(31)-Halloween Ends.

Two police cars drove up to the Haddonfield police station and two male cops got out, followed by Tommy, Lindsey, Logan, Timmy and Lonnie getting out the back seats on the left sides. The two male cops escorted the five kids towards the building. After questioning the kids and getting their statements, two of the cops offered to drive them to the police station where Tommy, Lindsey and Timmy's parents were waiting, which the kids greatly accepted. Logan and Timmy had put their bikes in the trunks of the police cars before getting inside the vehicles themselves. They all walked up to the police station, the cops opened the glass double-doors, and they all entered inside where Ronnie and Stephanie, Lindsey's parents, Jack and Krystal Wallace, and Sam and Regina were waiting.

Ronnie and Stephanie, Jack and Krystal, and Sam and Regina noticed their kids standing at the glass double-doors with the two male cops and Logan and Lonnie.

"Tommy!" Stephanie said before she, Ronnie and the other four parents ran towards the kids.

"Mom!" Tommy said, glad to see his mother. But his gladness immediately faded when he saw his Dad, for it was in that moment that he remembered something. He was crying during his time in the Boogyman's lair and had been so afraid for his life and so focused on escaping, he'd forgotten to wipe the tears from his face. He knew his Dad was gonna look at him like he was baby, a wuss, a coward or a fraidy-cat. He just knew it. He expected his Dad to make him feel bad about crying and being afraid.

Lindsey's parents and Timmy's parents ran up to them and embraced them with a hug.

Tommy's parents ran into him so hard, it almost sent him flying if not for their arms wrapping around him as tight as they could, and they hugged him. They soon ended the hug and looked at him with tears in their eyes, then scanned him for any sign of injury, which they didn't find.

Ronnie bent down to Tommy's angle and looked at him, relieved to see that he was okay.

Tommy just stared at his father and the tears in his eyes. The 8-year old was truly stunned, to say the least, for he had never once seen his father cry. He felt miserable that his parents were put through this nightmare like he was, but...at the same time, he felt relief. He now knew that his Dad didn't think of him as a baby, wuss, a coward or a fraidy-cat.

Ronnie them re-embraced Tommy with another hug. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." He said as the tears ran down his face.

Tommy couldn't believe it. His Dad was crying. He was actually crying...and apologizing to him. But what was he sorry for? For being hard on him for not being brave or not believing him about the Boogyman? Probably both. Then he remembered something else very important. Or rather SOMEONE. "Mom...Dad?"

Ronnie ended the hug with Tommy and looked at him. "Yeah?"

"How's Laurie? Lindsey and i left her at the house with the Boogyman to go to Timmy's so his parents could call the cops. Is she alright?" Tommy said. He needed to know if his babysitter-friend was okay and if she was somewhere safe from the monster that had attacked his house tonight.

"Laurie's doing just fine, sweetie. From what the cops told us, an ambulance showed up at the house and took her to the hospital. She's safe. And she's gonna be okay...thanks to you and Lindsey." Stephanie assured.

"Thank goodness." Tommy said, with a grin on his face. "Can we leave now?"

"Oh, honey, i-"

"Attention, everyone. Attention." Came a male voice cutting Stephanie off.

Ronnie stood up as he and everyone else in the room focused on a male cop standing at the open-door to the sheriff's office.

"I've got some good news...and i've got some bad news. The good news is we got the guy who killed those three teenagers in the suburbs. The cops arrested him outside the Myers house just a few minutes ago." The male cop explained.

Everyone cheered after hearing that.

"But the bad news is...he had already killed another teenager and several adults before he was caught. But other than that, the danger is over." The male cop said.

Tommy couldn't believe it. The cops had caught the Boogyman. They had caught and arrested the Boogyman. A monster that had been abducting kids since the medieval ages. Kudos to the cops. Yet at the same time, he was having a hard time accepting that the Boogyman had killed a bunch of grown-ups too. He thought the Boogyman only abducted kids...just like he thought the Boogyman could only be seen by kids. Both which had apparently been proven wrong.

"So does that mean we can go home?" Ronnie asked.

"You're free to go." The male cop answered.

"Thank you." Ronnie said. "Come on, let's go." He said as he looked at Stephanie.

"Go where? We can't go home, that was where the attack happened." Stephanie said.

"Yeah, and those three murdered teenagers were found in our house." Krystal added.

"Not to mention the fact that our house was attacked too." Regina said.

"Okay, how about this: We'll all stay at the Haddonfield hotel tonight. How's that sound?" Ronnie suggested.

"That's fine with me." Jack said.

"Yeah, me too." Sam added.

"What about us?" Lonnie asked, referring to himself and Logan. "My folks don't even know i'm here."

"Yeah, and my parents were gone when i left, but i imagine they're home now, wondering where my sister and i are." Logan added.

"I'll drive you both back home to your parents and explain the situation to them." Said one of the two male officers that brought the kids to the police station.

"Works for me." Lonnie said.

"Same here." Logan added.

"Well...i think that about settles it, wouldn't you?" Ronnie said to Stephanie.

"I think it does. Come on, let's go." Stephanie said.

With all that said and done...Tommy, Lindsey, Timmy, their parents, Lonnie, Logan and one of the two male police officers exited the building through the glass double-doors to head for their destinations for the rest of the night.

As they headed for their destinations, Tommy thought about everything that had happened tonight. Everything from Trick-or-Treating with his friends to the Boogyman coming after him on this night. The night of Halloween.

Halloween.

Charming kids in cute costumes, begging for candy, cardboard cut-outs of skeletons and witches on brooms, warmly glowing Jack-O-Lanterns, artless parties and entertaining games, spooky movies on TV, innocent pranks, Trick-or-Treat.

Tommy use to hate it when Halloween would end. Now he was just glad it was over. He was also glad that the Boogyman was out of his life and the lives of all other children. Yet at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a sense of dread. Not for himself, but for other kids. The Boogyman may have been out of the picture...but somewhere out there in the world, there were more kids being haunted by other monsters in their dreams.

Tommy shuttered, wondering what little kid at this very moment was tossing and turning in his or her sleep, tortured by the nightmares of a monster. A monster terrorizing them every night at bed time.

Was the creature that terrorized and abducted Tommy tonight of this world? He seriously doubted it. But was it the Boogyman? As a matter of fact...it was.
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Okay, everyone, this has been the final chapter of "HALLOWEEN: THE BOOGYMAN". All that's left now is the Epilogue chapter and that'll be a wrap on this story. I'll see you there.

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