CHAPTER TWO

The key

Sunday. October 14, 2012.

12:30 p.m.

I looked at the date in my smart phone. Behind the date, I looked at the Sakura wallpaper. I always had a wish to be like her. To live a life of adventure, magic and true love happening once. Actually, it was useless wishing for such a hopeless thing.

Sunday. We were supposed to go out today, my old friends and me. But now I'm stuck in this heavy traffic in the city and getting ill roasted, all on one side, after our hectic math tuition.

I'm tired, tired of this everyday routine. I want something new, something different.

Today is Sunday, and I hate Sundays because of Monday. I'm at the top of the world when there's a strike or holiday after or before a weekend. Even so, I plan so much and end up doing nothing. In three words, I am lazy.

I was so lost in my boring world that I didn't realize that the car had stopped and Daisy had been looking at me. I reached home. Nothing is better than returning home after using up some part of your brain thinking and thinking.

Today evening our English teacher won't teach so that means extra time for my beauty sleep.

I can feel a faint light falling on my face. I don't want to get up. I cover my face with my pillow. I can hear a light chirp-chirp somewhere. Weird, birds don't party at night. I shot open my eyes and got up. It was already morning. I rubbed my face to see if I was imagining something, but the image became clearer. It was 5:00 in the morning. This is something very strange, how did I sleep for the whole evening yesterday? I realized something stranger; I was awake at 5 a.m. in the morning.

I ran up and down in happiness like the boy in Home Alone. Even my dogs were still asleep. Sad, I missed the sunrise, but I could still see the colors of the sky, the soft blend of saffron, light yellow and crimson near the horizon. Clouds were looking like cotton puffs floating in the sky, delicate and innocent.

I looked at the reflection of the radiant sunlight in the mirror, and found something sparking in the mirror. I leaned forward to see what it was, and found it to be coming from under my pillow.

I removed the pillow. My eyes didn't believe in what they were seeing.

Beneath my pillow there was a wooden casket. I had never seen such a beautiful antique work of art before. On the top the casket had beautiful designs and swirls which I could not understand. There was an emblem in the middle which seemed to be silver with a print which looked like a magic circle. I couldn't comprehend what was imprinted but it still looked mesmerizing.

I felt scared to hold the casket for it was not mine, and as far as I knew my birthday was still eight months away and I wouldn't get a gift so soon.

"Curiosity" I whispered and picked up the chest, and then something happened.

I don't remember what exactly happened but I threw the casket and covered my face in fright.

After encouraging myself a lot of times I finally drew back my hands and looked down.

The chest was no longer there instead there was a lump of sand. I felt scared. What if the chest was very old? And when I handled it without care, it just broke into a heap of sand?

"I'll hide this" I bent down to put the sand into a satin handkerchief. I felt something. I dusted the sand to see what it was.

It was a key.

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