Gabe smiled and sauntered through the halls with jon, they kissed breifly and want to their respected classes. A few people teasingly made wolf whistles at gabe but he decided to tease back and blow them kisses. After all their homophobia was their problem not his. his first few classes went ok, but he got a few odd looks. It was at Gym where his real troubles started. Brad and Jake, two of his friends on the football team laughed at him and started throwing wadded balls of paper at him.
"Would you please quit it?" Gabe asked nicely, trying hard to avoid giving into that macho agression that once punctuated his life.
Jon looked up in shock, how could this be! The stone is supposed to make the changes normal! Usually the world would accept a change like this, heck it'd go out of it's way to change others to make it seem normal.
"hey, stop picking on my man!" Jon shouted.
Brad shoved Jon back into a locker. "what are you going to do about it squirt! Take me on a study date too! Don't tell me that we don't know what you two do together when so claim you study math. And we know that gabe sometimes sneaks a bra and panties under his clothes on gays when their isn't gym. I saw it the bathroom once. Besides, why do you think he dressed as a woman last halloween. He was way too passing for it to be a mere costume, he knew how to look that way."
Jon gasped as he got shoved back again, it made it so that people normally suspected Gabe was gay and crossdressed and all he did was confirm their suspicions, the stone isn't supposed to work that way! What happened.
Gabe was trying to hold back his anger but seeing jon pushed around pushed him over the edge. "he slammed the jerks heads together, then turned to see if jon was ok. This was his mistake. they were not as reeling in pain as he thought. One of them held him back, the other kicked him in the nuts. he doubled over in pain. Jon took an old wooden chair in the corner the coach sometimes used (the kids were mostly stuck with the benches in the changing area) and cracked them over the head. they slumped to the floor in pain.
Jon went over to comfort Gabe and help him to his feet. "don't worry, it's safe now."
The coach sighed and looked out at the gym class and pointed at Jon andGabe. "Fighting is against the rules! detention for both of you!"
Jon sighed how could this day get any worse.
Jon and gabe kissed after class and went to their dayly scedules.
Gabe spent most of the day wondering what went wrong, he must be losing his touch. He could once have taken those guys on anyday. Now he had to rely on Jon to pull his butt out of the fire.
Jon meanwhile was wondering about the stone, how could it go wrong like this.
Gabe sat down by Jon during detention, Jon hugged him close.
Jon felt something odd in his pocket. He reached in to see what it was, it was the stone. Jon held the stone and said. "I wish I knew what went wrong today."
Then the info flowed into Jons head, the stone said "The wishing stone has its own internal magical power battery it recharges by absorbing the ambient magic on earth. As use of magic is rare on earth the recharge is usually instantaneous. But something has been draining the local magic at an incredible pace. This lead occam's razor being enacted, the simplest way to normalize became the easiest one to use due to the lack of power. So it was easier to take their homophobic suspicions of you and Gabe and work with that as the magic to change it to acceptence was lacking."
"ok, Jon said, but where is the source of this drain."
The stone responded simply by showing him a picture of his house.
"We got to go back home to my place now! even if it means skipping detention!" jon said.
"Isn't it a bit early and sudden to want to have fun?" Gabe said.
"no, I know what went wrong today, why the stone didn't make normal the same as accepted. I have to stop what the problem is at the source."
