CHAPTER 4:
What Should I Be?
Gloria and Irona opened the door to Richie's attic, turned on the light switch, and walked in.
"There should be some great Halloween costumes up here somewhere, Irona," Gloria said. "Richie's never thrown anything away."
"I'll say," agreed Irona. "It could use a bit of cleaning, though."
Gloria found a box and blew some dust off the top that made her cough. She opened the box and said, "Here's Richie's first bow tie. Nah. Some sunglasses, Dollar's clown wig, Richie's grandma's false teeth. Yuck! Moutain goat horns, yarn, sealing wax, and all that stuff. Well, I guess there's nothing here."
Gloria turned around, and Irona wore a Halloween mask that looked like a spider and went, "BOO!"
"WAA!" screamed Gloria. "Got me again, Irona! Come on, let's keep looking."
Irona took of the spider mask, and followed Gloria where she found a trunk.
When she opened the trunk, she gasped, "Eureka! The mother lode! Look at all this great stuff, Irona! With these costumes, we can be anything we want!"
"No doubt about it!" Irona agreed.
Gloria threw all the costumes out of the trunk and into a pile and tried some different ones with a song.
WHAT SHOULD I BE?
by Gloria Glad
What should I be?
There's so many sights to me
I could be gorgeous or brave
A queen or a slave
It's all up to me
So what should I be?
What could I be?
What should I be?
I could be a scary vampire
And turn myself into a bat
Or I could put on some black pajamas
And go as a big fat Halloween cat
What should I be?
There's so many sights to me
I could be an astronaut, a robot, a hobo, a clown
Or an alien creature goin' out of the town
What should I be?
It's all up to me
What should I be?
At the end of the song, Gloria found some perfect costumes for her and Irona. "I think I have just the costumes for us, Irona," she said.
"Perfect!" Irona exclaimed.
In the meantime, Richie was at the table feasting on lasagna.
Gloria, wearing a pirate captain costume and an eyepatch, was coming from behind. "Aarr!" she snarled in a pirate voice taking Richie by surprise. "It too be a landlubber who be shovin' lasagna in this face! I declare this booty property of the queen!" With her pirate sword made of wood, she scooped up a piece of lasagna and ate it up.
"Gloria?" Richie said. "Is that you?"
"Aar!" went Gloria. "I be One-Eyed Gloria the pirate cap'n, and this be me first mate, Irona the Robot."
Irona, wearing a first mate pirate costume, came with 2 eyepateches over her eyes and snarled, "Aar!"
"You be havin' a might too many eyepatches there, matey," Gloria said and took off both Irona's eyepatches from her eyes.
"I can see!" Irona exclaimed. "Thank you, captain!"
"Let me guess," Richie said, "you guys are both dressed up to go trick-or-treating, am I right?"
"We don't be the welcome wagon if that's whatcha mean," Gloria replied.
"Well, here's a couple of sacks," Richie said. "Have a good time."
Gloria and Irona took their sacks.
"Lootin' always be a good time," said Gloria. "Come along, matey. We got a village to pillage, haar!"
And out they both went.
"Don't be out too late!" Richie called out.
"No problem, Richie!" said Irona. "We'll be back before you know it!"
And with that, Gloria and Irona were about to get ready to get their candy.