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Serious pumpkin.

Look at that face, huh?

Got a smile with just a hint of tragedy.

Inside, hollow, yet deep.

Very nice, Cliff. I'm just going to take it and put it in this corner over here.

Well, no.

Don't you think it would be better appreciated right here?

Vanessa doesn't want this to be a kid's party, you know. I really think she

wants it to look more adult.

Well, why don't I take it upstairs and put a suit and a hat on it?

It stays in the corner.

Hey, where are you going? To a wedding?

No, trick -or -treating.

Trick -or -treating? What's that?

You know, when you dress up and people give you candy.

You're kidding.

When did they start this?

When I was three.

What are you wearing tonight when you take Rudy out trick -or -treating?

I'm going to wear this.

No, you have to wear...

But daddies don't wear costumes.

Don't worry, Rudy.

Daddy will wear one.

I don't have a costume.

I'll make you one. Oh, that's a great idea. Why don't you go make daddy's

costume? Okay.

What are you doing to me?

But why can't you get into the spirit of this thing? This is very important to

Rudy. You might even like trick -or -treating. Trick -or -treating? Yes. Why

don't we call it what it is?

Begging.

all dressed up, and by the time they get to the 10th house, they don't even put

the bag out anymore. They just say, just give me what you have, and that's it. I

remember a boy who was still trick -or -treating when he was 15.

All the other kids were half your size. You'd get to the door, reach right over

them, and put your bag up front. And the day after Halloween had the nerve to go

around the neighborhood knocking on each door, begging, what have you got left?

And that's when your parents gave me you.

Mom, Mom, guess what?

What? I just talked to Janet. Archie told her that Scott Wilson said that

Foreman is coming to my party.

Robert Foreman? Yes. He is the absolute coolest boy in seventh grade, and he's

coming to this house.

Oh, my goodness.

Then that means we're cool, too.

Vanessa, I think we should fix your costume, honey. Come on.

Cliff, would you please finish hanging this quickly?

Okay.

You think Robert will like it? Of course. I can't believe Robert Foreman

actually going to be in your house.

It's fate.

Come on in.

You look beautiful.

Thanks.

Hi. Hi.

Are they staying for the party? No. My dad's taking them out trick -or

-treating.

Lord, if I see you in that later tonight.

Katie, how are you?

Fine. Peter, my main man.

How's the wife and kids?

Now, you know we're going out trick -or -treating, am I correct?

Yes. Now, have you all a song that you're going to sing for the people?

do?

Now,

we're going out into the street. Stand up.

The one over there in the mask.

He's cool.

Wait, wait. He's taking off his mask.

Oh.

He is absolute cool.

Honey, maybe you should take him some punch.

No. He already had some.

Oh, yes. That's right. Of course. I mean, he can always help himself anyway,

right? Yeah.

to bring Robert for him and punch?

If I did that, he might think I like him.

But you do.

Yes, but I don't want him to know that unless I know that he likes me first.

Oh, that is smart.

But he does look kind of thirsty.

Why don't you ask Scott to ask Robert if he wants some punch?

Okay, but what if he does want some?

Then I'll bring it to him. But make sure to tell Scott I am not bringing Robert

punch because I like him, just because he looked. thirsty you got it i got it

quickly now up to the table sit down

all right now don't forget sit down

this don't fall down don't forget you take the red bags home you let your

parents look through this to make sure because this is from the whole people we

don't know these are from people we know

I'll give you each three pieces.

Three.

And three.

Three.

Okay. Now, that's it.

All right?

Good enough.

So how'd it go?

How did it go? It was wonderful.

These kids know what they're doing.

Well, the first house we went to, all three went up. I stood in the back. So

lady said, boom, boom, boom.

The priest said, who's that in the back? She said, that's my father. She said,

oh, well, here's something for him. Boom, boom, boom.

Then they caught on.

Next house they go to, they say, come on with us, Dad.

So then Katie says, he was in the service.

So they said, oh, boom, boom, boom. Then Peter says, yeah.

You're cute.

Would you step in my office, please, dear?

Uh -huh.

Uh, our daughter has been in here for ten minutes filling up bowls with

Mm -hmm.

Why is she doing that?

Robert Foreman. Robert Foreman wants all those peanuts?

No, my guess is the boy either stood next to her, looked at her, or spoke to

her, and now she doesn't know what to do with herself.

Well, don't you think it would be nice if we shoved her back out into the field

of battle?

Vanessa, Vanessa, thank you, honey. This is so helpful of you, but I'm sure that

whatever's going on in the next room is much more exciting than what's happening

in here. But I'm just so nervous. Yes, and you're also too pretty to stay in

kitchen for going out there and having a nice time.

If he says hello to you again, then you'll say hello back.

Yeah, but say it's not because I like Robert, just because I'm being polite.

Which one is Robert?

Come away from that door.

I just want to know which one is Robert.

Okay, see the guy standing by the door?

The Phantom?

My daughter is in love with the Phantom.

you this is our third one now we'll be going around nervous palpitations in my

hands just so sweaty oh my god i remember when she wouldn't even let a

next to her that's right and now that's my job

you're gonna help me with this popcorn yeah let me take your stuff out there

check him out oh no you don't go out there you stay in the kitchen i can take

out i'll be cool Chris, there are enough 12 -year -olds in that room already.

Why don't you take Peter and Katie home?

Hup, two, three, four. No, that doesn't work on grown -ups.

Hup, two, three, four.

Hup, up the stairs you go. Hup, you're moving much too slow.

this because he's being polite.

Got it?

Okay, I got it.

What did Scott say?

He said he thinks Robert will come back and say hello. He did?

Yes, and you know what else? What?

Scott said he thinks Robert likes you. What did you say? I said you might

like Robert if he really likes you first.

Is it okay for me to say that?

Yes!

Did you ever think I could go back and say hello?

No, but if I were you, I'd do it right away. Why?

Well, because Janet says that she thinks Vanessa really likes you.

Did you say that I like Vanessa?

Hey, I know better. I only said that after Janet said she thinks Vanessa

likes me.

Then I guess I better go say hello. Go for it.

Vanessa, look.

Robert's coming over soon. He sure is.

Hello, Vanessa.

Nice party.

Thanks.

Want to dance?

Sure.

Wow.

You know, this is a party. Wow.

You know Vanessa's out there dancing with a boy.

All right, Vanessa.

How was your party?

Theo ruined it for me.

No, I didn't. I did you a favor.

Mom, the one guy that I wanted to meet, Danny Lynch, avoided me the entire

evening. I found out later he talked to Theo, who told him I had a boyfriend.

Theo, why did you do that?

I talked to him, and I didn't like his attitude.

I thought he was a jerk.

It is not up to you to decide who I meet and who you don't meet.

Well, so you never met the guy?

Yeah, right.

he left, I finally had a chance to talk to him. And?

He was a jerk.

So you shouldn't be mad at your brother.

Mom! If Theo hadn't talked to him, I could have met him, found out he was a

jerk, and spent the rest of my time trying to meet someone else.

Don't worry, Denise.

I've talked to a lot of guys at the party. You didn't miss a thing.

Yeah. It's easy to dance to.

Yeah.

Well, thanks.

Yeah, thanks.

How did we look together?

Fabulous! Really?

What was it like?

I didn't breathe once.

Vanessa, would you take these, please?

Janet, I'm going to make some more punch. Would you bring that bowl inside?

Okay.

She must have forgotten something.

Rudy, what are you doing?

Vanessa won't let me in. She wants to be alone.

Okay, so why don't you go in our room, okay?

Okay.

Who is it?

Me. Mom, if you don't mind, I'd really like to be alone right now.

Okay, Vanessa, I'm only going to talk to you for a few minutes, and then I

promise I'll leave you alone.

Please don't tell me to go downstairs because I'm not going to.

You know, Vanessa, dropping that tray of glasses isn't exactly the end of the

world. I want to move in with Grandma and Grandpa.

That way, I can just transfer to another school.

Vanessa, I'm sure that everybody understands that was an accident, honey.

But it happened in front of Robert Foreman. All right, okay, but before you

your bags, there's something I want you to know about, okay?

I remember this guy named Jimmy Peterson.

Now, you see, Jimmy Peterson used to hang out at the city pool every day all

summer long, and he was the finest thing there.

And I knew that if I wanted to be his girlfriend, I had to get him to notice

So, one day, I climbed the high dive, which was something that only the

absolute coolest girls did because, see, I knew that he was going to be

watching. What happened?

Well, I got up on the high dive and I strutted out on that board determined to

do the meanest swan dive in the history of swimming.

Got to the edge of the board, looked down and discovered why they call the

dive the high dive.

I stood there trembling with Jimmy Peterson and everyone looking up at me.

What did you do?

I did the only thing I could do. I made everybody waiting on the ladder get off

so I could get down.

When I walked past Jimmy Peterson, I was so embarrassed. I couldn't even look

him in the face. I never spoke to him again.

That's how I ended up with your father.

I guess what you're saying is I should just wait for the next guy, huh? No,

honey, no.

What I'm saying is that things are never as bad as they seem at the time, okay?

All right.

Yes?

Janet wants to say a few words to you, okay?

Okay.

Vanessa! We were all just talking about you downstairs.

I can't believe this. happened to you.

We were wondering if you could come down and do it again.

Somebody else wants to say hello to you.

Hi. Hi, Audrey.

Vanessa, I want you to know I wasn't thirsty anyway.

Scott. Hi.

The party's not the same since you left.

No one's dancing.

Really? They can't. There's glass all over the floor.

Okay, everybody, come on in.

We've decided to move the party up to this room here.

Mom's going to put the music on for you, and you can all hang out here and

party, but I don't want anybody on any of these beds in a horizontal position.

Vanessa, somebody's waiting for you in the hallway.

I was worried about you.

Thank you.

Are you okay?

Yeah, I'll be fine.

Vanessa, is it okay if I call you sometime?

Yeah.

Maybe I could walk you to school tomorrow.

Okay.

I'll leave at 8 o 'clock.

I'll be here.

Great.

Even if it's raining.

Okay.

But if it snows, I have to ask my dad.

Okay.

Vanessa?

Want to go steady?

Do you want to go steady?

If you want to.

Sure. I want to.

Well, I guess we're going steady.

It means I'll call you and walk you to school.

I'd like that.

Oh, my hand's all sweaty.

It's okay.

We're going steady.

I want my hand back.

Well, Rudy, the party's going to be over in ten minutes, honey. Why don't you

just stay here and join our party? Let's have a party down here together.

Okay?

Rody, come here, please.

Rody, you see that guy over there?

Daddy? Now, listen.

I want you to go over there and tell him that you heard that I thought that he

was cute.

Mommy said that she heard that she thinks that you're cute.

Mommy said that she heard that she thinks she's cute.

You. You tell her that I think that she is

all right.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Come back.

But don't tell her that I said it. You tell her that you heard that I might

said that.

Daddy said that he might.

That you are gorgeous.

I want you to go back and tell him

that you thought you heard that I might have said that

I'd like to go on a date with him Saturday night at 12 .05.

She said she heard that she wants to go out on a date with you Saturday.

Tell her that at 0300, the

leukocytes will take over all of the my inject no fields and

that I will kiss her on the court steps of the Teresa hotel.

Put your feet on tap.

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