"Hey, guys," Leonard said. "Check out these cool make-up ideas." He held up the Cosmo magazine, catching Jon's attention.
"Where did you get that?" Jon asked.
"It's mine. I brought a whole bunch of them. See?" Leonard said, holding them up. There were issues of Cosmo, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue.
"What happened to your comic books?" Jon asked, looking around, but not seeing them.
Leonard looked confused, and maybe a little turned off. "Why would I have comic books?"
Was Jon losing his mind? Why were his friends acting like this? He turned to look at the magazines again, and did a double take. A moment ago, he saw a girl on each cover. But now there was a guy! A kind of feminine-looking guy, but definitely a guy. One guy had long blond hair in pig tails, make-up, a dress (that seemed to be tailored to fit his body, weirdly enough), and was posing in a very feminine manner. The other magazine covers showed similar things. A guy in the place of whatever girl was previously on it. There was one cover, though, that previously had a picture of a handsome guy on it, but now the guy was replaced by a girl, now wearing the previous guy's outfit (though tailored to her body) and had his short hairstyle and no make-up. It was almost as if gender roles were reversed, or something. Was that what was happening to Jon's friends? Would it also eventually happen to him? Why was he the only one to notice that everything wasn't normal?
But then it occurred to him, and he wasn't quite sure why he didn't think of this before. The stone! This must have had something to do with that careless wish he made earlier that evening. He had to go get it and fix this before his friends were changed so much that he wouldn't recognize them anymore (at least personality-wise).
Jon turned to sprint upstairs, but was grabbed by Tim. "Where do you think you're going?" he asked.
"I just have to ..." he started.
"The party's just starting," Tim said, pulling him over to one of the living room sofas and making him sit down. Then he turned towards the other guys and said in an almost sing-songy voice "Look what I have!" He was holding up bottles of nail polish. "Pedis and manis for everyone!"
Everyone (except Jon) cheered.
Jay came back with their salads, and they began to eat them, while arguing about which color of polish they all wanted to use, and other things like who the studliest woman and what kind of dress they planned on wearing to Prom in a few weeks. Basically, stuff that girls might discuss at a slumber party. But not the kind of talk four guys at an overnight pizza party would talk about.
Jon really didn't want to be here.
