"Well you see," I explained, "I've had kind of a strange day. This old lady gave me a ring which she said would grant me any wish."
"Oh come on," said Lucy Gordon, a tall, well-built redhead. "You don't really believe that do you?"
I shrugged my shoulders and said, "I didn't. But then I tested it. And it seemed like the wish I made came true."
"What did you wish for?" Amanda asked.
"I wished that you would all stop practice and come say hello to me," I said, smirking at all of them.
They all laughed hysterically. "Please," laughed Corrine Kellerman. Corrine was thin and had thick, black hair. "It was time for our break."
"Yea," agreed her friend Samantha Vinson. "Do you think that you could make us stop practice just because you said so?" giggled the pretty brunette.
"OK then, non-believers," I said, laughing along with them. "How do you explain all of you coming over here to talk to me?" Their laughing ceased. Puzzled expressions appeared on their faces. "Exactly," I said. "There's no way that all of you would just come over and say 'Hello' to me."
"Well I'm still not convinced," barked Donna Wylde. She was the most disagreeable, so to say, member of the squad. That also made her the least friendly of the bunch. "You'll have to do something else to prove your little toy's power."
I smiled out of one side of my mouth and said, "I intend to."
"How?" Amanda asked.
"First let me say," I began, "that I wish my next wish will not affect Amanda or Ms. Johnson." That left me with 9 cheerleaders to have my way with, so to speak.
"Why di--?" Ms. Johnson asked.
"You'll see," I quickly interrupted her. "I wish that the other 9 cheerleaders here would become anthropomorphic versions of the animals they'd most like to become." I figured this way I was both rewarding and punishing them. Now I just had to see if it would work.