It was a month later, Halloween day, the weather outside was perfect the sun was shining and a little breeze was going on. All the children were very excited on this day because they got to play dress up and get candy for it, although the parents had to check their candy to make sure none of the wrappers were opened.
"Momma! Look at me! I'm a pretty princess!" Chloe giggled walking into the living room where Paige was sitting with her grandmother also. "Granny don't I look pretty." standing in front of the television she moved her hips back and forth to show off her Belle costume from beauty and the beast.
"Yes, you look absolutely stunning." Mrs. Michalchuck responded clapping her hands together, it was a bit awkward at first to get used to being called 'granny' or 'grandma' but after time it became normal. Her eyes sparkled, for once in awhile she was happy that Chloe was born and existed, it had been a rocky two years and they got through it together.
"You definitely are a princess." Paige responded as she leaned against her mother, "Hey Mom, I'll go out with Chloe this year and you can hand kids their candy..." her mother nodded her head, she turned to look back at Chloe. "We're going trick-or-treating with Marco, his little cousin and Alex."
"Yay!" Chloe clapped her hands while jumping up and down, her two pigtails swooshed back and forth between her head, jumping over to the two ladies sitting on the couch she jumped on her mothers lap. "Momma, you dress up tonight?"
"I'm going to be myself, I haven't had time to shop baby." Paige sighed placing her arms around Chloe's waist she pulled her towards her chest where Chloe laid her head. "Tonight we'll still have a lot of fun."
"Okay." Chloe pouted, she really wanted her mom to dress up being only two she could only stay upset for so long, placing one of her fingers in her mother's hair she gripped onto it and twirled it slightly, "Pretty."
"Come on, I'll make you dinner and then we'll see if everyone's ready to go." Paige stood up and walked with her daughter in her arms to the kitchen and placed her on a stool. "How about your favorite? Macaroni and cheese." she opened up one of the cabinets, took out the blue box and placed it on the counter.
"Yeah yeah!" Chloe screamed and then burst into laughter.
"Shh." Paige whispered pressing her finger to her lips.
"Oops." Chloe whispered mimicking what her mother was doing.
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A few hours later there was a knock on the door, "I'll get it! I'll get it!" Chloe excitedly said as she ran towards the door, she stood on her tiptoes and opened the door slowly, placing her hands on her cheek she let out a little 'Ahh!' and started to cry. It was Marco dressed up as a dead zombie, his mask had blood that ran down his face every 2 minutes.
"Chloe don't cry it's me Marco!" Marco said leaning down, his cousin was behind him laughing to himself, he sighed when it only made Chloe cry more.
"What you do to Marco!" Chloe hysterically cried as she covered her eyes, Paige who was upstairs came running down. The little girl turned around and hugged her Mother's leg, "Momma something's wrong with Marco's face...kiss him and make it better."
"Shh, it's okay... it's just a costume." Paige coaxed Chloe she picked her up and rubbed her back slightly as she looked over at her friend who was covering his face, laughing to herself she grabbed a pillow case and pushed Marco outside. "We'll go trick or treating now alright? Want to be a big girl and hold your pillow case?"
"Yes, i'm a big big girl." Chloe nodded slowly as Paige put her down and handed her the pillow case, taking a hold of her mother's finger they both walked down the sidewalk with Marco and her cousin behind them. "Where Alex?"
"She's going to join up with us when we get to her apartment." Marco said, he looked at his cousin and pushed him forward, "Don't be so slow, we got places to go and people to see and you can't be lagging behind okay?"
"Whatever." He replied rolling his eyes.
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Alex slowly left her apartment complex looking around cautiously, she wore a shirt that only covered her chest and her arms, her stomach could be seen. She wore tight black leather pants and combat boots, and her hair was up in a half ponytail. Admitting to herself she looked hot she walked down the street trying to figure out where her friends were.
"Hey sexy." Jay Hogart her ex-boyfriend walked behind her a slight grin was on his face, he really did love Alex but he messed up big time and there wasn't any way that she would get back with him but it couldn't hurt to try.
"What do you want Jay." Alex tugged at her shirt slightly, annoyed with the fact that he had to show up and bug her, "I'm off finding Paige so I would appreciate it if you would go off and not exist around me, I don't like fleas." quickening up her pace she walked down the street and turned the corner.
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"Trick-or-treat!" Chloe yelled holding up the pillow case over her head, she watched as the candy fell down into her bag and said a quick thank you to the lady who seemed to be a bit overweight, running down the stairs she accidentally bumped into a tall man.
"Hey...watch where your going little one." Dean laughed as he helped her up, smiling down at her he poured all of his candy that he received into her bag. "I see you are Belle for Halloween you are a very pretty little girl."
"Thank you, momma say's I can't talk to strangers...so bye." Chloe held the candy close to her and ran towards her Mom who had a look of confusion on her face due to the fact she couldn't tell and didn't know who it was.
"Who gave you all that candy?"
"He did." Chloe pointed at the man who was now staring at them through his cloaked face so it wouldn't be recognized, "I thanked him let's go find Alex!"
"Alright..." Paige said uneasily, she watched the figure as he walked towards the door she took a few steps down away from the house but couldn't help but feel something was wrong with that man, shaking it off she saw Alex who was walking towards them. "Hey Alex...you look... insanely hot."
"Thanks." Alex blushed for awhile now she had a thing for Paige, even though she had a kid she couldn't help but see the beauty in her friend.
"Hey look at my costume!" Chloe tugged on Alex's arm, she then took a few steps back and curtsied a few times to show how it sparkled in the light.
"You look pretty like a princess." The raven-haired girl complimented as she turned to follow her friends. As they walked a few steps behind them was Dean who had a small bag of candy now, Alex turned around when she felt that someone was watching them she looked at the dark figured man. Something isn't right.
"Maybe we should go." Alex suggested as she pulled Chloe closer to her, she noticed the look on Paige's face when her daughter was pulled away from her, picking up Chloe she sighed to herself. "It's getting late anyway."
"Yeah." Paige agreed silently she walked a little closer to Alex but tripped over Dean who had barged right past them, causing her to fall to the ground, Marco stopped and held out his hand to help her up. The blonde slowly stood up with the help of her friend, she watched as Dean walked off still not understanding what was going on and who he was. "He could have at least said excuse me."
"What a a--" Alex paused for a moment looking down at Chloe. "What a jerk."
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Dean smiled to himself, he had been watching Paige and her daughter for a month and a half now dressing up as different guys just so she wouldn't get suspicious of him, he knew everything there was to know about Chloe, he knew where they lived what their parents names were anything there was need to know. He also knew what type of things the little blonde liked and he knew that he was going to lure her in.
"She's going to be mine."
