Victoria finished the potion by adding a strand of her own brunette hair into the strawberry scented mixture. She grabbed the wooden spoon and stirred the swirling pink liquid gently. She leaned over to read the instructions again.
~ Fill cauldron or bowl with 2 cups of water
~ Squeeze out 4 strawberries to make juice into a separate bowl or cup and pour the juice into the cauldron, stir for a minute.
~ Grab your most used perfume and spray the perfume into the mixture.
~ Put 10 rose petals into the mixture and stir until the mixture turns pink.
~ Put a strand of your own hair into the mixture and stir gently until the mixture starts to shimmer.
“Seems just about right.” Victoria mumbled as she looked back at her cauldron, her love potion was shimmering just as instructed.
She grabbed the heart-shaped potion bottle beside the cauldron and also grabbed her wooden ladle.
“You’re mine now…” Victoria mumbled to herself, smiling and blushing.
The door opened and Victoria looked up, she froze when she saw Sebastian in the doorway. She didn’t want him to know that she was making a love potion for him.
“Hey, Victoria,” Sebastian called out gently. He walked into the room, his footsteps were muffled by the carpet Victoria had placed down.
“Hi, hay bale. Whatcha doin’ here?” Victoria asked, trying to subtly block him from looking at the potion by placing herself in front of Sebastian, he raised an eyebrow when she placed herself in front of him so quickly.
Victoria smiled, her fangs peeking out from her lips and she placed a hand on the table as an attempt to block Sebastian further.
“I just wanted to say hi. What are you making? Smells nice, like you.” Sebastian replied, he smiled back at Victoria and mimicked her pose.
“Like me, huh?” Victoria’s voice shook with nervousness, Sebastian leaned slightly closer and tried to look past Victoria, but she kept moving around so he couldn’t see well.
“Victoria. What did you make?” Sebastian taunted gently, grinning. Victoria blushed more and looked everywhere but Sebastian.
“Noth…nothing! It’s um, a surprise!” Victoria stammered as Sebastian started to advance forward. Victoria never realize how good he smelled this up close…his cheap cologne and the smell of moisturizer…no! Get it together!
“A surprise for me?” Sebastian asked when he finally peered over Victoria’s teased hair. His grin faltered slightly.
“Oh, is that your infamous love potion you’re making?” Sebastian inquired softly, Victoria sighed. She was somewhat caught.
Victoria looked down at her socks and nervously shuffled her feet, “yes…” Victoria whispered.
“Why hide it from me?” Sebastian replied softly, he grabbed Victoria’s hair and pulled at it playfully. Victoria made a soft grunting sound and gently pushed at Sebastian’s chest, now was she starting to realize all these things about Sebastian…
His chest was quite firm and broad…
His “cold” blue eyes warmed up when with her…
His cheap but strong cologne…
Victoria blushed more and looked at the cauldron, “I was just…I…—“
“And usually to make a love potion…you need the scent of whoever is trying to be Cupid, or yourself for this matter, right?” Sebastian seemed to be putting all the pieces together quickly, Victoria started to panic.
“Uhm…why do you think it’s my scent or whatever?” Victoria asked softly.
“Because you wear this strawberry perfume almost everyday.” Sebastian said, reaching past Victoria and grabbing the pink perfume bottle, Victoria looked at it as if it offended her entire unknown bloodline.
She didn’t respond for a few moments, she stared at the green stripes on the lid of the perfume bottle.
“So…who is this love potion for?” Sebastian inquired after placing the perfume bottle down. “Do you really want to know?” Victoria inquired.
Sebastian nodded and discreetly pinned Victoria to the table by putting an arm on the table by Victoria’s hips.
“Don’t make fun of me, but it’s for you.” Victoria mumbled quietly, but Sebastian still heard from how close he was.
“Me, huh? Why are you trying to put me in a trance?” Sebastian said teasingly, although he seemed confused and concerned at the same time. Victoria sighed and slumped her shoulders.
“I’m horrible at this kind of stuff. It makes me all jittery and nervous.” Victoria whined softly and placed her hands over her face shyly. Sebastian grabbed her hands gently before prying them away from her face and rubbed her palms, looking at her with gentle eyes.
“But you might hate me or see me as a weirdo.”
“Victoria, you have fangs and you can make potions. Whatever you need to say won’t weird me out.” Sebastian finalized.
Victoria looked up at Sebastian and looked at his eyes. They truly did warm up when he was around her. Victoria never understood when other girls told her Sebastian was a cold boy, he was just shy, not “cold” or “mean.”
That was when Victoria realized most of those girls had crushed on Sebastian and tried to talk to him, but he just never seemed to like talking with them.
“Even if that girl you were talking to is your colleague or whatever, I can’t help but feel jealous or that you might like her.” Victoria explained rapidly. Sebastian just stared, still looking confused.
“Betty? Yeah she’s nice. But…” Sebastian bit his lip and looked away from Victoria’s eyes, her heart lurched and she whimpered nervously.
Sebastian held Victoria’s face and smiled at her, “you’re way nicer to be around, actually, Betty is just like any other girl that walks in, but you…god. You’re definitely my dream.” Sebastian confessed leaning his forehead against Victoria’s.
She freezes and gasps softly.
Sebastian pulled back and glanced over at the cauldron, then at Victoria’s potion book, he leaned closer again so that his breath was brushing against her chin and jawline.
“I thought you knew that love potions don’t and won’t work on people who are already in love.” Sebastian whispered gently, smirking.
Victoria looked over at her potion book and saw the bold letters;
“𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟~♡“
She stared at the page for a long time, then she felt Sebastian’s cool breath on her shoulder.
“Mhm. That’s right. When I saw you making so much love potions, I got curious. You should be more careful when leaving stuff out in the open.” Sebastian warned gently, but still reminding her about Mistress.
Victoria finally looked up at Sebastian when he pulled away slightly, he didn’t go too far.
“So, you like me?” Victoria asked gently, she didn’t want to sound needy to scare Sebastian away, but he didn’t seem to care if Victoria was needy. Sebastian grabbed Victoria’s waist and gently pulled her flush against him.
Victoria gently gasped and placed her hands on his chest, it definitely felt firm.
She felt her face heat up and she turned her head away, “why are you turning your head? Please look at me.” Sebastian pleaded softly.
Victoria obviously looked back up at him, she never wanted to make him disappointed, ever. She noticed his eyes trail down to her lips and she blushed harder.
Just as Victoria was about to tease him she gasped when he gently pressed their lips together.
Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh is this actually happening? oh my gosh-
Victoria sheepishly moved her hands up onto his shoulders. He sighed softly and somehow pressed Victoria closer.
His lips were slightly chapped but Victoria didn’t mind too much, she was mainly focusing on how soft and warm his lips were. They were also moving against hers quite expertly.
Sebastian wasn’t trying to claim Victoria—well, yes, a little bit. But he just wanted Victoria to feel and realize that he loved her as much as someone under a love potion, or more.
Victoria felt Sebastian’s hand trail down to her hip, and her breath hitched as she slightly dug her nails into his shoulders at the feeling.
The kiss deepened for a delicious moment before Sebastian pulled back, only slightly so that their lips were still brushing against each other.
“Your lips are very soft…” Sebastian said. It sounded like he was praising her from his tone, and that made her smile.
Victoria was about to kiss Sebastian again when he pinned her against the table, it was not so discreet as a few moments ago.
Victoria gently grunted when he moved down to her neck and started to kiss it, she put a hand in his blond hair and proceeded to pull him back.
“I love you too, Sebastian. But slow down a little bit.” Victoria breathed out, blushing wildly, “oh, right. Sorry!” Sebastian replied softly and straightened up.
He cupped Victoria’s face and smiled at her, “the next time you try to put me under a love potion, just think about how much I love you.” Sebastian whispered softly.
Victoria hugged Sebastian and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. Just as she did that, a soft squealing sound came from the door. It was Taylor, still wearing her bathing suit from surfing.
“Oh my gosh. FINALLY!” Taylor exclaimed.
Victoria yelped and squirmed against Sebastian, he laughed and let Victoria chase Taylor around the second floor of the orphanage.
Sebastian stared fondly before he turned to look at Victoria’s potion-making setup.
A wooden cauldron, a shelf containing a few potion bottles full of different coloured liquid, next to it a drawer full of different items, a few empty potion bottles, and of course, Victoria’s potion book and the love potion mixture she had made.
Sebastian grabbed the ladle and finished pouring the potion into the heart-shaped bottle for Victoria. Maybe, just maybe, the potion might actually work on him no matter how much he loved Victoria.
He grabbed the labels in the drawer next to the shelf of potion bottles and wrote on one of the labels:
“If I ever act stupid towards you; my love, feel free to spike me to correction. ~ S”
Happy Valentine’s Day! 💚❤️
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