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blocking his
way to the hallway. “Getting invisible is fun, but it could be dangerous. You—”
    “It’s awesome!” he repeated. “And I’m the new champ.”
    “Listen to me,” I said heatedly, grabbing him by the shoulders. “Just listen.
You’ve got to promise me that you won’t go up there and get invisible by
yourself again. I mean it. You’ve got to wait till someone else is around.
Promise?” I squeezed his shoulders hard.
    “Okay, okay,” he said, trying to squirm away. “I promise.”
    I looked down. He had his fingers crossed on both hands.
     
    Erin called me later that night. It was about eleven. I was in my pajamas,
reading a book in bed, thinking about going downstairs and begging my parents to
let me stay up and watch Saturday Night Live.
    Erin sounded really excited. She didn’t even say hello. Just started talking
a mile a minute in that squeaky mouse voice, so fast I had trouble understanding
her.
    “What about the science fair?” I asked, holding the phone away from my ear,
hoping that would help me understand her better.
    “The winning project,” Erin said breathlessly. “The prize is a silver trophy
and a gift certificate at Video World. Remember?”
    “Yeah. So?” I still wasn’t following her. I think I was sleepier than I’d
thought. It had been a nervous, tiring day, after all.
    “Well, what if you brought the mirror to school?” Erin asked excitedly. “You
know. I would make you go invisible. Then I’d bring you back, and I’d get
invisible. That could be our project.”
    “But, Erin—” I started to protest.
    “We’d win!” she interrupted. “We’d have to win! I mean, what else
could beat it? We’d win first prize. And we’d be famous!”
    “Whoa!” I cried. “Famous?”
    “Of course. Famous!” she exclaimed. “Our picture would be in People magazine and everything!”
    “Erin, I’m not so sure about this,” I said softly, thinking hard.
    “Huh? Not so sure about what ?”
    “Not so sure I want to be famous,” I replied. “I mean, I really don’t know if
I want the whole world to know about the mirror.”
    “Why not?” she demanded impatiently. “ Everyone wants to be famous. And
rich.”
    “But they’ll take away the mirror,” I explained. “It’s an amazing thing,
Erin. I mean, is it magic? Is it electronic? Is it someone’s invention? Whatever
it is, it’s unbelievable! And they’re not going to let a kid keep it.”
    “But it’s yours !” she insisted.
    “They’ll take it away to study it. Scientists will want it. Government guys
will want it. Army guys. They’ll probably want to use it to make the army
invisible or something.”
    “Scary,” Erin mumbled thoughtfully.
    “Yeah. Scary,” I said. “So I don’t know. I’ve got to think about this. A lot.
In the meantime, it’s got to be a secret.”
    “Yeah, I guess,” she said doubtfully. “But think about the science fair, Max.
We could win the prize. We really could.”
    “I’ll think about it,” I told her.
    I haven’t thought about anything else! I realized.
    “April wants to try it,” she said.
    “Huh?”
    “I convinced her. I told her it didn’t hurt or anything. So she wants to try
it on Wednesday. We are going to do it on Wednesday, aren’t we, Max?”
    “I guess,” I replied reluctantly. “Since everyone wants to.”
    “Great!” she exclaimed. “I think I’ll beat your record.”
    “The new record is ten minutes,” I informed her. I explained about Lefty and
his dinnertime adventure.
    “Your brother is really a nut,” Erin remarked.
    I agreed with her, then said good night.
    I couldn’t get to sleep that night. I tried sleeping on one side, then the
other. I tried counting sheep. Everything.
    I knew I was sleepy. But my heart was racing. I just couldn’t get
comfortable. I stared up at the ceiling, thinking about the mirror in the little
room above me.
    It was nearly three in the morning when I crept barefoot out of my room, wide