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“Crunch! Crunch!” As the leaves crumbled while 

the rake’s long fingers ran through them. It was 

the afternoon before Halloween and I was raking 

the leave. Dad told me if I did a great job on 

raking he would buy me the best Halloween 

costume form Hallo’s Shop grand opening tonight. 

And he also promised that we’d go early so that 

we’d be the first ones there and we’d make sure 

to get the best costume. “Swoosh” it was starting 

to get chilly out so I started raking quicker. After a 

few minutes I was done, the lawn was looking 

perfecto.

 I soon ran inside to show dad. 

He sure was impressed. And so was mom who was 

already nine months pregnant. I put on my coat 

quickly and I ran to the car. Dad came after me. 

We drove two streets and one block. We was lots of 

homes and roads and stores.

 Soon we saw a lot of color full lights as we got 

closer it spelled WELCOME TO HOLLO’S GRAND 

OPENING. Once Dad parked his we went on to the 

front wide door with a yellow ribbon around it. We 

weren't the first but lucky we were the third. Many 

kids were running towards the line. “Un...Uung” as 

a man cleared out his throat, Welcome to the 

grand opening, he said in a loud voice. Everyone 

got quiet. But dad’s phone rang, so we had to step 

out of line. 

He told me that he had to bring mom to the 

hospital for the baby so he asked me if I wanted to 

go and I told him no so he gave me 25 bucks and 

he told me he didn’t have enough time so I would 

have to sleep over a friend’s house and so he left 

me and I got back in line. As the man talked I 

looked back at dad’s car as it drove away.

“I know everyone’s exited tonight so I 

shall cut this ribbon and we shall all 

enter in pride.” So he cut the ribbon and 

everyone dashed in holding a parent on 

the other hand. I found the world 

awesome-st costume, I can’t even 

describe it. No-one will ever notice me. 

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