I was awoken to the sound of someone saying something along the lines of “Taylor, you got to wake up!” and the feeling of whomever it was shaking me from my slumber. When I opened my eyes, I saw that the someone was Mattie, my best friend or ‘moirail’, a name for your best, best friend which we got from a certain web comic we enjoy reading. 

“Huh? What time is it?” I asked as I sat up. 

“About time that we left, the buses will leave in about a minute! So come on already!” she dragged me out the door. 

The sun was as bright as our lives looked at this point of the year. The air was heavy with heat, humidity, and the smell of flowers. It was, after all, the last day of school, so most people had left by now. We got on the bus without any problems and took off towards her house, talking about plans for our sleepover that night. 

“Have you heard about the carnival in town? We should check it out!” she smiled. 

After we had gotten to her house we played a couple games on her Wii, but, after a while, switched to watching TV because of some frustration on the other father boss level of Coraline. 

“If you could live in any world you wanted, where would you live?” I asked randomly during a commercial break of Teenaged Mutant Ninja turtles. 

“You seriously want me to choose?! I guess… maybe, Hetalia, because of all the cute boys.” 

“I may have chosen Harry Potter or Homestuck or something…” 

“Pffft- you’d only go into the Homestuck universe because of Eridan Ampora~” 

“I- it’s not like you didn’t just say that you’d go into the Hetalia for the cute boys!” 

After awhile Mattie’s parents got home and said that they were thinking about going to the carnival. So, here we are, standing in front of the entrance. Mattie’s parents said to meet back at the entrance at 6:30 so we could go get pizza and get back home in time to watch for them to watch The Wizard of Oz before going to bed at a reasonable time. 

“So, we have an hour and a half… what do you want to do?” I asked Mattie, as we walked to a spot to look at the map they gave us when we paid at the entrance. 

“How about the Go-karts?” she pointed at the map,” They’re always fun.” 

“Okay, and after that we can go and see whatever’s close by…” 

“Seems fine to me!” 

We walked to the area where the Go-karts were, but apparently some accident went on with a kid, a large soda, and some haywire kart. We walked away disappointed, but then I noticed something that we didn’t see before… a fortune- telling booth or... I guess more of a tent? 

“Hey, Mattie, what about that one?” I pointed towards the tent. 

“Sure, but quick question, Taylor, what’s up with us and magic?” 

“Don’t you want a little bit of magic to exist?” I asked as we neared the tent. 

“Well, if magic’s what you want… I can help you there…” a voice called out to us,” but, I’m sorry to tell you this, but you’re late… for this very important date…”