"What do you mean you lost the stone?" Karyn asked, getting worried.
"I'm telling you, Karyn. It wasn't where I left it," Jon said.
"And where was that? Right out in the open where anyone could take it? Maybe your sister took it."
"Nah. She's a bimbo, sure, but she knows not to go into my room. And no, I didn't leave it out in the open. It was in my stash box ... which I had on my dresser."
"Well there you go," Karyn said. "Someone probably opened it and took the stone."
"But why? It's just a stone. No one knows that it's magic. Why would anyone take a rock?" Then a thought occurred to Jon, causing his eyes to widen.
"What is it? Did you think of something?" Karyn asked.
"Mikey."
"What about him?" she asked, confused. What did Jon's little brother have to do with this?
"I remember him saying something yesterday about today being his first 'show & tell' and that he didn't have anything to take to school with him yet. You don't think he would have taken the stone, do you?"
"It's as good a possibility as any," Karyn said. "Where is he right now?"
"Probably at school. For some reason, they start his classes at 8 o'clock this year."
"Then we have time to go get the stone from him and be back before it hits nine. And if we're late, then we can just use the stone to wish we weren't," Karyn said.
"Okay. That's a good plan," Jon said. He was so glad that he told Karyn about the stone. Though, she may not, totally. After all, if he had never told her, she wouldn't have made that dumb wish (dumb, in her opinion - Jon actually liked the results).
So with that, they left the high school grounds and made their way to Mikey's elementary school, not realizing that Jon's little brother had already come to and left the high school, leaving a bunch of wish-granting sticky notes in his wake.
Speaking of which, who was it who found the next nightmare/bad-fortune-related sticky note?
