”I guess I need to counteract Sarah’s wishes somehow.” Jo thought as she stood next to her bike. With the noon sun high above her head, Jo had decided to finally take a break. ”But I can’t unwish her wishes...” Jo grabbed another piece of jerky out of the bag. ”So maybe I wish for her to forget about the stone?..” Jo watched as a car pulled into the gas station she was taking a break behind. ”It’s cliché, but there’s no reason I couldn’t wish for her to forget about the stone.” Jo briefly tried to think of a negative outcome from that wish, but it seemed safe and straightforward. Grabbing the drinking straw off her shoulder she took a drink of water. ”But that would be letting her off so easy... Then again, I don’t even know what wishes she made so far... So how would I even know what to wish for to punish her...”
Jo tossed a handful of nuts into her mouth. ”Could I wish for a book that has all of her wishes written in it?" The almonds, peanuts and cashews that Jo was chewing on tasted delicious in her mouth. ”Then I would at least know what I can’t change about her... But do I really want to go the whole revenge route?..” Normally an exceedingly nice person, the thought of punishing Sarah and lording over her didn’t really thrill Jo. ”But she did ruin my life...” Jo pictured herself as Jon standing with his family. The image in her head then morphed into a picture of Jo and her current family. ”Actually... No she didn’t... She may have cursed me, but if anything we’ve all benefitted from my curse...”
Tossing her trash in the dumpster behind the gas station Jo headed back to her bike to get ready to finish her ride. ”The real question is how do I circumvent this curse?...” Sarah’s wish began to replay over and over in her head. ”I wish that whenever Jon's eyes linger on a woman that he finds attractive, Jon will gain that woman's most eye catching attribute." Sarah’s words continued to replay in Jo’s head as she re-strapped her duffle bag to the handle bars of her bike. ”Come on Jo think of loopholes...” She told herself as she readied her bike. ”I could make myself unattracted to women...” Jo paused and shuddered. ”No... I’m fine just the way I am... But what if I gave myself an opt out clause... or like a veto button...” Jo paused for a moment as her brain went into overdrive. ”What if I wished that every time I gained an attribute via Sarah’s wish that... That the attribute will be announced in my head and then I will be given like a 2 hour period in which I can veto the permanence of the attribute... Or... Hmm...” Jo began fiddling with the bike lock. ”If I let my body gain the attribute, that should satisfy Sarah’s wish... So I just need to figure out a way to give myself the ability to revert my body and reality if I don’t want to keep the attribute permanently... It seems like that would be legal in the grand scheme of things... Or what if I wished that lingering was defined as a very specific time... With my eyes open and no blinking! That would give me some control over the curse...”
With her bike ready to go, Jo peaked out around the back corner of the gas station. There were a couple diesel trucks filling up, but no women. ”The coast is clear.” Jo told herself as she hopped on her bike and began to speed out of the gas station parking lot.
”NICE ASS!” Yelled a farm boy filling up his senselessly large pickup. ”You wanna come ride me like a bicycle!” He yelled with a woo.
”Fucking douche.” Jo thought as she sped away from the gas station flipping the guy off over her shoulder. ”Why are men such disgusting pigs sometimes?”
