Standing next to her was Dawn Duncan...blonde hair, athletic build, and looking at Jazmyn nervously for some reason. "Hey, girl," she said. She seemed worried about something.
"What's going on?"
She glanced at Jazmyn's mom, then back at Jazmyn. "Let's go up to your room," she said.
As soon as they were behind closed doors—Mikayla seemed to have gone back to her own business—Dawn looked at her. "You aren't still mad at me about that stupid wish, are you?"
Jazmyn actually had no idea what wish she was supposed to be mad about. But if it paralleled Jon's world, it was like the wish Karyn had made. "You didn't do it on purpose, did you?"
"No...I wasn't thinking," Dawn said. "I just thought...how great it would be. Ever since I joined the squad, we haven't had as much time together, and I wasn't thinking about how there was a magical object around. And nothing changed much about you...except that. And no one is treating you like an outsider any more." She just let Dawn talk. It seemed like she could get answers without asking any questions. "I mean, you and Buffie are getting along. Before, I was caught in the middle of you two. Now we're all friends."
"Except I don't know things people expect me to know," Jazmyn replied.
Dawn sighed. "Yeah you do. You faked it well enough yesterday. And you have me. It changed the whole school. People aren't giving Goths a hard time any more. Even the ones who are much more extreme than you."
"What do you mean, extreme?"
"The ones who act like they hate everyone who isn't like them. You've never been like that. You're no Nick Forsyth." Jazmyn was a bit surprised to hear the name, having known a Nicole Forsyth in Jon's world. "He was calling you a sellout before you became a cheerleader for having non-Goth friends. Like you'd ever give up a friend."
"Some people just can't appreciate having good friends, I guess," Jazmyn replied, having downloaded a lot of information from what Dawn was telling her.
"And my wish...suddenly there is no Goth clique like there used to be. Well, except for people like Nick. Buffie made me think that you joining the squad made people stop looking down on Goths." Jazmyn breathed a sigh of relief. In this world, she'd somehow figured out how to be in the "in" crowd without losing who she was. She paused, wondering where that thought had come from. As Jon, she'd never tried to be in the In crowd.
"Have you seen the latest episode of The Mirror?" Dawn said, trying to change the subject. "I hear it's great. I've been waiting to watch it."
"No," Jazmyn said honestly. She'd never even heard of it. Did Dawn mean Black Mirror?
