Chapter IV
"Mementos"

Mom gave Kate a dress like the one she wore when she was younger. It was made out of rags, much like the one she wore now. Kate slept in an old guestroom that we had with a pullout couch; it was the best we could do for now. Kate and I didn't really talk much the next few days. I kept to myself in my room, thinking of way to try to get Kate to remember. The only time I really even saw the girl, now, was at meals. I decided to go to my grandfather. After all, he's the smartest guy in Halloweentown.
"Grandpa?" I called as I pushed the heavy metal door to his observatory open. "Are you home?"
"Good morning, Dimitri." Grandpa said as he scooted down the ramp that went around the inside of his tower. "Did you find your friend?"
"Yes, but-"
"But what?"
"Well, she can't remember anything-not even about Earth."
"Very strange, indeed." He pondered. "Well, there is-"
"Is what?"
"Slow down, boy." He sighed. "There is that one law that the living will normally not see the dead."
"Yeah?"
"I mean, don't get me wrong, a few mere minutes is no problem. But YOU, Dimitri, were exposed to her for an extended amount of time, causing the balance to go out of whack. So I'm afraid there's nothing we could do."

I looked hard at him. "Well, I'll find away to make her remember!" I ran out the door. The problem is, I had no idea how I was going to do that. I saw her examining the fountain in Halloweentown Square.
"Kate!"
She turned to me. "Oh, hi. I haven't seen you in awhile. You been in your room?"
"Bingo." I said.
"That's nice..."
This was a bit of an awkward moment.
"So," I gathered up courage, "do you want me to show you around town. We've got some pretty cool stuff around here."
"Like what?"
"Oh, I dunno, but the Town Hall is pretty cool." I pointed to it and she followed my finger.
"Sorry, it looks like a rundown shack, if you ask me. Then again, everything here looks a bit run down to me."
"Whatever..." I sighed.
"But I didn't see that other place yet."
I perked up. "Huh?"
"You mentioned it. 'Swirly Knoll' or something like that."
"Uh...Spiral Hill?"
"That's it!"
"You wanna go?"
"Sure."
I thought for a minute and remembered that there was going to be a full moon tonight. "How about we wait until nighttime?" I asked. "That's when it looks REALLY cool."

So, that night, at about nine, I knocked on Kate's room door.
"Are you ready to go?" I asked nervously when she opened it.
"Yeah." She looked down. "Why the heck are you wearing a tie, Dimitri?"
I was wearing a plaid tie that was red and black. "I thought I should look nice for the occasion."
"What occasion?" she asked, confusedly. "We're just gonna go see a hill."
I realized that I was just being stupid and I tore the tie off me. It's not like this was going to be romantic or anything. I was just going to show here something-a hill. I began thinking as we walked through the cemetery. "Get a hold of yourself, Dimitri," my mind said to me angrily, "she's NOT the girl she was. She can't remember a thing and you think she's still in love with you. Well, guess what, Einstein? She's not! She has no idea who you are and it'll stay that way until you find something to that'll set things right.!"
"Is that it?" she asked suddenly when we stopped. It was right behind the gate.
"Uh, yeah..." I replied, being shaken from my daydream.

Spiral Hill hadn't changed much since we were last here together. A few more graves had appeared around it and things like that.
"It's pretty cool." She said, shivering in the breeze.
"You know," I muttered. "It's strange."
"What?"
"It seems like almost yesterday that we were here together."
"Did we have fun?" she inquired, wiping the death-lightened hair out of her face.
"Oh, yeah." I replied with a content far-off sigh. "It was if the stars were smiling down upon us."
She started running towards the strange hill and sat with her legs hanging off at the curly summit. She stared at the full moon over the almost completely darkened cemetery.
I followed her, but I stood instead of sitting.
"Dimitri," she said. "I like you."
My dead heart skipped a beat.
"You're really nice." She continued. "And I want to thank you for trying to get me to recall the things that have happened."
I listened carefully.
"So, thanks."
I barely managed to speak. "You're welcome." I finally got out.

She stood up and walked slowly descended past me. "Do you want to show me anything else?"
"Uh..." I did have one more place in mind, but we may have gotten lost along the way. We were out pretty late already, anyway. "Tomorrow." I decided. "I have to show you one more thing tomorrow."
I walked her back home (I had no choice but to) and I bade her goodnight before I went up to my room. I pet Zero and I smiled. "For once, Zero, everything turned out perfect!"