Mikey finally decided to talk to Zoe after dinner. He called her to his room. Things were starting to shift from his perspective more and more and no one was noticing.
Zoe had been firmly goth, but now, acting like Karyn, she wasn't at all.
"What's up?" She asked.
"Can I trust you?" He asked. "I'm in big trouble, and I don't know what to do."
"Umm...I guess."
"You aren't who you think you are...you're really my sister. I made this wish, and it came true, and it is all out of control..."
"Mikey, you're not making any sense," Zoe said. "Take a deep breath...Is this some kind of game?"
"Okay," he said, doing it. "I made this joke wish last night, that when my brother got out of the shower, he'd go to someone else's room and put on someone else's clothes and not notice. And that whoever's clothes he put on wouldn't notice either. I don't remember exactly how I said it. But...he's missing. And when I came downstairs, someone else was dressed up as Mom. When I went to the Doctor, my teacher was there, but she was dressed up like a high schooler...and the Doctor was Mom. And when I came home, this girl Sarah was dressed up like you, you're dressed up like my brother's best friend, and his best friend is dressed up like him...." he said in one long breath.
She stared at him. "Come again?"
"People are putting on other people's clothes and acting like them, but not exactly like them. Like my wish kept running out of control," he said. "I'm not nuts...it really happened. And you know about magic and stuff...so...."
Zoe was now in Karyn's life, so she knew about Jon, or rather Karyn's wishing stone. "Did you make this wish on a stone?"
"Umm...yeah."
"Let me have it..." she said.
He took it out. "I wish that Zoe wouldn't be able to take the stone from me, or tell anyone I had it," he said. "And I wish that until I wish otherwise, she sees any changes that happen like I do. And I wish that when I hide the stone again, she'd forget where she saw me put it." He hid the stone. "How do I fix this?" He asked her.
Zoe looked at him. "I think we'd better take this from the top. Who am I?"
"You're my sister...not Sarah. I don't know who she is. You're into magic, and black and stuff."
"Umm..okay," Zoe said. "And your mother isn't really your mother, and your brother isn't really him..." She was getting a headache.
"I'm scared," Mikey said.
