- If it always appears when a child makes a wish ... then we have to celebrate a birthday this afternoon.

-But what birthday? Mine has already passed and yours ...

Eilleem suddenly shut up. He had no idea when his grandmother's birthday was. Shyly he looked up in shame and before asking the question, Grandmother responded naturally.

- February 29. A day that only comes every four years. Why do you think I keep myself so well? I only turn years when it's leap ...

The girl looked at her intrigued Grandmother. Was what he said true? The old woman always spoke in that enigmatic tone that it was difficult to know when she was serious and when joking ...

- But this dates doesn't matter. We are going to "invent" a birthday, it doesn't have to be true, it is worth it.

So Grandma Luci and Eilleem started to make a delicious chocolate cake. When it was finished, Grandma began looking for candles in a very old furniture, dark wood and something cochambrosa that seemed about to become dust. He opened one of the drawers and began to take out a mountain of objects: rusty silver teaspoons, sugar envelopes, crumpled napkins, a yellow sheet notebook, bottle corks, keys that seemed to have never opened a door, old calendars with cats on the cover, lemon candies, recipes cut from a magazine ...

- But Grandma ... how are you going to find something here? What a mess!

- Shut up girl, don't let me down, I'm about to get it.

And soon, he gave a shriek of satisfaction.

- Here it is!

It was a tiny bag where there was a group of colored candles, quite consumed. They took them out of the bag and counted them. There were twelve. They took a few and put them in the chocolate cake and went to the lounge. From one of the table drawers, Grandma Luci took out a white tablecloth with yellow embroidery. He set plates and glasses and prepared to light the candles.

- Just a moment! - Eilleem suddenly shouted - Are we just going to be you and me? What a birria birthday, nobody will believe that.

- And who do you want to invite?

- Well, I don't know ... but a birthday with two people ... What a roll!

They followed the plan they had thought and Eilleem before blowing the candles asking for the wish "I wish to recover my fantasy". The following day, she woke up and quickly noticed that her plan had worked, regained her fantasy and felt very happy for the rest of her life.

- We have to get rid of your parents - Grandma Luci said rubbing her hands thoughtfully.

Convincing Dad to let them spend the weekend together was not easy. He knew his mother well and knew that he was very independent and had never paid much attention to his grandchildren.

- Why suddenly this interest? I know you and I know you're up to something.

- My son, don't be suspicious. I have simply realized that Eilleem is almost a little woman and I feel like spending time with her.

With these arguments, both finally got Mom and Dad to accept that Eilleem spend the weekend with Grandma Luci.

- What a thrill! All weekend away from home - Eilleem exclaimed when they were on the street - Are we going home by bus?

- By bus? - asked the strange Grandmother - But if I have the car right there ...

- I didn't know you were driving, Grandma. You had never shown me your car.

- You never asked me, dear. Look, it's that one.

He pointed to a dilapidated green car parked on the front sidewalk. Eilleem smiled in pleasure and sat down happily with her Grandmother. Inside it smelled like dust and damp. It was the oldest car he had ever seen. 

Without knowing very well what to do, Eilleem began looking for the lost letters around the room. He opened all the drawers. She looked in the closet and finally she reached down on the floor and searched under the bed.

That was when the door to the room opened and Grandma Luci appeared. Eilleem, Grandma Luci had always seemed a bit odd. It was not like the rest of the grandmothers. He always wore striped pants and shirts. His fingernails painted red and his hair white and very shiny, cut to medium length. He had a very serious and serious voice, which got a little scary, that, although, according to Dad, before marrying he had worked as a clown in a circus and she had traveled all over Europe.

- “Can you know what you do there?” Said grandma.

Hearing Grandma Luci's loud voice, Eilleem got out of bed, thinking what excuse she was going to make up to explain why she was under the bed. But she didn't have time. As soon as the grandmother saw Eilleem's face she jumped and screamed in fright.

- “But what the hell happened to you? You're older than me” said granma.

Eilleem understood that unlike Mama, Grandma Luci could observe her just as she looked: aged. That is why he had no choice but to tell him everything that had happened since the birthday candles were blown.

Hearing that shriek, Mom stuck her head out the door.

- “Eilleem, are you alright?” Eillem’s mother said.

- “Nooooooooooo. I am older I have become an old woman!” said Eilleem

Mom looked at the girl with surprise:

- “What silly things are you saying, Eilleem! That you've turned seven, not seventy” said Eillem’s mother ...

- “But look at me: I have wrinkled skin, gray hair, I'm a grandmother” sail Eilleem...

- “Eilleem, you are as unusual. you must have had a nightmare - and before the incredulous face of her daughter” Eilleem’s Mom said while approaching a mirror.

Mom was right. Eilleem herself was always on the other side of the mirror, with her reddish hair, her eyes wide and her skin soft and pink. However, looking at herself. Eilleem was still looking at herself deformed and old body and felt as tired as if she had lived a hundred years. What was happening?

- “Make a wish before blowing, Eilleem”, all his friends shouted in chorus.

Eilleem tried to think of a wish: Eating all the chocolate in the world, Being able to watch TV whenever you want. Going to bed late, Not having to go to school so early, Having a dog, That mom doesn't get mad when she doesn't want to eat the fruit. A bicycle without wheels. That dad doesn't bother him to make noise when he wants to hear the news ...

A single wish? Impossible to decide.

-“Come Eilleem, what are going to consume the candles!” said Eileen’s mother

- “Sure, don't turn it over, ask for the first thing that comes to your mind”, said Eileen’s friends

Eilleem looked around in hopes of finding the perfect desire. But what he saw was a stack of books she had received as a gift. What a hobby people had with giving away books! With what little she liked reading ...

- “I wish I didn't have to read more - he thought suddenly and blew the seven candles hard”, said Eilleem