Jon's immediate and impulsive knee jerk reaction was actually to wait this one out and get the Indecision option by default, and his knee jerk reaction to that knee jerk reaction was to regard the Indecision option with suspicion and distrust. Up until now, the Indecision defaults had all posed themselves as being the worst of both worlds in some way or another, the combined downsides of option 1 and option 2 with none of the upsides. But this one, on the other hand, looked on its face like it was just preserving the status quo; Jon and Karyn would stay friends, Sarah and Karyn would stay enemies, and nothing really bad could be expected to come about from that. Of course, Jon would have to give up any hope of anything more than a basic platonic friendship with Karyn, and Karyn and Sarah would be as catty as they ever were, but still, Jon had just been rationalizing that he liked things as they were now. If that were really true, then he ought to just give up the stone and go with indecision and be grateful for what he had.
... Right? ...
... It didn't sit well with Jon. He was trying to tell himself that Karyn was his best friend and only ever his best friend and that was somehow okay, and that whatever little crushes he may or may not have had on Sarah it was foolish to act on them, and that really, the status quo was just peachy, he couldn't dream of more. He wouldn't dare ask Karyn out and make themselves a proper lovey-dovey couple, couldn't grow up and marry her and start a little family together with the Stone their heirloom, and he'd never even think of banging someone as hot and sexy as Sarah even in his deepest darkest sexual fantasies, right? Things were the way things were for a reason, and that reason was... It was...
... There was a twisting in his stomach that Jon wanted to ignore but couldn't. He wasn't being honest with himself and he knew it. The Wish was giving him the Status Quo as a worst of both worlds option because it knew that, on some level, both options were more attractive to him than the laughably mediocre life he lived now. Karyn and Sarah were his two deepest legitimate crushes ("legitimate" because he refused to acknowledge the new family situation), and the Wish was putting the idea of them getting it on as lesbians, or even more greedily the idea of one or both of them as his hot girlfriends, right under his nose. Face it, Jon, the Stone might as well have said, things are the way things are because you've never had the guts to ask them out, nor the nerve to Wish for what you wish for from them. Man up for once!
Option 1 was VERY tempting. The idea of his two hot crushes being themselves secretly crazy about him, to the point of fighting with each other over him? It was HOT! If he was going to be honest with himself, he had to acknowledge that was hot, even before the guarantee that he was eventually going to be sleeping with either one of them. Or BOTH of them! Imagine that! The Wish had insisted on the jealousy thing, that ever-so-unfortunate animal emotion Mother Nature enforced Monogamy with, but it occurred to Jon that he did still have the Stone and thus didn't have to listen to Mother Nature. He couldn't wish away the jealousy, that was probably irreversible, but he could wish they wouldn't harm each other in fighting over him, or that polyamory was socially normalized or something. In fact if he was going this route he probably also oughtta make Sarah nicer just in general, and Karyn sexier just in general, and maybe that Zoe and Mom were actually his stepfamily and thus in harem too, and also that he had the stamina to keep up with all of them and that he was more handsome too, and oh maybe he could wish that they all had higher libidos too, and he could also transform them with magic and-...
... Okay, stop. Reality, check. Jon needed to be honest with himself, but he needed to be realistic, too. With all this magic, there probably was a way to make Option 1 the better choice, but realistically, he'd probably have to be okay with losing a lot of Karyn and Sarah to make Karyn and Sarah work, and there was no fixing things if he messed up those wishes. He wasn't comfortable with that, so Option 1 was out. Indecision still felt sub-optimal, though, so that left option 2.
... Honestly, the more Jon thought about Option 2, the more attractive it became. And not just because there was something inherently hot about the idea of two sexy lesbians (his crushes, no less!) fucking like animals. Jon genuinely thought Sarah McMillan - and everyone around her, for that matter - would be better off if she were knocked down a peg or two and stopped acting all high and mighty just because she was hot. Losing her interest in men could very well end up also making her less catty and jealous and entitled and so on, and conversely if it got out that she was a lesbian then surely the other girls couldn't be as jealous and catty with her? Even if it didn't, well, having a dirty little secret like that could be humbling its own way. At the very least she'd stop being such a bitch to Karyn, Jon hoped.
And as for Karyn... Jon kind of already suspected she might be a lesbian. He'd never asked her (because how could he?), but he'd rarely ever heard her talk about men in a way that wasn't like that early "men are disgusting" speech she gave before she made her accidental wish, and besides, she was kinda tomboyish for a girl, not so fashion forward or anything. He'd never asked her out in part because he was worried he'd look silly if he asked a closet lesbian out (although that could very well have just been anxiety getting the better of him). At any rate, the certainty meant they could be the best friends they always has been with no awkward will-they-won't-they feeling hanging over their heads, ever.
Yeah... Yeah, Option 2 was best for everyone, Jon decided. Sarah would be better off, Karyn would be better off, everyone around Sarah would be better off, Jon and Karyn could still be best friends, and Jon would still have a Wishing Stone, for crying out loud! Jon selected Option 2.
... Nothing happened. But really, what was supposed to happen? He didn't suppose he'd see anything changed until he met Karyn at school later, at least. Speaking of which...
Knock knock knock. "Jon, honey?" His Mom came in the room, and suddenly Jon forgot everything except what he'd been so shamefully masturbating to last night. True to form, he was still uncomfortably attracted to his mother, and growing red in the face as she put her little hands on her vast hips. "Jon Madison Gibson, what are you still doing in bed right now!? You have to be at school in 30 minutes, young man!"
"I... It..." God, did his mom have to be dressed for work already!? That struggling little pencil skirt, trying so hard not to expose miles and miles of delicious nylon pantyhose ending in those dainty little heels, and that tight buttonup that would have been modest and professional if it weren't for the curves it wasn't capable of concealing... she looked like the secretaries you only ever see in pornography! "I-In fairness, laying in bed was unusually productive today?"
Linda pursed her plush red lips. "It's not good for you to have your phone out in bed, you know. Get out of bed and get dressed! If you don't hurry you'll be late!" She turned and left, pulled the door closed behind her, and left. Jon hated that his eyes were glued to her fat milf ass the entire time she was doing so.
School. Yes. School and Meeting Karyn the new lesbian. Jon hopped out of bed and hurried over to his closet.
... His closet door wouldn't open. It couldn't have been locked, because it had no lock, and needed no lock; it was as if it were jammed. He was trying to pull it open with all his strength when his phone buzzed.
"What? Now!? I just picked something, I don't have time for this!" Jon hurried over to check his phone, and unfortunately, it was exactly what he was afraid it was.
Would You Rather...
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All your current clothes, and all clothes you attempt to wear from now on, turn into emasculatingly girly outfits that make you present as female?
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Turn into a girl but remain capable of styling yourself in whatever fashion you choose, boyish or otherwise? You will keep your current wardrobe (refitted for your new body) and gain additional clothes as befits a woman.
Your closet door will remain shut until you have made a choice, and in 14:59, if you haven't made a choice by then, you'll have to go to school wearing what you do now. (Jon was wearing only a filthy undershirt and some ratty old pajama bottoms, which had unfortunately been stained by thoughts of Zoe and his Mom the night before.) You wouldn't your mother to punish you for being late, would you?
Jon blanched.
