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her wrist and stared down at her
watch. “Okay. Get ready.”
    Erin took a deep breath and stepped up to the mirror. She closed her eyes,
reached up, and tugged the light chain.
    The light came on with a bright flash. Erin disappeared.
    “Oh, wow!” she cried. “This is way cool!”
    “How does it feel?” April called from behind us, her eyes glancing from the
mirror to her watch.
    “I don’t feel any different at all,” Erin said. “What a great way to lose
weight!”
    “Fifteen seconds,” April announced.
    Lefty’s hair suddenly stood straight up in the air. “Cut it out, Erin!” he
shouted, twisting away from her invisible hands.
    We heard Erin laugh from somewhere near Lefty.
    Then we heard her footsteps as she walked out of the room and into the attic.
We saw an old coat rise up into the air and dance around. After it dropped back
into its carton, we saw an old magazine fly up and its pages appear to flip
rapidly.
    “This is so much fun!” Erin called to us. The magazine dropped back onto the
stack. “I can’t wait to go outside like this and really scare people!”
    “One minute,” April called. She hadn’t moved from her sitting position
against the wall.
    Erin moved around the attic for a while, making things fly and float. Then
she returned to the little room to admire herself in the mirror.
    “I’m really invisible!” we heard her exclaim excitedly. “Just like in a movie
or something!”
    “Yeah. Great special effects!” I said.
    “Three minutes,” April announced.
    Erin continued to enjoy herself until about four minutes had passed. Then her
voice suddenly changed. She started to sound doubtful, frightened.
    “I—I don’t like this,” she said. “I feel kind of strange.”
    April jumped to her feet and ran up to me. “Bring her back!” she demanded.
“Hurry!”
    I hesitated.
    “Yes. Bring me back,” Erin said weakly.
    “But you haven’t beaten my record!” Zack declared. “Are you sure—?”
    “Yes. Please. I don’t feel right.” Erin suddenly sounded far away.
    I stepped up to the mirror and pulled the chain. The light clicked off.
    We waited for Erin to return.
    “How do you feel?” I asked.
    “Just… weird,” she replied. She was standing right next to me, but I
still couldn’t see her.
    It took nearly three minutes for Erin to reappear. Three very tense minutes.
    When she shimmered back into view, she shook herself like a dog shaking water
off after a bath. Then she grinned at us reassuringly. “I’m okay. It was really
terrific. Except for the last few seconds.”
    “You didn’t beat my record,” Zack reported happily. “You came so close. But
you folded. Just like a girl.”
    “Hey—” Erin gave Zack a hard shove. “Stop being such a jerk.”
    “But you only had fifteen seconds to go, and you wimped out!” Zack told her.
    “I don’t care,” Erin insisted, frowning angrily at him. “It was really neat.
I’ll beat your record next time, Zack.”
    “I’m going to be the winner,” Lefty announced. “I’m going to stay invisible
for a whole day. Maybe two!”
    “Whoa!” I cried. “That might be dangerous, Lefty.”
    “It’s Max’s turn next,” Zack announced. “Unless you want to forfeit.”
    “No way,” I said, glancing at Erin. Reluctantly, I stepped up to the mirror
and took a deep breath. “Okay, Zack, say good-bye to your record,” I said,
trying to sound calm and confident.
    I didn’t really want to do it, I admitted to myself. But I didn’t want to
look like a chicken in front of the others. For one thing, if I did wimp out, I
knew that Lefty would only remind me of it twenty or thirty times a day for the
rest of my life.
    So I decided to go ahead and do it.
    “One thing,” I said to Zack. “When I call out ‘ready’, that means I want to
come back. So when I say ‘ready’, you pull the light chain as fast as you can—okay?”
    “Gotcha,” Zack replied, his expression turning serious. “Don’t