Setting: The Pierce household, Friday October 31st, 1997, 6:50 P.M.

"Okay! Time to go!" Mrs. Pierce shouted as she was adjusting her poufy clown costume.

Mr. Pierce ran up and gave her a little kiss on the cheek. "What a wonderful clown you make."

"And you too." Mrs. Pierce replied with a "you're-also-a-clown" look on her face.

"Brittany! Jason! Come on!"

Two little kids walked up, with body language suggesting they could not be more annoyed with their parents' costume choices. The way any child feels on Halloween. One body belonged to a sweet three year old girl dressed up as Winnie the Pooh. The other belonged to a typical trucks-and-bugs-loving ten year old boy in a Mickey Mouse costume.

"Mommy! I look so stupid in this! Why can't I be Spiderman?" Jason whined. Mrs. Pierce was one of those overprotective moms who dress their kids.

"You look so cute in it! Come on, it's fine. And we can't return it now."

Brittany just giggled and wobbled around, sucking on her fingers. "Jay!" she called. That was her nickname for Jason, because she didn't want to say his full name. Jason walked over to her, unable to resist her plump adorable face. "Be nice to mommy", she sputtered, barely able to pronounce the syllables, but she was learning to talk quite quickly.

"Come on, stand next to each other for mommy's picture!"

Brittany just walked away, admiring the baby blue colored walls of their living room. She then started to play with her baby doll, saying things to her baby doll like "what are you doing, Dolly?" and "I want to play a game."

Her mother picked her up, with that grunting sort of noise a mom makes when picking up a baby.

"Oh! Little Britt, stand next to Jay-Jay for mommy!"

Brittany just kind of gurgled, but she stumbled over to the hardwood floors for the picture. She gave that cute babyish smile, while Jason gave that fake-y tell tale smile saying "I am involuntarily doing this, it's not fun. And I want everyone to know I hate this and my costume and I'm only doing it for my baby sister." Surely later he would regret being so hostile.

The picture was taken, and the Pierce family of two clowns, Mickey Mouse, and Winnie the Pooh walked off.

Setting: The Pierce household, Saturday November 1st, 1997, 1:15 P.M.

The Pierce siblings were in sort of a hangover state after their sugar high the night before. They were extremely hyper off of all the candy. To say the least, Jason and Brittany were practically drunk. They had that messy, dirty feeling of tiredness and the opposite of energy and excitement. But when kids are tired, they get extra-hyper.

Especially Jason. He was jumping around, still in his skull-and-cross bone pajamas, yelling "Candy! Candy! I love candy!"

He was in the stage every boy goes through where they're awkward and weird and they think stupid things are funny.

Brittany, however, was the opposite. She was tired and hungry, with a chocolate "mustache" around her mouth.

Jason then asked their mom if he could go and ride around on his bike to "let of some energy". Mrs. Pierce agreed because their neighborhood was relatively safe. But after this, it might just lose that safe reputation.