Disclaimer: The wonderful movies mentioned belong to whom ever they belong to. I just wanted to use them as they are some of my favorites.

Chapter 4

The bucket was full of candy. The spare bag was full as well. Toby walked up the front steps a really happy but tired kid. Sarah followed closely behind him.

Reaching the door, Toby turned to face her. "Are we going to give out candy?"

Sarah nodded as thunder clashed in the distance. "Yeap. I'll turn the light on when we get inside, but I doubt we'll get many. Looks like a storms coming in."

Once she reached the door and unlocked it, Toby rushed into the house as lightening flashed across the sky. Shaking her head, Sarah followed him inside and then froze as she looked at the side table by the door.

Sitting, oh so nicely, on the table's surface was a crystal orb, like the one that had sat on her nightstand back at her apartment a few days ago, and a single blood red rose. Vaguely, she heard Toby calling her from the living room. This wasn't right. He had forbid her name from ever being spoken, and yet it seemed he had not forgotten her.

Taking a deep breath, she quickly grabbed the orb and rose and tossed them into the small drawer in the table as the rain started to pour down outside. Even though there would more than likely be no trick or treaters, Sarah turned on the porch light.

She glanced around the entry way to be sure nothing else was a miss as she placed the bag of extra candy beside the table on the floor. Nothing else seemed different than when they had left. Slowly, Sarah walked into the kitchen to get the bowl of candy for trick or treaters.

No signs of goblins as the candy bowl was still full, but they might have hitten somewhere else. Or more than likely would make an appearance later. Sarah carried the bowl back into the entry way and sat it on the side table.

Toby came back into the entry way. "Sarah, what's a good horror movie? I can't decide which channel to watch."

"I brought my copies of The Raven and The Pit and The Pendjulum. We can watch them or at least all of one and some of the other before your bedtime, but first, you need to go take your bath."

Toby frowned. "Oh, all right." Reluntantly, he head upstairs.

Sarah shook her head slightly as she walked into the living room and over to the entertainment center. She pulled out to video cases and placed them on top of the VCR. Then she turned both the TV and VCR on, and after taking one of the videos out of its case and pushed it into the VCR. Quickly, she stopped it from playing. She could vaguely hear from upstair the sound of running water.

"TOBY, I'LL BE CHECKING! SO YOU BETTER REALLY BE TAKING A BATH!"

Sarah smiled slightly as she headed back into the kitchen. Then she froze as she noticed the window above the sink was wide opened. The curtains billowed in the storm's gust. It had been shut when she had gotten the candy bowl. Quickly, she walked over and slammed it shut before locking it.

Sarah listened but didn't hear anything other than Toby upstairs taking his bath. Something felt off, and she didn't like this one bit. Shaking her head slightly, she went back into the living room, never noticing the owl sitting on top of the refrigerator.

Sorry for the delay. I sorta forgot it was Thursday, but I did get this up before midnight CST. Thanks for the lovely reviews and follows. About some of them, this story is already written. So the chapters won't be changing in length. This story was meant to be short, thus short chapters. So please keep that in mind. Sorry, if you didn't understand that all I'm doing is uploading it.

So review if you please.

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