All Hollows Eve
It was Halloween tomorrow. Jacob was ecstatic about it. It was his favorite holiday of the year. He liked being able to dress up and used to love going trick-or-treating. When I asked him why he didn't trick-or-treat anymore, he just said that he was too old for that kind of thing. He looked so sad when he said that. It was going to be the first time that Claire was going trick-or-treating and she really wanted me to come with her. When she had asked me to go with her, I was initially going to say no. Why bother people for candy when I knew I wouldn't eat it. But Jacob changed my mind. He was like a child at Christmas when Claire asked me and told me I should go. He was sure to add that he would need me to be there to supervise. Daddy and I were playing the piano together when I decided to bring it up. I thought about what Claire had said to me earlier and Jacob's reaction of excitement. Daddy just laughed to himself.
"You do realize Jacob's just using this as an excuse to go trick-or-treating for the first time in eight year right? It's not your fault that at eleven he decided he was too old for trick-or-treating." I giggled and nodded my head. I added a stream of notes to the ones that daddy was already playing to add to the effect of the song.
"I know. But Claire practically begged me to go. And Jacob was only to happy to help Quil supervise. And I've never dressed up like that before." Daddy smiled and took over the high notes while I worked on the low notes.
"What did you want to dress up as?" I hadn't really thought about it. I knew Claire was going as Pocahontas. Quil had even agreed to dress up as Miko the raccoon. He only had a mask and a lot of grey clothes, but it was cute. Quil had told me that Sam and Emily were coming too with their son dressed as a pumpkin. Their son, Michael, was born October 4th, just a few days before Kim's and Jared's wedding. Claire had been the flower girl once again, and they finally had a ring barer with Mike born. It was the cutest thing ever. Daddy laughed at Mike dressed up as a pumpkin. He was such an adorable baby.
"I haven't really thought about it. I thought about asking Alice , but thought it best to not unleash her wrath." Daddy started laughing and I laughed with him.
"Wise decision honey." As we played the piano together, I thought a little more about what I wanted to be. Quil jokingly suggested that maybe I just go as the bride of Dracula. I didn't see that working at all and Jacob didn't like the idea either. Jacob had already decided what he wanted to be for Halloween. He was going as Jack Skelington. I didn't know who that was at first until I watched the movie with him. I wasn't sure what holiday it classified itself at, honestly. But I loved the movie. And Jack was awesome. The more I thought about Jacob's costume, the more I thought about the movie. Then I thought of who I wanted to be for Halloween. Daddy made a funny face.
"You want to be Sally the rag doll?" I giggled. It was the perfect costume. Granted, Jacob was a little to muscular to pull off Jack Skelington perfectly, but he would still be a great Pumpkin King. Why not be the rag doll?
"Do you know where I might buy a costume?" Daddy chuckled.
"Honey, that movie was made in 1993. They don't make those costumes anymore. Or more likely, they don't make them as much as they used to. We wouldn't be able to find a good one in the amount of time given." I began to pout, but then had an idea. I could make the dress myself. And the mall was still open. Alice could come with me to find a nice pair of shoes for the costume. Daddy smiled at my conclusion.
"Do you think I could make a good costume?" He sighed lightly and stopped playing his side of the piano to look at me. I stopped playing too.
"I don't doubt that you'll make a good costume. I'm just not sure how you plan to find a good pair of shoes to go with it." I would find a pair. Even if we had to pay all the shoe stores in Washington to stay open until I found a good pair. Daddy just laughed and went back to playing his portion of the song, me joining. "Well, Alice is back from her hunting trip." Daddy turned his head towards the back door, but not raising his voice. " Alice , Nessie needs your fashion expertise for her Halloween costume." Within an instant, Alice was standing behind me.
"So what did you have in mind?" I touched her hand and showed her the image of Sally. She made a face. "Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas?" I nodded my head. She thought about it a little. "Do they even sell those costumes anymore?"
"I'm making the dress myself. I was hoping you could help me find the right pair of shoes." Her face beamed again.
"Shoes I can do. Were you wanting flats or heals?" I considered which would be better.
"I'm thinking maybe a pair of healed boots. Something that came to just above my ankle." Daddy looked at me.
"Don't make them to high okay?" I nodded at daddy.
"Okay, that sounds like an easy thing to find. They should have something like that at a pay-less or DSW. And we'll stop at a fabric store on the way home so you can make your dress. And don't worry, I'll help you with it. I promise you'll be the best Sally ever." I smiled. That's what I was hoping for. Alice practically dragged me away from the piano and to her little yellow porche. We drove all the way to Seattle so we could go to the better shoe stores. When we got into DSW, I already felt overwhelmed. Just from standing in front of the door, I could already see seven pairs of shoes that fit my needs. Alice took me to a pair that she saw that she thought would be nice.
The heals weren't too high, maybe an inch heels. And they rose up to just above my ankle with the fabric overlapping a little over the shoe. And they were pointed. I looked for a box that had something in my size. I still technically wore kids and junior clothes, but if I found something in adults that was small enough, it wasn't hard for me to wear it. I managed to find a size four shoe. They were slightly too big, but nothing I couldn't fix with a few minor adjustments and added fabric to the toe. I could feel Alice's excitement.
"I think those will be perfect. They are the same basic look as Sally's shoe, but a little more stylish." I nodded my head, agreeing with what she was saying. Even though the heel wasn't very high, it would still make me a little taller. When standing next to Jacob, any additional height was great. The man was exactly 6' 11". I was 4' 8'. I was still shorter than Alice, but I was pushing it. The heels would make me 4' 9" or 4' 10". Not much, but it was an improvement.
"I think these will do perfectly." Alice smiled triumphantly and dragged me and the shoes to the checkout stand. When we had bought the shoes, we went to a local fabric store and looked for the material I would need for my costume. It was deconstructed, so that would make the dress a little easier to make. We bought two yards of each of the materials. Thankfully, they had all the materials I needed. Not a strip or polka-dot out of place or the wrong shape. We bought the blue stripped fabric, pink stripped fabric, polka-dotted yellow and plain yellow of the same shade and everything else we needed.
When we got home, we went to her and Jasper's room to start working on my dress. She set up the small manikin she bought that she had made sure was the same size as me. She printed out a few pictures of Sally from all sides so we could know for sure what part went were. Once we knew exactly how it should look and Alice took updated measurements of me, we started cutting out the fabric. She taught me how to cut the fabric so that everything would hug me just right so I wouldn't end up looking like a box. She claimed that after the movie came out, there were a million girls that went out as Sally for Halloween and a lot of their costumes were really bad and made them look boxy.
"Do you think Jacob will appreciate it?" I knew her vision was clouded whenever Jacob and I were involved, but she was still insightful.
"I don't need my sight to know he'll really get a kick out of it. Edward says that this is one of Jacob's favorite movies. According to Edward, he was going to try and convince Sam to dress as the two faced Mayor and maybe get Emily to be the corpse bride." I laughed. There was no way they would go for it. Sam and Emily would never willingly draw attention to themselves like that. We finished the dress in one hour. When we were done, Alice fit it on me to make sure we got the curving right. I wouldn't grow enough for us to need to make it larger. The dress fit me like a second skin. Alice made the dress reach just below my knees, and with the shoes, I had Sally dead on. Now all we needed to do was the makeup and hair. My hair was naturally very wavy. Sally's hair was stringy straight. I had never tried to straighten my hair and was scared to try. Jacob always told me I had hair like a wolf, full and abundant. I looked from the mirror to Alice.
"How long will it take you to straighten my hair?" Alice laughed.
"If I try to make it stringy straight, that will take a while. But no more than forty minutes." I sighed. Great. "Don't give me that look Nessie. You wanted to be Sally." I nodded. She led me to her bathroom and told me to wait there. She was back within two minutes with my hair stuff I had gotten for my birthday. She hooked up the flat iron to let it heat up. She ran a brush through my hair and sectioned it off to make it straighten more easily. When she had everything sectioned the way she wanted it to, she took the flat iron and started straightening my hair. She had to go over each section three times before it was finally straight enough. It ended up taking an hour to straighten my hair. Jasper thought it was cute though. I had to admit it was worth how long it took. My hair was perfectly straight and flowed like waves. Alice added some red extensions to make my hair look naturally red instead of bronze.
"Sally wishes she looked this good." I giggled at Alice's comment. Alice played around with the makeup I would be wearing, trying to make stitches on the right spots. Once she perfected the make-up, she called momma and daddy to come up into her room. Momma thought it was cute.
"Oh my god, you're being Sally!?" She had a big smile on her face. Daddy was giggling at the fake stitches. "She was one of my favorite Disney characters." Momma started humming the opening song to the movie and I sang along for a few minutes. Alice interrupted us.
"Yeah, Jacob's being Jack Skelington." Momma laughed.
"Jacob as Jack Skelington? I can't see it. He's to butch." I laughed with her. Everyone else laughed lightly.
"Yeah, but that's why she decided to be Sally." Momma hugged me again and then ran her fingers through my hair.
"It's so weird seeing you in straight hair. I'm so used to it being wavy." I joined her in playing with my hair. Thanks to the straightening, my hair was past my butt. After everyone got to look at me in my costume, I changed back into my regular clothes, not bothering to take off the make-up. I could get rid of it when I took my bath tonight. Jacob hadn't come over today. He had gone to get his costume ready and had wanted to surprise me. I planned on surprising him with my costume too. Seth came over for help with his Physics and Trig homework, so daddy was occupied for the rest of the afternoon. Seth said that he was joining us for trick-or-treating tomorrow. He was happy to have an excuse to trick-or-treat after so many years.
Momma and I sat with daddy while he was tutoring Seth. They were going over circular motion. I understood why Seth was having trouble with Physics. Everything you thought was logical about things suddenly weren't right. Trig on the other hand wasn't that hard. I wondered why this was so hard for him. He told me he really liked algebra but geometry and trig just never clicked with him.
After about an hour of sitting with daddy and Seth, daddy asked Seth if he wanted any dinner. Momma and I said we would make it and left for the kitchen. Momma was giggling about something.
"What's so funny momma?" Momma giggled a little more before answering me.
"Nothing. I just don't miss Physics is all." I began to giggle with her. Esme was in the kitchen filling up one of her water pots. She looked in our direction when we entered the room.
"Do you want me to help make dinner for him?" I walked over to Esme and touched her hand, asking her to butcher anything that needed it. She smiled at me and put the flower pot on the kitchen table that we never used. "Okay, I'll butcher. What were you planning to make him?" This question was directed at either momma or me.
"I figured steak would be good. Steak and a twice baked potato with lots and lots of sharp cheddar cheese and garlic." I winced. I really hated garlic. The smell was way to strong and always made me nauseous. We pre-heated the oven to bake the potato and got out the steak. Seth had said that he liked his meat medium rare. It didn't take long for us to make, and when we were done, Seth had finished all his homework for the day.
"Thanks a lot." We brought him his can of Dr. Pepper and we sat with him while he ate. I asked him about his teachers and he went on about his English teacher, whom he hated. But when he described her, it was no mystery as to why people didn't like her. Apparently, the woman spoke in a very monotone voice and was extremely bitter for whatever reason. I asked him if Jacob had ever had her for English. "Yeah, he had her. I wish I could have been there. Jared told me that he used to put that woman in her place. And that's putting it gently." Daddy and Seth laughed. That sounded like Jacob. He was never one to tolerate being degraded, no matter who it was.
"What would he do to her?" I knew that Jacob was never one to allow anyone but me to push him around, but I also never saw him as someone that would hurt anybody.
"Oh God, where to start." He thought about it for a bit, daddy laughing lightly at all the things that came to his mind. "Okay, I got one. One time, there was a homework assignment that she gave everyone in the class that was really unreasonable, especially for us. We had to read 'The Great Gatsby' in one night and right a paper about the cruelty and hypocrisy about the wealthy class of the twenties. To say the least, Jacob was not pleased with this news. He asked her if she could at least give us two weeks for everyone to do it and do it right. The old harpy gave him a lecture about being a lazy teenager and told us no."
"So what did Jacob do? There's no way he left it at that." I knew Jacob would never take that sitting down. Seth laughed before answering me.
"He glued her hand to the linoleum floor near the cafeteria." He what? Seth noticed my face and laughed again. "The timing was perfect. She would always grab coins off of the floor when she saw them. While no one was looking and when she was a few feet away from the spot, Jacob put a penny on the ground and put some clear super glue near it. Jacob ran away from the sight and hid behind one of the island walls to see if she would fall for it. She saw the coin, put her hand into the super fast drying glue and grabbed her penny. But she couldn't lift her hand off of the floor. They had to break the linoleum floor and take her to the hospital to have it removed. It was great." We laughed.
"I never knew Jacob was one to do things like that to his teachers." Seth shook his head.
"Not his teachers. Just her." We laughed again. After Seth finished eating, he said it was time for him to go home. He thanked daddy for his help and drove off. Daddy, momma and I went into the music room and daddy taught me how to play the opening Nightmare Before Christmas song on the piano. All he needed to do was play the song for me once and I had it memorized. It was a fun song to play. When we played that song a few times, we played a few other songs. After a few hours, momma and daddy took me home to go to bed. I cleaned off all the make-up from my face, legs and arms. I managed not to get my hair wet somehow. Alice would have to smooth it out a little in the morning, but other than that, my hair was still straight as string. Momma and daddy tucked me in for the night.
"Is Jacob coming over tomorrow?" Daddy nodded.
"Yeah, he is. He said he would be over by one." With that said, daddy and momma each gave me a kiss goodnight, and I drifted off to sleep. I woke up the next morning with no one in my room. My door was cracked open and I heard momma and daddy in the living room talking. I changed out of my pajamas into a pair of jeans and a white sweater. I let my hair flow down for today because of the costume I would be wearing later that day. When I got into the living room where momma and daddy were, I noticed what it was they were talking about. Or more accurately, what they were arguing about. Momma and daddy were playing chess together and they were debating over whether or not a move momma made was legal. It was purely playful, so it was fun to watch. They knew I was ready and in the room, but they continued their conversation a little while longer. After about a minute of teasing arguing, daddy looked over at me and then back at momma. He playfully told her that conversation wasn't over and that he would get her for it later. We didn't have a clock in the house for some odd reason. Daddy always wore a watch.
"What time is it daddy?" He rose from his seat and came over to me. I was too big for him to hold comfortably, so he just put his hand on my shoulder.
"It's ten Nessie. So he isn't here yet." Momma rose from her seat and walked over to me to join daddy.
"He did call though. He said that he would be over an hour or so early. Do you want to put your makeup and such on now or wait until later?" I wondered what would be the better thing to do.
"I think I'll wait until we have to leave for La Push. Did Jacob say if we were trick-or-treating anywhere else?" Daddy nodded his head.
"Yes actually. He asked me if I minded if you guys went to Forks too. I just told him to ask if you were okay with it." I smiled, mentally thanking him. "You're welcome honey. Now let's get back to the house." We walked together back to the main house were everyone was engrossed in their own little activities. I did notice that Esme, Carlisle , Emmett and Rosalie weren't there. "They're just out hunting Nessie. They'll be back later today. The rest of us are going tomorrow." Momma trailed to a different subject.
"Do you even plan on eating any of the candy you'll get from trick-or-treating?" I giggled and so did daddy. I shook my head.
"No. I was just planning to let Jacob or Claire have it. I know Claire is one for chocolate." Daddy just broke out laughing, remembering something that happened last month at my birthday. Claire really likes chocolate, so she gets really happy when she has some. Mostly because her mother doesn't like to let her eat sweets. When she was eating my chocolate angel food birthday cake, she started singing about it in her head. Daddy had never laughed so hard. To him, it was the cutest thing he'd ever heard a baby think about.
"I'm sure she'll break out in song if you do Nessie." Momma started laughing too. When we got to the house, Jasper and Alice were alone on the couch, sitting really close together. They were watching an 'I Love Lucy' re-run. It was the episode Lucy and everyone went to Paris . I heard Alice mumble.
"Never have I once seen a designer literally put bags and trash cans on his models." Daddy chuckled at Alice 's never-ending pet peeve for bad fashion.
"That's why it's a family sitcom Alice ." She turned around and stuck her tongue out at daddy, then turned back around in Jaspers arm to face the TV again. I had a few hours before Jacob and the others would get here, so I started thinking of ways to keep myself occupied 'til then. I thought of something I could do. I looked at daddy, who already knew what it was I wanted to do.
"Would it be okay if I did?" Daddy chuckled.
" Carlisle doesn't mind when you look through his and Esme's stuff, but that's when they're home to keep an eye on you. I think you should wait to be nosy until the persons are there to tell you when enough is enough." I pouted my face, begging him to change his mind. Carlisle and Esme had a lot of interesting things in their room. They had posters and antiques from every generation possible. It was never boring to tour through the centuries of stuff they had lying around. Daddy chuckled again. "Think of something else to do Nessie." Momma and daddy sat on another couch, watching 'I Love Lucy' with Alice and Jasper.
I wondered around the house looking for something to do. I played the piano for a half hour, but got bored and decided I wanted to do something else. I remembered how Alice flat ironed my hair and decided to do that myself. I ran up the stairs to Alice and Jasper's room and into their bathroom where Alice still had my hair things from yesterday. I still had in the red extensions, which weren't really extensions considering how long my hair was. I turned on the iron and waited a minute for it to heat up. When it was hot enough, I brushed my fingers through my hair, looking for spots that might have undone themselves into waves throughout the night.
It didn't take nearly as long to do as it did the night before. It only took twenty minutes this time, because the strands of hair were being stubborn. I twirled around looking at my hair, pleased with how it turned out. When I finished that, I ran back down the stairs and went to where everyone else was. Now they were watching an episode of 'Green Archers'. I sat in momma's lap, leaning onto the arm of the chair. Momma started playing with my hair and daddy just rubbed my calf.
"You washed off the makeup from yesterday?" Alice 's voice startled me.
"Yeah. I thought you were just practicing yesterday." Alice looked at me for a moment, but then she sighed lightly.
"Okay, Nessie. I'll re-do it. It wasn't too hard to do anyway. Which reminds me, when are we dressing you up again?" Daddy answered for me.
"We're going to wait until Jacob gets here. He's coming to pick her up and take her to La Push, then to Forks for trick-or-treating." Alice nodded her head and looked back at 'Green Archers'. After a few more episodes of 'Green Archers' and 'Adams Family' re-runs, I heard Jacob's car coming near the house. "He's certainly happy." Well yeah, for trick-or treating. Daddy chuckled. "That's part of it, yes. But that's not what has him ecstatic at the moment." I looked at daddy for a moment, but then ran to the door. He was practically running up the driveway to the stairs. I opened the door before he got there and his face was happy. He wasn't in his costume yet. He had told me he would put it on before they left his apartment. That's where we were all meeting.
"What are you so happy about Jacob?" He had on a wide grin and his hand went straight into his back pocket, but he didn't pull anything out.
"Guess." I gave him a look. How was supposed to know? I wasn't daddy. Daddy chuckled. "I'll give you a hint. It took me months to save up for it, and you were the first one I put on speed dial." I thought about it for a second, but then knew what he was talking about.
"You finally got yourself a new phone?!" He nodded and pulled out his new phone. I didn't know what model it was. "I thought you were going to get a blackberry." Jacob shrugged.
"I was, but I liked this better. It's a Samsung SCH-u740. It can open portrait and landscape and texting with this thing is so much easier and the buttons are slightly bigger. And I don't have to worry about it accidently calling someone when I sit down." He started showing off all the things his phone could do.
"And all I have is a purple razor." We laughed at my fake disappointment. "Rosalie's going to be really sad to hear that you got rid of the phone she gave you." Jacob snorted.
"She'll live…or stay dead…or whatever it is she does. I don't miss that 80's puma killing cell phone." I giggled.
"But of course when she sees the new phone, you'll pretend the loss of the old phone was like the loss of your right arm." We laughed and Jacob ran his fingers through my hair and patted my head gently.
"You bet I will." We laughed one more time. Then he put his phone back into his pocket. "So have you picked what costume you're going to wear for trick-or-treating this afternoon?" I nodded my head. "What is it?" I giggled.
"You'll just have to wait until before we leave." He pouted.
"Why are you making me wait." I laughed at his expression.
"Because I think you'll get a kick out of it and I want you to be surprised." He sighed, but said nothing else on the matter.
"If you say so." I took Jacob's hand and led him with me to the living room where everyone was watching TV. They were watching another episode of 'I Love Lucy'. "Wow, I haven't seen this show in years." Jacob turned his head to face me. "My mom used to watch this show all the time. She even had a few episodes on tape." Jacob sat on one of the arms chairs with everyone and I sat on his lap. I rested my head into the nook of his shoulder and watched the episode re-runs with everyone else. After about two hours worth of an 'I Love Lucy' marathon, Alice hopped up from the couch.
"Come on Nessie. Let's get you in your costume and get you ready for trick-or-treating." She took my hand and dragged me up the stairs. Jacob watched Alice take me upstairs and was still looking when I last saw him in my eye shot. When we got into her room, she started with my makeup. She powered my face so it was slightly paler and made sure to hide my rosy cheeks. When the powder was on, she put some red lipstick on my lips and used a black eyeliner to make my stitches on my face and to line my eyes. The mascara she let me put on myself. She powdered my arms and legs so they were closer to white and then put on the stitches. After all my makeup and dress were on, I put on my boots and Alice zipped them up for me.
I looked in the mirror to make sure that it was perfect. I liked what I saw. I didn't look exactly like Sally, but I still looked close enough. My hair wasn't the perfect color of red, but it was close enough. And the dress hugged my body tightly. I spun around in front of the mirror once to see the whole dress. After I had done that and liked the results of my costume, I looked at Alice.
"Thanks for your help Alice. I really appreciate it. It's perfect." Alice just giggled and hugged me. I noticed she and I were closer together in height today.
"No problem, Nessie. Would you expect any less from your dearest Aunt Alice?" I joined her giggles.
Alice and I walked downstairs and back into the living room until we were behind the couch. Jacob had been staring at the TV, but had turned around when he smelled my makeup. His face started to beam.
"No way." He kept looking at my costume with a silly smile on his face. Score for Renesmee Carlie Cullen. He stood up from his chair and walked so he was right in front of me and looking down at my costume. "You're dressing up as Sally?" He kept smiling.
"Yep. I thought it would be cool for me to dress up as Sally since you're dressing up as Jack Skelington." He towered above me, but my face still met his chest height wise. It would be a great imitation.
"You have the makeup to a T. Where did you get this dress? I thought they stopped making these costumes in stores." I shook my head.
"I made it myself." Jacob's expression was shocked first, but then turned to pleasantly surprised. He took both my hands then lifted up my arms. Then he spun me around in one circle before looking at my face again.
"You really made this?" I nodded my head. "Wow. Not too bad for a girl who just turned one." We laughed together. "I have to say, Nessie, you put Sally to shame." I blushed at his remark. It was flattering for me to hear Jacob say that he liked my costume and that he thought it was beautiful on me. Daddy stood from the couch to look at the costume he had already seen.
"You look beautiful Renesmee." I smiled at daddy and went to hug him, but Alice stopped me.
"Don't Nessie. If you hug Edward, the powder will get all over his shirt and I'll have to re-do your makeup." I sighed and didn't hug daddy.
"Thanks daddy." He smiled widely.
"You're welcome honey." That's when Jacob took his spot next to me and put his hand on my shoulder.
"We better get going Nessie. I told Quil, Seth, and Sam that they needed to be at my apartment by two thirty and it's pushing that time." I nodded my head, letting him know that I heard him. Everyone wished us a good time as we walked over to Jacob's car. When we got into the car, everyone saw us off as we drove away. I had to admit I was excited. I knew I wouldn't eat any of the candy, but at least it would be an afternoon with Jacob and that was fine by me. We talked a little about my costume and his costume on our way to his apartment. We finally got there at two thirty five, with everyone waiting at the main door. Quil was standing next to the door with Claire tucked safely in his arms.
Just as promised, Claire was dressed as Pocahontas and Quil was dressed as Miko. He was wearing black shoes, grey sweats, a grey shirt and a black jacket with the mask of a raccoon over his face. Sam and Emily weren't dressed up, but Mike was dressed in his little pumpkin outfit, looking cute as ever. Seth was dressed as the Two Faced Mayor by request of Jacob. He was a bit too well built, but the costume itself was awesome. Claire screamed hello to me when I got out of the car and I screamed hello right back. She started giggling.
"Nessie's no Nessie no more. Now she Sally." I laughed with her. Obviously, she was a fan of the Nightmare Before Christmas too. Quil smiled at Claire and praised her for noticing. Quil then looked back at Jacob.
"Let me guess. Jack Skelington." Sam started laughing and so did Quil and Seth. Jacob just smirked at them. "How, may I ask, do you plan to pull that off? You're nothing but muscle." They continued to laugh and Jacob just continued to smirk.
"I can pull it off. I'm Jack Skelington after he's gone to the gym for a few months." They shared their laugh and finally, Jacob let us into the apartment. He still needed to get his costume on. When we got inside, Jacob put his keys on the kitchen counter and ran off to his room to start preparing his costume. Claire and I went to my room to get a board game I had hidden in my closet. I had candy land tucked away. I didn't really like the game because it was so easy, but it was one of Claire's favorite games and I wanted her to have fun.
After a few rounds of candy land with Quil watching Claire over her shoulder, Seth watching over mine, and Sam and Emily were cooing their baby in the front of the room, Jacob finally came out of his room in his costume. He didn't look like Jack Skelington because of all the bulk, but the makeup and the suit were perfect. You would still immediately know it was Jack Skelington. He even had those weird things on his shoulders that flared out. Despite his build, it was perfectly done. We all looked up from what we were doing.
"All hail the Pumpkin King." Seth said. We all chuckled, even Jacob. Claire started clapping and singing the opening song to the movie and I joined her. We went through a few verses before Jacob said it was time to go. Claire grabbed her pillow case and ran to Quil for him to hold her hand. Everyone else left the apartment, but Jacob kept me behind for a moment.
"You don't have to get candy. I know you don't like chocolate, so don't worry if you just want to leave trick-or-treating to Claire." I shook my head.
"No, I want to. I was planning on giving you the candy actually." His face perked up. That seemed to be the answer he was hoping for.
"Okay. As long as all that candy won't go to waste." I giggled and poked him. He knew better than to think that I would go through all that work to get candy only to just throw it away later. When Jacob and I finished having our little talk, we walked out, locked the door, and met everyone downstairs. Everyone was standing next to Jacob's car, waiting for him to unlock it so they could get in.
Because the houses in the reservation were often farther apart, we needed to drive. Claire and I sat in the back seat with Emily, Seth, and Quil all smushed tightly together. Sam sat shotgun. The first house we came to was Billy's house. He greeted us at the door with bags and bags of candy that I could smell from feet away. He complimented mine, Claire's and Mike's costume and teased Quil's, Seth's, and Jacob's. Billy teasingly called me the Pumpkin Queen, which made me blush. No one noticed me blush because of the heavy white powder I was wearing.
After getting our candy and letting Billy torment us a little, a few other kids walked up to the house and we needed to move to a different house. After Billy's house, we went to Seth's house. Sue was there giving out candy to all the kids that came to her house. Leah was in the living room watching a Top Chef re-run marathon. Jacob and Seth said hi to her and she waved back at them without looking away from the TV. That was it for her interaction. Sue readily gave everyone candy, but hesitated on giving me any.
"I thought you didn't eat." I shook my head. I was giving it to Jacob anyway. I wouldn't deprive him of any already too much candy.
"No. I can eat. I'm just picky is all." She looked at me and then at Jacob, who nodded that it was okay. She shrugged, then put a handful of candy in my pillow case. We said goodbye to Sue and went back to Jacob's car. We went to all the other houses on the reservation and got several handfuls of candy from each house. Most of the people on the reservation didn't know me, so they didn't comment on my sudden interest of candy.
After we spent an hour going to every house on the Quileute and Makka reservation, we made our way to Forks. I wanted to go to grandpas, but Jacob said we would save his house for last so we would have plenty of time to talk to him. We went to the Stanley family's house first. I remembered the name from a few months ago when I was looking at momma's and daddy's yearbook. Momma said they were kind of friends. She didn't elaborate much on the relationship so I didn't ask. We ringed the doorbell and were greeted by a very enthusiastic woman who looked to me like she was extremely fake for multiple reasons.
We went from house to house and finished trick-or-treating after two hours of going through Forks. The last house we came to was grandpa's house. He opened the door and recognized us only from noticing Sam and Emily.
"Hey. I'm glad to see you've finally made it to my house." He looked over everyone and stopped when he saw me. "Nessie? Who are you supposed to be?" He had a huge smile on his face. I smiled, though I think my makeup made me look like I had on a permanent smile.
"I'm Sally. From the Nightmare Before Christmas. The Disney movie. And Jacob is Jack Skelington, the Pumpkin King." Grandpa laughed.
"I know. Your momma used to watch that movie with me all the time when she was little. I had the movie memorized by heart for a while." He put his fingers in my hair for a few seconds before taking them out. "It's so weird seeing you with straight hair. I have to say though, Nessie, Sally wishes she looked like you." I smiled widely and so did Jacob. Grandpa turned his attention to Jacob. "I'm assuming that you loved that movie to?" Jacob nodded his head.
"Yeah. It was one of my favorites. It was the only Disney movie that my sisters and I both loved. They were always watching princess movies and such. I was more of a Toy Story and Oliver kind of guy." Grandpa and Sam chuckled.
"I know what you mean. Bella used to love watching Beauty and the Beast and Hercules. But her favorite TV past time was always the Muppets and Barney." Jacob started laughing. I did know them at least. Grandpa had recorded some episodes of those shows when momma was younger and he let me watch them.
"I was more partial to the Looney Toons. That coyote was hysterical." I loved the coyote and road runner. I loved that the coyote would try so hard to get the road runner but it always ended with him exploding. But he always came back for more. I really liked Emler Fud too. The way he talked made me laugh.
"Ah yes. The Looney Toons. The only cartoon that I used to watch as a kid that was still around. And now you can't find it anywhere." We had gone into his house and he was making coffee for Sam and Jacob. I didn't like coffee, but the smell of it didn't bother me quite as much as most other smells did. We spent the rest of the afternoon talking. When it reached dinner time, grandpa ordered in a few pizzas. Sam, Jacob, Seth, and Quil put in money for their individual pizzas. Even now, it shocked me that Jacob was capable of eating so much food in one sitting. One portabella mushroom was enough to make me full for the rest of the week.
"Do you want to share my mushrooms Nessie?" I giggled at his remark. I shook my head. I had fed a few days ago and I wasn't really hungry for anything. Grandpa did ask me to eat something though, so I went through his fridge, found some cappers, and started nibbling on those. Grandpa was still getting used to my strange taste in food, but otherwise said nothing.
The pizza man was there after a half hour and it took Jacob, Sam, Seth, and Quil ten minutes to finish their pizzas completely. Emily ate two slices and then fed Mike when she had finished eating. Quil ate the rest of Claire's pizza when she said she didn't want anymore. And of course, she ran for her bag of candy. Poor Quil had to try and convince Claire to wait until she got home to eat any candy. He didn't want to be the one to tell her that her mom said she could only have two.
After spending a few hours with grandpa and having dinner, we said goodbye to him and let him get back to watching his game. Jacob dropped everyone off back home and then drove us back to his apartment. Daddy already said I could spend the night at his apartment. When we got into the apartment, Jacob went to his room and I went to mine so we could get out of our costumes. I went into my bathroom to clean off my makeup. It took a while to get it off of my face.
I was the first one to be done. I had dressed into my pajamas and left my hair down. When I was done, I went into the kitchen where all of the candy was. I emptied my pillow case onto his table to observe what he was getting. There were more Snickers mini bars, Reeses, 100 Grand bars and so on than I could count. One lady had been giving out gummy bears and Swedish fish. There were m&ms of every kind were in that bag. Mrs. Stanley had even given out Dove chocolates.
Jacob came out of his room after about a half hour of trying to get all the makeup off. He still had some small amounts of black around his eyes, but nothing that human eyes would be able to see. He saw the candy that I had sprawled all over his kitchen table and put a silly smile on his face.
"That's a lot of candy. I don't think I've ever collected that much candy." I laughed lightly. Then he walked over to the table and took a Reeses peanut butter cup and ate that. His other hand threaded once through my hair. "Thanks for letting me have this. But I hope you don't think I only took you trick-or-treating for the candy I would get out of it." We laughed and I nodded my head, letting him know that I knew. He picked a piece of Dove chocolate out of the pile and ate that next. I didn't stop smiling.
"You're not planning on eating all of this now, are you?" He chuckled a little.
"Are you my mother now?" We laughed for a minute.
"If I have to be." We kept laughing and he ate one more piece of candy. He picked up a bag of gummy bears and tossed them at me. I caught them and gave them a quizzical look.
"I know you don't like chocolate, but I know you've never tried gummy treats. Give them a taste." I looked at him for a second before looking at the gummy bears. I opened the bag and the smell wasn't the best. But I took a gummy bear and ate it anyway. One chew and I was put off. It tasted weird. Like watered down mud. I looked at Jacob and handed him the bag. He sighed. "You don't like this either huh?" I shook my head.
"It tasted weird." He half-heartedly rolled his eyes at me and had a small smile.
"You always say that." We laughed some more while he ate my discarded bag of gummy bears. After he finished the small bag of gummy bears, he threw them away with the rest of his candy wrappers. "Well, you don't want to pig out on our well earned candy. So what do you want to do now?" I smiled and ran to my room. I came out of my room holding the candy land game. He just smirked.
"No one ever said we couldn't play with our candy." He smiled one more time and then cleared the table, putting the candy back into the pillow case. He pushed it off to the far end of the table against the wall to make room for the candy land board. We spent most of the night playing candy land, and somehow enjoying every minute of it. We even had Nightmare Before Christmas playing in the background. It was an awesome Halloween and I knew that year after year, they would only get better.