Standing in the hallway that led to the living room, Jon watched as Zoe opened the door. It was Karyn!
Jon walked into the living room. "Hey, Karyn."
Karyn glanced at Jon and then looked at Zoe. "He's not gonna be around. Is he?"
"No, I think his friends are coming by to pick him up," Zoe replied.
Why is Karyn treating me like I'm not even standing here? Jon thought.
"Good. The last thing I want to do is hang around that freak," Karyn said to Zoe, as they walked upstairs to Zoe's bedroom.
"Freak?" Jon whispered to himself. "She called me a freak."
After some thought, Jon came to the conclusion that Karyn didn't remember the other reality. To her, Jon had always been a Goth and Zoe had always been normal. If he only had the wishing stone, he could make her remember. But he didn't know where it was. He assumed it was in the bathroom that he was in when he switched with his sister, so he started to walk upstairs to check it out.
But as his foot reached the first step, the doorbell rang. Could it be the "friends" that Zoe was talking about? If so, what would he do? He didn't know anything about what his life was like in this reality.
