2 GROUNDED

CHAPTER 2 GROUNDED Oh no," Kaz said. He recognized that boy in the window. "What? Who is that?" Little John asked. He, Mom, and Pops all craned their necks to see around Cosmo and the stars on Claire's water bottle. "You don't know him," Kaz said. "But Claire and I do. His name is Eli, and he likes to play tricks on people. When we were trying to find the ghost in Mrs. Beesley's attic, we thought he was the ghost. Remember, Claire?" Claire nodded slightly. "He goes to my school, too," she said in a low voice. "He's always in trouble for something."

"Why are you just standing there?" Eli called to Claire. "Come over here so I can talk to you." He waved his arm. "Don't, Claire," Kaz said. He didn't trust Eli. "He might have a case for us," Claire said. "I think we should find out." She adjusted the strap on her water bottle and marched over to Eli's house. Kaz groaned. "Don't be such a scaredy-ghost, Kaz," Little John said. "I'm not a scaredy-ghost. I just—whoa!" Kaz shrieked as Cosmo suddenly bolted from his grasp. The dog was halfway through the bottle before Kaz and his parents managed to pull him back in. Woof! Woof! "No, Cosmo!" Kaz said, holding tight to his dog. Claire stopped right below Eli's window. "Okay, I'm here," she said, shading her eyes. "What do you want to talk to me about?"

"I told you. I have a case for you," Eli said, leaning out the window. "A ghost case." Woof! Woof! Cosmo wiggled and squirmed in Kaz's arms. "Help! He's still trying to escape!" Kaz exclaimed. It took the entire ghost family to hold Cosmo inside the water bottle. Claire planted a hand on her hip. "I thought you didn't believe in ghosts," she said to Eli. "That's what you said when I told you that Mrs. Beesley hired me to find a ghost in her house. You even laughed at me when I said it."

Eli scratched his head. "Yeah, well, that was before a ghost moved into my house," he said. "What makes you think there's a ghost in your house?" Claire asked. "I saw it," Eli said. "So, it was glowing," Little John said. "If it was a real ghost," Kaz said, clinging to his dog. He knew Eli couldn't see ghosts like Claire could. Claire unzipped her backpack and pulled out her ghost book and pen. "Can you describe it?" she asked. Woof! Woof! Woof!

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"I don't know," Eli said. "It looked like a ghost." "What was it doing?" Claire asked. "Hiding," Eli said. "I saw it go under my sister's bed once. I also saw it walk through a wall. And last night it hid in my closet and yelled, 'Boo!' when I opened the door." "Ghosts don't hide from solids," Pops said with a scowl. Kaz cringed when Pops said "solids." He knew Claire didn't like that word. "We don't have to hide," Pops said. "If we don't want solids to see us, we simply don't glow." "Whenever I try and follow the ghost or tell someone in my family about it, it disappears," Eli told Claire. "And then later it reappears someplace else. I think it likes to play hide-and-seek." "Uh-huh," Claire said as she wrote down everything Eli said.