Jody's heart was racing as she returned to her shared house. Was that all really true? Did this perfume really make you irresistible to the object of your attraction? Most people might be skeptical, but the 26-year-old was inclined to believe it. Her room was already decorated with all sorts of esoterica: dreamcatchers, star charts, X-files posters, palm reading guides, meditative crystals, natural aromatic oils, herbal teas... Jody wanted to believe.
It had been hard enough getting her sample anyway. She managed to sit behind Mikael in the auditorium and, at just the right moment, she managed to snip a bit of his tousled brown hair. God, the click of the scissors sounded like a gunshot to her! But nobody had noticed, nobody had looked in her direction. Then after class, Mikael had packed his books and turned around, smiled at her, and then that gorgeous man had said "Hey Jody!"
Hey Jody... of course, that was all he had said, and he left, but it was still enough to give her stomach butterflies stomach butterflies of their own. They were acquaintances, but he didn't seem too interested in her and she was too shy to come on to him... but maybe, maybe this perfume will change things.
"Is that you Jody?" came Naima's voice from the TV room. Her housemate was playing video games, as usual.
"Yes, it's me", said Jody, feeling like she was confessing to a crime.
But Naima just said "K, just close the door behind you". And she went back to her game.
Jody had no desire to interact with any of her housemates right now. She only had room in her mind for a beautiful 6'0 young man with a mop of curly brown hair, big gentle brown eyes, and a lithe, athletic physique. And those tight pants he wears. God. Fuck. Now's really not the time to get turned on this much.
She ran into the room and slammed the door behind her, making Naima wince downstairs. She paused as she passed her image in the mirror. 5'6'', with straight blonde hair to her shoulders, blue eyes, rather pale skin. Average, rather slim build. She'd been told by other women that they envied her lack of curves. But that didn't seem to make a difference to Mikael.
Tonight is when everything changes, she thought, taking a deep breath. She pulled the perfume out of her closet, opened in, and dropped the lock of Mikael's hair in it. Then, before she could get cold feet, she spritzed her neck with it. Once, twice.
... now what? She stared in the mirror, heart beating, breathing heavily. Something is supposed to happen, right?
As it turned out, the Love's True Form perfume works exactly as it's supposed to. But it also turns out that what Mikael finds beautiful might be a surprise to Jody.