I was walking back home from school that day and I was pretty excited because that was our last exam of the semester and well we had a school tour next week too so i was rightfully excited but that happiness was washed away by a wave of anxiety. See my parents are normally chill with my education but when it comes to maths they are very strict and unfortunately iam very bad at it I’ve tried everything but it’s just not possible for me and my parents well every time I don’t get good grades they restrict a certain thing for me it’s like a rule in my household. Last time it was my phone and before that it was my computer and I was really worried what it will be this time. While I was walking back home thinking about this that’s when I saw a poster on a pole “the wish-man” it was some silly poster that read “ do you want your wishes to come true? Well no worries because the wish-man is here for” I tbh was not interested in it even the slightest but my friend JJ was, he always was interested in these types of things and so when I came back home he sent me a picture of that poster and said “hey dude did you see this thing?” And I said “yep and lemme guess it was that alien cult leader who is trying to use this poster to brainwash humans and rule over the earth” he said “ bruh nah but I do wish it was but I don’t care anyways how did you do your math exam?” I said “come on dude you know how I did” he said “lol yeah man ask the wish-man to increase your grades” and as I was trying to send him a reply my phone died and so I put it in charge and went outside for a walk and all the posters I saw were gone all of them even the one one on the pole they were all gone but I didint care much of it and went back home and my phone was charged a little bit and so I was going to respond to JJ and then I saw the poster he sent and idk something inside me questioned its legitimacy and I dialect the number in that poster and nothing was on the other side of the call but I did get a voice message that said “ hello dear caller if you have called this number then that surely means you have some wish that needs to be fulfilled am I right? Hah don’t you worry you have reached the right destination. Now to specify your wishes pls click the link that will be sent to you in a while *silent breathing*” the call ended. It was really weird but I thought it would be some prank or even potential hackers since they are asking to click the link and as I was about to delete the number my mom called me for diner and she was making pasta which I love the most out of any food in the world so I ran downstairs. As I was eating my dad asked “ so how did you do your exams carl?” For that I replied “yes I did pretty well” and he continued with “ what about maths.......?” I said “good” my mom came back from the kitchen and sat on the dinning table and made a comment saying “that’s what you said the last time sweetie” and I said in a little raised tone “yes but that doesn’t mean I will get the same grades mom” “sure hon In that case I wanted to let you know that if u don’t get good grades in this maths exam then we will not give you the tour money for the school tour. I gasped “NOOO MOM WHY” “ do not raise your voice towards your mother” said dad "but-" “ don’t talk  back to your elders especially your own parents” I stormed out of the dinning room straight to my bed, I realised if I don’t do something then I can’t go on that tour but what can I even do- *CLING* my phone buzzed I opened it and it was the link from the number I called and I looked at the link for a moment and thought to myself what could go wrong( ohh boy was I wrong) and clicked the link, it took a second and it loaded a website which looked identical to that of the poster and in that there were 3 rules

1. The wish-man will not defy the law of nature (eg bringing back the dead)

2. The wish-man will  not create his own objects

3. The wish-man will not help the personal wishes  

Pls consider these 3 rules before you type your wish in the “wish bar” located below and if u don’t consider these rules we are not prone to bear the responsibility for your consequences 

As I read through them I changed my wish from “dear wish-man please make me pass” to “dear wish-man please make the whole class pass”.  You see even when I did that I did not trust fully it  rather I took it as a the least thing I can do at this point. And once I typed in my wish and clicked enter the whole page just stopped working but again this might be some crappy webpage made by some edgy kid or two so I went to sleep or at least tried to.....

THE NEXT DAY: well i couldnt get an ounce of sleep last night....i just couldnt i mean god the anxiety killed me. but yet again i woke up with a mild headache and just sat there for a minute and stood up and went to the kitchen to get myself some PBJ one for breackfast and one for school.  as i started from my house to the school JJ called me and said he will go to school directly today instead of meeting at the local market so i had to walk to school alone....

i reached school and the first period was english and they put on a movie and not a single person was watching it cause i mean first period movie? there is no better time to sleep other than this so yea first period i slept through it but as the second period started which was science the dread slowly started devolping in my gut since the next period is maths. as the time went by  and the clock clicked 11:00 am that sickening dread started to slowly travel up its way towards my throut and chest until i couldint breath anymore and suddenly it started to rain, a heavy one and it was so sudden so wewere all caught off gaurd so we were watching outside the window.....it was beautiful, the chill gush of air passing through the window, the earthy smell, the moist atmosphere it was all so calming. as i was dazzed at the rain i noticed something something odd, something out of place. it was near the small patch of woods near our school. i did not know what it was and slowly whatever that is started to render in my head it was man no it was too tall to be even considered human with its abnormally long arms and legs, he was purple? iam not really sure but the face it had no detailes it was just a pitch black oval thing thats the best i could describe it. as i was trying to figure out what it was i heard my name i was joted awake by my teacher "mr peterson what does joules mean?" i stuttered "i....its...its uhh...its the thing that is you wear when u go to a special occation?(hah get it joules and jeweles....i apologize for my poor sense of humour {from the writer})the whole class laughed "SILENCE...so mr peterson u have not paid attention to the class for the past 30 minutes" 30 minutes? what? i looked out side the window for barely 10 seconds what does she mean 30 minutes and as i checked the clock sure enough it was 11:32 am. i couldint process it i couldnt process anything i mean i wasnt sleeping so how could half n hour woudve passed? i quickly excused my self from the class and sprinted to the bathroom and as i stood there in front of the mirror i heard a rustling sound behind one of the toilets i paused and i heard it again but it sounded a bit distant almost as if the sound came from not inside the toilet rather behind it so i pushed the door of that toilet and nobody was in it i dropped a sigh and turned back and thats when i heard the rustling sound again so i put down the toilet lid and stood on it to see in the toilet window which faced the same way as my class window and there was nothing but some old tries and bushes and defonetly not some abnormally long man  standing near the trees as i was about to step down i heard my name again it caught me off gaurd and i was about to fall thats when jj caught me "dude whats sup man whats wrong" i asked him why he was hear and he said "well i was in history class and i saw you  running down the hallway so i tried to check up on and here you are standing on a toilet" " yea its just its been weird man like apparently i zoned out for like 30 minutes?" woah dude u sure some alien did not abduct you and put you ina simulation?" "yep thats exactly what happened" i said sarcastically and  even though i was disstressed jj's dumb jokes somehow calmed me down and so we started walking back to class and thats when jj said " yo dude the staff room is open lets change your grades what do you say huh?" ilooked at him weirdly well weird enough for him to back off. you see i did not look at him weird because i thought of it as something bad or whatever, rather it was because i was trying to figure out whether he was joking or not cause if he was serious i wouldve done it. that was how desperate i was but we didnt mind it and walked to our class rooms as i entered my class room science period got over i sat at my bench it was 11:45 am and i had about 15 minutes till maths teacher comes to class. i was sweating hard it was getting hotter every second, i couldnt think anything else but the staff room and i suddenly stood up and ran towards the staff room i did not know why but it was as if i was never there i mean i remember running to the staff room but it never felt as if it was me...i dont know why. anyways i went into the staff room and god there was no teachers i mean a guy dashing into the staff room yea totally normal. either way as i got into the staff room and found out no one was there i quickly closed the door and i stood there for a minute not knowing what iam doing or what i was going to do and thats when i saw maths teachers self and it was packed with files and i rummaged through those files and found my paper and i, sure enough failed it hit me like a truck at that moment all i had in my mind was to turn that F into an A or B or C i did not care i wanted to pass it did not even strick me how stupid it was but idid not care i found a red pen and right when i was about to put that pen on the paper the speaker turned on " hello hello mic testing 1,2,3 well i dont usually use these kinda things so please excuse me" it was not the principle it sounded to.......chearfull? i dont know but it sounded totally diffrent from anything ive ever heard over the speakers"well well well look what we have here mr carl