Josh walked down the sidewalk on the way from his house to town. He did'nt have to work that night at the movies because Helen gave him the day off...for once!
"Man! I can't believe I'm already alone on my birthday, I wonder what this new magic shop looks like...?", Josh said as he looked at the card thats read: "Grace's Magic shop, home of spells, magic tricks, potions, and fortune telling", located on 237 Bran Street.
"It better be good...I don't really remember them mentioning in the newspaper about a new magic shop, its like it came out of nowhere!", Josh wondered as he looked at the sun that was setting behind a couple of clouds.
Josh finally reached the magic shop which was located next to a coffe shop and examined it. The building was the color black and in purple letters it read:"Grace's Magic Shop".
"This must be the place!", Josh said as he pushed the door open hearing a bell chime as he went in. The place smelled of sand and dust, but as he kept walking further into the shop he could smell roses, obviously coming from scented candles. The place was mystical, there were candles lit everywhere, red curtains were drawn from the two windows from the front of the shop and on the shelves he saw lots of little bottles in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and colors. To his suprise, the place seemed deserted.
"Hello?...Hello! Anyone here!?", Josh asked outloud as he kept examining the shop. He looked over at the front desk where there seemed to be lots of books and a strange jar with something in it. He saw the cash register and saw a backdoor behind the front desk, but still noone came out. He turned to exit the shop, but a voice from behind stopped him.
"Can I help you young man?", Josh turned around to see a woman. She had a red capelike coat on with alot of siver chains and necklaces and looked short. She looked old, but not to old. She looked like she was in her late 40's, early 50's. She had her hair wrapped in a bandanna-like cloth and had blaring blue eyes.
"Uh...yea. My dad told me about this new magic shop in town and he gave me uh, uh coupon or something so I can get one thing free from here.", Josh said nervously, he was alittle shakey from the way the old woman stared at him.
"Hmm...Is that right?", the woman said eyeing Josh suspiously as Josh gave her a quick nod.
"I was wondering if you had an cooltastic magic tricks I could buy?", Josh asked.
"You don't buy magic tricks, you learn them, embrace them...make them part of your talents..", she said picking up some old books and blowing the dust off of them.
"Umm...so you don't have any?", Josh asked.
"Not any you would like...but I could give you a free fortune telling to tell you what happened in your past to prove I could tell your future", the woman stacked the books she was holding onto a shelf.
"So...if you then can give me some descriptions of my past...and I believe you...you could tell me my future and you would be right?", Josh asked excited.
"...yes..", the woman said looking back at Josh.
"Alright! I'm in for a little maaaaaaaaaaaagic!", Josh said excitingly going through a back door with two chairs and a crystal ball in the middle of a small table.
"Right...sit down boy...", the woman sat in one of the chairs while Josh sat in the one across from her.
"Oh! This is gonna be great!", Josh said looking at the crystal ball closely, poking at it when the woman slapped his hand away.
"No no no...do not touch!", the woman said waving a finger in the air. Josh rubbed his hand slightly.
"Okay eh...Josh! Time to predict what the future has for you!", the woman said gazing at the crystal ball and a unsure Josh.
Ok! Thats it for this chapter! The next one will get better! Promise!