Trick or treat!
Here's a modern!3ADV ficlet featuring the childrens (including my Threepwood sisters.)
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Despite Eliza’s insistence that she was old enough to be everyone’s “shappyroam,” mom, dad, and all their friends insisted on having a grown-up with them.
Uncle Winslow and Auncle Anemone were busy getting ready for their big trip, Aunt Vee was taking part in some big Escape Room challenge with Kyle and Larry, Mr. Acorn was staying home for his own neighborhood’s trick-or-treaters, none of Mr. Link’s friends were available, and he and Mr. Graham didn’t trust Murray after last year.
Which left…
“Now Whisper, please make sure you watch the kids closely. We don’t want them wandering off and getting separated. Especially both sets of twins.” Said Mr. Graham
“WHISPER CAN DO IT!”
Lucas winced a little. Mr. Whisper is nice but he can be really loud. And Lucas once had a “who can shout catchphrases the loudest” contest with Chuckie one time. (Mom and Eliza weren't happy even though he totally won.)
All the grown-ups gave Mr. Whisper all the trick-or-treating rules and after some "come on, let's go let's go's" from Sora and Rosella, the group were on their way.
Lucas liked to think that his neighborhood had the best decorations.
There was the house with all the space monsters out front, the house with big plants with sharp teeth, and that one house with colorful banners and orange flowers (they were apparently for a different holiday but the owners still gave out candy.)
Of course with so many neighbors, Lucas, his sisters, Rosella and Alex couldn't decide which one to start at.
Eliza wanted to start at the house with all the scary zombie decorations.
Rosella and Alex wanted to go to the house with the voodoo dolls at the window and werewolfs and vampires in the yard.
Sora wanted to go to the house with the cartoon character decorations (which led to a small fight with her and Eliza about her being a baby.)
And Lucas and Abigail… didn't really care which house they started with, they just wanted to trick-or-treat with their sisters and friends.
Mr. Whisper saw everyone starting to fight and stepped in.
"Now now, little ones, WHISPER SHALL DETERMINE OUR ROUTE!"
With that, Mr. Whisper covered up his eyes and started to spin around while singing "Eeny, meeny, miney, moe."
"Wait… is Whisper making it too obvious which house ends up picked? Whisper shall try again!"
So he did try again with an even longer version of the song (which now included mentions of him.)
At that point, Eliza put her arms around Lucas and Sora's shoulders.
"I think Mr. Whisper is gonna be at this for a while. Why don't we just go to the houses we want and meet up at another house?"
"But Mama and Papa said we need a grown-up to be a chappy-room."
Sora said, ""Chap-a-rone," Abbi. Like you're shushing someone. And…"
She looked at Mr. Whisper, still singing and spinning.
"I think Lizzie's got a point."
Rosella and Alex, who knew Mr. Whisper better than they did, nodded.
Abigail still looked unsure but Lucas smiled and held her hand.
"Don't worry, Abbi. I go out with just Chuckie and Dee all the time so I can go with you."
That looked like it made her feel better.
Eliza then puffed up her chest and took charge.
"Okay, everyone, we'll go to the houses we want to start at and then we go to the other houses near them and meet up at that house!"
She pointed to a house that had what looked like a dummy dressed as a burglar and a paper speech bubble taped to its head that said "ow my blood!"
"But where do we go from there?" Asked Alex
"We go down the street! That's where the big houses with the big candy are!"
Big candy!?
Yes! Lizzie can be bossy but sometimes she can be the best big sis ever!
"Okay, are we ready?"
Everyone nodded and immediately ran off, Lucas and Abigail going with Rosella and Alex, who were pointing their "weapons" to their first house.
This was gonna be the Best Halloween Ever!
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