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earlier. “Well, they’re sort of heavy.”
    “I guess I’m used to them,” Vince said, but Holly noticed he didn’t stop her as she tugged them off.
    “Ah, that’s better.” She wriggled her toes for a minute.
    “If you say so.” Vince didn’t sound impressed. “What are we going to do about this situation then?”
    Well, for a start, when Holly got back to heaven she would definitely be filing a report against Dr. Alan Hill. After all, what sort of bogus health professional would send an innocent girl into such a dangerous situation? An experience like this could knock years off her life, if she was still alive. There should be consequences. And compensation.
    “I guess we just need to play it by ear,” she finally said. “You can talk when we’re around your friends and I’ll talk when we’re around my friends.”
    “Except I doubt any of your friends would hang around long enough for me to open my mouth.”
    “Gemma will, because she already knows.”
    “What do you mean she already knows? How did you manage that?”
    “With great difficulty. She thought you were trying to hit on her in the middle of my funeral.”
    “Great, as if my life wasn’t bad enough.” Vince lay back down on the bed and put his hands behind his neck.
    “But now she knows the truth.” Holly wriggled him back up into a sitting position. “And tomorrow I’ll explain everything to Todd.”
    “I’d like to see that.” Vince snorted as he lay down again.
    “Unfortunately, you will.” Holly sat up and peered around his room. There wasn’t much in there apart from the double bed and bookshelf with a pile of books, a small collection of coins and a moth eaten teddy bear. Then she caught sight of a Baker Colwell Platinum Merit certificate. Boy, those things were hard to come by. Vince must be good at his job. In fact she and Gemma had both being hoping to get one, but so far they hadn’t managed it. Gemma said—
    Holly jumped to her feet. Gemma. Of course. All she needed to do was get Gemma to go around and see Tina MacDonald. Why hadn’t she thought of it sooner? All this body sharing was obviously playing havoc with her brain.
    She looked at her watch. It was after ten and normally she would’ve waited until the morning, but this was a matter of life and death. Or was that death and life?
    “Vince, can I use your phone?”
    There was no answer and Holly frowned.
    “Vince. Can I use your phone, please? ”
    But there was still no answer. Was he ignoring her? She was just about to pinch his arm before realizing not only would it hurt her as well, but perhaps he was asleep? After all he’d had a pretty rough day, what with having his body snatched and all.
    She fumbled around in his jacket pocket until she found the cell phone and prayed the battery wasn’t flat. Actually it seemed quite outrageous that Dr. Hill hadn’t provided her with an expense account when he’d sent her down here. She was going to have serious words when she got back up there.
    “Hello?” Gemma’s voice sounded cautious. “Who’s this?”
    “Gem, it’s me. I’m using Vince’s cell phone.”
    “And Vince’s voice. Holly can I just tell you one more time that this is seriously weird.”
    “You don’t know the half of it. Anyway, did Irene settle down?”
    “Only after I let her tell me all about how her fifth grade teacher humiliated her in front of the whole class by asking her to spell ‘wheelbarrow.’ Honestly, she’s getting worse. But enough about her, how did you go?”
    “I found out how the pills got in my system,” Holly told her in a triumphant voice. “Problem is that I can’t go and see myself because of the Vince situation, so I need you to go around and confront them for me.”
    “Of course I will.” Gemma squealed from the other end of the phone. “So who is it?”
    “Tina Macdonald,” Holly informed her proudly. “In fact it’s so obvious I don’t know why I didn’t think of it