Interesting Halloween

      I was stuck at home all by myself.  It was Halloween night, but mom had said that I was to old for trick-or-treating!  I was so mad!  I had the perfect costume picked out, and the perfect route from which house I was going to start at, to the house I was going to end at.  This was going to be the best Halloween ever, and then mom had to go and ruin it.  She and my dad were out trick-or-treating with my little sister.  I figured I would just watch a not-too-scary Halloween movie.  Just then an idea popped into my head, what if I invited my friend to have a late night with lots of candy and a movie!  I decided to call her. I picked up the phone and dialed her number, ring....ring....ring...."hello" the voice said very deeply.  I thought it was just Julia trying to prank me, so I said, "ha ha, so funny Julia,  I was wondering if you wanted to come have a late night at my house?"  Than she answered in a sort of Darth Vader-like voice, "I am coming right now". 

       Okay, that was kind of weird, I thought.  So I just waited, I waited for like forty five minutes, and she still wasn't there!  I thought maybe she decided not to come after all.  Just then I saw a shadow lurking in the back window.  How did anyone get back there?  There is a combination on the gate that only my family knows, and the fence is too high to climb.  I was starting to think that the voice I heard on the phone wasn't Julia trying to prank me.  Than I heard a squeak, the creepy figure was trying to open the back door!  Good thing it was locked, but was the front door?  No time to question, I ran to the front door and locked it, and the garage door.  I also made sure all the windows were shut and locked.  Now what was I going to do?  I decided I should maybe check if the shadow was still there.  I slowly and quietly crept to the window and peeked out, the figure was gone!  I was so freaked out!  Then I remembered something, I could call my mom!  I am so dumb, how did I not think of that before?  I ran to the kitchen and grabbed the phone, it was ringing, and then I heard the ringtone in the background.  I ran into my mom's room and sitting there was her phone, and my dad's phone!  Now how would I get a hold of them?

       I was almost crying now!  Where was the figure, and what did it want from me?  Just then I heard a knock on the door.  It might be my mom and dad, but it also could be the figure! Should I answer it?  I slowly walked to the door, and slowly pulled it opened.....eeeeeeek!  Standing there was a creepy masked man holding a knife!  I was so dead!  All of the sudden the man pulled of his mask, and there was Julia, laughing so hard!  I was so mad, more mad than I had ever been in my life, more mad than when my mom said I couldn't go trick-or-treating! "I'm going to get you back when your least expecting it!" I said. "But how did you get into the backyard?"  I asked. " Remember that time you told me, because you were on a trip, and I left my soccer ball back there?" said Julia. "Oh yeah," I said.  This has definitely been the most interesting Halloween ever!

   By, Addie Platt