#wichu

you’re only 19, and you constantly feel like you’re falling behind from your peers as you have no love life, no job, you live with your parents, your only friend is your neighbor anton who has his own friends, and your room is covered in k-pop idols.

every family gathering you go to, your cousins constantly talk about their marriages, buying houses, dream jobs, dream colleges, which makes you dread any family function.

one day, you finally break down as you applied for a small café in town on new year’s day and applied for university abroad you'd been dreaming of going to as you planned to have a new beginning the new year to which you got rejected by both.

you broke down opening the emails as you finally had a string of hope and, to make it all worse, that afternoon when you’re going to get a snack, your cousin is there smiling as she just got engaged and she’s pregnant.

you don’t get a snack, you just sneak back to your room, and you feel a strong pang of jealousy in your chest and the feeling is overwhelming as you burst into tears again.

that night, you download dating apps until eventually you pass out listening to a subliminal to meet your soulmate.

the next morning, you’re woken up by the doorbell, and you don’t even remember falling asleep.

you head downstairs confused, realizing you’re home alone, and you don’t see anyone on the doorbell camera, but you see a package.

you open the door assuming your parents ordered a package but when you take it in, it has your name on it.

the box is white and pretty small, and you don’t remember ordering anything.

when you open the box, you see another box with a keychain and a little letter saying “we’re always wichu.”

you look at the small green star keychain that has wings, and you’re confused, but you love keychains, so you just clip it to your pajama pants and as you’re walking upstairs you hear a noise coming from your room, but you just assume it’s your cat but when you open the door you’re greeted by six boys curiously looking around your room like it’s a museum and one with pink hair smiles gasping, “guys it’s y/n!!” and you just pass out.

when you wake up, you're on your carpet surrounded by them as they’re circled around you.

“what type of dream is this?..” you groan, confused.

“everyone thinks they’re dreaming when they see us,” one of them says before introducing himself.

“i’m sion and this is ryo, yushi, jaehee, sakuya, and riku.” he says, pointing to them.

“we’re like genies. you get 6 wishes and after that we vanish,” riku smiles, and you look at them crazy.

“i don’t believe you guys,” you say, simply confused.

“make a wish,” sakuya says simply.

“okay? i wish my room was clean,” you say, and they all smile as your wichu keychain begins to softly glow and within the blink of an eye your room is clean.

you look at them terrified, and they smile and ryo asks playfully, “believe us now?”

you scream and, as you’re screaming, your parents who recently got home barge in worried.

“what’s wrong?!” your mom asks, worried not seeing anything suspicious, as you’re just on your carpet and your room is spotless.

“mom??” you say, looking around at the boys looking at your mom.

“do you not see this?” you ask confused.

“that your room is clean? or is there a bug?” she asks, confused and looking around.

“nothing..” you sigh as you’re convinced you’ve just reached peak insanity.

when your mom leaves, yushi awkwardly says, “yeah nobody can see us except you until you grant your sixth wish then we’re gone.”