"You did?" Kara ran to her boyfriend's side as fast as she could. Her hazel eyes widened, then narrowed as she noticed the book in his hands. "Are you fooling around, Foster? Because if you are, it's not funny." "What?" Foster was stunned. "No, of course not!" "Then why are you holding a cookbook? We're supposed to be looking for something that belonged to my mom that could help us with all the weirdness that happened before. I don't think that we can bake our way out of this." Foster looked down at the book in confusion. It was a cookbook again. Had he been hallucinating? He blushed in embarrassment. "Kara, i-it was a spell book! Really, it was. I don't know what happened to it..." Kara sighed. "Did it have my mom's name in it, at least?" Foster, still feeling sheepish, said, "I don't know. I'll check." He opened the book again to one of the very first pages. Along the top, various names were listed. The two familiar sounding ones were Ruby and Emily Tilling. "Do you know who they are, Kara?" Foster asked. "Yes. They were my grandma and my mom. But this is only a cookbook. It couldn't possibly-" She stopped talking midsentence when the book started to tremble in Foster's hands. Foster had gone slack jawed, but he kept a tight grip on the book as it shimmered and changed in front of them, back into what it had been before. When it stopped shaking and it calmly rested in Foster's hands again, Kara let out a sigh. "I guess you were right. This has to be my mom's." She studied the book's cover. "Legend of Faerie?" She flipped through its pages, and her voice rose with awe. "Foster, is this really a spell book?" "Yeah." Foster beamed. "Cool, huh? I found it on the floor somewhere over there." He pointed to the right of the room. "Do you think it could help us since it belonged to your mom?" "Probably." Kara took the leather bound book from him and glanced at its various pages. "I don't think anyone else knew about this book except for the previous owners. My mom and grandma must've kept its existence a secret. I wonder why..." She studied the writing on each page. Some was cursive, while other parts were printed. The colorless pictures seemed familiar somehow, though she didn't know why. There were spells for good fortune, spells for health, spells for love, spells for turning people into various animals, mythical or well-known. Each spell had a list of ingredients alongside the instructions of how to cast it. The pages were thin and yellowed, so ancient that some of the parchment fell apart in her hands. Kara became more and more intrigued as she read through each one. Some pages were marked with bright yellow sticky notes with neat, tiny bits of writing on them. Some spells were marked as "dangerous", "deadly", or "nearly irreversible", while others were marked as "safe when cast carefully" or "can only be used once" or "use in times of great need". Foster watched over her shoulder, his eyes reading every word. Kara reached a "demon release" spell before she closed the book, her head still spinning from the miraculous discovery. "Foster," she gasped. "I can't believe that this is real. Do you think we could cast spells with this book?"

Foster shrugged. "I guess we could." The importance of the agreement dawned on him, and he began to protest. "Wait, Kara, no way! We can't do that." He snatched the book from her and held it behind his back. "Hey, give it back!" Kara cried, trying to take it from him. "It's my heritage! I have to use magic." "But we don't even know if it works, and even if it does, it's probably dangerous! Kara, I-" Kara took it back before he could finish. "Ha," she cheered. "-just want to keep you safe," Foster finished, his eyes narrowed in annoyance. "Do you really have to?" Kara glared at him, then turned away and opened up the spell book again. "Yes! This could be really awesome, Foster. If you want, you can help me choose which one to try." Foster shook his head. "No. Some part of this has to be illegal." "Aw, come on. Please!" "No, no, and no." Foster started to walk away. Kara sighed. "Fine. I guess I'll do it by myself, then. Ooh, a head implosion spell! That sounds perfectly safe." Kara laughed as Foster spun around angrily. "That's not even a real spell in there!" "You're right. It's not," Kara managed to say through her laughter. "But it got you to stay, didn't it?" Foster scowled at her, but slowly started to smile. He could never stay mad at Kara. "Okay, okay, I'll help, but first things first." Before Kara could react, Foster swept her into his arms and kissed her for a long time. When he let her go, her cheeks were red from blushing and lack of air. Kara looked awestruck. "Why did you do that, Foster?" "Because if something bad happens to us, I want to have at least kissed you goodbye." Foster smiled. "Now, let's get back to what we were doing. Spell casting." Kara eagerly flipped through the book. "My mom must've known I'd find this, because my name was mentioned on a sticky note in here," she noticed. "I hope your mom really did want you to find this. We could get ourselves into trouble," Foster pointed out. Kara continued to flip through the pages of the book, until Foster took over. "How about we choose a safer spell? Here, this one doesn't look like it'll kill us." He gestured with his hand to a spell entitled, "Transportation spell. Can bring its user anywhere-even the fairy realms!"

"Cool! Let's do it!" Kara studied the details of the spell. "The fairy realms? We have to go there." Foster nodded, unsure of what he was agreeing to at this point. "Okay. What do we have to do to cast the spell?" Kara read it, then spoke again. "Not much. We just have to recite the words written here once, and a portal should develop in front of us that leads to wherever we want to go. We have to tell it that we want to go to the fairy realms right after we finish reciting." Foster looked interested. "Alright. That sounds easy enough." He took a deep breath and cleared his throat. "Okay, we'll both read the words out loud and hold hands so that we can stay together. I'll count down to one. On one, we'll start. You got that, Kara?" She nodded, her eyes showing her determination.

Foster tried to be brave. This probably wouldn't work, and once it didn't, they could both go back to their regular lives and be happy together. He'd do this kind of thing only once, for Kara's sake. He took another deep breath to steady his pounding heartbeat.

"Three..." Kara listened to Foster's countdown, being as serious as possible. "Two..." She tightened her grip on his hand. "One!" He began to recite words from the book aloud, and Kara did the same. "If I could go anywhere, where would I go? Over hills, vibrant valleys, mountains covered in snow. Where exactly would I like to be? Take me anywhere, and we'll see." The moment they finished, Kara shouted, "Take us to the fairy realms!"

There was a long, awkward moment of silence as the couple waited for their portal to appear in the attic. Foster sounded relieved when he spoke again. "It didn't work. I-I guess we just-" There was a blinding flash of light, and the ground shook like there was an earthquake going on. Kara and Foster both held on to each other for dear life as a strange wind began to swirl around them, becoming stronger and stronger. "It's working!" Kara exclaimed. A ball of light appeared in front of them that grew steadily, made of smoke and glowing purple and green energy. It was the portal. Whatever was closest to it in the attic was immediately sucked inside. Papers fluttered away into the world's entrance. A stray antique lamp was tossed overhead. A ceramic dish was smashed on the ground, its pieces soon after absorbed by the abyss. Kara had to yell over the destructive portal's howling winds to be heard. "Foster!" "What?" he yelled back. "I'm scared!" There were tears in her eyes. She knew she'd made a mistake, but she didn't know how to fix it. "I don't know what's going to happen to us if we go in there! I don't want to lose you!" "You won't!" he told her. "I'll never leave you! And if what Danny told you was true, then you'll be okay! It's your heritage, your destiny!" As they were pulled closer and closer to the portal, Kara was flooded with emotion. "You really think that's true?"

"I know that's true!" "Foster?" Foster looked at Kara with a mixture of anger and concern. "What?" "I...I love you!" Foster smiled. "I love you too!" They both hugged, partially to hold on to each other and partially because they wanted this last moment together if it truly was their last. The portal loomed even closer, and they were both pulled inside. Kara tried to keep a firm grip on Foster's wrist, but the portal tore her hand away from his, and they both went spiraling away from each other, screaming in terror.