Magic is not everything

CHAPTER 6

Kasandra recounts

A week had passed since the dubious incident with the letter, and the memory was still shivering in my spine and I had not yet escaped the feeling of fear. I didn't say anything to my mother until I knew exactly what it was about, I wanted to investigate more about the mysterious recipient.
Who is he and what does he want?
" What do we have for breakfast? "
My mother's voice interrupts my thoughts.
" Fruit, yogurt with oatmeal, eggs and coffee. "
" It sounds delicious. How come you woke up before me? "
" I do not know. "
My mother had kissed me on the forehead.
" You don't look too happy."
I was not.
" Is something upsetting you? "
" No. " I say with a smile to dispel her suspicions.
" All right, then. "
She went to get a cup of coffee.
" Shouldn't you leave? "
I look at the clock on the wall.
" Sure. Mom, I will come home later today, " I say as I take my backpack.
" Why? "
" I'm going to pick up Rafe and Gabriela from school, I promised them."
" Well then."
" I should hurry if I don't want you to be late."
I hug my mother.
" Have a nice day!"
" Thanks, Mom!"
In a few minutes I arrive and see Zoey in front of the school entrance.
" Hi!"
" Hi! Are you feeling alright?"
" Yes, why would you say that? "
" Because you're not late."
" Aaaa...that well,...that's a problem."
Zoey laughed.
" How could that be a problem?"
" Let me tell you...I started."
" Don't be upset, Kasandra, but I don't be late for the Demon's hour, just don't you want to give us an extra homework again?"
I think for a moment.
" You're right, I tells you during the break."
We arriving in class and notice that the Demon has not arrived. Thank God! After we don't sit on the bench when the teacher comes and looks through the classroom and see that I got before her, she looks at me like gold.
" Mademoiselle Wibberly, I can't believe you're honoring us with your presence, which is due to the pleasure?"
I doesn't answer her because she was ironic. Then we started our lesson, and during the class I managed to get more correct answers, I read almost perfectly and did an impeccable homework, and for that I have an A .
Zoey, you're the coolest.
Thanks.
Talking through thoughts was the witches' coolest thing, especially if you are doing it with your best friend. After French class, Zoey and I had gone to lunch, since my grandparents left, my meals had been simple, fast, but not so delicious, because my mother and I are apparently not talented in the kitchen, I have to go to my grandmother's today and to beg her to go back under the pretext that I am starving and I am an malnourished child, so finally she would understand that the only house where she is allowed to live is only mine. I had a slice of pizza, french fries and orange juice.
" Now tell me."
I look skeptically at Zoey standing in front of me.
" What? "
She had bitten from slice of pizza and then continued.
" The reason your lack of delay is bad."
I had completely forgotten.
" It's a problem because I don't have a dream to make me sleep late."
"What dream?
" For a month, almost every night I have a dream that starts like this, I am on the floor of an abandoned church, cold and absolutely scary when suddenly a violin song is heard until now I was waking up every time, but last week it happened differently, I located the source of the music to the top of the tower bell and there I found a man with black hair and green eyes..."
" It's cute? "
" If he's cute, he's the most handsome man I've ever seen, any girl's dream... you should have seen him too."
Zoey smiled.
" And then? "
" I asked him to teach me the song he gave me the his violin and he said that for this song there are no notes and that everything comes from the heart..."
" How romantic! "
" Wait, the interesting part is coming now, I asked him what he was looking for in my dream and he told me he didn't know how the appear here and why, but he said we'd figure out together."
" And what's the name of this handsome and talented man?"
" Magnus."
" What?
" Yes, I know it's not a name you hear too often..."
" Kasandra, until you tell me I don't even know that exist such a name." "He said his mother wasn't so inspired for a better name, but I honestly think it's an interesting choice. "
"And now you're friends or something?"
"Yes." I say excitedly.
"And what else happened?"
I try to avoid his gaze.
" Kasandra."
"All right, all right...I may have taken him in my arms."
Zoey drowned in juice.
" Ha, ha, ha...God only from you I expect something like this...how was it?"
" The nicest thing in the world." I say in the sweetest tone possible. After another mouthful of oatmeal, she says:
" Kasandra, this whole situation doesn't make you question yourself."
" Such as?"
" Have you ever seen this church? How come all this appears in your dream? What is this dream? And perhaps the most important question is who is Magnus? "
" First, please easier with the questions... "
But she continues uninterrupted.
" Have you ever seen this Magnus in your life, but the church?" What is the connection between Magnus and the church? What is the connection between you and Magnus? Why appear in your dreams? Why of all the people, do you dream of him? "
" Zoey, there are too many questions, I don't even know what I should answer."
" That's the point, Kasandra, you don't know anything about that, did you tell anyone?"
" No one but you."
" You should tell your uncle or your mother, someone who can help you."
"What do you say to Zoey as if it's a problem."
"Kasandra! What you described to me sounds like a dream induced by a wizard, such a real dream cannot simply be a dream. "
" You mean I'm influencing this dream or Magnus or both."
" What I'm trying to say is that in order to influence a dream, those people who do that must to have a connection between them. Have you and Magnus ever met?"
" It was the first time I saw him."
" And the church?"
" Same."
" And that's how we get to the weird part that needs an answer."
As hard as it was for me to believe, Zoey was right for such a dream to come true it must be induced by a spell, which is strange because I don't know Magnus and he doesn't know me, but he didn't lie to me when he said he didn't know me, and the questions Zoey asked were more than perfect, there must be an explanation for all this.
" What do I now?"
" You're telling your uncle, he sure knows what to do."
" What should I say to him, 'Hey, Uncle! How are you? Listen I in the last month I have a strange dream in which I see an incredibly handsome guy that you may have fallen in love a little bit, but unfortunately I don't know how I know him and why he appears in my dreams, so you can help me? '. Uncle would probably say I'm crazy, and uncle Jake, Beetles, and grandpa Richard, if they found out, they'd have a heart attack. And then I told her about the family night when I suggested the probability to have a boyfriend and the men in my family had almost considered digging someone's grave.
Zoey kill oneself laughing next to me.
" Kasandra, you have the coolest family in the world."
" If you say so."
Zoey calmed down, then said:
" Now you have to be serious."
" But, Zoey, I need evidence, arguments, something to take seriously. Plus I have to decipher the mystery with the letter."
My friend looks at me curiously and then I tell her everything without omitting a detail. She pauses for a moment and then say:
" Here's how we do it, next week grandpa Hugo leaves for a few days on I don't know what trip and asked me to go to Italy to his old house to bring him some books, something from there should clarify everything about you it happens and so when you tell your uncle you will have something that he can take seriously and your grandfather and the two uncles lonnys doesn't have to dig any graves, okay?"
Doctor Hugo Algernon is Zoey's maternal grandfather, a wizard who was very good friends with my grandfather Pym and who had grandpa Richard as a student when he was in college, studying the History of Magic, of course when I was befriended Zoey, none of us knew that, and the moment we found out we thought fate had brought us together to be friends. As for Zoey's parents, they are both wizards, and in terms of human years they are the same age as my mother, but in the witchcraft years they have something more and when doctor Hugo found out that he would become an apparent grandfather, he couldn't believe it, that his daughter still had hopes of finding someone who, in his opinion, did not look as stupid as the rest of the wizards, and this was apparently to be taken as a compliment. Suddenly we hear the bell.
" We have to go." Zoey says.