(Note: Since I said that Karyn had figured out why Jon was a girl on the way to the mall, let's assume they came back again for the pacifier.)
"I wish..."
Karyn had just seen someone else use the stone and didn't know what the wish was. There was only one thing she could wish for right now: "...that I knew what that wish was."
And it was if she could hear Joan making the wish: 'I wish you'd grow up to be a really girly girl, so no-one would ever even think of you as a Jon.'
But though Karyn now knew the words of the wish, she didn't know what had been reality before the wish. So all she thought was 'How strange. Why would anyone ever think of Jan as a 'Jon' in the first place?'
She shrugged it off and took a step towards the car, then back. Something was moving in the corner of her eye.
"Joan!" she said. The woman was holding Jan, but Jan was rapidly getting bigger. Soon she was too big to hold and Joan, who seemed to get older herself, had to put her down.
Joan had wished for Jan to grow up. So Jan was growing up. Karyn barely had time to wish "I wish that Joan wouldn't notice anything strange here, and that Jan would be in clothes and would stop growing once she got to my age."
In a short time it was all over and they were back on their way to the mall. Joan was her normal age again. Jan once again was a beautiful teenage girl who had long red hair, bright red lips, and was wearing a feminine pink dress and white heels. Karyn still had the ability to age or de-age Jan, but otherwise, she thought, it was just as it was before.
