After sitting on the floor, Jon had eventually managed to find the coin. Something was obviously very wrong, she thought. After all, the coin only granted three wishes every twelve hours. Or so claimed her grandfather's note when she had looked around for it, anyway. She tried making another wish, but the coin wouldn't respond.
Her husband picked her up from school--or at least an impostor who looked just as much like her husband as she looked like Mrs. Beaumont. Jon pretended to be sick for the rest of the day; in truth it wasn't hard. She didn't feel too good at all after what had happened.
Jon awoke to a ringing sound. She hit her alarm clock and it stopped. Her husband lay beside her, mubmbling, and said "Honey? What time is it?"
"I made a mistake," she said. "I dropped it before so I had to reset the alarm. Let me set it for the real time. And I have to go to the bathroom anyway. This baby is making me have to go a lot."
Jon set the clock and immediately took the coin to the bathroom, hoping beyond hope that it did indeed work after twelve hours. "I wish I knew why this coin seemed to grant more than three wishes."
The coin gave her knowledge of the answer. It grants three wishes in a twelve hour period. You can make six wishes in a row if you make three wishes at the end of one period, then the next period starts, then you make three more at the start of the new period. Of course, after that, you do need to wait twelve hours.
"I wish that I knew what wishes this coin made yesterday."
Wish #1 was having a chest full of coins.
Wish #2 was to not be sick.
Wish #3 was for Mrs. Beaumont to drop the coin.
That ended a twelve hour period and a new one started right after that.
Wish #1 was to make Jon and exact copy of her and replace her.
Wish #2 was to make the real Juliette go to Paris, and wish #3 was for the townhouse and lottery ticket. Jon wondered how long before the real Juliette got arrested for that. It was probably a bad idea to wish for things, like real estate, that needed to have a lot of paperwork outside the wish range. Besides, the rest of the paperwork--outside the wish range--would say that the Juliette in America was the real one and that the one in Paris was the impostor.
Fortunately the document forging wish hadn't happened, although Jon did wonder what other explanation there could be for looking just like Juliette. They couldn't just be twins, because the wish was for her to replace Juliette as Juliette. The coin vanishing wish hadn't happened, either. (Note: Mikey wished that Jon would make two bad wishes. Jon making bad wishes can't come true by having Juliette making the bad wishes instead.)
"I wish I had my magic stone from the original universe, directly taken through time from when I came over from it."
The coin granted its last wish until twelve more hours would pass... and the stone appeared in Jon's hand. Now, Jon had unlimited wishes again. She put down the useless coin and said "I wish that I can always find this rock."
Next was to not be Juliette. Jon knew she couldn't reverse the wish to be an exact copy of Juliette. But if Jon wasn't an exact copy, would further wishes be possible? After all, she wouldn't be reversing the wish--it would be already reversed and she'd just be changing how it was reversed.
"I wish I'll give birth today." Jon didn't know it at the time, but that was when Mikey's wish came into effect. Jon made two wishes, one to put him out of the picture and another to make the coin disappear. "I wish that once I've given birth, so I'm not an exact copy of Juliette any more, I'll become someone else who can be near Mikey and Karyn. Also, I wish this coin never existed, since I have the stone."
The coin disappeared (the past wishes didn't vanish since they could not be reversed). Then Jon felt a contraction. And wondered just who she would become after she gave birth. She realized that wish could have been a mistake, since she wasn't specific enough....
