Body Switches by Barbara G.Tarn

Author:Barbara G.Tarn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humor, body switches, magical realism, contemporary fantasy, novellas, collection
Publisher: Unicorn Productions
Published: 2014-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Pat&Babs

1.

The catchy tune of "Diwana Dil" bounced through the house, as Babs and Rohit started the routine – Rohit leading and Babs clumsily repeating his sexy moves. Rohit was trying to teach the routine to his housemates without much success. In fact Kyle was slumped on the couch laughing his head off and refusing to participate in the wild dance.

"Come on, Kyle!" Rohit tried to drag him to his feet one last time, and then the song was over and Babs crashed on the couch next to Kyle, breathless.

"I'm too old to keep up with him," she panted. She should have known better than accepting Rohit's challenge and improvised dance lesson. He was younger and a professional and a skilled dancer and had worked with a choreographer with that song and...

"That's why I'm as still as a statue when he's on the dance floor," Kyle replied while Rohit curled up against him.

Babs stuck her tongue at him, knowing he'd never join them and feeling half her age once again. She should really kill her inner child and start behaving like the responsible, adult woman she was supposed to be. Except she never felt "almost fifty" when music was on – especially Eighties music. Or Bollywood songs.

"If you're done goofing around, we could get some work done now," Kyle continued.

"Aw, let me catch my breath, will you?" Babs moaned, leaning back with a sigh. Rohit was definitely in better shape than her, but she had no intention of going to the gym with him.

Kyle turned to Rohit. "What about you, are you done with the story or not?"

"Yes." Rohit acquiesced with his typical head wobble that made Babs chuckle. She loved how he was still the Mumbai-born young man she'd seen in movies until over a year before. She never thought she'd end up living with him and Kyle, though. Not even in her wildest dreams had she imagined she'd meet someone who'd been on a movie screen – and that he'd be so sweet in person.

Rohit had been a shining star of the Bollywood firmament until things had gone awry – his beloved wife dumped him, a starlet involved him in a minor scandal that made him lose a major role, and he'd ended up attempting suicide. The scars on his wrists were proof that he'd gone to hell and back. Not that she'd ever asked him the details, all she knew about it was what she'd found on the internet – half a world away from India.

During a vacation break in Rome, he'd met Kyle, gossip-journalist-turned-novelist, and they'd started writing a book together. Kyle was in Rome not only for the fall Film Festival – not as glamorous as Venice, but still ripe with gossip – but also to meet Babs again, after a few years of emails and meetings in LA when she was attempting the conquest of Hollywood.

Now she'd given up the idea of writing screenplays and wrote novels in English under the pseudonym of Babs St George, and Kyle had helped her set up an independent publishing house for their books.

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