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to be sure.
    Shadows. The rush of the wind.
    â€œShe was there. Behind you.” June trembled.
    â€œI saw her too,” Paige said. “For a second, she appeared on your screen. Then she was gone.”
    â€œThat was so weird,” Spencer murmured.
    â€œWho? What did she look like?” Kelly wavered. Wereher friends tricking her? She wanted to believe so, but their faces told her otherwise. They had seen something.
    â€œMore of a shadow than an actual person,” Paige murmured.
    â€œBut it was definitely a woman,” June added. “I could see her silhouette. Hovering there. Just for a second. Oh, wow, Kel, she was totally in your room.”
    A chill ran down Kelly’s spine. She hugged her arms around her chest, trying to make sense of it all. “Do you think it worked? Do you think we really brought her back?”
    No one wanted to speak first. To say the thing they all felt, yet couldn’t explain.
    â€œI saw it . . . her . . . too.” Gavin broke the silence. “The last time we said Mary’s name. She was there. She was real.”
    â€œAwesome!” Spencer’s spark returned. “We did it. We brought back the dead.”
    â€œI think it’s creepy,” Paige said. “Don’t you, Kelly? I mean, she was in your room.”
    Kelly reached over and ran her fingers along the tiny black plastic box on her desk. She’d never pressed the button and sounded the scream. She’d never had the chance to pretend the supernatural could be contacted, because . . . itmight have really happened. She shifted her weight in her chair. She was unsure of what she felt. She wished she had seen what they’d seen. “Let’s do it again.”
    â€œWhat?” June sat straighter.
    She shrugged. “To be sure. Let’s see if it’s really her. Do it all again. The chanting. All of it.” She tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear, suddenly excited by the idea.
    â€œSure.” Spencer was up for anything.
    â€œIt was freaky, but okay.” Paige was in.
    â€œNo way.” Gavin nudged Spencer into the shadows, making sure Kelly could see him on her monitor. His beady eyes bored into the screen. His face remained grim. “You don’t mess with the dead.”
    â€œOh, please!” Paige snorted, no longer scared. “Let’s do it.”
    â€œI’m serious. Once was enough.” Gavin blinked quickly many times. “Trust me.”
    â€œWhy? What makes you an expert?” Kelly wanted to know.
    He cast his eyes downward for a moment, still blinking nervously. “Nothing.” He paused, cracking one knuckle, then another. “You made contact. You’ve started things in motion—”
    â€œWhat things?” she demanded.
    Gavin shrugged. “Things we don’t understand. Things from beyond. Things that should be left alone.”
    He’s so weird, Kelly decided. She thought of texting Paige and seeing if she thought so too. It didn’t feel natural to have him here with them. What right did he have to dictate what they could do?
    â€œWell, I—” She stopped, suddenly hearing a faint melody. The notes repeated. An unsettling tune.
    â€œYou know,” June began hesitantly, “I sort of agree with Gavin. I don’t think we should do it again.”
    â€œReally?” Kelly asked. She was surprised. June usually liked adventure.
    â€œI felt something,” June whispered. She looked embarrassed.
    â€œWhat?” Kelly and Paige asked in unison.
    June gnawed a hangnail on her thumb. “Didn’t you? A tingling kind of thing? Right before she appeared?” She gazed at them hopefully.
    Kelly hesitated. Had she felt something? She wasn’t sure. Maybe . . . maybe some static electricity. But did ghosts give off that kind of energy? And sure, she was dizzy, but that could’ve just been from the