Roberto Dela Vega Books

The two young boys were fascinated by Art.  Every spare moment they had was spent spying on the local Artist in the village square who was inspired by the surrounding beauty and so day in and day out he was there adding more brush strokes of color to his canvas.  The older brother, Luigi had already been attending school and practicing on his artistic abilities, while his much younger brother wasn’t really practicing anything substantial in his school.  He was watching his Father and Grandfather doing their crafts with their bare hands, water and mud.  Once they perfected their statues then they began to sculpt either in stone, or rock.  The boys Mother and Grand Mother were well known in the village for their ability to mix herbs and heal just about any ailment known to them at the time.

The boys were just learning how to use a little of their magic.  What they would do is they would think of a place and close their eyes and concentrate and then instantly they would be there.  They never told anyone that they were able to do this.  They would get their sex education by spying on the women at the local whore house.  Well, up until they were discovered by their Uncle who was a paying customer.  He grabbed them both by their ears and dragged them out of there, up until they got outside then he kicked the both of them into the seats of their pants sending them on their way.  Once home the boys could smell the fresh foods being prepared for dinner.  Mom said “Luigi, Lucas come for dinner.”  They ran inside washed up and then sat down at the table.  Uncle walked in and they watched him whisper something into their Fathers ear.  He looked at the both of them in a stern look and then never spoke a word.  Both boys began to fidget so Grand Dad said “Boys don’t fidget!” Mom served the dinner and everyone sat down to eat.  03132011

Nothing was said to the boys about being at the whore house and getting caught by their uncle during dinner.  Rather the family talked loudly about their day and the people they had to encounter.  Grandma went on about how she had to walk into town and purchase the groceries and she’s too old to be walking that long and far. “Why can’t we buy a car? Even the Delasos down the street have a car!”  “Then you could catch a ride with the Delasos when they go into town!” Just then Lucas spoke up “Grandma I will pick up the groceries for you so you don’t have to go.  I can go there and back quickly and I really don’t mind.”  Grandma said “You’re so sweet, I love you for that.”   Lucas winked at Luigi because he knew he wouldn’t be walking to the store but teleporting there instead.  Dinner was over so the boys asked to be excused and then they ran up to their rooms to get ready for bed.  Lucas was getting out of his clothes and then he decided to hop into the bath tub.  Off of his bedroom he had his own bathroom.  It had a bath tub, separate shower and double sinks.  It also had a Bidet.  He ran his bath water and then he heard the door open.  “Who’s there?”  He hopped into the bath tub and swept the bubbles over his lap to cover himself up.  Just then his Father came in and sat down on the floor besides the tub.  He hadn’t said anything he just picked up a large soft sponge and lathered it up with soap and began to lather up Lucas’s hair.  “Son, do you want to explain to me what you were doing at that house of women?”  “Um, we were just looking at them.”  “I understand your desire to know about the female body but could you do me a favor and put it off at least until you are a little bit older? Besides you see the women’s naked body in the work that your Grandfather and I do around here.  Isn’t that enough?”  “It’s not the same Papa. I’m sorry. I won’t go back there anymore. I promise.”  His Father rinsed out his hair and then kissed the top of his head and left him alone to bath. 03132011

Lucas was showering in his bathroom and his Father walked in. “ Lucas, can I come in?”  “Yes Papa, anytime.”  “You’re uncle tells me you were at the local whore house.  Is this something I should worry about?”  Luigi peeked at him through the shower door and said “No, it’s okay we were just curious.”   “Please don’t go back there because the only thing you will find there is trouble. Okay?”  “Sorry Papa.”  He continued as he walked out “It will kill your Mother if she finds out.” The he shut the door.  Luigi got out of the shower and toweled off then got into his night shirt.  He slipped on his slippers and then ran over to Lucas’ room.  “Hey, where are you?”  “I’m in the bath.”  Luigi walked in and Lucas stood up and pulled the plug with his toes.  Luigi handed him a towel and grabbed another one to help dry his little brother off. “Did Papa talk to you?”  “Yeah, he just made me promise not to go there anymore.”  Luigi helped his little brother into his night shirt, slippers and night cap and then they both walked over to the table with an ongoing chess game on it and began playing chess. 03132011

Luigi could tell that Lucas was getting tired because he wasn’t really putting much thought into his moves like usual. “Hey go to bed I will see you in the morning.” Luigi hugged and kissed his brother and then tucked him in.  Luigi went to bed and but left the windows that lead to his private balcony open for fresh air.  He was beginning to fall asleep and he heard something out on the balcony. Just then he could see a young boy standing in the doorway.  “Hey Luigi, you awake?”   “Yeah, go take a shower and I will go to the kitchen and get you some food.”  The young boy took his shower and then put on some of Luigi’s bed clothes.  He climbed into bed.  Luigi was in the kitchen trying to get food and drink for his friend.  Grand Dad walked in and turned on the light.  “You still hungry my little man?”  “Um, no Papa it’s not for me.” “Ah, I see well tell Angelo that I said Hi.” Luigi came back in with a tray of food and set it on the night table next to the bed.  He climbed into bed beside Angelo and then fell asleep. Angelo ate and drank then he fell asleep too. 03132011

Before the boys woke up, Luigi’s Mother snuck in like she does every morning and she picked up the tray of dishes and plates and carries them down to the kitchen to clean and put away.  She had also washed, dry and folded Anthony’s clothes and put them in the bathroom on the counter with two clean towels.  The boys woke up to the smell of cooking breakfast.  They got dressed and hurried down to the kitchen.  Lucas was already dressed and at the table.  “Hi Anthony!” He stood up and hugged and kissed him.  Then Anthony hugged and kissed Dad, Papa, Grandma and Mom. Father said “You know Anthony, you should just move in. You’re here every day sleeping in my sons bed, using our shower, getting your clothes washed and eating our food.”  “Thank you Mister Mesiti.” Papa spoke up “Let’s just adopt him then he could get new clothes too.”  He winked at Angelo as he said that.  Angelo was piling in food to his mouth with both hands.  Grandma his the back of his head and motioned with her head towards the silverware.  “I will take Angelo shopping today for some new clothes.”  The boys Mother said. Everyone finished eating and Grandma and Grandpa said good byes and left for a friendly visit at a neighbors house.  Their Dad went back to work in his barn.  03132011

“Okay boys don’t tell your father about this……”  The boys Mom said and before they knew it they were at the local clothing store front door. Both Luigi and Lucas were shocked that all this time had passed and neither one of them had know this about their own Mother.  She walked the boys in and began selecting pants and shirts, with packages of underwear, socks, and t-shirts.  “Here Angelo.”  She said throwing a few pairs of pants at him “Try these on. The fitting room is back here.”  In the meanwhile the Grandparents went to visit Angelo’s Grandparents.  They were all good friends.  His parents were drown in a boating accident on a fishing trip out in the bay when he was little so the Grandparents have been taking care of him as best they could. 03132011

Angelo came out of the fitting room wearing the new jeans that fit him perfectly.  The boys Mom said "Oh my goodness you look so handsome. Okay lets get these things paid for and head back home."  He changed back into his old clothes and she took them to the register.  Once they paid for the clothes she zapped them back home and handed Angelo the bags.  She looked him in the eyes and said "Now, don’t you dare tell a single soul what you saw here today, understood?"  "Yes, and thank you."  He grabbed the bag and the boys ran upstairs to Luigi’s bedroom.  The Grandparents began to discuss what was best for Angelo.  His Grandparents loved him dearly but knew he would be better off with the Mesiti family.  They had so much more money and could care for him better than they could.  Plus they were old and just wanted to worry about themselves.  The Mesiti Grandparents understood and all parties agreed that it would be best for Luigi’s parents to adopt Angelo.   They returned to the family compound to let the parents know.  03142011

Mrs. Mesiti had also purchased groceries for dinner while she was out so she began to prepare it.  The grandparents came in and asked if she needed help?  She said "Nope, I got it thanks."  Dinner was something in a traditional Italian family that utilized a lot of the afternoons time preparing and then cooking in time to sit down to eat. Once she began to make the dough for the gnocchi her Mother in law offered to help her again and this time she refused to take no for an answer.  The two of them worked together like they had so many days before.  One made the dough while the other shaped the gnocchi and then placed them into the refrigerator. 03142011

The men were back to work making their statues.  They were for the grand palace and also to be displayed around the square in town.  The boys all went to the local swimming hole, where they sometimes spend hours swimming and diving and playing around under the waterfall.  Lucas had built a hand made fishing pole with just some simple line and a hook.  He was using live worms that he dug up out of the dirt as bait.  In two hours he caught three fish.  After the swim they took the fish home so that Mom could prep them for dinner.  Just then a strange man walked up and he introduced himself as the Benito.  "I’m from the Census board, and we are documenting the people who live at this residence.  Could you please start off with the names and ages of the people who live here?  Grandfather answered "I am Filippo Mesiti and this is my son Lanzo.  We live here with our wives. His wife’s name is Jemma and mine’s name is Concetta.   The boys are Luigi and Lucas.  We also have a young man named Angelo Mateo who is going to be living with us."  The man wrote everything down in his note pad and then looked up at Grandfather and asked is he any relation to Nario and Paola Mateo?"  "Yes they are his Grandparents and our good friends." " I see and the ages?" "I am 62, and my son here is 30.  Our wives are the same ages. Luigi is 12 and Lucas is 6.  I believe Angelo is 12 too."  "Uh huh, I see, well thank you for your assistance and have a great day!"  He left, as mysteriously as he arrived.  The boys came into the barn ad asked "Who was that guy?"  "Oh he’s someone from town counting people."  Father said.  03142011

After the adoption was complete Jemma pulled Angelo aside and asked him what he really wanted out of life?  “I don’t really know.  I don’t have the same things that Luigi and Lucas have in their family so it’s not been the most important thing on my mind.”  “Well I would like you to think about it and I will see what I can do to make it happen for you so get back to me when you figure it out.”  “Yes Ma’am.”  They had put another bed in Luigi’s bedroom for Angelo.  He never used it though because the boys loved sleeping together.  Angelo went to school one day and on the way home he was walking home alone and three older bullies cornered him and took his books away and then shoved him into the creek.  He came home crying with mud from head to toe and ran up to the room.  Lanzo went up after him and knocked on the bedroom door.  “Come in.”  Lanzo walked in and found Angelo removing his clothes and running a bath.  He helped him remove his clothes and put in some bubble bath soap for bubbles and then lifted him up and set him into the tub.  “What happened today?”  “Three older boys jumped me and beat me up and then pushed me into the muddy creek.”  “Do you know who they are?”  He asked as he lathered up the sponge and washed off the mud.  “No I never saw them before.  I wish I had taken some self defense classes.  Then I wouldn’t have to take that from anyone.”  Lanzo shampooed Angelo’s hair and rinsed him off and then helped him get dressed.  He dried his hair with a towel.  Angelo looked at Lanzo with his big brown eyes and smiled.  “Thank you.”  “I’m going to put you into Karate, and anything else you want to take.  I will pay for it.”  They hugged and kissed the Angelo went to find Luigi and Lucas.  03142011

Once Angelo found Luigi and Lucas out in the vineyards, he told them what happened to him.  Lucas was so mad he was ready to devise a plan of attack against the offensive party.  Lucas said “No brother, let them be.  In time they will get what’s coming to them.  You might be in that plan when that time happens.”  Both boys knew to listen to Lucas.  He had an extremely strong power of insight.  Lucas took heed but he never forgot and he never forgave those guys.  Lucas was only 13 now but he was changing into a man early.  His legs grew, his hands and his feet grew.  He was changing sooner than Angelo. His voice began to change that season and he also was getting more hair in other places of his body.  When Angelo saw it he was so very curious about it.  One night they took a bath together, and Luigi let Angelo touch his hair, and explore his body with his hands.  “This is so much bigger than mine.  Do you think mine will grow too?”  “Yes of course, when the time comes you will have hair and a deep voice and those things will get bigger too.”  After the bath they went to bed.  Even thought the two were no longer the same in size, Luigi didn’t care and neither did Angelo.  They were still deeply in love with one another.  Nothing could ever change that.

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The next few Summers finally Angelo grew too.  He grew to be taller than Luigi.  Everything was bigger, and his voice was deeper.  He was a strikingly handsome man, brown hair, big brown eyes and a five o’clock shadow which seemed to grow only hours after he shaved, but still with a child like brain.  The two young men craved knowledge.  They would go into the village and spend most of the time in the evenings reading and studying before supper.  Lanzo had purchased a car so the boys would take it when they wanted to visit the village.  The boys came home and had dinner with the family and then they went up to bed.  Now things had changed.  They were no longer sharing the same bed.  Luigi slept in his and Angelo slept in his.

They would talk each other to sleep with thoughts and ideas that they had from the days events and then fall fast asleep. 03142011

Lucas was changing too but in a different way.  The older he got the more powerful his intuition became.  He was having visions of the future in his dreams while he slept.  During the day for instance in class behind his desk he would all of the sudden have a day vision, clear as anything he could imagine in his sleep.  When he faded out people around him would notice a blank expression come over his face and his big blue eyes would just look so wide.  If someone was talking to him he would have missed what they said, and then they would suspect something was going on with him. Lanzo and Filippo wanted to have Lucas tested by the doctors to see if there was something wrong with him mentally, but Jemma would refuse saying “I will not have my son subjected to that bullshit!”  Concetta would chuckle by the use of profanity that Jemma would display.   03142011

As Seasons changed the boys were becoming closer and smarter.  Angelo had been training in Karate and had become a black belt.   He went on to other forms of martial arts, and then he was introduced to the religions of Taoism and Confucianism and studied them at the local library.  The family was Catholic but they didn’t judge him for his desire to seek after the religion that birthed the arts that he had been studying.  Everyone was loving, caring and supportive of everyone else.  The energy became evenly distributed through out and it showed in the glimmer in their eyes and the sparkles in their smiles.   Lucas and Luigi would practice the craft one hour every day.  They began moving things with their thoughts first.  Then transporting them magically from one space to another.  Before they knew it they were making moving the car fro the front of the barn to the back of the barn child’s play.  The problem was that Grand dad and their Father would realize they hadn’t parked it there and they would get into trouble for driving it with out asking.  03142011

One morning Jemma and Lanzo got up early and kissed the boys goodbye and snuck out of the house quietly to go out on the boat of a good friend and neighbor for a fishing trip.  They had let the Grandparents they would be going but they wanted to surprise the boys with the huge fish they caught out in the bay.  The only problem was that they got a little too close to the coastline of a rocky surf, and the boat cracked open quickly filled up with water and everyone drowned.  The bodies were retrieved by dawn and the police showed up at the house to inform the Grandparents of the tragedy.  Concetta fell to her knees and wept in her hands loud so the whole village could hear, while Filippo embraced her with a waterfall of tears.  Suddenly Lucas realized his vision that he thought was a hoax was real.  As the vision passed earlier that day before his eyes he had convinced himself that his parents were just at the Morning market as usual and it wasn’t true.  The three boys huddles arm in arm and cried for hours.  03142011

At the funeral Concetta had introduced the boys to their aunt that they had never known before that day.  They had not seen her in any pictures nor had anyone ever spoke of her.  She was Jemma’s baby sister, sent to tend to the family.  Concetta said “Boys this is your Aunt Tiziana Di Fusco.  Your mother’s younger sister.”  “How do you do? Please call me Zia.” Their Zia was one of the most beautiful women that they had ever seen before.  Their Mother was as equally beautiful only after she became married with children she didn’t look like her sister.  Plus the boys never noticed how beautiful she really was. In their minds she was just Mom. Zia had long curly dark brown hair and dark green eyes with olive skin and high cheek bones.  Her eyelashes were naturally curled up and her lips were full and red.  Her frame was tiny and her bosoms were large.  She wasn’t a tall woman but she wasn’t short either.  Everyone in the village attended the funeral.  They all told the boys and the Grandparents if there’s anything that they needed to just ask.   After the funeral they went back to the estate and mourned in their own way. 03142011

The Grandparents showed Tiziana to her Sister’s room and said “Please make yourself at home and we hope it’s not to odd for you to be staying in here.   Feel free to make it your own in any way you feel fit. Good night.”  “Thank you this is fine, good night.” Luigi, Lucas and Angelo couldn’t stand the idea of being alone so they all bathed together and slept together in the same bed.  They cuddled up like a tiny littler of new born kittens or puppies.  At different times during the night each of them cried.  Luigi began to dream and in his dream his Mother and Father came to him.  “Son, we’re so sorry this happened.  You have no idea what a shock it was to us I’m sure as it is to you.” His Father said.  His Mother kneeled down to hug him as he was sitting on the floor in this dream and she whispered in his ear “Promise me that you will take care of your baby brother no matter what! I am giving you a gift, and you might be afraid of it at first but once you learn to master it then it will be the best thing in the World to you.  She kissed him long and hard and then his Father did the same and they vanished in the dream. 03142011

Angelo had a similar dream only his Mother and Father came into the dream with the Mesitit’s.  Filippo said “Son, I wrote you into the will and you are going to be taken care of for the rest of your life financially so don’t you worry about that.  Jemma knelt down and hugged him too, then his parents.  They said “Your grandparent are going to leave you the property in Italy so you can keep it or sell it if you want after they pass on.  They all hugged and kissed and cried then said goodbye.  This was the last time he ever had any visits from them in his dreams again.  Lucas was visited by his Mother first then his Father separate.  They explained to him that nothing that happened had anything to do with him and that they both would be visiting him anytime he called them. He was very mature for his age and accepted what happened and also realized that if he did call on them that they would be there for him.  After his dream he did not dream again for the remainder of the night.  03142011

I woke up with my brothers arm pit over my face.  I was in between him and Angelo.  Angelo had his knee resting over my  entire lap.  It took me a while to wiggle myself free from the weight of both these strong men.  Once I was free I carefully got out of bed and snuck off to my bedroom to run some bath water. I was having a difficult time believing that both my parents were dead.  It seemed like a dream as if it wasn’t hardly real.  As I got out of my night shirt and lowered myself into the bath tub I began to weep.  I heard the door open and I asked “Hello?” “Hey son it’s papa.”  He came in and sat beside me the exact same way that my Father would.  I looked at him and he looked exactly like my Father only aged with white hair.  This was the very first time in my life that I had realized how much they looked alike.  I also realized that Luigi was a younger version of my Father and Papa.  I guessed I got some of my looks from Mom.  Papa grabbed the huge sponge and he lathered my hair and back up as he spoke.  “I’m here for you if you need anything and I want you to know we can talk about anything too.  I loved your Father as much or more than I love myself and he will be greatly missed.  When I look at you boys I do see some of him in you.” We didn’t speak at all after that he just washed me and then rinsed me and drained the tub while holding my towel to dry me off.  I wasn’t going to say that I could do it myself.  I understood  that Papa missed my Daddy and he wanted to feel connected to how close they were through me. 03142011

Papa and I began crying and he hugged me and I hugged him.  He said “I love you peanut!”  “I love you too Papa.” “Do you want to go into the city with me today and see if we can get our minds clear? Just you and me?”  “Yes I would like that.”  We got me dressed and then Papa told Grandma we were leaving to the City.  She hugged and kissed us goodbye and whispered in my ear while she slipped something into my sweater pocket “Be careful Peanut, keep your eye on Papa.”  She kissed me and then embraced Papa.  Luigi and Angelo came out in their night shirts and said good bye to us to then they all went inside to eat breakfast.  First Papa and I drove into the village and he got fresh coffee and me some hot cocoa.  He also got us some hot fresh pastries.  We got back into the car and drove about two and a half hours.  Once into the city papa parked the car in a private garage.  There was a man in a white suit and tie who greeted us.  “Caio Senor Mesiti.”  “Caio gratzi!”  We handed him the keys and then held hands while walking the city side walks.  03142011

After Luigi and Angelo ate breakfast they got dressed and headed out to the swimming hole.  They removed all their clothes once they got there like they often did when it was just them and they dove in.  Once in they both swam around and rough housed and chased one another around the waterfall.  Just then a group of other men showed up.  They hadn’t heard them when they fist arrived because the waterfall was so loud.  Angelo noticed first and grabbed Luigi’s arm preventing him from diving out into the lake.  He held his finger up to his mouth to sign silence.  They carefully and quietly watched the group of men get naked and jump into the lake.  Angelo realized who these guys were and his face turned beat red.  Suddenly, Luigi came to the conclusion that these were the guys who originally beat up Angelo so many Summers ago.  Luigi dove in and went under water to the biggest guy out of the group and while he was under water he grabbed him by his feet and pulled him under.  He held his breath long and hard while fighting this big guy off from kicking him underwater.  The rest of the guys realized something was wrong and they came to the rescue of their friend.  That’s when Angelo sucked it up and dove in too.  He swam up to Luigi and then make him release the big guy who swam fast to the surface.  He huddled with his group and suddenly Luigi and Angelo burst through the water to the surface too.They both held one another gasping for air.  “What the fuck is going on here, assholes!”  Luigi said “You are the assholes, trying to beat up my best friend here when he was by himself!”  The big guy stayed with the group while the second biggest guy lunged over and tried to slug Luigi in the jaw.  Angelo intercepted his fist with his hand and squeezed it until he screamed like a little girl.  Then he kicked him hard in his privates.  The guy went under water and Luigi grabbed him and brought him back up for air.  Then the biggest guy said “Sorry that was a long time ago and we were very immature then.  Now we wouldn’t intentionally hurt a fly.” Angelo looked at Luigi and gave him a look like  Lets go and leave it alone.  Luigi took the guy and faced him then he grabbed his nuts and squeezed hard and said “You mess with us ever again and we wont be so nice next time!”  They quickly got out and grabbed their clothes and left the group of guys in the lake.  While they were running they decided they were far enough away to get dressed.  “Thanks for sticking up for me back there brother.”  Angelo said.  “Hey anyone messes with my boy, then they mess with me!”  03142011

Back at the house the two took showers and changed into sweats.  Aunt Tiziana was busy cooking dinner for the family.  She loved to sing and dance so she would be singing and dancing to the music on the radio as she cooked.  Her happiness completely filled the house with love and goodness.  It really changed the mood of everyone.  Grand didn’t feel like cooking so she sat in the courtyard and finished some of her knitting projects that she had always been to busy to complete.  03152011

Grand dad and I held hands and walked the city checking out all the store front shops and just taking in the smells and sounds.  He suggested we go into one of the toy stores so we did.  “Lucas this is my old friend Francisco Vittana he and I went to school together when we were little boys about your age and younger.”  “Hello I’m pleased to meet you.”  “My God Fillipo he looks exactly like you when we were little!”  “Yes my son and he both did.”  “Oh yes I heard, and I am so sorry for your loss.”  They hugged and kissed and he came to me and shook my hand and smiled.  “Come look around in my shop. Everything in the store was made by my hands.”  We looked around and I found a remote control boat that I really liked.  “Francisco, how much for the boat?” “For you half price.”  “I will take it!”  He bagged it up for us and we thanked him and then left the shop.  “Papa I’m sort of getting hungry.”  “Oh I know a great place to eat.  But first lets get our rooms. Then we go eat.”  We walked into this huge building made of brick.  The lobby was grand with tile floors and the walls were decorated in giant paintings of countryside Italy.  “Hello, one room please with double beds. I prefer a room with a balcony.”  Papa handed him our packages and asked him if he could put them in our room for us.  The man nodded and handed Papa the keys and then we went back out to the street to go find a place to eat.  We walked up to this little corner Bistro.  He opened the door for me and waited for me to go inside.  I stepped inside and there was a low putipù playing in the background. “Filippo Mesiti!? Is that you? Come in please sit.”  The woman greeted us, “I have not seen you in ages, how is your wife, the children, and who is this handsome young man?”  “This is my Grandson Lucas.  His parents recently passed so we are having out special time together in the city.”  “Oh I am so sorry to hear that.  Your Grandfather is an amazing man, you listen to him. I will be back with your menus please sit.”  She poured us some water and then left in a hurry.  “Do you know what you want?”  “I think I would like some fresh spinach and cheese ravioli.”  “That sounds good we both can get that.”  She returned with the menus and Papa said “Those won’t be necessary, we both will have the spinach ravioli. He would like milk and I would like some Chianti, please and thank you so much.”  She nodded and then returned with the drinks and some hot bread fresh out of the ovens.  We didn’t talk much just looked around as we ate.  The place wasn’t packed but it seemed to have the same about of people coming and going.  After we finished lunch Papa paid and we said good bye.  04152011

After lunch we went to our room and unpacked.  Grandpa sat me down and began to explain to me how Magic is in everything we hear, touch, taste , smell and see.   How music and it’s words and the tune of a song can cast spells over whole nations.  How poetry, and theater, and the movies impact a society magically and inspire thought, emotions, and love.  The kinds of things I thought about to myself but on a much smaller scale.  “The more you use a proven spell the more it will work for you. Read everything you can get your hands on and strive for knowledge.  It’s the only thing that will help you fine tune your powers.  Everyone has the ability to cast a spell and to tap into the magic that surrounds them.  Not everyone has the knowledge to do so.  Both you and you brother have gifts that you have to really practice with and share them with others.”  Just as he rested his hand on top of mine I could feel the warm energy flowing out of his hands and into mine.  That warm sensation traveled up my arm, then to my shoulders, into my chest and then filled my heart. Words could not explain the amount of happiness that I was experiencing at that very moment.  Pure, and genuine love.  The kind of love I often felt simply by the touch of my Mom or Dad. “ I need you to promise me that you will always be there for Luigi when he needs you no matter what.”  “Yes I promise Papa.”  He hugged me for a very long time and then he suggested we go back out on the town to see what we were going to do for dinner.  03162011

After dinner we went to the office of one of the local realtors.  Grand had planned to buy some property by a lake, but he wasn’t sure where.  After visiting the realtor and looking for a few hours at properties on the internet.  He spoke about purchasing a lake front property in America where he could build a cabin and spend the summers there.  They decided on the place and the next thing we knew we were flying out of Italy and to the united States.  Grand had planned everything.  He even had our passports packed so we got to the airport and took the next plane out.  Being the redeye we were able to sleep.  Once in New York we had a little bit of a layover so we went into the city and had breakfast.  After breakfast we went back to the airport and hopped onto another plane that took us to California.  We flew out of New York in a tiny little plane to Clarksburg West Virginia.  Once there a man greeted the three of us and we got into a car and drove to Lake Floyd.  There was a prime real estate lot at the Lake that caught Papa’s eye and so as we arrived he was so excited to see it in person.  We pulled up to the empty lot and he ran around explaining to me his minds eye vision of what he was planning to build.  “Lucas I want you to help me build this cabin and then we as a family can enjoy it through out all time.”  I couldn’t imagine what he was seeing in his head but as he explained it to me it was becoming more clear.  That night we pitched a tent and slept on the property.  Come morning there was a delivery truck that arrived. It dropped off all sorts of building materials.  Men showed up with concrete pumps and they flagged out frame areas, then in no time at all the foundation was build and pumped in and set.  “Hey let’s go into town and get breakfast while these guys finish up here.  We went into town to eat and Grandfather got on the phone to call Italy.  The town was really small and had old Victorian store fronts.  It looked like there were stores at the bottoms and apartments above them.  Back at the property, Grand and I began sawing wood, and hammering frames and putting up walls.  The next few weeks we managed to get everything ready for the electricians and plumbers to come in and do their jobs, and after they finished the inspector came.  We worked on the roof together, and then Angelo, Luigi and Gram showed up.  In one weeks time we all put the roof on and then we were ready to put in the interior walls and hard wood floors.  The appliances were hand picked by Gram and shipped out to the cabin the next day.  Grand had put in a six burner stove with a double oven, a built in microwave oven, and an island. The counter tops were done in butcher block all the way around.  The cabinets were cherry wood, with antique knobs, and handles.  Two bathrooms were designed by Luigi.  He had claw foot tubs put into both with a shower combination.  Two pedestal sinks, and Italian tile floors.   There was a fireplace built on both sides of the cabin so the two upstairs bedrooms have one and the one bedroom downstairs has one along with one in the living room. “Four fireplaces here in this cabin, who else on this lake has that?” gram asked. Grandpa said “Only us pretty lady.”  They kissed and then we walked around checking out the work.  The three of us boys ran down to the lake and stripped down to our underwear and jumped into the lake.  Just then a furniture truck came and delivered enough for every room in the cabin.  The top two bedrooms had two single beds each while the downstairs bedroom had a king size bed.  I put my clothes back on and ran back into the cabin to see what kind of things were being delivered.  Grandpa put his arm around me and said “Every single piece of this furniture was hand made by a man named Gerald Parker of  France who works with wood for a living.  Grandma got out her sewing machine and she made curtains for every window in the cabin.  She also made furniture covers for every single piece in the home.  The cabin was coming together nicely.  Grandpa had one more delivery and it was a hot tub and so we built a stairway and deck off the back porch that overlooked the lake.  After that we built a deck right in the back, that we could park our boat and swim, or fish off.   Once everything was completely finished Grand named the cabin Mesiti Magic.

We spent the whole summer there at the cabin that year then we returned to Italy.   3172011

Back in Italy, Aunt  Tiziana was very happy to see us.  “I have missed you all.”  She hugged and kissed everyone.  “Next Season you will have to come with us and see the new cabin in America.”  “I would like that very much! Thank you.”  She turned on the music and took me by the hands and we danced together in the living room.  Grandma and Grandpa danced with us too.  Luigi and Angelo looked at each other and then laughed.  The put their hands up to each others and began dancing too.  We danced around the room and just laughed and smiled while we passed each other.  Just then there was a knock on the door.   “I’ll get it.”  I stopped dancing and ran over and answered it.  I grabbed the handle and pulled open the door.  Standing there under the courtyard lights was this beautiful young woman. “Hello?” She smiled and put out her hand and said “I’m here to see my good friend Tiziana. Is she in?”  “Oh of course please come in.”  Just as she walked in, Tiziana stopped dancing by herself and then calmly walked over and hugged and kissed her friend.  “Everyone this is my friend Quorra Virzi, she is visiting me form Sicily. This is my nephews Lucas, Luigi and Angelo, and their Grandparents Filippo & Jemma Mesiti.”  “How do you do? Very pleased to meet you.”  They excused themselves and left down the hallway.  Grandma said “What shall we do for dinner?”  Papa said “Let’s order take out.”  We ordered pizzas and salads and had them delivered to the house rather then picking them up.  After dinner I went to bed.  03172011

The next morning I got up and ran the bath.  Luigi and Angelo ran in while I was sitting in the bath and said “Hurry up and get dressed we’re going to the trails.”  The trails were these dirt trials in between our vineyards that were really hilly and bumpy.  We would take the dirt bikes and the ATV’s out there where there’s a whole track that our Dad built for us on the property.  I jumped out of the tub then got dressed as I ran out the door.  “Hey you boys going to have any breakfast?”  Grandma had made fresh pastries right out of the oven so we each grabbed one and said thank you as we ran out the door.  I ran to the garage opened the door and put on my helmet and kick started my dirt bike.  I tore out and off to the trail.  Luigi hopped on the ATC right behind me.  Angelo grabbed the other helmet and bike a took off following us.  I was riding as fast as I could to stay way ahead of the other guys.  Just as I got to the track I realized others were there.  I stopped my bike and jumped off.  I ran up to the croup of people watching the two riders and said “Hey this is private property, who are you and what are you doing here?” Just then Luigi rode up and skid sideways up to the group stopping and hopping off the ATV.  Behind him Angelo stopped his bike and removed the helmet.  “I asked you a question.”  “I’m Tony Gianni  and on that bike is my brother Edoardo. He pointed at each person Gina, Tullio and Felecia Pasini are our friends and neighbors. Dainlo Zamgari and Nino are also our neighbors.  We’re all your neighbors.”  “Like my brother said this is private property and you guys shouldn’t be using our track with out asking us first.”  Just then Angelo ran over and said quietly, “You don’t recognize any of these guys?  They are the bullies.” “GO get off the property NOW or I will call the police and have you all arrested for trespassing!”   “Okay, sorry…we’re leaving.”  They all left in a quick hurry.  The last dirt bike pulled up and then removed the helmet and she shook her hair out in the air and then said “So sorry, I thought this was ok.  We didn’t mean to impose.”  Then she road off. Angelo seemed a little aggravated then he put his helmet back on and sped off around the track.  I raced after him hopping hills then Luigi followed behind me.  03182011

Angelo was just about ready to catch up to me when something happened to his bike and he was thrown off of it.  He went flying ahead of me in the air, and right before he landed he slowed down into slow motion and then rolled over the hill and landed on his back.  I drove over to see if he was okay and then Luigi pulled up beside me.  “Wow, are you okay?” He got up and dusted off the dirt and said “I don’t know what that was about.”   Quorro and Tiziana walked up and said, “It looks like someone is trying to hurt you Angelo.” “What do you mean?”  “Well as I was walking up I could see it was magic that got you into the trouble you were having so I used a little of my own magic to get you out of it.”  Just then Quorro turned around stopped two of the kids trying to run through the vineyards with out being detected.  She cast a spell to stop them in their tracks and we all ran over to find out what they were up to.  “What the fuck!”  I said. Luigi looked at me and shook his head in disappointment.  “You kids better leave Angelo alone or all of you will have to deal with us and believe me, we’re two Witches that you wish you had never messed with!”  “We’re not scared of you.”   It was Nino and Gina who were the trouble makers.  “You better go home and ask your parents about the Di Fusco’s and then get back to us.”  03182011

Quorro laughed and said “And the Virze’s and Mesiti’s!”  They asked us if we wanted to go into town for lunch and Luigi said “Yes, that would be nice. Let us get cleaned up first.”  We all rode back to the house and each jumped into our showers and then changed clothes.  I met everyone out in the courtyard.  The ladies had big smiles on their faces and looked the three of us over from head to toe. “You three young men have to be the best looking men in all of Italy.”  I could feel my cheeks getting hot and realized that they must have been blushing.  We left on foot to go into town.  Then Zia grabbed our hands and we disappeared and reappeared in the park just at the center of town.  Luigi and I realized she was like Mom.  “What do you guys want to do first?”  “I want to go get some coffee first then decide.” We walked into the little corner Bistro and sat down.  The waiter came over and took our orders for coffee.  Just then the local doctor walked up to the table.  “Hello.  Angelo I have been looking allover for you. You’re Grandmother is sick I just left the house.  She’s developed pneumonia and she’s been asking for you.” Angelo got up in a hurry and left with the doctor. 03202011

Upon arriving at the family farm, Angelo got out of the car and ran inside.  “Grandpa, Grandma?”  He ran to the bedroom where he found his Grandpa kneeling beside the bed.  His Grandma was breathing very shallow and you could hear water gurgling coming from inside her. “Oh Angelo, my Dear. I just wanted to say good bye and tell you that we are very proud of you.  I love you.”  She took her last breath and passed away.  His grandpa began ton weep uncontrollably.  Just then the doctor walked in and hugged him. Soon after the funeral Angelo moved back in with his Grandpa to take care of him.  He wasn’t doing very well.  He got sick too and passed away only a few weeks after his Grandmother. He didn’t make a big deal out of his Grandfather’s death.  He had him buried right beside his Mother, Father and Grandmother in the family burial.  Like they had told him in the dream he inherited the family farm and house.  They weren’t rich but they always managed tog et by with the growing and sales of their fresh organic vegetables at the local market. Angelo took what little savings he had and planted an orchard of olive trees.  The following season he began producing olive oil.  He sold his olive oil all over Italy.  This is how be came into money.   There also was a dark, and damp mountainside on the property which could not support any growth at all.  One day his herbalist had come out to take a look at his herbs, vegetables and olive orchard he found himself wandering around that side of the mountain.  Angelo met him out there and the herbalist pointed out that he was sitting on a potential gold mine. “These are terfezia which can sell for up to $250-$450 per pound.”  So Angelo and his herbalist harvested them and were able to sell them.  He began to see a profit that continued to grow his band account.  In no time he found himself building a new estate on the property and using the original cottage for his servant quarters.  03202011

My grandparents both passed away that Summer.  In the house was just me, Luigi, Quorro, and Aunt Tiziana.  They wanted to moved back to Quorro’s home town so they said their goodbye’s and left. Luigi and I found the house to be so cold and empty with out everyone there.  He couldn’t stand it so he spent most of his time staying with Angelo.  I took up sculpting, and managed to sell my pieces to the government.  The vineyard was also making the estate money so it was all good.  I decided to build a winery on the estate and produce our own Mesiti Vineyards wines.  I hired a man who was a wine maker and scientist to come live in the estate with me and help me get going.  This was a Frenchman named Pierre St Claire. Pierre and I spent every moment together.  When we weren’t working we were hiking, or fishing or boating together.  03202011

I had him pose naked for me while I sculpted him.  His figure was prefect, and in time I found myself falling in love with him.  Once it was completed we set it up in the garden on a pedestal.  He and I went to the lake cabin together and spent the Summer there.  I was really missing my family.  Most days we spent our time reading and studying.  I was not a child anymore and neither were Angelo and Luigi.  I didn’t see much of them but when I did it was so exciting for me.  They would come visit us at the lake for the weekend when business would allow it.  Luigi was taking care of the family business in my absence.  The four of us would stock up on food and wine and just eat and drink and play board games in the evenings.  Come midnight we would all take off  our clothes and run down to the lake for a midnight swim. After that we go back to the cabin and drink until we pass out.  The following day I got up and cooked breakfast. Pierre came out of the Master suite in his robe and hugged and kissed me.  “Good Morning.” “Hey”. “What’s for breakfast?” “I’m making you fruit filled crepes.” “Ah Merci.”  He sat down and I poured him some coffee.  Luigi came down in his robe and grabbed a mug then poured himself some coffee.  “Good morning. I’m a little hung over.”  “Me too”.  Just then I heard a cork pop, and Angelo was pouring mimosa for everyone.  “Here you go this should help.”  We sipped our mimosas and just laughed.  After breakfast I asked what they had planned for the day?  They said “We’re going into town for a movie. Do you want to come?”  “Yes, let us get ready.” Pierre said.  03202011

We pulled into town and parked.  Angelo and Luigi walked ahead of us.  Once at the theater I paid for the tickets, then got candy, popcorn and drinks and then went to find our seats. After the movie we walked out and found our car egged.  Someone had spray painted in white on the hood “Faggots.”  Luigi was so mad his face turned beet red.  Pierre said “We’re not in Europe, so we have to be careful.”  Angelo was furious and he began screaming and yelling out “You backwards hillbillies are ignorant!”   We quickly got into the car and drove back to the cabin.  Luigi tried to wash off the paint before it really set in.  Most of it came off but you could still see the outline of where the paint was on the hood.  Angelo needed to blow off some steam so he got into his shorts and went for a jog.  A couple of miles into the woods on a dirt path he came upon some guys who were practicing their shooting, by hitting cans and bottles off of an old stump.  He stopped and froze.  They turned and looked at him and said “Hey look isn’t he one of those Faggots from over Seas?”  Angelo thought about turning and running in the other direction.  One of the biggest guys walked up to him and Angelo kicked him in the stomach and then hit him in the face.  He was scared and realized he was out numbered.  The other guys quickly ran over while three held him the big guy punched him in the face and stomach.  Once he fell to the ground they kicked him like a dog, and then left him there.  Then they left scared after they realized what they did.  Luigi was asking if Angelo had returned from his jog, and I said “I haven’t seen him.”  He went on the trial and followed it until he came upon Angelo.  Angelo was bleeding from his head and ears.  Luigi touched him and teleported him to the local hospital where they took him in quickly and treated his wounds.  Angelo fell into a coma. Luigi wouldn’t leave his side.  Day in and day out he stayed there at the hospital.  The doctors and nurses all knew him and felt bad for him.  I went to see Angelo with Pierre, and told the doctors and nurses about how the two of them have been best friends since they were very small boys.  Luigi just wept in my arms that night and said “I think we should go back to Italy and take Angelo with us.”  I hugged my brother and comforted him and then agreed.  We teleported him and us all back to Italy where we called in the finest doctors and nurses to tend to him in his home. Angelo pulled through but he wasn’t the same after that.  The blow to his head had cause brain damage and his memory and speech was effected.  In the next few years Luigi and Angelo got married and then Angelo died of an brain aneurysm.   Luigi mourned the death of his best friend and the love of his life for many years, and rarely came out of their house.  03202011

Luigi snapped out of it and then he dedicated his time to magic research and practice.  I would go visit him to see how he was doing and find him mixing potions, and chanting spells and trying to improve his powers.  “Hey, are you okay Luigi?”  “Yeah I’m better now.  I just want to sharpen my skills for the future. Stay for lunch?”  “I would love to.”  He snapped his fingers and our prepared lunches appeared on the table.  “Please sit.”  “Wow, you really are getting good at this stuff.”  “You know what they say, practice makes perfect.”  I sat down and began eating. Then I asked “So, what’s next Luigi?”  “I’m thinking about going to live in the States.  Get a job and continue to practice the craft.”   “What’s so special about The United States, anyway?”  “Well for one thing they have better documentations of the craft and I’m sure more verse users than me. Besides, Italy gets boring to me after a while.”  “I’m scared that something bad might happen to you there like it did to Angelo. All the martial arts training in the World didn’t protect him.”  “I know but he wasn’t magical like we are.” After lunch he said his goodbyes “I love you little brother, with all my heart. Please be good.”  “I know I love you too, you be safe and call me if you need anything!” He left  for America.  I didn’t know when the next time would be that I would see my brother again. 03202011

I cried and cleaned up the lunch plates and then called an old family friend of ours over to care take the estate.  I went home and found Pierre asleep in bed.  “Hey are you feeling okay?”  “Yeah I’m just a little depressed about everything.”  I climbed into bed with him and we fell asleep for a few hours.  I began to dream about my parents and grandparents.  With them was Angelo “Hey I’m okay don’t worry about me.  Here there is no pain, no sadness, no heart break, only happiness.” Then my Mother said “You need to concentrate on a new hobby Lucas.  Find something that sets your soul on fire and makes you love doing it.”  I woke up from the dream and just watched Pierre sleep. 03202011    

I got out of bed and then took a long bath.  I couldn’t stop thinking about what everyone said to me in my dream.  I was relieved that Angelo was in a good place and that he was reunited with his family and loved ones, but I was also so worried about my brother. Just the thought of him being in America, alone, and vulnerable it made my teeth ache. So much has happened in what seemed like a such a short time but as I sat in the tub and reflected I was realizing that it really wasn’t a short time at all.  I got dressed and packed my things and I said my goodbyes to Pierre and I went the Island of Sardegna off the coast of Italy.  There I purchased a small 3 bedroom 2 bathrooms Villa off the Cala Liberotto beach and began my studies and training.  The first evening there I just walked the property and then the beach.  I sat out on the white sands and watched the sun set.  Immediately I got a feeling that someone was standing over me, so I turned and looked and it was a short Asian looking man.  “Hello” I said. “Hello my name is Paxathipatai Sayavong.  Please call me Paza.”  “Nice to meet you Paza, I am Lucas. Please allow me.”  I grabbed his bag and walked him back to the Villa. “This is the kitchen, and over here is the sitting room. Then around the corner down this short hallway is your bathroom.  Here is your bedroom. Please make yourself at home and I will be ready to start our training first thing in the morning.” Paza got out a bag of rice from his bag and soaked it over night in a bowl of water.   He also began to chop up Thai chili’s ,green onions, and mixed them up in a bowl with soy sauce and a dash of fish sauce and vinegar. He put that mixture into the refrigerator and then he opened up a bottle of something and poured us both glasses.  This is called lau-lao in my country.  In English it is a type of whiskey. Please cheers with me and have this before bed drink.  He heated up these Cha Siu Bao, which were steamed pork buns and we dipped them in a sweet and spicy sauce as we drank our whiskey.   I finished my drink and thanked Paza for his food and drink and then I went to my bedroom.  I removed my clothes and got into a hot bath.  I fell asleep and began to dream.   I dreamed about Luigi.  He was in his hotel room in New York unable to sleep because of all the traffic and noise.  I sat down beside him and looked at the newspaper he had opened on the floor in front of him.  Circled were a bunch of potential jobs.  I said “What are you doing looking for work?  You have all the money in the World, and you don’t need to work.” He smiled then said “I know but something tells me I should get to work.  I don’t think I want to flaunt our fortune around either.” “Oh, I am not home either.  I have taken time out to spend it learning the craft with a teacher. I am on the Island of Sardenga near Cala Liberotto.  I bought a villa here and have hired a full time teacher and master to help me focus and hone in on my powers.”  “Well, who’s tending to the Mesiti Winery?” “I left Pierre in control of it.  He’s fine.”  “Ok little brother I have to go, see you soon.” “Bye.”  I left that dream and woke up in the tub.  Just then Paza walked in and he said “Is everything all right?” “Yes it’s fine.”  He sat down behind me outside of the tub and placed his fingers on my temples.  He began to move them in counter clockwise positions and then chanted something in his home language. I felt this jolt of electricity strike me through out my whole body.  It started there at the temples and then it traveled town my head, neck, shoulders, chest, stomach, back, groin, thighs legs feet and then up my butt and back up my spine to the top of my head.  I fell into a trance and then I felt all the water move away from my body.  It felt like I was floating in mid air.  Just then I opened my eyes and I was floating above the tub. I was turned over facing down and could see my reflex ion in the water.  Paza magically pulled the plug on the drain and then he had me float over the tub and then made my body go vertical. He took one hand and he held it about 2 inches away from my body on one side then the other on the other side and I began to feel dry air blowing on me like a hair dryer.  I was dried off in seconds.  He clapped his hands and then I was lowered to the ground.  He clapped them again and I was dressed in this soft material full length robe.  He changed into one too.  “From now on this is what we will wear. Good night.”  “Good night.”  I went right to bed. 02202011

I woke up and all the furniture that I had purchased and staged for the villa was changed.  There were no paintings, no photos, nothing on the counters, table tops, floors and walls.  I saw him working some of his magic, to redecorate the inside of the villa. “Good morning hi, is this really necessary?”   “I’m sorry I can put everything back after we finish but for me to remain focused I would prefer that the décor is like this.  Do you mind?”  “No in that case, like I said, please make yourself at home. Did you have anything in mind for breakfast?”  “Yes, he snapped his fingers and there was a small table low to the floor over a bright colored hand weaved rug, and matching large pillows.  “Please sit.”  I sat down and took in the smells of the food. The table had little porcelain bowls with lids, and tea cups, with a tea pot.   “Please help yourself.”  I opened up the pot and looked inside. It looked like eggs with sausage.  Beside it was sticky rice, in a bamboo holder.  I took some out and made ball and then I stretched it out flat and filled it with the eggs and sausage.  I rolled it back up and dipped it into the sauce and ate it.  “This is delicious, thank you.”  “You are welcome, eat lots because we have lots of work to do today.”  After breakfast we went out to the beach and sat under the sun.  Paza began to speak to me telepathically: Close your eyes. Listen to everything around you. Grab onto the energy that you feel. Energy from the air. The sun, the trees, the waves, the people. Everything everywhere. I could feel the power growing inside me. He began to speak  “ Earth, Wind, Air, Fire.”  A fire lit in front of us in a small cast iron cauldron.  “I call upon the elements of earth. I channel this power as our own.” He continued telepathically: Now, turn your head to the water but keep your eyes closed, and blow. I blew and then felt the wind leave my mouth and then he commanded Now open your eyes. I opened my eyes and saw a tremendous amount of wind fly over to the water and force the waved to travel in the opposite direction. “Snap your fingers”  I did and a flame came from them. “Wave your hands”  I waved them and water from the sea came to me and swirled around in the shape of a funnel cloud in front of me. “Clap your hands” I clapped then and dirt flew up into the water to weigh it down and forced it all back under the sand.  “Now that is how you call upon the elements. Practice that after you’ve meditated for an hour each day.” He stood up and left me out at the beach.  03202011

I practiced for an hour and then I just decided to meditate on the beach for a while.  When I finished meditating I realized that I was hungry again.  I went back to the villa and Paza was cooking us lunch. He had set the tiny table and said “Please sit and help yourself to some tea, lunch will be really in a moment.”  I sat down and took in the good smells of the food, and poured myself a cup of tea.  He set down the heated pan on a decorative tile and then served us lunch.  It was a stir fry vegetable over rice.   I ate slowly and just observed him.  He didn’t really talk much.  After lunch we went for a hike away from the beach and into the woods until we came upon a waterfall with a small swimming hole.  He asked me to hover over the water and walk into the waterfall.  I said “I can’t do that.”  He said “You can’t do it because you think you can’t.”  He took one step off land and then the other.  He glided across the top of the water like he was walking on a clear glass floor.  He got under the waterfall and not a single drop of water hit him.  It all split and went around him leaving his hair and clothes completely dry. He smiled at me and waved and it struck me funny so I laughed.  I thought I could do it so I walked over and took my first step and fell into the swimming hole.  I got back out and I was dripping wet.  I said “This is ridiculous!” He said “It’s not ridiculous, if I can do it then you can do it too.”   I stood right at the very edge of land. I envisioned myself floating on clouds. I could feel the air lifting me up by my arms. I took one step and then another step and I continued to walk towards Paza only I kept my eyes completely closed.  I was still using the air around as my strength.  Paza moved over and allowed me room to join him under the waterfall.  Once there the air forced that water right away from me in the same way that to magnets repel each other.  I opened my eyes and turned to him then said “This is amazing.” He said “There is nothing that I can do that you can not.”  He smiled and grabbed my hand and we were instantly transported back into the villa sitting on the floor at the table.  03212011

“The things that I am going to be teaching you are very powerful, and available to anyone who chooses to except them.  For those who do not believe they never have the opportunity to explore and utilize these gifts. Magic does not choose a person, it is the person who chooses magic.  With practice you could become one of the most powerful human beings on Earth. If you decide to choose that, then you will need to use your gifts to benefit others who are less fortunate.  A student you are but a teacher you will be.”  We sat at the table and sipped our tea.  Nothing else was said and we just sat in silence for the next few hours. 03212011

I hadn’t realized it but while I was meditating I fell asleep sitting up and I began to dream again.  This time is was about strangers.  Two men, French or American who were actually living in two places California and France. The men were older, middle aged, and very rich.  They practiced magic and had lots going on around them.  Their lives were filled with a large family and circle of friends.  I heard one call the other one Doug and he called him Bill.  I left them and went to another person it was Luigi.  He was at their front door and he had an advertisement from a local paper in his hand.  A younger man opened the door, and then Luigi said  “Hello, I’m here for the ad that you posted for a Personal Assistant.” The young man cleared his throat and said “Please won’t you come in?”  Luigi entered and then the young man closed the door behind him.  “My name is Luigi Mesiti, How do you do?” “I’m doing very well thank you. My name is Matthew Collins. I am currently Mister Parker's Personal Assistant. Please right this way.”   I woke up and realized that Luigi was going to apply for a job and I was getting some first hand insight about who they were and how he would be doing.  This made me feel a little more comfortable about him being in America.  03212011

“You have visions of the future?” Paza asked.  “Yes I have been able to see some things but not all things.”  Then he sipped some tea looking at me and said “I can help teach you how to focus and pin point that power and call on it any time you wish, if you’d like.”  “Oh yes I would like that very much. Thank you.”  I sipped some tea, and then He stood up and said “We are finished for today.  Please take the night off for yourself and we will begin again first thing in the morning."  I got up then changed out of my training clothes and put on my regular clothes and then went into town for some Italian food with wine.  03212011

Once inside the café, the owner and his daughter greeted me.  “Hello and welcome. How are you this evening?”  “I’m very well thank you.”  “Do you have a preference on where to be seated? “  “Yes could I please be seated outside on the back patio?”  “I have the perfect spot for you please right this way!”  His daughter showed me up some stairs and then out some French doors to a beautifully located balcony that overlooked the village towards the coast.  “Wow, I had no idea this was even here.  I would like this space every time if it’s possible.”  “Please be seated and I will put your name on it right now.”  She left then returned with a glass of ice and a pitcher of water.  “Can I take a drink order for you while you are waiting?”  “Yes I would like the Mesiti Reserve 2005 if you have any.” “We do, we have a few cases left. I will be right back.”  I took in the fresh air that blew in on the delicately light breeze.  Just then a man walked out onto the balcony and said “Hello how are you?”  I looked over at him standing in the doorway and it was Pierre.  He disguised his voice so I wouldn’t recognize it.  I jumped up “Oh my God what are you doing here Pierre?”  We embraced for a very long time then he said “Paza zapped me over to spend the evening with you.  He said you could use the company.” “I’m going to have to thank him in the morning.  You are staying the night right?”  “Yes of course, but only until morning.” He sat down in the chair beside me and the server came out with a bottle and a few wine glasses.  “Wine for you Sir?” “Yes please, and I left about five more cases of this for you downstairs with your father.”  She looked at him like he was crazy and then smiled at me and left.  “I don’t think she realizes who we are.”  Pierre laughed and said “Well, I don’t have your last name and when you pay for dinner then she will know.” He leaned forward and kissed me again and then sat back down.  “Is everything okay at home between both estates?”  “Yes, all is well at the home front. Have you and Luigi decided what to do with the cabin at the Lake yet?”  “Yes we agreed that since our family built it with our own hands from the ground up that we would keep it in the family and give it to the next generation if and when there is one.”  “That’s a good idea.” The waitress came back and she said “Hello I need to introduce myself to you.  My name is Angela Fiorolini and my father just explained to me who you two are.  It’s a pleasure to meet you Mister Mesiti.  I love your wine and sell lots of it with our dinners and lunches.”  “Thank you, this is my partner and best friend Pierre St. Claire.  He’s handing the business in my absence so anytime you need more wine you call him direct.”  “That’s fantastic, so pleased to meet you.  What could I get you this evening?”  Pierre ordered first “I would like the Caesar salad and minestrone soup with the fresh garlic bread. Thank you.”  “And you Mister Mesiti?”  “I would love to have the gnocchi with veil Parmesan, and the Caesar salad.”  “Okay I will return with your meals in a few moments.”  “Thank you Angela.”  I began to realize that she had the female version of Angelo’s name and the dream I had of him.  I told Pierre about the dream.  “I feel so much better knowing he’s become an Angel and that he’s watching over us now” Pierre said. “Me too.  I was also a little worried about Luigi but I had a psychic vision about him and he’s getting a job with some really exquisite folks.” Dinner came and we sipped wine and watched the sun set and then we ate our dinner together with some wonderful live music coming from inside the little café. 02212011

Angela came back to the table and left us our check and thanked us for our business.  Pierre and I finished the wine and then went down stairs and then paid for the check.  “Mister Mesiti, thank you so much for coming and I do hope we have the opportunity to serve you more often.”  “Yes thank you Mister Fiorolini, everything was fantastic.”  He handed me the card back with my receipt and said “Please call me Leo.” I said “Leo this is my partner and best friend Pierre St. Claire. If you need any more wine you call him direct and he will fill the order immediately.” “Pleasure to meet your Mister St. Claire.”  “The pleasure is all mine.”  They shook hands and exchanged friendly smiles and then we walked out towards the coast.  02212011

We held hands and I was remembering what happened to Luigi and Angelo back in America.   I could tell Pierre was feeling the same way that I was, because at first he was going to pull his hand away as other people began to walk towards us.  I squeezed his hand and held it tighter.  He followed my lead and squeezed mine back. The couple walked up to us and greeted us with friendly smiles and said “Good Evening.”  We replied with smiles and walked past them.  We walked up to the water and sat down on the sand.  “Dinner was fabulous thank you.”  “You’re welcome, please don’t thank me, you are me and I need to eat.”  Pierre always laughed when I said that to him.  “How is the training going?  Are you going to become a teacher when you are finished?”  “I do plan to become a teacher and have students but I think after my training I will take a break from it and then only train the ones who are sent to me to be trained.”  I will go check up on Luigi and see how he is doing.  I don’t like the idea of us being so far away from one another.”  “You could teleport yourself to him anytime you wish right?”  “No not yet, I’m not that experienced to teleport myself over those distances.  I could end up in the wrong place at the wrong time and have something unspeakable happen to me.”  Just then Pierre said “I would die before I would ever allow anyone to ever harm you Lucas.  You are my soul mate and I am yours.”  We kissed romantically at that moment.  I was relieved and scared by his words.  I couldn’t imagine what life would be like with out Luigi or Pierre in it. 02212011

As we walked back to the villa I began to think about all the loss we have had in the past decade.  My heart hurt and it was making me sad.  Pierre stopped and turned to look at me.  He grabbed my chin with the open palm of his hand and then squeezed it while he kissed me again.  “I feel the pain you are projecting.  I would like for you to let it go into the universe and let it become its problem not ours.”  I returned the kiss to him and we walked arm in arm back to the villa.  Back at the villa Paza was asleep.  I opened another bottle of wine and grabbed two glasses and took Pierre to our room.  We sat on the love seat and sipped wine and looked at the stars out the opened window. “This is very good wine. Who’s is it?”  I had Luigi send it to me from America. It’s a Sonoma County wine.  It’s supposed to be as big of wine making industry as France and Italy.”  “They know their wine there that’s for sure.” “They sure do.”  I picked up one of the books I was reading and began to read.  Pierre sipped the wine and continued to hold me in his arms as he gazed out the window.  02212011

I finished my glass and then set it on the table.  “I’m getting tired.  We should go to bed.”  We got up and then removed our clothes and climbed into bed.  I snuggled up to Pierre and then we fell fast asleep.  Come morning we could smell all the foods cooking.  I got up and dressed and went to the kitchen.  “Hello, how are you?”  “Very good thank you. Breakfast is almost ready.”  Pierre came out too and said hello.  We sat down for breakfast together and once we finished we said our goodbyes and Paza sent Pierre back to our home in Italy. “Today I am going to teach you how to use any written spell and then I will show you how to make that same spell happen with out reciting the spell itself. You start now by saying : Dirty dishes and dirty plates clean yourselves do what ever it takes. Once you are clean and then you are dried you can put yourself away with others like your kind.  I said the spell and the dishes hovered up in the air and then they washed themselves and dried themselves and then they put themselves away.  Paza walked over and pulled out two plates and just smashed them onto the kitchen tile floor. The crash and noise startled me.  He said “Now, wave your arm over these plate, and while you do it,  in your mind you reverse what you just saw. If you don‘t really focus and concentrate then you will just be wasting your time.” I closed my eyes, and I focused on the broken plates.  I slowly waved my hands and arms across the top of them and just imagined them fixing themselves and then floating up into the cupboard. In an instant they did exactly that.  The plates magically repaired and floated up into the place where Paza had taken them from.  “Now, if you can do that with that spell then you can do the same thing with any spell.  Remember the concept.  In a minds eye is where magic becomes reality.”  02212011

Paza left me to my studies and I went through a spell book and cast spells from the book and then I duplicated them the same way Paza explained how.  It was becoming very easy and natural for me to use magic with out spells.   I was conjuring bon bons made from Paris France, Pierogies from Poland,  Vodka from Russia, and Waffles from Belgium.  I was also conjuring up all sorts of animals and then returning them to their natural habitat.  I decided to test my powers and see if I could teleport myself to Luigi.  I closed my eyes and said “Luigi.”  I found myself outside a basement door in a private estate.  I knocked on the door and heard him say “Come in.”  I walked in and said “Hey I teleported here from Italy.”  he was so excited to see me.  He said “I just finished up the interview with the owners of this estate and I lied and told them that we had plenty of nephews and nieces back home. I feel a little guilty about it.”  I said “If  you count all the neighborhood children and family friends children then you’re not really lying.” “That’s a good idea, thanks.”  “Please sit let’s talk.”  “I am training hard and heavy with Paza. Here watch this.”  I said “Wine.”  Two glasses with wine in them appeared and we shared them together.  “That’s pretty handy I want you to teach me that when we have time.” We talked about how we were doing for about two hours and then I had to go.  I hugged and kissed my big brother and said “I love you.”  He said “I love you too.”  I snapped my fingers and returned to the Island villa. 02212011

I went back to the Café where I had eaten dinner the night before and they sat me at the same balcony. I snapped my fingers and Pierre appeared.  I said “Just dinner.”  He smiled then said “That’s cool I’m fine with that.”  We ordered dinner and some wine and then we talked about our day.  “I had a hectic day today.  The winemakers and I were disagreeing on a few of the new lines. The corks didn’t come in like they were supposed to and they said they will be in within the next few days. I also spent hours on the phone trying to get a hold of the label company so that we could get our new labels in.”  “Hhmm, do you need me to come home to help?”  “No I hired an assistant to help me.”  “Besides teleporting to go see Luigi, for a few hours, I practiced magic, through free thought and spells.  It was a very nice class.” “That sounds nice.”  After dinner Pierre took me to the movies and then dropped me off at the villa and then he went back home.  02222011

I went to bed and didn’t really dream, or if I did I couldn’t remember them.  I woke up and showered then got into the clothes that Paza gave me to wear.  I met him in the kitchen and he was serving us breakfast.  After we ate he said come with me.  I followed him out of the Villa and down the path.  We walked out of the area and then beyond the village.  He grabbed my hand just as I was going to ask him where we were going and a whirlwind of energy surrounded us and we vanished into thin air.  The both of us were thrown out of the whirlwind and Paza landed on his feet while I fell to my hands and knees.  I stood up and wiped my knees free of the dirt.  I looked around and thought I knew where we were.  “Is this Thailand?”  He never spoke he just continued to walk down the dirt road.   After about an hour of walking we came up to another dirt road and we took that for about 30 more minutes.  I knew we could have just landed there but he had me walk for a purpose.  Once we got to the house I could see this was a place of worship and seclusion.  We walked up the stone stairs where there were these huge snakelike dragons on both sides going up to the door.  Once inside I removed my slippers and then just followed Paza.  I began to see in my mind what was in store for us, or me.  He spoke to a man who looked like he was a monk or an elder of the place.  He left us alone and then I looked beyond Paza and there were a bed of coals.  He said “I would like you to walk over those.”  “I’m not doing that.” “If you do not master this you will not be able to teach your students.” “This is crazy, people don’t walk on coals with out really being seriously burned.  This is not a part of my training.”  “It is a part of your training, and only one part.”  I thought about how I walked on water. How is this really any different?  I completely cleared my mind.  I stood at the edge of the bed of coals and then I took a deep breath in and then as I exhaled I took my first step.  I was imagining in my mind that the bed of coals was really a bed of jell-o.   I stepped slowly and carefully as not to lose my concentration.    It took lots of energy to take one step.  With each step I felt like I had just ran one mile wearing a weighed down back pack.  The sweat was soaking me. I got the end and stepped off.  I looked at the bottom of my feet quickly to see what the damage was.  Nothing, they were unburned.  “I knew you could do this.”  He grabbed me by my hand and led me into another room.  He never said a word.  He just slid open the light doors and then I noticed there was an open pit in the floor.  I walked over to lean in and see what was there and suddenly Paza pushed me down into it.  I fell about 8 or 9 feet and then hit the floor. It was dirt, and nothing else.  The wall torches lit and I saw snakes moving towards me.  They were King Cobras.  My first reaction was to cast a spell to surround me with a force field.  I then realized I might be able to communicate with them.  I cleared my mind again and then concentrated on telling them to stay.  I repeated the thought but they were still coming towards me.  Something strange happened, all but one stopped and froze in place.  The largest one slowly slithered closer to me.  He had big eyes that sparkled in the firelight.  He got right up in my face as he fanned out his neck and then stopped just a quarter of an inch away from my face.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do next but I did know that sweating or breathing on him wasn’t going to help.  He stuck his tongue out and it licked my chin.  That startled me a little and when I jerked he jerked as well.  I thought to myself this is it I’m going to die.  In Thailand in a strange snake pit.  That’s just great! I became fatigued with fear and my emotions shut down.  It was as if I allowed myself to become so frightened that I was having an out of body experience.  I suddenly realized that my spirit had left my body.  My body was staring down a cobra, but my spirit was hovering over them.  I flew over to the snake and I got right up next to it and I said “ GO AWAY!”   The snake was looking right at me in my ghostly form.  I was surprised and unsure how he could see me and the real me couldn’t.  The snake bite at the ghost me and then the force thrust him away from my  real body.  He just continued to slither in the other direction and all the other snakes followed him.  Paza clapped once and my spirit flew back into my body and I was back up standing right next to him. The amount of sweat that I had lost I knew I was becoming dehydrated.  Just then two Monks walked in.  They removed my clothes and replaced them with dry ones and handed me a porcelain cup filled with water.  I drank it slowly, and then handed it to Paza.  We went into another room where they were preparing us lunch.  We sat down at a table on pillows and were served lunch.  I had duck curry soup, and rice with steamed vegetables.  I was so tired and my energy was drained.  I wasn’t sure what was next but I just finished lunch and then waited for Paza to finish.  Once we finished lunch he grabbed me by my hand and walked me out to an old barn.  We walked inside and it was filled with hay and farming supplies. Paza pushed me into the hay, grabbed a can of flammable liquid and threw it all over me and then he lit a match, tossed it towards me and walked out.  I was thinking just at that very moment this is like a Quentin Tarantino movie.  The fire was spreading fast and it was about to burn my skin.  I remembered the element training and then I concentrated on the fire first to make it go down and then I conjured up a whirlwind of water to come in from the well and douse the fire and me.  Now I was angry.  I walked out of the barn and went back into the house and I looked for Paza.  When I found him I said “You son of a bitch” and slugged him.  Just then he turned into a marble statue and the impact broke my wrist and hand.  He changed back as I fell to the floor.  I began to cry a little and just couldn’t understand why he did this to me.  He grabbed me by my broken hand and as he pulled me up, he healed me. He said “That’s enough for today.”  Before I knew it I was at my Villa in Italy with Pierre.  02232011

I just hugged him as long and tight as I could and said “Don’t stop.”  “Hey are you okay? What’s going on?”  “I had a terrible day today.  I thought I was going to die. At one point I think I did, well at least I had an out of body experience.”  He took me by the hand and sat me down in the Reception and offered me some wine.  I drank the wine and explained to him what happened while he kept my glass consistently full.  “What do you want for dinner?”  “I don’t know” I said.  Pierre got up and threw together a couple of salads so we ate them and then I said “Thank you I need to go to bed.”  I went straight to bed.  I fell into a deep sleep and then I began to dream about my Mom and Dad.  I began to tell them about my day and they both interrupted me and said “We know we saw it.”  “Please tell me that I’m doing the right thing.” ‘Son we can’t tell you only you could know” Mom said.  I want to help people but I don’t like the things we’re doing right now.”  “Okay let me explain something to you.  Both your Father and I were magical while we were alive, but we never boasted about it and we preferred not to tell anyone or to teach anyone.  Now we regret that.  Please don’t make the same mistakes that we made.  The knowledge should be shared!”  “I will do my best, but that’s all I can promise.” Then Dad said “Son, that’s enough.  That’s all you need to do is your best.”  They both hugged me and kissed me.  As they did they whispered something into each of my ears.  I fell out of the dream and back into a much deeper sleep.  For the remainder of the night I did not dream at all. 02232011

I woke up got into the bath tub and soaked for a little while.  Then I got out toweled off and got dressed.  Pierre got up before me but he was nowhere to be found.  Before I could get to the kitchen I was snatched out of my house and back at the Island Villa.  Paza said “Today you and I will share the day together, to become friends.”  I wasn’t really sure what that meant.  He handed me a rod and reel with a tackle box filled with everything I needed to go fishing and the next thing I knew we were at some lakeside shore trying to set up for a morning fishing experience.  He pulled out a hot thermos and a pot and then opened up a pouch with coffee grounds in it.  He poured the coffee grounds into the pot of coffee and then added the hot water.  Then he got out two small espresso size cups and handed one to me and then he covered the pot with a micro thin strainer and poured me some Turkish coffee.  “I know you are Italian and you boys love your coffee but I think this is just as good.”  I sipped it and it was delicious. “I’m going to want another one of these” I said laughingly.  As soon as Paza got him line out into the water he caught a fish.  I tossed mine out and nothing bit at my bait.  After a few hours I finally caught one and Paza had caught five.  We took them to a small nearby hut and he prepped them for lunch.   After lunch he got out a wooden games.  It was a hand made game with wooden grooves in it and marbles inside the grooves.  The marbles were set up as a plus sign in rows of three. Paza said “You have to begin with a single central marble vacancy.  Jumping one marble over another and removing the marble which was jumped over until the remaining one marble is in the center.”   He won that game and then we played shut the box which was more luck than wits, luck of the roll.  He won that one too.  I didn’t care because I was having a good time just learning and playing.  After the games he took me to a local artist studio and we broke out the canvas and paints and we painted together.  He gave me his and I gave him mine as gifts.  For dinner he insisted we go out for Heineken and Pizza.  I took him to the local Pizzeria in town back home. 03232011

After dinner Paza took me to a place where I had never known or seen before.  It was in the thick of some rainforest and jungle.  I was thinking somewhere in South America, but there was no way to be sure until I asked.  It was a lost city that was Camouflaged with what looked like was wild shrubs, ivy, and ferns.  I would swear that it looked like something right out of an Indiana Jones movie. He said “This is one of a few of the most magical places here on Earth. I learned of it as a small child when my parents were killed in a civil war in my home country and I was taken here by the local Monks for safety and training.  Once you enter you must swear never to tell anyone of this place unless they are planning on connecting with the magical World with a true and pure heart.”  We walked up to the gigantic stone doors with engraved symbols and hieroglyphic type messages.  He said “We are magical devotee. In good faith and training we will study for the benefit of all magical things.”  He shrugged his shoulders and continued “Please allow us passage both him and me.”  Just then the huge stones opened and then all the wall torches magically lit up in pairs as we passed them.  Door after door was passed as we traveled down the long stone hall. We went into the first door that opened.  There was a natural waterfall with vegetation surrounding it.  We sat down on these granite benches and then Paza straddled it facing me.  I followed his lead, slipped one leg over and faced him.  He said “How much magic do you sense is here?”  “I don’t know, because I’m not really familiar with gauging magic.  If I had to guess judging by my intuition and inner feelings I would have to say a tremendous amount.”  “you are right.  For hundreds, of thousands of years this has been a place where magical folks come to restore their energy and magically become grounded.  He held both of his hands up, palms facing up, and together.  In that moment a red energy ball formed.  He tossed it up to me and I caught it in my hands the same way.  We threw it back and forth in a little rally.  After a while he got up and took a few steps backwards while we still rallied.  Then he began to throw that energy ball at me.  This went on for the next hour or so.  Each time I lost the ball or dropped it, it would return back to me and hit me so hard that I would be knocked off my feet.  Just before I could get up and shake it off another one was coming right at me.  Finally I just had enough. I gathered up all my strength and energy and thrust that energy ball right back at Paza with such forced it knocked him up into the air and into the furthest wall away.  He got up and shook himself off then we both began laughing.  We left that room and continued down the hall just like before torches would light in pairs on their own and we would pass many doors.  The next door that would open was the one we would go inside of.   Once inside and the torches came on all there was were four stone pillars.  Each one holding one of the four elements, Fire, Water, Air and Earth.  I carefully watched Paza and tried to anticipate what he was going to do next.  He Magically conjured clouds above him and then there was lightning and thunder.  The next  bold of lightning he grabbed somehow and threw it at me.    I quickly kicked off my shoes and stood barefoot on the floor and then I conjured thick hot steam that surrounded me, causing the lightning to evaporate.  I mixed the steam with the earth and I formed mud balls and then I shot them at Paza.  He used fire and heated up the mud and turned them into porcelain balls and then sent them back at me.  I made an energy ball and stopped his with mine one at a time.  We both sat down on the floor and I caused the clouds to rain on him.  He laughed and then I helped him up and we left that room.  Once back into the hallway we got to the end of it and there was one single door. It opened and there was a large table that was filled with food, from one end of it to the other.  Anything and everything anyone could ever imagine and want was there.  I sat down and just ate until I couldn’t eat anymore.  I felt sleepy and so did Paza.  We found a room with two beds in it and we laid down for a nap. 03232011

After my nap I got up and went back into the large room to eat some more food.  Paza woke up and joined me.  “I think I am finished with your training.  If you like I can be contacted anytime if you have any questions.  All you have to do is call out to me and I will appear.”  We hugged and I thanked him for his training.  I went back to the Italy Villa and got right back to work in the winery and vineyards.  I felt so much more confident about my magical abilities. I continued to read as much as I could.  I studied spell books, and other peoples experiences with the craft.  Once I was completely consumed with work, I mentioned to Pierre how I wanted to go visit the lake house.  He said “I’m ready when you are ready.”  I grabbed him by his hand and then we were at the Lake house.  I magically lit the fire logs inside the fireplace and then went right to the kitchen to pour us some drinks.  I poured us our wine and set the bottle beside us on the floor. Pierre toasted “to us.”  I said “Salute.”  We clinked glasses and I sipped my wine.  I just gazed into the fire and became hypnotized by it’s flickering and movement.  It was as if it was dancing to its own music.  I saw a vision of some children bullying an innocent young man who happened to be walking back to his home from the local store.  I started to worry about him and feel like I needed to be there to help him.  I vanished from my spot in front of the fireplace and turned up right behind a large tree just off the side of the trail where these children were having the altercation.  I spoke softly and swirled my index finger, and every one of the bully’s gang shoe laces had magically untied themselves and then tied one shoe to the other.   They were pushing the boy and calling him names, he kept asking them to stop touching him and to please leave him alone.  I step out from behind the tree and asked him “Is everything okay here?”  The bully children all tried to run away but they tripped instead.  I walked over to the young man and I said “Hi my name is Lucas, I’m staying at my Lake house here for a few weeks.  Can I walk you home?”  He smiled and whispered “Thank you that would be nice.”  We both laughed about the other bullies being so scared and then tripping and falling.  “You know that expression, the bigger you are the harder you fall?”  “Yeah” I winked and said “I bet the fat one believes that to be true now.” “I know, right?” “So, what’s your name. You know mine.”  “Oh sorry I was a little distracted to mind my manners. I’m Joey.”  “It’s nice to meet you Joey.”  We came up to one of the houses off of the path and I asked “Is this you?”  “Yes thanks again Lucas for walking me home.  You are an angel for arraigning at the exact moment that you did.”  “I said “Oh, I’m not an angel but I’m happy to help.”  I watched him walk into his house and then I vanished.  “Where did you go? Is this going to happen often?  I feel like I’m in a relationship with a secret agent man.”  “Where were we?”  I didn’t go into detail about what happened.  I just snuggled up into Pierre and then enjoyed the fire and my wine.  03232011

“So are we skipping dinner or drinking it?” Pierre was always in the mood to eat. “Oh I don’t know what are you in the mood for?”    “It’s nice out I want to BBQ.”   I got on the phone and called the general store to see if it’s too late to make a delivery.  They took my order and then I hung up.  “I ordered tritip. Also potato salad, and baked beans with garden salad.”  “That should do it. I will go start the coals.”  I turned on some music and lit a few candles in the house.   I also thought the house would be nice with a few flowers so I went outside with a pair of scissors and cut some roses, tulip’s, lily’s, and other wild flowers to make an arrangement for the table.   Just then I heard a knock on the door.  I said “I’ll get it.”  I opened the door and there was a young teenage boy standing there with grocery bags in his hands.  “Delivery for Mister Mesiti.”  “Yes please come in and you could just set them right there on the counter, thanks.”  he set the bags down and then began to walk out.  “Oh just a minute please.”  I delicately grabbed his hand and then said “Here’s a little something for your troubles.”  I slipped a $20.00 bill in it and asked” What’s your name?”  “Oh thank you, I’m Teddy.”  “Cool, thanks Teddy maybe we will see you again.”  He walked out and I shut the door.  I went right to the bag and took out the meat.  I put it in a glass pan and also carried out the BBQ utensils.  “Here you go honey.”  We kissed and he smiled then thanked me.  03232011

Dinner was prepared, served, eaten and then cleaned up.  We were like two fat cats sitting in a window after they just finished eating and sleeping.  I pulled out my grandparents Victrola and their vinyl records and put one on.  We started dancing around the cabin and then outside on the deck.  After the first record Pierre picked out the next one.  He came back outside on the deck and danced with me some more.  I began to think about us and our relationship.  He was the only man I had ever loved besides the men who I was related to.  This was equally comparable only with him we have the opportunity to share with each other intimately in ways only genuine true love could know and experience.  He spun me around and then grabbed the back of my head with his open hand and leaned in for the kiss.  It was a very, wet, long, romantic, but at the same time HOT kiss.  He pulled away and then laughed while saying “That’s the G rated French kiss.”  I got the instant feeling that I was turning red in the cheeks by the way I could feel all the blood flow quickly to them.  “You can kiss me like that anytime you want.” He led me off to the bedroom and that night we made love to each other.  I thought that it was the best night of my life.  03232011

The alarm clock went off and I said “Oh no, what time is it?”  Pierre said “Time for me to get up and catch us some fish you stay in bed and sleep.”  He leaned into me and kissed me and then he wiped the hair away from my eyes and kissed me again.  He must have got up and did it with grace and agility because I never heard a sound anywhere after I fell back to sleep.  I began to dream about Luigi.  I saw him with a blond man and he seemed to be very happy with him.  I left that dream and then woke up.  I got up and put on my robe and searched the house for any of my parents or grandparents spell books or journals.  I came across an old chest up in the attic.  I opened it and there they were all the diaries, journals, any important documentation, as well as hand written spell books.  I found an old photo album it was filled with old black and white photos and even some sketched drawings of my family.  It was interesting because on the back of the sketches they were signed by Angelo Mateo.  I asked myself how is this possible?  I continued searching through the chest.  I came across a very old book. The bindings were falling apart and the paper had that really gross musty smell to it.  I carefully pealed one page apart from the other and blew off the dust. I began reading it and the date was dated 377 BC. “What the hell?”  I turned to the first page and the book was titled: Magic by Mesiti’s.  The book was filled with potions and spells and notes. For some reason I began to read a spell out loud, and as soon as I finished it ,I was transformed into a dog.  I ran around up in the attic in a panic not knowing what I should do.   I tried my best to bark out Paza.  Then he appeared and caught me and pet me.  “Uh, what happened?”  He spoke my name and I turned back into myself. “I don’t know I was reading out loud and then I turned into a dog.”  “Oh, well that happens when you have so much power flowing through you.  The book you were reading must be charmed. Be careful and I will see you later, much later.”  He left in a puff and I continued to read the book, only to myself. 03242011

I found a spell that I thought was very interesting. It was called the Ultimate Sacrifice Spell. It was designed to clear your head of anything that would cloud your ability to make good conscious decisions and then it would make you give the Ultimate Sacrifice to the current problem at hand.  I wasn’t sure why anyone would use such a spell but I didn’t think I ever wanted to find out. Pierre came into the cabin with a bundle of fish.  He began to clean them and prepare them for cooking.  I put the book down and went downstairs to greet him.   He had pulled onion, tomato, lemon juice, olive oil, cayenne pepper, banana leaves, oven safe string, salt and pepper from the cabinets and then he  soaked the banana leaves in hot water until they were soft.   In a bowl he mixed together the chopped onion, diced tomato, lemon juice, olive oil, cayenne, salt and pepper and then set it aside.  He began to lay out the banana leaves flat and he sliced up the fish into 1” X 3” chunks and then tossed them into the bowl with the other mixture and gave it a good stir.  He placed the gobs of the mixture inside the laid out banana leaves and then folded everything up over it and sealed it shut with the string.  He put them in the fridge so they could really marinated together before dinner.  He sliced up various cheeses and then placed them on a nice platter with different types of crackers and fresh figs, and other fruits.  We snacked on that out on the deck while we sipped wine together.  I was relaxed and happy to be spending time with Pierre.  03252011

Pierre decided to start dinner.  He cooked us risotto, and steamed some asparagus. Then he cooked the bundle fish for about 35 minutes.  “Dinner’s ready.”  “Everything smells so good.”  We sat down and ate a really good dinner together and then he began to tell me about how he wanted to live his life alone and concentrate on living for only himself.  I was stunned and thought to myself, wow this came out of nowhere. He explained that he missed his family in Paris and wanted to move back to his old apartment and spend the rest of his life there.  He said he was leaving in the morning.  I’m not sure what happened to me but I couldn’t speak.  I was instantly transformed into a zombie.  Showing no emotion, or reaction either way.  I said “Would you please excuse me?”  I got up from the table and then I went right to bed.  I began to dream about Luigi.  I told him what had happened and he said “Just let him go, it’s what he wants.” That dream ended and I fell into a deep sleep.  I slept the whole morning and half the afternoon away.  By the time I had awaken, Pierre was gone.  He left me a note:

To My Dearest Lucas,

     I have not known what love was in my whole entire life up until I met you. You have been a great friend, and lover.  This has nothing to do with you, it’s all about me and my feelings and needs at this point in time of my life.  I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me and let me go.  I also hope that in the future we can still be friends.  You are my best friend.  There is no question there. I do honestly love you, and care about you deeply.  I just need to spend time with my family, before it’s too late.  I know you are busy with the family estate and everything else that is going on in your life with you right now so I hope you understand that this is what is best for the both of us.  I will always think fondly of you and about us and the times we spent together often. I know you are strong enough to deal with this in a mature way, and please take good care of you.

Yours Truly,

Pierre.

I was heart broken and feeling a little devastated.  I always thought of us spending the rest of our lives together and growing old together.  I spent the day crying, alone.  03262011

Now I was torn about staying at the lake cabin or going back to Italy.  I was pacing back and forth that evening.  Unsure about my future.  I’m a Medium, I should have been able to see this coming.  What in the hell is wrong with me?  That’s all that kept ringing in between my ears.  “OK, Lucas get a hold of yourself.  What do you wan to do now?” I said to myself.  Unfortunately there wasn’t a quick answer.   I decided to travel the World and do some sight seeing and have some alone time.  I packed up my things and then I got out a global map.  I laid it out on the table and I just dropped my finger down.  The first place it hit was Alaska, USA.  I snapped my finders and my clothes changed from shorts and a t-shirt and converse shoes to hiking boots, heavy blue jeans and a Pendleton shirt.  I also had a beanie, scarf and gloves on.  I grabbed a Winter coat that was my Father’s out of the closet and put it on.  I closed my eyes and thought really hard about Alaska and then I teleported myself there.  I went right to the real estate office and talked to someone about finding a rental house.  The man at the office’s name was Randy and he took me to a nice two bedroom one bathroom cottage on Richardson drive, Anchorage, Alaska.  We walked inside and it was small and cozy.  “I’ll take it.”  “But I haven’t shown you the whole house and you don’t even know how much it costs.”  “Money is no object lets just go back to the office and fill out the paperwork.  I would like to move in a soon as possible.”   We returned to the office. I filled out the paperwork and put the security deposit and a few months rent in advance and Randy happily handed over the keys to me.  I walked out of the office and crossed the street to the rental car place.  I rented a nice pick pickup truck and then I returned to the cabin. 03262011

Thankfully there was enough wood to get me through the week.  I put some into the fireplace and then I just sat beside it.  I fell asleep on the floor wrapped up in a bear skin.  Once I woke up I decided to head out to the local grocery store and pick up supplies and food.  I made a list first of what I needed and then headed out.   The grocery store was really not that big.  It did have everything that I needed off my list.  I pushed the cart up to the register and began unloading it onto the belt.  The woman at the register said “Hi, you’re new in town. How are you?”  I smiled at her and then said “I’m doing pretty well thanks.”  “You have a little accent, is that European?”  “Yeah I was born and raised in Italy.”  “Wow, what brings you all the way up here? If you don’t mind me asking.” “Oh no not at all.  I just had a recent break up and I really needed to get away.  I decided to travel, you see, so I just closed my eyes and randomly pointed to the map and this is where my finger hit. So here I am.”  “Oh my God, that’s just mad crazy!”  I stopped what I was doing and just took a minute to really look at this woman who I was having a conversation with.  I hadn’t known her at all but while I was looking at her, when looked up at me and smiled a very big smile, my heart melted and I felt really unusual deep down inside.  I looked at her name tag and it said Agutaayuq . That‘s an interesting name, how do you pronounce that?”  She said it then sounded it out (Ah-goo-Tie-Yook) I smiled but I wasn’t going to attempt to say it. She continued “I’m Native Alaskan Indian, Inupiaq.”  I just looked at her and she was so beautiful.  Long dark black colored hair, high cheek bones, big brown eyes, and a perfect smile.”    She told me the total and continued to bag the groceries.  “We deliver too if you need that service in the future. By the way you haven’t told me your name yet.”  “Oh I’m Lucas Mesiti, a Native Italian.”  She chuckled a little then handed me the last bag.  “Thank you for stopping by, I’m sure I will see you again Lucas.”  “Thank you Agutaayuq.”  I could tell by the look on her face and the expression she had after I said her name that I had pronounced it correctly.  She handed me my change and right when her hand touched mine I had a vision of the future.  She and I were extremely intimate one evening in front of the fire place.  I shook my head to end the vision and she said “You have a special gift, that’s nice.”  03262011

I smiled and thanked her then I left the store and headed back to the house.  I put the groceries away and then all the sudden I felt someone’s hands cover my eyes.  I stopped with I was doing and felt them and I knew right away who’s they were. “Luigi!”  I spun around and hugged him and kissed him.  I hugged him so hard I started remembering the painful break up and started to cry.  He held me close into him like he always did since I was a little boy then he kissed the top of my head and said “Ssssshhh, baby brother everything is going to be okay.” I managed to stop crying enough to ask “What are you doing here?”  “I needed to check up on you, and you weren’t at the Italy Villa or the Island Villa so I just closed my eyes and then concentrated on you and here I am.”  “Could you please stay here for a few days?”  “Yes I have only a few days then I have to get back. So how did you end up in Alaska?”  “I just closed my eyes then spun the globe and pointed so to speak. I met a friend already who works at the local market, a nice girl.”  “That’s great, you need some friends. Lets make something to eat and open a bottle of our wine that I brought with me.”  He opened the wine and looked in the cupboard for glasses.  I hadn’t picked up any wine glasses.  He snapped his fingers and a box of four appeared.  I opened them and washed them out and then set them on the table for him to pour the wine.  “Would you rather call for take out or delivery” He asked.  “No it’s okay I picked up soup and salad let’s eat that.”  I heated the soup in the microwave and then served up soup and salad for dinner.  We finished one glass if wine and just as I set the empty glass down on the table it filled itself up with wine again. “What the hell?”  “It’s a new trick I learned from my new boss.” “Could you teach me that one, it really can come in handy.”  “Yeah sure.”  03272011

“Okay watch this, so while you are pouring the first glass of wine you concentrate on what you see, which is wine filling the glass.  Then you have to mentally command the wine to repeat until you tell it to stop. It takes practice. I didn’t get my first 10 times.”  The two of us stoked the fire and I set up our sleeping bags, cushions and pillows on the floor like we used to do when we were little boys.  I passed out and slept sound with out dreaming.  When I woke up Luigi was already up and cooking us breakfast.  “I went to the grocery store and picked up eggs, bacon and potatoes because you didn’t have any. I also bought you some plates, utensils and new cups.  Am I going to have to worry about you while we’re apart?” I wiped the sleep away from my eyes and then swept the hair out of my face. “No, I don’t think so. I just needed a change and this seemed like the best idea at the time.  Let’s see where it goes first okay?”   Breakfast was ready and it smelled so good.  We ate up and then Luigi said “I rented us some snow mobiles for the day I want to go for a ride.” That afternoon we went to the rental store and then we paid for the snow mobiles and we rode all around the countryside.  I was chasing him and he was chasing me.  It was the most fun I had ever had in the snow.  Our time was up and we returned the snowmobiles and then we went to the local theater to see a movie.  While we were there we ran into Agutaayuq and her cousin Takiyok. After the introductions they asked us if we wanted to sit next to them. “Yeah sure” I said.   We hung out after the movies and had dinner at the local diner, then they invited us to their home.  They had a beautiful gigantic log cabin deep in the woods.  All the windows in the place had a spectacular view of mother nature up close and personal.  We drank some Russian Vodka that they had traded the visiting Russians for furs.  We wound up staying the night that night.  Luigi slept with Takiyok and I slept with Agutaayuq.  I woke up realizing that the two of us got too drunk and managed to have sex.  I couldn’t apologize enough but she kept asking me “Why are you apologizing?  You didn’t have fun?”  “Oh no I had tons of fun yesterday, that’s the problem."  Both Luigi and I said our thank you’s and goodbyes, and the teleported back to the cabin right outside the log cabin front door.  03272011

It was really early and we were both tired so we went back to bed then woke up in the afternoon.  We cleaned up got dressed and then headed out again.  This time we were going on kayak run in the ocean to get in some sight seeing.  We got to the docks and then paid for the rentals and then got in our kayaks and tooled around the bay and the open ocean.  We came up to a spot were we could pull over get out and sit on the shore for a short time.  It was too cold for us so we got back into the kayaks and then paddled back to the rental docks.  Once inside the office we gave them the paddles and thanked them and then we went back to my cabin.  Luigi said his good bye’s and then left back for California. 03292011

I had a snack before bed then I fell asleep on the floor in front of the fireplace again.  I felt homesick and so I began to dream about Italy.  I woke up a little irritated. I knew I couldn’t go there because the breakup was too fresh in my memory for that.  I went to the store and purchased a map and then I did the same thing as before.  I closed my eyes then I picked a place to head to next.  I picked Hawaii, USA.   I got all my things ready to go.  I sent all the belongings ahead of me to the Villa in Italy, on the Island of Sardegna.  I closed my eyes and concentrated then I teleported myself to Hawaii.  I got a hotel room, rather than rent anything or buy anything. I rented the Deluxe Suite at The Four Seasons with the prime ocean view in Hawaii , Hualalai for $3,500.00 per night.  I went right to my room and fell back to sleep.  I slept in the next morning.  Once I did get up I showered and got dressed and found my way to the buffet court.  I had breakfast and coffee then I went for a long walk on the beach. It was different kind of sand than the beach I was used to at Island of Sardegna, Italy.  I spent the day out on the beach just lounging in a nice chair listening to the waves, and taking in the sun.  Every now and then a waiter or waitress would stop by and check to see if I needed anything.  I stayed there for about a week and then I was ready to go back to my home in Italy. 03292011

It was so quiet at the Villa.  My feelings changed and I demanded solitude and complete privacy and separation from the outside World.  I had the contractors come in and build a stone wall completely surrounding the estate.  They built a grand entrance off the main road that was built of solid wood, granite stones and boulders. Outside it said Mesiti on the top of the archway.  Under the house was old stone passageways that webbed out in every direction through out the property.  I had them sealed off from the outside then I had them remodeled with lighting, plumbing, and sewage.  There were rooms off those tunnels and I kept them top secret from everyone, even Luigi. In the largest rooms I had all the spell books and magical supplies stocked from floor to ceiling along every square inch across every wall.  The library that I was building over the years had everything you could imagine in it.  I also built a large green house the size of a football field and in all seasons I harvested every kind of herb known to man.  They were dried and packaged, sealed, labeled and then filed alphabetically away in another of the underground rooms. During one of my cave adventures I ran into an archeologist named Jason Bentley.  He and I had become best friends and we search and gathered all the rare stones, gems, and minerals that we could think of and stocked another room with them organizing them by strength of powers.  The next few years everything was completed and I began to build a small school on the compound so that he and I could teach others about everything we had and their usages. 03302011

After his heartbreak with Pierre, something happened to Lucas.  It hardened his heart and made him insensitive to others feelings about love and relationships.  He would take what he wanted with out any regard to how the other person might be feeling.  While in the city he ran into a handsome young man from Spain named Rodolfo Pérez.  The day that they me he was visiting a local Spanish restaurant and the juke box began playing Esmeralda Suite.  Lucas had a few Ginebra Martinis which he never drank, and he stood up from the table closed his eyes and began to dance around the floor by himself.  The body language, and magical energy he was creating cause Rodolfo, who was there to help his uncle run the place run up behind him and lightly sweep his hands around his body and dance in harmony with him. The patrons couldn’t help but stop what they were doing and just stare during the whole entire song and dance.  They stepped perfectly together and slid across the floor like they had been practicing all their lives for this exact moment.  Their steps were slick like a butter knife gliding through a soft tub of butter. After the song ended the whole place clapped and they slid over together to Lucas’ table and sat down. “Hello, you dance fantastic!” Rodolfo said.  “Thank you, you too.”  “Could we get together this evening after I finish my shift here?  I am helping my Uncle with the place and I would like to spend some time getting to know you.”  “Sure, here is my address. Come to my house after you are finished here.” “Hey, thanks and see you then!”  “Yeah you bet.” he said and then finished his dinner.  03302011

I went back home and then changed into my nice jeans, shirt, boots, belt and hat. The doorbell at the gate opened so I checked the security cameras and saw who it was then electronically signaled the gates to open. Rodolfo was dressed in jeans with low boots, a tight soft white button up shirt and a cowboy hat.  He walked up to the courtyard doors and then I opened them for him.  He said “Hey cowboy.”  “I said “You want to take a bath?”  He smiled and took out a cigarette and then his zippo and lit it quickly.  He puffed, and blew out smoke rings then turned to me and said “Let’s see how things go.”  I gave him a tour of the house, and then  we hung out in the garden and just spent hours talking. 03302011

I build a large private room inside the underground catacombs and in this room there was a natural  spring running from it.  I drank from the spring and it had the ability to stop my aging. Every day I would secretly go down there and take a drink from this natural spring. Over time there were unusual plants surrounding it and there was natural light coming in through small caves that lead to the surface of the ground.  As time went by I stopped counting my birthdays or telling people my true age.  I looked like I was in my mid twenties so that’s what I told people. Even though I was in my late twenties. I cast a spell on that door that only the people with good, pure intentions could ever enter it.  Otherwise it was never to be accessible to anyone.  I began writing about everything I learned and knew about the craft and spells as well as potion making and the effects of herbs and crystals.  This took me about two years to complete.  By then I was ready to take on a few apprentices.  The first who I took into my home was a young Irish boy named Bobby O’Conner.   The second was a young girl named Gina Stevens, an American.  I had them move in and they each had their own rooms in the Villa. 03312011

Day after day we would spend at least an hour together in the secret areas.  I would go over the books, and materials with them.  Eventually they would come on their own and research or practice the craft.  I made it mandatory that in the evenings for 2 hours we would not only meditate together but we would exchange warm positive energy back and forth between the three of us to keep the flow going.  This energy caused the endorphins to leak into the brain first then through out the entire body leaving us feeling happy, and giddy. Afterwards we would go up into the Villa and either share dinner or just make tea.  03312011

The next few weeks we were mastering and fine tuning our powers.  Gina was a master of invisibility, and levitation while Bobby was really becoming an expert on astroprojection as well as telekinesis.  The three of us had completely eliminated outward speech entirely and were able to hold full length conversations at the same time and comprehending every thought with very little effort.  We were ready to take on new students.  We posted an add in the local paper first to see how things would go.  Ten people applied.  I narrowed those ten down to five and moved them in right away. 04012011

The training never took place above ground and the group had to stay in the provided rooms in secret.  There was little if any outside contact to anyone or anything except one day a month where the trained were free to leave for the day and do what ever they wanted. The training was 90 days per group.  We were turning out new trainees into the World quickly and efficiently.  By the end of that year we held a party for the 20 students and then I took a well needed break.  I went to the Island of Sardegna Villa with Gina and Bobby. They were really becoming close themselves and I could sense they wanted to be more than friends.  There was no better place for them to begin a romance than there. 04012011

Rodolfo came to  the Island of Sardegna Villa and I showed him the private and secluded swimming hole with the waterfall, then I took him to my favorite little restaurant.  Then we walked the beach together and found a nice spot to just sit and look up at the stars. We never really talked much.  I sometimes wondered why that was but it wasn’t really too important to me. I somehow fell asleep on the beach.  I began dreaming about my Mother and Father, Grandpa and Grandma.  They asked me if I was okay?  I said “Why are you asking me that?”  “You seem different, is all.” Mom said.  “Well, now that you ask, I have been feeling a little depressed lately.  I don’t know why.  I have everything and anything anyone could ever need.”  “Lucas, don’t lie to us or yourself.  Once the winds change you will find yourself living a life you never have expected.”  Grandma said then Grandpa continued “I want you to understand that what ever happens to you just know that you have us and Luigi, and that’s forever!” The dream ended and I woke up gasping.  I looked around for Rodolfo and he was really no where to be found.  I walked back to the Villa and went right to bed. 04012011

I didn’t dream again for the rest of the night.  Rodolfo was gone and there wasn’t a note, with any rhyme or reason what so ever.  I went to the other rooms and Gina and Bobby had packed up and left.  I found myself all alone.  I couldn’t figure out what happened to them so I just decided to stay on and concentrate on myself for a while. 04012011

I was feeling fatigued so I went to lay down on the couch.  I dozed off and then heard some noise coming from the kitchen.  I got up and walked in and there were the two apprentices, fighting over what they were going to make for breakfast. ‘Hey guys where did you go?”  “Well we weren’t going to tell you because we thought you might not let us go but we received this threatening note at the Italy Villa a while ago and we were trying to figure out who it is and put a stop to them” Bobby said. “I think if there’s someone threatening me or us that I should be in the loop. Do you have the letter with you?” Gina snapped her fingers and then a wrinkled warn out letter appeared. She handed it to me and it said:

Lucas Mesiti I will stop you and your little magic circle before it even gets started. Your use of magic is flamboyant and careless.  It is a gift that you should honor, treasure and be keeping sacred. If everyone was supposed to learn it and obtain it then they would have been born with it! Stop what you are doing, or else I will.

“This letter isn’t signed.  So how id it that you think that you can figure out who wrote it or sent it?”  Just then I got a day vision and I saw the man who wrote it.  He was a tiny man with a large head.  His arms were short but his hands and fingers weren’t.  He was walking somewhere and had a limp in his step.  The limped food dragged along the floor with each step.

In the vision he was walking away down a dark corridor.  He stopped, slowly turned and looked right at me, then he said “I will kill you!”  I gasped with fear and fell to the pulled out chair at the table.  “You saw him?” Bobby asked. “Yes, clear as day. He’s threatened to kill me.”

“Ha, not while were here boss” Gina shouted with fierceness. “Okay, I need to think.  How are we going to put a stop to these threats?” Bobby suggested “We could go to him and then teach him a thing or two about respect.”  Gina high fived him and I said “No, not unless we absolutely have to. I am thinking more along the lines of changing his thought process.”  I grabbed a cup of the fresh coffee Gina made and walked out back.  I sat down on the ground and then I cleared my head.  I meditated for the next few hours asking the same question over and over and over again.  I traveled in my mind back to see that small man. He was walking away from me and this time I reached out in the vision and tapped him on the shoulder.  I said “Who are you and what business is it of yours what I do and how I do it?”  He spun around again and his eyes were fiery red and looked to be steaming with anger. “I am Zoilock, an ancient Warlock and you are tapping into magical forces that you aught not to! “  I smiled at him then I said “You don’t own the forces and if I am able to tap as you so call it into anything then it’s the will to be. I’m only going to tell you this once, You stay away from me and my apprentices or I will be forced to do something to you that will strip you of your powers for eternity. Don’t think I don’t have the resources, my family has been in this business since the beginning of time! You mess with me, then you mess with them!”  I ejected a huge bolt of energy when I left his presence and it threw him to the floor right on his butt.  04022011

I came to and then ran inside.  “Okay kids we need to find everything and anything we can about this ancient Warlock who calls himself Zoilock!”  “We will get right on that after we eat breakfast “ Gina said. They threw down three plates of steak and mushroom filled omelets and we ate breakfast together and then got to work on our assignment.  I zapped a book from our Villa library titles “Ancient Warlocks of the past” .  I opened it up to the section about Zoilock and began reading.  “It says here that he would be over 900 years old today.  They think he’s dead.”  I continued reading to myself.  There wasn’t anything really special about the guy other than at one point in time he was a confidant to the Rome before he was excommunicated for treason. “It says here her was excommunicated for treason in Rome. I wonder why they didn’t just put him to death?”  “Perhaps they tried and they found out they couldn’t” Bobby said.  “Well, I say we locate him in person the three of us and see what he’s made of”  Gina suggested.  “Okay are you ready?”  “What? Wait! Is this the smartest thing to do?” said Bobby. “Probably not but how else are we going to find out?” I grabbed the both of them by their hands and then thought about the Warlocks face.  In seconds we were in his presence at his lair.  He turned quickly and said “Volbooshka” and the three of us were trapped inside some strange force fields.  “Now I can kill you three and be done with this.” I remembered my training with Paza and I lightly and delicately blew wind through my lips and the force fields all vanished. “I am going to do something I’ve never thought I would need to do!” I began to chant the Ultimate Sacrifice Spell.  “Stop, who taught you that spell?” He asked. I said  “Nobody it’s in my families ancient spell book.” I continued with the spell and then everything came clear to me.  I knew what I needed to do I extended my hands and then I said “I remove the curse.”  The Warlock was surrounded with stars and clouds that were circling around him and he turned into a twenty something year old tall handsome man.  He looked at himself in the mirror and fell to his knees and just wept into his hands.  I walked over to him and said, “Who cursed you?”  He said "it was your 8th Great Nonie.  She was mad at me for leaving her. We were in love but I had no choice, I was cast out.”  04022011

I took him by the hand and we all went back to the my family compound in Italy. Zoilock was worried about the Roman treason charge.  I said “Wait here I will look into it and take care of this.”  I left to the Vatican City and then spoke with the Catholic leaders.  They forgave him and drew up some paperwork for proof.  I took it back to him and he began to read it and weep again.  “So, what would you like to do now?”  “Could I stay here? It reminds me of your family and my love for them.”  “Of course you can.”  I showed him the underground headquarters and the secret meditation room.  He studied, and practiced his magic and was pretty content managing and care taking  the property.   I was beginning to really like him and enjoying his company too. 04022011

The time came for the Apprentices to graduate to full fledge Witches and Wizards, so they stayed on and took on their own apprentices each. I stopped teaching and just worked at wine making as well as sculpturing.  I did however teach Zoi how to sculpt and paint.  He was actually a natural and probably just a little better at it than me. “Hey Zoi, how about you and I get out of here and see the beach?”  He said “Yeah sure let’s go.”  I grabbed his hand and snapped my fingers and we were at the Island paradise.  “This is where I was when I first learned about you. It’s always nice to revisit.”  “Yes it’s a very nice villa.”   I felt like Zoi was my friend as well as a long lost relative.  He and I spent every minute together learning and teaching each other all that we knew and understood about everything.  I was beginning to realize how it was so easy for my ancestor Gram to fall madly in love with him and then want to curse him when he was forced to leave her.  04022011

After a few weeks I got a call from my brother Luigi asking me to meet him in California.  He said he had a job for me and that there really wasn’t anyone else to do the job as well as he could so I said my goodbyes to everyone and then left for California.  That is a whole other adventure. Perhaps you could read about it sometime.  04222011

The End.