Max's POV

It was the night of Halloween. "Max, can you zipper me up?" Angel asked, tugging her curls out of her dress. I zippered her dress and placed her halo on top of her head. "I have a surprise for you, Angel!" I told her, and handed her Celeste.

Yes, I gave that bear a bath, finally. "Celeste!" Angel shrieked, then hugged me. "Thank you, Max!"

Nudge looked in the doorway. "Hi Angel, hi Max!" She handed me the cheer leader outfit. "Okay, go put this on now!"

I wished there was a way out of this. I ran to my room and closed and locked the door. I pulled the costume on. It didn't look too bad, except for the fact that my wings were quite visible…

There was a knock on my door. "I'm coming!" I said, opening the door. Iggy was standing there in his costume. "Boo!" Gazzy said, jumping out from behind him. "Nice cheerleader outfit."

"Uh…thanks?"

Nudge ran over to us. "Max! You look so pretty!" Then she paused. "Wait, where are your wings?"

"Huh?" I ran inside my room and looked in the mirror – something I didn't do very often – and noticed that my wings weren't there anymore. "Wha-?"

"Ooh, I bet it's a new power!" Nudge said, dancing around. "I bet you can change the way you look! Try to make your hair change to a different color! Like purple or something!"

"Well, okay." And just like that, my hair changed to a light purple color. "That's so weird."

"Will someone please tell me what the heck is going on?" Iggy asked.

"Max changed her hair color and her wings just by thinking about it," Gazzy told him. I guess I was kind of like Angel now.

Speaking of Angel, she walked into the room right now. "You can change the way you look?"

Okay, so now my wings weren't visible anymore. But Nudge's wings were. And I was pretty sure that she couldn't do the same thing as me. "I wanna try too!" she said, and her wings disappeared. "Cool! I bet we can all do it!"

Gazzy tried to change his skin color to green so he'd look more like the Hulk, but it didn't work. "Aww," he complained. "I want to be green."

"Maybe only the girls can do it," Nudge said.

"Trick-or-treat!" the younger kids screamed at an elderly lady who answered the door. She poured all of the candy from her bowl into their bags.

Angel, I warned, and she grinned.

They turned and ran down the driveway while the lady stood there, looking confused.

"This is awesome! Look how much candy I have!" the Gasman said enthusiastically.

"Look!" Nudge pointed. "They have giant candy bars there!"

"Wait," I told them. "Take one only."

"Okay, okay," Iggy said, and I knew that they were going to take all the candy bars. "Let's go!"

Gazzy was the first to get there, knocking over a little kid in an Elmo costume and a princess. The others were right behind them. I saw Angel say something to a guy in a skeleton costume who was standing there. He said something back, then handed out ten giant candy bars to each kid.

I shook my head. What part of 'fit in' did these kids not understand?

Oh well. At least they were having fun.