Let's Get Invisible! by R. L. Stine

Author:R. L. Stine
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

“Lefty!” a voice shouted from behind us. “Lefty!”

Startled by the interruption, I uttered an alarmed cry. Lefty stepped back from the mirror.

“Lefty, tell your brother his friends have to leave! It’s dinnertime. Grammy and Poppy are here. They’re eager to see you!”

It was Mom, calling up from downstairs.

“Okay, Mom. We’ll be right down!” I shouted quickly. I didn’t want her to come up.

“But that’s not fair!” Lefty whined. “I didn’t get my turn.”

He stepped back up to the mirror and angrily grabbed for the string again.

“Put it down,” I told him sternly. “We have to go downstairs. Quick. We don’t want Mom or Dad coming up here and seeing the mirror, do we?”

“Okay, okay,” Lefty grumbled. “But next time, I get to go first.”

“And then me,” Zack said, heading toward the stairs. “I get a chance to beat your record, Max.”

“Everybody, stop talking about it,” I warned as we all clomped down the stairs. “Talk about something else. We don’t want them to overhear anything.”

“Can we come over tomorrow?” Erin asked. “We could start up the contest again.”

“I’m busy tomorrow,” April said.

“We can’t do it tomorrow,” I replied. “We’re visiting my cousins in Springfield.” I was sorry they’d reminded me. My cousins have this humongous sheepdog that likes to run through the mud and then jump on me and wipe its hairy paws all over my clothes. Not my idea of a good time.

“There’s no school on Wednesday,” Zack said. “Teachers’ meetings, I think. Maybe we could all come over on Wednesday.”

“Maybe,” I said.

We stepped into the hallway. Everyone stopped talking. I could see that my grandparents and parents were already sitting at the dining room table. Grammy and Poppy liked to eat promptly. If their dinner came one minute late, it made them real cranky for the rest of the day.

I ushered my friends out quickly, reminding them not to tell anyone about what we’d been doing. Zack asked again if Wednesday would be okay, and again I told him I wasn’t sure.

Getting invisible was really exciting, really thrilling. But it also made me nervous. I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it again so soon.

“Please!” Zack begged. He couldn’t wait to get invisible again and beat my record. He couldn’t stand it that he wasn’t the champ.

I closed the front door behind them and hurried to the dining room to greet my grandparents. They were already slurping their soup when I came in.

“Hi, Grammy. Hi, Poppy.” I walked around the table and gave them each a kiss on the cheek. Grammy smelled of oranges. Her cheek felt soft and mushy.

Grammy and Poppy are the names I gave them when I was a kid. It’s really embarrassing to call them that now, but I still do. I don’t have much choice. They even call each other Grammy and Poppy!

They look alike, almost like brother and sister. I guess that’s what happens when you’ve been married a hundred years. They both have long, thin faces and short white hair. They both wear thick glasses with silver wire frames.

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