"Do you have everything?" Wendy asked seeing Sabrina lug a suitcase filled with clothes down the stairs. It was a time that Wendy had a fear that her niece would never properly learn magic. Sabrina was already the laughing stock of the magic community, as if Wendy was ever really worried about status.

"I think so. I even have a picture of Mom and Grandpa Harvey stuffed in there somewhere."

"Wonderful." Wendy said clapping her hands together. "Be careful with those up drafts OK? I do not want to find out you went to Bermuda instead of Maine."

"I promise. Besides, I have my phone with me. As long as I don't drop it…"

Sabrina mounted her broom, checked to make sure the suitcase was secure, and set off into the near night. Although broom traveling was never slow, no matter how bad a witch you were, Sabrina safely made it to Friendship, Maine around 9 PM and set her feet on the ground at Whipstaff around 9:10 PM.

"Nice place… for Steven King." She said with a shudder.

Sabrina slowly walked into the entry room and dropped her bags in surprise. The entry room was more of a ballroom with a mosaic floor and chandelier.

"Is any one home?" Sabrina asked. She smiled to herself as her echo bounced off the walls. No one had been in the house since her grandfather died. Before then, Sabrina would come to Whipstaff every Christmas to visit her grandfather and go sledding on the wonderful hills that were in town. Sometimes, when she was bored and had nothing to do, she would try to remember who would go sledding with her. A boy in town… oh… what's his name? Maybe she would catch up with him again. Just to say hi and all, nothing too special.

"Guess not." Sabrina said to herself with a smirk. She picked up her suitcase and started to lug it up the stairs. However, Sabrina was wrong. In the mansion's garden on the opposite side of the house a lone ghost said and watched two birds sweep up and down. The little ghost sighed with wonder. The ghost's name was Casper and he was the friendliest ghost in the world.

"It must be so nice to have a friend to play with you." He said to himself more to the birds. The moon started to shine in the bird bath and Casper stared into it. Inside the house Sabrina turned on a light and looked around the room she was in. It was a grand bedroom and it was what her grandfather said was Sabrina's mother's room. Outside, Casper saw the light from the garden and was scared at first. But he caught his courage and flew over to the window. To his surprise he saw Sabrina and ducked underneath the window sill.

"There's a girl… in my room…" he said half frightened. He looked back at Sabrina just as she tried to use her magic to put things away in the room. "And she's a witch!" Casper exclaimed as he ducked again.

"Yes!" Sabrina shouted after she had put away everything without messing up. "Wait until Aunt Wendy hears about this!"

"Aunt Wendy?" Casper wondered. He looked at Sabrina again. She was doing a little dance to something Lady Gaga related. Something about her hair color… and the way her eyes sparkled. If he wanted to make friends with her and talk to her before his uncles came back and scared her away.

"Hello." Casper said shyly to Sabrina. She stopped dancing and looked at Casper. She grew pale and then nearly screamed. Casper quickly stopped her by stretching his body around her mouth.

"Please don't scream. My uncles will hear you and it won't be pretty. Understand?" Casper quickly said. Sabrina nodded her head and Casper let her go.

"Who are your uncles?" Sabrina asked.

"Ah you know… the Ghostly Trio." Casper said shyly and a little bit ashamed.

"The Ghostly Trio! I see them when Aunt Wendy takes me to meetings and whatnot." Sabrina said. Then she thought of something else. "You're Casper!"

Casper did a little bow and said,

"At your service."

Both of them laughed.

"It's not that I don't believe in ghosts. Or hate them for that matter." Sabrina said in Casper's old bed. She was about to go to sleep, but Casper and Sabrina decided to talk until Sabrina was too sleepy to answer. "It's just that… some are just so mean, you know?"

"I do." Casper said thinking of his uncles.

"Casper… where are you uncles?"

"On a Halloween spree I think. They'll be gone for 5 days."

"Why only 5? Halloween is tomorrow."

"Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead are the following two days after Halloween. Every ghost knows about that holiday, just like how every human knows about New Years."

Sabrina didn't say anything and just smiled. She got underneath the covers of the bed until she thought of something else to talk about.

"Casper… who was the girl you used to go sledding with when she visited every Christmas?" she asked with a smile. Casper looked surprised, recollected his memories, and answered,

"I don't remember… I haven't seen her since her grandfather Doctor Harvey died…" Casper paused and looked at Sabrina who looked at him with a wide smile. "My god…!"

"Miss me?" she said in a near giggling state.

"Look at how much you… you… grew!" Casper said completely dumbstruck. "Kat's daughter and Wendy's niece, my god…" Casper sat down at the end of the bed and sat there and thought hard.

"It took me awhile to figure it out too. But then I remembered how you saved me from getting sick. When I was 5, we were out sledding for… a little over an hour and Grandpa Harvey called us back in. I didn't want too although frostbite had begun to eat away at my fingers because I lost my gloves somewhere in the snow. I coughed really hard and you grew worried. You carried me back to the house right away before anything else would happen. You saved my life so I wouldn't die the same way you had. It was really sweet of you, thanks." Sabrina smiled, Casper remembered the event too and he looked at her surprised at the fact that she remembered.

"Where's Kat? Surely you didn't come alone." Casper objected, although he already knew what she was going to say.

"Unless you count a broomstick, no I didn't come alone. I haven't seen Mom for 9 years. The Christmas the next year after you saved me I didn't have her or my grandfather anymore. Grandpa Harvey was going to the World Trade Center to get an award or something and Mom went with him… but that was also the day that… that…" Sabrina couldn't say anymore, the words escaped her.

"September 11th… 9/11… the bombing…" Casper said to, somewhat, finish Sabrina's sentence. She nodded and slid under the covers more, this time actually going to sleep. But before she did Casper had one thing to say to her.

"Sabrina…" Casper said getting close to her, "I'm going to ask you what I asked your mother years ago."

"What's that?" Sabrina asked sleepily.

"Can I keep you?" Casper whispered. Sabrina was nearly asleep but nodded her head and replied,

"Sure."