Beep beep beep beep beep went the alarm clock. Another day of school? Where did the weekend go? Where’s the snooze button? I thought as I felt for the alarm clock. Half asleep I watched the clock slam against the wall and shatter without being touched. I must be seeing things.

As I got up and walked to the closet to get my clothes, the closet opened by itself as if it knew what I wanted. First a shirt, then a pair of pants came towards me as they laid themselves on the bed. Okay what’s going on? “MOM!”

She said as she entered my room. “Yes Honey?”

I looked around “have you noticed anything weird lately?”

She looked around the room and notices the alarm clock on the floor. As a huge smile came on her face, she said “Your Powers came in!”

She waved her hand in the direction of the clock as if magic it was fixed. Then it floated back to the nightstand. She came over and sat on the bed.

“What was that? How did you do that? ” I asked.

“My powers. I’ve been meaning to tell you sooner but I didn’t know how. You come from a line of wizards. Everyone receives their powers at the age of sixteen and since this is your sixteenth birthday. You have your powers. I didn’t want to tell you so soon. I was going to tell you over breakfast. Now finish getting ready I made pancakes, if you have any questions you just have to ask” My mother explained.

“I do have one question. How does it work?” I questioned.

“Just think about what you want and it should happen. It’s going to take some practice though before you can control it. You will be able to do all sorts of things” said my mom as she patted my leg and left the room.

Just think about it, well that explains the alarm clock. Now let’s see, alarm clock float. I thought as I held my hand out.
Nothing.

Ok this might be harder than I thought. I’ll have to get help I realized as I put my clothes on and walked out of the room. There my family was waiting for me. My dad pipes up “Hey son, have a sit we need to talk.”

“Okay, I know you are probably wondering why we keep this from you, aren’t you” said my dad.

“A little bit, how can you keep something like that from me? That’s a part of my life that you kept secret!” I asked.

“Well to answer that, we weren’t allowed to. Its wizard law to make you live a normal life until your powers come in so you can experience what it’s like to be human.” said my mom.

“ so every wizard can’t know where they came from until they’re about to leave the house and start a new life? That doesn’t seem right” frustrated I said as I shook my head.

“I know it doesn’t but if we didn’t keep it from you and they found out we could have our powers taken away and be thrown in wizard jail.” said my mom as she looked down at her plate with shame “I’m sorry. I wanted to tell you, I really did, but I also wanted you to experience a life with powers.”

“Why do they make such a big deal out of something so simple?’ I asked.

“Well, kids are often uncontrollable. They start to think that since they will be a wizard that they can do whatever they want, which isn’t the case. Without self control the whole wizard world could be exposed.” stated my mom.

“There’s a wizard world?” I said even more confused than before. I asked with wonder “What are the rules? How many more wizards are out there?”

“Well to tell you the truth, about a quarter of the world’s population.” My mom said with a laugh as she looked for the syrup, not seeing any she opens the cabinet with the flick of her wrist and floated the bottle to the table.

“A quarter!? How do you keep a quarter of the world’s population a secret?” I practically yelled with surprise. “You have to teach me how to do that”

“As long as you don’t use magic in front of others, fairly easy actually” my mom said with a sigh. “That’s pretty much the rules don’t expose us to the human world even when you’re first learning your powers. That means try to keep it on the down low today. I know you don’t realize how it works yet but you can make things happen without realizing it.”

“Like the alarm clock?” I asked.

“Yes like the alarm clock,” said my mom understandingly.

“So how did it all start? I mean, like wizards in general,” I questioned. “Dad, why aren’t you saying anything?”

“I’m not a wizard, just mortal. I married into your mother’s wizard family,” said my dad with a sad look.

“Oh honey, you know I love you anyway,” said my mom with an understanding look. “I’m not really sure how we came about actually I just know we’re here existing today.”

“So you’re a wizard,” I said pointing to my mom.

“And you’re mortal,” I said pointing to my dad.

‘Yes that’s correct,” said my dad.

“Go to school now, but please try to act like nothing’s changed. And don’t try anything stupid; actually don’t try anything at all,” said my mom with a fierce look on her face.

“I Promise I won’t try anything.” I said as I kissed my mom and dad goodbye and walked out the door.