Chapter 2: Potion making
Drew set up the little chemistry lab and set to work crushing up ingredients and pouring them into the bowl. I leaned close and watched her work. I looked again at the already made spray bottle of potion. I picked it up and asked, "so what's this." she saw what I had in my hand and snatched it away. "I told you not to touch anything. Especially this. I tried to make the potion yesterday but I didn't know I needed stygian iron dust until It was too late. This is the potion I was telling you about earlier. If it had touched your skin anyone who had had even the slightest crush on you; no matter how small, would be panning after you!" I looked at her confused. "And that's a bad thing because…" "that's a bad thing because first people would begin to follow you around trying to ask you out on dates, then it would go further up in scale. People would start trying to have sex with you. And if you ever reject any of them they all feel it and start demanding you chose one of them. This last phase is called the 'choice of death' because if you do or don't chose they will tear you apart limb by limb. And the only way to be cured from the potion of ultimate obsession is eather to sleep with the people affected and make them climax, or have Aphrodite take it away. But she ether has a price or wants to watch the drama unfold." after she explained I pulled my legs to my chest and wrapped my arms tightly around them. "Got it. Don't touch anything." I said a little scared now.
Drew continued working, adding ingredients here and there. She placed a teaspoon of the black dust into the liquid and poured it into the empty spray bottle. The liquid turned from murky gray to milky white; then from milky white to a faint pink. She lifted it up and pointed it at herself. The sprayed three quick squirts and said, what do you think? Is it working?" I wrinkled my nose. "you smell like strong wine. Don't go near Mr. D. He won't fall in love with you but he would probably follow you around just to smell you." "Right. Thanks for the heads up." she looked a little crestfallen. Why was she so down. Then I realized she had probably hoped I had had a small crush on her one time or another. I rolled my eyes. She opened the bottle again and put a little more dust in. She them capped it and shook it vigorously. " There. That should be enough for one person. Remember to concentrate on that person or this might affect someone else."
She held the bottle out to me. I reached up to take it and ended up knocking it and the obsession potion over. I was able to catch both bottles, but I couldn't tell them apart. "Umm!" I said. I couldn't afford to accidentally use the wrong. Drew pointed at the bottle in my left had. "It's that one. I made sure to watch the obsession potion as it fell." I nodded, accepting that she had seen the whole thing with watchful eyes. I put the bottle in my right hand down and faced the nozzle of the one in my left hand towards myself. I didn't think I would need three sprays like Drew. I wasn't that desperate. I sprayed myself once and set the bottle down. Drew leaned forward. I was scared something had go wrong until she said, "Mmmmm. You smell like cherry wine. It's sweet and intoxicating." She inhaled deeply. I sniffed the air, but only got the smell of Drew's potion induced wine smell. She smelled strongly of hard wine, crisp and with the slightest bitterness. Maybe the smell was different from person to person. Did it come from personality. No. It couldn't have. My personality was dull and brooding. I would probably smell like rancid wine. Can wine go rancid? No. it was probably something else. "Ok! Let's go make people fall head over heels for us!" Drew squealed.