The Ahn'Ger Stone, Chapter 6

“I wish you were someone nice, like me!” Willow screamed. “I wish you were my daughter so I could teach you some manners!” Martha hollered. “I wish you’d do what I want!” Gloria hissed.

The Gemstone surged with the energy or the three upset and angry women as each screamed their wishes. And because they were all touching nerdy little Willow Strasserman, who still held the artifact in her tiny hands...All three wishes were granted. The flash of light engulfed the world as reality was changed for the second time on this fateful mid-April morning. And when it faded...

"What...What just happened?" Willow muttered in a voice that was far more mature than it had been just a moment ago. She noticed the change immediately, her brown eyes wide as slowly looked downwards at her changed body. Gone was her pathetic attempt to emulate Gloria's style, now she wore a business suit! And...and had larger boobs! And a big butt and hips! The changed nerd suddenly realized she was no longer wearing glasses as well! And her hair was so short! Definitely still curly but now it was far more manageable and barely came down to her shoulders! And why did Willow feel taller and...so tired? It was almost as if she had changed bodies with her...with her mom!

"I-I didn't m-mean to grab you so h-hard mom!" Came a stammered apology, and Willow looked up, seeing two teenage girls staring at her! They both had the same face but where one was tanned and covered in expertly applied makeup that hid nearly all of the freckles, the other one was pale and wore no makeup at all! Where one had hair that was long and silky, almost shining in the morning sunlight, the other twin's hair was a rat's nest of brown curls and tangles...Just like her hair had been moments before! And where one was dressed to the nines in stylish teenage clothing, the other was dressed in a conservative looking blouse and skirt!

"Gawd, next time pay attention to where you're going! You almost knocked BOTH of us over, Gloria!" The stylish twin said with a huffy as she pushed the long strands of her hair behind her ears, "If you'd just, like, do what I tell you then maybe you wouldn't be such a mess!"

"S-sorry Martha!" The nerdier looking twin squeaked before flinching under the death glare the other girl suddenly gave her, "I-I mean R-rose!". Her eyes shot down to her tiny feet as she began wringing her hands together.

"M-mom?" Willow gasped, looking at the stylish twin, earning a confused look in response from the two girls.

"Uh, you DID give birth to us...Well me, anyway. Pretty sure clumsy over there came from a different planet"  Martha 'Rose' Strasserman snarked blinked away the floaters in her eyes. But what HAD she been doing? She knew she there been another fight but what about? The fashionable, pretty, and popular sixteen year old sophomore girl straightened her fashionable outfit and looked over with disdain at her twin sister, Gloria.

While they were truly twins, both girls couldn't have been farther apart in personality and especially style; where Rose (because woe be upon ANYONE who called her Martha) was almost the definition of upper middle class popular girl, Gloria may as well have been the picture alongside the definition of 'nerd'. Where Rose's silky brown hair was cut and styled, Gloria's was nothing more than a mouse nest of brown, unruly curls that piled on top of her head and made her bespectacled face look smaller than it actually was. And where Gloria was a Momma's girl who cried about everything, Rose was NOT. After all, you didn't get popular by tiptoeing around everything and actually being nice without expecting something in return!

"This doesn't...oh my god, it really DOES grant wishes!" Willow gasped, slowly opening the fingers of her left hand, revealing the gemstone once more. The gold within it still flowed, though now it seemed more...alive? than before. The flecks of gold shifted in more coherent patterns and seemed almost like it was pulsing to the beat of a nonexistant heart!  It hadn’t granted the wishes correctly…Or had it? It seemed like all three wishes must have ‘skipped’ to the other person! And it had made Willow OLD, and changed HER into mom while her mom now looked (and sort of acted like) Gloria! And Gloria had been changed entirely! The popular and mean girl was gone, and the way Gloria was acting was how Willow acted! Not to mention that, despite her mom's new age and style, both girls now looked like a mixture of Willow and...Oh no. Willie's eyes drifted from the gemstone to the muted and slightly tarnished band of gold wrapped around her ring finger. Oh god, was she now m-married to DAD!? The idea made her want to puke! And if mom was now her daughter and if she was dressed up in a similar business suit...Did that mean that Willow now had her mom's job!? And what about Gloria's mom? Would the scary woman come looking for her daughter? What would Willow say then!? She HAD to fix this! Even Gloria didn't deserve this! Willow closed her hand tight around the gemstone once more.

"I wish that everything was back to normal and everyone was who they were supposed to be!" She half-whispered as the teen turned middle-aged woman closed her eyes tight. The strange behavior caused both of her daughters to share a concerned look before Martha, or rather, Rose, took charge of the situation again.

"Uh, mom? Do I need to drive us to school or..." Rose motioned towards the unchanged car the her mom was leaning against. The sound of her voice seemed to shake the older woman out of whatever midlife crisis or whatever she was having, though the scared look hadn't gone away. Ugh, Rose hoped that she NEVER got old, imagine being some nervous semi-housewife like that!

"Y-yeah, um I-I don't want to ruin m-my attendance r-record!" Gloria stammered, adjusting her large glasses as she looked down the street.

“Ugh, you are SUCH a nerd!” Rose rolled her eyes at her twin. She couldn’t understand how they could even be related! And now mom was having another one of her weirdo moments...Whatever, she couldn’t get another detention, so instead of waiting for her mom’s permission Rose instead grabbed at the clunky and SO out of style purse that Willow always carried around and dug a manicured hand into it. After a few moments of fishing around her hands seized upon her mom’s keys and she pulled them out, holding them in the morning sunlight in triumph. “There! Now let’s GO, mom! I don’t want another detention ‘cause of your midlife crisis or whatever!”

“B-but this isn’t right! You’re not supposed to be a teenage girl! I’M supposed to be the daughter! YOU’RE MOM! Don’t you remember!?” Willow, her fragile personality finally giving into the pressure, whined, stamping a heeled foot on the driveway and almost sending her to the ground as the unfamiliar footwear flopped sideways, causing Willow to grab the car with an ‘oof!’.

“Listen, you and dad might be into that freaky roleplay stuff but I’m NOT. And HE taught me how to drive, so I’M going to school. Gloria, get in the car!” Rose said sharply, pushing past her weird-ass mom without a second glance. Rose was NOT her keeper, and she barely considered herself her sister’s keeper.

“Rose! Y-you don’t have your l-license!” Gloria said as she reluctantly approached. She hated riding with Rose, she drove too fast and cars in general terrified Gloria but…She had to get to school! She’d never been tardy ever! And mom WAS acting super weird, which was fine, Gloria liked the fact that they were so much alike, but right now she really just wanted to get to school.

“It’s a learner’s permit!” Rose said with a dismissive wave and she settled into the driver’s seat. Sure, she could get in a LOT of trouble for driving without an adult in the car but it was valid enough to use in emergencies. And this was one, right? Kids couldn’t miss school, right? The former mom turned daughter slid her daughter turned mom’s keys into the ignition and started the car as Gloria slid into the backseat. “What, you don’t want shotgun?” Rose said, raising an eyebrow at the reflect of her twin in the rear view mirror as the two girls buckled up.

Meanwhile Willow was full on crying, hot tears streaming down her face and ruining the makeup that had magically appeared on her face without her knowing. But she couldn’t just stand here, could she? Or just leave things the way they were! She didn’t want to be old, or married to dad! She just wanted her mom back and to be boring old nerdy pushover teenage Willow again! She looked at the gemstone once more; why wouldn’t it work!? There was clearly a trick to it!

The car engine revved as Rose stuck her pretty head out the window and looked at her mom. “So, you coming or what?”

Willow stood there for a moment, looking between the gemstone in her hand and the girl that used to be her mom before she made her decision.

Choose what happens next!