From a Genie

I looked at Sadie. She was almost younger than I remembered. Her choppy brown hair hung to her shoulders, and she seemed like she was caught between Goth and circus clown with her reds and purples and blacks. It was almost like she was just a normal teenager whose voice occasionally betrayed her when she was angry, making her speak with her native accent. Though I recognized her the second he saw her. 

Peering up from my lamp, between someone's shoes, I was able to detect a vibe. It was just one of the many things that a Genie could detect.
            I was afraid that I may have damaged the relationship between Sadie and the girl sitting behind her, but that was something to be dealt with later.

“What is your problem?” Sadie screeched once they were out of the school. The sides of her mouth were wobbling, on the verge of crying. “After this horrible trick, you expect me to put up with you? Please, Genie,” he voice was a whisper. “Is there any scrap of empathy in your body at all?”

I swallowed. Did I feel guilty? Yes, maybe a little. But a deal is a deal is a deal is a deal is a--

Oh great, she’s crying.

Though it’s not the weepy kind of defeated crying. It’s the “I’ll rip your throat out if you don’t get away from me right now” furious tears. I quavered.

“Sadie--”

“Get away from me.” She made it about two blocks before I felt something tugging me.

I popped up next to her.

“Gah!” she jumped back. “Can’t you just leave me alone?”

“No.” She reached up her hand to slap me, making me wince. “I mean that I physically can’t. I’m bound to you as long as you don’t tell me the wish.”

Her face broke and something in my chest dully ached.

“I wish…” her voice breaks off. Finally her shoulders slump and she drops her head on my chest. It isn’t a truce--I know that. It’s because we’re both stuck. 

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[Storm K.]

Wooooo, Genie perspective! I really liked this, it gave us an insight as to why there was that mysterious noise Sadie could hear - which makes sense now :) The relationship between Sadie and the Genie is wonderful, and I'm so curious as to what's going to happen next. Great write!

[Pawprints]

Thanks :)