Happy Birthday Alex!!!!!!

Boom.

There was a moment of silence and then,

Smash!!!!

I was very scared and hid behind the curtains.

The door was hit with great force and crashed-landed on the flat floor.

I saw a small of a man. He had a very long, curled beard that almost his full face was invisible.

I warned him not to come inside. But suddenly, he asked,

'You are Alex, aren't you?'

'Yes, I'm b-b-b ut'

'Don't be scared…'

He bowed down, but one second, what was the need of bowing down? He was so small that he could have even fitted in a refrigerator.

Finally, he came in, pulled the door and put it easily back into its frame.

The noise of the hurricane dropped a little bit.

He then turned around and saw the books, furniture and everything in my house.

'Beautiful, it has changed a lot.' He said in a low voice

'Excuse me, what did you just say?'

'Ummmm nothing, leave it.'

'An' so you're Alex '

When I looked into his wild, terrifying, and shadowy face, I noticed he was smiling.

I thought that he was not that scary. And I was finally comfortable and was less scared.

'Couldn't make us both a cup o' tea, you could, right? '

'Uh, of course'

He sat on a chair which was next to the kitchen and continued…

'The time when I saw you were just a two-year-old boy. Everyone thought you were just like your father, but you have got your face like your mum '

I was quiet.

'By the way, Alex happy birthday, yeh'

'Thanks'

'I've got something for you.'

'Seriously?' I asked him to give him his cup of tea.

From his inside pocket of his coat, he took out a slightly squashed, actually, very much squashed box.

I opened it with my shaking or trembling fingers.

Inside was a water licking, large, sticky vanilla ice-cream cake with Happy Birthday written on it.

'Thanks'

Suddenly, questions started arising in my mind.

I then asked him,

'Who are you?'

The small of a man giggled and started,

'If you're asking, yes, I haven't introduced myself; my name is Lubes Bill.'

'So, Alex, what about the tea, then?' he asked, shaking his hand. See, I am not gon na waste the tea, so, let '

Before he could finish his words, I yelled 'Ok, sure'

'Do you know about it?'

'About what'

'You really don't know about it.'

'But about what'

'You, you really don't know about it' he flared in an angry voice

'Are you even going to tell me what I should know?'

'About Owl's'

'Why should I care about them?'Am I going to be an owl-keeper? '

'Uh hun, about Owl's school'

'Yes, but what, are you going to make me an owl-keeper in Owl's school?

'No, now listen to me carefully, did you receive a message on your phone?'

'Yes, but not just one but a bunch of them'

'Ok, did you read them or just one of them?'

'In which it was stated that I was being invited to the Owl's'

'Yeh'

'But I still don't understand, who are you?'

The small man took a small sip of the tea and spoke,

'Call me Bill as everyone calls me by this name, and I am the head of the house Cosrinfor'

'Fine'

'Hey Alex, did you know your parents and you are really famous?'

'Are you making fun of me?I don't even know who my parents are, and how come I am famous? '

'Don't you know you are a bewitch and your parents' names were Emilia Jonas and Roderigo Jonas? '

'Um no, leave it'

'Yeh'

'Just answer me, will you sleep here in my home, or are you going to sleep somewhere else? '

'You ask a lot of questions. If you let me sleep in your house, I will sleep here, otherwise I am going to sleep somewhere else '

'Ya, sure you can sleep here'

'Oh! How can I forget what was my main purpose for coming here? '

'And what was that?'

'Here is a letter from our head master, Albert Abraham Sir.'

I opened the envelope, which was golden-yellow in color on which some daffodils of red, blue, orange, green and yellow color were drawn.

Here is what was written in the letter-

Owls School of Bewitchery

Head Master: Albert Abraham

Dear Mr. Jonas,

We are elated to inform you that we have a place for you in our school 'Owls'. Please find a list of the books and uniforms. The session begins on 31st July. We will be waiting for your owl no later than 31st January.

Desdemona Mago

Headmistress of Owls

Questions were exploding and exploding in my mind. Later, I inquired of the colossus, 'Which owl do they want?'

He kicked the sofa so hard that it could just have broken into pieces if the kick was a little harder. At that time, I wondered if he could even break a wrestler into small pieces. He took out a real live, cute owl and gave it to me in a jiffy by saying, 'This is your owl, and you have to take care of it. It will never run away but also never bite you. '

It was really astonishing. I really liked the owl very much for the first time.

Then, he took out a small piece of paper from his coat and wrote-

Dear Mr. Abraham,

I have given Alex his letter and also take him to the world of bewitchery to buy his things for the school. It is really raining heavily outside. I hope you and the other teachers are fine.

Yours truly,

Lubes Bill

He then rolled it and gave it to my owl and sent him to Owls in the running storm.

'This is all. But do you want to know about your parents in short? '

'Why not' I exclaimed.

'I will only tell you how they died'

'Yes, OK, fine, sure'

'Your parents went with a lot of people on a holiday, leaving you with me. They died in an accident when they were coming back from their holiday.

I cried hard. The small man made me stop crying.

'Let's now go to sleep as tomorrow we need to wake up early in the morning, so, we can go to buy your school stuff.'

I slept without uttering a word.

The sun rose.

I woke up and saw that Bill was already ready. He was doing prayers. I got ready as fast as I could. I greeted him with a good morning. He did the same. I asked him,

'What do you want to eat for breakfast?'

'Don't worry, just come with me'

He put his hand on my eyes. I could feel the warmth. He then led me to the dining hall and removed his hand from my eyes. What I saw was stunning!!! The room was decorated with lots of balloons, decorative materials, the food was served nicely. I hugged Bill tight,

'Thank you, Bill. Thank you very much. ' I said

'Now, let's eat the food fast, ok?'

'Roger'

The food did not just look good, it was really delicious.

'I haven't eaten so much delicious food ever; this is my best birthday'