Robert looked at the Latin printed out on the page - Fieri fortior. Did that mean fire maybe? Languages weren't his thing, so he was obviously way off. In fact, it meant "become stronger". It had nothing at all to do with fire.
He spoke it aloud, half expecting a fire to just manifest itself from out of nowhere ... and when nothing happened, he laughed to himself, realizing how silly this all was. Magic really didn't exist after all. He closed the book and set it down next to him. He was glad none of his teammates saw him. They'd never let him forget it. He shook his head, then decided to get going. He couldn't lounge around in Terri's bedroom the whole day. He had to get to football practice. Coach Davis would kill him if he didn't get there on time. It was hard to juggle his life as both an athlete and a scientist, but for the most part, he was managing. He just didn't want to give the coach an excuse to throw him off the team.
So with that, Robert Briggs got redressed and headed out of Terri's room, forgetting to put the spellbook back in hiding under the bed.
He didn't notice it, but that spell he read did come true. He was now muscular, way more fit than he was before. But he was ignorant of the changes in reality. That was because all that time ago, Abagail Blackwood placed a curse on the family of her arch rival Selena Grimm. For Selena and all of her descendants, they would still be able to use magic, but any effects that happened because of it, they wouldn't notice. So that was why Robert now thought that he's always been a muscular scientist with an athletic scholarship. Any time he used magic, he wouldn't notice the changes caused by it. He may even never remember using magic in the first place.
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