jEAN!E

That night I sat up in bed staring at my new treasure. I had decided to give the rubbing thing a try, so I rubbed it. Then there was this bright light, and a man in a black suit was standing on the middle of my bed. He came out of nowhere, just like magic.

I was in shock. Of all the people in the world to find a Jeanie, ME Nana the quadriplegic diclonus got the Jeanie. "Are you a Jeanie?" I asked." Are you my Jeanie?" I looked up at the mans face, he looked normal enough to me. I hadn't seen all that many humans in my life but I knew there was nothing out of the ordinary about him. Plain guy, sandy brown hair, brown eyes. Blah.

He looked down at me and gave me this strange smile. "Yes, I am here to grant you, Nana, three wishes. Thank you for freeing me of my prison. It's been hundreds of years since I've been out." Some questions didn't need to be asked, that's why I didn't ask how he knew my name. I mean you didn't ask somebody how they made wishes come true right?

"No problem," I said, "You must have been very stuffy and cramped inside that bottle." I really couldn't grasp the fact that standing in front of me was a magical being. Having strange abilities or power, whatever you want to call them, was nothing out of the ordinary for me. I have six, or had, six arms! No, it was the hundreds of years bit. How could somebody live hundreds of years in a bottle? I wanted to ask Kouta about it later.

The Jeanie knelt down before me and smiled. His teeth were very white. "So, what do you want to wish for?" He got straight down to business. I didn't keep him waiting.

"I wish for Papa. I wish papa were back here with nana, I wish number 37 had died and not Papa!" I jumped up and shouted out my wish. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life, I just knew that the Jeanie would be able to bring Papa back to me.

The Jeanie stood up and hopped off my bed. "Wish granted." He waved his hand at my window, and I rushed over to see the results.

I didn't see anything Outside, it was just the usual. Tears started to well up in my face and I yelled at him. That stupid Jeanie in a suit. "Hey! Where is Papa! You said you would give Nana her Papa! But there is no Papa!" The tears dropped from my eyes and glided down my cheeks. "Where is he!" I screamed and pushed him away from me.

"Nana! Nana are you ok?" Kouta and Yuka came running down the hall. I guess I was screaming a bit loudly.

"Nana what-" Yuka screeched when she saw my Jeanie. It must have been strange for her, very unexpected. Kouta's eyes were huge, in shock at usual.

"W-WHO is that man! Why is he in your room at this hour? Nana?" Yuka pointed her finger angrily at Jeanie and waited for an answer. Meanwhile Mayu had just woken up and stumbled into the doorway, she was half asleep until she spotted my special friend.

"Nana! Oh wow, is he a Jeanie?" Mayu moved to rush over to him, but Kouta woke from his daze and grabbed her.

"No Mayu! Nana owes us an explanation, and don't worry Yuka. He wouldn't be here is Nana really didn't want him to be.

Now that whole time I had been looking franticly back and forth from my family to my Jeanie, Family to Jeanie wondering what they were going to do. I was afraid Yuka might go ballistic and start throwing things, but thankfully she hadn't. Jeanie himself had been just standing calmly behind me smiling and watching. Jeanie stared down at my family with the same look he'd given me before. Like his eyes were grinning and his mouth was frowning. I know that doesn't make sense but that's what it was like.

I turned to them and answered, "Everybody, this is my Jeanie. I just made a wish." Then I turned to him for my answer. Was my

Papa really outside waiting for me? I looked at him with pleading eyes and he answered me by placing a hand on my shoulder and leading me to the door. The others parted as he came by.

"Your Papa is outside girl, why don't you go see him?" He said to me, then he laughed. "Wouldn't you all, like to see him?"

I laughed and ran past him down to the door, with the others following. "Nana! Nana! please who is this?" Yuka called after me as I raced outside to find Papa.

Mayu joined in, "This is so exciting Nana! A real Jeanie!" She caught up to me as I rounded the corner of the house, the part where the Jeanie had pointed to go.

I stopped dead in my tracks. This couldn't be my Papa.

There on the ground before me was this gasping twitching, thing. One look wouldn't have told you it was a person, let alone my Papa. Sure it had the shape of a man, but not the looks of one. All of Papa's skin was melted and wrinkled, he looked like a melting wax doll. It was disgusting, his ears had been burned off leaving only little black holes and tiny little nubs of cartilage left. All of the hair on papa's body was gone too, he had no eyebrows. Papa's eyes rolled back into his head in pain, pure white excruciating pain.

His lipless mouth gaped and gasped for air, and some of his teeth were burned black as well. His nose was gone too, the black holes that lead into his face oozed something yellow-y. I don't know what it was but it was disgusting, Horrifying. Worse was how his body was curled up and stuck in certain spots. His skin had fused at the joints and all of his fingers and toes were gone. He didn't really look human, he was more of a twitching skin blob.

Mayu screamed when she saw him. I could hear her gag and vomit. I could hear the others run up behind me, and I heard Yuka's shocked scream before she fainted and fell to the ground. But all I was paying any attention to were the gasps and groans coming out of the freak laying on the ground. My Papa.

Tears streamed freely down my face but I couldn't bring myself to wipe them or even to look away. I was frozen.

"Nana! Mayu! Yuka.." Kouta was trying to get everyone up and away from the site of my twisted creation. So this is what Papa would have looked like if he had survived the explosion?

"NANA! NANA!" Mayu cried and pulled me away from the sight. He eyes were red and her shirt was covered in filth, the smell was so sour, as bad as Papa's burnt flesh. I retched and turned away from her to throw up.

"I'm sorry Mayu, I'm sorry Papa!" Mayu dragged me away and back to the house, and Kouta carried Yuka behind us.

Inside I collapsed and cried violently. The pain I felt in my heart was worse than when Lucy had ripped me limb from limb. I felt so awful to have done this to Papa! He should have died no wonder he didn't survive, this was what he would have lived with.

"Jeanie make it stop! Make it all go away!" I screamed from the couch I was laying on, Mayu was next to me crying as well.

"All right." He said and left the house, he returned a few minutes later. During that time Kouta came into the room to tell us he and put Yuka to bed.

"Mayu you should go take a bath and relax. Forget what you just saw. Go take a bath, go to sleep. Do something other than sit and cry." He touched Mayu on the arm to gain her attention. She nodded her head and groggily stood up.

"Yes Kouta.." she mumbled and looked back at me before leaving. I was sitting with my head bowed and my hands folded in my lap. I didn't want to look anyone in the face right now. I didn't want to see their fear or disgust.

Kouta sat down and took me into his arms.

"Kouta I'm so sorry for this. I didn't mean for my wish to turn out this badly. I'm so sorry all of this had to happen." Tears started to well up in my eyes again, making my vision blurry. I had never known that a person could cry this much. Where did it all come from?

"Shhh. It's ok Nana. We can all understand you wanting your father back. But-" He wiped the tears off of my cheeks before continuing, " you should also know that playing god will only have bad results. And that Jeanie's are very tricky characters."

At this I looked up at Kouta, So Jeanie's were tricky things?

Jeanie returned just then. "The request you placed has been taken care of. I left no evidence of the wish." Jeanie bowed and walked up stairs. How could he be so casual about it? Hadn't he just disposed of a living human life?

Kouta got up too, "I'm going to bed now Nana" he said, looking a bit disgusted. Then he left, leaving me alone.

"So Jeanie's are tricky Kouta?" I laid back on the couch and closed my eyes. I would sleep here until morning, right then I felt too exhausted to do anything else but sleep.

It was then I decided that I only had to wish more carefully.