"I think though," Karyn said, "for maximum effect, I have one more wish to make."
Why was I still letting her hold that thing? "Are you sure?" I asked, "I mean, we've already changed things quite a bit, maybe we should wait and see how all of this pans out..." I remembered my thoughts earlier about trusting anybody with the stone.
"Just one more Jon, I promise," she said. She held the stone tightly again, and began to speak, "I wish that tomorrow at school," there was another pause before she continued, "...tomorrow at school, a male would come onto Jon, and a female would come onto me." There was another flash.
"What the hell Karyn?" I asked, but I really had no surprise or indignation left to offer her. I'd wasted it on, what I had then believed to be, the shocking wishes. "Seriously?" I asked.
"Jon," she said in a rather serious tone. "What good is this new perspective if we just sit around and keep it to ourselves." She set the rock down on my nightstand, and continued. "It's not like I wished we would be uncontrollably compelled to go along with it."
"Thanks for setting the rock down before you said that," I whispered.
"I really did learn my lesson," she said softly before she sat down on the bed beside me. "Besides, this is really exciting. We don't know who it will be. I mean, when I think of all the girls in our class..." She paused, obviously momentarily lost in a daydream. "It could be any one of them... Except," and her dreamy smile turned into a sneer, "I hope it's not Sara. I mean, she's got one hot little body," Karyn admitted, "But she's just too much of a bitch for my taste."
I nodded, and my mind started to wander toward thoughts of the guys in our class. I couldn't help but think about almost every guy on the football team, and how much I would love to... I shook my head, "I hope I don't get stuck with Biff. He's nice to look at, but he's such a bastard."
We both looked at each other for a moment as our words began to set in. "Okay," she said suddenly, "Maybe this is a little weird, but I still think it'll be a good thing."
"I don't know," I told her. I still had the feeling that something bad was going to come of this.
She looked over at the rock and picked it up again.
"I think you've made enough wishes Karyn," I told her firmly.
She looked at me for a moment and then nodded, handing the stone back over to me. "Is there anything you'd like to add?"
I thought about it for a moment. Karyn had made several wishes now, and altered several aspects of my life without my consent. I'd honestly never thought her capable of doing something like this. She'd always seemed rather caring, and concerned about others. Possibly, without doing anything too terrible, I thought, I should punish her a little. I thought about Karyn's life. It was true that she had altered her own just as much as she'd altered mine, but it had been completely consensual on her end. Even though I was accepting what she'd done, I still felt she should be taught a little bit of a lesson. Then it came to me. Something that wouldn't cause any long term negative effects, but something that would possibly make her think twice about wishing like that again.
I held the stone close to me, closed my eyes and made my wish. "I wish that, for the next seven days, Karyn..."
