Doris met with her cronies. The other girls, Glenda, Kaylee, and Jaslyn were the perfect sort of entourage. Not as bright as Doris, not as pretty as Doris, and not nearly as mean as Doris. But being part of their little group, even just as a gaggle of hangers on and yeswomen, well, that made them feel a bit special. Even if they weren’t as obsessed as Doris was about her few hot button topics. One of which was being ranted about right now.
“Those stuck-up bitches who think they’re so great. But I finally have something that will bring them down a beg.”
Glenda stifled a yawn. Doris had said things like this before, just last week even, when she had found a way to send everyone in the school an email that libelously described the cheer team. Nothing had come of it, which Glenda suspected had something to do with spam or firewalls or something. No one had investigated it, though, which meant Doris didn’t get in trouble again. Which was good. Getting detention while on her crusade really took the already angry girl and riled her up even more. And a riled-up Doris lashed out a lot more.
Kaylee liked Doris’s anger and never hesitated to pour fuel on the flame. “Will it get you on the team this time?” A lot of Doris’s anger came from being cut from the cheerleading team early during tryouts. The bitches in the cheer squad mentioned things about skill, age, and being a team player, but Doris knew it was because they were scared of her potential. Sarah, especially, saw a rival in Doris’s climbing star. The injustice during the tryouts was one of Doris’s common rants, and all three of the cronies sat up a bit straighter when the bully didn’t launch into a diatribe, they’d heard a hundred times and instead looked like she was considering it.
“It might get me on the team, if I want. We’ll see how I feel. After all, I have the power.” Doris produced a small, golden pyramid. Her cronies looked at it, and then back to Doris.
“Like, it's cute and all, but how does that get you your revenge or whatev?” Jaslyn asked, confused.
“It’s a wishing stone. A magic wishing stone. One that can make anything I want come true. And I’m going to use it to get everyone to see the cheerleaders exactly as they are.” She held up the little pyramid and made her wish.
“I wish the cheerleaders had their own locker room that they had to use that had transparent walls and was in the middle of the school so that everybody could see them.”
The pyramid in Doris’s hand began to glow, and then shone brightly, making all of the girls look away. When their sight returned, the open area of the school’s main hall had been altered. Where there had once been an open floor, the sort of space that is only a bunch of tables away from being science fair ready, there was now a structure. It was strange, because when you looked at it, you knew that there were walls there, but you couldn’t see them. You could see straight through it to the other side. And on the inside, it looked like, well, a locker room. An uncomfortable looking bench, a few metal lockers with locks on them. There was a bathroom area that had a toilet stall and a shower, as well as a pair of sinks with mirrors. But strangely, there were no walls. You could just see beyond. It was like the sort of structure made for a stage play, where the cast, and the audience, would just sort of pretend that the production could afford to make and move full walls into position as needed.
As they watched, the cronies stunned with the various level of realizations that magic wishing pyramids were real, Doris had actually enacted revenge, and what may come with future wishes, they saw Tiffany wave peel off from a few of her non-cheerleader friends and head to the new locker room. She fiddled with the door and went in. And seemingly oblivious to the fact that the locker room wasn't actually providing privacy, she unlocked one of the standing lockers, removed her top, and began changing into a cheer outfit. On the outside, students walked around the locker room, occasionally glancing at
Doris turned, a smug look on her face. “Pretty cool, right? Now everyone will see the cheerleaders, from all angles. With nowhere to hide people will see them the way I see them.”
“OMG, Dor-dor, that’s incredible! But why aren’t people freaking out about it?” Jaslyn asked, confused.
“It’s just part of the magic.” Doris said with a shrug. “Only the people who heard the wish know anything is different. That’s why I waited instead of making this wish as soon as I found this little guy.”
“Where did you find it?” Glenda asked. Such a powerful item wasn’t something you lost casually.
“It was in the mud next to Irene when she tripped me at the bus stop. At least something good came from that.” Doris’s voice took on a darker tone as she reflected on the events of that morning. And Kaylee, always eager for a bit more flame pointed across the large room.
“It looks like she’s headed to her locker.”
Doris smiled and tossed the pyramid in the air, catching it with a swipe. “Well, then I better go say hello.”
