"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. Erasing Jon from existence and wishing his mother wasn't a lawyer had made it so his mother never had any children...or even married his father. She'd focused on her education and career and was now a top executive.
"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, Jane...no longer Gibson, of course, hadn't even bothered to open the package her late father had sent her. They had been estranged, and she was a very busy woman.
Zoe, on the other hand, hadn't been eliminated from existence. After all, the late Mr. Gibson had married someone else, and had a daughter named Zoe...
"Jon...my friend...Jon," Karyn insisted.
"Is this a new boy at school? Are you dating?"
"No!"
"Well, bring him around sometime, either way. I'd like to meet him," Bethany said.
Karyn looked around for the stone...it was gone.
