Family Can Come As If By Magic

Chapter 9

When Sofia left to go play with her "cousins" she was so excited about telling them of her going to school and then eventually Hexley Hall, that she walks into something or rather someone.

"Watch where you are going!" Sofia groans when she heard the voice of one of Amber's friends, Hildegard who decided that an "Village Girl" wasn't worth her attention, even though she was told about her Papa, Cedric being her real father.

"Oh, it's you." Hildegard sneers at Sofia as the smaller girl picks herself up off the floor and greets the girl with a curtsy of respect towards her.

"Greeting, Princess Hildegard, I apologize for running into you."

Hildegard scoffs at her and brushs past her without a second glance.

Sofia shakes her head in annoyance as she watched the Princess go off somewhere in the castle.

"Sofia? Sofia! I was looking all over for you, what was taking so long."

Amber shouts as runs up to where Sofia was standing being followed by both Madeline and Jame who notice the look of annoyance and sadness on the sweet girl's face.

"What's wrong, Sof?" Jame asked.

"Princess Hildegard." Sofia said her voice laced with frustration.

"Let me guess you walked into her and she looked down at you and demanded an apology, which you gave, and she brushes pass you without another word."

Sofia nods was surprised and so was Amber who just stare at James, who shakes his head in exasperation as Madeline hugs Sofia to help her feel better.

"I'll have another talk with her again, she doesn't seem to get that you are family and that you are to be treated with same respect and loyalty as anyone else."

Amber sighs as James pulls her in for a side hug and smiles at her as a way of comforting his sister.

"Come on, let's go play." Madeline said as she takes Sofia's hand and the foursome were off to go play, completely forget about Hildegard as they reach the gardens.

Jame reaches out to take Sofia's other hand and takes Amber's hand in his other, while Amber takes Madeline's other hand in her own and they formed a circle and to dance and skip around, laughing with eachother, until they decided to do something else, but after a while of not coming up with anything Madeline turns to Sofia and asked.

"What do you want to play with Sofia?"

Sofia looks around the large garden at the actives and games that was layed out and spotted the Dazzleball, she went over to it and gave it a mighty kick into the air watching in awe as it changed into a football, soccer ball and frizzbe, before turning back into a soccer, which made her catch with her hands to avoid it hitting her head.

"Dazzleball, good choice." James said as he stood by his smaller cousin, smiling and rolles his eyes he saw that Amber made her way to the Art and Crafts table always say that she wanted to keep her dress clean and make a new fan in the process, Madeline stays and plays with them, not caring about her dress getting dirty.

For the next few hours Sofia played Dazzleball with both James and Madeline until she was to tired to play anymore and decided to take break and went over the Arts and Crafts table and started make fans with Amber who was joined by James and Madeline, as they made their own unique fans and as a surprise for Cedric, Sofia made him fan, paint a dark purple with wands painted on each side with various green and yellow sparks around them and image of a black raven in center.

"I hope Papa will like the fan I made for him."

"He will love anything you make him, because it came from the heart." Madeline said as she remembers her mother saying something similar.

"I am sure that he love it, stop dounting yourself okay. Sofia." Amber said with confindence as Jame nodded in agreement.

"Well, I had fun today we should to do it again soon, have a good evening, see you two at dinner. Goodnight!" Madeline said as she was heading go to her room and rest until dinner.

"Goodnight." The twin said unison making all them all laugh before they parted ways.

But instead of going to her room, she decided to go check in on her Papa and see if he has eaten yet.

Opening the door to the tower, she spots her Papa asleep at his desk which was covered with random pieces of paper with the odd book here and there, shakes her head with a fond smile and quietly walks up to him and gently pokes his shoulder, which did nothing, so she did again only this time harder, only for him to swat it away before resuming snoring.

Sofia pouts, but then it quickly turns into a smile of mischief that all parents dreaded as she had an idea.

Putting the fan that she made for him down beside him, she runs to her room, grabs her wand and then goes back up the stairs and into the tower and with simple wave of her wand she change her voice to sound like the King.

"Persequor, King Rolan."

"Cedric! I need you to make some potions at once!"

Cedric opened his eyes and shot up out of his chair, knocking it too the floor as he heard the strict voice of the King.

"Right away sire?"

Cedric was still sluggish from his abrupt waken and when he heard laughing coming from his right, he saw not the King, but his daughter Sofia who was bend over laughing as the voice spell was gone the moment she said the counter.

Rubbing his eyes slightly, he gave the girl an half hearted glare as he waited for her to stop laughing.

"You should seen the look on your face. HAHAHAHA!"

Cedric, now more wake just rolls his eyes and smiles alittle at prank she pulled on him, even though most parents would scold their child for it, he didn't mind it as long as she didn't do it to harm or bully anyone out of revenge or spite, he was fine with alittle harmless pranking every now and then.

"Yes, yes, it was very funny, now tell me what is that you need of me to give me such a heart attack."

Sofia stops laughing and shows him the fan that she made for him.

Cedric was amazing at the detail that went into it and smile warmly, embracing Sofia tightly, which she returns wholeheartly.

After a having dinner, Sofia was yawning and Cedric simply picks her up and brings her into the living room and after he sat down he laids Sofia down on the couch put her head in his lap and gently runs his hand through it through her dark brown hair, watching her multi colored eyes started to droop in exhaustion as the playing outside and pranking her Papa caught up with her and soon she was asleep and Cedric was not far behind and with a quick wave of his wand he conjunors some blankets and covers them both, before succumbing to sleep onces more, and his last thought being.

'I am a lucky man.'