Karyn sat on the edge of the tub thinking. After all the comments about Biff and his friends and his saying that he wanted to understand what she was going through, she had a pretty good idea of what she was going to do with him. She knew Jon was referring to living one life while remembering another in a general way, but the boy needed to learn a bit of sensitivity after all. He probably was expecting her to do exactly what she was thinking about so she wanted a good way to make it interesting. She felt her phone buzz in her jeans pocket and pulled it out to see a Facebook notification that her mom had just done another one of those annoying quizzes she loved so much. Then it hit her.
"I wish that in a few moments Jon will turn on his computer and access Facebook and that, when he does, he will be offered a quiz that allows him to select the physical and mental traits of his ideal woman and have a Snapchat filter of her likeness generated and that he will be the only person to receive this offer and that he will feel compelled to complete this quiz and that he completes the quiz it will become completely disabled so that no once else can access it again, even from Jon's own computer. I wish that quiz will be very comprehensive and that Jon will answer the questions as if he were creating the girl he'd most like to be instead of his dream girl without realizing it."
"Everything okay in there?" Jon called through the bathroom door.
Karyn sighed. "It's fine, Jon, just give me a little longer."
She heard him take a few steps and then his desk chair creak. She realized that the first part of her wish must be triggering. "I wish that when the quiz is completed it will open a window on his computer that accesses his webcam so that it is projecting an image of himself on his screen. I wish that the quiz will then generate the promised filter, applying it to the webcam window and that it functions just like the Snapchat 'female' filter except that it perfectly replaces Jon's image with the image of the woman he imagined as he completed the quiz. I also wish that once his image is replaced by the filter he will be instantly transformed into that woman physically and mentally and that reality will alter so that it seems he's always been her except that Jon will still retain the memories of his life before the transformation as well those of his new life and that this transformation can be undone by selecting the option to disable the filter, which only appears with this filter and will cause reality to reset back to the one where Jon is still his normal male self, but that it can be reactivated at any time by re-applying the filter and that if I say Jon-boy three times in quick succession while in Jon's presence it will apply or disable the filter as appropriate. I wish that this filter would be instantly downloaded into the Snapchat app on Jon's phone and that it will still be accessible to disable the filter via the app even in the changed reality, though other filters can be applied on top of it if it is active and function normally without any changes to Jon other than within the app as intended. I wish that this filter's transformational powers will only work on Jon and that if someone else uses his phone other than me while it is active it will seem as if no filters have been applied and that if anyone other than me sees Jon transform into his new female form or back into Jon their memories will be immediately altered to conform to the reality matching Jon's current appearance as if no change has taken place. Also, I wish that while Jon is transformed into this woman he will know he has been changed but will find that he is so completely comfortable thinking of himself as her and acting on her memories and instincts as if that was his normal life that the idea of being Jon or being male in general is so completely abhorrent to him, or rather her, she becomes physically ill of she dwells on it too long. I also wish that while I will always recognize this female version of him as Jon I will find it difficult not to think of and treat him as if he had always been the person he becomes. Finally, I wish that while he was in his female form, though he will clearly remember the stone he will not believe that it was the cause of his transformation or that I was the one who wished for it. In fact, I wish that while Jon's female persona will be enamored with the idea of the existence of magic and the supernatural she will find it difficult to think of it as anything other than a fantasy and only fully remember what could have caused the change while the filter is disabled."
Karyn finally stopped talking, realizing she had made a lot of wishes. Her throat was actually dry from talking for so long, though it had only been a couple of minutes. She stood and went to to the dual sink top bathroom counter, turning on the faucet to Jon's and cupping her hand under it. She took a few small drinks of water this way then looked at the door. Jon may still be finishing the quiz, she thought, then she looked down at the stone and smiled. As she turned the faucet off she whispered, "I wish that when I step out of the bathroom Jon will have already finished his quiz and that the filter has already been applied to him and downloaded to his phone."
With that, Karyn walked out of the bathroom.
