Ty scratched at himself as he watched the clock, almost begging it to swing forward several hours so he could get himself clean in the locker room showers. Jo rolled her eyes and focused on the lecture their teacher was giving. “Mr. Madison, is there something wrong with my lesson?” The history teacher, Mr. Conley, asked.
“Uh, no sir. Just uh... nerves?”
“I see.” Mr. Conley turned back towards the presentation and pointed out how the arrows were moving on the map from slide to slide.
Ty sucked in a breath and focused on the lesson. He absolutely did not feel like the wishing stone being in his locker wasn’t a frustration. He absolutely did not want to accelerate the day and get clean. Nope. Not a bit.
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Mike Jackson glared at his lawyer as he was rolled into the jail medical center for further observation as he waited for trial. “Mr. Jackson, I must suggest you plead No Contest. The evidence the prosecution has isn’t one you can just brush off. And they aren’t offering a deal.” Gary Fines, acting as public defender for Mike Jackson, advised. His paralegal, Linda Madison, was taking notes on a tablet about the interaction. She shivered as she felt Mike’s eyes run up and down her body.
“I don’t care about no deal.” Mike declared, leaning up as much as his shot knee would allow. “And I don’t care about what you got say old man. I know the 5-0’s paying your bill, so I aint playing your game.” He leered at Linda again. “You cool though baby. I could lay you real well if you get me loose.” He really didn’t like looking at the woman, she was a MILF for sure but made him sick to think about her like that. But his eyes always drew in the ladies.
“Um, I’m sorry Mr. Jackson I haven’t passed the bar yet.” Linda stammered as the absolutely vile feeling of nausea was forced down again. “And I believe your assets were frozen.”
Mike leaned back into the bed. “Then piss off.”
The lawyer and paralegal shared a look and a shrug before leaving their business cards on Mike’s bed and leaving the medical ward.
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Karyn had the easiest time she could ever recall doing classwork. Not only because her usual bully wasn’t bothering her today, or because she didn’t feel as distracted by Miss Warren as she sometimes did, but because everything just... clicked! It was like dusting off an old book instead of writing everything down for the first time.
She still wished she had been more careful with the stone though. She knew she made a couple of stupid wishes but for the life of her couldn’t figure out exactly what she had wished for. She did plan on apologizing to Ty when she got a chance. Maybe he’d be able to help figure out what she wished for and how to fix it. He’d absolutely promise to.
He was J- Karyn shook her head and finished up the pop quiz. She wanted to prove that she could handle it.
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Zoe Chase signed another sheet confirming her testimony and put it in her out pile. She leaned back and rotated her wrist with her opposite hand. “I’m gonna claim worker’s comp from this carpal tunnel.” Her partner chuckled. “Oh yuck it up. No one warned me I’d have more work as a detective than a beat cop.”
“You’ll get used to it.”
Zoe’s desk phone rang and she unhooked it. “Chase. What? Did you run them again? And then it matched? Okay, thanks.”
Morgan raised his head as Zoe hung up the phone. “What’s up?”
Zoe stared into the middle distance incredulously. “CSU ran Mad Dog’s prints. They came up some kid whose mom put them in the system, Mikey Madison.”
“How the hell did they mess that up?” Morgan asked, leaning back himself.
“No clue.” Zoe stood up and pulled her jacket off her chair. “They ran them again and they got his record. I’m headed to the lab to run them myself. The brat is NOT getting off on my watch!”
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Athena watched as her fellow goth led two different boys into one of the restrooms, eyes narrowed. “Why do we hang out with her again?” Stephanie Wright, cybergoth, asked over Athena’s shoulder.
“She’s our... friend?” Athena questioned.
Stephanie snorted. “She has some good music and brings in customers to the Spike Pit. Friend though? Not a chance.”
Athena rubbed her Seer Eye again, putting it against her eye and lowering it again. “We’ve been friends for years... haven’t we?”
“We’ve known each other for years. And we’ve known she’s a slut just as long.” Stephanie pulled Athena by the shoulder. “Come on, I do not need to be around once Tiff gets loud again.”
The two goths passed Dani and Sarah as they headed to their health period. “Was that the Madison slut?” Dani asked, turning away from the restroom.
Sarah nodded. “Yep. That freak,” she squeezed her back pack straps. “Keeps making life harder for everyone. I saw Biff watching her ass! Her ass! The only one he should see is mine!”
Dani laughed along with her friend as they joined the cheerleaders. “I mean, Biff and the guys look at me too.” She cooed.
Melissa smirked in response. “Tiffany Madison at it again?” Sarah and Dani nodded. “Dani, sweetie, you just show off. Madison puts on a neon sign with flashing arrow. Totally different.”
All the girls laughed and sat down for class to start.
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“Move it Jo Anne!” The female gym coach called out to Jo as she ran another lap. “It’s just fat!”
Jo scoffed in her head, but could barely focus on her breathing on the track. ‘Just fat she says. She’s not the one carrying what feels like her body weight on her chest!’
Over on the other side of the gym, Ty was climbing up the rope with incredible ease. “Good job Madison! Now that’s upper body strength,” Coach Burlington looked over at the various jocks in this class. “That’s the kind of arm and chest work I need to see from all of you.”
Ty carefully dropped himself down to the mats on the floor and stretched, accepting a towel tossed to him as he sat on a bench next to Leonard Drullers, who was laying across the bench cradling an inhaler. “Hey Leo.”
“Ty.”
“Another note fail?”
“Coach doesn’t like that mom is my doctor.”
“Sucks. Pretty sure that’s illegal too.”
Leonard weakly waved at Ty just as both Coaches blew their whistle. They ordered both sexes to the showers, so Ty helped his large friend up and into the showers. He winked at Jo as they passed each other.
Gym clothes were stripped out of, curtains were pulled, and showers turned on filling the locker rooms with steam.
Is Jo Anne Black still Jon enough to trigger the wish? Is Tyler Madison just Jon enough? Did it jump to a new person or is the curse broken?
