Chapter 20 

❝I wish to never recieve any punishments.❞

Krystal

[The Next Day; Krystal's Room]

Ugh, here comes the hangover headache. I groaned, sitting up from my bed as I held my head. , how much did I drink last night at that party? I let out another groan, massaging my temples... Last night... damn it. The only thing I could remember was that I was grinding on Luhan, and that fight, and that time freeze, and that thing that guy said to me... I squealed in anger, throwing myself back on my pillow, burying my whole body inside the covers once more.

"Krystal? Are you up?" Luhan's voice resonated from across the room, probably from his bed. I pouted under the covers, not wanting to reply back. I was still mad at him after last night. Okay, so he wasn't directly in on the plan his friends did, but he still knew about Jackson cheating on me. He didn't tell me he knew... shouldn't a friend at least warn you about those kinds of things, even if the girlfriend knew about it? It was, like, the friend loyalty rule.

Wait... did I acknowledge Luhan as a friend?

"Krystal, I know you're up." I felt the covers being pulled away from me; the sunlight from the open curtains, spilling into my room. I sat up and pointed at Luhan who was now at the foot of my bed with nothing but sweats; his jacket was half-zipped, revealing his bare chest.

Damn it. Damn it. DAMN IT.

"HEY! Watch it, you !!" I crossed my arms into an "X" over the tanktop I was wearing, hugging my bare legs. "I could have been sleeping for all you know!"

Luhan eyed me, "Sure. . With me in the room."

I let out a small scream of anger then kicked my legs out like a child. Why the hell did he make me feel so UGH. I just wanted to... AARGH! "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" I covered my ears with my hands. How else was I supposed to handle this hangover and be able to defend myself with this damn headache?

“Don’t you want to know what happened last night?” Luhan dared to ask. I gave him an evil glint.

“What? That you brainwashed all the people at the party with a different scenario of what actually happened??” I scrunched my nose in annoyance. “Yeah, like I haven’t heard that happen once or twice before.” Luhan smiled and nodded.

“Wouldn’t you like to know the story I brainwashed into their heads??”

“NO, I JUST NEED YOU TO SHUT UP!!” I closed and covered my ears again; even my own voice was painful to hear.

"Looks like somebody is in need of a little pick me up, huh?" Luhan suddenly created a little bell charm in his hand, dangling it as it rang it loudly. I flinched at the sudden sound and cloud of smoke that came along with it.

"Yah! Yah! Yah! Kai stop pushing!" A voice came from the cloud of smoke.

"Then learn not to hold on to me when we transport like this!" The smoke cleared out and the two boys from last night were dressed up in some kind of a tux.

It's too early for this much iness in the morning... not while I'm still vulnerable, please.

"Boys," Luhan scornfully looked at them as one of his hand was by his hips, the other pointing at me. "Don't you have something to say?"

The boys pushed each other to stand up straight, then turned to face me. The taller one introduced himself as Sehun and the man who called me out last night introduced himself as Kai.

They gave me another bow, saying in perfect sync, "Good morning Miss Krystal, we are your personal butlers for the day and are at your service."

I looked between the two of them, then Luhan, then then back at the two. Did they just say butlers? I couldn't help but hold back a laugh, holding my hand over my mouth. Was this Luhan's way of punishing these two from what they did last night? If so, this wasn't half as bad of a punishment because, damn it, they were really working those suits.

"Butlers, huh?" I began tying my hair up in a high bun, then looked at Luhan. "So this is your idea of a punishment for them?"

Luhan smiled, "This is just a taste of punishment." He winked at me, "I know you alone could do more, am I right?"

I nodded my head, returning a small smile back. Okay, so I know I shouldn't be acknowledging Luhan so happily (considering what secret was revealed last night). But, as always, his charm and movements just took my breath away. He was the type of person where forgiveness was given without consideration. You know what they always say though: Forgive but never forget.

And never forget indeed.

Luhan

[A few hours later; The Park]

I'm surprised she didn't blow up instantly on me about what happened last night. In fact, as soon as I hinted that she could have complete control over Kai & Sehun, it was like her hangover had completely disappeared; she was back to her normal (bossy) self in no time. Well, if you didn't count her 5 minute hangover vomiting ritual . Good thing was, she had people to deal with that mess...

That was just the beginning of their consequences.

Throughout the day, Krystal had ordered them around with no mercy. She would hold Mickey in her arms as she watched the boys clean the tiniest corners of her windows and floors, she watched as they struggled to catch a squirrel in her backyard that apparently disturbed her sleep, she made them make her freshly squeezed orange juice with their bare hands, magic excluded, and many more nonsense chores. To top it all off, she was given her allowance today, so she announced that she would go shopping. This time, she didn't hold back a single penny. She did leave empty handed though...

"Cause what's the use of carrying that many bags with my two hands, when I have you guys making it 4 hands??" Krystal had explained as she walked out of the mall. Sehun and Kai groaned as the heavy designer shopping bags were weighing them down. As always though, Mickey would turn her head from Krystal's purse and give a slight growl, becoming almost like the eyes and ears on the back of Krystal's head. Sehun and Kai would always straighten their act out even under the dog's command.

"They aren't really that fond of dogs are they?" Krystal asked as she sipped her Starbucks coffee, looking out onto the park. I looked over to Sehun and Kai who was struggling with Mickey alone as they tried to chase after him to get the tennis ball back.

I nodded back in reply. "Nope, not really." I took a sip of my coffee as well. An awkward silence fell between us a few seconds afterwards; it was actually normal for us to be having these types of silences after words were spoken. Throughout the whole day it had been like this: no teasing or shouting, just a few words of either acknowledgement or commands, and that was it. For some reason, I wasn't enjoying this side of our relationship.

And when I say in relationship, I meant FRIENDship.

I took a deep sigh then looked down at the familiar green logo on my cup. The topic I was about to bring up was going to cause a break in this FRIENDship either in a good way or bad way. Someone had to bring it up sooner or later, and maybe it was best to do it now.

Krystal

"Look... about last night..." Luhan broke the silence. I looked at him, waiting for him to continue. "I'm sorry about the mess that those two genies caused. I'm also sorry that I didn't tell you about Jackson being a… well, you know. I mean! Wait!" Luhan turned his body to me with his hands out, as if he was trying to put some kind of a defense. “What I mean by what ‘you know” is not supposed to be a lame attack on you! It’s just you know the situation that went down yesterday and—and…”

I looked at Luhan who was tensing up, trying to find the right words to say. I’ve never seen him so lost and confused until now, and to my realization he was actually apologizing. As in, he was trying to admit fault in something. As in, he wasn’t trying to show that he was the bigger man. For him to apologize for my somewhat doing… I somewhat find that as him being the bigger man over all. Besides that, he cleaned up the mess that happened last night, when technically, I was the one that started it all. I’m surprised that Kai had not said the full details of what really went down either.

Those eyes of his were so… so… y. I couldn’t help but stare at them as the music kept pumping through my veins; the rhythm making my body get closer to his. Luhan responded by pulling me even closer to his body.

“Oh it seems as Krystal does know how to have fun, huh??” Luhan (Kai) whispered into my ear.

I smiled. “Of course I know how to have fun.” Before I knew it, my gaze on his eyes had now travelled down to his lips. Those lips. Last time I had kissed them, it was somewhat… magical. Would it be the same effect if that happened again?

So I kissed him.

And that feeling I was looking for?

It happened again.

Magical.

“How’d you find out?” I asked, breaking the stuttering in Luhan’s speech. “How did you find out that Jackson was cheating on me?” He didn’t reply so I turned to look at him more seriously.  “Because you know how I found out??" I sighed.  "The first time was on my 16^th birthday when he was making out with my dad’s new girlfriend. The second time was when I went out to New York and he was there with some model when he lied to me saying he was in Florida for Spring Break. The third time was around last Christmas when I opened my present & the ‘I Love You’ charm had some other girl’s name written on it, and trust me, it wasn’t a misspelling.” I let out a small laugh at the now funny memory. “I’m pretty sure that ‘Sarah’ is far from my name, huh?”

“Krystal…” I heard Luhan scoot down the bench, closer to me. “I-You-Why…”

“I know it sounds stupid to say this, but I sort of need him. And you know what? I don't even want those sweet sappy moments you see in the movies.” Krystal, you’re mouth is running off again. Stop telling him everything. But my mouth still didn’t listen to my brain, “You know my past life Luhan. You know how much I struggled to get where I am right now when it comes to the status and wealth and connections I have… I owe it all to Jackson.”

Before Jackson, I was a “nobody”. After him, I became a “somebody”.

“So you feel that you need to stay with him, because you feel that you owe him that?” Luhan asked in a rather low tone. I nodded. I couldn’t tell if he was upset about this, or silently judging me, or both. I soon found my answer when Luhan placed a comforting hand on my shoulder. Well, I knew it was supposed to be comforting, but after those hands were on me last night... my body was going through yet another shock of electricity.

“You have no obligation to stay with a man who can’t treat you right, Krystal. You deserve better.” I sat, waiting patiently for some kind of joke or reference about how I could wish all my problems with Jackson to go away. “You should realize that not all of what you have now is because of Jackson. You have money because your father’s business became successful, so you should repay your father for that. You’re popular because you treat everyone like they're supposed to be treated with no bull, so you have yourself to thank for that. You’re pretty because of your genes, so you have your parents to be thankful for.” He gave me a little shake. “Where, in all of that, did you see Jackson giving you everything of who you are today?” My heart stopped a little bit before the last sentence. Well, I did hear the last sentence though, but the words that stuck out the most to me??

“You’re pretty.”

“You think I’m pretty?” The words escaped my mouth before I could them right back in. Damn it Krystal, what were you… a lovesick pre-teen girl?! Asking such a question…

“Krystal, damn it, you know you're pretty! To hell, even gorgeous!” Luhan suddenly started exclaiming with such seriousness, it honestly was scaring me a bit. “To act like Jackson gave you that beauty is such a mad thought. You're naturally beautiful, and you flaunt it so well that if I were to date you—“

“You would date me?” I asked out loud, making sure I heard Luhan correctly. Luhan stopped his talking and lifted his hand off of my shoulders. He cleared his throat, posing as if he was his cocky old self again.

“Well, I could get any woman I want and said IF I were to date you… so, I mean, I know how much you hate me and all—“

“Luhan, I don’t hate you.”

KRYSTAL, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY?! SHUT UP. SHUT UP. SHUT UP.

Luhan

Did she just say she doesn’t hate me? In that case, does this mean that… Krystal likes me? As in… like me, likes me? As in… possibly… she’s falling for me?? Or in better terms… fallEN for me? I couldn’t help but hide the smile that was forming on my face.

My plan was working out perfectly.

“And by I don’t hate you, I meant that I don’t like you the way you think either…” I heard Krystal scoot away from me a bit. “I mean, I consider our relationship a ‘love-hate FRIENDship’ kind of thing, because, like, a human and a genie together as a couple? Ha. Ha. Ha.” I could hear the fakeness in her her hollow laugh. “Even you said so yourself that you wouldn’t want to date a human right? And me out of all people?? Your master?? PHEW. What are we?? A Disney movie?! HA.” Krystal suddenly grabbed the empty coffee cups on the bench. “I should throw these away and check on Mickey. Okay? Okay. Good? Good.”

I watched as she stood up quickly, speed walking towards Kai and Sehun's direction who were both struggling to untangle Mickey’s leash from a fire hydrant. I replayed what had just happened in my mind and I couldn’t help but laugh. I’ve dated enough girls to know that what Krystal pulled was a sign that she had taken interest in me. That I was THIS much closer to getting the break up I needed between her & Jackson, the 3^rd wish that would get me out of here, and maybe if I were lucky… a little of Krystal for myself.

Only if I was “lucky.”

“Hyung! Please! You have to save me!!” Kai pleaded as he struggled to walk over to the bench, plopping himself down. “I will do anything. ANYTHING to get out of this.”

I patted Kai’s head, grinning from ear to ear. “Well, you shouldn’t have been interfering with another genie’s master in the first place, huh?”

“I know, I know, but I swear, we were just trying to help you out!” Kai took off the coat of his tux, airing himself out by ing a few top buttons, showing off his bare chest as he got up to sit properly beside me. “Besides, it wasn’t entirely my fault that it got out of hand!”

“Oh? How so?”

“Well, I mean for starters… I didn’t know that your master would be THAT hot & flirtatious.” Kai pointed at Krystal who had managed to somehow get Luhan to carry her dog on his back. “One minute we were just dancing all y and , then the next thing I know, her lips land on mine, and then I—“

“Wait a second, did you just say that her LIPS landed on YOU??” I asked, taken back by what Kai had just said.

Kai nodded. “Yeah. She totally planted one on me! I swear, it was her who started it! Not me!” He put his hands up to show his innocence.

Krystal kissed Kai. Well, actually if you think about it, Krystal kissed “me” since she didn’t know that Kai was just pretending to be me. Nonetheless, she kissed “me”… That explained a lot about her actions and words throughout today. Did she think I knew about this certain piece of information the whole day and tried to keep space in between us? Or maybe she was keeping the space between us because she needed to control her emotions around me? Or maybe she was just too embarrassed that she did such a thing while having a boyfriend? Even though I would like to think it was one of the other, I had another reason kept in the back of my mind making my body sort of giddy.

Krystal had finally realized she had fallen for me.

And to be honest?

I was starting to realize that I was falling for her as well.

Or okay, fallen for her.

Officially Posted On

 July 20, 2016

Author's Note 

Surprise, Suprise, Surprise!! 3 chapters edited thanks to my wonderful editor! :) Hope y'all are enjoying the story...More LuStal moments now that the "reveal" has come along.