Jon looked over at Biff Meadows, Sarah McMillan, and their friends. They were usually too busy with their own business to cause Jon many hassles, but a pregnancy empathy belly was a rather unusual situation and they couldn't resist taunting him about it.
There was no reason to put up with it, though. "I wish that anyone who teases me about this belly today will get a similar one without any magical properties, without changing any memories or history."
The group started paying more attention to Jon after Biff pointed him out. All of a sudden, Sarah muttered something. It must have been something said against Jon, because all of a sudden her stomach bulged. Jon couldn't see much difference in breast size, but then this was Sarah.
"What the fuck?" yelled Mike "Moose" Matthews. "Has everyone got one?"
"I don't have one!" exclaimed Sarah. "This just ... appeared! I wish I knew what was going on." Jon tensed instinctively at the phrase, but nothing happened.
"Some kind of trick," said Biff. "Something on your shirt ... making it grow ..."
"It's not my shirt," said Sarah. "Let me go get this off. It's just plastic and stuff. Rubber and fabric, maybe." She reached under her shirt and felt around. "Yeah, I think I can get it off."
"I don't know how Jon did that," said Biff. "But it's got to be him. Just to look a little less dorky in ..." And on him appeared realistic looking breasts and a pregnant belly. "Holy shit!"
"Something on your shirt, huh?" said Moose.
"It's not the shirt," said Sarah. "I'm getting some idea what it was. We're not the first to be transformed. Jon was with his girlfriend the other day and he rubbed his belly. And something strange happened. If you ..." She lowered her voice to a whisper, finished her explanation, and after some replies of "Really?" she began to walk towards Jon.
"Don't trip, Sarah," said Jon. "It makes you lose your balance."
"Quiet. We need to talk to you."
After it seemed like Jon was showing some signs of fear, they realized they had to make their move. Moose and Biff ran at him. Biff tripped, the belly indeed making him lose his balance. Moose tackled Jon.
"I hope this works, Sarah," said Moose. "I don't want to be kicked off the football team for assaulting a student."
"Trust me," said Sarah. She reached for Jon's stomach and said "I wish I'm wearing this belly."
Nothing seemed to have changed. Jon was glad ... until he tried to make a wish. He touched his stomach and said "I wish that everyone around me would fall asleep." Nothing happened. The belly wasn't the wishing belly. It was just an artificial lump making him look like a pregnant man. He and Sarah had swapped. He had expected that Sarah couldn't reverse the wish that she have a non-magical belly, but apparently he never said that the person who gets one has to keep it ...
"Ah, that's better," said Sarah. "First, I wish that nobody except us noticed this. There you go, Moose. Your position on the team is safe."
"It won't do any good," said Jon. "But let me warn you. It grows larger if you put it on, and while you have it on. If it gets all the way, you become pregnant for real. It probably advanced a week or so just because you put it on. Now give it back to me!"
"Don't be silly," replied Sarah, grinning. "I wish ... that I know if that's true." She shook her head. "It is. Well, crap. And it looks like it's almost done."
Jon struggled and managed to step on Moose's foot. Moose didn't let him go but he managed to fall over onto Sarah. He shoved his hand down her shirt, hoping the belly went far enough upwards on the chest, and said "I wish ..." But before he could finish, he got slugged in the face.
"Oh no you don't," Biff said.
"Thanks," Sarah said, grinning. She touched the belly. "Now, before this thing makes me pregnant for real, I wish ..."
