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in my feet. It’s climbing up my legs, weird. The current fills me up making me feel warm until it touches my fingertips. Then like lightning it shoots out of my fingers, I open my eyes and I can actually see it. Little tiny blue lightning bolts come out of my fingers, this is absolutely insane. And then I see him, just a shimmer at first, but then he’s there. A tall light haired man, dressed in clothes from the early 1900’s. I know it worked, this is Wendy’s dad and I brought him to us.
     
    Relief floods me, but so does sudden exhaustion. I fall to my knees, feeling the squish of the wet ground against my jeans. I can hardly keep my eyes open as I see Wendy’s reaction to seeing her dad for the first time in all these years. She’s overjoyed, jumping up to hug him tightly.
     
    I hear a man’s voice say, “Thank you. This is all I’ve ever wanted. I have missed her so much.”
     
    I nod at him. I just manage to get out, “You’re welcome.”
     
    I am so tired and cold, so cold. Maybe, if I just sleep, for a minute, yeah that will work, just a little nap. I close my eyes not realizing there’s no one really there who can wake me up.
     

Chapter 11
     
    My fingers curl around the cool side of my pillow and I breathe in the scent of Tide, mmmm home . I sit up so quickly it makes my head spin. Wait, home? How did this happen? The last thing I remember was being at the old blue house with Wendy and her dad. Did I actually do that? Did I bring him back to our world? And if I did, where was he to begin with? Oh snap, what kind of trouble am I in now?
     
    I race to the window and pull back the light lavender curtain to see my car sitting in the driveway under the maple tree where I usually park it. But how? I mean could I have driven myself home and went to bed without even remembering it? I guess I could have, I was really tired. My head hurts and since it’s Saturday and I don’t have to work till two this afternoon I decide a couple more hours of sleep couldn’t hurt. Maybe things will become clearer then. I climb back under the covers and wrap the sheets around me. I drift off easily into a dreamless sleep.
     
    When I open my eyes I can smell the coffee brewing downstairs. I feel groggy but better, not as drained. My legs fall over the side of the bed as I rub my eyes. Yesterday seems like a dream, but then I see him and I know what I did was real.
     
    “ Jeremy?” I say as I look at the small boy in my bedroom. “Is that you?” He smiles that big toothy grin I grew up loving. He’s back in his six year old form, with his tan wrinkled pants and white top.
     
    My eyebrows must crinkle together because he walks over to me and says, “Oh Shay please don’t cry. I’m here, it’s alright.”
     
    He holds my hand in his, his little fingers attempting to intertwine with my own. I’ve rehearsed what I would say to him if he ever came back a million times but suddenly my mind is totally blank. I sit there paralyzed by disbelief.
     
    “ Jeremy, I’ve missed you so much. I am so sorry I sent you away. I never meant to…” my words start to sound more like sobs and I realize I’m crying.
     
    “ Shay look at me,” Jeremy says, “I understand what you did, and you don’t, so give me a chance to explain.” I take a deep breath and nod my head while wiping away my tears with the sleeve of my hoodie, I realize the material still smells a bit like rain. I watch him like a hawk, I don’t want to look away and have him disappear again.
     
    “ Shay, when you told me to leave you banished my spirit from having contact with you. That didn’t mean I couldn’t see you, but it did mean that you couldn’t see or contact me. While I was banished, I was doing tasks for other ghosts and that’s how I met Wendy. She wanted to bring back her father and she knew that I had previously had contact with a person who may be able to do that. That person is you. We both agreed if you used your power to bring him