Who else would be walking around in the dark early hours of morning other than Derek Lettman, an emo boy that went to school with Jon and Karyn? (In fact, he was the only emo at the high school.)
Derek liked to walk around at the early hours of the day, when there weren't a lot of people around. He liked being alone. Alone with his own depressing thoughts.
Walking back home, he passed Jon's house. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted the stone. He would have almost missed it, if it weren't for the dim sunlight glinting off of it. It was a kind of metallic glint. He picked it up and (after swiping away the lock of hair that covered half his face) looked at it, seeing that it wasn't metal at all, but instead a stone. And a strange-looking one at that.
"I wish I knew what kind of stone this was," he whispered to himself, not expecting to get an answer, which he did.
His eyes lit up as he discovered that the stone in his hand could grant wishes. Unlimited wishes, as far as he could gather.
Suddenly, he thought of dozens of things to wish for. And his first wish would be ...
