Thursday morning saw Liz up early. She showered and dressed and said goodbye to Roger as he ate breakfast. She warned Roger “That I won’t look quite so pretty when you get home tonight”
She arrived back at her own house and found the real Maureen still in her nightgown “Have you used the medallion this morning?”
“Can’t until 7.45. What do you think? Do I look better? My skin is not nearly as tender and I’m skinnier than you”
Liz was a bit annoyed. Maureen may be skinnier than the fat version of Maureen that Liz had become, but her own Liz body had never been near as big as Maureen currently was. However she bit her tongue. “So, do you think that body is ready to be revealed to Roger?”
“Yep. Just need to lose another dress size towards the end of next week. Hopefully I should have peeled by then as well”
“Good in that case. You can start working on Roger’s body. We only have 9 more days until we leave. We probably should count on some mishaps along the way”
“But I need to start buying my new wardrobe. I don’t have any size 12 clothes”
“All the more reason to get the Roger body sorted. I’d prefer to be buying a new wardrobe for my own size 8 body (Liz couldn’t help but add that catty remark) but I’m forced to impersonate you. Let’s get Roger sorted then the two of us can mount an expedition to the city next week. We should have plenty of time”
“I guess. What do you suggest we do?”
“I change into the body you currently have. You test out some of the Roger clothes you bought over”
“So when does ‘Liz’ make her reappearance?”
“No terrible hurry. Roger thinks I am hiding because my skin is ghastly. I don’t think I need to reappear till after the weekend. So that gives us three days to find the version of Roger we want”
Liz just held the medallion against Maureen to achieve the change she wanted. There was no danger of Maureen changing as she still had 35 minutes before her 12 hours were up. Liz did not even have to get undressed. The dress of Maureen’s she was wearing just became marginally looser as she lost 3 kg and 13 years.
For 5 minutes the two women were identical twins.
As soon as the clock ticked over to 7.46 Then the real Maureen said. "Oh well! Here goes!" And selected one of the two articles of Roger’s clothing that she had bought over. “This is a jacket of Roger’s I remember him wearing to that dinner dance when I first wore the red dress. I don’t know why it was put away and never worn again. It looks like it is still in good condition”
“I guess it was forgotten about after the move. Let’s hope Roger was the last person to wear it”