It was hard convincing Joy she was too old to go trick or treating. Really hard. But Sadness had to make Joy face the music. She had no problem with dressing up and going out, she loved that. But a 30 year-old stranger walking with a bunch of twelve year olds was a serious issue. So Joy stopped trick or treating. And she was sad. But luckily, she was Joy. And Joy was never sad for long. And was never far away from a clever idea or two. "A party?" Sadness asked, compulsively smoothing her blue raindrop costume. "An awesome party! And that's not all, we have that old broken projector the school was getting rid of! I bet we can get Fear to fix it, he's great with that kind of thing!" "And then…?" "And then we have a neighborhood-wide movie party!" Sadness finished putting her costume over her desk chair for later in the week, and said "You know what? Let's give it a shot." "REALLY?" "Yes Joy. I think that if we do this right, it could be spectacular." Joy squeezed Sadness in a bone-crusher hug and lifted her from the floor, dancing and singing a song compromised of "I love you!" and "This is gonna be awesome!" Halloween night was possibly the most perfect night all year for a party. Sadness didn't know how Joy did it. As soon as she set her mind to something, not even the weather would get in her way. Good thing to, because the entire neighborhood showed up. Trick or treating was suspended, because Joy bought about 20 bags of mixed candy and let kids take as much as they liked, with the condition that they had to eat healthy while watching the movie and make sure to spread the candy out. "Don't want it to go to waste!" Joy said in that Joy-voice that Lucifer himself couldn't even say no to. The party was a blast. They started out with child-appropriate horror films, then moved to the more bloody-gorey-spooky stuff when the kids were all escorted home by one or both parents who promised to return. They all felt like they were in college again. "I gotta say Joy, I don't think that could've gone any better." Sadness said as she packed up the fully functional and, theoretically, upgraded projector into an empty box. Apparently the thing was so old Fear had actually refused to let them pay him, saying he was doing humanity a service by bringing this "old heap of disappointment" up to the 21st century. Joy, who had bagged and stored the remaining candy/food, and put the chairs, broke off one of the rays of her sun costume and proceeded to mock fence with it. "Yeah, I'm so glad everybody showed up." She said, before creeping up behind Sadness and waiting for her to turn. When she did, she was greeted with the sight of a cardboard stick an inch from her nose. "Do you yield?" Joy half-shouted in a knight voice. Sadness grinned a quiet grin, then in one fluid motion batted the "sword" away and knocked Joy off her feet, catching her before she fell. "Never, dear." Sadness whispered before pulling Joy back up into a kiss. When they did break apart, Sadness whispered "Happy Halloween." into Joy's ear. "It absolutely is."