up with hundreds of plump orange pumpkins And that reminded Maddy of her favorite subject in the whole entire world What are you going to be for Halloween Darcy She turned as much as she could in a seat belt
A zombie princess said Darcy clapping her hands and grinning And Bun-Bun will be my vampire bunny Bun-Bun was Darcy’s soft gray rabbit Maddy loved him
Really Maddy clapped too and bounced in her seat I’m going to be a zombie pioneer girl We can be Halloween almost-twins Maddy and Darcy laughed at the coincidence They were in fourth grade now None of the girls wanted to be regular princesses and fairies Scary or gross costumes were much more fun The ride ended too soon Maddy was explaining how she planned to do her white face paint when they arrived at Darcy’s house
Darcy jumped out Mom continued down the block and around the corner She pulled into the garage Maddy climbed out of the car thinking about what to use for fake blood She had some kinks to work out Good thing she had four weeks to figure it all I just remembered she said out loud What said Mom Her voice was muffled She was leaning into the trunk She’d gone grocery shopping while the girls were at the movie
