Myka stopped and looked at Karyn. "What do you mean?"
"You're a Sophomore," she answered, as if it were obvious.
"I got older again?"
"Older? How old do you think you're supposed to be?" Karyn asked.
"Ten."
"What?"
"And I'm not supposed to be a girl either. This morning I was a boy."
"Do you really expect me to believe that?" Karyn asked, then continued walking back to the high school, quickening her pace this time. She had known Myka for a long time, as long as she had known her best friend Zendaya. The youngest girl in the Gibson family (only by one year, as Gena and Zendaya were the same age at 17) wasn't prone to telling wild stories, so this made Karyn very unsettled. What exactly was Myka's game here?
Myka caught up with her. "It's the truth. Really." Then she took a sharp breath, before continuing. "It's because of the stone."
Karyn stopped immediately, then turned towards Myka, who had done the same. "The ... wishing stone?" she asked, hesitantly.
Myka nodded.
"How do you know about that? Zen said that she wasn't going to tell anyone else," Karyn said.
"Wait, so Zendaya got the stone, not Gena?" Myka asked. No wonder Gena no longer remembered the stone. In her new reality, she had never inherited it.
"What do you mean by 'not Gena'?" Karyn asked.
"Hey, you two!" someone called out. "What are you doing out of class?"
They turned and saw a teacher standing at the main doors of the school, glaring at them.
"Ugh, great. Thanks a lot, Myka. Now I'm probably going to get detention for this," Karyn said, sourly. She then hurried her pace towards the school.
"Why is it my fault?" Myka asked, though, thanks to the wish she had made that morning, it was sort of her fault that Karyn wasn't in class, having been swept up into the life-changing phenomenon caused by the wishing stone. Myka hurried after her, then into the school herself, where they both got an earful by the teacher who had caught them skipping class.
