It had been an hour and twenty minutes since Jon had vanished, and a full nineteen minutes since Karyn had begun to panic.
The first hour she had convinced herself that Jon would be back. She had only wished for him to act like Sarah for sixty minutes, after all. When the time was up, poof! He'd be right back where he was.
A minute after the allotted time a sense of dread began to sink in. Sixty seconds later she was in full-on panic mode.
There was at least five minutes spent on swearing. She found herself oddly removed from herself, thinking, "Wow! I didn't even know I knew those words!" After she had exhausted her vocabulary she began to make some phone calls. First to Jon's cell phone, which rang away on his dresser beside her. Then to every friend that Jon knew from school. Nobody had seen or heard from him all day.
Then she screamed. It came unbidden, but that didn't make the wail any more potent. Loud enough, it was, to bring Jon's mom bounding up into the bedroom.
"Karyn! Sweetie, what are you doing in here?"
"Mrs. Madison!" she blurted, shocked out of her mind-state, "I'm looking for Jon. Have you seen him?" Her voice shook with emotion.
"Oh, what day is it?" Jon's mother absentmindedly said, "That's right! Karyn, you won't find him here today, today's a Sarah day! You'll have to come back tomorrow; they should be here then."
"Wha..."
"Tomorrow, Karyn. They'll be here tomorrow! Today they're Sarah," Jon's mother spoke very slowly, putting her arm behind Karyn's back and leading her outside. "Bye hon, see you tomorrow!"
Karyn eyed the rock in her hand, bewildered.
