Friday evening was always your favourite time of the week. The start of the weekend loomed large after five days of hard work and you were getting excited to start your first real gaming session this month, after watching a few videos to properly wake up of course. You worked the night-shift in a warehouse during the week and as such didn’t really follow the accepted circadian rhythm most of the time so you had a hard time finding enough opportunity to seriously sit down and just immerse yourself in video games for a few hours, except during the weekends.
Your twenty-third birthday was just last week and as such you were enjoying some of the leftover candy from the party while browsing your recommended videos feed for something to watch, when suddenly an ad caught your attention.
Normally that wouldn't really be something to stand out online, but you had your ad-blocker on all the time, at least for this site, and so you were understandably surprised to see one. It was an unusual one as well, no flashing images, no big coloured text, just a small blank white space in the sidebar with the words W I S H written on it. You assumed it was some kind of acronym.
Checking to see if your ad-blocker really was on, which it was, you were left there staring at the ad, browsing thoroughly forgotten. Somehow you couldn’t get your mind off it. Your mouse drifted closer to it, and before you knew it you clicked on the ad.
Suddenly your mind felt clear again as a white popup-window imposed itself over the website.
A sentence appeared to write itself slowly in the window.
‘Make a wish’ it simply said.
“What the...”
At first you tried closing the window, but the computer wouldn’t respond. Opening the task-manager to terminate the browser also didn't work. Even holding the button down to shut it off manually didn’t do anything. Now officially spooked and at your wits end you just resolved to pull the plug. You hadn’t really done anything yet since you just got up fifteen minutes ago so you wouldn’t lose any precious data or unsaved progress.
Crawling back from behind your desk and putting the plug back in after a solid five seconds had passed, your pc was still on, the same ad with the same text still innocently sitting open upon it.
“Ok this is ridiculous, this cant be real.”
You couldn’t just make a wish…
...or could you?
You certainly didn’t have anything to lose from trying it. If this was just some elaborate prank from the internet’s most powerful hacker it wouldn’t do anything, you didn’t even have your mic plugged in.
If this was a real magical ad, it would be able to hear you even without it surely, so you didn’t even bother getting your mic from where you had stashed it.
Unbidden, a thought crossed your mind, your dick twitching in your sweatpants. You couldn’t help but voice it right then and there.
“So what, I just wish for my wildest sexual fantasy or something?”
Instantly regretting even opening your mouth you clamped your hand over it.
The window closed between one blink and the next as a tingling went up your spine. Standing up from your chair in a heartbeat you suddenly felt nervous. No, not nervous, more concerned. You couldn’t just try to think about it a bit more could you?
‘Really, sexual fantasy comes to mind first brain? You and I, we really need to have a talk.’
After waiting a few seconds in anticipation to see if anything happened, you slumped in relief when nothing did. Sitting down again and trying out the mouse, it seems your computer unfroze as well. Trying to ignore what just occurred and shaking of that lingering tingle in your spine you tried to convince yourself that it was from standing up to fast.
Focusing on searching for interesting videos to watch became nearly impossible, your mind simply unable to move on and still stuck on the ad. After a while you just clicked on a random video to try and calm the racing thoughts in your mind. As the first few seconds played you relaxed some more, immersing yourself in the calming voice of one of your favourite creators on the platform.
A few minutes passed and nothing seemed to happen while you just sat there watching the video. Finally feeling back in control again after that weird experience you didn’t notice at first when something did indeed happen. It was just an indistinct and uncomfortable feeling, but soon it intensified and you took notice. The voice from your speakers fading from your mind as your nervousness came back.
The feeling radiated outward from your core, gravitating towards a particular area.
As you tried to narrow the location down and focused on your body, the feeling transformed from uncomfortable, to just… itchy.
Soon the sensation settled in…