A magical artefact
"Come on, Nick. Let's check this place out," Chad called. I sighed as I followed him. He was always dragging me to these places that I had absolutely no interest in.
"A magic shop?" I asked. "Why would we want to go in there?"
"Could be something cool, you know?" Chad responded. I rolled my eyes and followed him, as I always did. He had always been the leader of the two of us.
We entered the store and began looking around. I noticed that the standard types of parlor tricks were in front of the store, but as we went further in, things got more...interesting.
I looked through the items, ranging from x-ray glasses to medallions that were said to ward off evil spirits. Shaking my head with a look of disinterest on my face, I said.
"Nothing interesting to find here. Come on let's go."
"Oh, not finding anything to your liking?" Came from behind the bookshelf on the right and he continued without waiting for his question to be answered.
"After all magic is not for everyone, especially not for two grown up men, right?"
"Yeah, nothing new to find here. It´s all these old known parlor tricks, anyway." Chad said as he was searching for the source of the shopkeeper.
"Ah a non-believer, then I have got something for you. That should change your view quite a bit." The man responded and strode out from behind the racks, while holding a small box in his hands that was fully adorned with obvious fake crystals. Looking over the shopkeeper, I could only say that he looked quite like the person who would scam people to get a kick out of it, but Chad seemed oblivious of it.
"What have you got there?" Chad asked, looking at the box with a look of interest in his eyes.
Opening the lid of the box, there was a ring lying embedded in a colorful piece of satin. The ring looked like any other plain ring out there and had no obvious marks or adornments, quite unspectacular. I could only shake my head at this obvious scam artist and wanted to say something but the shopkeeper was a bit faster.
"This ring is quite special and also a bit magical." the man said with an amused smile on his face that seemed nothing good would come from this ring. His smile got even a tad broader as he went on. "This ring is guaranteed to make its wearer irresistible to any woman."
Having heard enough of his bullshit I could not hold on any longer and just said. "Yeah right." While rolling my eyes and followed with. "Chad, lets go. This old man just wants to scam us."
Before Chad could answer me, the man went on, the smile still on his face which freaked me out quite a bit. "People nowadays don´t believe in magic any more, it´s really sad. You know what, I will give you this ring for free, just try it out and see if you believe in magic afterwards."
Not waiting for an answer, the shopkeeper closed the lid and pushed the box into Chads hand and turned around while saying. "Too much work to do." Not waiting for anyone, he vanished behind the next rack.
Both of us were quite stumped and did not now what to say, looking at each other we could only shake our heads at the antics of the shopkeeper.
"I guess we can try out the ring." Said Chad as he picked the ring from the box and slipped it on his finger.
I rolled my eyes at Chad and then followed him out of the store.
"I'm gonna hit the bar and try this thing out. You in?" my friend asked while he looked at the ring on his finger with curiosity.
"No, thanks. I have work early in the morning and need to get home," I said, looking at my phone. Being fresh out of college, I could not be late anytime soon.
"Fine, whatever. I'll let you know if this ring works," Chad said as he clapped me on the shoulders and then starting to walk away.
"You mean when it doesn't, right?" I asked, watching him leave. He just shrugged with his shoulders.
"We'll see," he said. I chuckled and went to my car.
The next day, I was on my lunchbreak when I got a call from Chad.
"Dude, it the ring is legit, it really worked." he said and I could hear the enthusiasm in his voice.
"Bullshit, as if I would believe you." I responded, taking a sip of my soda. He is not getting me this time with his pranks.
"I am dead serious. Yesterday was awesome. I was a chick magnet. They were all over me and the one I ended up with looked amazing, but the best thing was. When we did the deed, she just got hotter and hotter. Today in bed she looked like a dreamy pornstar. And the best thing was, she was unsatiable and thought that all was normal. Shit it was soooo hot." Chad exclaimed and sounded weirdly honest.
"Nice try," I answered while I was calmly eating my sandwich. Once I swallowed the bite, I continued.
"I am not joking. I will show it to you tonight, hmmpf." Chad said while murmuring something.
"Yeah, sure, whatever. See you tonight." I said, still thinking that he must be joking but that would bite me in the ass later. Taking a look at the clock after I hung up, I got a bit flustered as my break was almost over.
I then got back to work. But, for the rest of the day, my mind was elsewhere. My thoughts were constantly with the ring. 'What if...what if it did work?'
Alas the remaining day went on at a snail's pace and I could not wait to meet up with my friend and check out the ring. Could we really have been that lucky to stumble upon a magical ring?
Finally, work hours were over and I practically rushed to my car and drove home. When I pulled up to my house, I spotted my sister's car and Chad's. I lived alone with my sister, because my parents were currently living in another state. We got quite lucky because we moved here because of the university and my parents inherited this house from some uncle that I didn´t know.
Living with my sister was not too easy but we got along just fine and made it work somehow.
Stepping out of the car and walking to the house in a fast walk I was inside in a jiffy. In my head I was anticipating quite a bit as various thoughts came to being while I thought about all the possibilities of the magical artifact.
At the same moment as I walked in, I was forced out of my daydreaming when I heard loud thumping noises from upstairs alongside various moaning sounds. It took me all but a moment to notice what was going on and my anger hit an all-time high.
"Motherfucker..." I cursed under my breath and ran up the stairs, towards my sister's bedroom. Unmistakably, the noises were coming from here. I growled, and forced the door open with a bang.
