Melanie walks down the dark street among all the leaves. She doesn´t like the dark, the big dark trees are so close and so threatening, and she feels like she sees shadows almost everywhere. Wasn´t there a lot of kids here just a second ago? Everyone is suddenly gone, and all there´s left is emty papers from the candy. The pumpkins at Mrs. H´s house is cut out in a very scary way. The way they look, like they are watching her as she walks by, sends chills down her spine. Melanie slowly walks up to Mrs. H´s door. She always had all the good candy, and she was a very nice old lady with the most beautifully decorated house. Melanie rings the doorbell, but no one opens the door. She rings it one more time, but there is no sign of Mrs. H.
"Where are everyone?", Melanie thinks to herself. "Why does it look like something has happened?" A noise interupt her thoughts, and she quickly turns around to see where the noise came from. Nothing. Only the big dark trees and all the papers from the eaten candy. Melanie suddenly get a creepy feeling...that something is wrong, hideously wrong. "Hello!!" she yells with her highest voice. No answer. Maybe she should just go on home. So she starts walking towards her own house. What she finds suspicious is that all of the houses she walks past is all filled with darkness. Each and every house looks deserted, like the people had been escaping from something. Taken with them what they could get their hands on and just ran.
When Melanie returns to her own house, she gasps. Chills run up and down her spine. What is this? "Is this some kind of a sick joke!?!" she can feel the tears popping out of her eyes as she stands there, looking at her parents... hanging down from a tree.
"Mom! Dad!" Melanie yells, as she runs towards them. But none of them answers her. They wouldn´t do this to her, not something so cruel as letting her believe that they are dead. Suddenly something catches her eye, a poster. It says "LOCK YOUR DOORS, MENTAL PATIENT ESCAPED TONIGHT", and then there was a picture of the so called mental patient. "Oh..." is all Melanie manage to choke out. She could feel her whole body freeze up, she start to lose feelings in her arms, her legs. Never in her life had she been so frightened and scared. And she is all alone, all by herself... What if the mental patient were in the street already? And taken all the children? The more she is thinking, the more scarier the thoughts become. Suddenly a voice interupts her thinking. "The world is a cruel place... but you know, there is no such thing as free candy". Melanie can feel the goosebumps coming, she can feel the chills down her spine, but she cannot move. "Www-hho aaa-rrr...", Melanie stutters, but doesn´t finish the sentence. "I think you know... You know, we all go a little MAD sometimes." Then the person laughs a high and evil laugh. It is the most terrifying sound she has ever heard. Then she snaps out of her temporary paralyzis, and she turns quickly around to see who it is. As she watches the person infront of her, she recognices the hair, the eyes, the same disturbing smile... everything. The person standing infront of her is none other than the escaped mental patient. Melanie take one step backwards. "Trick or Treat?!?" the mental patient snaps at Melanie, and slowly walks towards her with a disturbing smile on his mouth. "I think we´ll have to go with trick, don´t you think?!", he pulls up a rope. "You don´t mind sharing tree with your parents I hope", he laughs the same laugh, filled with evil. "HELP!!", Melanie yells the highest she can manage, but she knows it is wasteless. As he is about to take the rope around her neck, she wakes up.
"Oh, honey, I think you were having a nightmare", Melanie´s mother, Sylvia is sitting at her bedside with a cup of hot chocolate. "Yes, I think I were, what a relief". She follows her mom downstairs to the kitchen. "Your costume is ready, I asume you are walking together with Michelle and the others?" Sylvia asks as she sits down on one of the kitchenchairs. "Yes, we....", Melanie stops her sentence. Her eye catches something, at the frontpage of the newspaper..... She can feel her body freeze as she reads the shocking headline: "LOCK YOUR DOORS, MENTAL PATIENT ESCAPED TONIGHT".....
Happy Halloween.......
- Story of Halloween -
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