Our Last Night Together on Halloween Night

It's been four years. Four long painful years for Kim since she's come back. Four years of trying not to think of. She missed him dearly but she knew that she needed to move on or at least away from suburbia. There where too many memories, good and bad that lingered there. Besides her personal pain there where other factors that made her want to move on. She couldn't stand the hateful rumors and painful actuations about him. College was the only reasonable way out. Yes, four long years of college work with no homecoming breaks killed some of the pain of losing him but not all of it. Her heart still wanted his. Her only sane reasoning was to keep working on her teaching degree. The more she was occupied the better.

She really had no impulse to ever come back to suburbia. If it wasn't for her parents still living there she would have packed her bags long ago and never returned. However something in the cool, fall wind made her home seemed different this year. Maybe it's the autumn leaves dancing in the streets like care free gypsies. Or maybe it's the un-natural bone chilling coldness for the season. Who knows? I believe though its was the mansion and its inhabit that called her back. Lonely hearts are a phonamon I feel I will never understand till it happens to myself. Its weird yet magical how they long for another. Grieving hearts...well they call out to each other. Its like they only have one half of their heart. Distances and time mean nothing to one who needs the other. Wishing to only hold the other in a loving embrace. I think that's why Kims back. She needed to, she needed Edward one last time.

Stepping through the automatic sliding glass doors of their local super center Sue grabbed Kim's arm and pulled her towards the newly stocked Halloween department.

" Come on Kim its your first time back in like four years, you need to go to the neighborhood Halloween block bash with me." said sue holding up a purple dress and cape to her chest.

"I don't know." said Kim

"Oh come on Kim you need to go, it will do you some good. A little dancing, some great music maybe meet a cutie in a costume...Its cause of him isn't?"

Kim looked up in surprised at her friend. How did she know about her and Edward? Was it that obvious? Did anyone else besides Sue and Jim Know of their secret love? So many questions from the past zoomed at her at once. Making her fall silent

"Kim pleassse you need to stop mourning over him, he's dead. I know you had feelings for him but...come on, he wasn't even human, he was..."

BANG! The two girls jumped when the box of holiday lights hit the floor as the brat in the next aisle through a fit. "MOMMY its not fair! I don't want to be a cowboy this year I want to be the Scissor Creature! Screamed the kid. "No its to scary and I don't need you chasing your sister around with those things on your hands! Lets go NOW!" Said the mother as she dragged her screaming son to another part of the store. Creating a safe passage for Kim to move towards the featured costume.

Holding up the plastic clawed hand something inside Kim begin to race. She felt like she could snap at any moment. How could this happen? Her precious Edward reduced to a Halloween costume. How wrong. She hated the town and how after the Christmas eve incident they exploited Edward's image. Having midnight tours around the mansion's gates, telling excited tourist horror stories about missing children and mutated cats. Then of course selling them scissor fries in the name of profit. I think the only reason why they don't turn the mansion into a museum or theme park or whatever is because its still privacy property. If it wasn't, my god there would be no place safe from them. They ruined his name when they sold the story to the media. Hell they didn't even give him his proper name. He's now know in local Suburban legend as the "Scissor Creature" I guess now you can put him in the same grouping as Big Foot and the Alligator Man.

"Kim? What's wrong?" asked Sue as she approached her from behind.Kim turned around to face Sue. Anger and sadness mixed like bad makeup on her face.She knew she had to do something to fight back for Edward's honor.

"I know what I want do dress up as!"

Grabbing now Sue's arm Kim ran to the adult's costume department.