The orange glow of the street lamps shone on the narrow road and lit up the quiet row of houses. In one large window stood a table surrounded by a family sharing there past child hood moments. The young couple Erika Coal and Demetri Coal had just moved in to their new house and for a celebration dinner had gone to Erika’s Aunts house. Aunt Lyla had just been telling Erika about their holiday that they were going on. Aunt Lyla wanted to give her niece a present. She brought out a box decorated with blue and silver flowers. She opened the box and brought out an object the object was a pen with gold and white symbolic Arabic writing around it, it looked like a lost treasure to Erika. Erika asked what it was the Aunt explained what the pen was. The aunt sat down suspiciously and said, “this pen holds a great power” Erika looked at her aunt weirdly and said, “ what do you mean great power, it’s only a pen?” The aunt answered with a grin on her face “the pen is magical, you can make wishes with the pen. That’s how we got that holiday we’re going on, we wished for it.” Erika and Demetri bedazzled glared at each other. Erika asked her aunt inquiring, “How do you make it work?”
“You mean that you can actually wish with it?” the aunt replied reinsuring Erika “Yes of course it works, do you want to give it a try?” Erika looked at Demetri and he had an uncertain look on his face he answered the Aunt “I’m not too sure about the pen, something could go wrong”. The aunt not satisfied with the reply decided to tell the couple about the pen. She described from what she knew, the pen to be a few thousand years old. The Aunt Also told the couple about whom the pen originally belonged to. The owner was a great ruler called Emperor Aftab he had the pen made for his future wife to be Ayshia, her beauty blossomed the Emperor’s heart. He gave her the pen so that when he went away to war she could wish for whatever she wanted to keep her self-happy, but the wishes would only work if she stayed faithful to Aftab. Years past and there was no sign of the Aftab’s return, Ayshia had gotten dreadfully lonely but was told by everyone to move on, she was getting old she needed to get married time was running out. The Empire had even been taken over by one of Aftab’s brother. Ayshia had decided that if Aftab returned she would return to him. Ayshia got married to a very rich shipper. The only thing she had left of Aftab she kept well. She had forgotten about what the King had said to her on the conditions and she wished for a child for her husband. The wished was granted but as warned it went wrong and she died having the child. The aunt said, “It is said that if you only use one wish it will be granted and nothing will go wrong”. The couple staggered and impressed by the past of the pen took it. Erika promised to only use one wish and went home.
