10:10 | Hoshi

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[a week later]

Today, I woke up at around 10am. It was quite late, but since it was summer vacation, it didn't really matter. I went to the bathroom and did my morning routine, ending up with brushing my teeth. As I was doing so, I was looking at myself in the mirror. Hoshi suddenly appeared behind me, and I saw him in the mirror. His sudden appearance made me very surprised.

"AJAHAGGJXND" I tried yelling, but I had toothpaste in the mouth. This genie is always appearing at the worst time I swear. I cleaned my mouth before speaking some more.

"GoD HoSHi DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT!"

"It's not my fault!"

"I know, I know, I was just surprised sorry," I said.

"It's fine," he replied casually.

We went back to my room and sat on my bed.
Last week was filled with small wishes. I would only ask for things such as ice cream, skateboarding, etc. I mostly chose activities we could do together. Today though, I had no idea what to wish for. I simply shook off the thought, thinking I would choose later.

"Say, where do you take all that stuff I ask for?" I asked Hoshi.

"I create them," he answered my question.

"Good thing you're not stealing," I said and we stayed silent during a short moment after.

"I thought about it, after a year, can't I just say 10:10 again so you come back?"

"No, you can only have a genie once in your life. From next year you can't ever have a genie again."

"And it had to be you," I said jokingly.

"Yah! " He complained and I stuck my tongue out playfully.

"What are you doing today?" he asked.

"I've got nothing planned." He nodded while thinking of something to do.

"Then, want to go to an arcade?"

"Okay why not, let me just get ready."

"Okay," he agreed, but didn't move. 

"Yah, wait outside!" I pushed him out the door and changed into a nice outfit. I wore this :

"Okay let's go," I told him with a smile.

We headed outside the house and took the bus. It was so advantageous to be a genie, you don't have to pay for anything. Sometimes I thought how amazing it must be to be one.

As we got off the bus, I wondered how crazy it would look if I would talk to an "imaginary friend".

"Hey genie, I have a wish."

"Yeah?"

"Make yourself visible for today."

"Alright," he said. He smiled at me, not moving the slightest. I couldn't notice any changes, so I wasn't even sure if it worked.

"Did you do it?" I asked, confused.

"Yep."

I became suspicious, so I told him to go buy some pizza at a food stand. He agreed, and I watched him from a bench across the street. He talked to the seller and the seller was indeed seeing him!

My genie brought back the food, and we ate before heading to the arcade.

There, we played a lot of games. I unfortunately couldn't beat him at anything. Guess what? Genies are lucky, but me being naturally unlucky, I had literally no chance of winning anything against him. After playing some basketball game, I gave up.

"You're too lucky, it's no fun," I murmured, when I suddenly thought of something.

"Oh wait, I have an idea." Hoshi looked at me curiously. I dragged him over to a plushie machine. I usually never get anything with this, maybe he would? There was especially this big panda that was really cute...

"Can you try getting this one?" I asked pointing to the panda.

"Are you trying to use my luck?" He asked.

"Exactly."

"Yah!" he pretended to be upset. I chuckled.

"I'm just kidding, you don't have to do it," I said turning my back to the machine. Resigned to go back to the hell games.

"Wait, wait, I'll do it," he said, I smirked.

Of course, this lucky guy got the panda on the first try. I was very happy though, once he gave it to me, I hugged it in my arms.

[Hoshi's POV]

I found myself smiling at her happiness. She was very beautiful in this moment. I made my camera appear in my hands and took her in picture. Being a genie has it's advantages...

[(Y/N)'s POV]

After leaving the arcade, we decided to stop by our usual park. We sat on some swings. Some children were playing soccer a bit away from us. Hoshi and I were talking about the boy he had last year, when suddenly he was hit in the face by the soccer ball of the children. They simply said sorry as I have them back their ball. I then turned back towards Hoshi who was holding his forehead in pain. I laughed at the situation. His forehead was red and there was even a scratch on it. I got a band-aid our from my bag and moved his bangs out of his forehead before putting it over the scratch.

"You know I could have just healed it right?" he said. Embarrassed, I lightly hit him on his forehead and he whined again while laughing.

"You should be grateful I care." I turned my back to him.

"Thank you," he murmured, loud enough for me to hear. I didn't turn around, but I smiled.

He was cute.

"You can disappear now."

And with that, he was gone.