do you want to be a wizard? (:

i opened up the vault for this. i wrote this (and never finished it) in the beginning of fifth grade when i was obsessed with the book series "So You Want To Be A Wizard".

so here it is:

Do you want to be a wizard?

Chapter 1

Hello my name is Alyssa Mcaverage and well I am average, but on this day I wasn’t. I was running from some bullies when I stumbled upon a book. This book was no ordinary book for I would never be the same. Good-bye average!

I got down on my knees and picked up the book, I knew I had out run them for at least a half a mile. One of those people were my former best friend, her name was Mattie Patterson. She has been making fun of me ever since I got braces. I don’t have many friends so she likes to throw it in my face.

I picked up the book and ducked into an alley to take a look at the book. When I opened up the book I felt a sensational feeling of eagerness to read and flip the pages. Then I flipped back to the cover and the title was Do You Want to Be a Wizard? I couldn’t believe it, I put the book in my backpack and headed for home.

When I got home I headed straight for my room. My mom asked ‘‘what’s the rush, dinners almost ready.”

My sister Dari mimicked me and said ‘‘so did ‘ya beat ‘em up?”

At this my dad spoke up and said ‘‘Dari just because you want to be a jetti knight doesn’t mean your sister has to be one too.”

Then I spoke up and said ‘‘can I just go to my room and read?!?”

‘‘Okay sweetheart but not too long or your food will get cold.” My mom said.

I went up to look at the book. It opened up to a page with small bold letters on it. I read it to myself again, and again. Then I read it out loud, the wizard’s oath.

In life’s name and for life’s sake

I promise to keep the world safe

Battle the creatures

Fight the sea,

For I am a wizard as you see.

Then I flipped to the beginning and I just started reading when my mom called up to me ‘‘dinners ready.’’

CHAPTER2

At the dinner table Alyssa and her folks were eating pork chops when suddenly Alyssa thought of a good idea. She said to her family

‘‘Can I be excused? I have a reading assignment to do.’’