9 WAIT A MINUTE

CHAPTER 9 WAIT A MINUTE... Conrad!" Finn exclaimed as the solid people walked and the ghost people swam into the next room. Conrad hovered above the dining room table. "Dude! What are you guys doing here?" he asked. "We came to rescue you," Kaz said. "Then why do you look so surprised to see me?" Conrad asked. "We thought we were rescuing Dave," Mom said, trying not to sound disappointed. "You both heard someone say 'that's because you jammed a paintbrush through my stomach,' didn't you?" Mrs. Sweet said to Claire and

Gabriel. Conrad had wailed those words, so Mrs. Sweet heard them. But she hadn't heard anything the ghosts said after that. And she couldn't see any of them, either. "ACK!" Conrad shrieked when he noticed Gabriel. He shot up to a corner of the ceiling. "Do you see the ghost?" Mrs. Sweet asked Claire and Gabriel. She still thought there was only one ghost in her house. "Yeah. He's up there." Gabriel pointed at Conrad.

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Conrad stayed where he was, but expaaaanded his arm and finger toward Gabriel. "That's the guy who attacked me and Jessie!" he told the other ghosts. "He came with this big fan and blew Jessie and me out the front window of the movie theater. He probably blew Dave out, too. If you're here to rescue me, why did you bring him with you?" Mrs. Sweet squinted up at the corner of the ceiling. "How come you two can see him and I can't?" "Because he's not glowing," Gabriel said. "We can see ghosts when they're not glowing. Most people can't." Mrs. Sweet looked like she wasn't sure whether or not to believe that. Gabriel turned to Claire. "How are we going to get him down from there?" "Why don't you back up a little and let me handle it." Claire gave Gabriel a gentle push. "He's kind of scared of you."

Mrs. Sweet chuckled. "The ghost is scared of us?" "Not all of us. Just him," Claire said, tipping her head toward Gabriel. "Because he and the ghost got off on the wrong foot at the movie theater." "A guy at the theater hired me to come in and get rid of the ghosts," Gabriel tried to explain. "It was a job." Claire turned to Conrad. "Gabriel wants you to know that he's sorry for the way he did that job," she said. "He won't ever blow any ghosts outside again. He wanted to help us find you. He wants to find Jessie and Dave, too, and take you all someplace safe." "I don't know," Conrad said, keeping a wary eye on Gabriel. Mrs. Sweet shook her head in confusion. "What's happening here?" Claire raised her water bottle to Conrad. "I'll take you wherever you want to go," she promised.

"Back to the movie theater, if you want. George is still there. We can pick him up and I can take you all to the library, if you want. You'll be safe there. Then we can try and find Jessie and Dave." "You can trust Claire," Kaz said to Conrad. "You may not trust Gabriel, but you can trust Claire." To prove it, he shrank down... down... down... and swam into Claire's water bottle. "Yeah. Come on, Conrad," Finn said as he and Mom shrank down... down... down... and followed Kaz. "Unless you'd rather stay here by yourself?" "No. We need to find Jessie and Dave," Conrad said. "I don't know what happened to Dave, but I do know what happened to Jessie. Will she really help us?" He gestured toward Claire.