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they look creepy, too? We could all be friends. I felt someone watching, looming, and I tried to step past the doorway.
    “Who else lives here?” I asked boldly. “Do you have a son?”
    “I don’t have any children, miss. And I’m sorry, but we don’t have a crumb left.” He started to shut the door.
    “Wait!” I blurted out and blocked the door open with my shoe. I reached into my pumpkin basket and pulled out a Snickers and a spider ring. “I’d like to welcome you to the neighborhood. This is my favorite candy and my favorite Halloween treat. I hope you like them, too.”
    He almost didn’t smile. But then as I placed the treats in his spidery snow-white fingers, he smiled a creaky, crackly, skinny-toothed smile. Even his bulging eyes seemed to twinkle.
    “See you!” I said, dancing down the steps.
    I had met the creepy man! Everyone in town could say they had gotten candy from him, but who else could say they had given him a treat?
    I spun around on the front lawn and looked back at the grand Mansion. I saw a shadowy figure watching from the attic window. Was it Gothic Guy? I quickly stopped spinning and stared back, but there wasn’t anyone there, just the ruffle of a dark curtain.
    I had just passed through the iron gate when a ghoulish vampire in a red Camaro drove up to the curb.
    “Want a ride, little girl?” Trevor asked. Matt the Farmer sat comfortably behind the wheel.
    “My mother told me not to talk to strangers,” I said, taking a difficult bite of a Mary Jane. I was not in the mood for a Trevor confrontation.
    “I’m not a stranger, babe. Aren’t you too old to be trick-or-treating?”
    “Aren’t you too old to be toilet-papering the town?”
    Trevor got out of the car and came over to me. He looked particularly sexy. Of course, I find all vampires sexy, even fake ones.
    “What are you supposed to be?” he asked.
    “I’m dressed up as a freak, can’t you tell?”
    He was trying to be cool but was stepping on himself. I was the only girl that had said no to him. The only girl in town he could never have. I had always been a mystery because of the way I dressed and behaved, and now I was standing before him dressed as his perfect dream girl.
    “So you’re visiting Amityville by yourself?” He stared up at the Mansion. “You’re a wicked chick, aren’t you?” He glanced down, sending chills through me—he was gorgeous in his Dracula cape.
    I said nothing.
    “I bet you’ve never kissed a vampire before,” he said, his plastic teeth shining in the moonlight.
    “Well, when you see one, let me know,” I said, and started to walk away.
    He grabbed my arm.
    “Give it a rest, Trevor!”
    He pulled me in closer. “Well, I’ve never kissed a tennis player,” he joked.
    I laughed, it was such a corny line. He kissed me full on the mouth, his plastic teeth getting in the way. And I let him. Maybe I was still dizzy from spinning on the lawn.
    He finally came up for air.
    “Well, now you have!” I said, pulling away. “I think Farmer Matt is waiting for you!”
    “I didn’t get any candy!” he said, fingering my pumpkin basket. He pulled out a Snickers bar.
    “Hey, that’s my favorite! Take a peanut-butter twist.”
    He gobbled up the Snickers with his vampire teeth, which came loose and fell on the ground, dripping with chocolate and caramel. I quickly reached for them, but he grabbed my arm, spilling my candy everywhere.
    “Look what you’ve done!” I shouted.
    He grabbed handfuls of candy and stuffed them into his jeans. I watched as my remaining treats were strewn across the lawn. The only candy I could salvage were some boring Smarties and a smashed Mars Bar.
    “Still want to be an item?” he asked, his pockets stuffed full with my night’s work as he pulled me close. “Still want to be my girlfriend?”
    Suddenly he let me go and started toward the Mansion. “Now I’ll get some real candy.”
    I grabbed his arm this time. Who knew what Trevor would do if he