A/N: Hey, y'all! I'm finally back. Really, REALLY sorry about the wait, but you can all thank Raye Sun for giving me the idea for this chappy! I'd give you something REALLY special for that, but unfortunately, my parents have all the money right now. Grr! Anyway, I'll start the chappy right after…

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Divagurl227: um, I'll put your OC in a different book, since I can hardly keep up with these characters, but I couldn't get your e-mail in your review, so just send me a description in a review please!

Anne-Camp aka Obi-quiet: it's okay! Now I've got everything figured out and your character fits in great!

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Alex? Alex, are you there? Alan had opened the psychic connection between us. Alex, please answer! I don't have much time to talk!

Neither do I, I answered. It's a school day, duh! I had just woken up and I can be pretty cranky in the mornings. I looked at my clock. It was seven A.M. on May 10.

Look, Alex, I need to know what your plan is! And it's gotta work before May—

Thirteenth, I know, or else we've gotta wait another year. Ya know what? The Ghost Zone has too many rules! I mean, this whole "Ghosts-can-only-come-back-on-the-day-they-died" thing is SOOO limited! We can't do all this in three days!

Well, we'll have to try!

C'est imposible. There's no way we'll be able to knock out DP, drag him here, get Dad out of the Ghost Zone, and force the two together in three days! Three weeks, eh, probably not. Three months? Possibly. Three years, maybe, but three days? No.

Alex, you need to believe in yourself! You can save Dad, I know you can!

Okay, okay. So, how are you?

Other than being trapped in a cage by two lunatics and not wanting to eat what they give me for fear of poisoning, I'm fine. The only other problem is that I haven't been able to think of a way outta here! Alex, I don't even know where I am!

Calm down, Alan, we've almost got a plan—

"ALEX! GET UP AND GET DRESSED!" Mom yelled at me from downstairs.

"COMING, MOM!" I yelled back. Gotta go, Alan, Mom's calling.

Have a good day at school, Alex.

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Good day, schmood day, school will NEVER be good! Alright, well, one good thing is that Bunni—er, her real name is Bonnie—is back. She had been sick for the past week and a half. (I always did hate the flu.) She has brown, waist-length hair, gray eyes, and normally wears a black halter top and blue jeans. She's also slightly mad, but, hey, that's why we love her. Besides, we're all slightly mad, so she fits in.

Our penpal, Jade, is starting eleventh grade (at our school) today. She moved in over the weekend and took a few days to sort out her things. She has black hair just past her shoulders and silvery green eyes. She normally wears a neon green T-shirt, khaki capris, and blue flip-flops. She's sixteen and a halfa. In ghost mode, she's Silver Spirit, has white hair, silver eyes, and wears a black leather mini-skirt, white belt, knee-high boots, and small fingerless gloves, and a black leather tube top with a white collar around her neck.

So, we were all there that day, except for Alan. I quickly told Bunni and Jade what had happened the past, what was it now, two weeks? I really needed ideas, so I asked my friends.

"I thought your dad had told you how already!" C.K. said.

"He said he thought he knew how, but he didn't tell us how!" I answered. "He said we had to figure it out without his help."

"Then why are you asking us?" Amy asked.

"He said without his help, he didn't say without any help."

"Hey!" Darren said. "Remember Kitty and Johnny?"

"You mean those punks who tried to possess Jazz?" Jade asked. She has lunch with us.

"Yeah! Kitty needed Jazz to wear some of her stuff so she could possess her!"

"So?" Bunni asked, jumping up and down.

I finally caught on, as did Amy. "If we get someone to wear Dad's stuff—"

"—He could possess that person and help us out some!" Amy finished.

"First off," C.K. said, "huh? Second, what clothes? And third, who would wear them?"

"In order:" I began, "not explaining it again, the clothes he always used to wear, and… I got no clue."

"I'll do it," Jim and Brad both said. They glanced at each other, then back at me. They wanted me to make the decision.

"Uh, gee, guys, thanks." I don't know who to choose! Either way, they'd end up taking my choice the wrong way! "Uh, you two should figure out who wants to stay in the GZ for however long it's gonna be."

"It'll only be a day," Cassie said. "Since it isn't one of your dad's normal powers, it'll only last 24 hours."

"Do I even want to know how you knew that?" I asked.

"When you grow up around parents like mine, you learn a lot about ghost-stuff."

"My parents still can't believe I'm a ghost!" C.K. said.

"I still can't believe you told them!" Brad exclaimed. "Parents don't understand anything!"

"Brad, calm down," I said.

"Wanna knowwa she-cret?" Bunni asked, still jumping around.

"Not right now, Bunni," I sighed.

"Awww, it's a good'un!"

"Fine. What's your secret?"

"I—can't tell you, then it wouldn't be a she-cret!" Bunni laughed.

I sighed again. "Guys, come over my house after school. We can do the switch then."

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My house after school.

"Hey, Mom?" I asked, walking into her room. "Do you still have some of Dad's clothes and stuff?"

"Better question," she said, "what are you gonna do with his clothes and stuff?"

"See if we can bring him back for a day."

"Fine." She went into her closet, then threw some clothes at me. I ran downstairs with them. Everyone else was there already.

"Okay, who's gettin' dressed up?" I asked. Jim stepped forward while Brad sulked in the corner. "Alright, go put this stuff on." He went into the bathroom, and, when he came out, he was wearing a white shirt with a red oval on it, baggy blue jeans, and red-and-white sneakers. H—he looked just like Dad, only with dark brown hair. "Okay," I said, trying to keep my voice steady, "now what?"

"Now," Cassie began, "we push him near the Portal, say the incantation, and pray this works."

"Say the what?" I asked, pulling Jim next to the Portal.

"The incantation. I wrote it down somewhere…" Cassie answered, searching her backpack for a small piece of paper. "Here it is!" Pulling it out, she handed it to me.

"Why can't you do it?" Jade asked. Being a few years older than us, Jade's one of my more… logical friends.

"Because she's not related to the person we're trying to summon," said… Brad? Wow. Everyone, me included, stared at him. He shrugged. "No one thinks twice when they see a Goth taking out a book on spells and incantations." Again, wow.

"Okay, so I guess I should read this?" Everyone gave me their variation of yes. C.K. immediately nodded, grinning madly, Jade and Amy wrinkled their noses and frowned before shrugging and nodding, Bunni jumped up and down screaming, "DO IT NOW! DO IT NOW!", Darren half-shrugged while grinning, Brad and Cassie smiled at me, and Jim adopted a very serious look as he nodded once.

"Here we go, then!" I lifted the paper so I could see it. I turned to face Jim, who was looking back at me. My voice changed suddenly, sounding creepily like I had done this thousands of times before, as I began intoning,

"Blood of my blood, heir before me,

"Once walked this earth, and saw what I now see,

"Now, I hope, you'll come back to me,

"And use as a vessel this body!"

I gasped as the paper in my hands began glowing bright blue, as did Jim. He nearly screamed as he began floating and was turned to face the Portal, which burst open. The paper flew out of my hands and above Jim, where it burst into blue flames. Jim was floating about three feet off the ground in front of the now-open Portal. A blinding white light filled the room, and this time, Jim did scream. What I found strange, though, was the fact that his scream changed pitch suddenly. Now he sounded like—

"Ohhh, what hit me?" he groaned, rubbing his head.

"DAD!"

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A/N: Ooo! Semi-cliffy! Sorry (again) about the wait, but I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing now! You can all thank Raye Sun for this chappy! THANK YOU! Well, what's gonna happen next? Who knows! Tune in next time to see—er, read the next chappy: Alexandria Fentoni Phantomera! You'll see who she is next time!