my short stories

first impressions

9/13 First impressions are important, that what they always say. put on your best smile, give a firm handshake, all that is good and all but what if that impression is already made? how do you deal with that? I'm trying to figure that out, see people don't really like wizards and my dad is one so they don't like me either. I'm worried about how tomorrow is going to go, I start high-school. Until now I've been homeschooled by my dad, he has taught me ever since he started messing with magic. My dad has worked hard to keep me well educated, but cant really teach me high-school material. My dad says the thing you hear about high-school and what you see on tv aren’t true but those kids didn’t have a wizard for a dad, i do however. so I'm pretty sure I'm getting stuffed into a locker tomorrow, I wish I could pretend to be sick but my day would see through that right away... well I should get to bed, big day tomorrow wish me luck.

9/14 Today was horrible... I felt like an animal in a zoo, every one was just staring at me and avoiding me. i don’t think anyone came within five feet of me if they could help it. even the teachers eyed me with suspicion, like i was some dangerous animal one mistake from flying into a murderous rage... god i hated it. I wish I could stay home tomorrow but that would never fly with dad “its only been one day Andrew! don't just give up.” that's what he’d say if I mentioned it to him... I’ll give it a few more days before I try skipping school, what do people do when they skip school thought? anyway its late and I have home work to do.

9/17 its been a few days since my last entry in here, starting to think I’m getting used to the stares. don’t think I need to worry about any bullying, think people are afraid of me or well maybe my dad. probably think he’ll curse them or some shit. I wonder if he would curse someone or if he even could, dad keeps his experiments secret so I’m clueless about what he practices, I haven’t asked since I was a little kid either. maybe i should ask him, I think I remember reading something about ignorance breading fear. I’ll ask him tomorrow after school, more home work tonight luckily tomorrow is Friday.

9/19 Dad has been acting weird more than usual at least, he was always kind weird according to mom but she loved that. I think she was the only one who ever truly got dad and when she died he took it hard, he really loved her absolutely adored her. mom was the most kind a patient woman I've ever know, I miss her. you know I think its time i go to bed, tired.

9/ 21 I saw something really strange today, there were a bunch of police at the graveyard nearby my house. I mean that's strange in my mind at least, Ive got no idea what was going on maybe something happened there last night, its got my part of town a buzz. lots of rumors were being told around school today, though I don't know any details, since every kind of just shuts up whenever I come near or walk into a room.

10/1 The police are still at the graveyard guess they are still looking for who ever did something there, though I still don't know what happened maybe someone got stabbed or somthing. I shouldn't really dwell on it, I've got a lot of work todo for school. have a science project and no partners to help me yay! i hate people. probably wont write anything for a while.

10/4 I finally found out what happened at the graveyard by my house. Someone stole a body, just dug it up and dragged it away or at least tired to. I overheard some guys talking about it. It has happed a few more times too, what the hell is someone doing with a bunch of dead people? That's just really fucked up; stealing bodies. It seems like the police didn’t find anything, they haven't been there for a few days.

10/5 The police showed up at the house today, just before I left for school. They wanted to know if I or my dad had seen anything strange at the graveyard lately. I told them I hadn't seen anything strange, and they gave me a skeptical look at that. They probably gave me that look because my dad is one of the few people in the city who can use magic.

Been hearing some strange noises from the basement all night since after dinner... I wonder what dad is doing down there. it's his little lab. I'll ask him about it tomorrow.

10/6 Tried to talk to dad about the noises but I got up late this morning so when I asked he just ushered me out the door so I wouldn't miss the bus, and he had locked himself down in the basement by the time I had gotten home from school. Those strange noises were coming from down there, almost sounded like chanting...

10/8 Dad hit me with some big news this morning, we are going to be moving by the end of the month. I'll be at my same school, but I'll need to get up earlier so I can ride a new bus. He's trying to buy a place outside city limits, probably for his magic research.

He showed me the property he planned on buying, it was some old family farm. the current owners were apparently getting to old to keep up the farm and their kids didn't want anything to do with it. Its got a newly renovated house and a big barn next to a field, we'd also be basically in the middle of the wood too.

11/3 So we've finally moved into the new house, there were a few hiccups during the moving process. My dad yelled at some of the movers when they almost dropped a really long box. I'd never seen it before, the box or my dad yelling. He's never even yelled at me when I've disobeyed. It was... scary, the whole world seem to grow a little darker for that moment.

11/5 Okay now we are fully moved in, I was kind of skeptical of the house at first, and was not pleased with moving out of the city. but its really peaceful and pretty out here. You don't hear cars driving up and down the road at night, you can see the stars. But the nights are darker, last night was cloudy and it was like I was staring into an abyss. I thought I'd hear owls or something during the night but I heard nothing. it was freaky.

11/6 Dad was out in the barn when I came home today, I thought he was out taking a walk but he came back in from the barn, saying he was thinking of doing a bit of renovation on it. He wanted to make it his new magic lab.

11/17 Dad has been busy with his renovations of the barn for the last week, moving all of the instruments and other wizard things into the barn. I tried to ask about the noises I heard before we moved but he gave me a weird look and just said don't worry about it.

11/20 Dad has been going out to the barn every night at sundown, for the last three night. He's also looking more tired a nd disheveled, like he hasn't slept for the last few days. I asked about it and he just said he was close, when I asked to what he just went to the barn early that night. I'm going to sneak out there and see what he's working on.