Just like I was saying that in my mind a soft knock in the door and with it opening it marked the beginning of my… no, OUR adventures together.
Preparing myself for whoever was outside the door I was not so surprised to see both of my parents entering, I could even see some tears coming out of my mom’s eyes, damn, I hate to see her cry.
“You are awake! Thank you God!” she said just before giving me one of her patented life squeezing bear hugs, not that I minded to be reminded that my mom worried about me but my body wasn’t in the condition right now.
“Mom! Calm down please! I’m in a hospital but I’m alright!” I said trying not to be very obvious that I was trying to regain my breath after being squished like that, my mom really had some strength for being a forty something woman, although she wasn’t exactly in her prime and she was slightly overweight she was very caring and really elegant unlike some of the other moms I have met, well, maybe with the exception of Miss Harvey, although really few could be like her.
“Is just that you worried us so much! We were called by the hospital saying that you were hit by a car, how do you think that made us feel?” My mom, always the worry-wart, but I know she means well.
“Miranda, that’s alright, our son is fine, nothing mayor happened” my dad said, quite good but I still have some alarm bells running through my head with his attitude and how he looks at mom some times, but right now I’m just happy to see them here, it had been quite a close call if my genie was right, I would have been dead if it wasn’t for that locket “sorry for making you stay with him this long Jeannie, your parents would probably be worried about you” my dad said turning to see the genie who was again seating on the hospital chair, the original one; my eyebrow was raised while mouthing ‘Jeannie?’ to her to which she only send me a look that clearly said ‘shut up, I’ll explain later’ before addressing my dad.
“Don’t worry mister, it was the least I could do, I couldn’t simply leave him like that” she said with her ten thousand watt smile enough to melt the heart of anyone, for a moment I think I went brain dead for a moment watching how beautiful she was but my mom simply smiled in her reassured way taking the genie’s hands, damn, guess I have to ask her name, but, Jenny? That’s so… stereotypical.
“Is a good thing my son found such a good girl to be with” what?! What the hell is going on here? She will have to explain several things, I have too many questions; I wish my parents could leave us alone so she could explain.
‘Granted’ and with that and a soft ‘pink’ I was left gawking after listening the genie’s voice once again in my head, I rally wanted to hit my head with my hand, of course, she grants my wishes, how stupid could I be? Maybe it was because all the surprises so far.
“Well, son, you are alright so we can leave for now, we’ll be talking with the doctor to ask when you will be able to check out and go back home, let’s go Miranda, leave the kids alone” my dad said and my mom, for once, accepted without even playfully complained like usual, that was cool; once the door was closed I turned around at my genie.
“Okay, first, can you hear my thoughts?”
“Well, sure, it would be pretty stupid if you could only wish when you say it aloud, nothing that could hurt you will be granted so you don’t have to worry about that at least”
“Good, now, what was that with my parents? And how they called you, Jeannie? Please, that was more stupid than calling a dog Fido” she simply shrugged her shoulders.
“It was the first thing that was in your head” yeah, thank you TV, I have watched I dream of Jeannie several times, now I see the mistake in my actions “and, well, I had to rewrite several people’s memories so they would find nothing strange in the way we interact, besides, no way in everything that is magical will I be invisible to everyone, I spend too much time in that locket to not have some real time as a normal person… or something like that anyway; but for your sanity’s sake let’s just say that people remember me as the girl who moved into town this year, I am in your own school and we have been dating for the last five months after you broke up with Caroline Bricks” she said looking really proud of herself for what I see, but it wasn’t a bad story, that way she would spend time with me and wouldn’t look weird that we are always together, and I don’t complain, specially how she looks “master, my eyes are up here” she says with a flirty smile on her face, although I don’t feel so bad at being caught ogling her.
“So… what now?”
“That’s for you to decide, really, I am here to grant your wishes and make your life as pleasurable as you wish”
“Alright, just, don’t call me master, it sounds… weird, I don’t know” in my opinion that word sounded wrong, is like if she was a slave, although, technically...
“What about boss?”
“Better I guess, normally people don’t even say my name so is not that bad, so can I wish for me to be completely free and healthy?”
“That and many more things, the sky is the limit so far”
“Alright, first, forget about Jeannie, no way, why not, eh… Ginny, I quite like the name”
“Don’t you want me to be a redhead with freckles and brown eyes?” she said in a sarcastic tone making me groan at that, leave it to the genie to comment about one of the Harry Potter characters I somewhat physically liked “is alright, sounds quite fitting, you are the boss here, you can change my name, wish me to go naked or anything perverted but refrain from even wishing something related to Britney Spears or any pop star or I will have to hurt you” she said with a scowl in her face; seems like she had the same distaste for them as Agatha does, although what she said before that was really interesting.
“So, can I wish you naked or anything like that?”
“Ah, want to check the merchandise? Just say the word boss” Ginny said with her hands holding her jacket just waiting for the command. |