MAGIC

"Do you guys believe in magic?" Adson asks Ayden and Aimine as they have their breakfast.

"if it’s the one where you make Aimine's cookies disappear from her plate then am not interested, unless it has to do with fairies, flying and super powers" Ayden replies. Aimine only looks from one to the other of her brothers and continues to study her breakfast, her meal consists of ginger bread, omelette, smoked ground nuts and a cup of warm milk.

"I can warm my cold milk with my hands and it becomes hot" Adson smiles contentedly to his brother, "see". He puts both his fingers around his fingers and surely steam starts to pop out of his mug. "That’s probably because you went and refilled your mug in the kitchen with hot milk." his brother Ayden protests.

"Here have mine and we see if you can warm it" Ayden hands his yellow mug to his brother to see if his milk will be hot like for his brother. Two minutes later, Ayden's milk is only colder than it had been before his brother claimed he could make it warm.

"You’re being strange these days" the concerned older brother says. "Like how you got to that giant ice cream cone poster"

"I could swear my tea got hot when I put my hands around and whispered please be warm" he tries to make his siblings see the truth in what he was saying. Their verbal fight is interrupted by their mother's voice reminding them that whoever has not finished breakfast won’t be going with her to the airport to receive their father at the airport, he had gone to Victoria Falls for a work related trip.

"Dad, do you know Adson jumped in the mall and caught a thief" Aimine starts narrating to her father on their way back home. The dad listens half attentively from the front seat as his four year old daughter in the back seat narrates the events that took place two days back. "The man in the office even gave him a money card to buy anything in the mall" She concludes. "Am sure that was quite an adventure" her father Asaph responds keeping the matter cool while making a mental note to find out the details of the events when he gets home. His troublesome son is always looking for a reason to be the centre of attention.

"Why does it smell like rotten eggs in here?" Adson asks holding his nose. "Mom, think Ayden is at it again" he says. Ayden immediately elbows him in the ribs for the wrong accusation. "It’s not that every time someone farts, that it has to be me. Besides it’s only your nose smelling it so it must be inside your rotten stomach." Ayden retorts. "Enough boys, Adson why don't you lower the window and you stop bothering Ayden" their mother says without taking her eyes off the road. Adson lowers the window glass to breathe in fresh air, but instead the stench grows stronger. To his dismay no one else in the car seems to be irritated by the pungent smell, he looks around to see his little sister comfortably playing her water game on the other side of the car. His elder brother seems to be fascinated by something written on the billboard. His parents in front are humming to a local song on the radio as his father scrolls through his phone. Adson lowers the window glass to a level similar to that of his father and tries to identify what could be the root cause of the smell.

the cars have begun to crumple up in the rush to get back home, familiar with these streets and the robberies that take place in jam, Mr Asaph Baines raises his window glass back up just in time before the thief that had watching him closely from a few feet snatched his phone from his hands.

"I think that rugged man passing was the cause of the smell" Adson thinks. "Then i guess you should put back your window seal up, and i had eggs on my flight but i doubt they smelt that bad." Asaph replies jokingly.

When their car pulled in the drive, they found two police officers who identified themselves as Peter and Paul waiting for them at the front porch. Adson identified them as the two police officers who were at the mall. Mr Baines greeted and attended to them as the rest of the family entered the house. Adson's heart was beating so fast cause he knew very well it is him they had come for though he didn't know what his crime was.

The two officers informed Asaph that the man his son had helped arrest at the mall disappeared from the police station and they were here to ask the boy a few questions. Asaph made it very clear that there was no way he was going to allow the police blame their incompetence on his son and for inquiries they had to go to his lawyer.

When they left he begged the boy to stay out of trouble.