Thinking about the science fair, Jay Duncan, and her mother, Kyla muttered "I wish that I'd won last year's science fair instead of Jay."
Suddenly, the stone began to glow, causing her to look away as if there were something in her eye. When she looked back, the glow from the stone was already fading.
She dropped the stone on the table, then ran into the living room, which was where her mom was headed, after their short conversation.
"Mom! Did you see ..." Kyla began to say, but then stopped dead in her tracks. Something was wrong...She cleared her throat. "Mom, did you..."
"Did I what?" Her mother asked. "Are you all right, Kyle?"
Kyla looked down at herself. That was why her voice sounded odd.
That stone! Kyla suddenly realized. It glowed and this happened. Was it magic? Kyla didn't believe in magic. But what other explanation was there? She ran back into the kitchen to grab it, but when she got to the table, it was gone.
Where did it go? And without it, would she be stuck as a male version of herself forever? She didn't look that different, she noticed as she caught sight of herself. She was a bit taller, maybe, and no breasts, obviously, and short hair...
She ran up to her room, which also, aside from a few things, didn't look all that different. She had the same interests, the same books..she looked up on the shelf. Sitting there was the 1st place Science Fair trophy.
It HAD been chauvinism. She felt furious. She was not prone to bouts of anger, but that just got her goat. But first things first, she had to find that stone...except she had no idea where to look. It had disappeared just as quickly as it appeared.
