Chapter 6

I thought about it after a while and I decided not to make a wish. The genie told us again that if we wanted to make another wish we would have to rub the lamp again. I thought that I should use my wishes for important reasons and not dumb reasons.

The genie went back into his lamp and Ethan, Benny, and Rory left. It was a long day so it's time for me to sleep.

I woke the next morning to a warm bright sunny Tuesday. Of course as always I have to get ready for school. I got dressed into any clothes that were lain out across my bedroom floor. I grabbed my sneakers and ran down the stairs to the kitchen. I went into the pantry and grabbed out a bowl and some fruit loops. I went to the fridge and grabbed a carton of milk and a spoon from the drawer.

Jacob was already up eating his toast. I sat across from him and poured the cereal and milk in the bowl. I took a couple of small bites until Jacob stopped eating and started looking at me with this weird look.

"I heard a lot of noise in your room last night," said Jacob.

"What does that have to do you with you?" I said.

"Nothing, I just want to know what was going on in there."

"Why is it so important to you?"

"I heard a lot of talking so it must of seemed important."

"It was nothing, you need to stop getting into people's personal space!"

"Okay, I won't talk about it, but what if-"

Before he finished the sentence I made my eyes turn yellow and I retracted my fangs and hissed at him. Jacob backed away a little scared than grabbed his coat and backpack and ran out of the school. I really hate him. I finished eating the rest of my food and I grabbed my backpack and coat and headed out the door.

Since it was fall the weather was starting to get cold and the leaves were turning brown. It may have been cold but it was a nice day outside. It's something about being outside that makes you forget about what happened last night. It still freaks me out that in my bedroom at this moment there is a genie in my lamp. It's like history class learning about the quartering act.

I got to school after around three minutes of walking. Since I didn't have any homework last night I only had my backpack, so I just decided to wait around campus. Rory came up to me wearing a helmet and pads while riding his new roller shoes.

"I see your enjoying your new roller shoes," I said.

"Yeah, they're so awesome, I've finally got the hang of these."

"Yeah, cool, we got to get to class soon or else we'll be late."

"By the way, Cody, what did you wish for?"

"I didn't wish for anything yet."

"Sucks for you, you should wish for something soon."

I ignored what Rory said and went into the school building. As always there were tons of kids crowding the halls. I went down a couple of hallways and got to my locker. I opened it up and put my usual stuff in there such as my coat and some stupid textbooks that I would never use. I don't know why I have those textbooks, we never used them throughout the entire year.

I closed my locker and was starting to wait for the bell to ring for first period. After waiting a few seconds I saw the weirdest thing that ever happened. Benny was walking down the hall with four girls surrounding him. The four girls were seniors. Benny was wearing a leather coat and had giant sunglasses over his eyes. Benny stopped next to me and asked the four girls politely to leave.

"Benny, what happened to you?" I said.

"My wish came true from last night," said Benny. "I'm now finally the most popular kid in the school."

"I'm glad to see that your wish came true."

"Yeah, it's amazing, did you make any wishes yet?"

"No, not yet. I'm saving my wishes for something important."

"Wow, that's stupid, you should wish for whatever you want."

"That's the reason, I don't want to become one of those people who want everything from money to popularity."

The sound of the bell ringing came which finally meant it was time to go to class. My first period is math which is the worst subject you have to learn in high school. I try not to go into so much detail, but the stuff we learn is something that you may never use for the rest of your entire life. I'm immortal so I think I could be switching career goals for over a few more centuries.

I walked into my class with fourteen other kids and took my seat in the front of class. Blah, blah, blah the teacher keeps on talking about the stupid things that she thinks is wonderful about algebra. I am seriously suffering from this and I can't take it anymore. After an hour of pure agony we all got our assignments.

"Tonight you must complete your packet and is due tomorrow, Ethan you don't have to do this assignment."

I was shocked at what I just heard. Ethan didn't have to do his homework. Those genie wishes actually work. I now got excited and wanted to make a wish myself.

A few hours later it was time to go to lunch. At least I could get break from all of that stuff. I got into the lunch line and the lunch lady dumped a pile of compost onto my tray. It didn't smell like compost but it looked like it. I have no idea what it was.

I looked around the lunch room and Ethan, Benny, and Rory were sitting at separate tables. I sat down next to Sarah and Erica. Erica is the tall girl with long blonde hair, she is also a vampire as well.

"What do you want, nerd?" said Erica.

"I need to talk to Sarah about something."

"Sure, Cody, what do you need to talk to me about."

"It's about Ethan, Benny, and Rory, yesterday when we were cleaning out the basement they took a genie lamp out of the last box. They all made one wish, I didn't make one."

"Are you crazy? They could of gotten hurt!"

"Yeah, I know, but now I'm not getting a good feeling around them."

"What kind of feeling do you have around them?"

"I don't know it's some sort of evil feeling."