This story starts at 5 pm on Sunday. Shreya was getting ready to go to a theme party.
After getting fully dressed, she looked at the mirror. In the mirror, a lady vampire, in a long black robe, was staring at her, and showing her sharp teeth. Oh no! You took it wrong, this was none other than Shreya's reflection. Today on Halloween, her friend Selina Francis had invited her and Aakriti to a party at her house. This was Shreya's first Halloween party. She lives with her parents in a 3BHK apartment in a multi-storey building in Civil Lines. This flat was bought by her father when she was only three years old. Her friend of the same age, Aakriti, also lives in the adjacent flat on the same floor. This year both of them have taken admission to the 9th class in Girls High School civil lines Prayagraj. It was here that she became friends with Selina. So for the first time, both of them were participating in a Christian festival.
The doorbell rang – "Mom, if It's Aakriti, tell her I will come in five minutes." Calling out to her mother, she picked up her shoes.
These black shoes were designed in such a way that the feet of the wearer would appear upside down. The front part of the shoe was at the back and the back part was at the front. Shreya's maternal uncle has a small shoe factory and these shoes were specially designed for her to wear at today's party. Uncle had specially got them made.
Shreya came out of her room and reached the drawing room. Here, a witch was standing in a white saree, with her hair open, white paint on her face and a burning candle in her hand.
Seeing this Shreya started laughing. "You look like a ghost from a typical Hindi movie. "
"Look at my candle and if you blow it out, it will automatically light up again. "Aakriti blew out the candle but it immediately lit back up.
"But Shreya, you have become an amazing lady vampire. Your shoes are Horrible... but their size is too big. "
"Yes, Uncle said that to give such a shape they needed to be bigger. But from inside it is fit and comfortable but there is a strange feeling while walking. I am walking backwards for the first time. My Uncle is wonderful. "
Selina's bungalow was nearby and Aakriti's father dropped them in his car. The white bungalow which used to be the biggest and most beautiful bungalow in the Civil Lines area, today looks like a ghost bungalow. There were two scary pumpkins placed on either side of the gate with lights inside. The pumpkin was shaped into a terrifying face. The light emanating from its eyes and mouth was making it even more terrifying. The lighting inside the bungalow was kept medium to keep the atmosphere scary. Inside, ugly-shaped balloons filled with gas were floating here and there. In some places, fake skeletons were standing.
Selina welcomed them warmly. She was wearing a wig on her head, in which instead of hair, fake snakes were fluttering their hoods as if they were about to bite the people around them. Selina also had a fake tail which was triangular and flat at the end like the tip of an arrow. Most of the people were roaming around wearing big teeth and horns that gave off red light. Shreya's shoes soon caught everyone's attention.
Sangeeta, a student in the same class, was wearing ugly-looking gloves which made her hands look very scary. A scary play was also shown at the party. It was a short 15-minute story in which a ghost family turns their victim into a ghost-like them and makes him a member of their family and points towards them and says, your turn next.
