The Wish - (4 Parts)

[zneeze]

Knocking this idea around for a while, so with enough inspiration I finally started it tonight.

Um... this is weird for me, but this first part here has zero sneezing in it o.O I promise there will be tons to come. It's a sneezefic, after all.

Not to mention my first sneezefic in a while... well, first one I'd actually consider posting here xD ANYWAY, enough chatter. Part one:

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Jason shut closed his laptop, giving a dejected sigh. It was Sunday night, 11:00 PM – he needed to turn in so he could be awake for school tomorrow.

But he really wished he didn’t have to. In all honesty, the seventeen-year-old had been watching soft porn for over an hour, but not soft porn the way you and I think of it. Jason had a sneezing fetish, and for whatever reason, there were tons of YouTube videos of innocent girls and women inducing sneezes for a camera. “Out of complete boredom” or “randomness,” according to the posters. Only when some creepy idiot started to comment on the videos asking for more to be made did the fun end and the videos start to disappear.

This had been happening more often than usual lately, sorry to say for poor Jason. But what Jason yearned for more was to see more female sneezing at school. He was a senior in high school, and sadly enough, he had many a lady friend he’d never heard give in to a sneeze. Possibly, he’d never get the chance to hear some before leaving for college.

There was a quick knock at the door. Jason’s father was on a business trip in Europe, and his mother was a heavy sleeper. Could it have been her? He hadn’t even heard her walk down the hall.

Jason opened his door and nearly screamed in surprise. What stood – well, floated – there before him resembled nothing he’d ever seen, nothing in real life anyway. He’d seen one in some cartoons of yesteryear.

“Are you… a genie?” he asked, not even believing he was asking.

“No sir, my name is Winston Churchill,” the transparent, floating… ghost? Man? It replied, quite sarcastically, as it entered Jason’s bedroom.

“So… a genie.”

“Pretty much,” it replied. “Cedric is my actual name. Feel free to call me ‘genie’ instead.”

“Okay … Cedric?” Jason asked. “For starters, why are you here?”

“To do what every genie goes around doing – grant you with one wish.”

“One? Isn’t it three?”

“Not everything you hear or read is true, kid. You didn’t find me by rubbing some lamp, right?” Cedric asked. “It’s one. Whoever started going around giving people three wishes was a rogue, trying to give us a bad name. Believe me, just one.”

“Oh,” was all Jason could say.

“And before you say anything,” Cedric continued, “if you wish for more wishes, I’m seriously gonna slit your throat.”

Now Cedric was worried. Was he dreaming? “Uh… sure, no problem,” he said nervously.

“HOWEVER,” Cedric continued, loudly and abruptly as if to purposely scare Jason, “I am a nice genie. I –”

“A nice genie? You just threatened to kill me!”

“This is gonna benefit you, kid, so I’d shut up if I were you. I am a nice genie. I will give you a reprieve if you screw up. Not a whole new, different wish, just your basic I-wish-everything-went-back-to-normal deal. Deal?”

“Deal,” said Jason, still shocked this was really happening. He gave it some thought – not too much thought, but just enough. He knew he wanted his wish to be fetish-related, but the phrasing was tricky – genies were notorious for tricking people, after all, by taking things too literally and such. Cedric was still hard to read, but Jason didn’t fully trust him yet.

“Okay,” Jason said finally. “I wish that making videos of themselves inducing sneezes became the newest ‘hip’ trend among high school and college girls.”

Cedric blinked. Seconds passed. “Usually we genies say we’ve heard everything, but that… that’s just weird.”

“Hey man, don’t judge,” Jason said, almost laughing for some reason.

“You know what, I am gonna judge,” Cedric replied, almost angry. “But –” now he sighed at his obligation – “your wish is my command.”

He clapped twice and nothing happened.

Jason looked around his room, as if he expected to see that some beautiful girls with rolled-up tissues had magically entered his bedroom. “…Thank you.”

“No problem,” Cedric answered. “Now, I normally don’t ask this, but – why?”

At first Jason was going to say “It’s none of your damn business,” but he really didn’t know what to do with an angry genie. “I have a sneezing fetish, okay?”

Cedric didn’t laugh. He stopped for a second, then just shrugged and said, “Whatever. We all have our tastes. But then, why didn’t you ask for every pretty girl you saw to be allergic to you? Or to have the Midas touch, except on girls’ noses? Or –”

“Slow down,” Jason told him. “Those ideas are impractical. And I know how you guys operate – I wanted to be specific.”

“Sure,” Cedric shrugged again. “Then why didn’t you ask for a sneezy girlfriend or something?”

“I’m fortunate enough to have a great girlfriend as it is,” Jason replied coolly, trying to hold down his sarcasm, “and although I’ve never seen her sneeze and I’m too scared to tell her about my fetish, she’s… she’s my best friend in the world, and we love each other as it is. The way things are. I… don’t wanna mess anything up.”

Cedric nodded, as if in approval. “Good call, kid. Well, listen, it’s been real but I do have other clients. Just shout ‘Cedric’ if you need that whole reprieve thing we talked about.”

“Right,” said Jason, though he was sure he wouldn’t. Perfect wish, he kept thinking. “Wait, one more thing – why exactly did I get a wish from you?”

Cedric shook his head. “Lottery. New government, new system. Gotta go, take care!”

He left the way he entered, through the bedroom door. Except the door was closed this time. Jason opened it and looked out into the hall. Cedric was gone. His mom was still snoring a few doors down.

Still disbelieving, Jason got into bed. Either the weirdest dream I’ve ever had, or something far, far weirder, he thought. Either way, I’ll find out soon.

[Blah!?]

Impressive. This sounds like an absolutely wonderful idea. I really can't wait to see where you go with this!

[sillystarsmoons]

Interesting start I can't wait to see more. Hope you post more soon.

[Mr. Black Cherry Berry Tea]

Great start! And quite a clever wish from Jason, lol. This is really nicely-written too, aside from all fetishy stuff. It's really readable, flows well, etc. IMO, of course, not like I'm judging your stuff, lol.

[Nicole]

Great start! Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[TheCakeIsAlive]

Oooh... interesting wish. I'm very curious to see where you will go with it.

Awesome start. Very well written.

[Jack]

i think the concept is wonderfull ! please work in this history as long as you can. it will be worth it !

[zneeze]

Thanks for all the positive feedback guys! Wasn't really expecting that much, to be honest... xD

But I do have lots planned for this story, and I really want to continue soon. Alas, I am always a busy man () but I hope to be able to update again sometime this week. No promises though! :/

[Pearlised]

Love it!!! plese continue soon!

[curliecatlover]

Can't wait to see how the plot thickens

[MyOwnPrivateSFC]

Oh, this is brilliant! I'm really looking forward to seeing more. Between the great writing, the awesome plot, and the possibility of sneezes, I can't wait for you to continue this!

[Kiwifruit]

Ooooh, that's a cool idea I always love your writing, and this looks to be no exception! I can't wait to read more...

[PollenFiend]

I would have liked the genie's allergy suggestion but still a very intriguing premise. Looking forward to see what happens!

[zneeze]

Again, thanks for all the positive comments!

Sorry this took so long, it isn't very long but I know this is one of those fics that will get better with each subsequent part (At least, I hope xD)

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The next few days went rather slowly for Jason. Nothing had changed at first, nothing noticeable. Jason started to just assume it was a dream, but that one part of him still held out hope. He realized, however, that if the genie episode were indeed real, his first mistake was not adding “starting with the girls at my own school.”

Then, maybe it was Wednesday or Thursday night, Jason noticed a handful of brand new videos on YouTube. They all seemed to be college-age girls; unfortunately, very few of them were that attractive, in Jason’s opinion. Could the random burst of new material just have been a coincidence? God, how he wished he had more patience.

And then, it happened.

During his nightly Web surfing one night, Jason found a newly added video called “Dana and me sneezin” and clicked on it. Suddenly appearing on his monitor was a girl in his homeroom, Kara, and her friend whom Jason had recognized from school also but hadn’t actually met, probably Dana.

Damn, it worked!

He shivered a bit as the giggling girls, both blonde, but Dana with shorter hair, messed around with their tissues trying to twist them just right, thinking it was the most hilarious thing in the world. It was almost a shame, Jason thought, that he did know what Kara’s sneeze was like from a few occasions – a medium-pitched “Eh-shoo!” usually in doubles. She didn’t disappoint. Kara got going first; at a mere :24 into the video, Jason heard her recognizable “Eh-shoo! Eh-shoo!,” her pretty face contorting with each. More gales of laughter from both of them. It’s not funny, Jason couldn’t help thinking. It’s hot.

Dana’s sneezes, however, were new to Jason completely. Soon after Kara’s second double, Dana’s gave a quiet “Kshh!,” not completely stifled but not let out too much either. The video was a quick 1:59 total, but Jason got six more “Eh-shoo!”s from Kara and another “Kshh!” or two from Dana. Jason still didn’t believe it – but he did, and he couldn’t wait for tomorrow.

At school, Jason saw Dana in the hall and nonchalantly said “Hey Dana!” Given that they’d never met before, he realized how stupid that was to do, but Dana sort of just smiled at him as they went their separate ways.

The following weekend was a whirlwind of excitement for Jason. A few new videos every night, most from girls he knew or had at least seen in school before, seniors and freshmen. They seemed to enjoy doing this in pairs, for some reason, perhaps the same inexplicable reason girls don’t go to the bathroom without bringing a friend or two along.

After he could get past the sheer amazement that his wish had worked, Jason appreciated and thoroughly enjoyed every last video. After six or seven years of knowing her, Jason finally got to see his friend Abbi sneeze. Abbi’s was different in that she did her video alone, not with a friend. Abbi was really cute, really sweet, with short dirty blonde hair with red highlights and glasses, rather small and a bit timid – so when she exploded with each sneeze she induced, Jason was both incredibly surprised and turned on. Her video was a little longer than some of the others he’d seen, almost 4 minutes of “HehtSCHOOO!” over and over, only about 8 or 10 seconds between each for a while. She blew her nose near the end for a good half minute, which somehow tickled her nose into one final “HEH-TSHEWW!” into her tissue, right before laughing at herself and shutting off the camera. Jason’s mind was blown.

There were some other girls Jason had finally gotten to see sneeze – the girl who sat in front of him in English, who had a cold last month and spent an entire week constantly coughing and sniffling for a full week without a single sneeze (pity she stifled – what’s the point of inducing for a camera then? thought Jason); the redhead freshman everyone had already told him was a slut (due to this knowledge, he didn’t particularly enjoy the video, despite the beautiful loud “SHOO!”s); and a video that almost appeared to be a sleepover party of four girls messing around with a camera (the quality wasn’t so great on that 39-second clip).

Still, Jason knew Cedric was looking out for him. His wish had not only come to fruition, but it had already met and went beyond his expectations. He couldn’t wait to see what was still in store for him.

[caligulasArmageddons]

EE!!! I've been watching this story, and this is so cool! Great job!

How could it possibly go wrong? -Needs about three seconds of thinking- Oh.

[coldcure08]

Wonderful concept! Bravissimo! I love the way your chapters flow! looking foward to the next chapter!

[TheCakeIsAlive]

but but but... girls *do* go to the bathroom alone occasionally.... *pouts*

Very interesting story. I look forward to reading the next part.

[zneeze]

I feel SO bad I've been utterly swamped with real life that I've not managed to complete Part 3. I have most of it done though, the question is when I can get back to it. Please don't lose patience with me! Hopefully before Christmas.

[Nicole]

I feel SO bad I've been utterly swamped with real life that I've not managed to complete Part 3. I have most of it done though, the question is when I can get back to it. Please don't lose patience with me! Hopefully before Christmas.

[zneeze]

It's funny... I just finished my other stuff and got to finally finish Part 3 xD So I was going to edit my last post, but with your new comment, Nicole, well, it'd seem a tad weird

But anyway. Now that I've fully explained myself lol. Part 3!

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A few weeks passed, and Jason begun to accept his wished-up alternate universe to be the norm. After all, nothing had really changed; his life was just as normal as it would have been. He just had a lot of fun with YouTube lately.

Had the novelty begun to finally wear off? After a while, yeah. But along would come an event that would completely catch Jason by surprise, such as yesterday in history class.

His teacher, Mr. Krauszer, was lecturing on and on as usual, often slipping in a corny joke and thinking he was the most hilarious person alive, oblivious that most of his seniors didn’t care about school anymore. People seated in the back talked; people in the front slept, and Krauszer was again oblivious. Jason preferred sitting in the back in most of his classes, but not because he was a slacker; he was a fairly good student, but liked to have a good view of the whole room in case something, well, interesting happened.

This, Jason classified as something interesting.

It was Bridget and Jordan, both brown-haired, brown-eyed cheerleaders – not exactly Jason’s style, but cute ones at least. They were more of the attention-seeking type. They had each taken out from their backpacks magic wands: rolled-up tissues, just like in the movies. Jason’s heart started racing. They weren’t about to…

Before he could gather his thoughts, Jordan had already started to fool around with it, and got an immediate reaction. “Hit-mm-chew!” Jason knew the type – a stifler with an unnecessarily squeaky appendage at the end. “Hit-mm-chew! …Hit-mm-chew!” She and Bridget had put their backpacks on their desks to hide the tissues, so Mr. Krauszer and many of their classmates didn’t see what was going on. But as they were sitting in the back, Jason was close by – parallel, actually – and had the perfect view. So while the rest of the bored-to-death class gave their collective blessing, Jason laughed to himself, looking right at the girls. Bridget smiled back, as if now Jason was in on their secret. Of course, they had no clue about Jason’s secret.

Soon after, Bridget finally got one out. At least she wasn’t a full- or even partial-stifler: “HEHHSHEW! HEHHSHEW!” And at least she never failed to sneeze in doubles. More blessings from the unaware classmates. More laughing – and blushing – from Jason.

“Hit-mm-chew!”

“HEHHSHEW! HEHHSHEW!”

“mm-chew! Hit-mm-chew!”

And through it all, Mr. Krauszer kept talking, as if he weren’t really aware of his surroundings. Perhaps he was a magic hologram being beamed in from somewhere where he couldn’t see his class, what disarray it was in. His laughing students, his sneezy cheerleading ones in particular, and of course Jason, nervously laughing along, but as red in the face as could be.

Jason left that class far more than content. There wasn’t yet anything negative to find about his wish, and the positives were overwhelming. Jason turned the corner, looked behind him, and saw his girlfriend Jenna catching up to him.

Jason finally realized. He still had never heard Jenna sneeze – not in real life, not on video. He still wasn’t about to tell her about his fetish. He remembered back to that night with Cedric, how his suggestion seemed so right yet so wrong, like cheating. Like a shortcut. Wishing for it to happen wouldn’t work for him. He loved her so much to begin with, so the fetish stuff shouldn’t be of utmost concern. And besides, as they spent time together, he’d eventually see her sneeze, right? Law of averages. That’s what he was hoping for, anyway.

Jason stopped for Jenna to catch up and walk with him, hand in hand. He also realized now how he’d been ever-so-slightly ignoring her, or at least talking to her less, ever since the wish. Jason felt bad, but Jenna was as happy as ever to see him. He brushed back a strand of her long auburn hair and smiled back at her. “Hey.”

“Hey! What’ve you been up to today?”

“Oh, well, you know… class.” He laughed anxiously, almost wanting to get away already.

“Anything interesting?”

Uh, yeah, two hot chicks just induced in my history class. “Nope. You?”

“Haha, not really.”

They were silent a bit while the clamor of the hallways bustled around them.

Then Jason had a light bulb moment. Why not tell her about what just happened? Maybe she isn’t aware of this new fad. Maybe if she were, she’d try it. Maybe they’d be hanging around at her house one day and she’d randomly try it. Induce for him.

Wow.

“Well, it was funny, Bridget and Jordan were making themselves sneeze in class before…” Jason started. This marked the first time he even said the word ‘sneeze’ near Jenna, and he could already feel the blood rushing to his face and his pulse quickening.

“What?” Jenna asked innocently.

“I think it’s just something people are doing now. They rolled up these tissues and stuck them… up their nose. It was kinda funny actually…” He had a bad feeling about this.

“That’s… weird. Why would somebody do that?”

“Uh…” Jason was at a loss. He couldn’t even answer that question before his wish. “Entertainment purposes?”

“That’s just so weird,” Jenna reiterated. “I don’t think it’s entertaining at all! What’s so cool about snot running down someone’s face?”

This hurt Jason; she sounded really serious. But he had to play it cool. “I don’t know! It’s not like I thought it was the most hilarious thing ever or something. I’m just saying.”

“Then why did you bring it up?”

“I don’t know.”

Yeah, bud. Real cool.

Jenna went into her next classroom, and she didn’t talk to Jason for the rest of the day.

[Jack]

mmm so her girlfriedn has not been afected by his wish. I really like this story. More soon please

[zneeze]

Conclusion! Enjoy!

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Jason lost a lot of sleep that night. He pulled up YouTube, went through some more new videos. A lot of them now were not girls he knew personally, but girls from all over the country, and Canada and the UK even. Lots of college girls too. He found a spectacular video of two blondes from California both inducing great fits, loud girly “ESHEWW!”s from both of them.

But even this wasn’t making Jason any happier. None of it made him forget what Jenna had said. What’s so cool about snot running down someone’s face? Jason had always thought he’d be able to defend his fetish if need be, but hearing that from someone so important to him like Jenna just stung.

Jason thought some more. One of the things he’d always like about Jenna was her personality. She wasn’t about to let anyone push her around, and she always had an opinion about things. Even if it wasn’t always the same as his. Well, especially if it wasn’t the same as his. He admired that in her. So he knew there was no coercing her into inducing for him. He knew it was time to pick one. It was either Jenna as his girlfriend or his sneezing wish.

Now, Jason and Jenna weren’t dating for the sake of dating, let it be understood. They’d been together for nearly two years, been friends since they met in September of freshman year, and until this day had never had a real fight. Jenna truly meant the world to him.

So that was that. Time to call Cedric for the everything-back-to-normal wish.

“Cedric.”

Nothing.

“Cedric!” A bit louder.

Nothing.

Jason finally realized Cedric’s catch. He specifically said: “Just shout ‘Cedric’ if you need that whole reprieve thing we talked about.” Shout. He didn’t know any other Cedrics, so where would he be able to shout ‘Cedric’ without looking like a moron to someone?

There was an empty field two blocks from his house, so Jason did the only thing he could. It wasn’t too late yet, so he looked through the fridge for something they were running low on (turned out to be lettuce), and told his mom he was going to the store. “Really? It’s getting late.”

“I’m really craving a salad, what can I say…”

And he was out of there. Once in the field, safely out of hearing distance from anyone, Jason shouted at the top of his lungs:

“CEDRIC!!!”

And with that, the mysterious, sarcastic genie finally re-appeared before Jason’s eyes.

“Hey bud, how’s it all going for you?” he asked.

Jason was a bit confused. “Well… you can’t tell?”

“Tell what?”

“You don’t have any way of, you know, tracking these wishes?”

“Not at all.”

“Really?”

“Really. We aren’t psychics, just genies.”

“And you can’t, like, come in contact with any sort of real-world stuff? Technology, computers?”

“Well, I suppose I could, but really, my interest level in earthly happenings wouldn’t allow me to.”

“Gee, thanks.” Jason wanted to get to the point, so quickly he continued, “It was going well, but now I think it’s causing problems with me and Jenna.”

“Jenna?”

“My girlfriend. Look, you said you aren’t interested, so long story short, I’d like that reprieve, please.”

“Mkay, suit yourself,” replied Cedric. “But just so you know, when ‘everything goes back to normal,’ nobody remembers anything. That includes you. And you won’t remember me either.”

That made Jason hesitate, just for a second, just a bit of a pause. But he knew what he had to do. “That’s fine,” he said stoically.

“Alright,” Cedric said. But before he could finish Jason said, “Wait – Cedric?”

“Yeah?”

“Thank you.”

Cedric nodded, with a hint of a smile creeping across his face for the first time Jason had seen. Then he clapped twice and disappeared.

Jason woke up the next morning with a lot to think about. He had two tests before lunch, math and English, neither of which he’d studied for, and he suddenly missed Jenna a lot. He couldn’t tell why, but he really wanted to see her.

And see her he did, before school at her locker. Jenna was packing and unpacking books into her bag, in all her glory. Jason took a second to admire the beauty of her auburn hair from behind, then snuck up behind her and kissed her on the back of the neck. “Hey,” he said.

“Hey,” Jenna smiled back. “How’re you? Ready for the stupid English test?”

“Great, and not at all,” he laughed. Jenna laughed back.

And then she stopped. She put down the book she was holding. Her face twitched just a bit, ever so slightly, but enough for someone of Jason’s inclination to notice. And just like that, her breathing became heavier, she brought a hand up to her face, and:

“Etchieww!”

And Jason could remember everything. The wish, the ensuing fiasco. His girlfriend’s reaction to something supposedly innocent he’d said. And Cedric.

“Bless you!”

“Ha, thank you.”

And thank you, Cedric.

[count tiszula]

Excellent story! Lots of really good stuff, especially the inducing in lessons bit [although in my experience this happens anyway] and a top dramatic denouement.

Of course it has to be admitted that , in the tradition of such stories, the particular form of the wish is fairly obviously flawed; at the very least, he could have included his girlfriend in the wish....

But then, perhaps there could be another story in which a chap's girlfriend suddenly asks him if he can help her [and a friend] make a YouTube sneezing video, because she has a sudden compulsion to do so....

[TheCakeIsAlive]

Awww. Very cute ending. Great story.