As Mikey headed to the bus that would take him home, he recalled how his school day seemed as normal as ever. Nothing seemed to be different or strange at all. With what happened to his mom that morning, he expected something else to be different too. But everything was normal. His teacher Lydia Warren was still just as pretty as ever and wasn't "replaced" by anyone else, his friend Benny Gates was the same, and (unfortunately) Fred Orr and his best friend Richy Phillips were still the same too. He briefly wondered if he could just wish those two bullies away, or at least just wish that they were nicer to him. It was something to think about on his way home.
But as he approached the bus, he spotted his friend Benny walking off in a different direction. He ran over to him and asked where he was going, that the bus was in the other direction. But Benny didn't seem to care, saying "I need to change my clothes."
Could this have something to do with his wish? Thinking it might, Mikey decided to walk with his friend to see where he was going.
Meanwhile, the former Gillian DeVries looked at herself in her "new" bedroom mirror, feeling all of her obligations to charity events and family disappear from her mind. All she wanted to do now was play video games and hang out with her friends and have fun. But who were her friends? She couldn't quite remember for some reason.
She shrugged, then left her room wearing an outfit that belonged to Benny Gates. It looked ridiculous on the middle-aged woman, but she didn't seem to notice. She was far more interested in grabbing some cookies from the cookie jar and watching an animated series on the TV, something she had no interest in doing before. Gillian Gates momentarily wondered how she was able to reach the cookie jar so easily, but then shrugged, thinking that it must have been moved to a more reachable level.
