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step. Getting down.” He addressed the rest of the class. “Does
anyone know how we get down on the ground again?”
    The class was silent again. Only Portia
was shouting in the air.
    “ It is very simple, really. How
did you walk or jump or run in the human body? You just thought
about it. You thought now I want to run and then you did.”
    It sounded really simple, so I
tried. I
want to get down to the ground , I thought to myself. And it worked. Slowly I
slid back down. And so did the rest of the class. Except for
Portia.
    “ Portia! Get down from
there!” Mr. Grangé yelled.
    I looked up and saw Portia stop in the
air. Then I saw her fall from the sky. I saw her face getting
closer and closer. I heard her gasp and pant and try to regain
control. Before I could move, she crashed right into me. Or rather
she went right through me. It felt so weird, like some great force
was pulling through my entire body. After she had gone through me,
I felt exhausted and tumbled to the ground next to
Portia.
    “ Are you all right?” Mr. Grangé
asked bending over me.
    “ I guess,” I said. “A
little shaken.”
    I looked at Portia.
    “ Me too,” she
said.
    Mr. Grangé smiled and looked at the class.
“See? Nothing will happen if you fall to the ground. You can’t get
hurt, since you don’t have a physical body. But since you were a
human just a few days ago, you still think like one. I have to get
you to think differently. You have to let go of the earthly way of
thinking. Now what made Portia fall?”
    Mr. Grangé paused before he answered the
question himself. “She got scared. She was afraid because she
thought she didn’t know how to get down again.”
    Portia snorted. “No, I wasn’t. You just
broke my concentration.”
    Mr. Grangé smiled at her. “Only fear and
human thinking can make you fall like that,” he said.
    Portia obviously didn’t agree. She snorted
again and got on her feet.
    We all got back in the line again.
    “ Now … on three. One … Two
… Three …”
    Again we leaped into the air. This time I
had my eyes open and soared a little higher than the first time.
Unfortunately Nigel still hadn’t left the ground. He looked at the
rest of us with envy in his eyes. Now that we felt like we had
gotten the hang of this, we started to move first in one direction,
then in another. It was so easy once we let go of the fear of
falling and just tried it.
    Abhik especially seemed to enjoy the
freedom of flying through the air. I flew with him for awhile and
we were laughing and loving the tickling feeling of the air going
through our bodies. I tried to spin and do air acrobatics, while
Abhik danced and jumped in the air. This was wonderful. Total
freedom to go wherever we wanted.
    I looked down and saw Portia and her friends
giggling and making fun of Nigel behind his back. His big eyes
stared at all of us in the air. I felt sorry for him so I
approached Nigel from the air and reached out my hand toward
him.
    “ Grab it,” I
said.
    He shook his head. “But I can’t,” he said.
“I don’t know how to!”
    I smiled gently at him. “Yes you do. You
just have to let go.”
    Nigel stared at me for a few seconds looking
as if he really didn’t get what I told him.
    “ Come on,” I said. “Just
trust me.”
    Slowly Nigel put his hand in mine. I
looked him in the eyes. “Now remember, it’s all in your mind so
don’t overthink it, okay?”
    He closed his eyes and nodded. Then slowly
I pulled him upward holding both his hands.
    “ That’s it. Just let go …”
I said as his body followed me into the air. When we were about
three feet above the ground I gently let go of his
hands.
    “ Now open your eyes,” I
said.
    He looked at me. His eyes seemed scared.
    “ Now look
down.”
    “ Wow!” he said.
    I laughed.
    “ How did you do that?” he
asked.
    “ I didn’t do anything; you
did.”
    Our teacher Mr. Grangé joined us in the
air.
    “ Very nice, Meghan, very
nice,” he said. “I don’t