Oops. The makeup from your costume got on your shirt. Your arm seems dead from your bag of candy. It hurts. More candy, can you take the weight? I can’t believe I got this much. Think about it, you want more, use your younger sibling as a charm to get more. Halloween might as well be the best holiday ever. I think it is. The excitement, the fun, racing from door to door, and the candy of course. Yeah, it is really awesome.

Our school goes all out on Halloween and as 5th graders we get a perk. There was a 5th grade Halloween party and it was epic. The DJ was awesome. He took song requests and pumped people up. On top of that, some of the costumes were insane. My friend Andrew had an inflatable chicken costume that was around twice my height. Wait, there’s more, he also had a two foot inflatable chicken leg and a KFC chicken bucket. He really went all out. My friend Dowlat had a clown costume with a fake blood pumper and a mask that the fake blood went to. He was creepy. We also got to go to the gym. We played gaga and basketball. I brought my own football so I had a catch with my friends. I made a full court basketball shot with my football four times. Another thing that my entire school does is a Halloween parade. Everyone dresses up and we walk in the parking lot. All the parents come for the parade to take photos and admire the costumes. While I walked through the parade I spun my football on the pavement to make it look like I had scored a touchdown. I had a catch on a patch of grass with my friends. That was really fun. This is what was epic in school.

I wonder if barrels of candy are enough, I hope not. Certainly not for me. Because trick or treating means more than a couple barrels of candy. The first thing I did at night was go to my friends’ house. I had a ton of fun there. We played video games, ate a delicious dinner, and talked about funny things. While we were driving into the neighborhood, we stopped and me and my friends hopped out of the car and sprinted toward a giant inflatable chicken, by then we knew it was the perfect meetup spot… after everybody was together. We counted down to sprint to the first house. “Jackpot, no doorbell camera and just a bowl of candy outside with no note. This house better be raided, and by us. Scarsdale Raiders lives up to its name,” I claimed. I had the first hand in the bowl so I rampaged the house. That was probably the best trick or treating moment ever. I met up with my sister and realized she was a charm. She totally got more candy at every house that gave it up. I just made the excuse “she’s so young,” and it worked. The rest of my night was simple, give candy to trick or treaters, and get well deserved sleep, awesome Halloween right? It was really, really fun. 

After a long night, maybe sitting on the couch and greeting people that are trick or treating isn’t the worst thing. I mean you probably have barrels full of candy so you’re good for the night. I’d say you can go enjoy a good night’s sleep. You earned it!