Cousins of a Wizard

Chapter 1

(Jax POV)

"Hey Kat wake up, something weird happened." I whispered as I nudged my twin awake. She of course didn't wake up the darn heavy sleeper. So I kicked her in the butt. That woke her up.

"What the heck girl. Could you not."

"I have to tell you something, this weird thing just happened."

"What tell me what was so important you woke Me up for this."

I have an eye roll and went on explaining what had happened.

"I was watching the sky right like I always do when a pretty owl landed right next to me. I was a little shocked but I saw it had two letters in its beak. It didn't leave till I took them and it flew off to wherever. Should we tell dad?"

I handed her one of the letters addressed to her and she looked at it.

"Well let's read them first. Besides he's not up yet. He should wake up in a few minutes."

We both broke the wax seal and opened the letters.

"Strange" was all I could say after reading the letter. It talked about magic and a school I never applied to. By the look on my sisters face she was just as confused.

"Ya let's get dad" she said while she got up and walked to the door.

We quietly went to our fathers room and opened the door. His alarm went off as we did so and it was loud enough to make us jump. He reached a hand out from under his pillow and hit the stop button on the clock. He sat up and opened his eyes to see us standing there.

"What's up girls. It's strange for you to be up this early."

Our father got out of bed and kneeled in front of us. His blue eyes were dull in the shadow and his red hair looked brown in this darkness.

"We got these weird letters a pretty owl gave us." I said handing him my letter.

His face fell as he took it from me.

"Girls we need to talk about these. Go wait in the living room I'm going to take the day off."

This was weird. He almost never takes days off, he's in charge of a big pet care company he started . So what's so important that he would take a day off.

We both sat on the couch and waited a bit. Not long after our father came and sat on the coffee table in front of us.

"Alright I guess I will start with your Aunt. As you know I ran away from home but stayed in touch with her. She got the same letters you did which meant she was a witch. And turns out you both are as well. Now your mother was also a witch so it makes sense you two would be as well."

This is now super weird. Because father hardly ever mentions mom since she died. He talks about aunty Lily from time to time but not a lot.

"It means you can do magic and really cool things. However, you need to go to that school and learn how to use it."

There was a pause but not an uncomfortable one more like confused and trying to understand.

"So we would be away from home learning magic...that's kinda cool. It would be scary at first but I mean we have to learn at some point." Kat said looking my father in his eyes with a small smile.

"I know it's a lot to take in and it's your choice to go or stay. But I think it best for you to go, I'm a muggle I can't do magic. I want you to learn to better yourselves and stay safe." I got up and gave my father a hug Kat followed what I was doing and we stayed there in a comfortable peace. Just hugging each other.