"On a Halloween Night" by Julianna A.

“On a Halloween night, there was this girl who loved to trick or treat” is the classic sentence to put in quite a few Halloween stories which takes away that little pizzazz effect. A bit of an overused sentence to start off stories but if you tried something else, it may not work. Anyways, i'm getting off task here. I have a story to share about this girl who loved Halloween. She was quite the adventurous type and always dressed up. One day, she decided to get a lot of candy this year for Halloween which sounds like a total snore fest but wait until the story unravels. So while out trick or treating this girl who by the way is named Alice at age 12 with dark chocolate brown hair and bright blue eyes, she came upon a certain house that stood out to her. Maybe she liked it for its creepy features, or the way it looked just standing there in the depth of night. She thought it was a haunted house and went up to the door to claim her candy. She knocked and the door swung open in a flash and out came a lovely looking woman. She wasn’t dressed up but in a dress as if she had come from a party.

          “Trick-or-treat!” she yelled with glee. The kind woman smiled and said with a gleam in her lovely brown eyes and said “What a cute little girl! My name is Regina. What might you be?” she smiled widely.

        “I’m a princess!” she said with such happiness. Which is a popular costume in Halloween stories but anyways the woman invited her inside for some snacks and told her how no one had visited her house in years so for coming, she had a little gift for the child. The woman stepped into another room to fetch the gift and returned with a little black box in her hand. She went up to the child and sat beside her.

       She opened the box and said: “This is very special. And me giving it to you means you must take care of it no matter what. Promise?" Alice promised and opened the box to find a ring. It was a very pretty ring that changed colors. She put it on only to find it was too big until the woman said it would fit once she reached the age of 15. Once Alice reached 15, she was able to wear the ring. She put it on but couldn’t take it off later that day. She went back to the house one night on Halloween and explained her problem. The woman told her it was to stay on until death did her part which would come once the ring turned black. Alice ran home and was scared to find the ring turning grey so she told her mother the story. The parents called the police to arrest the woman but it did no good. Later that night as Alice was sleeping; she was awoken by a loud noise. She sat up and met face to face with a black figure and looked down at her hand to find the ring had turned black. She looked back up and gasped for air while staring at the horrid creature until she collapsed to the bed. In her jail cell Regina smiled grimly. Her work had been completed. She got rid of the child and had been freed from her cursed immortality. This child was special because that young girl was the witch who cursed Regina. She went back in time to search for the one who cursed her for acting so high above the others and being selfish. But now Alice was gone so there was no one left to stop the new coming evil witch.