The rest of the day for the two was, uneventfully really. They'd stay'd in their own rooms, Leonard wondering who else to tell about the wishing rock and who he could trust within his inner friend circle. He chatted away on his laptop, careful not to allude to or mention the all-powerful rock he'd obtained, before heading downstairs. When he blew an hour or two, he went downstairs to get a drink. He opened the fridge only to see someone cradled inside, eating pudding and texting on their phone.
Inside the fridge curled up of course, was a richy-rich girl with black dark hair and a purple streak running thru it, her purple stylish tank-top and dark skirt going with her usual borderline gothic looks, the bright purple-pink lipstick and purple-pink stockings only cementing that.
"Veronica!" Veronica was his lifelong friend, something of preppy prodigy in fashion and academics, and pretty rad girl overall. When she wasn't being sassy or snarky that is. She took a carton of milk and handed it to Leonard, slyly shifting eyes at him. Leonard doubtlessly considered her his closest friend. She wasn't as hung up on it, but they got along seemingly.
With a sigh, he slowly closed the fridge again leaving her to her chilled state as before, and as always.
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Lisa sipped a juicebox while the stone boiled in a blender-sized vat.
"Hmm, immunity to high heat, static electricity, radiation, extreme pressurization and air-vacuums. It appears to be impervious to harm and exhibits the power to inhabit quantum fluctuations within it's material base. That is to say, all possibilities of space/time exist within it and by a simple mental weigh in, perhaps by a command or specifically a wish, it can bring forth these fluctuations into reality, turning aberrations within the timeline into existing ones." She crushed the juice-box. "Some sort of, wishing rock basically. Fascinating." She turned the vat off and with two clamps and soft mitts, removed the stone from her dingy boiling liquid into an ice-cold pitcher. Then she took it out and placed it on a towel to dry.
An hour later it was almost getting late, she ordered a pizza and paid for it 15 minutes later. Leonard was doing some kind of last minute book report when she brought it to the table.
"I finished my tests, there's not much to report. I don't suppose you'd rather just wish for the report to be done? The results were inconclusive, but that's likely because this stone doesn't follow any known rules of physics, in fact it violates the known laws of thermodynamics."
She said handing it back to Leonard. Len of course was a believer in science, and the paranormal. He could accept something like magic existed, but it didn't interest him too great a deal in comparison.
"Neat, but if I used wishes for every boring thing like that I'd have to wish for more extraordinary things, and before I know it my life would cease to exist as-is."
Lisa seemed to agree with this assessment, giving the stone a poke. "This rock can bend the laws of physics. But if we break those laws or make them irrelevant, we might as well exist in a calamity entirely erroneous to sense and have a universe determined solely by chaos theory rather than Newtonian, Hawking or even Eisenstein's physics."
She took a bite of the pizza as Leonard nodded. "So, wanna go out in the tent and search for aliens? This is our last night, and you promised!" Lisa rolled her eyes. "To other's acumen, scientists credibility is only as good as her word. Veritably so."
"I'll take that as a yes!" He replied throwing his fist up in a dorky fashion. Veronica climbed out of the fridge and yawned, throwing her arms around the two. "You goin' stargazing for ayys? Mind if I tag along with thing 1 and 2? If those space monsters find you, they're gonna want a real cute girl to kidnap you know?" She snickered, taking a selfie and giving a 'V' pose with all 3 of them and instantly watching the likes go up on her social media accounts.
"And that would be?" Lisa's eyes rolled.
