The Glass of Jade Magic

My grandma Lyalya owned two red wine glasses made of jade-coloured glass. There were originally four jade glasses, but Grandma gave one pair to my parents to break. It's a wedding tradition: just married must drink champagne and then break glasses on the ground. It's believed that this brings happiness. That's exactly what my mom and dad did after registering the marriage. So there are two glasses left.

In childhood, I often celebrated New Year with Grandma. Every year, we decorated the tree, cooked something special for dinner, and bought lemonade because it looked like champagne. Usually, for a holiday drink, I had a beautiful child's glass. But the year I turned twelve, everything changed.

It was the thirty-first of December on the calendar. We had already completed all the preparations and set the table. And then Grandma suddenly took out two jade glasses from the sideboard.

"And for whom the second one?" I asked excitedly, actually understanding perfectly well what was happening.

I adored so much these wine glasses. They always seemed so beautiful and magical to me. But until that moment, Grandma each time said that it was too early for me to use them. This time, there was no such comment; instead, she silently put both glasses on the table. And at midnight, we drank lemonade from actual adult glasses for the first time and made wishes.

I grew up, but the magic hasn't dissipated. Every time I visited my grandma, we drank everything that could come to mind from those glasses, even plain water. We no longer waited for special holidays. Each of our meetings was a holiday. And every time, it seemed that these glasses made the drink special. And every time I made a wish. Grandma always said the wish would come true because it was sparkling inside the glass and turning into a star.

When Grandma Lyalya left us, I inherited jade wine glasses. But my husband and I didn't smash them at the wedding. We drink everything from them, even plain water. And one day, I saw a small jade-coloured glass vase on the shelf of a charity shop and bought it. Since then, if I come across similar things, I buy them and compile my collection of magical artefacts.

Ingredients

wine glasses (jade-coloured)

good cherished wish

Method

STEP 1

Find special wine glasses (jade-coloured).

STEP 2

Drink from them whatever you want.

STEP 3

Before taking the first sip, you should make a wish and watch how it sparkles in the glass and turns into a star.

STEP 4

Believe in miracles.