching to the door, thinking in all of the things his mother said about that fantastic world, taking breath and closing his eyes open the door. Lifting his head slowly to only seeing that the house was more terrible than outside, making a scary rat come out.

-I knew it, but for one instant I though..

Letting out a sight he closed the door, showing the back to the house he started walking, the sun was no longer in letting the darkness of the night to show.

A brightness in the door start to show opening by himself, Carlos spun around and fell to the floor seeing that surprise.

The portal was open.

After 25 years, a portal opened again.