By now, my life was spiraling into a uncontrollable disaster that would wreck the lives of the living. It didn't matter what my life was like anymore. I didn't want to live my life, and because of my wishes, I didn't have to. I ended up taking the lives of my fellow classmates, swapping my life history with theirs. I learned their wishes of being famous and being rich, of being worldwide trends that would sweep everyone everywhere off their feet. And I watched as the now fellow seventh graders took their own lives, unwilling to continue with the loss of their parents and the loss of everything that mattered in their lives.

I watched and did nothing. Typical, selfish me. And I continued taking lives until I was the only person left in the class, and then I joined the next class. I took the lives of the next class, and the next, until I was the only person left in the school.

Typical, selfish me.

And so I blew up the school and stayed home, pondering the wishes of those that fell around me. The entire town was in mourning, in remembrance of a school that took its life. I took no notice of this, swearing to remember them in my own way: To make their dreams my reality.

I'd become rich. I'd become famous. I'd find a way to get world peace. I'd stop wars from the very beginning. I'd become Queen of the United States. And from atop my golden throne, I'd let the world prosper.

This little, dying town was the source of hopes that would create the world anew. From my perfect bird's-eye view of everything, I'd mother this world to come to something new and beautiful, something that could not lack in anything for anyone.

And when my palace was built, I'd write on the front step: For Alana, the first classmate in the chain of depravity.

***

I started first with getting rich. It was the easiest part. Money was never further away from me than a single wish. A paper bill doubled, doubled, doubled, and doubled further until I had piles of it in front of me. Is a few billion enough? I asked Trian inside my mind.

Never, he responded. Get to the trillions.

Okay, I told him, obeying his wishes.

And I kept doubling, getting to the trillions and not daring to go further for fear that Trian would tell me I'd gone too far.

My richness would soon get me attention, having the cash put into a bank account that soon caught the attention of the media once I started spending extravagantly onto the most useless of objects like sculptures and panes of glass that hardly fit into my house. I got jewel-studded pet beds for dogs I didn't even have. My money never shrunk even the slightest amount.

The government eventually came down on me for counterfeit, but with their technology against my magic, there was no way that I was even slightly suspected after the trial.

My magic could make the dreams of everyone come true. I could become a famous actor and singer if I wanted, even though I really had no talent for singing.

But my magic could remedy anything.

Anything.

I was pretty much famous already for getting through a supposedly "impossible" court trial, but I wanted to push it further. I donated enormous amounts of money to charity and extended my youth to research cancer and HIV/AIDS. Although I didn't know the cure to those diseases, I was determined to be the first one to find one.

With my wishes, it was almost too easy to find.

Cancerous cells could be erased with a single wish. By imbuing that single wish into devices that could scan across the body, cancerous cells could be erased.

There you go, Cammie. Joanna. Catie. Rohat. Grant.

Your dream is here.

The reusable wishes would be forever reusable, able to cure any disease that ever would plague humankind. However, there was a limited number of these, so there was only one per country. The wish of I wish you were perfectly healthy, your body and mind created a huge ripple in the medical community, and the name Lexi Basten suddenly exploded in medical journals.

A New Cure for Cancer?

Every Disease Cured?

It wasn't just cancer. HIV was also cured, never to harm anyone again. Using my eternal flow of money, I was able to provide for so many things; food wasn't an issue, disease wasn't an issue.

Now, I just needed to find world peace.