It had been a few months now since Jamie had moved in with the Carruthers' family, and it was still hard to adjust. Sure, Jamie loved them, and they loved her, but it was hard, losing people close to you- especially parents. Richard and Darlene had done everything to make Jamie feel welcome. Her bedroom was all nice and all of her dolls were on shelves, just like Darlene promised.

Jamie kept a shoe box in the closet with pictures of her family. Her mom, her dad, herself, and a picture of a little boy in a clown costume that Jamie had no clue who it was. When she asked her mother who the kid was, she would just say, "Some kid I knew a long time ago." That was pretty much it.

School was no picnic, either. All the kids bullied her, and made jokes about how she has an uncle who is the Boogeyman. Confused by this, Jamie asked the Carruthers about it. They, of course, didn't know what to tell her, for they felt that she was too young.

"We should tell her, Darlene," Richard said, one evening while they were sitting out on the front porch. Rachel was on a date with Brady, and Jamie was upstairs, doing her homework.

"I don't know, Richard. She's just a child and is still struggling with the loss of her parents. This might make things worse."

"Well, we don't have to go into gory detail. Just explain to her that her uncle was a bad man, and that he's gone now."

Darlene reluctantly agreed, and they decided to tell her next time she asked, which was the very next morning at breakfast.

Jamie wanted to know more besides he was just a bad man, but figured that was all she was going to get right now. She was still missing her parents, and let her uncle slide, for she hadn't even met him.

Rachel loved Jamie, but she was still adjusting herself, for she had been an only child for seventeen years, and now someone else was living there. She had introduced Jamie to her friends when they came over one night for a slumber party. Out of all of Rachel's friends, Jamie grew closest to Tina, for Tina was over quite a lot for dinner and stuff like that. She was the complete opposite of Rachel. Rachel was the girl who was satisfied just going to dinner and a movie, while Tina was the type who liked to go to parties and stay out late.

Tina didn't know much about Jamie's history, only that her parents were killed in a car crash. She didn't know the whole story about Michael Myers being her uncle. Tina hadn't been living in Haddonfield when Michael's reign of terror took place in 1978. She lived in Chicago, and moved to Haddonfield two years ago, in 1986.

In October, 1988, Jamie started having nightmares, and having a hard time sleeping. On the night of October 30, she went into the living room where Sundae the dog was laying on the couch. Jamie climbed onto the couch and looked out the window, sadly, at the rain coming down. There was an ambulance parked across the street. Rachel walked in, and sat next to her.

"Kiddo, it's four in the morning."

"I can't sleep."

"What is this, four nights in a row? You going for a record here? The Seven-Year-Old Insomniacs Hall of Fame?"

Rachel had hoped that would at least get a smile out of Jamie, but it didn't.

"Do you love me, Rachel?"

Rachel sighed. "Serious questions tonight. Of course I love you."

"Like a sister?"

"Jamie, sometimes..."

"Like a real sister?"

Rachel wanted to be honest with her. She loved her like a sister, yes, but she needed to be honest, too.

"We're not really sisters, Jamie. But that doesn't mean that I love you any less."

Jamie looked outside again, and saw that the ambulance was now gone.

"Sure, it does."

She sat down now, no longer looking out the window. Rachel gently stroked Jamie's hair, feeling sorry for her.

"I know you miss your parents. It hasn't been that long."

"Its been eleven months."

"Your mother used to baby-sit me when I was your age. I'll bet you didn't know that."

"You're lucky. I wish you could do the same for me."

"Come on, Jamie, let's go back to bed. Come on, Sundae."

Rachel took Jamie back to her bedroom, promising her French toast for breakfast, and saying goodnight.

When Rachel went back to bed, she surprisingly, didn't hear the sounds of Jamie's screaming, or of her parents going to console her. Jamie told her about it the next day when they went for ice cream at the Dairy Queen.

Rachel had been selected to baby-sit since the original babysitter canceled. At first, Rachel was upset because she had already made plans with Brady. Jamie overheard Rachel complaining, and felt bad. She didn't mean to ruin Rachel's date.

Rachel immediately felt guilty, and made it up to her by taking her for ice cream, and then buying her a costume and taking her trick or treating. Little did they know that that Halloween was going to be a long night.