Chapter - 1

 

A PLACE OF UNEXPECTED Surprises

Chapter- 1

 

A voice could be heard over a very large piece of land containing a rather eerie looking house with a magnificent backyard which spanning around a 100 square meters. A scream resounded through the air. The voice sounded like one of a very young girl. It gave a panicky air around the house which only two occupied currently.

  A lady with brown eyes and wavy and curly hair stood rooted to the spot. The voice was her daughter’s. She ran up the stairs so fast she tripped a few times; she did not care; she was almost there. When she reached the landing on which her daughter’s room stood, she was covered in dust. She slammed open the door of her daughter’s room and found her playing with a rather old woman who had her hair tightly up in a bun. She was sitting on a small chintz armchair which certainly did not belong in a 10 year old’s bedroom.

            She was chatting and playing chess with a rather pretty girl who looked nothing like her mother. The girl had radiant strawberry-blond hair. She had bright green eyes which beautifully suited her hair. The girl’s name was Kendra. The woman had an emerald green cloak on. She said, “ You seem to have produced a magical daughter as you have heard, when the ministry called you on the muggle owl you call a what was it? Ah, yes, a telephone. You are Mrs. Charis Ralson, aren’t you, Ma’am?”. “Y-Yes I-I am M-M-Madam” the lady responded.  “She w-was v-v-very e-excited”, she stammered. The lady sitting on the chair introduced herself, “I am the headmistress of the school Dogseye, Vanessa Miller.” “I have come to take Miss Ralson to her rightful place in the magical world”. “B-B-ut w-w-wh-ere will sh-she g-get h-her magical th-things? , stammered Kendra’s mother, still not gotten over the shock of having a self-proclaimed witch standing in her daughter’s bedroom. “Ah, why do you think I have come here?” . “We are going to a shop that you think you know  like the back of your hand, but you really don’t know its greatest secret.” She then reached into the pocket of her robes and pulled out a piece of rather long wood and with a flick of her hand the armchair disappeared. Then she took one look at Mrs.Ralson and said, “Please don’t freak out. This may be a little bit alarming at first. Whatever you do don’t make a fuss or scream.” She took Kendra’s hand in her own and clenched it tightly. “Where are we going, Mrs. Miller?”

“From now on, you are to address me as ‘Madam’ or ‘Professor Miller’

“Yes professor’

 Then Professor Miller asked Mrs.Ralson to take her other hand. She obeyed. Then they felt as though they were being pushed through a rubber tube. Kendra wanted to scream out loud but she couldn’t. She wasn’t able to even breathe. When the pressure stopped, Kendra took a huge sigh of relief. She opened her eyes which had been squeezed shut on the whole bumpy journey. They stood in Kendra’s favourite bookstore.

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