So I've gotten two chapies up within two days. I hope they are good, I think they are good so I guess that's allthat matters.

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When I heard that song, I lost myself. My body and my soul were separated. I heard this song so many times before, somewhere but I never knew where. I've played it on my violin, I've hummed it, I've always loved it and now I can finally hear it for real. I closed my eyes and hummed along with the words. This is Halloween, this is Halloween. I felt the wind and I felt the light of the moon shining on me. I felt pure happiness, something that I don't feel very often. My eyes were still closed until someone put their hand on my shoulder, I jumped and looked over, it was Howl.

"Are you ok?" Howl asked.

"Oh…yeah, I'm fine, just spaced out."

Howl smiled at me, when he did my stomach flip-flopped.

Whoa, that was weird. I thought to myself.

The crowd cheered as someone led a straw horse with a scarecrow on top of it. They continued singing, and then the scarecrow reached down and grabbed a flaming torch and swallowed it! The scarecrow stood up on the horse and spun around in a fiery dance. It jumped of the horse and dove into the fountain, a few seconds passed. Then Jack rose out of the green water and smiled the Pumpkin King smile and everybody screamed and clapped.

"Happy Halloween everybody! This year was the most horrible yet!" Jack exclaimed. Sally came and ran to Jack; He picked her up and spun her around. Sally whispered something into his ear, he smiled and nodded. Sally gave Jack a tight hug and smiled with him. The town-folk clamored around Jack giving him praise and admiration. He and Sally backed away slowly, his arm still around her. The Mayor jumped in front of them "Wait everybody, we still have the prizes!" The crowd backed away and headed to The Mayor's hearse.

"The award for most spines-chilled goes to Jack Skellington!" said The Mayor. The Mayor gave awards like 'Most Blood drained in a single evening' (Howl came in third) and 'Best carved Pumpkin' and 'Best trick-or-treater' the list goes on. Then The Mayor said "Best Ghost Story told goes to…" The Mayor looked at the list "Kiki Burgandy!"

I was surprised at this, my story sucked. I guess it was the howl Jack and Howl did at the end. Howl pushed me towards The Mayor.

"Um, thank you!" I said as I accepted the trophy. It had my name on it and everything. I went back to Howl, I found Jack and Sally too.

"Congratulations!" Said Sally

"Yes, you did a fine job!" added Jack.

I laughed "Thanks you guys. This had to be the best Halloween I've ever had." When I said that, Sally looked at Jack and elbowed him.

"Don't get any ideas Jack." Said Sally with a laugh.

"Not this year." Replied Jack "Lets go see if there is any candy left over."

We all agreed to this, Howl picked up a black and orange swirled lollipop and turned to me. "For the best story-teller in all of Halloweentown."

I blushed, I couldn't help it. Howl is just so nice and he's really cute too.

The party went on for most of the night, I carved a pumpkin and it looked like Johnny the homicidal maniac. Jack laughed at it insanely.

"Here, you keep it." I said as I tossed the pumpkin to Jack. Jack caught it and held it up in the air. "This is my pumpkin." He announced.

Sally and I cracked up.

We headed back to the fountain, the band was playing a song and everybody was dancing around the campfire. Jack took Sally's hand and they went and danced, they really look adorable together. Howl turned to me and grabbed my hand and dragged down there with him. I can't dance, I'm a klutz I screw everything up, kinda like Edward Scissorhands. But without the knives. Howl spun me around and I stepped on his foot a bazillion times. Howl just laughed every single time, thankfully.

The song ended and another slower one began, it was a sad song. I looked over at Sally and Jack, Sally had a huge grin on her face and Jack was laughing; Jack was a really good dancer, guess it was the fact that he was only bone so even if he did step on Sally's foot, it wouldn't hurt very badly. The song was short, ended really soon, Jack came up to me and asked me to dance, I laughed hysterically.

"Sure."

Jack really WAS a good dancer; he somehow made me a better dancer. Dancing was awkward for me, but not now I was having fun.

I danced with Werewolf, the guy with Spiders for hair, and the Grim Reaper. I taught everyone how to do my special dance; The Shower Dance! Everyone laughed when we did the Shower Dance, especially the hanging tree because he really couldn't do it that well, but the hanging men did exceptional.

I honestly had fallen in love with Halloweentown. I really wanted to stay, maybe I should have. I was getting tire and my eyes were drooping (not an attractive look) I sat down by the wall, I guess I dozed off. I heard three little voices whispering then I felt a bag slip over my head. I jolted awake, I was being dragged away! It felt like I was being hoisted into something. I hit the bottom of the something hard, I think I landed on my head but I wasn't completely sure. The something began to move, I screamed at the top of my lungs.

"Shut up!" Said a voice from outside

"Lock? What in the great world of catfish are you doing?" I asked half-screaming. A little body jumped up on top of me.

"Oogie wants to see you!" said a voice, I guessed it was Barrel.

"You guys are so going to get when I get out!" I shouted.

"I'd like to see you try!" Laughed Shock

I squirmed in the bag maybe if I could just rip a hole in the bag, maybe I could get out. My efforts were futile; there was no chance that I was getting out of this bag, I started crying. My fate was meeting Oogie, whoeverhe was. But he didn't sound good, not good at all.