Genie | jjk

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The silence that sat between the both of us wasn't as awkward as I thought. In fact it felt nice having someone else around.

The genie who I can now call Jungkook, was happily sitting on my chair, spinning away. He looked incredibly cute with his big eyes drinking what I now know is his favorite beverage, banana milk.
Funny since I met him as a sexy man and now he looks like a bunny to me.

"So.." I start off weirdly, rubbing on my arm not really knowing what to say. But being quiet was killing me slowly.

"Do you sleep in the lamp?" I ask. Considering it was getting late, I wanted to know where he could sleep.
It felt a bit messed up to me lending him my couch since it isn't exactly a great one and my bed wasn't big since it was just me.
I was barely surviving and I haven't had the time to buy some better furniture yet.

"Why?" He asks curiously. His lips form into a grin. "Wanna lend me your bed?"

"I mean.." I drift off. I was taught as a youngster to treat your guests well even with the little we had.
I think it'd make me feel better giving him my bed during his stay and I sleep on the couch.
Im not home most of the time anyway.

"Whoa.. you'd do that?" Jungkook lightly chuckles. "Don't worry, I don't necessarily need sleep."

"You don't?"
"Nope. I get most of my energy from the lamp." He points at it. "It's a mysterious little thing but you don't have to worry about where I sleep."

I nod. I don't know what else to say but at the same time I have a lot to say.
So many questions were roaming through my head and I felt I had such little time.

"I'll help." Jungkook says. Confused I stare as he stands up.
"You must have a lot going through your head no?" Again I nod and he just continues.

"Hmm. Let's start with the basic. You have seven wishes you could make. As I said before, you could spill them all at this moment and I'd grant everything for you, or you could take your time upon choosing each one. Any questions so far?"

"Yes, why seven wishes?"

He nods, starting off. "Ah, well the story goes something like this: There once lived a king and a queen. They had seven boys. Each child had his own personality really and they were known as the seven sins. The youngest child was the most greedy prince there was. The six older brothers brought it upon themselves to curse their younger brother so he could learn to give rather than receive. It's all bologna really." He shrugs. Not telling you everything. Honestly, though, he didn't have to and he didn't want to.

That story of the black lamp was true but there was more to it. 
Its origin did start with the seven prince's but the oldest ones made sure to not only curse their younger brother but also everyone else that was as greedy as him and came across the said lamp.

"Any other questions?"

I nod with a hum. "Is there a specific amount of time? Will you disappear if I don't make my seven wishes?"

"No." He heads to the couch. He punches the cushion a bit before bouncing on it. "You need to make all seven wishes. Otherwise I don't leave. If you happen to take three years coming up with them then I'll leave in three years." He says, stretching his arms.
Make sense, I wonder how long he's been cooped up in there with no way of stretching or does he shrink inside the lamp?

I think I need to watch Aladdin again.

"I cannot leave until you are done with whatever it is you want or need. Make sense?"

"Yes.. Sounds harsh." I take a seat. "So even if I may not want to make the seven wishes I have to?" At my words, he laughs.

"Why wouldn't you want to make your seven wishes?" I'm about to speak when he cuts me off.
"You asked for me."

"What? No I didn't." I quickly retort.
"Mm yes you did. This lamp doesn't just show up to anyone. I told you it's a mysterious little thing. It has its own rules and it's own ways of working. You looked for it without exactly asking for it and it appeared. I appeared." He snaps his neck.

"You probably said, I wish for blah blah and it was something big for me to appear before you. Where did you find it anyway?"

Thinking back to the first time I saw it. It was night and i was getting home from work. I tripped on something so I picked it up but it didn't do anything for like two days.
Why now?

"It was just on the street. I didn't even see it.." I shortly say.
He nods and doesn't say anything else.

I notice the time after giving the clock a quick glance.
"Well I'd ask you a lot more questions but it's seriously getting late and I have to get up in a few hours." I yawn and stand up.
"You don't mind staying on the couch right?" I stop and turn around to see him shaking his head.
There was a weird feeling tugging at my head and chest. I know I saw him physically come out of the lamp but is it really okay to let an unknown man sleep here?
If I die, no one would know or care.. is this really how I want to say goodbye to the world?

Noticing I was just standing there and giving him faces, I decide to just figure it all out in a few hours.
I really needed whatever amount of sleep I could gather and it might just be me sleep deprived that it's why this guy exists.
Yeah maybe it's just my imagination.

"Uhm.. do you need any comfortable clothes?" Since he got out of that lamp, he's only had one outfit on and I questioned why he didn't even smell bad.
He was simply in all black as if it was someone's funeral he came to but with a slight sexy look.

His shirt was unbuttoned so his pecks were semi exposed. His golden thin chain gave his bare chest some flavor.
I need to pull it together. This guy could be my imaginary friend.. how lonely am I?

I wonder how long he's been a genie too now thinking about it. Was he just born one?
Maybe he's one of the princes like in his story? I wonder if he's a virgin?
I obviously need a therapist.

"Why, is this fit making you nervous?" He snaps me back to reality and I panic he might be able to read minds.
"No, it's bothering me you might not even be comfortable." I roll my eyes and walk to my room.
I pull out a big tshirt of mine and some sweatpants.
Some of my time was spent at my boss house after a tiring paper work day so I needed appropriate comfortable clothes. Besides, I had men's clothes stored away from who knows who.
I can't seem to remember that but alas I thanked myself for it since I could easily share at this given moment.

"Goodnight." I say before running off like I saw a spider.
Jungkook nods as I turn off the lights and then I began to wonder if it's dark in the lamp.. is he okay with the lights being off? What if he isn't and I didn't ask?

What if—

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Jungkook on the other hand, waits a little bit before standing up and searches for a device anywhere.
Unfortunately she took all her devices inside to her room and locked the door.
However, she left a puppy calendar at the door.

"October 21st, 2022." He saw the crossed dates.
"It's been ten years."

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A/N: Do you guys have any questions you'd wanna ask genie JK 👀