Sandra was really bored. And frustrated. And it was only getting worse and worse.
Almost three years now
, she thought as she poured herself another gin & tonic. It's been three years since anyone had bothered paying any attention to her, not her useless husband Frank, or either of her children. Ever since the twins had turned 18, it was like she didn't even exist anymore.
God, it's early in the afternoon and I'm on my third drink
, she thought, taking a big gulp from the glass.
But what else am I going to do
, she asked herself, turning away from the bar. Even her friends had empty lives like hers, doing nothing, hanging out, drinking, shopping, while their equally useless husbands worked and made lots of money.
And who knows what else
, she thought sardonically.
Sandra stopped when she walked by the floor-to-ceiling mirror next to the bar and looked at herself.
I don't look so bad
, she thought, watching herself in the mirror as she brought her drink to her lipstick-glossed lips and took a sip, her eyes appraising. Setting the drink down on the bar, she smoothed her dress and really looked at herself.
Her fiery-red hair was thick and ringleted, hanging halfway down her back. Even though her pale skin was freckled, it was smooth and unblemished. Being only 5'6" tall didn't stop her from having a classic full figure, with 36D breasts and a nice full ass. She felt her weight at 125 pounds was perfect and she didn't really need to worry about what she ate, this was just the way she was.
Turning so that her back was to the mirror, Sandra looked over her shoulder at her back and ass, noting with a smile that even though her ass was full, it was tight, something she proved to herself by jiggling her ass and seeing with satisfaction that it stopped moving quickly.
She noted that her legs still looked good with nice firm calves. Turning to face the mirror, she pulled the front of her dress up to her waist to see her legs, smiling as she saw how nice and slim and straight they still were.
Dropping her dress, she picked up her drink, taking a sip as she stood in profile to the mirror, looking at herself. She straightened up her posture as she sipped her drink, seeing how her full breasts stood high on her chest, sticking out. Putting her drink down, Sandra let her hands slide up her body from her stomach to cup her breasts, her fingers finding and lightly rubbing circles on her nipples which immediately hardened into knots, pressing out and being obvious, even through her bra.
God, now I'm playing with myself in front of a mirror
, Sandra laughed as she gave her nipples each a good hard squeeze, enough so that she gasped as the pleasure pain coursed through her body. She could feel herself get instantly wet between her legs. She slid a hand down her body into her panties, slipping easily between her slick, shaven pussy lips to rub her clit.
And when was the last time Frank had even bothered to notice her body, much less take advantage of any of it? It had been so long, she didn't even remember. And for some reason she had remained completely faithful.
But to what
? she wondered, not for the first time.
What am I saving myself for?
Oh, well, I think I'll just go shopping
, she decided, pulling her hand from her panties and licking her fingers before she gulped the last of her drink down.
Maybe I'll find something to cheer myself up with
.
Sandra found herself in an area of town that she hadn't been in for years, less high end, a bit more run-down in appearance, but many little boutique-like shops of all sorts. Parking her car, she strolled down the street, looking into each of the shop windows. She came to one window of the oddest assortment of bric-a-brac, full of the most unusual things. As she was looking in the window, a very, very old woman shuffled into view. She was very small, almost like a child, with long grey hair down past her waist in a long braid. Her face was heavily lined, but it contained the most beautiful and clear green eyes above the most gentle of smiles. There was a timelessness to it, on the one hand so young and innocent, on the other hand ancient and full of the wisdom of the ages.
The woman smiled at her and beckoned with her hand for Sandra to enter. With a smile on her face, Sandra entered the shop, noticing the dank, musty smell, the kind of smell one associated with old libraries or museums. She was again struck by the incredible assortment of oddments filling the shop, everything seeming as though it were very old and hadn't been moved for years.
"Hello, my dear," the old woman greeted Sandra. "How may I help you?"
"Oh, I don't know," Sandra replied. "I was just window shopping, hoping."
"Hoping?" the old woman asked. "Hoping for what?"
"Hoping I'd find something that would make me feel good," Sandra admitted.
"Don't you feel well?" the old woman asked.
"Oh, I'm not sick or anything," Sandra laughed, "I'm just bored and lonely. I was hoping I'd find something to make me feel better."
"Ah, I understand," the old woman said, nodding her ancient head. "And what would make you feel good, do you think?"
"Well, it would be nice if someone noticed me for something, for anything," Sandra told her.
"Don't you have a family?" the old woman asked.
"Oh, yes, but they don't seem to have any use for me anymore," she said, her eyes suddenly welling with tears. "My husband only works and sleeps in the same house and my children are 18 now and don't want to spend any time with their mother. I'm just feeling like I have no life anymore."
"There, there," the old woman said, gently patting Sandra's arm. "Maybe there is something here that will help you," she said with a smile. "Shall we look around?"
"Oh, okay," Sandra agreed, wiping her eyes with the back of her hand. For some reason she felt like there wasn't anything she couldn't tell this old woman. It was a very special feeling.
"Let's see," the old woman was saying to herself. "I know there's something here. I just saw it recently, in the last 5 years or so."
Sandra started when she heard that. Five years. Looking around she noticed that there was a lot of dust in certain places, thick dust, like it had been there for a long, long time.
"Ah, here it is," the old woman said, lifting something out of a crate on the floor under a table. "Maybe this is what you need," she said, holding it out to Sandra.
Startled, Sandra took the object the old woman was holding out to her. It seemed to be made of an almost translucent green glass and was sort of shaped like a gravy boat, though it was enclosed. It was small, only about 2 inches in length. She turned it over in her hands, examining it, finding it interesting but not sure what the old woman intended.
"What is it?" Sandra asked, looking up.
"Why, that's a magic lamp," the old woman replied, a smile on her face. "A very special one," she added.
"A magic lamp? Are you kidding?" Sandra asked, staring at the old woman. "You want me to believe that this is a magic lamp? I may be unhappy, but I'm not delusional," she said, feeling a bit of anger that the old woman would try to take advantage of her like that.
"But it is a magic lamp" the old woman insisted, a big smile on her face. "With that lamp you can make any person do or think or feel any way you'd like them to," she told her.
"You've got to be kidding," Sandra said, taking a much closer look at the lamp in her hands. "It doesn't have any markings on it or anything," Sandra commented. "How do you know it works?" she asked.
"Because I used to use it at one point in my life," the old woman admitted, "until I learned that I didn't really need it anymore."
"How did you learn that?" Sandra asked.
"That's something that you'll need to discover for yourself," the old woman replied.
"But how does it work?" Sandra asked, once more examining the lamp.
"You just hold the thought you want the person to have in your mind, then gently rub the lamp while looking right at them. You need to have eye contact."
"Then what happens?" Sandra asked.
"Then the person does as you wished for them to do," the old woman told her.
"They don't resist?" Sandra asked.
"No, but they're aware of everything; they just don't have a choice. It creates an irresistible compulsion in them. They think it's just them, they never realize that you've caused it with the magic lamp."
"That's incredible," Sandra exclaimed. "What can you make people do?"
"Anything," the old woman replied sadly. "Anything at all."
"You mean I can make my husband want me, you know?" Sandra asked. "Or my children?"
"Yes, there's no limit to what you can want another person to think, feel, do, or say," the old woman explained.
"And they'd never realize it was me putting it in their minds?" Sandra asked.
"That's right," the old woman answered.
"Oh, wow," Sandra exhaled. "That's incredible. But it can't possibly work," she added. "I mean, that would be magic..."
"Exactly," the old woman agreed, nodding her wizened head.
"How much is it?" Sandra asked, her voice barely a whisper.
"$5,000," the old woman replied.