Then it occurred to me. The stone was supposed to make people think that it was already like the way the wish made it, right? So unless the new reality was something like me getting hit by a sex-change ray yesterday, nobody should find the way I walked to be anything unusual.
Which means that they weren't staring at me because they saw anything unusual about me. They were staring at me for the same reason they would stare at a regular person--for the same reason they would stare at a girl with a sexy walk. As a guy I just wasn't used to the kind of gazes girls get, especially from guys.
And if according to the new reality, I had always been coming to school with a girl's lower half, just how else had reality changed? Did everyone know about it or did they just suspect? Did Mom think I was born as a girl and did she get disappointed when the top half of me looked like a guy? Was I friends with more girls instead of guys now? Heck, since it seemed that some guys were attracted to me like this, did I have a boyfriend?
I had no way to know, short of asking the stone or bluffing my way around. Though I soon found out part of it when a familiar voice, a friend from my pre-wish days, said to me....
