"Edward, Edward! I saw her!" I yelled running through the open front door. Edward at the time was snipping off some dead limbs off my spider plant hanging in the huge stained glass window in the converted living room, when he heard me run in with the good news.

Now your prob. wondering who the hell am I and how I know Edward. My name is Elisabeth Stormhitter and I own Loveless Mansion...well my father does. See my father is in the realistate business. He's been trying his damnest to sell this house but it seems every time he gets this place sold the buyers never stay more then three days. Something about the house being haunted by a leather clad ghost? Anyway to make a long story short my father told me I could stay here til I finish visual design at CU. I moved in, met "the ghost", became friends and now im his eyes to the outside world, simple as that.

"Edward I saw her! I saw Kim!" I screamed in excitement.

"Where?" He asked as he abanded his work and approached me.

"At the super center, she was looking at some costumes with her friend. They where talking about going to some neighborhood Halloween party."

Closing his eyes I knew images of Kim where coming back to him. A true vision of peaceful misery. In a whispering voice bearly audible I heard him say. "Kim, your back"

I knew it hurt him to talk about her. They were really close. Sewing the fragmented bits of information Ed had let me known about her, she was the most important thing to him in the whole world and still is. He would have killed for her and prob. has. He would die for her, kill himself in her name. Now that's true love.

"You really love her don't you?" I asked already knowing the answer.

"...yes"

"Then you should go to that party, be with her. I'll go into town and find out more about it and..."

"NO!...I cant" sadly said Edward.

Angry at him for yelling at me I snapped

"WHY! Cause you believe your condemned to this house! Are you that afraid of the outside world that you can't leave!"

"Im CONDEMNED because of THESE!" yelled Edward holding up his huge sharpened scissorhands.

"Im a MONSTER because of THESE! That's why I can't leave!"

In my two years of knowing Ed I never knew how much he hated his odd appendages. How much he hated himself. I never knew that he felt that way.

Edward, Im sorry. I didn't mean to push you. I just wanted to make you happy. I know you miss Kim. I thought this might be a good opportunity to see her again. I know she misses you."

"She misses me?"

"Yeah, that's why I wanted you to go. She said she was going to be there."

Edward turned from me and moved towards the sofa to sit down. All the time thinking of my proposal.

"Edward it's ok, I'll be with you if you want me to.

"I can't let them see me"

"well that's why you wear a costume, silly. No one is suppose to know who you really are. Besides we'll be back in the mansion safe and sound before anyone wises up to know you're the real deal."

"...ok I'll go, but we have to be back before sunrise. I don't want to be caught in the daylight."

"Alright it's a deal. Do you have any ideas for a costume?" I asked wanting to know the inner working of his mind.

Edward looked over to a pile of books next to the never used fire place. He pointed to a picture on a open page of the top book.

"A gargoyle?"

He shook his head in acknowledgment.

"Ok, but its going to take me some time."

Edward looked up. The warm in his face returned and he flashed me a little ghost smile.