Trick or Treat?

It was a cold wet evening, and all the kids in the street were dressed to scare for Halloween.

Jakie and Myles were brother and sister, and had many friends in their group to scare the neighbours, Jackie was the oldest of 13, and wore a nurses outfit that had fake blood all over it, and she was holding a big syringe filled with green cordial!
Myles dressed as a zombie. He had a trick though… if any neighbour decided they wanted to see a trick!

Although many neighbours reluctantly opened their doors to the kids, with a bowl of candy, ready when the kids sung out “trick or treat?”
None of them really asked to see a trick. They would just hand them candy, while the children greedily grabbed them, for their candy bags.

Myles hoped a neighbour or two would take the time to ask to see a trick, and Jackie was ready to play along…

After their group of 8, had set off to knock on doors, they recieved lots of candy, but knowone said “trick! I want to see a trick..” the words myles was hoping to hear. He grew bored and he lugged behind the others, while his older sister Jackie led the group.

An hour later and all the kids had so much candy in their candy bags, so they decided to head back home, all but Jackie and little Myles.

Myles spotted a large old home on the top of a hill near a grave yard. He could see smoke puffing out from it’s chimney and wanted to go up to it, but Jackie sensed that it was not a good idea. The old house was quite far from their own home, and it looked creepy.
Myles insisted he wanted to knock on its door, just this one last door.

Jackie gave up, and relented to Myles’s begging. “Ok, just this one last time, then we are going home!” she warned.

The hill the house sat apon, was steeper than they both thought, Myles took off his zombie mask so he could breath better, he was finding it hard to carry the heavy bunch of candy he had in his bag too, but he pushed on and upward to this creepy looking house on the hill.
Myles hoped the long steep treck up to the house would be worth it if he could do his little trick. Jackie hoped so too for her little brothers sake.

When they both reached the top they had to catch their breath and myles put his mask back on before knocking on the big solid wooden door….
It opened wide, and to Myles and Jackies’ amazement, a little old man answered the door, he certainly wasn’t the person Myles expected to answer the door to this very large house on a big hill, but here he was, and Myles and Jackie sung out: “TRICK OR TREAT?”
The old man looked very serious at that moment, and told them to be very careful what they wish for…
“TRICK OR TREAT?” Myles yelled out impatiently to him.

“Young man, I wish for a trick…” the old man requested.
Myles was stunned but happy to finally do his little trick for halloween on this cold, wet and now, late night, so he then began….
” I am a zombie, I have many dead souls inside me, they are with me where ever I go, they are young, they are old, and now…..” then Myles held out his arms and stepped forward to walk inside the old mans home…
Then Jackie followed him inside, and held out her syringe to squirt onto the old mans brown suit jacket, and then Myles said: “we will take your soul with us, and walk the earth at night to bring power to the dead!”
At that moment the old man disapeared, and the front door closed behind them….

Jackie screamed with fright, and tried to open it, but it was stuck, “Ooooh no! Myles, we have to get out of here, this house creeps me out! Where did that old man go?”

Then a voice answered “I told you to be careful what you wish for! so I will grant you your wish I have many dead souls like my own, ready to follow you wherever you go! You will bring power to the dead with your young soul, so we can roam free to take over the living!”
“Myles we need to get out of here Jackie screamed, and with all her strength, she broke open the door and fled. Myles wasn’t too far behind her, running as fast as they could down the hill, and all the way home.

“That was really strange Myles, we are never to go there ever again”
Myles just nodded his head with agreement and they promised never to speak of the scarey night again.
It wasn’t untill much later that Myles realised he left his candy bag behind in the old mans house. “Oh well,” he thought, “at least someone asked to see my little trick! even if it was silly, even if the person who asked, was a scarey ghost!”

That night he heard a scratching at his window, he peered out into the night, and saw the swaying branch that was causing the scratching to his window, but as he looked out, he saw a reflection of the old man’s face from the house on the hill, staring back at him!
Myles quickly turned his head to check behind him, and their was nothing there! it was all in his imagination.

Myles crawled back to bed, but he couldn’t sleep, he realized his head was resting upon something hard and lumpy… so he went to fluff up his pillow, and all of a sudden, small peices of candy poured out onto the floor…

He then found in place of his pillow…his big candy bag…..

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