Jon doubted his mother had ever been so athletic or in shape in her life. It was obvious that the accidental wish had gotten her into shape for the strenuous rigors of being a professional cheerleader. She was tanned, muscular, and young. There was something else too ... something that Jon hated to notice but he couldn't help it. It looked like she had been enhanced in the chest area too!
"Okay, this is really messed up! Can't you just wish to be an ordinary mom like you were yesterday?" he asked.
"What're you, like, talking about?" she replied, as she began stretching in preparation for her workout. "I've wanted to be a cheerleader for, like, as long as I can remember, and this is my chance!"
"As long as you can remember ... that's about five minutes," Jon said under his breath as he watched her stretching but still holding onto the stone. He kept hoping she'd put it down, but she didn't.
"If you'd just listen to me and try to pay attention maybe we could get things back to normal," he said.
"No time," she huffed. "I gotta learn these kicks ..."
Jon was about to say something further, but then stopped. Something just occurred to him. His mother was the one making all of these wishes, so shouldn't she already remember being a mother? She heard her own wishes, right? So how come she couldn't remember? And how was Jon able to remember his mom as his mom, even though he didn't hear her wish to become a teenager, but then have a hard time remembering her as a teenager and then his little sister even though he heard her wishes? Furthermore, why was her wish to become younger than a teenager granted at all? She already wished to be a teenager, so making a wish to become a little girl was a contradiction of that wish and shouldn't have been granted. Yet it was.
There was something really weird going on. Maybe the stone was broken. Or maybe something else was going on instead. But regardless, this wasn't good. It was bad enough when he thought that his mom had the stone. But now that he knew that there was something wrong with it ... the situation was much much worse.
