"I wish Jon's mother hadn't become a lawyer," Karyn said. She thought she had zeroed in on the source of the problem - the one change in history that caused all the other changes. But she didn't realize that she had the Omission Stone. She didn't expect its bonus effect. She gasped.
One moment, Jon was there. And then the next, he was gone.
And so was the stone. With Jon having never been born, the wishing stone would have been inherited by the only other child of his family. But since reality changed so that Jon didn't exist, his sister Zoe was never born either, because her birth was the result of her parents waiting for Jon to grow up a little before having another child. So, in this new reality, there was a girl named Jessica, and she was one year older than Zoe and one year younger than Jon, making her a Sophomore in high school.
But did the mysterious intruder switch Jessica's stone with a different one in this new reality? Or did the intruder even pay Jessica a late-night visit at all?
"Karyn?" her mother asked, opening the door. "Oh, you're alone. I thought I heard you talking to someone."
"I was. I was talking to Jon."
"Jon? Who's Jon?" she asked Karyn.
Meanwhile, at the Gibson house, Jessica was grabbing her schoolbag and more importantly, the wishing stone, before heading off to school. She had shown the stone to her best friend the previous day, but hadn't had a chance to make any serious wishes. Today was the day that she would. And she wanted to make sure her friend was around so that her memories wouldn't change along with everyone else's.
