About twenty minutes after Jon made his wish, Karyn called and sounded pissed. He smiled, knowing what she might have been mad about.
"Jon, what the hell did you wish for?" Karyn nearly yelled over the phone. "My mom nearly killed me shoving a whole pizza into my mouth!"
Jon tried to stifle a laugh, imagining what that must have looked like.
Karyn must have heard him, because she yelled "Jon, you tell me what you did right now or I'm gonna come over there and ..."
"Relax, Karyn. It'll only last for another twenty-four hours."
"What will? Jon, what did you do?"
"I made everyone think that you're an obese girl that weighs 300 pounds. I mean, you're not really fat, but I made everyone think you are."
Suddenly, her mom's behavior made sense. If she thought that Karyn was supposed to be an obese girl ...
She grew angry. "Jon, I can't believe you did this to me!"
"Hey, it could be worse," Jon said. "I could have said something like ..." he began, forgetting for the moment that he was still holding the stone. "... I wish ..."
