When we get to Ethan's I'm greeted at the door by an enthusiastic Jane.

"Kate!" she exclaims. "Will you play Dance Dance Revolution with me?"

"Maybe when I get back from my date with Benny," I tell her.

"You didn't hear?" Jane asks. "You're going-"

"Jane!" Benny shushes her.

I look at Benny questioningly. What did he have planned?

"She's just a nine-year-old," Benny says, nervously. "She doesn't know what she's talking about."

"I heard that!" shouts Jane.

"C'mon," he says, taking my hand. "Let's go see what Ethan's up to."

We go up the stairs to Ethan's room. Ethan is at his computer, working on homework, wearing a Luke Skywalker costume.

"Aren't you a little too old to be trick-or-treating?" I ask.

In response, Ethan turns around in his computer chair. Surprised to see me.

"Hey," he greets. "I didn't know that you were here already."

"I got here about five minutes ago." I turn to Benny. "So, what's my surprise?"

Ethan walks to his closet and pulls out a black garment bag. I had a feeling I knew where this was going. I take the bag from Ethan and lay it on the bed and unzip it slowly. Laying in the bag is a Princess Leia costume, complete with the two-bunned wig. I just stare at it. I was going to spend my anniversary as Princess Leia, trick-or-treating with my cousin and my boyfriend.

"Surprise!" shouts Benny.

To be honest, I knew this was coming one of these days. If you're going to date a nerd, you've gotta expect having to dress up at least once as their fantasy sci-fi girl. In Benny's case, it happened to be Princess Leia.

"Do you like it?" Benny asks.

"Yeah," I lie. "It's great…"

"You don't like it?" he asks, sensing disappointment from me.

"It's fine…" I trail off. "I'm just not too thrilled to be going trick-or-treating."

"You don't have to trick-or-treat," Benny says. "You can just walk around with me and Ethan and wait for us at the end of the driveways while we get candy."

"Alright," I sigh. "Let me go put on the costume."

I walk out of Ethan's room and to the guest bedroom, where it was still made up for me. I had no trouble with putting on the costume. The wig was another story.

Thirty minutes later, there's a knock on my door.

"You didn't climb out the window, did you?" Benny asks. That had become quite the joke after I climbed out the window at Jesse's.

"No," I roll my eyes. "I'm just having a hard time with this stupid wig!"

"Can I come in?" he asks.

"The door's unlocked," I inform him, while I stay at the vanity mirror , trying to fix the wig.

"Maybe if you put your hair into a ponytail instead of stuffing all of it into the wig at once, it'll stay," Benny suggests, coming into the room.

"I never thought of that," I admit. I walk over to my duffle bag and dig out a hair bow. I get up and look in the mirror and put my hair into a messy ponytail, then put the wig on. "Well, what do ya know?" I smile. "It works."

"Kate," Benny says, looking at me. "I'm sorry if you were expecting something completely different tonight. Ethan usually takes Jane out trick-or-treating because your aunt and uncle usually go to a Halloween party every year, and I usually go with them. I thought that it'd be awesome if all of us, me, you and Ethan, could dress up as Star Wars characters."

"At least you're not making me wear a golden bikini," I say, grateful.

"That'll be next year," he promises.

"Benny!"

"What? I'm kidding."

"You'd better be." I say, seriously.

He leans down and kisses me on the cheek. I smile. We sit on the bed for a while, holding hands and my head on his shoulder.

After a while Ethan comes in with Jane. "Are we interrupting something?" Jane asked.

I lift my head off of his shoulder and smile at Jane. "We were just reflecting on the three months that we've spent together," I say.

"Okay…" says Jane. "Are you ready to go trick-or treating?"

"I still have to get into my costume," says Benny.

"Well hurry up!" Jane says.

We all laugh at Jane's antics while Benny gets up and goes to change into his costume.

While we waited for Benny, Ethan, Jane and I went downstairs to tell aunt Samantha and uncle Ross goodbye before they left.

"Hey, sweetie," she says to me. "I didn't see you come in. How long have you been here?"

"About and hour," I say.

"Well, you look gorgeous."

"Thank you," I smile.

"You're welcome," she says. "Well, your father is outside in the car waiting, so remember, stay together while trick-or-treating, don't eat the candy until after you make sure it's safe and if you get hungry, there's a twenty on the counter for you to order pizza." She kisses Ethan and Jane on the cheek. "Bye, love you."

"Love you too, Mommy," Jane says.

"Bye mom," says Ethan.

Aunt Samantha waves at all of us and closes the door.

"Where's Sarah?" I ask.

"I convinced my mom to give her the night off," Ethan said.

"Really?"

"No, I don't know where she is. I think Erica dragged her off to a party."

"Oh."

"Hey guys," Benny says, coming down the stairs in his Han Solo costume. "Ready to go raid the neighborhood for candy?"