Heading out of the locker room, Jon looked up when he walked into the gymnasium and saw a banner advertising a football game tomorrow against Mount Valley.
Mount Valley's beyond the range of the stone, thought Jon. Grandpa wrote that the stone could only change reality within a few miles. So Mount Valley and the rest of the world isn't like ... this. Jon still wasn't used to his new weight distribution. Each step he took reminded him of his wish. But why aren't people in Lake Point acting as if they're in a unique community? McMillan Tech Industries is the only big company in town. It can't be making feminine, um, masculine hygiene products. Where's this thing I'm wearing coming from? How could it be mass-produced for men if the world outside this town is still normal? Does anyone out there even notice that we've changed? Will the Mount Valley team notice our players are ... different? Reality show producers would love to film what we've become. The obliviousness of everyone here but me would be hilarious to normal people at home. Really normal people with the right parts.
Jon spotted the boys in his gymnastics class. One of them was Jay Duncan. From above the waist he was identical to his old freckled self ... but below ... he was curved like a girl! Jon wondered if Jay had inherited his ... father's figure.
Jon struggled to stop looking at his classmates during class. He couldn't perform well if his eyes were stuck on their feminine ... no, masculine curves. He would've liked those curves on a girl. Did any of his classmates notice that he was staring at them? Did they think he was gay?
Jon couldn't bear to look down in the shower after gym class. He wiped his lower body without looking at it, opened his locker, and put his clothes on in a hurry. Then he reached for the stone ...
