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around there. Probably because they were afraid it was haunted.
    Gabi was bursting.
    â€œI have powers? This is the absolute coolest thing ever.” She looked like a firecracker about to explode. “I wish for—”
    â€œStop.” I was afraid she’d wish for something crazy. Like a pet elephant. “Let’s be careful,” I instructed. “Why don’t you wish for something simple? Like a piece of gum.” I had to see if my suspicions were right. If I really messed up the same way as Lou’s demon friend.
    Gabi closed her eyes and put out her hand. I held my breath and hoped that I was wrong and that Gabi couldn’t make all her secret desires come true.
    She opened her eyes and glanced down at her palm. “Nothing there,” she moaned. “It didn’t work.”
    I grabbed her hand to see for myself. It was empty. Thank goodness. It was all a mistake. She wasn’t responsible for everything that happened in school. “Trust me. This is the best thing that could have happened.”
    â€œI guess,” Gabi said, smacking a piece of gum between her teeth.
    Wait a minute.
    â€œWhere did you get that?” I lunged toward her, as if getting a closer look would make the gum disappear. “Where did that gum come from?”
    Gabi opened her mouth and the gum dropped out—right into my hand. Which totally would have grossed me out and sent me running to the nearest hand sanitizer if I wasn’t freaking out.
    â€œIt just appeared. I wished for a piece of gum and there it was.” She giggled. “Ha! That just made another piece appear.”
    â€œShhh,” I said. “Then don’t say anything else. You need to stay quiet. Don’t wish for anything else. Don’t even think about anything else.”
    I’d made a Frankenstein! A cuter, skinnier one, with long, light brown hair and perfectly pressed clothes.
    But Gabi didn’t follow orders very well because all of a sudden a hot fudge sundae appeared in front of her.
    â€œSorry,” she said, licking her lips in anticipation. “I didn’t mean to. It just kind of popped in my head. And now here it is.”
    Gabi eyed the dessert. Then me.
    â€œI wish I had a spoon. And extra whipped cream,” she said super fast. One after another the things she wished for appeared. “Sorry, but come on. It’s only ice cream. And it looks so good.”
    â€œGabi!” I screamed. “What are you doing? You know how easy it is for wishes to get out of control. You’ve seen what’s happened to me. Something that seems like it won’t matter turns into a huge nightmare. What if you accidentally said something like—” I stopped myself. I didn’t want to put any ideas in her head. Last thing I needed was for her to repeat some harebrained thing I said, like, “I wish Edward from Twilight was my boyfriend.” We already had a devil in Goode—the last thing we needed was a coven of vampires. Hot or not.
    â€œCan you please try to reverse what you’ve done? Try something small first. We’ll work up to the bigger things.” Like reversing what she did to Max and figuring out a way get rid of her newfound ability.
    â€œFine,” Gabi said, letting out a big sigh. “I wish the sundae would disappear.”
    It didn’t budge.
    â€œTry actually meaning it,” I said.
    â€œI am trying,” Gabi said.
    But I didn’t believe her. I saw the look on her face. She was enjoying the power rush. She didn’t want it to go away. Sure, maybe some of it, like making Max a Courtney clone, but not the other part. The part that got her ice cream and straight As and who knew what else.
    â€œYou have to want to get rid of the sundae. Think of the possibilities. Maybe it’s poison.”
    â€œA poison sundae?” she said. “Come on.”
    The shade of ice cream got a little darker, and I dumped it out