Jon finally connected all the dots. The little girl was his transformed mother. She had to be! It all fit. The only problem was that she'd transformed herself into the little sister that Jon never had and so she now had all the mischieviousness of a bored 5 year old. And she had the wishing rock!
Jon bounded outside for another round with her. There he saw the 'new' family member: Magic the pony!
"You wished for a pony???" he asked incredulously.
"Yeah! Ain't he coooool!?"
"Isn't" Jon corrected the child.... Correcting grammar was another trait of Karyn's.
"He's not cool?" she said sounding hurt.
"Huh? Oh... Yeah... He's cool... I mean there's no such word as 'ain't'. You should've said 'isn't'."
"Oh" she replied uncaringly.
"Listen, I was thinking...."
"I can't hear you 'thinkin'" she said.
"No... I MEAN I was thinking and I want you to LISTEN to what I thought of! Sheesh!" Jon replied becoming annoyed by his child mother.
"Oh..." she said.
"Since Mom is gone wouldn't it be cool if you were mommy while she was gone?"
"I dunno? Why?"
"Well... ummm ... because! Doesn't that sound fun? You'd be in charge!"
"I think I'm in charge anyway 'cuz I got the wishin' rock!" she said giggling.
"Yeah... wellll... uhhhhhhh.... geesh! You'd still have the rock. Just wish to be mommy again" He said.
"Again?" she asked.
"Oh... uhhhhhhh yeah... uhhhhhhhh You were uhhhhhh.... welll... Just make a wish to be mommy, OK?"
"But I don't wanna be mommy when I grow up!" she complained listening to the boys playing across the way "I wanna be a cheerleader like on TV!"
Jon turned to see the TV on in the house.
"I wish I was 'growed' up" she said.
Jon watched as the child began growing. 6-7-8... on up she sprouted.... 9-10-11-12.... Into her teen years......... 13-14-15-16-17-.... into her college years..... into her 20's.... 25-26-27-28.... into her 30's...31-32-33 and into middleage.
"Wow, I'm BIG!!" she said still posessing the mind of a child.
"Ok... cool... now wish you knew what you knew this morning when you got up!"
"Huh?"
"Take my word for it! Just do it! C'mon!"
She frowned, wondering what he was up to.
"Just do it" he implored.
"Why????"
Jon sighed "Because this morning you used the rock and now you've forgotten stuff!"
She looked at him skeptically. She didn't mind the fact that she had a middleagged body wearing only a blouse in her backyard. She still had the mind of a child. She thought about it some. Maybe she was a real smart scientist or something? Maybe an astronaut!
"OK... I wish I was how I was before the wish changed me like I am now" she said.
Jon played the sentence thru his mind. What had she just said? Why couldn't she have just said it the way he'd asked her to!?
Middleaged mom started changing. Down toward 30... then 29-28-27.... Back into her college years.... 22..21...20.... into her teens.... 19-18-17... and finally right back to 16!
Teen Mom had returned.
Jon looked at her and waited to see where her mind was. She was still wearing only a blouse. A blouse that now looked too big.
"Wow... like, that rock thing really works!" she said remembering what had just happened.
"I told you!" Jon said.
"Well at least I'm back to normal" she said.
"No, you're not! You're not supposed to be a teenager!" he said.
"As if!" she shot back.
"Well, at least you don't still want to be a cheerleader like on TV!" Jon said.
"Me? A cheerleader? Heh! Like I could be a cheerleader like that!... I wish!"
Jon's eyes widened. His teen mother began to change. She looked to be growing. Her body seemed to get more muscular. She looked a couple of years older... maybe 18 or 19. Her hair lightened. Her skin took on a summery tan. Her clothing changed. Makeup appeared, especially around her eyes. The blouse split in half. The top half became a shiny micro mostly backless halter top. The bottom half turned into some micro-mini stretch shorts. The outfit showed off her young, tanned, and fit tummy and legs.
"Now look what you've done!" Jon told her.
She didn't hear him. She was busy lacing her roman sandals so she could work on her new dance routine for the upcoming tryouts.
