Learning Magic

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Everything changed when I woke up to smoke. It was a warm May night, my dad and I were sleeping peacefully, when smoke filled our New York apartment. We had lived there since I was a baby, just my dad and I. My mom, well she left a couple months after I was born. "Lilah!" My dad came running down the hall to me. "Dad" I started coughing and wheezing, note: don't inhale when in a smoke filled room. "Dad! I'm in my room!"He broke through the door with a loud bang. My dad had always been strong, it had always made me feel safe. He picked me up and ran, he clomped down the stairs and I got a wiff of fresh air. Dad put me on the ground a I sat there trying to breathe.

After the firemen had put out the fire everyone in the building had calmed down. The fire was small, it didn't do any real damage just lots of panic. My dad bent down and wiped tears from my cheeks "It's okay honey, the fire was just outside our door but it stayed in the hallways. No one was harmed and everything is still there, except some of that hideous wallpaper." I look up and smiled at him, we had always joked about that wallpaper. I grabbed his hand and stood up. "When can we go back in?" All I wanted to do was curl up in my bed and sleep. It was a friday so I figured I probably had to go to school. We walked up to our floor, Dad turned to meet my eyes " you do have to go to school, but you can go late." I smiled and ran to my bed. After everything I fell right asleep.