"What did you do? You dyed your hair blond?" asked Jon's mother.
"What? No, I've always... been... mother, what did you do?" Jon was confused now. He had always had blonde hair. Didn't he?
"Your hair looks like Karyn's hair now. Oh my god."
"You made a wish, didn't you mother? And it came true! What did you wish for?"
"I.. I just said I wish you'd be more like Karyn, she's so much more"
"Mother!" Jon snapped. He realized that not only was she still holding the stone but now she was looking away from him like he and Karyn had looked away from the branch the day before. The bottom of his stomache fell out and he knew he was going to be more like Karyn now.
"Mother, please don't say anything else until I explain."
"John, your hair..." Karyn giggled at him. "I like the style but I think it would look better on me than you." John's mother meanwhile just stared open jawed at her son.
"Mom, the stone you are holding grants wishes, grampa left it to me with instructions and I was trying to figure out what Karyn and I could do with it. Please put it down so you don't accidentally say anything else and make things worse!"
Dumbly she started to comply, but then a thought struck and she said, "I wish I knew what was really going on here." And then she did! "Oh my, I can have some fun with this..."
Jon got scard and Karyn was contemplating her exit just then.
