swing for life

Maria was sitting cross legged on her bedroom floor. There was a circle chalked out around her, and a candle at each of the four compass points. Maria was a Pagan, and she was about to do a spell. This particular one was for true love. She wanted to find it, and felt thatmagic was her only option. She had tried finding true love the usual way, and she had even tried internet dating. None of it worked, so here she was, sitting in her circle.She lit some incense that was in the circle with her, and breathed in its sweet aroma. It was rose scented. She also had a pink candle andsome rose petals in the circle with her, along with a wand she had carved from the yew tree in her garden, and some water in a large shell. She closed her eyes, breathed in more of the sweet aroma, and thought about her true love. She thought about how she would like him to look, and how she would like him to sound. She thought about how he would feel, how she would feel about him, and what he would smell like. She visualized him so intensely, that when she looked down into the water in the shell, she saw her true lovesreflection in the water along with hers. She smiled. She lit the candle, and sprinkled the rose petals in the water. As she did so, she started to recite the appropriate spell. As she was softly chanting, she stirred the rose petals into the water using the wand. After repeating the chant 3 times, she stopped, closed her eyes, breathed in more of the sweet aroma and focused her energies. She started to feel a bit light headed, but the feeling soon passed as she channeled all her energies into the shell with its petals and water. She visualized her energies reaching into the water and bringing out the image of her true love. She visualized him standing in her circle next to her, smelling of rose petals. She smelt the scent of man under the rose perfume, and once she had finished the spell and closed the circle, she went to bed. The next morning she was woken by the sound of people coming up the stairs. Bleary eyed, she staggered onto the landing, in time to see her older brother coming up the stairs carrying one end of a mattress. "Hey Maria - this is John, hes my mate and staying with us for a while, just a few weeks until his new place is sorted - you don't mind do you?." He disappeared into his room with the end of the mattress. Maria gasped as the guy holding the other end came into view. He was the guy from her spell. It was his reflection she had seen the night before in the water. When he looked up at her and smiled, the scent of roses came flooding back to her, her knees felt weak, and she managed to smile back before collapsing grinning onto her bed. "No bro - I don't mind at all!" she thought happily to herself.