Karyn and Jon were, as the often did, going to go over some homework in Jon's room. Only this time, it wasn't Karyn and Jon. It was Karyn, Jon, and the girl who resembled Jon but was lying on the bed where Jon was sitting, her head in Jon's lap."
"Get up!" exclaimed Karyn.
"Who, me?" replied Jonnie. "I can do this, I'm Jon's girlfriend."
"I'd rather we not argue now," said Jon. "Jonnie, you'd better do it."
"Oh, all right," she said, and got up.
"Sheesh," said Karyn. "Anyway, I can't believe what a mess this is. I'd say I knew the stone was trouble all along except I didn't, and from what you're saying it isn't the right stone anyway."
"Yeah," said Jonnie. "I didn't realize this morning that it was the wrong stone, but when you look at it closely it's got these black specks that the real one doesn't have... hey, why's everyone looking at me like that?"
"That was Jon who didn't realize," said Karyn.
"I am Jon!" exclaimed Jonnie. "A Jon, anyway. I can say something happened to me just as much as Jon could, right, Jon?"
"Of course you can," said Jon. "Never mind. We need to figure out what to do. The stone's gone, and this one isn't safe. What if the delay is a day, or a year? I could wish to be at school and ten years later when we're all grown up all of a sudden it turns me back into a student. Or it does it when I'm driving a car and the car crashes. We need to find the real stone... whoever has it could make things really bad...
"But where can we look?" wondered Jonnie. "There are no leads. Unless we make another wish and hope that it won't be one of the ten year wishes."
