Isabella thought her mother was an only child but now realized she had two uncles somewhere in the country. If things got back to normal she would try to find them for her mother.The next time the porthole open it was Maggie's father job site. The scaffold wasn't secure and he fell nine stories. When he appeared back in the house just barely able to breathe. Maggie's mother started crying and and stated she wished he was back to the shape he was in when the porthole opened up and swallowed him. All of a sudden
Maggie's father was back to the shape he was when they arrived at the house.Maggie wondered if the key to the porthole was to say I wish. Maybe everyone had said I wished and that was why the porthole had developed in the first place. Sam was the next one to go through the porthole. He found himself back as a teenage hanging around the skating rink and football field where a car came by and the people in that car started shooting his friends. Maggie had told him the evening before what her theory was. He remembered and said I wish I was back at the house in Wait.
Instantly he was back in their bedroom.Maggie also had told her mother her theory. Maggie's mother was in the kitchen when the porthole opened up on her. She found herself in a place where she had never been before. Nothing looked right. The people she saw was wearing strange uniforms of some kind and their language was undetectible. Then she saw a strange kind of plane. She hid behind a boulder and when the aliens found her she yelled I wish I was back at the house in Wait. Suddenly she was back in the kitchen of the house.