...her usual clown costume.
"I give up, it must have been something incredibly subtle, so thank you for keeping it small at least. Ok, so what did you do."
Jon honked her nose. It squeaked.
"Hey, stop that," she said. You should know better than to honk a girl's nose without her permission.
"You don't find it at all strange that you're wearing a clown costume, or that you have a nose that actually squeaks when I squeeze it?"
"No, of course not, I'm a girl, you just described all girls, after all. All girls wear clown costumes since all girls are clowns. Everyone knows... wait a minute. Are you suggesting that isn't how it was before?"
Jon was cackling his guts out. "Oh my god, I can't believe it," he bellowed. "You actually think that's NORMAL! Newsflash, girls are SUPPOSED to look like at least the same damn SPECIES as guys! But don't worry, it'll wear off in 5 minutes."
"What? No! NO! I don't want to look like a guy, with tiny feet and a guy nose and hair that's some drab bland color and two eyes that naturally point in the same direction! That would be awful! I'll be some kind of freak, stuck between genders! I want to stay looking like a girl!"
It seemed like she should have been very clumsy and slow, what with having two foot long feet, and hugely oversized gloved hands, but she swiped for the stone and got it out from Jon.
"I wish..."
NO KARYN NO! You're not thinking like yourself! PLEASE DON'T, you'll ruin everything! Please, this is not the way you're supposed to be!" Jon pleaded.
Karyn hesitated. "But, but it's the way I remember it always being! It's, it's ME! I don't want to, I don't want to stop being me! I'm sorry Jon, I have to. I wish that what Jon wished for would be permanent."
"NO! NO!" said Jon. "You stupid bitch, what have you done!"
"Don't be silly, Jon, "Karyn said. I look much better like this. Can you even imagine me with a nose like yours? With tiny little feet? That'd be so gross!"
Karyn was so confused. But that was how women were anyway. That was how women were supposed to be. Could she really only think that because her mind had been altered? No way, obviously things were as they were supposed to be right now, she thought.
After 5 minutes, she returned to normal anyway.
"Wha what? Oh my god! Oh holy fuck!" she shrieked.
"Karyn?"
"Thank god my awful wish didn't work! But why?" she asked.
Jon quickly swiped the stone from her normal sized girl hands.
"I wish for my last wish to be played audibly for us both to hear," he said.
Jon's voice played, he had been speaking quietly when he wished so she couldn't possibly overhear, so she wouldn't be within earshot, but now it was greatly amplified.
"I wish that for just the next five minutes, all women would be clowns. With huge ridiculous 2 foot long feet, and would naturally have big red spherical noses, 3 inches in diameter, that honk when you squeeze them, and afro hair styles with bright green or red hair, and huge, ovesized hands, and that the common fashion style was for them to dress like clowns, with clown makeup and big floppy clown shoes for their big floppy clown feet and big white gloves for their big white hands, and giant bug-eyed googly eyes that point all over the place! And for those 5 minutes, they'd think this was completely normal for them and this was how they had always been. And then at the end of the 5 minutes, they'd return to normal like they are now, for 5 minutes, leaving them open to further changes at the end of those 5 minutes."
"I guess, you couldn't make it 'permanent' since the earlier wish specifically said that it would last for 5 minutes and then go back to the way it was before, so asking for it to be permanent contradicted the earlier wish that it would last for 5 minutes."
"Thank god," she said.
"I wish you'd stop thanking GOD for MY careful discretion in my choice of words," Jon said. "You clown."
"Shut up," Karyn said. "You know you thought I was still hot like that."
"Did not," Jon said. "I'd just as soon have sex with a rhinoceros."
