Jon inexorably read out the wish. "I wish that Jon would be happy with the body he has now and stop bugging me today."
"Jon?" said Karyn.
"What?" replied the sexually ambiguous teenager.
"Does that mean what it sounds like? You don't want to change back?"
"Well..." Jon thought. "I don't think I'll be bugging myself, so that part's okay. As for the rest... You know, it's all for the best anyway, since I can't change back. So I really do need to accept it, and not try to do something that's just impossible. I have my life to live like this now."
"Jon, you..." Karyn hesitated. "I'm so confused! And you're supposed to be confused!"
"Uhh, what?"
"Think of what I remember, from my point of view. You've always been a girl where it counts, and it was no problem. Then for a couple of minutes you're screaming "I want a penis". Then you read the note and it's no problem again. In other words, from my point of view everything's just back to normal!"
"But I am back to normal," said Jon. "Mikey's wish only did what I had to do anyway."
"That's it. You feel this is normal. I feel it's normal. But that doesn't fit what you told me. I really should try to change you back. If I want to be faithful to some reality that I've never experienced and you don't want to experience any more... What's the right thing to do?"
"You can't reverse a wish anyway."
"I know better," said Karyn. "If it's like the stone, I just have to wish it happened to someone else who lives around here and happens to be named Jon, instead of you."
"And?" replied Jon. "So you make the wish and I want to change back again, and I still can't. It won't help. Give me the pad, please..."
Karyn said "I wasn't planning to use it anyway. I wouldn't make a wish on you against your will."
She lifted her hand, and would have given the pad to Jon.... except at that moment Zoe, who had been listening for the past few minutes, approached them and cleared her throat. "Aren't you two forgetting someone?" she said.
