"How are you so good at music?" Lisa questions, tugging at my shirt
"I don't know I've never played piano before." I giggle.
Lisa raises her eyebrows at me and looks me up and down before releasing her grip on my shirt.
"Are you lying to me Miss Black?" She asks.
I bite my lip and lean in close to her; much like my mother does to me.
"Of course not Miss Rouge," I laugh.
"Well, if you're not lying to me, you're very good and if that's your first time playing piano your like really talented Annealeise do you have a keyboard or piano at home?" She whispers.
I shake my head, "No, we don't have any musical instruments at all, none of my family play musical instruments," I tell her.
"You should start learning, don't let your talent go to waste, look the bus is here I'll see you tomorrow." She says, pulling me into a hug.
"Bye," I say waving goodbye as Lisa gets into a car and drives off. I climb up onto the bus and take a seat, for the first day of school it wasn't bad at all, I made a friend who is probably the nicest person I've ever known and I found out I have a talent in something about from magic.
The bus journey back to my house was roughly ten minutes, and I spent those ten minutes thinking about how I was going to beg my parents for a piano.
I finally arrived home and I was pleased to see my mother waiting at the front door for me, I rushed off the bus, bidding goodbye to a few of the children I met during class and ran into my mothers arms, she hugged me back and laughed. I was just about to enter the house when my mother grabbed me by the arm, taking me by surprise.
"What," I ask my expression full of shock.
"Your father and I have one or two surprises for you sweetie." My mother says gently.
I gasp and my mother takes my hand and leads me into the back of the garden where I see a large box like stable,
"What is it?" I whisper "Is this my surprise?"
"Well half of it," My mother whispers
And then just on queue my father walks out grasping some blue rope in his left hand, and behind him trailing a tiny creature. I gasped and looked up at my mother in disbelief, my mother had gotten me a horse, a Gypsy Vanner at that, even for a foal he was big and broad I ran over to my father and reached my hand out and stroked his soft forehead.
"What are you going to call him?" My father asks, kneeling down to my height and handing me the rope.
"Midnight," I whisper, leaning in to kiss his soft nose.
"Midnight…" My father says, testing the name. "Yes, I like that name."
I lead Midnight over to the stable and place him in; making sure that there was plenty of food and water for him overnight, I couldn't help but feel this massive feeling off excitement, maybe living in this new neighbourhood could be a good thing but there was something that couldn't quite name that didn't feel right, gifts without a reason weren't normal with my family.
"Mum," I ask.
"Yes princess," She replies
"Why do I get a horse, what's going on?"
"Well, a few things," My mother sighs.
"Like," I whisper.
"Well, first of all, your Uncle Miko got a dog so it only seemed fair, I got a witches cat to help with my magic, and yours too you know witches cats can be very helpful for Witches and there is one last thing…" My mother mumbled.
"What is it mum?" I whispered scared by her sudden pause.
"I'm pregnant…." She smiles. "You're going to have another baby brother or sister."