Uhh, trying out Grimmtober. Am I doing this right? So these are kind of like one chapter stories on fun prompts right?. Okay so some people will probably need a explanation for this story. Back in the early 1900s, children particularly, liked to play pranks on halloween. Thus the term trick or treat. So in these days, the most popular trick was for children to get flour and knock on peoples doors. Then they'd throw it at that person because they didn't like him, usually wishing for that individual to be killed. Meet Me in St. Louis is a good example of what children would do. They'd also light giant bonfires to scare away fairies and wards. Another old belief was to dress up in a costume to scare devils away and that's where the tradition came to dress up. And the biggest and the one tradition I'm going to use the most is the Pumpkin, which was from the Irish who used to carve potatoes and turnups into faces, it was only until Irish immigrants came over and discovered the pumpkins and started using them to make faces. The point of carving a pumpkin was to scare away evil spirits. I'd like to explain more, but this is getting pretty long…..
Sabrina opened up her closet slowly, readying herself for whatever the boy living next store to her room did to it. Hopefully he didn't find my All-Hallows Eve dress. Sabrina knew he probably did, she was very tired the previous night and knew for a fact she didn't hide it very well at all.
Everything seemed to be in the proper place or at least she thought so, but she suspected highly that everything wasn't all there. Evening dress, check. Church dress, check. Nightgown, check. All-Hallows Eve dress. And it went on like this three times before Sabrina finally concluded that nothing was missing in her closet. He's got to have done something, but what?. Then she started checking everywhere in her room for something that was missing or something that could look like a trap. After finding nothing Sabrina stubbornly sat down on her bed trying to think of something he could've done.
That's when it hit her, there is something he could've done. Sabrina ran over to her hand mirror and on her desk and held it to her face.
"Ahhhhhhh!." The blonde screeched so loud it even surprised herself. Sabrina turned around and saw her Grandmother barging into her room.
"Liebling, what's wrong?." Her grandmother said in her sweet voice. Sabrina closed her eyes tight, this will be embarrassing. She turned around and showed her grandmother what the evil boy did to her face.
"Look what that horrible boy did to my face!." Sabrina yelled a little louder than she meant to.
"Oh Sabrina, keep it down, it's not very ladylike to be shouting like that." Sabrina was about to object, but her grandmother kept going. "It's most likely just some ink, you stay here I'll be back in a minute." Grandmother left Sabrina's small room leaving her alone with ink written on her forehead. How many times will he do this to find it satisfying enough?.
"I'm so sorry this happened, I'll give him a talking too." Her grandmother said coming back into the room holding a few rags.
"He drew a pumpkin on me!." Sabrina said coldly, showing no sympathy for the boy. "Why did you let him stay here? He's horrible, rude, and mean." Right as Sabrina said that her little sister Daphne came into the room holding a bowl of water, and putting it carefully onto Sabrina's desk.
"It wasn't that long ago when you didn't have a home either." Her grandmother said to Sabrina, washing the ink off her forehead. Sabrina knew that this was true, after her parents disappeared she was thrown on the street and was left to take care of her six year old sister. Now Daphne is seven and turning eight in two weeks. I've lived here a whole year. Time flys.
"But he's so- a fool, smelly, a cheater, an annoying behind." Daphne finished her older sister's sentence. The girl's grandmother shot both of them a glair.
"There, beautiful as ever." Her grandmother said clearly satisfied with herself. Sabrina grabbed the mirror on her desk again and looked at her forehead with it.
"Now get dressed for All-Hallows Eve." Daphne smiled happily.
"This early?." Sabrina said annoyed.
"Oh, yes, I forgot to mention it to you. Charming is having some problems with his pumpkins." Both of the girls started laughing.
"He's so superstitious, and boring. He makes us all do so much work for nothing." Sabrina said. Sabrina honestly had more to say about Charming, but she knew her grandmother wouldn't want to hear it, and she'd probably get in trouble for it.
"Yes, I'm afraid he does that a lot, but he is the mayor and a very good business man. We'd best stay on his good side." Then she left the room, closing the door behind her, Sabrina could hear her walking down the hall into Puck's room, probably going to give him a good lecture. She thought still annoyed.
"Sabrina what does superstition mean?." Her little sister, Daphne, asked questioningly.
"Girls, are you ready?." Grandmother shouted to the girls who were down stairs sitting on their favorite chairs.
"Yes!." They said up to their Grandmother at the same time. A pair of feet and some wings came running and flying down the stairs. And Sabrina knew whose wings.
"Grandmother, why does he have to come?." Sabrina asked, annoyed.
"It's his punishment for putting ink on your face." Grandmother said.
"Wouldn't this just be a punishment to all of us?." Sabrina asked, still annoyed at her Grandmother for making him come.
"Sabrina, you haven't been on your best behavior recently either. I think this will be a good thing for all of you." Her grandmother said harshly, and when she spoke like that there would be no changing her mind.
"Okay children go get into the buggy." Her grandmother said in a very German accent.
"This is Charmings house?." Daphne said quietly.
"Who else's house would have three fountains, four balconies, and a private river. It's been in this town ever since I got here and It's been expanding ever since." Puck said playing with a piece of string he found in the buggy.
"Does he really have a river?. Or did you make that up?" Sabrina asked. Puck smiled.
"I wouldn't ever lie to you." Puck said sarcastically.
"In case you haven't noticed you're here." The buggy driver interrupted their banter.
"Indeed we are, children best behavior is that understood?." Daphne nodded, Puck smiled, and Sabrina just staired. Grandmother excited the buggy and helped Daphne down then they started walking to Charmings door. Sabrina was about to exit the buggy when Puck pushed her out of the way and jumped down to the ground first.
"Royalty before peasant." Puck said mockingly as Sabrina jumped out of the buggy. They walked over to Charmings door with Grandmother and Daphne already knocking at the door.
"Well, good to see you got my letter." Charming said, almost surprised.
"As I explained to you in the letter, I believe that someone is taking my Pumpkins." Grandmother nodded.
"Where have they been disappearing?." Grandmother asked, Sabrina wanted to laugh. It's just Pumpkins.
"In the back field, I believe it's the spirits, I must of done something to them. I wanted you to negotiate taking my Pumpkins with them." Puck and Sabrina looked at each other at the same time both grinning at the superstitious English man's words.
"Hmm, we'll see what we can do." Grandmother said to Charming.
"Yes, just so you know you're great great great grandmother Matilda Grimm owed me a favor you can pay it now." Charming said and then gave us a fake smile. Then he shut the door.
"Grandmother you can't let him do that!, we don't even have a great great great Matilda Grimm!" Sabrina said, We're going to go broke if you keep letting people take advantage of you like that. Although Sabrina didn't say that out loud.
"Sabrina, we're Grimms it's what we do." Everyone went silent. " Children, follow me."
"Grandmother, we've been in this field for hours. And It's about to be the hour soon and I'm hungry." Daphne said.
"You're always hungry." Sabrina said harsher then she meant too.
"I'll think we'll have to go on a steak out." Grandmother said calmly.
"But what about All-Hallows Eve!." Daphne said annoyed, "They're going to start to light bonfires soon!."
"I hate the bonfires." Puck muttered.
"Yeah we know Fairy boy." Sabrina said rudely. "I should light one of those in my room, then maybe Puck would stop going in there!." Sabrina said angrily.
"Hey did yo- Lieblings stop it, I want you three of you to go tell Charming we're on a stake out is that understood?." Grandmother interrupted.
"But it's almost dark and I'll be scared." Daphne said.
"Okay, you can stay here with me. Sabrina and Puck will go." Grandmother said hugging Daphne.
"Do I have too?." Puck said, mocking Sabrina's voice.
"Yes, I'm already in a bad mood don't make it worse for yourselves." Grandmother said. No way, am I going with him. But before Sabrina could say anything Puck grabbed her by the hand and started to fly.
"Puck can't we walk?" Sabrina asked.
"Do you hate this?" Puck said.
"Yes."
"Then No" Then he added. "Look, we're almost there already, it would've taken forever to walk dogface."
Once they were close enough to land at Charmings house, Puck slowly flew them to ground level. He let go of her hand and then smiled.
"Why are you smiling this guys a jerk." Sabrina said while stepping onto Charmings porch. Then Puck pulled something out of his pocket. No, he didn't.
"Hey Grimm, you want to get revenge on Prince Charming?." Sabrina smiled and opened Pucks bag. Flour. He really did. She grabbed a big handful of it and locked it in her fist tightly. Then she went to knock on Charmings door.
"Hello, children do you- I hate you Charming and rudeness toward my family. I wish of you to be dead." Sabrina blew the flour in his face and Puck threw what was left in his bag on him. Then Sabrina and Puck ran very far into the woods.
"We're in big trouble." Sabrina said.
"It's worth it, did you see the look on his face?" Puck said while interrupting it with laughter.
"We should she head back to the Pumpkin patch." Sabrina said.
"Hello Lieblings, you missed the show." Sabrina and Puck looked at each other, no you missed the show.
"Oh, Charming was pretty surprised when we told him we were going to be on a stake out." Sabrina said trying to keep herself from laughing.
"Well, we caught the guy. It was Jack O'Lantern. He said that this was his land first, and he'd like to keep the Pumpkins. We said that he could have them if he stopped messing with Charming. He agreed." Grandmother explained.
"So we can go home and have dinner?." Grandmother nodded.
"Yes, I don't feel like talking to Charming this late at night. I'll send him a letter tomorrow morning explaining the situation." Sabrina and Puck smiled.
"Yay!." Daphne said.
Okay, I just want to say I wrote that in one sitting and I didn't edit it. Also this is set in like 1910 so this is set in historical times. I explained a lot of it at the beginning of the chapter so just go read that. I tried my best to make it Pumpkin based but it turns out that's really hard. Lol.