The Halloween Switcharoo

Trick-or-Treat! Wait...

As Shelby and I were walking to Ashley's, she seemed a bit down...or shaken.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"It's that show! It's freakin me out!" She replied. I laughed and looked into a sewer opening that we passed. She gave me a weird look. "What are you doing?"

"Looking for clowns...duh..." I had recently watched Stephen King's "It". I didn't even watch the whole thing and it still scared me shitless. She shook her head.

"Girl, you crazy."

I looked down ever sewer opening I saw. "Will you stop that?!?"

"That motherfucker Pennywise could be in ANY ONE of these!! Fucking clown..." Though I protested at first, I eventually stopped. I decided to look around at the houses. I'd never been in this neighborhood before.

"That house is haunted... So's that one... And that one..." Shelby said pointing at different houses.

"Really? Why haven't I heard about these before?!?" I was pissed. I could be investigating these places!

"I dunno."

We passed by a hill that led into a ditch. "There's a creepy story about that place. A girl took her little brother trick-or-treating. She pretended to fall to scare him. He went after her and disappeared. When she went to look for him, she disappeared too. They were eventually both found dead... And that sewer pipe apparently has a demon in it that kills people."

I rolled my eyes. The stories were bullshit, but I was curious. I so wanted to go to those places, but Shelby would be scared...and so would I...

Eventually, we got to Ashley's. We hopped in the bed of the truck and took off.

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October 31: Halloween Night

I felt like a pirate everytime I hopped out of the bed of the truck, pillowcase slung over my back. For some reason, I would randomly yell "YOLO!" and "Mi duele el cumpleaños!" (A/n: Spanish for "My birthday hurts." I'm not kidding.) I dunno why, I just did.

The last house we went by was just plain sketchy. As we were headed there, Shelby and I started talking.

"It'd be cool if something weird happened this Halloween. Y'know, like in the movies?" she said.

"Like if we became the costumes we're wearing?" That got her to smile.

"Yea..."

That conversation is way more ironic now than it was before.

Anyway, about the sketchy house. It looked like an exact replica of the haunted manision...only on a culdesac. The rest of the houses were normal. We approached the house with hesitation.

"Go on," Shelby said, nudging me. I knocked on the door. A woman dressed like a witch opened the door.

Man, how did I not see this coming? It's screaming in the face!

"Trick-or-treat!" We said. The woman gave us a cold look.

"Alright. Here. Eat these." She said, handing us small orange starburst-like treats. We looked at them curiously, shrugged, and ate them

Then everything got weird. The woman started laughing... No... cackling! How did I not see this coming?!? The world was spinning around us and everything went black.

And the strangest adventure began.