“Well, we may be ghosts, but we are definitely not vampires. You shouldn't believe everything you read,” Angie said.
“We might as well go. But just one more thing,” Chloe said.
She picked up a lipstick from a display on the counter and wrote in large letters across the fitting room mirror, “Angie and Chloe were here.”
Gliding through the window was much easier this time, and the two continued on.
They ate their fill of ice cream from the corner store and played with puppies and kittens at the pet store that didn't seem the slightest bit alarmed that they were ghosts.
As they walked around the square, they heard a scuffle. Two teenagers dressed as goblins were standing menacingly over three trick-or-treaters, demanding their bags of candy.
Chloe screamed with rage and ran toward them and Angie circled behind them. Both wished themselves invisible until the last second, then appeared screaming in front of the teenagers, who both ran screaming into the darkness.
One of the children swallowed hard and lifted her bag of candy toward Angie, but Angie shook her head.
“No, thank you. Go home. Enjoy,” she said.
The three children backed away slowly, saying “th-th-thank you” as they turned and disappeared around a corner.
The glowing clock in the courthouse tower chimed for the third time in the 11th hour. They had just fifteen minutes.
“It's time to go back, you know,” Angie said.
“I know. I'm feeling weak, and quite tired,” Chloe said.
“Will we remember this night?” Angie asked.
“I don't know. If we have been back before I don't remember.”
“Me, neither. But I had such fun tonight.”
“Me, too.”
They reached the porch of the dormitory just as the courthouse clock began to strike midnight. A familiar face welcomed them into a dormitory that now looked much more like the one they remembered than the one they'd been in earlier that morning. The headmistress reached up and slowly extinguished the gas porchlight and closed the door behind them.
“Did you have a fun Halloween, ladies?” said the headmistress.
“Yes, ma'am,” said Chloe and Angie, as they trudged up the stairs and opened the door to their room. Settling into their beds, the two turned to each other and said in unison, “Happy Halloween.”
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