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To become a magician is one of my dreams. I got astonished for the first time by a warlock's performance, he was a man dressed in white, wore hat and a single eye glass on right. He just stood there on the stage, talked about something nonsense, I didn’t even think it was a joke. One by one, some pigeons came to him, he put them on his body while he was talking, first on his shoulder, head, hands and so on until all his body covered by the countless doves. Then, in a finger snapping, all the birds flied together and the magician was no more to be seen anywhere on the stage.  

I couldn’t hide my amazement. That was very cool. I knew he used a trick but that was a way too impressive. If only I could find out his trick was, I must be able to perform. Later, I had been searching of the tricks. One day I found a simple trick to perform in front of my audiences, my dad and little bro, the most loyal men in this world.

In the dining room we gathered. I cleaned up stuffs and foods on dining table and left it only covered by tablecloth. They were sitting in front of me with bored smiling face I read it as “The hell will you doing here, you waste my time anyway.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you a great magic trick you ever see” I opened the show.

“Go ahead whatever ya do’in, Conjurer!” said my bro not even hide his sarcasm resulted a burst of laught my dad seemed to hold it I didn’t know since when.  I threw him a stare ‘why you so mean, papa?!’ and he suddenly stopped, realized his mistake.

“Alright, let me start”I showed them a coin “I will make this disappear.”

I put it on the table and took a translucent glass, covered the coin by it.

“You still can see the coin, through the glass. So...” I took a sheet of an old newspaper and covered the outer glass by it. I pressed the paper so it looked like the glass’s form.  “Now you can’t see the coin.”

I took the covered glass off and on to make sure I wasn’t tricked them and the coin still there.

“Well, after this the coin will disappear” I moved my hand like a clairevoyant and chanted a spell, I could see my dad and bro payed more attention now.

“Abrakadava!” I took off the glass, boo! The coin still there and I got frustated.

“Eeeeh, how could this coin still there??! What’s wrong??” I murmured.

My audience’s reaction just a ‘meh’.

“Okay, I will repeate again, this time will work. Papa! Watch this!” I said angrily for seeing him averted his head into turned on tv.

I repeated the exact same trick, failed again. My bro yawned and I got more frustated. The third time I did the trick, instead took off the glass from coin, I smacked the covered glass, it startled my dad and bro that the glass was no more there, I just smacked the paper. For seeing them got surprised, I squeezed the paper with a lot of confidence and threw it to garbage near me.

My audiences clapped their hands, gave me an applause. I stood up to bow but I forgot there was a glass on my lap, it slide away from my lap and fell on the floor caused a noise of cracking. There was a silent before storm. My face turned red, my dad and my bro ran out of words when we all heard a scream of mum “WHO’S BREAKING GLASS??”