"What do you mean, you can't find the paper?!"
Karyn looked at her friend. His voice was frantic, he was pacing back and forth in his bedroom. Obviously he was upset.
"I mean I thought I had it, but I must have left it at the restaurant!" she said calmly, "If you want, I can head back and see if I can find it."
"No!" Jon squeaked, his voice still higher than Karyn was used to, "We can't go back there! Just write something else, or maybe use the stone! I can't go on like this!"
"Jon, you need to calm down," Karyn said firmly, holding the pencil in her hand, "If I use the pencil again, I don't know what the consequences will be. We can't just keep layering changes on you, since we don't know what the long term effects are. And if we use the stone, and we do something wrong, you'll be stuck like that forever!"
"You think I want to stay like this?" Jon said, grabbing his breasts in his waitress outfit.
"No, but Alan said that it was temporary, that you just had to go through the two week orientation and you'd be able to change back."
Jon collapsed on the bed and began to cry into his pillow.
"It's only for two weeks," Karyn said softly, rubbing Jon's back, "and you'll get paid for it! It's a job, and nothing to be ashamed of!"
Karyn wasn't sure what had happened behind closed doors at the restaurant during the interview, but it had certainly effected Jon negatively. When they'd gotten home, though, Jon's parents had taken one look at him and beamed with pride. They had been so happy that their boy had obtained employment, they'd offered to take him out for dinner to celebrate. It seemed that in this new reality, working as a male waitress was a good job.
Jon hadn't taken it well, though. He stormed up to his room in tears, breasts bouncing with every step. Karyn had told Jon's parents that she'd see what was up, that maybe he something was going on at school. They'd accepted her word and left them alone.
The blonde stared at her friend as he wept. She fingered the pencil, knowing that she'd be able to make a change to help her friend, but was unsure whether she should or not. Without the original page to erase, she might end up doing more damage than good. Maybe if she wrote something that would help him through the week and was extremely careful not to lose the page this time, it wouldn't be too dangerous.
Then again, if she wrote something and the paper got lost again, would she be stuck with consequences even worse than they had now?
