Sometimes, nothing is enough.
Only once and a while do I ever sit down and think about life. What's the point, really? Why sit around and think about life when you could be experiencing it, right? That's what life is: experiences. Life is one big experience. My name is Alexandra Margarita Russo, and I have one hell of a big boat of experiences shipping my way.
My experiences sometimes are different from, say, my best friend, Harper. Harper is, for lack of a better word, eccentric. She makes her own clothes out of plastic (and sometimes real) fruit, her hair is the color of red crayon, and she's so pale that you wonder if she has ever gone outside in her life. She lives with us, or rather my family, because her family moved away. Black sheep of the family? Yes, definitely. We're an Italian-Hispanic family, and to top it off, we also happen to be Wizards.
I'm not lying.
I suppose that could be a reason my mom and Harper get along so well. My mom isn't a Wizard either. She's a mortal, and she married my dad, which is not necessarily the reason my dad doesn't have his powers anymore, but it plays a good part in it. We can get to that later. But my dad teaches my brothers Justin and Max, and myself, magic, even if he doesn't have powers himself. We're a big, weird, magical family and we wouldn't have it any other way.
I don't live with my family any more. Well, that's not true. I pop in from time to time for my Wizard lessons and nights that my mom wants to have family dinner. But I live in Hollywood, California and I act on a show called So Random. Heard of it? I didn't think so. I live in a magically built room hidden behind a plastic fake sarcophagus and between acting, school, and magic lessons, I'm making out with my co-star Sonny Monroe. She's a girl. Yeah.
It's new, Sonny and I. We're new. When I first met her, I wasn't sure about her. Sooner than later, I was falling in love. Too soon, a wall was falling on us, literally. Megan, my dad's estranged sister, decided she wanted my magic. Did I mention that I have some weird funky out of this world magic thing going on with my body? Oh yeah, big old family curse. Megan's still out there. Does it scare me? Well, hell yeah. But it scares me more that Sonny is a target. Justin insists that Sonny will be okay, but when have I ever listened to Justin?
To answer your questions: no, my mom and dad don't know about Sonny and I. Why? Because I would be in the first portal home, and not because my parents are homophobic, but because I have my own 'home' of whatever proportion in California where Sonny can stay at any time of the day (or night, which would pop in their brains real soon). Sure, I could pull the whole, Mom, it's not like I can get pregnant, thing, but why not avoid it all together? Yeah, that sounds like a much better plan. I'd like to experience life a little more before my mom comes at me with a kitchen knife and my dad locks me in the magic lair for a month without junk food.
Regardless of what my parents know or don't know, I'm enjoying my life. The air in L.A has a grungy, bad after-taste, smoggy likeness, and my cast members have become a family away from my family, which is both an incentive to stay and an incentive to leave now, don't look back, and run back to New York. And Sonny is another part of my life entirely. She's mixed into my two worlds now, although I'm still trying to decide if that's safe or not. Megan is out there, waiting, cooking up a scheme, stealing someone's magic, doing something to try and get to me.
Life doesn't stop for her though. I have three skits to film in the next hour, a date with Sonny tonight, a wizard lesson tomorrow with my dad, and a secret private lesson with Justin as we try to figure out how to break this godforsaken curse that is controlling my entire life from now until we stop Megan.
Or until I die.
I try not to think about that.
My name is Alexandra Margarita Russo, and I could die today, or tomorrow, and I might be bringing the people I love with me.
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