To Jon's relief, mom didn't make any attempt to go for the stone, allowing Karyn to scoop up the stone. However upon his request for her to give him the stone, karyn refused. Instead she held the stone tightly, as if she was guarding it.
"Karyn, Mikey isn't going to take it" jon urged, as he looked at his brother who was still on the floor, looking at Karyn with a fearful expression.
"I know" Karyn said.
"Then why aren't you giving it to me?" Jon said, almost in a poutingly way.
"I'm trying to think" karyn replied. "Why are we remembering things even if we didn't hear the wish? We realized you had become ten again, and Mikey knew enough to..." Both Jon and Karyn glared over at Mikey, but Mikey was trying to make himself unnoticed, since he knew he couldn't take the rock.
"That's not important right now. You've had your fun. Now fix me, and not mom's idea of fixing me. Change my name to J-O-N, and that should allow you to make me 17 again" Jon demanded.
"Except you'd still look cute" Karyn remained him. She paused, and sighed. 'I'm sorry, but thanks to that last wish, the best option is to accept that you're going to be a girl like me, or a bully's favorite target. But i'm not going to force it onto you"
"What?" Jon screamed.
"there's worse things" mom said.
Jon resisted the urge to glare. "like what?"
"Jon, your mom could have said I wish you was eight again when she said I wish you was more like me..."
"Karyn!" Jon screamed as the stone flashed again
