The three other boys stared at Alec, waiting for something -- anything -- to happen to him.
"Is it working?" Calvin asked, scrunching his nose as he tilted his head to the side. "Is he any bigger?"
"Well," Vincent put his hand to his chin as he studied Alec closely, "maybe an inch or -- nah, I don't think he's changed at--"
He stopped and all four boys gasped as a bright iridescent light started to radiate from Alec's body. Eli and Vincent both winced a little, shielding their eyes with their hands, but Calvin's eyes only went wider. "Awesome!" he exclaimed. "What's it feel like, Alec?"
Alec couldn't answer, either unwilling or unable to talk while his body was being affected by the spell. His eyes had closed as soon as the light had started, and, strangely enough, his hair seemed to stand on its end. As the light continued to shine, he began to grow taller, more and more of him coming into existence, his muscled chest filling out his black polo and causing it to start to tear a little at the seams. His jeans were becoming more skin tight as he inched upward, and the bottom of his shirt could no longer completely cover his stomach, revealing a set of washboard abs with a thin trail of striking red hair running from his navel down towards his crotch.
After about thirty seconds, the light quickly dissipated, and Alec's growth halted, leaving him a hair taller than Vincent at just over seven feet. His clothes had definitely seen better days but were still straining to stay on his large, powerful frame. He opened his eyes, first looking out at his stunned, speechless roommates, then down at his body, marveling at his new size. A smile slowly crept across his lips, and he began to chuckle.
"Wow," he said, shaking his head in delight, "I've gotta hand it to you, Eli, you sure know how to cast a spell."
"I'll say!" Calvin chimed in, grinning even more than Alec, and he let out a whistle. "You look fuckin' fantastic!"
"Interesting," Vincent said, impressed but not as excited as the other two. "I guess I now have some competition for the biggest guy in the room."
The only one of the three who didn't seem to be happy with the spell's effects was the one who had cast it. "I don't know, guys," Eli said as he wiped sweat from his brow. "This doesn't seem right. I need to change you back, Alec."
"Are you kidding?!" The protest came simultaneously from both Alec and Calvin, but Alec was the one who continued, "C'mon, Eli, don't you think this is incredible? Besides, what's the harm in having a little fun?"
"We could get in trouble, for starters," Eli responded. "Dean Corinth finds out that we've stolen a priceless book from the library and used spells way beyond our level, and he'll expel us from the university."
Alec rolled his eyes. "Eli, why do you always have to be so worst-case-scenario about everything?" He gave Eli a friendly slug on the shoulder that hit a little too hard, not yet used to his increased strength. "Besides, how will the Dean find out?"
Rubbing the new bruise on his bicep, Eli frowned up at Alec through the hair that had fallen into his eyes again. "Some of us have to be careful, you know. If I get kicked out, I don't have 'Mommy' and 'Daddy' to fall back on and support me. And I think word of one of his students suddenly growing a foot taller is the kinda thing that'll find its way to the Dean pretty quickly."
At this, Vincent's brow furrowed. "He's right, Alec," he said, his voice sounding even deeper than usual. "It's not like this is a subtle change."
Alec sighed, shaking his head. "Fine, fine, we can be careful about using it. I'll let you change me back… after we try a few more spells."
"No!" Slamming the spell book shut, Eli jumped up out of his chair, knocking it to the floor in the process. The three other boys were taken aback slightly by the unexpected and uncharacteristic force that the usually mousey boy suddenly displayed. Walking over to Alec, the spell book in hand, Eli glared up at him, doing his best to look determined and insistent, a task that was all the more difficult by the fact that he was currently eye-level with Alec's pecs. "I'm changing you back now, and then I'm going to take this book back to the library and making sure none of us can ever find it again!"
A tense silence filled the room. Calvin glanced at Vincent, then at Eli, then up to Alec, unsure of what to think of all this. "C'mon, guys," he finally said, his voice cracking slightly, "can't we find a way to work this out somehow?"
"Sure," Alec said, as he reached in and quickly grabbed the book from Eli, who tried to hold on with all his might but was easily outmatched by the bigger, stronger boy. "Eli, I know you'll come around sooner or later, and see that keeping this book will be the best thing that's ever happened to you or any of us. In fact," he said, as he started flipping through to the pages and finding the section that Eli had read from a few minutes ago, "I think I've found just the thing."
"Alec, No!" Eli cried out, trying to grab the book back, but it was too late, as Alec had already read a new spell aloud.
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