Hello, Lovelies! I've finally decided to share some stuff I've been working on over on my Tumblr. I hope you all enjoy it. This is a newer style of writing for me and the whole thing will be written in ficlet styled chapters (even though they still flow together and make a coherent storyline).
- Sammy 3
Yuuri wasn't sure this was worth hundred bucks.
Of course, he needed the money to put towards rent and all, but was being a lamp bearer for a wedding full of genies such a good idea? He'd known about the Jinn before, having grown up in a rather Jinn populated town, and he'd come across a few genies before back home but being in a whole room filled with them for hours on end just didn't seem like a good idea.
But he needed the money for rent. He was already working as a busboy in between school and an extra few hundred didn't sound too bad, especially if all he had to do was be in charge of one genie lamp. As long as he didn't touch it with his bare hands or brush against it, then he'd be okay to handle a small genie lamp.
As soon as he slid down from his bike and looked at the venue, he knew he had bitten off more than he could chew. Yuuri was expecting the wedding hall to look like an Arabian paradise filled with beautiful silken pillows, low lighting, and intricately designed drapes. Such hadn't been the case however and it seemed very odd even from the moment he went through the front door. He'd been met with what had looked more like a typical human wedding with tables circled by chairs for guests. The room was dressed in white and black decor like it was a real classic Hollywood party with A-list guests; fine wine sitting at each table and people rushing around to prepare for the event. He blinked and fiddled with one of the silken gloves he had worn to protect himself from accidentally getting attached to the genie he would be watching over tonight.
"You! Are you here to be a lamp bearer?" He snapped his head around to look at a woman who was waltzing towards him, her heels clicking along the wood floor sharply as she looked down at her clipboard. She looked like someone who could easily break his face and do it with the grace of a ballerina if she so desired.
"Uhm…yes?" Yuuri fidgeted nervously as she finally looked up at him over her spectacles.
"Right. And you are?" She said as she began to flip through pages on her clipboard looking for something.
"Yuuri Katsuki."
"Katsuki…Katsuki…Kats–Ah, here we are. Yes, you'll be with Viktor." She said as she motioned for him to follow her as she began to click-clack once more across the hall.
He hurried after her, "Okay. Uhm, what should I do–"
"He's a handful so you'll have to be watchful of him, but he is rather nice. His lamp is around here somewhere. I know he requested to be put in the same room as Christophe…" She mumbled to her self as she turned down a hallway and began peeking through rooms along the way.
He too followed her example and was surprised to find rooms filled with lamps. Lamps of varying size and design and even era sitting in rooms on pillows or on rolling carts and beds like they were precious antiques. Table lamps, flashlights, chandeliers and even a street lamp had all been passed by until finally the woman sighed and hummed, "Here we are. Viktor! Your bearer is here for you."
He followed the woman into the room when suddenly a soft airy voice floated out into the void, "Perfect. I was just telling Chris that my lamp needed to be shifted, it was starting to tilt."
Yuuri had never seen a genie come out of their lamp before but the sight had been rather beautiful, at least the way Viktor had done it. Small colored wisps of smoke began lifting from each crystal on the ornate chandelier; bursts of soft pink, cream, silver, and gold flowed from the crystals suddenly forming into the shape of a floating being over the Chandelier as he floated on air. He was blurry at first but in a small pop, Viktor had fully materialized in mid-air.
Like all genies, Viktor was breathtakingly beautiful with sharp features and smooth looking skin. His slender body hanging in hair partially solid, partially still made of smoke as he floated above the beautiful crystals, somehow still apart from them. Shinning blue eyes trained on him as a sweet smirk came onto his mouth in greeting.
"Such a showoff like always, Vitya." The woman clicked her tongue at him.
"You're just jealous Lilia."
"I'm not jealous of you being trapped in a lamp."
Viktor sighed and shook his head, "My lamp is beautiful, thank you."
"Sure, sure," She mumbled before nodding at Yuuri, "This is Yuuri Katsuki."
Viktor turned to him and smiled softly as he looked down at him with those gorgeous blue eyes, "Hello, Yuuri…"
And Yuuri knew that this was going to be a lot trickier than he thought it would be starting with how he was going to manage to carry a whole chandelier on his own.
