Genie | jjk

02

In three hours I was up again. I was incredibly cranky and angry with myself for staying up so late.

I was getting ready with such patience not noticing the time.
Hurriedly, I was trying to grab something to eat before leaving. As I entered the kitchen,
I had completely forgotten about the black lamp that was sitting in my counter and I would've completely ignored it if it wasn't for the small 'poof' I heard.

I flinch and turn around to see the man from yesterday watching me eat.

"J-Jungkook." I greet. He smiles. "Why are you stuttering?"
"You literally just startled me."

He tilts his head in curiosity, "what's that" he asks. I furrow my brows confused and let him know what it was I was eating.
I wasn't sure if to be surprised or wave it off but he knew what my breakfast was called. Which got me thinking two questions for this morning.

"Do you eat?" I ask awkwardly. I didn't know if he could or couldn't and I hope it was a harmless question.

The man stares at me with his big eyes silently, making me panic little by little until he nods.

"Oh, then do you want anything?" That wasn't exactly the second question I had in mind but I wanted to be a good host until his departure.

There was this heavy feeling in my head that I didn't want him thinking I have him around for these dumb wishes. Of course he had explained to me, I looked for him and this lamp but I couldn't help and think this was absurd and fake.

"I wouldn't mind." He shrugs. Quickly, I get up from my stool and make him an omelet not caring that I'd be late.

He observes the food for a while and my minutes were ticking by faster than usual. "Do you not like it?"

"I haven't had food in a while." He sighs, closing his eyes. He inhales the warm aroma of the food below him and opens his eyes. I noticed it glittered more than usual and he grabbed the fork and took a bite.
I could tell he was really enjoying it with the way he would hum and take another swift bite after another.
I smiled at the site seeing him as a little kid but I couldn't help and ask. "Do you not eat then?"

Jungkook shakes his head, continuing to eat. "Since I'm in the lamp, it provides for me. Energy and well hunger just doesn't hit me. I don't get hungry, but it doesn't mean I can't eat... Get me?" I nod hearing his words and it reminds me of my actual second question from earlier.

"You know the name of these foods..." I drift off not knowing exactly how to ask what I wanted. However, he snorts a laugh, probably knowing what I was going to ask and turns to look at me, drinking his smoothie. "Yeah, did you think I wouldn't?"

My cheeks go red and I nod hesitantly. I was embarrassed to ask because it might sound dumb but since when was he a genie since he knows these things.
Or did he have a recent wisher from these years that he knows just as much as I do.
For some funny reason, I thought he'd be a genie from a long time ago and he wouldn't know what a camera would even be but I was wrong.

"I know a lot of things because I was once—". He stops his sentence and I look at him curiously. "You were once what?" I ask but he doesn't respond and instead leaves me to the silence of the kitchen. My thoughts were louder than his breathing and getting up, I decide to ask.

"Since when have you been a genie?" He stiffens. He looks away from me and grabs his dishes, placing them in the sink.
I watch my supposed genie wash his own dishes and I found it curiously funny since he had such powers couldn't he use them for himself and get things done too? Maybe the powers gifted to him were just for the pleasures of others.