The Djinns Wife

PROLOGUE

 
    I've experienced a lot of embarrassing things in my relatively short life, but none of those experiences come close to what I'm doing now. You'd think as a twenty two year old married woman I wouldn't be scared to go into the drug store and buy myself a pregnancy test; but boy you couldn't be more wrong. You know that feeling when your anxiety kicks in, and you feel as though everyone is starring at you the second you walk into a place? That's how I feel right now, standing here in an almost empty dimly lit CVS looking at all of these little pink and white boxes not having a clue of which one to get.

   Do they all work the same? Should I be concerned about buying a cheap one and getting a false positive? I could just pull my hair out in frustration right about now, I don't even know anyone I could call and ask for help! I didn't want to tell anyone and get their hopes up by saying I'm buying a pregnancy test. Me and Cyrus have been trying to have a baby for 3 years. Sadly with his kind reproduction is scarce, and hardly ever happens. From what I've been told in the last hundred years only about thirty or forty jinn births have been reported.

  That's why if I buy this test and by some Miracle it comes back positive it'll be exactly that, some miracle. I couldn't take the pressure of standing here starring at these boxes any longer, I grab a few random brands from the shelves and head towards the self checkout. I needed the extras just in case, I've been sick for the past two weeks and I missed my period yesterday. I needed these test!

  For the best chances of conception, we'd sometimes wait until there was a full moon. During the full moon Cyrus was like a different person, his sex drive would sky rocket and medically it seemed as though his sperm count that was usually rather low increased tremendously. Luckily for us, our anniversary was on a full moon, maybe this time my womb had been blessed with the precious overflow of his manly fluids.

  I checked out and drove home, pulling up to the driveway of our black and white Victorian style home. We lived a little farther away from the rest of the homes in the neighborhood. You know one of those houses where you can't see it because the drive way is so long. I wanted to take this test and know the results before Cyrus comes home in a few hours. I need to know if they come back positive or not, because if they do this will be news I can't wait to share with him!

  We've lived here since I was legally old enough to leave home at 18, being that my parents were long dead I had been living with my older cousin who took me in when I was seven. To say Rayne was reluctant to let me go would be an understatement, she felt as though I was too young to go off and get married but I reassured her things would be ok. Cyrus and I met when I was a junior in high school, he was a senior, nineteen in fact. I was just sixteen but I knew from the moment we locked eyes my life would never be the same, and I was right.

  Who would guess that they would find out they're the soulmate of a jinn, I would never believe it if I had told my past self that you're gonna marry genie off of Aladdin. He was the best thing that had ever happened to me, now here I am standing in the bathroom with my hand covered in piss from peeing on a stick. All I had to now was wait a few minutes. I don't know what I was going to do if it comes back positive, but the last thing I need to do right now was get my hopes up.

  I picked up the stick in fear, looking it over to see just what the test results could possibly say. Right there before my eyes were those two little thin pink lines.

"Positive..."

  I was in shock, I hurriedly checked the other three test that were laying in the sink since I had taken them all at the same time. Lo and behold they had the exact same result. I was pregnant... I was really going to be a mom! Cyrus is going to be a dad!! I quickly lifted my shirt and looked down at my still flat stomach, there was really a little baby growing in there. There was a little human starting to develop and form right inside of me... I can't wait to tell him when he gets home. He might just cry from excitement, I knew Cyrus loved me but the one thing he wanted most was the be a father. It was one of his dreams, a dream he was scared would never come to pass. Until now.

  In order to celebrate I hurriedly rushed to the kitchen to prepare us a nice dinner, I wanted to surprise him and tell him when he least expected it. In a make him choke and drop his plate kind of way, those reactions were always the best especially coming from Cyrus. He'd sometimes lose control of his powers for a brief second and only Gods knows what would happen. So to say most of my entertainment came from surprising him would be an astounding understatement. I mean I am an adult, but a girls still got to have fun right?

I had no idea what to cook, I just wanted to run around the house jumping for joy. We had so much now to think about, I don't even know how to be a mom. Nonetheless anything about babies, I mean sure I read a few books here and there but now that it's finally coming I needed to get really prepared. My mind was running a million miles an hour, the number of things I was thinking about right now was almost infinite. I'm just so excited!!! I can't stop touching my stomach knowing there's a little human finally taking shape.

By the time I was done running around the house and managing to fix a decent dinner; Cyrus should be arriving any minute. Normally he would call and let me know he was on his way home, but I had yet to receive one. I didn't want to call him and pester knowing he's probably just busy, he's a big strong magical man I know he can take care of himself. No need for little old human me to worry about him.

The minutes ticked by and turned into hours as I waited, I've called him no less than fifty times. This was unusual, he's never been late and never not answered a call or text. I know something is wrong I can feel it, where is he? I call his mom in hopes of hearing some good news, maybe he lost his phone or had an emergency happen with his family. The line rang three times before I could hear her soft greeting on the other side of the phone.

"Hi sweetie, to what do I have the pleasure?" Darya, Cyrus mother spoke.

"Hi ma, have you heard from Cyrus? I've been waiting on him to come home for two and half, almost three hours and he hasn't gotten here yet. I've called him half a hundred times and I've gotten no answer, have you heard from him or even seen him?" I asked in panic, I was a worried mess right now. Why of all days did this have to happen today!?

"Almost three hours? And you haven't heard or seen anything? I haven't seen him much today besides when he popped in this morning to get some things before going to our plane. He said he had some important stuff to take care of and would be back later." Darya said to me, I could hear the slight worry begin to form in her voice.

"Shit, I'm going to take a ride around to a few places to see if I can find him. Please Darya see if you can get ahold of him some way. I'm really worried and I feel like something bad has happened." I told her ending the call abruptly, I needed to find him. I could feel a searing pain begin to burn in my chest, and panic rise in my spirit. I knew these feelings couldn't have been completely my own, they were his.

Cyrus was in trouble.

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