AZURA

Magic......Do you believe in magic and spells?Do you believe in supernatural powers?Flying horses, floating houses, curses.. you know, all those stuffs you read in books or watch in movies?Well I didn't, untill a few years ago.It all started a week before my 18th birthday, with dreams. Disturbing dreams, although not scary, no. Not at all.Disturbing because they never made sense ,and those dreams completely changed life.As I was saying, the dreams started on a friday night, exactly one week before my birthday. I saw myself..though not really me, because the lady I saw was a completely different lady. With long red hair, on a flying horse.Yeah I know...weird right?Well I was on a flying horse, four others behind me, but i couldn't see the faces of their riders clearly.I woke up the next morning with an odd feeling of total peace and joy.Of course the first time, I didn't take it seriously, not untill the dream kept repeating. Each one weirder than the last.The fourth time,

"Come on"I grabbed Rachel's hand, dragging her to the dark closet behind our class room. When we got there, I locked the door leaving us in darkness."Okay Ella, what's wrong? Are u okay?. This place is very dark, so let's just go outside and talk"Ignoring her, I bought out my phone from my breast pocket and switched on the torchlight, so she could see what I was about to show her."Ray, I'm gonna show you some crazy stuffs right now, but promise me you won't freak out. Please, I already did enough of that.""What's going on Ella? Just spill it. I'm getting worried" And I could hear the worry in her voice."Well, remember the dreams I told you about?" Rachel nodded."The crazy dreams you have been having for the past few days. Yeah I remember, so what happened?" "I don't think they are just dreams." I said and shivered immediately at the thought of what I was about to reveal to her."What do you mean?""Well, I woke up this morning to something else Ray." Breathing in and out heavi

EDWARD**********I woke up panting and sweating despite the cold temperature of the room.Son of a......Getting up from the bed, I switched on the light and went to the drawer to search for my phone. I'm very sure I left it here last night.... Yup, I did.4:35am.I cursed again. When was the last time I had this nightmare? They stopped years ago, so why today again?I picked up a polo to wear and shivered at the vivid memory of the dream I just woke up from.The image was still still as clear as day.A burning car.... The screams, still ringing in my head, as if it was just yesterday.Agonizing screams of my parents and the king, cries of a new born baby as they all burned to nothing, along the car they were riding in.It is 18 years already. But that experience is something I can never forget for the rest of my life. Not just me, but the four princes who lost just as much as I did. I picked up a little box from my desk and headed downstairs to the kitchen, knowing I'll find the

"Who are you?"The lady just smiled again before answering."My name is Annabelle, I'm your aunt. Can I come in?"My aunt?..... My aunt, like the good aunt Lily told me about? How did she find me?.Rachel was just looking at the lady with an opened mouth."Hey Romeo" I snapped my fingers in her face. "Your jaw dropped"That had her shutting her Mouth and smiling."I'm sorry for staring, it's just....you are really pretty ma'am. You look like you came down from heaven"She said,The lady....my aunt giggled."Thank you my dear. You are very pretty too. I love your figure" that had Rachel blushing.I rolled my eyes and opened the door wider for her to come in. She did and I locked it."I never believed it when the boys called me" The lady began, staring at me with a wide smile. "Like, how is it possible? I never believed it. But look at you Melody... You are alive. You are alive after 18 years" taking out a white handkerchief out of....nowhere, she dabbed at her eyes sniffing dramaticall

Few minutes later, I lay back on my bed, willing myself to sleep but I couldn't. Maybe because I was excited, or maybe because I was scared that once I closed my eyes, I'd wake up again in my room...a normal orphan and all this would turn out to be just a wild dream.With a sigh I got up from the bed and walked over to the massive shelf that had my birthday gifts in it and smiled. What would it have been like to grow up with these boys?It doesn't matter though. I'm here now, with my real family.Somehow that brought close tears to my eyes. Real family.... What about my parents? If I was born in this enchanted world how did I end up in Nigeria? How did they find me?Surely there was a very huge part of this story that I was missing.My eyes caught a picture on the shelf and I picked it up. She was a very beautiful lady... She looked just like me, but with dark hair and although she looked tired, she was wearing a big smile as she stared down at the three kids on her lap.That must be