I moved swiftly through the cold dark woods with grey fog spreading through the sky. Looking back at a light shining on me like a model in a walkway. Tripping over a stick on the ground watching as the person gets closer and closer. He comes up to me to explain why I shouldn't trespass into someone's yard at night.
Today is october 31 halloween night at 9:30 pm. I was walking with my younger sister trying to get through all the houses so that my sister Abby and I can be the new Halloween Trick or Queeners. It's a thing that the kids below 18 do with their siblings. If you can get the most candy then you and your sibling wins the queen's position. If you win the queen's position then you can pick anyone of the kids that participate in the activity and do a dare that they have to do. If they don't do it then the queens can decide the consequence. They can decide a good consequence and a bad one but can never say death. If they even think of death they are punished by the ones around.
My sister and I chose our costumes my costum is Mickey Mouse and she dressed up as a little bow peep from the toy bories. While we were walking we heard noises coming from the cemetery thinking it was kids that just went there for fun to see if they could get their crushes to hug them because they are scared. We didn't think much about it so we just scurried away.
The next hour we just ran from one house to the next trying to be the first so we don't possibly have to face the consequence. Twenty trash bags filled with a different variety of candy. There's chocolate, sour, sweet and even spicy. We carry the candy that is in trash bags in a wheel so we don't have to carry it all through the night.
The end was drawing near and we are almost done filling every trash bag we could find. We walked for a few more miles just to try to get to a few more houses. SOon we had to meet everyone in the back of the cemetery to hide from all the parents. They don't necessarily agree with this tradition. Even though all of our parents have been doing this since they were kids. They don't agree with this because one of the parents died in a car crash 25 years ago when the trick or queeners was happening. I have tried to win every year but have only won once. The time I won was the only time the consequence was funny; all the other times were not as pleasant.
We walk back to the cemetery trying to not spot our parents watching in the shadows. We all meet each other and see who has the most bags of candy. Everyone looks around the cemetery. Trying to spot the person who is the queen. We looked around and the winner had 300 bags of candy that were filled to the top. I was amazed and worried because what if I get the punishment? What if my sister gets it? Will I protect her and just volunteer? Will I let her do it herself and get humiliated? What will I do when the time comes?
The time comes to know who the Queen is because if it is Amber, I will literally die. SHe has been out to get me for so long. The reason why is because in 1st grade I accidentally slapped her with a pickle. It was not okay apparently it's illegal to slap someone with a pickle so she sent my dad to jail and put me on probation. Like how dumb is it to go to jail just cause you slapped the millionairs daughter with a pickle.
If you don't think that's bad just wait. She made my whole middle school year be a living cemetery.
We finally find out who the queen is and guess what it's Amber. Great if my life doesn't already suck. SHe gets up and gets the crown for winning queen. After that she goes and walks straight up to me.
" Why aren't you cheering for me. I am the queen after all. Like there was ever a doubt in the world that I would lose to you. Of all people why would you think you would win? You're just a poor kid without a father." Amber explained.
" At least I am not a spoiled rich kid with everything done for me. You know work that's what people do to survive, but of course you wouldn't know that since you have never broken a nail in your life." I yelled.
"You will pay for this."
"I already did remember. I don't have a father. He died 5 years after you put him in jail."
It is time for the Queen to pick the punishment and who does it.
" Emma Snow, your punishment is to go to the forbidden streets of Norway."
I slowly walk up to the forbidden streets trying to keep my cool so that my little sister wouldn't see me tremble. No matter how hard I try to keep my mind on the good things, there is always a possibility that I will end up hurt or worse dead.
I get to the streets and turn around but no one is there. They are all scared to come up here since a guy that lives here mysteriously won't ever let anyone in. I go in and just start walking around wandering aimlessly around not knowing in my mind where to go.
"Leave!" Someone in the distance says.
I start running not knowing what to do. I run into the dark woods with the fog spreading through the sky. I looked back and saw that there was a man running after me. I quickly trip over a stick on the ground watching him come up with a shovel in his hand. He leans forward and starts to talk about how he hates this trick or Queeners. He said that He hates it because Amber's dad told his wife to jump off a cliff and go dive into the water. What he did not know is that the water had sharks in it. So he took his family and hid them here trying to save anyone that comes near. Until the day that they stop the tradition is when the day they will come out of the shadows. I explained that I didn't mean to trespass but because of the trick or Queeners. I told him the truth and how she sent my dad to jail for hitting him with a pickle and how I didn't want my little sister to think I was scared.
I went back the next day to show them that I was in the forbidden streets of Norway. I took my sister back and the man that was talking to me. We told everyone the truth and now the new tradition is called Trick or Treating.