There is no denying she was smart and with the many awards she had amassed she had the proof, but the problem was she knew her own intelligence and had become insufferable to live with because of it. Her name was Kendra and at 21 she was my older sister by two years and although we were both in college at the time we still lived at home with our parents.
My name is Stacy and although I am nowhere as brilliant as my sister, I still do well in my classes and always have, the problem is that no one in my family ever noticed because the mighty Kendra always made sure the light was shining on her. I was the invisible sibling and always had been and if it were not for my best friend Carol I would have probably slipped into oblivion long ago.
As far as looks go Kendra and I favor each other and for the most part we are just average with dark brown hair and blue eyes, we are neither knockout gorgeous or unattractive we just reside somewhere in the middle. We both have medium sized breasts and slim frames with fairly narrow hips and from what Carol says our ass is not too bad to look at. Neither Kendra or I had ever had trouble finding dates and the boys seemed to like us both so I always assumed we were fairly attractive and never gave ours looks much thought, that is until the day Kendra's attitude about herself caused her to belittle my only friend Carol and forced me across a line I could never pull back from.
It was the middle of the fall semester when it happened and Carol and I were walking across campus making small talk as we passed under the trees with the orange and gold leaves that lined the path that led to the student union. The birds had yet to migrate and we could hear them singing as we enjoyed the peace of the afternoon together, that was until the mighty Kendra came storming up to Carol like a thundercloud and began to chew her out right there in public.
"Carol!" Kendra spat at her "is it true you gave out my phone number to a freshman girl with the instructions to call me and ask for help?" she said glaring "How dare you give out my personal information."
"I am sorry Kendra" she said. "It is just that she is in my math class and she is having trouble with her algebra and I thought that as smart as you are you could help her out" returned Carol with a defensive and apologetic tone in her voice. "I really did not mean to offend you."
"Well, you may not have meant to offend me, but you most certainly have. How could you assume I would help some freshman when I have my own classes to study for as well as preparations to participate in the next College Intelligence Bowl?"
I stepped in at this moment and said "Kendra, lower your voice, there is no reason for everyone out here to hear you, now just calm down and we can work this out!"
"Stay out of this Stacy!" Kendra said. "It is because she is your friend and we are sisters that your ingrate friend can make assumptions involving me and my time."
After hearing this I was becoming angry myself and said "how dare you call my friend and ingrate! How stuck on yourself have you really become? Just because you are intelligent does not give you the right to walk on other peoples feelings."
"So says the girl who doesn't exist" returned Kendra. "We live in the same house, but only one of us has ever been in the family! As far as mom and dad are concerned, you are just a border in one of the bedrooms, all their attention belongs to me."
"That is why I won't allow you to insult the only person who has been there for me through all your stuck up crap, now go away and leave her alone!"
"Oh, I'll go away alright" said Kendra. "I will however do it with the knowledge that not only is your friend an ingrate, but you are also. You're both just unintelligent little bottom feeders living off the smart people in the world, just like that helpless little freshman that called me!"
I had all I was going to take and years of anger welled up when I leaned in and whispered in Kendra's ear. "I don't know how I will do it, but I am going to make you regret this day and a hundred others. When I am through it will be you that is the unintelligent bottom feeder, only in ways you could never have imagined. I will not rest until I find a way to reduce you to the lowest form of life I can think of."
Stepping back, she just glared at me and said "is that supposed to scare me? You and your little friend just stay away from me and forget I ever existed, the same way mom and dad have forgot that you do." With that she turned and stormed back the way she had come.
Carol and I were now in the student union setting at a table across from each other, but we were not talking because I was still mad at Kendra and I felt it best to cool down before I opened my mouth. I could tell that Carol was worried about me by the way she kept looking into my eyes and searching them so I decided I would let her know I was going to be fine.
"I can't believe the nerve of her, how can anyone be so stuck on their self?" I asked Carol.
"Well, I hate to say anything bad about her because she is your sister, but that was probably the rudest thing I have ever been a part of. I admit maybe I should have asked her first about helping the girl with her math, but the way she handled the whole thing was irresponsible and calling me an ingrate hurt my feelings!" Carol said to me across the table.
"Carol, after today, you can call the stuck up bitch anything you want and it won't bother me a bit. In fact, I mean to follow up on my threat to her any way I can."
Looking across the table I asked Carol if she had heard what I had whispered in Kendra's ear?
"You were kind of quiet but I got the gist of what you said about turning her into the lowest form of being you could think of, is that right?" She asked.
"Yes, that's it," I returned. "And now we are going to figure out just what that is and how we can accomplish the transformation. I am going to make sure it is completely life changing and permanent with no way to reverse it. Her days of thinking she is superior is drawing to a close. I think it is time for us to expand our little hobby and become a bit more educated in some of its deeper secrets."
If anyone at all had paid any attention to what Carol and I did with our spare time they would know that we had found a book on witchcraft at a yard sale and we had begun to try and figure out some of the spells on our own. We weren't all that serious with it, but we had learned how to turn the tip of a pencil we were using as a wand into a bright light and how to make a cup slide across the table. Unfortunately though most of the spells were beyond us, we had neither the skills or the materials to make them work.
Now however that was about to change, I just happened to have the spell book with me and pulled it out of my backpack and began to thumb slowly through looking for a spell that would do what we needed it to do. There were spells of all kinds of situations from curses to counter curses, but it wasn't until I got near the end of the spell book that I discovered the spell that just might fit our needs. It was described as a potion that could change one thing into something entirely different like a sawhorse into a real horse, but it could also be used to just manipulate and make subtle changes to anything including humans.
Sliding the book across the table I let Carol have a look and I could tell by the twinkle in her eye she also thought it just might be the spell we needed. Now we just needed to figure out how to find all the items and ingredients it required to make it work. "So how do you suppose we find all of this stuff?" I asked Carol.
"Well, I believe we can just use the yellow pages, there are real witches and they have to have shops somewhere here in the city to buy the supplies they need to conduct their magic" she answered.
"That's a great idea Carol!" I said, "and to think Kendra assumes she has cornered the market on smarts. Ok, you run and find us a phone book and I will write down these ingredients we need when we find a shop."
An hour later we were walking through the door of the "Eagle's Eye Magic Emporium" when we heard a bell ring announcing our arrival into the shop. It was dark and dingy and smelled of dust and mildew when we entered but it would be clichΓ© to expect any less of a place like this. Standing at the door for a moment to let our eyes adjust to the low light we could hear foot step's approaching and when a man came into view near the door, he said "welcome to my shop ladies, what kind of mischief may I assist you with today?"
"Hello! " I said in return "we have a list of things we need and maybe a little knowledge on a couple of things if you can spare it?" I said smiling at him as I handed him our list of items.
Glancing through the list for a moment he spoke up and said "you are in luck, I have everything you need except the modeling clay and there is a hobby shop just down the street where you can pick that up." With that he headed into the store and started gathering our items as we followed along.
Once he had found everything we needed he laid it out on the counter and then he looked me in the eyes and said "I know what spell this is for and I need to tell you that whatever you are going to use it for can never be reversed so think twice before doing something mean or revengeful with it."
"Yes, sir, we certainly will, we are just going to practice it on small things" I lied. As he started to tally up the price of our purchase I glanced at Carol then added. "I was wondering if you could tell me anything special we need to know about making this spell work and if you would mind explaining it to us?"
As he started to bag our items he went over the spell step by step as he described the exact sequence to use to get the best results and as he finished, he said. "Remember, once you have used the drops you only have the exact time it takes for the sand in your new hour glass to run out, then it is over and it can never be reversed."
"Yes, sir, " I said "we understand. Like I told you we are just going to practice with coffee cups and other small things."