The easiest way to find out, needless to say, was in Karyn's hand. "I wish I knew what Jon wished for, and what that meant."
It told her. And she was shocked at how reckless Jon was with the wish. What if it turned the whole town into werewolves or something? But it didn't. Jon's wish had taken him into the past to replace the dead Jenny. It had also allowed Karyn to remember--otherwise, if Jon had changed the past, Karyn would think it had always been that way.
She wondered if the stone could fix this, or even if it should.
In the past--certainly not meanwhile, since it was years ago, but from Jon's point of view it was just after he left--Jon was trying to live as Jenny. From what he could gather, Jenny was staying with his own family for a week, and her parents were out of town, so at least he didn't have to deal with parents. And somehow he felt that he could instinctively do at least some of the things expected of Jenny--nobody was going to say he was a fake just because he couldn't remember how to put on a bra.
But unlike most time travel movies, he wasn't in the past because he needed to change something. He needed to get back as soon as possible to avoid changing something. And the stone hadn't come with him. How could he search for a way to time travel?
The best way would probably be to find his grandfather. If the magic stone wasn't the first piece of magic he ran across, if he was familiar with magic already, he might believe a story about time travel. And fortunately, Jon was staying in his own house. Finding his grandfather would be a simple matter of waiting for him to get home.
But even if he did, would it be too late? If the moment of Jon's conception was even a second earlier or later, he might be born as a different person. When he gets back to his own time, he could be different--or a girl--or even twins.
There wasn't much he could do about that, though. He sat down to do his homework, and waited for his grandfather....
