The Simplest Kind of Magic
Romeo laughed at the conversation. They were sitting at a table a little far away from him, but he could still hear their heated discussion. "Can I say something?" he tried to say, but his words came out with strain.
They all looked back at him with wonder. How is he managing to talk?
"What happened, Romeo?" Luca asked innocently.
"When I was in grade school, my teacher used to give out chocolates in class everytime we got the right answer. His father was a retired magician, that we kids knew… but we never understood how our teacher took out chocolates from his coat sleeves despite him removing the coat and showing us it's empty. One day, we all studied a lot and said the maximum number of right answers, and even then he had enough chocolates inside his sleeves to hand out to everybody. We were all shocked.