10 FOUND!

CHAPTER 10 FOUND! No, Kaz!" his mom said. "It's too dangerous. What if you miss the bottle when you come back? You could blow away!" "I'm not going to pass my whole self through," Kaz said. "Just my head. So I can see if Dave's in there. Hold my legs, please." Claire held her bottle tight against the mailbox. Kaz started to pass his head through, but Mom pulled him back. "I'll see if Dave is in there," she said. "You boys hold my legs." "It can't be that dangerous if Kaz is willing to do it," Finn muttered as Mom swam headfirst through Claire's water bottle and into the mailbox.

Kaz and Finn each held one of her legs. They had to hold on tight because all of a sudden she started kicking and flailing around. "Mom? Are you okay?" Kaz asked. He wished he could see into the mailbox, too. "You have to shrink more!" Mom said. Her voice sounded hollow and far away. "Smaller! As small as I am." Who was Mom talking to? Was Kaz right? Was Dave in there? Or Jessie? The three ghost boys sloooowly pulled Mom back into Claire's water bottle. And Mom pulled another ghost in with her.

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"Dave!" Finn and Conrad cried when he finally popped through the edge of the bottle. Everyone had to shrink a little smaller to make room for Dave. Mom stared at Dave. "A-are you...?" Mom asked. She couldn't even finish the sentence. Dave rubbed his eyes and stared at Mom. "Are you...?" He couldn't finish his sentence, either. "Dave?" Finn said, squeezing in between his mom and his friend. "This is my mom, Elise, and my brother Kaz." "Elise?" Dave said. He couldn't seem to take his eyes off her. "You're all grown up!" "So are you!" Mom said. Finn's friend Dave was their Uncle Dave! They were the same person. Amazing, Kaz thought as he watched his mom and Uncle Dave hug each other. Finally, Mom pulled away. "You're bald!" She laughed.

"Not completely," Dave said. He felt the short curls above his ear and at the nape of his neck. "Hey, where's my cap?" He looked all around. "Where did you even get that cap, anyway?" Conrad asked. "It was ugly!" "It was not," Dave protested. "It was a Minnesota Twins cap. A Minnesota Twins cap is never ugly. I found it years ago. In the lost and found in there." He pointed at the movie theater. "It used to be solid, but I transformed it." "You can transform stuff?" Kaz cried out. "Yes," Dave said, looking at Kaz for the first time. "So can I!" Kaz said. "I'm the only one in the whole family who can!" "Yeah, but you still can't glow," Finn muttered. Dave puffed up his chest. "You must get your transformation skill from me," he said proudly.

Kaz's mom touched Dave's bald head. He swatted her hand away. "I sure wish I knew what happened to my cap," he said. "It fell off when I was inside that mailbox. When I tried to put it back on, it kept falling over my eyes. So I just held it in my hand. I must've dropped it when you took my hands, Elise." "Did you shrink when you were in the mailbox?" Kaz asked. He'd never seen Uncle Dave full-size, so he didn't know how big he was. "A little," Dave replied.