Thursday for Amanda J. Jones
"Amanda?"
Amanda jolted awake. "Amanda! Your finally awake. Can you help me with my math home work?"
"Argh. Amy... can I go back to sleep?" Amanda said.
"After you answer my question." Amy said.
"What's the question?" Amanda put her pillow over her head.
"Will you do my math homework?" Amy asked.
"Why do you have math homework? It's a weekend."
"It's thusday, and mom and dad have to go to our conferences. So we don't have school. And I couldn't finish a part of my math homework on Tuesday. So, answer my question?" Amy asked, getting impatient.
"No. I will sleep. Ask mom for help." Amanda turned away from Amy.
"Pleeeaaaaaaase?!" Amy asked, making her cute face.
"Fine." Amanda got out of bed.
"THANK YOU SO MUCH."
As Amanda and Amy sat down at the dining room table, Amanda paused.
"Ok, Amanda. What's six times three?" Amy asked.
"18."
"Ok, now this."
"97."
"Now this."
"20."
"Now this."
"8." "I already knew that, but know this."
"36."
"This?"
"65."
"Ok, we are finally done. I'll go make us some breakfast!" Amy rushed off. "Finally." Amanda muttered and off the table she grabbed 'time of the rise' Amanda was writing. She sighed. Amanda flipped to the page with the pen as a bookmark in it, then clicked it and kept writing.
'Silly me.' Sadie thought to herself.
Amanda only started writing it last night. It was in one of the notebooks she got from her birthday. It was still only in the prologue.
Everyone was asleep.
'Why would I use magic again? I didn't want to kill someone another time! It was so, so stupid. What is wrong with me? Magic users are supposed to grow plants and create water or life or stop the bad guys! But all I can do is kill and put people to sleep forever.' Sadie was walking in circles.
She drummed her fingers on the book she was holding. The Magic book.
The title started glowing again.
"What does that mean?" Sadie said out loud.
"Why do you glow when you come near Lonnie?"
Of course, Lonnie was asleep. Like everyone else.
The title grew brighter.
'μαγεία'
"Stop it! stop glowing! Stop right no- woah." Sadie noticed in Lonnies pocket there was something glowing, too.
"What?" Sadie bent down and pulled the thing out of Lonnies pocket.
'A wand.'
Amanda closed the book after she finished the prologue.
She leaned back on her chair. Amanda then rushed back inside her bedroom and got dressed.
Amanda's mom and dad came in as Amanda cam e out, fully dressed.
"Morning!" Mom said.
"Good morning." Amanda said, sitting at the dining room table.
"Confrenses are in the after noon, and we have a free morning. Any ideas what to do?" Dad asked, sitting down with Amanda.
"Play on iPads!" Amy came into the dining room, giving everyone thier beacon and eggs.
"Ok... Amanda?" Mom was writing on a mini white board she got as she, too, sat down.
After breakfast they had a small plan.
For a couple hours the kids would play on thier iPads while the parents did some chores. Then thye'd have lunch, then free time. Then showers, then conferences then bed.
Right after lunch, right before everyone was going to conferences, Amanda tripped over something in the door way.
It's wrapping was very colorful. It said: 'to: Amanda from: Grandma'.
'Wait- didn't grandma die of cancer? And my dads grandma lives in California?' Amanda thought, but despite that creepy idea, Amanda unwrapped it.
It was a book. A brown book with golden little triangles at the end. The book was dusty. It was clear that the book was a very old book.
Amanda opened it up, but the whole thing was blank except for the last page.
"C'mon Amanda! We're going to be late."
In the car, Amy was talking all the way.
"And then, then Mindy was all like 'then copy my notes' then I was like 'that's what I've been trying to ask you' and she was like 'then good for you and then there was this other time when the teacher told me to stop talking and I was like '... I'm not talking.' And then like, five minutes later she was like 'stop talking' and I was like I'm not talking' and then a long time later if the teacher telling me to stop talking some other dude said 'I'm talking!' And I think that dude has a crush on me and some other time that dude walked up to me on movie night and I was like leave me alone and he was like..."
I didn't listen to the rest. I leaned on the car window, listening to the music.
'You don't dare leave me, baby, woah oh..."
Amanda looked at the book one more time. I had the urge to read the last page.
"And then, if he actually meant that, then how would Daniel ever have a crush on HER but instead have a crush on ME. Can anyone believe I might never see him for the whole summer? I better bump into him in conferences! Otherwise I'll never see him again!"
'Oh, right. This IS the end of year conference.'
Finally, Amanda opened the book to the last page, and read.
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