Pat heard the scream coming from Sam’s bathroom. “She’s your workmate isn’t she? Janet? or Jordan? I can’t recall. Anyway it’s good to see you have finally made a move on her. I was beginning to to despair about you”
Janet had to laugh at the irony of this guys incorrect guess. “Jordan’s her name and yeah I finally did something that’s working out pretty positively” he grinned. “I’d better go and see what she is screaming about. Probably found a spider. Women!”
“How about you two come over for a barbecue lunch? I’m sure you have no food in the house and I have some meat that needs to be cooked today. I was going to have an old school buddy and his wife over but they cancelled. How about you come over at 11.30?”
Janet thought about things. They wanted to check out Jordan’s house today but that address wasn’t far away. They had Jordan’s bank accounts secured alread. After a brief pause he nodded assent. It was true that there was little food in the house and he didn’t feel like shopping. It was also a chance to prevent Bruce from swapping bodies (Janet didn’t know Bruce had already tried the medallion. And it might be an opportunity to find out more about Sam’s life. “Sounds great!” He replied. “What we need to do can wait a couple of hours”
“Okay! See you later. Bring a bottle of that moonshine of yours!”
Janet nodded dumbly as the guy left. Moonshine? He had better check out Sam’s liquor cabinet. He went back inside and entered the bathroom.
As soon as he entered he was confronted with Bruce, with towel around her waist, man style. She was apparently forgetting she was now a woman and her delectable breasts were on full display. “It didn’t work!”
“What didn’t work and what was all the screaming about? I was talking to our nosey neighbour”
“The medallion didn’t work. I tried using it and got nothing. I’m still Jordan”
“That you are” Janet nodded agreement. “However if you are going to stay as Jordan you need to learn how to cover your breasts when you are only wearing a towel”
“Didn’t you hear me? I just told you the medallion didn’t work on me”
“Isn’t the medallion still in the car? I was about to start unpacking”
“No I retrieved one of the suitcases with Jordan’s clothes in it, while you were on the computer. There are no female clothes in the house. It just happened to be the suitcase we had put the medallion in, so I thought I would give it a try. It didn’t work!”
“No big deal. Nothing to get upset about. You probably just touched some of Jordan’s clothes by mistake as you were getting the medallion out. Try again in 12 hours”
“I was really careful…… oh gawd! You don’t think I’m about to start a period do you? Isn’t that what happened to the twins?”
“Maybe……. It’s certainly a possibility” Janet didn’t mention the third possibility, the one he hoped for the most - that Bruce was pregnant.
“Shit! Does that mean I will have to find a pad? Do we have any? I knew I should have taken that box of pads the twins had”
“Serves you right for being a goody two shoes. Don’t worry though, I have emergency pads in my old handbag. My old body may have long passed menopause but old women’s bodies still leak. I’ll fetch you some and by the way find something nice to wear. We have been invited to the neighbours for a bbq lunch”
Meanwhile several hours away the twins were sipping coffee and pondering what they could do. At a cafe within the resort they were able to make purchases by putting the expenses to the room account. “We should go to the police” Jordan suggested. “Explain what happened”
“We would be laughed at. And probably be back in a jail cell if not an asylum”
“Well we have no money and only the clothes we are wearing. What do you suggest we do?”
“I don’t know” Sam despaired “We need to get back to our homes before they get there and lock them out”
“We have no money. How do you propose we get there? Hitchhike? It’s not recommended for attractive young ladies”
“What choice do we have?”
“Excuse me. Did I overhear you correctly? Did I hear you say you had no money”
Both girls turned around to see the man who had spoken. Jordan immediately recognised him