It was Jon's brother Matt, younger by one year than Jon. Jon and Matt had always gotten along well and Jon had already told Matt about the stone, as well as wished him up some CDs and other things to not be stingy with the stone.
"Something's funny," said Matt. "I know the look on your face..."
"I made a wish," said Jon. "To change the world. I was thinking of going around trying to see what had changed, but it occurred to me that I probably wouldn't be able to see much."
"You made a wish?"
"Yeah, can you guess what it was?"
"That's supposed to be impossible, right, Jon? But let me see. Er... you wished that Karyn is a big-breasted blonde?"
"I already told you about that one! Come on..."
"I really don't know," said Matt. "Anything you wish would be a normal part of our lives... Wait a minute. I get it. I'm not supposed to figure it out by just guessing. I need to go do some research. The Internet..."
"Huh? Matt, I didn't mean..."
Matt continued, not listening to Jon. "The stone only has a certain range. Anything you change won't have an effect outside the range. I should be able to go to my computer, bring up a news site, and it'll have a big news story about how our town has changed in some way. Am I right, Jon?"
"You... Yeah, you're right, Matt, but I just wanted you to guess. I didn't even think about the wish range. I'd better just tell you what it is. I changed the way men and women work. It used to be women who have pussies and give birth."
"Really?" Matt was shocked. "Women give birth and women nurse babies? Wouldn't that be making them do everything?"
"Hey, I didn't design that part. That's how it was before the wish."
"You mean I'm really supposed to have a dick? That would be like being gay. And, uhh... Steve Farber really wasn't kicked off the football team for being pregnant?"
"And guys don't wear cute panties, either," added Jon.
"What's cute about panties?"
Jon realized that although underwear had changed, guys' and girls' general personalities didn't, so even if guys wore panties, they'd consider them like other underwear. "I guess there isn't anything... now. Can you show me your panties, just so I can see?"
"Weird," said Matt, but pulled down his pants and showed Jon white frilly panties, under which was no male bulge.
Jon nodded and said "It's weird to me because I remember what happened before... Uh, pull those up, I don't want to keep staring at them."
"I don't want to keep showing them," said Matt. "Let's check the Internet."
There was nothing yet, since Jon had recently made the wish. But they browsed the Internet and discussed things for a while. Matt found that porn sites looked strange, because most of them were outside the wish range and still showed women with pussies, except for the occasional dickchick which to Matt now seemed perfectly normal. Eventually they went back to the news site and this time there was an interview of one man who lived with his wife miles outside the city. The edge of the wish range must have been right between him and his wife, wherever they were standing when Jon made the wish. His wife was pregnant, and now he and his wife were both pregnant, and each thought their own situation was normal and the other person had changed.
"I wasn't planning for an edge," said Jon. "I forgot about the range anyway... But something's bothering me. Mom is pregnant."
"I know," said Matt, "you told me that men didn't get pregnant before. It must be weird if you remember Dad being pregnant and now all of a sudden you think it's strange that Mom was.
Jon tried to untangle the words in that sentence, remembering that "Mom" now meant men and "Dad" now meant women. "That's the strange part," he said. "Our parents weren't expecting a baby before I made the wish. I'd understand a pregnancy moving from one to the other once I changed men's and women's parts. But that pregnancy didn't move from, er, Dad. If making the wish transferred all pregnancies along with the pussies, then the pregnancy must have been in someone else outside our family.
"You mean Mom had an affair with someone else and made someone else pregnant, and you never knew it, and then when you gave men pussies, the pregnancy moved into him?"
"That's the only thing I can think of," said Jon. "Maybe I should ask the stone to find out the answer...."
