Sarah had gotten a magic marker and drawn a big banner saying "The Power of Blonde". Of course, she couldn't have taken the stone while Karyn was away, because Karyn had just come back with it.
"You're seriously going to put that up?" asked Karyn.
"People will say worse anyway," replied Sarah.
"It's juvenile."
Karyn picked up the stone again and thought. Maybe she could wish Sarah was more adult. No... she should know better. The stone isn't for things like that. She'd be affecting another person's mind, which was questionable, and it was a ridiculously frivolous use anyway... and she didn't want to depend on it.
"Hey, what's that thing?" asked Sarah.
"This rock? Oh, it's nothing." Karyn giggled and tried to act confused.
"Please, not the bimbo act," said Sarah. "As if I wasn't the last person in the world that would work on. If you don't want to say, forget it. I was trying to show some interest."
"Well, we've said maybe twenty sentences to each other in the past few years."
"I don't know what you have against me," said Sarah.
"It's nothing, really," said Karyn. She stared at the stone. "I wish we didn't have to be enemies." It was a few seconds before she realized what she had accidentally done. But nothing had happened. No flash, no irritation of the eye. She looked suspiciously at Sarah. "Are you sure you didn't touch this thing? It's not working."
"What? If you're saying that I..."
Karyn had to test it. "I wish that TV is a small flatscreen."
The TV instantly transformed, with the usual effects. "Then why..." But she knew. The stone didn't need to grant that wish. Because they already didn't have to be enemies.
"What in the world?" Sarah gaped. "You just... I mean that was..."
"Argh," groaned Karyn. First of all, she had transformed someone else's property. Sarah wouldn't let her hear the end of it. Second, she had revealed the wishes by accident. How was she going to get out of this one?
