Jennifer actually found it in the thrift shop. It only cost a couple of dollars and it intrigued her. The shop assistant, a dozy spotty face girl told Jennifer it wasn't real silver but Jennifer wasn't so sure, it was far too heavy just to be tin and though it was dirty and needed a good clean there was something under the grime that momentarily made her want it so much it hurt.
She purchased it and took it home to clean it. She was feeling silly by then, why on earth had she purchased it in the first place? Was it the faded piece of paper in the box with it with the words that read, "Get what you want from life, get even, get nasty, get in control of those around you, get everything you desire and more..."
What Jennifer wanted the most in the world was revenge on her cheating, two timing prick of an ex-boyfriend David and her ex-best friend Melanie.
Everyone, even her own mother and kid sister were telling her to "get over it" but she was still hurting. David had been the love her life and she had looked on Melanie almost as another sister.
Well a real sister wouldn't do what Melanie had done to Jennifer; she wouldn't steal your boyfriend from you and then compound it all by getting pregnant!
And to add insult to injury Melanie wanted to make up with Jennifer, wanted them still to be friends, she regularly called Jennifer at home, begging her to come over to her and David's apartment for coffee, but so far Jennifer had ignored the olive branch she was being offered, she was still angry and hurt, and she had no intention of ever forgiving either David or Melanie, that was until her thrift shop purchase because it turned out to be a real good buy, because it actually worked.
The round metal Talisman was the size of a table coaster and it had strange markings engraved on its hard and now very shiny surface. Jennifer had polished it thoroughly before reading the flimsy bit of paper again. The writing was old but it didn't say exactly how you got what you wanted, and Jennifer felt a little foolish as she read the spidery handwriting and fondled the hard piece of metal which was deliciously cold to the touch.
She might have even tossed it away if her sister Kelley hadn't come over to visit her a couple of days after she had finished cleaning the Talisman up and Jennifer ended up using it on her, not intentionally but totally by accident.
Kelley was Jennifer's 18 years old younger sister, a vivacious 5"3" red head with sparkling green eyes set in a lightly freckled round baby face that had soft candy pink lips she was always licking because she put too much lip gloss on them. She was endowed with a petite tight little body that she kept in trim by going to the gym every other day.
Kelley was gorgeous whereas Jennifer was just pretty, with her mousy brown hair, snub nose and long arms and legs that just about matched her not so petite (she wasn't fat) body. However Jennifer had better boobs than her sister, not that Kelley was not well endowed herself, her boobs fitted into a D cup with some to spare.
Kelley considered herself worldly though she was still a virgin. She had made a decision to "save" herself for the right man and she was a little disapproving of her 22 year old sister who had lost her virginity on her Prom night even if it had been to David who then had dumped her ten months ago and now was living with Melanie.
"I thought he was Mr Right," Jennifer regularly said to Kelley but the younger girl always sniffed in a disdainful and said that he obviously wasn't the one for her or they'd still be together right now.
Kelley started to go on about David almost the moment she had set foot in her sister's apartment and that Jennifer should be "getting over it" as it was so "old hat," and she was getting bored with the same conversation every time she came around to visit her sister, Jennifer found herself reaching for the Talisman which was sitting on her coffee table next to a jar of Brasso she had used to clean it up with.
Kelley was flicking her long curly red hair with her hand, half watching the young blonde and well muscled TV Engineer who had also not long arrived at her sister's apartment and was settling down to fix the problem she had been having with her new TV and set top box.
Kelley wasn't remotely interested in him even though he was really cute: Kelley was also a bit of snob; she wanted only to date a professional person, someone who had an office job, not someone who worked with their hands.
"You have to get over him some time Jens," Kelley said and Jennifer scowled at her sister, trying to catch her eye, to warn her that talking about her private life in front of a stranger was not what you did.
Kelley though didn't notice her sister's glowering expression and she continued, "Mom thinks you should go and see them both, I mean come on Jens, Mel has been your best friend since Kindergarten, and you and David were going through a rocky patch, you said as much yourself."
"It doesn't excuse what they both did," Jennifer said between clenched teeth and she gripped the Talisman tightly in both her hands, it had been cool when she picked it up but it was getting hotter, no just warm but extremely hot. Her hands throbbed, and her fingers felt strange, like they were welded onto the metal.
Kelley looked at her with her most critical teenage expression and sighed deeply, "You think far too much, that's your problem," she said and Jennifer felt a surge of rage run through her, "You know that, you just think to much and expect too much!"
"And your problem is that you really desperately need to get laid!" Jennifer snapped suddenly, if Kelley wanted to play embarrass your sister in front of the listening engineer who was trying to ignore their argument, then she would do the same, "In fact I think you should get laid right now, how about it Pete," she called out to the engineer whose name had been on his overalls, "Why don't you and my sister have a nice hot session here on my sofa, I mean you'd really like her, she's a bona fide virgin you know and I know she really wants it thought she says she doesn't!"
Normally Kelley would have jumped up straight away, bright red in the face, spluttered out an angry retort at her sister rudeness and vulgarity and run from the room but to Jennifer's complete and utter amazement she didn't.
She seemed to go rock still, her body went rigid and her hand which had been twirling her hair stopped and dropped to her lap. Not only her but Pete too, he had turned when he heard his name being called and he was staring at Jennifer. His youthful smooth face was immobile and the whole room seemed to be like a void in which all three were sitting in.
Pete was a good looking man, he was about 25 years old, tall and fit, you could see the muscles under his regulation uniform, he took good care of his body and was what an English friend of Jennifer's would call, "a bit of alright top totty."
To Jennifer's further amazement he got up from his knees by the TV, put down his tools and went and sat beside Kelley on the sofa and he kissed her right on the mouth, not only that but Kelley kissed him back. Just like that.
It was a hot deep kiss that made Jennifer's mouth drop open in shock.
She started to speak, to tell him to stop when realised that the Talisman was now pulsating in her hands.
