My Halloween Frenzy
Tonight is Halloween; this night that is filled with made up kids and the cliché “Trick-Or-Treat” phrase heard from every doorway. As I sit in my bedroom sulking I hear the screams, yells, and the laughter of the frantic kids from outside, who ran up and down the streets. I gaze out my window to see if there are any unique and creative costumes I have not seen before. Nevertheless, to my dismay, the costumes are all the same. Little girls dressed up as princesses and witches along with hyperactive boys dressed up as villains and super heroes all the same. The phone rings and I gaze at it drained of amusement; the ring of the phone brings maddening irritation to my ears. I let it ring once, twice then after three times I answer it.
“Hello?” I greet mechanically.
“Yo, Alice!” The familiar obnoxious voice replies. “Are you on your way over here yet? Jeez, it is just across the street! What are you a chicken?” The voice is low with a pushy, sarcastic tone to it.
“Yeah I’m coming. So hold your horses!” I yell into the phone with bursting anger. I breathe in the cool air stuffed in my small room trying to withdraw my irritation towards the person I am on the phone with.
“Ok, well, I’ll see you in a few then bye.” He says, ending the conversation.
“Yup I’ll be down in a minute Christopher so tell the others.” I reply nicely my tone pulled back hidden and in control. My last word said was “Bye.” As I put the phone down with a soft click of the receiver, I rub my dry itchy eyes. This is the Halloween, of our senior year, I promised to finally go through with Bobby Jr.’s ridiculous idea of a dare; I was to walk through the Wem Town Hall alone.
I have heard the stories of Wem Town Hall, never truly believing the myth of the girl named Jane Churm’s ghost lingering around in the Town Hall. This hall, that still stood crumbling across the street from my house, looked spooky, but not scary. Every time I am outside or looking out my window at the building, I never see anything no white smoke, no suspicious people. Nothing. That is it. The only thing I see is a building worth tearing down that still stands rotting across the street. A hall that was once the most xanadu place in the whole town, that now looked like the west side blew up in an explosion of a bomb; still eroding away by every gust of wind pushing by its walls.
As I walk slowly down the stairs of my house, I sigh at the idea that I did not want to go through with this dare because, of the fact that it sounds so childish. However childish the dare seems I gave my word and I will stick to it. I walk out the front door and straight across the street to the rotting building that was once known as the wondrous Wem Town Hall. There waiting for me across the street were three boys: Bobby Jr., Christopher Glass, and Aaron Clover.
I slowly drag and scuff my feet along the street, looking at dark black pavement. My attention drifts to Aaron shifting in his spot as his dark, shaggy, brunette hair falls into his eyes.
“Took you long enough?!” Chris yells jokingly across the street.
“Yeah, yeah I’m here now aren’t I? So stop your whining.” I jab back sarcastically in a fake joyful tone. I look at the building behind them and switch my glance to Aaron’s witty face.
“Well are you ready to go through with Einstein’s dare yet?” Aaron laughs out while looking at me and then to Bobby Jr.
“Hey at least I’m smart enough to be considered Einstein!” Bobby Jr. yells out with anger.
“Hey, you’re talking to the kid who can hack into N.A.S.A here.” Chris laughs tauntingly.
I laugh and then reply. “Yeah, I’m ready… so let’s get this over with. I’ll show you nitwits just how wimpy you really are.” I chuckle, my face pink from laughing and my reluctant sarcasm. I walk to the building’s doorway. I stop and look back and say, “Well, here I go! Now behave while I’m gone…come and get me if I’m not back in ten minutes.” I emphasize in a sarcastic motherly tone. We all laugh at the weird voice I made a second ago and grin.
