"What are you doing here?" said Karun.
"What? What am I doing in the rain with an umbrella?" replied Paige.
"You're stalking me," said Karyn. "You're..." Then she glanced to the side. Paige realized that Karyn was glancing at her hand, which was clutching the umbrella, and then Karyn said "Uhh... I really didn't mean it, okay? Let's be friends?"
It was clearly insincere and Karyn kept glancing to Paige's hand, a worried look in her face. "What?" asked Paige. "Oh, I get it." She transferred her umbrella to her other hand and showed that the hand with the umbrella had not been holding anything else as well, such as a magic stone. "If you're worried about the magic stone, Sarah has it now."
"Sarah has it?!" sputtered Karyn. "First your stupid stone gives me blonde hair and breasts, and now you won't even try to fix the problem you caused?"
"You caused it, Karyn," said Paige.
"You tricked me into making that wish."
"Karyn, I never tricked you into anything. I know what's going on. Sarah wished me into her circle. It's great to be friends with her, but I think that means I'm not friends with you any more. Karyn, it's all a wish. We were friends. You just don't remember it."
"Maybe that's possible," said Karyn, "but..." Then all of a sudden a noise came from her purse. She got out her phone and saw a text message. "What...?"
"What is it, Karyn?" asked Paige.
"It's your friend Erica. She sent me a text message. 'Sorry you weren't here for the wish. I don't know why Sarah didn't invite you. Do you want 1/8 of a chance at prom queen?'"
"Give me that," said Paige.
"No."
"Karyn, if I just wanted to peek at your private messages, I'd get the stone and wish to see them, I wouldn't need to steal your phone to do it. Give me that."
Reluctantly, Karyn handed Paige the phone. She checked some old messages, then looked at Karyn's address book.... "I get it," said Paige. "Karyn, you know what? You are our friend. That's why our phone numbers are here and we sent you lots of messages."
"Nonsense."
"First you made a wish," said Paige. "The wish gave you blonde hair and big breasts. You know what, if you had that, it's a lot more likely that you'd be friends with us in the first place. So your wish made you everyone's friend and you didn't even know it. So you're our friend. The only people who don't know it are you and Sarah, since you both heard the wish. Then I joined Sarah's circle. The old Karyn was friends with the old me and the new Karyn friends with the new me, but you remembered the old Karyn combined with the new me."
"So you want to wipe my memory so I remember always being your blonde friend?"
"No, I want you and Sarah to get together and talk it out. We're meeting at the mall food court tomorrow. I want you to come, Karyn, and the rest of us think of you as our friend. It's just you and Sarah with this silly wish-created disagreement.... what do you say?"
