"Jon!"
Jon looked to see that it was his mother.
"I was afraid of something like thos. Oh, Jon, what have you done?"
"Mom, I didn't..."
"Don't 'Mom, I didn't' me! You have those pill bottles right there. They're controlled substances, because it's so easy to mess someone's life up for good with them. Just where did you get pills like this from? And you, Zoe...
Zoe quickly looked at the stone and said "I wish Mom would walk away and forget what she saw or heard in this room just now."
Suddenly their mother turned around, closed the door, and left the room.
"What's going on?" said Zoe. "We didn't steal those pills..."
"No," replied Jon, "but I think I know what happened. When you wish for something, it becomes part of reality, as if it always existed. Well, if something as dangerous as these pills always existed, how would people have treated them? They'd probably do just what Mom said and make them controlled substances. You couldn't just get a bottle of them at Wal-Mart any more than you could get a bottle of morphine."
"Then what do we do?" said Zoe.
"Wish for something different?" said Jon. "Give me that." He snatched the stone away and said "I wish these bottles of pills were buried a mile in the ground and other people forgot about them."
And then... "I wish that we had some new pills, that come in variety packs. I wish that the variety packs include pills to grow or shrink the penis, pills to grow or shrink breasts and hair, pills that gave people a dick and balls by replacing whatever's there, and pills that gave people a pussy by replacing what's there. I wish that there may also be other kinds of pills in the variety packs, as long as they can be reversed. I wish that since these pills can be reversed with other pills, they're considered safe and lots of stores sell them.
What appeared in front of Jon was a small plastic case with several compartments. Each compartment had pills that were slightly different. Jon found the one that was labelled as giving someone a penis, and after he ate a pill, he was back to normal.
"Is that it?" asked Zoe.
"No," replied Jon. "I want you to promise not to tell."
"Or what?"
"Or I use this stone."
"Fine. Give me some free wishes later and I won't tell."
Jon thought it was fair. It wasn't, after all, as if he got hurt by giving out some free wishes. And it got Zoe out of his hair."
"You know," said Zoe, "there are some interesting things I could do with these pills."
"You're 13!"
"There are still some interesting things I could do with these pills."
"I'm keeping mine."
"I'll get some in the store, like you said I could." Zoe left, no doubt to walk to someplace she could buy the pills.
Ah well, thought Jon. At least he got out of that safely. True, he did wish these pills into the world, but what could really go wrong from that?
