I'm a genie in a bottle
Title: I’m a Genie in the bottle
Summary: Something about Genies, stars and believing.
A/N: I’m finally writing something in Jonghyun’s point of view. Enjoy.
Nothing but work, work and MORE work. What’s wrong with this world? How I wish I could be rich and just stay at home doing nothing…
“Jonghyun ah! Appa and Umma’s leaving now. We’ll be back soon”
“Okay, just go”
“Now, don’t be a bad boy. Stay out of trouble okay? And clean the storeroom!”
“Just go!”
“Okay, going…BYE! Love you baby!”
Finally. 3 days of freedom! My parents are going to Las Vegas and visit my ill aunt over there. LAS VEGAS MAN! But I rather just stay in Seoul and have the whole house to myself. I walk over to the kitchen to find something to eat and guess what. Post-it. ALL OVER THE KITCHEN.
‘Clean up the storeroom’ , ‘stay out of trouble’, ‘remember to eat your breakfast’…Since when my mum did all those? Clean up the storeroom…Well, I’m free now right?
I opened the storeroom door and HOLLY MOLLY. It’s in a mess! Where am I suppose to start. Cleaning up this place would take me 3 whole days to finish up. AHHH! I took out the stuff eventually, sorting it out into different categories. Bags, wallets, pouches, luggages. Hula hoops, skipping ropes , golden bottle…Wait, golden bottle? Instead of a bottle, this looks more like some lamp. There were some writings on the surface and it says ‘Rub me the right way’. Rub it? I place my palm outwards and rubbed the sides of the lamp gently. And suddenly… POOF
“Hi! You have released me my master” WOAH WOAH! What was that? A genie?
“Now my master, don’t be afraid. I’m Key, obviously as you can see, I’m a genie.”
Okay, this is nothing but a dream. Close your eyes, count 1,2 and 3. I opened my eyes gradually and saw nothing but a messy storeroom.
“Phew…” I reopened my eyes after blinking them and that genie thing popped up from the ceiling.
“Still here!”
“Okay, what are you”
“A genie”
“What, genie do exists?”
“Sure they do…and I’m here to grant you your wish” Wish…Did he just say W-I-S-H. Wish?
“You can grant me my wish?”
“Yup… Well, on the side note, I’m a powerful genie. I’m special so I’ll grant you 10 wishes instead of 3.” WOW! 10 WISHES!?
“Really?”
“Why not you try it out . But remember, every wish counts.”
“Okay…How do I do it?”
“If you want to wish for something, you start your sentence with I wish, I wish with all my might. Then you’ll state your wish from there.”
“What a childish chant”
“But master, if you don’t say that, you’ll never get your wish granted”
“Okay, chill…Every wish counts right?”
“Yes, my master” Okay, Jonghyun think…What do you want? Money…That’s right. I’ll wish to be a millionaire.
“Okay, here goes. I wish, I w-”
“WAITTTT!”
“What is it?”
“I forgot to mention. In the genie book of rules, rule #12 states that your wish only last for a day”
“A day?”
“One day.” One day…So I guess I can’t be a millionaire after all… Then what do I wish for? I glanced at the clock and it’s still early. 8.45pm and it’s a Friday so no work tomorrow… Okay, that settles it. I know what I’m gonna wish for.
“Okay.”
“Okay? You decided”
“Yes”
“The chant. Hurry”
“I wish, I wish with all my might…to have 10 HOT,SEXY,PRETTY girls spending the night with me tonight”
“EEW, what kind of wish it that? But anyway, wish granted”
DING DONG. After he said that, the doorbell rang. Woah, I opened up the door and saw 10 girls, PRETTY,HOT PLUS SEXY girls outside my door with the most seductive clothes on ever.~ OOH LALA. OOH WHAT A FEELING~(Girls’ Generation Song. HAHA!)
“Hi OPPA…”
“Uhh, hi” OMG! I can’t believe this is happening to me. They all started entering the house one by one, touching me in places where I want to be touched right now. I brought them all up to my room but before that…
“Hey, no peeking”
“But I float through walls master”
“Don’t float through my wall”
“Yes master”
“Can’t you go back into your bottle or lamp”
“Unless you say the chant master”
“What chant”
“I wish, I wish to use this rhyme you’ll go back home until next time."
“What kind of chant do you genie use?”
“Hurry up, I’m tired.”
“Fine. I wish, I wish to use this rhyme you’ll go back home until next time” POOF and instantly, he was gone…Back into his bottle…or lamp.
“OPPPAAA, hurry up. I can’t wait anymore. I’m gonna do it myself”
“Coming BABY! PHEW.” This is gonna be a LONG night.
I woke up the next morning, naked, tired and sticky. But I’m all alone on the bed. Rough night yesterday huh. I took my phone and read that unread message from my mum.
‘Hey baby, won’t be back till weeks later. Aunt is really ill and needs to be taken care of. Poor thing really. Don’t miss Umma and Appa. We’ll be back before you know it’ Great… More chores to be done ALL BY MYSELF. Oh yeah, where’s kay, no, uhh, Keane? No…Key, ah yes… Key. Where is he? I rubbed the lamp/bottle again and POOF. There he was.
“Good morning master. OOH, you smell like sex”
“Shut up.”
“You have another job for me master?”
“No…not really”
“Then why’d call me out?”
“Companion. Aren’t you lonely in there?”
“Not exactly. I have tons of toys inside to play with”
“Toys in that small house of yours?”
“I’m a genie…”
“Okay… so I’m left with 9 wishes now right?”
“Yes my master”
“What happens when all 10 wishes are used up?”
“I’ll die”
“You’ll die?!”
“I’m a genie. After my powers, which are equivalent to the amount of wish my humans have are being used up, I’ll die”
“Does it hurt?”
“Not really. According to my ancestors, they just vanish into thin air”
“Then can’t I wish for you not to die?”
“In the genie book of rules, rule #4 states that, masters can’t wish for anything for their genie. Wishes are only permitted for themselves.”
“Ouch, that’s harsh”
“No master, not really. In the genie book of rules, rule # 44 states that, masters happiness equals to genie’s happiness”
“I wonder what’s in that genie book of yours.”
So a genie dies when all wishes are being used up right? ~ZZZ~
From: Boss Choi>.<”
Mr Kim Jonghyun, get your butt over here right now. Hurry. Make it quick. We have some urgent business to settle and Taemin’s sick. You have to take over his position today. No excuses. NOW
UHHH! Work on a Saturday?
“Master, please don’t frown like that. A genie’s mood changes along with his master”
“Shut up genie. Get back into your lamp/bottle. You’re coming to work. WITH ME”
I recited the chant quickly and there he goes. Back into his bottle/lamp. I took a quick shower and ‘rushed’ over like how Boss Choi wanted me to.
WOW, Taemin does all this? That’s a lot. I wonder what has he been doing, I’ve already completed my share. So yeah, my job is to go through ALL the lyrics every song writer writes for those famous groups. Why? To check that there are no errors and plus no R-21 lyrics. I went back into my office and place that WHOLE stack of workload onto my table and started going through them 1 by 1. Oh yeah, Key.
I rubbed the bottle/lamp and POOF.
“Yes my master, how may I help you?” Thank goodness that my office is soundproofed. Benefits for working in a music company.
“Oh, hi Key… Uhh. Help me to settle all this workload.”
“But master, are you sure you wanna waste a wish on something like that?”
“You just don’t wanna die do you?”
“In the genie book of rules, rule #23 states that genies are suppose to help their maser makes wise decisions and I don’t think wasting a wish on your work is a very wise decision”
“Genies are supposed to do what their master says right?”
“Yes”
“Now, on with it.”
“As you wish. But master, please say the chant”
“I wish, I wish with all my might to get all this work done by tonight”
In a flash. The pages were flipping at top speed and a few red markings were being marked out like how I would when they were mistakes. Within seconds, everything was done.”
“Woah, that’s fast”
“Yes my master.”
“Okay, you wanna stay out here?”
“Can I?”
“Whatever.” I brought all of Taemin’s work back to Boss Choi and boy did he praise me. First time in history. YAY and now I can go home.
At home, there’s nothing to do but television. BORING… The house was pretty quiet and normal except for a genie floating around in our house.
“Quit staring at me”
“In the genie book of rules, rule #18 states a genie must watch over his master all the time”
“I don’t think that rule meant staring”
“Really? It doesn’t?”
“Pfft, how would I know?”
“Master, I thought you knew everything.”
“Who says so”
“In the genie book of rules, rule #21 states that humans are far more intelligent than genies so humans KNOW everything”
“That rule book of yours seems to praise us humans more than you genies”
“To us our human partners are everything. Whatever our human partner wishes for, we can’t say NO. Unless it’s something like dominating over the entire world”
“Then can I make my 3rd wish now?”
“Then you’ll be left with 7”
“Still aplenty”
“Okay, what do you wanna wish for?”
“The same as last night”
“Girls again”
“Yeah… But I want something different… I want girls who are virgins. They’re much better and tighter you see”
“Master, please get rid of all your perverted thoughts.”
“Shut up and grant my wish.”
“Then master, please say the chant”
“I wish, I wish with all my might…to have 12 virgin girls spending the night with me tonight”
“Wish granted”
Again the same thing happened. Girls were outside of my house, wearing seducing outfits and all. Another rough night I hope.
“Key…you wanna watch me?”
“EEW? Master, I never knew you were so perverted”
“What…You’re a male genie right? I’m sure in the genie world there must be other pretty female genies out there”
“We genies are not allowed to have a partner genie”
“Ohh, that’s sad. Well, goodbye… I can wait but THEY can’t”
“Go ahead master”
“You want me to put you back?”
“It’s fine master. I’ll be okay and I promise, I won’t float through your wall”
“Great. BYE”
My next few other wishes were spent on calling girls and I like it.
The next few days were spent wish-less. I was tired of having sex with girls I don’t know and I don’t really have anything to wish for. I needed to clear my leave so no work for the one month. The best thing yet, my parents extended their stay so again, the whole house is mine!
“Master, you haven’t wish for anything for 3 days”
“Why? You wanna die early?”
“Not that master. It’s just that. We genies are supposed to help fulfil the wishes of our humans”
“Not every day”
“Humans are selfish creatures. They have to wish for something every day”
“Not me”
“You’re a hu-”
“I wish, I wish with all my might that you’ll just shut up and not talk for the rest of the day”
Oh, the chant. I said the chant. I looked at him and he seems kinda sad.
“Key?”
No reply
“Hey, I didn’t mean that…can’t you reverse the wish?”
No reply.
“Say something” I’ve done it… I made my genie a mute. I can’t talk to him now and he doesn’t have a choice but to shut up… The past 2 days, the house was filled with his blabbering of rules and masters and now…it just feels empty without someone calling me master. He was just there, floating in mid-air, eyes glued onto the television with his mouth sealed up tight together.
“Ahh, I really hate you master”
“I already told you that I’m sorry”
“How could you. You shut me up for the whole entire day!”
“I said I’m sorry”
“Fine…I’ll forgive you since you’re taking me out to the beach”
“Haven’t you been to the beach before?”
“Not really. I heard about it from my great grandappa. It has big waters and sand!”
“Big water is called the sea”
“The sea?”
“Yup, it’s really big and deep with tons of pretty fishes in it.”
“SPEED UP MASTER! HURRY! I WANT TO SEE THE SEA!”
“Okay, chill”
We reached the beach in no time and really, this is the first time I see Key smile that big after releasing him from his bottle/lamp. And honestly, I felt happy seeing him that happy.
“Like what you see?”
“MMM! It’s pretty isn’t it master?”
“Yeah. Pretty soon, you’ll see the sunset too”
“Sunset?”
“It’s the time when the sun sets and the moon comes out”
“Is it pretty?”
“You’ll see.” We sat under a tree and waited for sunset. Soon, an orange glow covered the blue sea.
“Look, that’s the sunset”
“WOW! It’s pretty! You think I’ll be able to touch the sunset?”
“You can’t touch it. You’ll get burn”
“Fire?”
“Something like that. The sun’s pretty hot”
“I don’t wanna get burn. Cause if I do, I’ll be away from master.” Huh…What? What did he say?
“Repeat”
“I don’t wanna be away from you master. I really like master a lot even though master hates me. But don’t worry… Key will never hate master. Key loves master a lot!” I never felt anything like this before. He’s a genie Kim Jonghyun. He’ll die once your 10 wishes are over.
“After my 10 wishes, you’ll be gone right?”
“Yup”
“Then what if I never ever use up those remaining wishes, then you’ll be with me forever”
“That would never happen”
“Why not”
“It’s against the rules not to wish for something after awakening a genie up”
“Really?”
“That’s why…before the end of this month, you have to finish up all of your 10 wishes master”
“End of this month… but that’s 3 days away”
“Mm”
“I have 3 wishes left huh…” I looked up into the night sky and the sky was bare and empty.
“I wish, I wish with all my might that the sky would be filled with stars and shooting stars right now”
“Wish granted” The sky was filled with stars and were shining brightly. Shooting stars came ‘shooting’ down, causing streams of lights in the night sky.
“Key, hurry make a wish”
“Huh?”
“When you wish upon star, you wishes might come true”
“But ma-”
“SHH” I was already making my wish.
Star Light Star bright, The first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight.
I wish that Key would stay with me…forever
My last day with Key before he disappears. I know for a fact that he’s like us humans. Eat, sleep but the only thing is that, he flies and goes through walls.
I decided to prepare a farewell supper for him. No, a thank you supper.
“WOW! Master! You made all this for me?”
“Yeah, my way of saying thank you”
“Master…”
“Don’t master me. Hurry eat. The food’s gonna get cold”
He gobbled down any food that’s on his plate. He was talking and eating and the same time so I couldn’t really figure out what was he saying.
“Stop eating with your mouth full”
“bwhat, mwasto, tdish ish treki yummy”
“HAHA! What?”
He swallowed his food in one mouth and drink a sip of water before continuing.
“But Master, this is really yummy.”
“Then eat more”
“Yeah, this would be the last time won’t it…”
Last time… I didn’t like that. I didn’t like that words ‘last time’
“Can you not go?” I guess my question took him by surprise. He thought I hated him and couldn’t wait for him to get lost but he was wrong…I wanted him to stay more than anything. I just want him… He’s unselfish love for me, his sacrifices, and his innocent. I…I think I love him…
“Master hates me doesn’t he?”
“No I d-”
“But master trust in stars more than he trust in me…Key’s hurt when master does that”
“I didn’t…I didn’t trust in stars.”
“But masters wished upon a star even when Key’s with you.”
“ I wanted the stars to make you stay”
“Make…make me stay?”
“You said it yourself. In the genie book of rules, rule #4 states that, masters can’t wish for anything for their genie. Wishes are only permitted for themselves.”
“I did…”
“So I’ll try asking the stars for that little favour instead. And listen…I’m mad but I think I’m in love with a genie”
“I-in love wi-with a genie?”
“Yes…so stay. Don’t go”
“But I can’t… I have to.” DING. The clock strike 11.55pm. 5 more minutes before…before he leaves.
“Master…I’m sorry. I’m powerless against myself. When it’s time…it’s time”
“No… ”
“Bye Master…”
“I WISH I WISH WITH ALL MY MIGHT THAT GENIE KEY WOULD STAY WITH ME HERE FOREVER. I DON’T CARE WHETHER HE CAN GRANT WISHES OR NOT. I JUST WANT HIM HERE WITH ME!”
DING. The clock strikes 12.
“Master…you”
“I made my wish and you’re suppose to grant it”
“Sorry master…Thank you …” Key glowed a really bright glow and POOF…He was gone. His lamp/bottle was gone too. Is this really the end? If it is…Then, bye Key. It can’t be helped.
Thank you…
~DING DONG DING DONG~ URGH, who is it. It’s 7 in the morning. Don’t tell me…my parents?! I ran down straight to the kitchen, grabbed a wet cloth before heading towards the door. Well, I’m supposed to be up at 6, cleaning the ENITRE house so I have to act till I’m wiping the tables right?
~Click~
“HI UM-” No way…
There was this boy with perfectly straight white teeth, high cheekbones and feline eyes, with his pink luggage staring at me. He looks so much like…
“Key?”
“Good morning Master…Yesterday I left too abruptly that I forgot to say. WISH GRANTED!”
I don’t know what made my wish come true. Key as a genie or the shooting star I wished upon that night. But either way its fine isn’t it? I have my beloved genie with me right here, right now.
~Close your eyes. Believe and make a wish ~
A/N: Hi guys,I hope you enjoyed this, Oh wait. I would like to ask you guys. Would you like story with more description or just cut straight to the point?