There,standing behind Jon, was a girl his own age.He was shocked by the clothes she was wearing.They were completly....normal.He didn't know why that seemed so shocking,but it did.
She wore a pair of jeans and a plain black t-shirt.Her feet wore encased in a simple pair of white sneakers.Her ears were not pierced nor was anything else for that matter,at least nothing he could see.
She looked completly normal.She was cute,but not in anyway that would make her stand out.Normal in every way.Every way exept that she was standing in this place,wherever it was.
"Who are you?" Jon asked.
"I'm the one who lives in the stone." the girl answered him before he had finished asking his question.
"You live in..."
"The stone.That's correct.Well,not IN the stone exactly.I mean,if you cut it open you wouldn't find me sitting inside or anything like that.It's more that this space I dwell in is directly linked to the wishing stone."
Jon wanted to say something,but confusion and shock rendered him incapable of saying anything at all.The girl noticed this and laughed.It was a cute laugh.Cute,but normal.
"Watch this." she said,and gestured up into the emptiness above them.The darkness cleared and Jon saw his room in a way he had never seen it before.From the rock's perspective.He looked down at the ground beneath him,and saw clear throuh to the floor,which looked quite some distance away.The rock,he realized now,was still in his room.It was still hovering in the exact spot where his hand had been holding it.
"I'm in the wishing rock?"
"No no no.I just explained that.You and I are in an area that is magically connected to the stone.We are inside,and yet we are not inside,at the same time."
"That's very confusing."
"That's magic." the girl said."Try thinking of it this way.The stone is solid,not hollow,in a physical sense.But in a magical sense there's a room inside it.This place.We are inside the stone's self contained pocket dimension."
Jon gulped hard."How do we get out?"
"Oh don't worry.You'll be sent back soon.You wished to know why that nasty Sarah's wishes reversed themself.The truth is they didn't.She wasn't very specific about things.Her choice of words provided me with a loophole to use in granting them."
"Whoa!What do you mean you granted them?How'd you get in here anyways?"
"I was put here when the sone was made.You can't just have that kind of power left unchecked.It would have caused unimaginable problems.So my very being was put inside.When someone makes a wish,I choose how to grant it."
"..." Jon had started to say before she interupted him.
"For example.Your friend Karyn made that wish to have blode hair and large breasts.There are many ways for that to be granted.Some very mean,some rather nice."
"What would be a mean way?"
"Well,I could have put the breasts and hair somewhere besides where I did."
"I see.But she didn't actually want them.Couldn't you have,you know,not granted the wish?"
"No way.It's not my fault if someone makes a wish they don't mean.I'm bound by the same rules the stone is.I must grant every wish made unless granting it breaks another rule."
"You mean like not being able to unwish a wish."
"Exactly.That's a big rule there."
Jon thought about this for a bit,before being distracted by the view."How come the stone is floating?"
"Time's easy to bend.I didn't want someone coming into your room and noticing you were gone,so I made time slow down outside.You'll return less then a second after you left."
"Well that's very nice of you."
"Your welcome."
"Which brings me back to why I made the wish." Jon said."Why did you use those loopholes to help me?"
The girl smiled and looked down at the ground,suddenly very interested in her shoes."I....well,I...." she began.
"Well?"
"Ilikeyou." she said quickly,sounding more like a sneeze then an answer.
"What'd you say?"
"I said,I like you." the girl confessed,and turned away to hide her embarassment."I like you,so I used the loopholes to help you."
