Magic - one shot

Magic

Unlike most families, magic wasn't a mythical thing in the Wilson household. It was a surprising thing, a scary thing, an exciting thing, a random thing and many more things, but one thing that it wasn't was non-existent.

None of the members of the Wilson family knew how to conjure the magic or when it would appear, but they all treasured and kept it a secret from all other families. Everyone thought this was the best way to go about their magic, everyone but the youngest member of the family. Raven Wilson thought that their magic was something that they should flaunt and use for good. But to her dismay no one agreed to this as they said that she was too young to know what was best. The 12-year-old girl was the youngest of 4 and the only girl. Her three older brothers, Marcus, Timothy and Andrew would always tease her about her different opinions towards their magic. Raven had had enough of this over the years, so she decided to prove her family wrong, she just didn't know how yet.

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One day, Raven was on her way to school constantly cursing the wind as it was blowing her thick, black hair into her face and mouth causing her to cough and splutter. She was starting to get frustrated and looked down at her wrist for a hair tie, but unfortunately Raven didn't have one that day. Suddenly she remembered what her parents had always told her: 'If things aren't going your way and you can't find a solution, try as hard as you can, doing anything that you possibly can to stop yourself from using magic'. It was the that Raven got her wonderful idea, she wasn't going to try to stop her magic, but instead she was going to embrace it, using it to solve her problem. The girl took a deep breath in and let the magic flow through her, pulling her hair out of her face and into a tight bun on the top of her head. Everyone around her looked at her in amazement as her hair tied itself into a neat bun.

'Wow!' A girl from Ravens class stared at her in awe 'How do you do that, it's magical'.

'That's because it's magic' the girl said to her class mate with a smile and from that day on the Wilson family treasured their magic in a different way, in a more public way, as they knew that they would be accepted for it.