Wishing Box

Wednesday 2014 april 29

Today was a normal school day, attending her regular class in a constant repetitive cycle. WHen suddenly she had bumped into one of the two usual bullies. 

"Sorry," Emma said in a quiet voice. 

"It's fine, just leave" the one with hazelnut hair responded with a lifeless face. 

Emma rushed off to her last class of the day a bit confused on why Luna's little mobster had responded in such a polite manner, for her at least. 

Her last class which felt like it had taken hours to finish but merely an hour had actually passed by was finally over, and as soon as it did she headed out of the school to one of her friends who usually waited a bit outside of the school inside a neighborhood. 

"Emma, look it's a ruby crowned kinglet!" A girl with blond hair black eyes, wearing a puffy long sleeve blue shirt, and black yoga pants shouted. Pointing at a nearby tree.

" That's cool for you Scarlett, maybe your exotic fifty five bird quest can finally come to an end soon," Emma had responded in a calm voice with a subtle smile on her face. 

"No way I am only at number 20" Scarlett had Explained

The bird obsessed girl had collected many different things like feathers or photographs from different birds. She had neatly organized them into three different categories: common, uncommon, and rare birds. She had a habit of telling everyone she knew if she ever encountered something in the rare category. 

As Scarlett and Emma chatted about their day and plans as they walked home. Emma had heard something from a different group of teenagers near her, one of them was the same girl with Luna yesterday, wearing blue jeans and a purple t-shirt.

"It's sad to hear that Luna passed away because of a heart attack, but you can't keep crying forever you know" One of the 4 girls that had surrounded her tried to comfort her. 

This news to Emma had come to her as a bit of shock. 'Luna had actually died, …wow' Emma had stood for a moment, motionless wondering if she should be happy about the fact that her bully had suddenly died. Feeling a tap on her shoulder she turned around to see Scarlett with a frown on her face.

"Hey Emma were you even listening to what I just said, I was wondering if you wanted to go to a cat cafe that had opened downtown yesterday," Scarlett announced.

"Oh uh sure why not, would you want to go tomorrow? It's kind of a busy day for me today," Emma answered. 

"alright we can go tomorrow right after school then" Scarlett shouted

A few moments later Scarlett had departed to her home, and EMma was left walking alone.

With some alone time Emma had been pondering on the fact that Luna had suddenly died 'No way Luna had actually died Yippee! No more bullying for me!' 

Emma had walked the rest of the way back home with a smirk on her face. 

Reaching her apartment Emma grabbed a drink from the fridge, and watched some tv till her mom came back. 

A few hours passed by and it was already late afternoon Emma had been watching television the entire time. A knocking sound suddenly scared her as she was watching a horror film. 

Standing still for a moment Emma contemplating what had just happened, she heard the door open to see her mom with weary eyes. 

"Emma mind making dinner today, oh yeah get the groceries to" Her mother asked in a drowsy tone. 

"No problem mom, just let me get my wallet real quick" Emma hurried to her room.

While looking for her wallet Emma tripped on the iron box in her complete forgetting it had ever existed in the first place. 

Suddenly she remembered something 'wasn't this the "wishing box", did it actually grant my wish last night?' 

Thinking about it Emma had noticed that she had been holding the wishing box when she saw Luna with one of her friends playing some game. She did say that 'I wish that Luna had just died' in her head. 

'Did I actually wish Luna to die... well good for me, that means that this wishing box is legit!' 

Closing her eyes Emma had grabbed the wishing box attempting to make another wish again 'I wish I had ten thousand dollars.'

She opened her eyes that In fact she did not have ten thousand dollars on her bed waiting for her. Emma sighed in disappointment that she had not actually found a magical wishing box, and continued to look for her wallet. She threw the iron box on her bed 

She had spotted her wallet under her bed, Emma grabbed the wallet noticing that it was a bit heavier than before, curious why Emma had opened it to see fat stacks of a hundred dollar bills.

Emma had been in a state of pure shock and joy 'It works, really works!'

She had rushed to the iron box hoping to make another wish, one to explore the whole world. She closed herself and attempted to make another wish, 'I wish that you could take me all over the world.'

She had opened her eyes to see her same bland room in front of her, Rummaging through her head thinking why it didn't work that time she had heard her mother calling her name asking her to her up. 

Emma rushed out of her room with her wallet to get some groceries. 

Five minutes later Emma had reached the store and already grabbed everything she needed to cook some cheesy beef pasta for dinner. As she was checking everything out she noticed a short old lady who had been carrying multiple bags of groceries and was about to fall over. 

Emma had rushed to help the old lady out. Catching her Emma had asked 'are you alright ma'am" 

"Oh yes, would you mind helping me carry my groceries back home" the old lady asked. 

Thinking about it for a moment Emma respond "uh, sure right I after I grab my own groceries" 

Emma had rushed to the counter to pick her groceries and picked half of the old lady's too. She had exited the building with the old woman walking the opposite direction of her house. 

"Young girl, mind if ask what your name is you can call Mrs. Zoe" the old lady inquired 

Emma's eyes had widened 'that's Luna last name! Is she her grandma' 

"Emma Rosie" Emma answered honestly