What if I knew who built this machine?

Almost as soon as you asked the question doubts began to pop into your mind.

What if it was God? Which God(dess)(s) you couldn't begin to guess, but if it really was then you feared you might feel too afraid to do what you really wanted to do if you knew it might make such a being angry with you.

"Hey."

You looked around to see a girl around your age sitting on your bed. She smiled.

"You're the one who made this?" You asked her.

"That's me! Yep. Kinda wanted to stay anonymous as you could tell by the note, but oh well I guess that's what I get for giving a curious guy like you a maximally powerful machine."

"So..." You tried to wrap your mind around it. "this machine affects you too?"

"Yeah, I guess I didn't care enough to bother writing in that exception. Probably a big mistake but oh well. Forget about that, what do you plan to do with it?" She asked excitedly.

"Well hang on, firstly who are you? What is-"

She sighed. "Boring! How about this, I'll answer one of your questions every time you make an interesting wish. Alright? I didn't become a genius and build a genie with infinite wishes for nothing, y'know?"

"Well you gotta admit summoning you was an interesting thing to do..." You said with a mischievous grin.

She folded her arms. "Fine, you get one question, then get to wishing!"

"What's your name?"

She looked at you like you were crazy. "What is my name? Ya wanna know what the bloody weather is like next? Keep your question, I'll answer you that for free. My name is Molly."

You hesitated before coming up with a new question. "Alright Molly, why didn't you just ask your machine for infinite happiness?"

"Damnit, I shouldn't have given you back your question.." she muttered before taking in a deep breath. "Alright, here's the deal. We really actually literally live in a simulation, all those geeky scientists nerding out over multiverse time travel and universe sized Truman shows which everybody makes fun of were right. And the people controlling our simulation, us being part of that simulation, don't find people using a machine to wish themselves infinite happiness very fun to watch- er- read about."

You stepped back a little, "So wait they're reading about us right now? We're in a goddamn book?"

She nodded solemnly, "And it gets better, it's a choose your own adventure book!"

You sat down on the ground, trying desperately to make sense of this. "Does that mean we have free will or not?"

"Of course we don't have free will! It's up to the readers to decide what we do, not us!"

"And..do they have free will?"

"Who cares! What matters is that you can't do anything super boring to the readers, otherwise you die. Thems be the rules that make up our simulated universe. Anyways, that was way more than one question, you've got a million interesting wishes to make if you want to make up for it!"

"Ok, hang on, one more..did we just break the 4th wall? Like, really really severely obliterate it to such a point that the readers are rolling their eyes right now?"

She nodded enthusiastically, "Exactly! Which means we're gonna fucking die if you don't do something exciting! It's even worse because it's second person, so the readers are looking at things from your perspective and also getting talked about in a third person way. Oh and it gets better, wait til' you hear this Max.."

You tried to prepare yourself, gulping.

"We're on a blithering porn site Max! The purpose of our lives is to fulfill the sexual desires of those running our simulation! How's that for a bombshell?" She cackled maniacally. "You know how many **** I had to wish into existence so I didn't go crazy when I found that out, Max? You know how many!? So many that a grew a personality! That's fucking messed up, man!"

"Jesus Christ..." You muttered to yourself holding your head in your hands.

"So what are you gonna do? What's your next wish gonna be? I'm..I'm sorry I dumped all that stuff on you, I know you were sad before and I didn't mean to mess up your life even more, I thought...I thought this machine might help you out and keep the simulators happy enough that we could continue existing. I didn't expect you to wish me here, I guess...I wasn't ready for that. Sorry." She looked like she was going to say something more but stopped herself and got up to leave.

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