"C'mon what do I have to do for you?" Ken asked staring up near his ceiling. "I mean you can do it right?"
"Of course I can do it." Star Dust replied with a yawn. "It is not even particularly difficult. I just do not understand why I would do it." Star Dust was perched on Ken's windowsill wearing a transparent lavender dress a few shades lighter than her waist length curly hair. "Is she not the woman you love?"
"She's the woman I used to love. Big difference." Ken snapped.
Star Dust raised a brow. "You still love her. It is a simple thing for me to see your aura." She made a dramatic motion with her hand. "And your aura still lights up like one of your Winter Solstice Trees whenever she enters your mind."
"Reading minds is rude you know."
Star Dust shrugged. "First, I did not read your mind. I read your aura. It is no different from when you see someone's expression and react accordingly. Second, as rude as it is considered to read minds you are asking me to corrupt the mind of someone who has done no wrong to me. A much greater sin. Finally I want to make certain you understand what we will be doing here."
Ken sat up turning towards Star Dust. "I know exactly what I'm doing. She dumped me on our anniversary. You're going to make her
need me
the same way people need air. I'm going to enjoy one final night with her and then I'm gonna drop her like a bad habit so she knows what it feels like to be me."
Star Dust stood glaring at Ken. Somehow it wasn't at all humorous to Ken that a woman a little smaller than most of the action figures he'd had growing up was staring him down. Part of it was the fact that he knew she could make him believe he was an aardvark a lot faster than he could smash her. The other part was just the sheer malice she was capable exuding with a stare. In a very frightening way she reminded him of his mother. "With these kinds of spells the intentions have to be pure. Anything can go wrong if someone has mixed feelings. Do you remember when we first met?"
"Yeah what about it?"
"You had been having difficulty with that kid, Harvey and you wished you were strong enough to make him stop picking on you." Star Dust subtly nudged Ken's mind flooding it the visual the bloody and beaten Harvey. "You very nearly killed him."
"I didn't know I had a fairy fucking godmother granting wishes."
"That does not have anything to do with the problem and you know it. You feel bad because you never wanted to hurt Harvey. You wanted him to respect you and let you be one of his friends. I did not make you violent, I only gave you the ability to act on your desires." Star Dust replied stepping forward off the windowsill. Her brilliant butterfly wings with their multicolored pattern unfolded behind her. "I do not want to cause you similar grief so your intentions must be pure."
"I want to hurt her. My intentions are pure, pure vengeance, pure as the driven snow." Ken snarled.
Star Dust took a moment to watch him and then a twisted smile curled its way across her features. "As long as we are perfectly clear." For a moment Ken was actually frightened of the tiny woman. Her face looked like it was about to unzip as her smile broadened. Her pupils vanished as her eyes started to glow red. "Then your wish is my command." She cackled maniacally further frightening the human as the room darkened around them both. Ken reflexively wrapped his arms around his torso and shuddered.
Then just as quickly Star Dust returned to her normal cute appearance.
"So you're like a genie?"
"No, I just like saying that. I spent two decades in theater and the performing arts. If you treat me like one of those ignorant djinn who allowed themselves to be trapped thousands of years ago I promise you the results will not be pleasant." Her voice dropping an octave for each syllable. "Sorry. Force of habit."
"Have I ever told you that you're incredibly scary when you want to be?"
Star Dust smiled. "I prefer to think of it as my being so incredibly adorable and disarming that you keep forgetting that I am older than your country and could easily make you eat your own intestines." She landed on his shoulder and lightly kissed him on the cheek. "But I will not do that. Let us go and have some fun. Where is she?"
OoOoO
"Hey girlfriend, how are you?" Penny exclaimed rushing over to embrace her mocha hued friend.
Hillary smiled and hugged her friend before stepping back. "I'm fine, and you look fantastic. Is that a new bag?"
"Oh this old thing? No, I just dusted it off." Penny said presenting the bag.
Hillary's expression brightened. "Well it matches your heels perfectly."
"And they are new!" Penny exclaimed kicking one foot up. "Is that a new hat?"
"Why yes it is!" Hillary tilted the white fedora style hat back slightly. "Thank you so much for noticing! So did you decide on where we're going to go? I really need to have a bit of fun." She put on a mock pout. "I mean I'm single again."
"And way better off than you were with that loser Ken." Penny replied. If she noticed Hillary's pout become real for a moment she ignored it. "And how do you feel about Club Adonis? Good food, served by shirtless guys with rock hard abs." She made a suggestive motion with her eye brows.
Hillary pretended to think over her options then nodded. "That does sound simply divine! Let's go!"
OoOoO
"Well according to my cell phone tracker she's. . .the only thing there is Club Adonis." Ken frowned then looked back up at the road. "I guess my revenge will have to wait."
"Why?" Star Dust asked still perched on his shoulder.