No, you won’t quit magic. You’re moving out. She’ll see in the end that you’re right

“Mom, I wish you could see how unreasonable you’re being. I can actually do magic. That’s huge. I can bend the universe to my will. You want me to give that up, because you’re superstitious about it corrupting me and bitter about being left by a man who happened to use magic,” you tell her.

She shakes her head, “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you about what it could do to you before. If you don’t stop now, I’m afraid it will be too late.”

“I’m not stopping, Mom,” you insist. “I’m going to see what magic can do. I’ll make things better for our whole family. If you can’t accept that, I’ll just have to move out and do it on my own. I’ll stay with Mark for a little while, until I get on my feet.”

Your mother closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. It looks like she’s trying to compose herself and not lose her temper. “Don’t talk nonsense. You can stay here until you graduate and get a job at least. Are you in such a rush to cast spells that you’d rather sleep on someone’s couch than under my roof for a month?”

You get up and put your empty bowl in the dishwasher. “I’d rather not stay where I’m not allowed to discover who I really am.” You tell your mom. You head upstairs to shower and get ready for school. When you look in the bathroom mirror, you can see you definitely need to shave today. Your stubble is thick and dark. It makes your jawline look stronger. You think there’s also something different around your eyes, it might just be a more confident expression though.

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That day in school, you catch up with Mark. “Hey! Any chance I could stay over at your place for a few days? I have to get out of my house for a while. Can’t deal with my mom right now.”

Mark gave a shrug, “I’ll check with my folks, but I think it’ll be fine. I can’t imagine wanting to get out of your house though. If I got to live with your mom and sister, I’d never leave,” he said with a smirk.

You roll your eyes at him. “Dude, they’re my mom and sister,” you say, sounding exasperated with his attraction to the women in your family. Inside you can’t help feeling smug that you have complete control over Abbie and can do anything you want with her, and in his whole life, he’ll probably never get a girl as hot as she is. “Anyway, let me know what your parents say. I’ll come by around dinnertime on Friday if it’s cool.”

During lunch, you find a study desk in the library and pull up the magic website on your phone. You look over the new page. The spells on this page didn’t have the weird mythological names anymore. You scroll down the page and look at the short explanation of each spell.

Look Far - lets you scry a person, object, or location from a distance, sensing everything as if you were there.

Look Back - lets you scry a specific point in the past of a place, item, or person, sensing everything that happened nearby as if you were there.

Both Look spells require a deep trance and can cause headaches, blurred vision, and tinnitus for hours after they are used.

Double-headed coin - allows the mage to control the outcome of a single random event, if the odds are about 50/50, or better in your favor. Often this results in some minor bad turn of luck for the caster, some time in the future.

Below those spells, you see a section that introduces sex magic. It explains what you already pieced together some of from your mom. Sex magic requires a partner who is acting of their own free will, understands the intent of the spell, and believes that it will work. There's a statement that the more unconventional or shocking to norms the sexual acts are, the more powerful the spells will be. The sex magic spells listed are:

Aegis - protects the subject from any magical influence from a mage other than the caster. The psychic guardrails established by this spell can have the effect of causing the subject to become distrustful and ‘walled-off’.

Financial Windfall - ensures that significant amounts of money will come your way, one way or another. It requires the destruction of an item of value to the caster during the ritual.

Mind Probe - allows you to delve into the memories and thoughts of a subject, to discover anything they know. Have a clear question in mind that you wish to find the answer to. This requires hair, fingernail clippings, a blood stain, or some other sample that was once part of the subject’s body.

Change Memory - Wipe about half a day’s worth of memories from the subject and replace it with a memory you construct. The caster must first Mind Probe the subject’s memory of the time to be erased and replaced.

You click on the link for the Financial Windfall spell and see that among other things, the ritual requires bondage and hot wax to be used on your sexual partner. You hope that Cyn is going to be up for that.

At the bottom of the page is this message: “As you grow in experience, there will be more to learn.”

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After school, you head home, planning to throw your toothbrush and enough clothes for a few days into a backpack. Abbie’s car is in the driveway. “I’m home,” you call out as you walk in the door. You head straight for your room.

Abbie comes in while you’re jamming your socks into the bag. She hugs you from behind. You can feel her soft breasts press against your back. “I don’t like the idea of living apart from you, even for a few days, Stretch. Are you sure you have to move out so soon? Why not stay at least until we get another place?” she pleads.

You turn around to face Abbie. “Mom said no magic while I’m living here. I’m going to show her that she’s wrong, even while I’m following the rules she laid down,” you tell her firmly. “So I’ll move out. I’ll get by.”

Her lower lip quivers slightly. “I might not,” she says quietly.

You stroke your hand up and down her arms. “I’ll make sure you’re all right, Abs,” you tell her. “The sooner you get me in contact with Cyn and we get her on board with helping me with the sex magic, the better. I found the spell to bring in money.”

“Her band is playing at a dive bar Friday. I could sneak you in so you can meet her,” Abbie tells you.

“OK. Think you can get Mark in, too? He agreed to let me spend the night at his house. It would be weird to ditch him to go out, and then show up at his place after the bars close. He’d love to come along if you’re going though,” you add in a teasing voice. Your sister knew Mark had a crush on her. “You might have to keep him distracted while I talk to your friend Cyn, too."

Abbie smirks, “Sure. He’s mostly harmless. I’ll get him in, too. The bouncer at this place doesn’t pay that close attention. You both might have to carry some amps and drums, so it looks like you’re with the band.” She puts her arms around your neck and presses her body close against yours. “Now can we get to the important stuff? I need you bad, Stretch.”

“Have you figured out a place for us to get some privacy?” you ask.

She gives a nod. “The middle of the day is kind of hard. Anywhere in my car would be too public. I don’t think that we want to spill the beans about us to Cyn and use her place, unless she’s enchanted. I figure I have enough money saved and can put some debt on my credit card to afford an hour a day at the short-stay motel out on the highway, if we don’t have to do that for too long.”

You nod. “Looks like that’s what we’ll be doing, then. I’ve got what I need here,” you say as you slide your hand down her back, cup her ass cheek and squeeze hard. “Let’s go.”