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HOLLY
Part Three Of The Lisa, Jody, And Holly Trilogy
by
Ian Berry



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Holly Published in 2012 by
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Copyright © 2012 Ian Berry
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One
I teleported home, it was either that or fly, and why spend time flying when you can get from A to B more or less instantaneously. It was about then I realised that another major change in my life had overtaken me.
I’m Holly by the way. I’ve taken over the writing of this saga from Jody, not because she was making a mess of it, on the contrary, reading the stuff she wrote was quite interesting, but more because she wanted to spend a little more time with Mike.
I hesitate to call Mike Jody’s boyfriend, perhaps she’ll thump me for saying it like that at all, but from where Lisa and I stand, that’s what Mike seems to be.
Jody added a little background to her chronicle so perhaps I should do the same. Lisa, Jody and I are three teenage girls. I nearly said ‘ordinary’ teenage girls, but that would have been a bit of a fib. All three of us have extremely well developed ESP powers, we can levitate ourselves - flying sounds much better - and move things by telekinesis and teleportation. We can also speak to each other directly mind to mind - telepathy. We have several other powers which will probably become apparent as this diary unfolds, but one of our most recent, and possibly most powerful, is that we’ve discovered how to merge ourselves together into one girl, who we’ve decided to call Angel. Angel has just discovered how we can use our powers to teleport ourselves as well as objects. That’s how I’m able to teleport home from Lisa’s. Neat or what! And that’s the major change in my life I mentioned earlier. Up ‘til now, that’s the one thing we’d not been able to do - at least not without being so stressed our eyeballs would nearly pop out.
I used my new skill at teleporting to scout for a clear spot at home to appear in, There was nobody in the kitchen, so that’s where I appeared.
“Mum, Dad, only me. I’m back.”
Mum came running into the kitchen. “Jean rang. She said you’d gone to Selafield to stop it blowing up.” Jean is Lisa’s mum and what she’d told my mum was essentially correct.
“Lisa had a Precog. Well, Angel had it really. We teleported over to Selafield.”
“Did you manage to fix it?” asked Dad, following Mum into the kitchen.
“Yep. There’s still a plant there instead of a radioactive hole in the ground.”
“Is Lisa ok?” asked Mum. “Only the last Precog hit her a bit hard.”
The Precogs are visions of the future, premonitions if you like. Lisa has them rather than Jody or me, probably because she’s our Director. I’m only our Scientist and Jody is our Engineer. Probably too down-to-earth for complicated stuff like Precogs.
“Well, now we know what they are, we can cope with them a bit better. We merged to Angel and shared it, all three of us saw what Lisa did. She’s fine, no problem.”
As I spoke to Mum and Dad, I was aware in my head of Jody telling her parents more or less exactly the same thing, the three of us were so linked together that it took a deliberate effort of will to exclude one or both of the others.
“Jungle tom-toms have been beating while we were in Cumbria,” ‘said’ Lisa in my head.
“What? You mean our parents have been ringing each other up?” ‘said’ Jody.
I ‘laughed’. “Have to get them wires between each house so they don’t need to go through the phone system. Might be cheaper.”
“Shame they can’t do it like this,” Lisa ‘laughed’ with me.
“Err - Lisa?” ‘said’ Jody, “Do we need to go and tell Beth about the latest stuff?”
Beth is the head scientist at the lab that looks after our affairs - and incidentally spends many thousands of pounds trying to find out exactly how we do what we do.
“Suppose so. Will you arrange it, Holly?”
“Yep. When d’you want to go?”
“Tomorrow, after school?”
“Jody?”
“Fine by me. Should we fly there - or just - appear?”
“Good question,” ‘said’ Lisa.
“I vote we fly this time,” I ‘said’. “After we’ve told them what we’ve found we can do, then we can just turn up in the middle of a roomful of people.”
“Good point,” ‘said’ Lisa. “This is now official Angels policy.”
“Ok. I’m on it,” I ‘said’.
Withdrawing slightly from the link, I ‘called’ Victor. Victor is a labtech at the lab, and is my - significant other.
“Victor? You there?”
“Holly! Are you ok?”
“Never better. Why? You’re worried , aren’t you?”
“I got scattered thoughts and impressions while you were off this afternoon. It sounded dangerous!”
“Pooh. Walk in the park. Selafield is still there, the Angels fixed everything.”
“Still ...” He pulled himself together a bit. “How did you know about it? How did you get there?”
“Ok, ok. Listen up. Lisa had a Precog. The three of us went over to Cumbria, sorted stuff out, and came straight back. We need to tell Beth. Tomorrow afternoon. After school. Will you be around?”
“Yeah, I’ll be here. Usual arrangement?”
“Mm. Cafeteria on Red Alert. Will you arrange it? Please?”
“Ah, the magic word. ‘Course I will, you know I will.”
“Thanks Vic. You’re a star.” I ‘sent’ him a picture of a Holly giving a Victor a big kiss. “Reward time later. Homework to do now.”
I ‘heard’ him ‘laugh’ gently as we both got on with whatever we needed to do.
“Ah. You’re back,” said Dad.
“Sorry Dad. Difficult to carry on two conversations at once. Is it really obvious?”
“You have a sort of puzzled expression while you’re off talking to the others.”
I laughed. “Lisa’s mum calls it a ‘vacant expression’. At least I only look puzzled. Need to go and sort out homework. Was going to do it during the day but Lisa and other stuff got in the way a bit.”
“All right dear,” said Mum. “I’ll do you a snack for supper in a little while.”
I jumped up and gave Mum a kiss, then I gave Dad one too in case he felt left out. Then I headed for my bedroom and the homework I needed to do. Got to keep up, exams were looming on the horizon.
Lisa and Jody were still there, in my head, as I got on with stuff. It’s like a telephone that’s still connected but put down on the table. The line is active but nobody’s speaking. We’d all three got used to this, it took a great effort to ignore it, but that didn’t mean we chattered away all the time. It can be useful though. Like now.
“Jody?”
“Mm? What Holly?”
“I need an example of using an electrical circuit to generate a spark. Any thoughts?”
“A couple. Surprised you can’t think of any for yourself, you’re our boffin after all. Anyway, a spark plug in a car engine? Name is a bit of a giveaway. Generate a spark and explode the petrol and air mixture. That drives the piston and stuff and makes the engine go. Need another one?”
“Got one handy?”
“Err, what about one of those things you use to light your gas cooker? Makes a click and a spark, doesn’t need batteries.”
“Of course! A piezo-electric gizmo. Thump a bit of special crystal and it generates a whopping electrical voltage. That’s what the click is, something inside it hitting the chunk of crystal. I’d forgotten all about that one, thanks Jody.”
“You’re welcome. Told you you’d know all about it if you thought about it.”
Quiet reigned again for a bit. It was getting on for bedtime anyway. What it was also getting on for was suppertime. Since meeting Lisa and Jody and getting ‘zapped’ to increase my mental powers, I never seemed to have stopped eating. The mental stuff takes energy, energy comes from food. The three of us were always eating, hence the cafeteria to Red Alert for our visit to the lab tomorrow.
Despite prodigious food intake, all three of us still had figures models would die for. We didn’t seem to get any bigger, except in the ways that girls like us should get bigger.
With supper scoffed, I retired to bed. With what I’d thought about earlier in mind, I surveyed myself in the mirror before I climbed into my jim-jams. ‘Not going to be mistaken for a boy anymore in dim light, Holly Merrick’, I told myself. In fact, such things were proceeding nicely, thank you very much. I had half an idea what I might finally look like in a couple or three years, thanks largely to Jody’s shared dream world where I appeared rather older than I actually am. If I did actually look like that, I’d be well pleased.
Maybe it was thinking about stuff like Jodyworld or maybe it was just a coincidence, but I seemed to be asleep for only a second or so before I woke up again.



Two
I wasn’t in my bed, or in my house, or even on the same planet! This was my dream world, we’d dubbed Hollyworld. If that were the case, then I was standing on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
I looked around with interest. I’d only been here once before. I wasn’t surprised when Lisa just appeared and a moment or two later Jody popped up as well. The crew around us paid no attention at all to three girls just appearing in the middle of them.
“Hello Holly,” grinned Lisa. “What are you going to have us do this time?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “I’ve not planne