@page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } 19 “The dog!” Erin screamed. “Hey—I’m gone! I’m invisible!” April exclaimed at the same time. I could hear Whitey whimpering. He sounded really frightened. “Pull the string!” I shouted to Zack. “Not yet!” April protested. “Pull it!” I insisted. Zack pulled the string. The light went out. April reappeared first, with an angry expression on her face. Whitey reappeared, and fell down. He jumped up quickly, but his legs were all wobbly. He looked so funny, we all started to laugh. “What’s going on up there?” My mom’s voice from the stairwell startled us into instant silence. “What are you doing?” “Nothing, Mom,” I answered quickly, signalling for my friends to remain silent. “Just hanging out.” “I don’t understand what’s so interesting up there in that dusty old attic,” she called up. I crossed my fingers, hoping she wouldn’t come upstairs to find out. “We just like it up here,”
