THE ALPHA’S ADDICTION

The neat, but bustling streets reminded Emma of the elites’ area in Florida. But she thought that the streets here were of a much higher end, and it was for everybody. She concluded that Zipfarah was a good queen.

She saw some elves across the road. They were getting a fried snack from a snack shop. Everything and everywhere was just so orderly and peaceful. The air was neat too. She would have loved to stay here for more days, but there was Derek’s birthday to attend to. She decided that she would come back here, perhaps for the holidays. She would have loved to take pictures of the scenery but her phone was absent.

As she walked along with the little girl, her mind although appraising her environment, still sometimes wandered to the reality of the evil witch being a good witch’s daughter. What had caused their separation? The little girl hadn’t said a word, except to tell her somethings about the area since they had left the mansion. She could tell that the latter’s mood had been a little bit ruined at the mention of her aunt.

Now she was curious about meeting the Leonarya. Perhaps, she would try calling her like she had told her to in the cafe’s changing room. Perhaps giver her a piece of her mind. Yes, she would do that this night. (Emma and trouble eh)

But for now, she wanted to lighten the girl’s mood. The latter had been a source of help to her since she had come here, unlike her twin sister and her squirrel.

But what can she do? She thought, looking around her, to see if she could find a park.

“Is there a park here?” She asked Lily.

“A park? You mean fun park?” Lily queried, and Emma nodded in reply.

“Yeah. It’s this way.” She said, pointing at a curvature that was ahead of them.

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“I don’t ride that.” Lily said for the umpteenth time as Emma dragged her towards the ferry’s wheel.

They had come to the pack twenty minutes ago, and in that short time they had tried some games, along with the others in the park, but once Emma had mentioned the ferry’s wheel, Lily had balked, shaking her head in refusal. She hadn’t ridden that before. Even though her sister and brothers had always taunted her for it, it hadn’t been enough incentive to partake in the sick fun that she had always thought that the game gave. And then, she was scared of heights.

“You will enjoy it. Trust me.” Emma said, determined that she will ride it with the little girl no matter what. She had found it hard to believe that the little girl had been missing out on such a huge fun. So, she had made it her duty to do for her what her brothers, her twin sister and squirrel, her magic too, hadn’t been able to do for her.

At first when she had come to the pack, and had seen the kids and their parents laughing and playing around, she had almost forgotten that she was in a witches’ territory until she had seen one of the kids lifting a food flask from a car’s trunk by just looking at it. It had dawned on her that the fact that they were wizards and witches didn’t stop them from having fun, didn’t make them any weirder, rather it made them more advantaged actually than humans. Perhaps, that was why they had grown their own community; to prevent being attacked and experimented by some mad humans who called themselves witch hunters. She thought. Of course, it was a good cause if they were pursuing just bad witches, but knowing her people, they didn’t actually care. Only a few considerate ones.

“But Emma…” She heard Lily whine, and soughed. The girl wasn’t making things easier for her. She had almost expected her to blast her with magic already. She knew that the other twin wouldn’t waste time doing that to her.

She stopped walking, and turning aside, she bent to the girl’s height.

“Lily, this is so much fun. I don’t know why your siblings chose to exclude you from this huge fun, but I’m not going to do that. You just have to trust me, Okay. You know what? You can close your eyes.” She said, staring into the girl’s multi colored eyes, which looked more of blue now.

But Lily was silent, just staring back at her.

So, she stood up to her full height, taking the latter’s silence as agreement.

She breathed afterwards in relief, when she noticed that Lily didn’t say a word again, even when they got to the ticket’s center, where an invisible hand was distributing tickets.

Emma thought it was fun. It reminded her of her fondness for the Harry Potter’s series.

All through the time she had sat and watched the series, she had always wished that she could wave a wand and make something happen.

But she thought that these community of witches and wizards were better. They didn’t need a wand to command magic.

“Hello Lily, a ticket for your friend?”

She heard a voice say, when it got to their turn on the queue.

She turned around to see who must have asked the question, but she found no one that would have done that. The people behind them were just chattering about some magic spell that they had managed to master the previous day.

Before she could ask Lily about it, the latter replied the invisible person.

“Yeah, and me. I am riding today.” Lily said, with a short nervous smile.

“That’s interesting. You managed to overcome your fears. Here are the tickets.” The voice said, and Emma could swear that whatever it was had a smile on.Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

She deducted that the voice belonged to the invisible voice distributing the tickets.

She would have to ask Lily later, for now they had a fear to defeat.

She took the tickets which were stretched to her on the air, and walked to the wheel with Lily who tightened her grip on her with each forwarding step they took.