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My Scariest Halloween

I actually did have something written up, but decided instead that I had to put my best (okay, only) Halloween story in instead. This is from Coffee Shakes, dated October 31, 1995. The scariest halloween I ever had was a night I was waiting for Marian and another friend to be driven to my house and pick me up to go trick or treating, I think I must have been about thirteen. I was all by myself in the apartment, and I had all the lights off so that people would think I wasn’t home and I wouldn’t have to explain to anyone that I didn’t have any candy. I started watching the beginning of the movie “Halloween”, which I’d recorded when it was on earlier that night, and was really creeping myself out, I mean, if you’ve ever seen the movie you know how creepy the beginning is, with that awful music, and was walking around in circles in the living room because I was nerve-wracked, and watching the clock so I’d know how long I had before Marian and the other friend arrived, and suddenly there was this

BANG! BANG! BANG!

on the door and I squeaked because it was so unexpected and then these kids started shouting through the door, “WE KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE!” which was also highly creepy because they didn’t sound cute and amusing, they sounded like they were going to break through the door if they didn’t get some candy right that minute.

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