There was also a mirror on the back of the door. Jon got to see himself with shoulder length hair. He was also wearing a necklace.
The room was running out of objects to change. As the last noticeable object he recognized blipped out of existence, he found himself in rather tastefully decorated, if bland, bedroom, wearing a bra and panties, with the best possible option in front of him being to interrogate his mother about what she seemed to know about this...
He had tried to do that without admitting that whatever she thought he knew, he didn't, but it seemed like the time for lying had ended. He grabbed a robe from the back of the door and wrapped it around himself before exiting the room yet another time and strolling purposefully to the other end of the hall. He tried the door. Locked. He knocked.
"Just a minute..." Linda said.
"This is important," Jon said, his voice cracking and going up an octave.
The door opened, revealing an even more teen looking Linda. "I was hoping I'd be fully back to normal before school," she said, her voice sounding a bit lower. "But...hopefully no one will notice."
"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about," Jon said. "What wish? This is insane! Walls are moving, things are vanishing..."
"Don't panic...I mean....this is weird...but everything is turning back to the way it was now that the wish is over," Linda said. "I mean...I know you didn't believe in this kind of stuff before...I guess maybe you aren't again...I hope you don't forget completely...I mean, what it was like to be Jon. I still remember what it was like to be Linda. I mean...working hard, never getting any appreciation from anyone...worrying about the bills...suddenly knowing how to drive even though I'd never learned..."
Jon looked her in the eye, incredulously, and the world suddenly exploded...he could taste colors, and see smells, and....then suddenly it was over. "What was that?"
"Not sure, Mom..." Linda said. She grinned. "I called you Mom...I guess that means I'm back....I mean...I haven't seen Karyn in like...two weeks. Well, I've seen her, but not as me...She's been thinking of me as her friend's mom...I mean..."
Jon clutched his head, feeling confused. This was all backward.
