The Genie's Curse

Chapter 38

Tsuru looked around her, feeling the air surrounding her heavy, "Keir?" She called out, they hadn't spoken to each other ever since their quarrel. He had refused to come out and she had refused to leave, going to take her lamp and bring it to him.

This would be her final attempt to have him ask for the wish, she made herself promise not to continue pushing on in a futile subject, "Keir please, listen to me."

Tsuru knocked on the door one more time, "Keir please, I don't care about the consequences, just please I'm begging you... Wish to be immortal."

There was a rustling from inside the room before the door opened, "You really want this Tsuru? For me to be an immortal and for you to pay the unknown consequences?"

"I'm here aren't I?"

Keir opened the door, stepping out of the room and facing Tsuru, the smoke invading the space between them, "There's no going back after I wish for it..."

"I know." She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, closing them as tight as she could, "Just say it."

"Tsuru, I wish to be immortal..."

Like a gush of wind entering her lungs suddenly her eyes opened wide

Tsuru grasped around her, her arms landing instinctively on Keme as she sucked in a deep breath, drops of sweat went down her forehead.

Keme held her hand reassuring her, "You were just asleep."

"He wished for it..." she murmured under her breath, "He's at fault..."

"What are you talking about?" He questioned looking at her by the corner of his eye, "What are you on about Tsuru? Who do you mean by him?"

"Keir! He wished for immortality, he cursed me more than anything in life ever did." She pulled at her hair and leaned against the door feeling her face heat up, turning red from the anger and mix of feelings she felt, "I fooled myself." Grinding her teeth together she glared at nothing, "...I'm such an idiot."

Keme didn't understand what she was asking about questioning her, "Explain it to me Tsuru, I want to help. I said I'd help."

"What the whole damn point! It doesn't matter! I'm an idiot who fell for it!" She kept on going like that and smashing her fist against the car door, "He manipulated me into doing what he wanted! He lied to me throughout everything... but that's not the worst of it!"

Keme saw her broken smile rising on her lips, "Tell me." He said lowly, stopping the car and giving her his full attention, "I want to help you."

"YOU CAN'T HELP ME! You can't, not you, not Allon, not me, not anyone! I lied to myself trying to make myself believe I could fix something. Wanting to so blindly and stupidly think there was a way I could fix my mistake... but mistakes can't be fixed! You just live with them, and you look back bitterly at what can't be undone!" She gasped and choked on her words as her face grew redder and her eyes watery.

Hunching over she leaned over her legs, "I lost my mind for more than three hundred years! Because I was following a lie I made up for myself! I made myself believe that if I could kill him, end him... I'd be happy, that I'd lose all those thousands of years I got from breaking my own damned rules!..." she falls silent sulking on the corner.

He reached out a hand towards her but having her slap it away, "We're always remembering what we want to forget and we always, always forget what we want to remember... it's that's a little bit of humanity still left in us."

"Damn everything you've just said! I don't need you to tell me how pitiful it is my dang memory loss is, or that I'm remembering what I should have never forgotten! I became my own enemy, making things up just to feel a little better about myself. To have a reason to go on and move forward..." she bit her lip and glanced at him, "How can any of us tell what's real anymore!? We've lived thousands of years, we've suffered, we've died, we've loved. We've felt unimaginable pain! What if it's not real!? What if we're all just crazy and can't tell if we're still in the damn lamp!?"

Keme grabbed her arm and squeezed it tight, "I'm here, and I'm real! Sure maybe I'm a little crazy but that's just what makes me, me! I know you're angry about everything that's happened to you, I understand that you just couldn't handle it and you found your own way to cope with it. So just let me at least be there to help you move on... I don't need you to accept me fully, I just need you to let me try and help, even a little."

She looked out the window and her back turned on him, "I don't want help anymore..."