Chapter One: The Wish
It was Adam's 26th birthday. Twenty-six was his favorite number (one of his favorite basketball players, Kyle Korver, wore that jersey number), so he looked forward to this birthday. He had no reason to believe it wouldn't be exceptional. His mom made a cake and put novelty "2" and "6" candles on it.
When the cake was brought out, with the candles lit, and the traditional singing of "Happy Birthday," it seemed like every other birthday. And then he made the wish.
"I wish that, under any and all circumstances, I had the ability to control, change, and manipulate people and things, or anything I wanted with my mind."
It was a very specific wish, one that he had contemplated the wording of for several days. He didn't know if it would work, because birthday wishes are a sort of superstitious thing; but decided his favorite numbered birthday would be a great time to make that wish. He took a sigh, and sliced the first peace of cake, and wondered if his wish would come true.
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Adam woke up the next morning and wished he didn't have to get dressed. Being a closet nudist, he slept in the nude, and this morning he was wishing it was legal to be nude wherever he liked. But he got up, got dressed, and went downstairs to have breakfast and get ready for his day. There wasn't much on the agenda, but he did have some errands to run at the mall later on.
As he looked out the front window, checking out the day's weather, he saw a couple jogging, out for their morning run, go by his house; but the unusual part was that, apart from their tennis shows, he was nude and she only had her running shorts on. This didn't bother Adam in the slightest, other than finding it strange. He watched them run down the street, paying much more attention to her slender figure and bare back, glistening with sweat from the workout.
I wonder what she would look like without her shorts,
he thought.
And just as he was thinking this, they stopped for a breather, she pulled her shorts down and off so she was just as naked as he was, and then continued running on, out of sight now, leaving her shorts where she had dropped them.
Adam stood there with his jaw dropped, shocked by what had happened. Then he remembered his birthday wish. Had it actually come true? He would have to find out.
So he said aloud, "I have the house to myself right now, and no one is coming back until later tonight." He hadn't seen anybody yet, but when we walked around a bit now, he saw a note on the counter, saying that the rest of his family had gone to a nearby theme park for the day, and that he shouldn't expect them back until 11 that night. This could've been a coincidence, so he would continue trying other things.
Man, I wish that naked lady would come back and stop by,
he thought, as he undressed himself. Don't need clothes if no one else is home. Then the doorbell rang. Looking over at the windowed doors, he saw that is was the naked lady from earlier.
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