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Magic wasn’t real. She knew it wasn’t. She’d spent her entire life past the age of eight knowing magic wasn’t real. Magic was a mere work of fiction and legend, to act as a backdrop to the more relatable and human aspects of a story. Jessica was hardly the kind of girl to believe in the supernatural. She was a law student at Stanford University. She’d worked hard her entire life to get to the place that she was with nothing but hard work and sheer will. She’d never sought help from the supernatural or the occult. She’d never even tried. So why was she now looking at a magic tome? “Are you serious, Jai?” Jessica asked her friend, raising an eyebrow to Jaiden. “Totes! I mean, why’d I dick you around with something like this?” Jaiden laughed at the question, as if it wasn’t even worth asking. The pair were fairly different, neither seeming to ‘match’ each other in any way. Yet they were the best of friends. Something about them simply clicked together, like two pieces of a jigsaw