Adventures with the Genie

“Three wishes. That’s the rules.”

“Oh c’mon! Just spare a nice guy like me just one more wish”

I laugh, “Hahahaha.. No.” My face all serious again. He pulls on my arms.

“Hey... what did I ever do to make you not want to help me?” I ‘poof’ away from his grasp.

“Sorry. Rules are rules.”

“Who needs rules! Come on!” He pauses and then grins, “If you give me one more wish, I’ll wish for you to be free.”

My eyes widen, the thought of being free. Just sounds like heaven. Then I realize, “The extra wish won’t count, you jerk. I can only give you three! So decide what your third one is and then be done with it so I can leave you!” I pause, looking him up and down, “hurry up.” Then I snap my fingers and a lawn chair appears next to me and I lay down on it with a mango smoothie in my hands. If I must wait, then I will wait comfortably. 

“Hey, how about you get me one of those” He points to my chair and smoothie.

“Is that a wish?” I grin mischievously. 

He frowns.

“Oh. Uh. No.” Finally, he looks up and says, “Make me live forever.”

“No can do pal.”

“Fine then.” He scowls. “Give me wings, you know, the fluffy angel kind.” I snort. Wow, he is so weird.

“Do you want to be able to use them to fly? Or just to show off?” I ask.

“To fly. Duh. And maybe show off a little bit.” He smirks. Oh my.

“Your wish is my command. Bippity” I snap my fingers on the right “Bopity” I snap my fingers on the left, “Boo!” I poke his nose and he cries in pain as wings sprout from his back and tear apart his clothes. I laugh at him, yeah I know, I’m terrible. 

After his wings are fully grown and he is done catching his breath he glares at me.

“You could have warned me that it would hurt.”

I frown, a look of concern forms it’s way onto my face. “Oh. Sorry, I had no idea that it would hurt so much” I give him puppy dog eyes and a halo and wings appear on me. 

 

He growls,“Oh you little...” Then I ‘poof’ back into my home safe and sound. Badabing. Badaboom.