"I couldn't imagine what my life would be like if I didn't have my two best friends in it" I thought to myself.
"Hey!" Amanda called to me, snapping me out of my thoughts. "Is it all good?"
I knew she was asking if I had completed the spell.
"Yes." I answered. "No one will be able to tell you are having a fire."
"Great!" She said. "Sure you won't change your mind?"
"No." I told her. "I am going to get ready for bed. Good night!"
"Good night!" They courased in unison.
As I turned to walk away from them, they were working together to start the fire. It would be easy for me to do. I could snap my fingers and the fire would be lit. But they enjoyed the challenge, so I let them have their fun getting the fire going the human way.
Besides, I had no worries that anything would ever get out of hand. The spell I cast hid the fire from everyone else but them and me, and so there was no danger of anyone calling the fire department on them.
The other spell, the one they didn't know I cast, was a containment spell and ensured the fire could only survive in the fire pit. There would be no chance of setting the whole backyard on fire, even though there was currently a fire ban, and everything was very dry.
I opened the sliding glass back door, entered, and closed it behind me. As I walked by the kitchen, I glanced at the clock on the microwave.
It was pretty late. I smiled as I thought about my friends. I knew that they would not be going to sleep anytime soon. Getting that pair of night owls to go to sleep at a reasonable hour on a Friday night, was like asking Earth's gravity to change its mind and reverse the pull. At this thought, I actually giggled aloud.
Continuing past the kitchen, I walked further down the hallway to the stairs that led to the second floor. I started climbing the stairs, my thoughts unconsciously turning to my brother. I wondered if he was ok, if my family was ok. I wondered what he was like now. It was five years since I last saw him or my family. When I left, he was 15. He would be 20 now.
I found myself paused in my ascent, standing on the landing at the top of the stairs. Though I knew I had much to be grateful, and happy for, at this moment, I felt a melancholic sadness creeping in. I turned to the left and entered the bathroom and started getting ready for bed. Twenty minutes later, I was in my room, lying on my bed, feeling both very sad and like I was about to cry. I took a deep breath and started to pray, as the first tears ran down my cheeks. I have no idea if I even finished my prayer, because the next thing I remember was no longer in the waking world. I was in a dream.