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worry. I’ll
bring you back instantly.” He snapped his fingers. “Like that. Remember, Max,
you’ve got to beat five minutes.”
    “Okay. Here goes,” I said, staring at my reflection in the mirror.
    I suddenly had a bad feeling about this.
    A real bad feeling.
    But I reached up and pulled on the light anyway.

 
 
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    When the glaring light dimmed, I stared hard into the mirror.
    The reflections were bright and clear. Against the back wall, I could see
April, slumped on the floor, staring intently at her watch.
    Lefty stood near the wall to the right, gaping at the spot where I had stood,
a silly grin on his face. Zack stood next to him, his arms crossed over his
chest, also staring into the mirror. Erin leaned against the wall to the left.
Her eyes were on the light above the mirror frame.
    And where was I?
    Standing right in front of the mirror. Right in the center of it. Staring at
their reflections. Staring at the spot where my reflection should be.
    Only it wasn’t.
    I felt perfectly normal.
    Experimenting, I kicked the floor. My invisible sneakers made the usual
scraping sound.
    I grabbed my left arm with my right hand and squeezed it. It felt perfectly normal.
    “Hi, everyone,” I said. I sounded the same as ever.
    Only I was invisible.
    I glanced up at the light, casting a yellow rectangle down onto the mirror.
What was the light’s power? I wondered.
    Did it do something to your molecules? Make them break apart somehow so you
couldn’t be seen?
    No. That wasn’t a good theory. If your molecules broke up, you’d have to feel it. And you wouldn’t be able to kick the floor, or squeeze your arm, or
talk.
    So what did the light do? Did it cover you up somehow? Did the light form
some kind of blanket? A covering that hid you from yourself and everyone else?
    What a mystery!
    I had the feeling I’d never be able to figure it out, never know the answer.
    I turned my eyes away from the light. It was starting to hurt my eyes.
    I closed my eyes, but the bright glare stayed with me. Two white circles that
refused to dim.
    “How do you feel, Max?” Erin’s voice broke into my thoughts.
    “Okay, I guess,” I said. My voice sounded weird to me, kind of far away.
    “Four minutes, thirty seconds,” April announced.
    “The time went so fast,” I said.
    At least, I thought I said it. I realized I couldn’t tell if I was saying the
words or just thinking them.
    The bright yellow light glowed even brighter.
    I had the sudden feeling that it was pouring over me, surrounding me.
    Pulling me.
    “I—I feel weird,” I said.
    No response.
    Could they hear me?
    The light folded over me. I felt myself begin to float.
    It was a frightening feeling. As if I were losing control of my body.
    “Ready!” I screamed. “Zack—ready! Can you hear me, Zack?”
    It seemed to take Zack hours to reply. “Okay,” I heard him say. His voice
sounded so tiny, so far away.
    Miles and miles away.
    “Ready!” I cried. “Ready!”
    “Okay!” Again I heard Zack’s voice.
    But the light was so bright, so blindingly bright. Waves of yellow light
rolling over me. Ocean waves of light.
    Sweeping me away with it.
    “Pull the chain, Zack!” I screamed. At least, I think I was screaming.
    The light was tugging me so hard, dragging me away, far, far away.
    I knew I would float away. Float forever.
    Unless Zack pulled the chain and brought me back.
    “Pull it! Pull it! Please —pull it!”
    “Okay.”
    I saw Zack step up to the mirror.
    He was blurred in shadows. He stepped through dark shadows, on the other side
of the light.
    So far away.
    I felt so feather light.
    I could see Zack in the shadows. He jumped up. He grabbed the lamp chain.
    He pulled it down hard.
    The light didn’t click off. It glowed even brighter.
    And then I saw Zack’s face fill with horror.
    He held up his hand. He was trying to show me something.
    He had the chain in his hand.
    “Max, the chain—” he stammered. “It broke off.