How could Karyn do this?, thought Jon. Lunch had just finished and the end of the day felt like it would be a long time off. And the wishes would be hard to reverse.
The easiest wish to handle would be the one about deciding to embrace his new gender. People changed their mind about things that they decided all the time. All Jon had to do was change his clothes... of course, he couldn't do that until he got home, which made it completely pointless.
Jon headed towards the restroom--at least he could get rid of the makeup. An immediate problem was which restroom to use. He hesitated, and picked the girls' room. Walking inside, Jon grabbed a handful of paper towels and wiped his face off, discarding a paper covered with pinkish and reddish stains. Some water and more paper towels and Jon's face looked like himself again.
Examining himself in the mirror, Jon saw a boy with breasts wearing a dress. He was really female now, of course--but he had the body shape of a boy, the change in his voice was barely noticeable at all, and he was considered a boy. Sort of. He remembered what he had found out about Biff when he had been the target of the wishes; Biff still acted like a boy, and liked women, but he had a boyfriend anyway. On the other hand, Biff also dated guys because he didn't want to be seen as a dyke. Jon couldn't imagine himself with that problem, so maybe he had a girlfriend. Perhaps even an actual dyke like Thea Woods.
Jon left the restroom and passed by Steve in the hallway. Jon tensed up a moment, wondering if he was now dating Steve, but Steve ignored him. Of course. Steve wanted to hang around with Biff like with a guy. Steve wouldn't have hung around with the old Jon, and so wouldn't have dated the new Jon.
"Hey, Jon," said Biff, who came along a second later. Great, trouble. Karyn should have left good enough alone.
Jon turned away and tried to leave.
"Come on!" exclaimed Biff. "I just want to know if you're busy tonight. When you said today you were going to try to be a girl, I thought this was our big chance."
"You just like sleeping around with every girl you can get your hands on," replied Jon. "And you like getting your hands on every girl."
"Fine, be that way. I was trying to be nice, you know." Biff left. Jon was relieved that Biff didn't turn out to be his boyfriend, but it was certainly obvious that Biff was a womanizer again.
"What a creep," said Jon's friend Joseph.
"Yeah," replied Jon.
"He doesn't even like you. He did that just because we're going out... By the way are you serious about being a girl?"
"I... Of course not. I'm still Jon. I..." He couldn't very well explain that it was a wish. Or that this was all about wishes. "I tried it for a few hours but I look terrible in a dress and makeup, even if I look better than Biff would."
"That's funny. Biff in a dress and makeup. You know, you don't have to wear the dress if you don't want to. You're still my girlfriend either way."
"I'm a guy, Joseph."
"You're a guy with girlfriend-bits. Look, if it really bothers you I'll stop saying that but we've been going out for months and you've been okay with it as long as it was me saying it."
"Yeah..." What could Jon say? "I've just had a lot on my mind recently, what with my grandfather dying and all, okay? I'll see you around."
Joseph grinned. "Bye Jon!" He have Jon a definitely non-platonic hug and ran off to his next class.
When the last bell rang, Jon stopped Karyn on the way out and put his hand out to her. She shook her head. "Uh-uh. You must mean the stone, but the end of the day is midnight." A second later and she said "Psych!" and handed him the stone. "Go ahead, fix it."
Jon looked at the stone and placed it in his pocket. "Great. Karyn, I can't think of anything. I can't wish my wishes onto someone else because they were already wished onto me. Wishes can't be reversed, so I can't unwish the vagina or get a penis. I can't even be a regular girl since I wished for no other physical differences and I can't reverse that either. I can go home and change out of this dress and I think I can wish that my boobs are guy-sized boobs. That's about it."
"Seriously? You didn't have anything in mind?"
"I could have done what you did and wished them onto someone who wanted them. But you already did that and I can't reverse it. I think I'm stuck."
"Only until you figure something out, and only partly stuck. You said you could change some things. Let's go home. You can change your dress if nothing else. And I do want to hear how your day was."
