Wish Me Free

Chapter 3: GENESIS

Being the last remaining genie meant that, either the people are trying to find me or... I fear, they've long forgotten about genies and what we are capable of. Or should I say, what I'm capable of.

At first I wasn't so sure of which was more unsettling, being exploited or being obliterated. Kung hindi nila alam kung sino ako, kung hindi nila ako kilala.. Sino ang tutulong sakin para maging malaya ako?

I sighed out loud, earning a laugh from my prisoner.

"Oh my sweet, sweet, Genesis. Huwag mong sabihan na naghihintay ka pa rin na may tutulong sa'yo? Do you really think that these humans would put aside their greed to help someone like you?"

I wanted to talk back and tell the voice that he was wrong. But I couldn't trust my voice. I, too, wasn't confidently convinced with myself.

Humans but no humanity. And I was a witness to that.

"You can't even say anything. Kasi alam mo, alam mo rin kung gaano ka hayop ang mga yon. Alam na alam mo kung gaano sila kasama."

I gave a bitter laugh, "Like you're no better? Keeping me in this hellhole? This.. prison."

His voice echoed in the lamp. "Let's be real, Genesis. Without this lamp and without me, san ka pupulutin?"

"Admit it, Genesis. You continuously ask for freedom, something you know nothing about because you're curious. It's just something that you're curious about. Not something you really want."

I stayed silent.

"Hindi naman kita binabawalan dito ah? You get everything you want in just a snap of your fingers. You know, you may call this a prison but this.. all of these, are what most people would actually kill for. This hellhole is what they would call paradise."

I hate to admit it but, the lamp had provided me more than enough. It could be spacious if I wanted it to be. It wasn't even a matter of snapping my fingers but in just one blink, I could do whatever the hell I want and get whatever I need. As long as I stay in this lamp.

Do I know anything about freedom? Wala.
But what I do know is that I didn't want to have any masters to serve, for once... For once, I want to be able to say "No."

"You just don't know what it's like." I said back.

"And you have no idea what it's like to be keeping someone who wishes nothing but to be free, Genesis."

The lamp and I, we've been together for as long as I could remember. I've never seen him, just only heard his voice behind the lamp. I don't know what his story was before we met but I've always blamed him.

Because it was always easier to have someone to blame rather than no one at all. Someone to point your range anger to.
Was it justifiable? No.
Was the lamp the one who held me captive? No.

"Genesis, you're not the only victim here. I hope you know that and stop acting like one."

"If you could just set me free then at least one of us would be happy." I muttered to myself.

The voice laughs out loud and starts to chant a mantra that I've heard over a thousand times, I can even chant it myself.

"The power of the genies must be kept, thus the lamps are ordered to protect and if needed, are to interject."

"So technically, the reason I'm here in the first place is because of genies. Well because of you, to be exact, Genesis."

For a hundred years, walang iba but tong putangina na toh lang ang makakausap ko. Nakakasawa at nakakasukal na.

"You could always do both of us a favor and just release me." I said before adding, "But you're just too damn selfish to do that."

The voice laughs, "Misery does love company, after all."

A sudden sensation suddenly overwhelms the entire lamp.

It was a feeling that I haven't felt in a hundred years.

"Be in your best behavior now, Genesis. Cause it looks like you've got a master to serve."

I took a deep breath before smoking away to face my new master.

I felt excited to see what it was like outside of my lamp, to witness how much the world has changed since the last time I've seen it.
There was so much that I wanted to see, but it was the bright sun that I was dying to get a glimpse of.

But as I faced my new master, I became speechless.

Have you ever seen brown eyes in sunlight?
Brown wasn't enough to describe its beauty, it was like it melted in the golden rays of the sun.

The eyes of my master turned into sunset on its own.

My heart skipped a beat from my master's beauty. How dangerous.

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Slow updates since work has been busy and hectic! Sorry!
Till next time!

- thal