Chad looked at me in disbelief. I didn't know what was wrong with him.
"Come on, Chad!" I said. "I came here so you could help me make a wish. Here, try something." I handed the stone to him.
"Dude, I don't want that to happen to me" said Chad.
"You don't want what to happen, Chadie?"
"You really don't remember," he said. "Gaaah. I wish I knew what was going on... oh, great. The wish doesn't usually affect the memories of the wisher, but you wished you could be sexy, and you couldn't really act sexy if your mind was occupied with thoughts of being a guy."
"I don't understand that, Chadie! What are you saying? That you don't want to help me make a wish? Fine! I should never have told you about it." I grabbed the stone back and said "I wish you'd forget about the stone and any wishes." Then I put the stone back in my pocket.
"Jennifer," said Chad, "I..." And he wrapped his arms around me and we kissed. I didn't understand why Chad was only attracted to me after he forgot about the stone, but I didn't care.
It was almost a year later. Chad and I were in my room making out when I felt a hard object under my behind. I felt it crunch and break into pieces as I moved onto it. It couldn't be the stone, which I always kept with me and rarely used. I reached over to pick up the object, and looked at it.
"What's wrong, Jennifer?" he said.
"Just something my little brother Mikey must have dropped here. One of his crayons. Periwinkle blue."
And then I was Jon again, and I remembered everything. Chad let me go in horror. I tried to clear my head. I could just as well have been coming down from a 10 month long drug trip, only there were no drugs--because of the stone, I had been Jennifer for all that time. And in that 10 months, I had...
