3 THE GHOST AT THE FIRE STATION

CHAPTER 3 THE GHOST AT THE FIRE STATION Sparky lunged toward the room, but refused to step through the doorway. "Aroooooooooo!" he howled again. "See what I mean? He won't come in here no matter what you do," Brynlee said. She hopped over Sparky to get into the room. Claire and RJ did the same. "Ar-ar-aroooooooooo!" Sparky howled. Little John put his hands to his ears. "He's loud!" Kaz agreed. He and Little John swam over Sparky and into the room. It looked like some sort

of family room or activity room. There was a large TV on the wall in front of them. A couch and two chairs. A table with a green top and a bunch of balls on it. But if there were any other ghosts in here, they were hiding. "Mom? Pops? Finn?" Kaz called as he turned all around. "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Little John added. No ghosts came out. The twins tried to get the dog to come into the room with them. "Sparky, come! Come here, boy!" They sounded happy and excited. "Woof! Woof!" Sparky barked as he raised his rear end in the air, put his paws down, and hopped around. He refused to enter the room. RJ pulled a dog treat out of his pocket and held it out to Sparky. "Here, boy! Come get the treat!" Sparky still wouldn't come. "He has come in here before, right?" Claire said.

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"Yes. All the time," Brynlee said. "But he doesn't come in anymore," RJ said. He turned to Claire. "Didn't you say you have some sort of equipment for finding ghosts?" "Oh, yeah," Claire said. She opened her bag and pulled out her ghost glass and her ghost catcher. "WOOF! WOOF!" Sparky barked. "Aroooooooooooooo!" Claire put her ghost glass to her eye and wandered around the room. When she came to a row of cabinets, she glanced at Kaz and Little John. "You think the ghost might be hiding in there?" Kaz asked. She nodded slightly. "You check these cabinets," Little John told Kaz. "I'll check the ones over there." He swam across the room and through another cabinet door. Kaz took a deep breath. It was a good thing he could pass through solid objects now. He stepped

into the door. First a foot, then his leg, then the rest of his body. He only felt a little skizzy this time. He rolled to his back. It was dark inside this cabinet. And even though he was fully inside the cabinet, it still felt like he was passing through something. Something heavy. Oh. Blankets. The cabinet was full of blankets. Kaz passed through the wall from one cabinet and into the next one. There were books in that one. And board games in the last one. No ghosts. Kaz returned to the TV room. Claire looked at him expectantly. He shook his head.

"No ghosts in these cabinets, either," Little John said. "I don't think Mom, Pops, or Finn is here. They'd come out if they heard our voices." Kaz agreed. So who was the ghost at the fire station? And where was he or she hiding? "WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!" Sparky barked and danced around in the doorway. Claire turned to Brynlee and RJ. "This is very strange, but I'm not detecting any ghosts in this room," she said. RJ scowled. "Does that stuff really work?" he asked. "Look at Sparky! There's obviously a ghost in here." There were two ghosts in here: Kaz and Little John. But Brynlee and RJ didn't know that. And Sparky didn't seem to mind being in the same room with them. "Of course it works," Claire said. "Are there any other rooms here that Sparky won't go into?" "No," the twins said at the same time. "Can we take him into all the other rooms to be