Alex looked at herself in the mirror. She lazily pointed at her hair and it swept itself up into a ponytail. ‘Hmm.’ She liked the ponytail but the color wasn’t right. She wasn’t feeling all blah like brown today. ‘How about…?’ She pointed at her hair again and the color changed from brown to a bright, electric blue. “That’s better.” She nodded at the mirror and it walked away and tucked itself back in her closet. Laying back on her bed, she wondered what Lacey was doing. It was daytime and not a school day so she was probably making out with Peter, again. Alex rolled over and flipped through channels on the TV. Imagine that: nothing. Even when you were an elf life was boring. She considered making her ears pointed like they used to be but was too lazy even to point her finger and use magic.

“Urf!”

Alex froze. That wasn’t the groan of annoyance she was going to make. It sounded like someone had stubbed their toe. Someone coming out of a closet. A closet no one had been in. She turned around and saw…