My Weird School Special: It's Halloween, I'm Turning Green! by Dan Gutman

Author:Dan Gutman [Gutman, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062206794
Amazon: 0062206796
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-07-23T05:00:00+00:00

9

A Bunch of Squirrels

“Wake up! Dude, are you okay?”

I opened my eyes. Billy was kneeling over me.

“Huh? What? Where am I?” I asked.

The whole gang was standing there in a circle around me: Ryan, Michael, Alexia, Neil, Andrea, Emily. I checked my arms and legs. They were clean. I didn’t have any green paint on me.

“You must have had some kind of a nightmare, dude,” Billy said. “You were out. We thought we might have to call an ambulance.”

“You kept mumbling something about going around the corner,” said Ryan.

“The teachers at school were trying to steal my candy,” I told them. “They were walking around like zombies. All of them! When I refused to give them the candy, they dumped green paint all over me.”

“Paint?” asked Neil.

“I guess it wasn’t real paint,” I said. “It was just a pigment of my imagination.”

“That was scary!” said Emily, who’s scared by just about anything.

“Why would the teachers want to dump green paint on you?” Alexia asked. “That doesn’t make any sense.”

“It was a dream!” I told her. “Dreams don’t always make sense. It was horrible! But then I was rescued by some nice penguins. They wanted me to run away with them to Antarctica.”

“You should have listened to me, Arlo,” Andrea told me. “I told you that eating so much candy would make you sick.”

“Your face makes me sick,” I told Andrea.

“Oh, snap!” said Ryan.

I got up off the ground and brushed the dirt off my costume.

“That was one weird dream you had, dude,” Billy said. “Maybe you should stop eating so much candy.”

As it turned out, I had to stop eating so much candy, because my pillowcase had nothing in it except for candy wrappers. I had eaten all my candy! Ryan and Michael said they only had a few candy bars left. The only ones who had a lot of candy were Andrea and Emily.

It was dark out, and it was getting late. Soon trick-or-treating would be over, and we would have to go home. Bummer in the summer!

“Hey,” Ryan suddenly said, “if I go home without any candy, I won’t have any candy to eat tomorrow.”

“That’s right,” agreed Michael. “The only candy we have in our house is Halloween candy.”

“Same here,” said Neil the nude kid. “I might have to wait a whole year until next Halloween before I can get more candy.”

This was a horrible situation!

“What are we going to do?” asked Alexia.

There was only one thing we could do.

“Get more candy!” we all shouted.

We took off down the street, knocking on every door we could find. When we finished the street, we turned down the next street and went trick-or-treating there. I didn’t even know which direction we were heading in anymore. I didn’t care. I just wanted to fill my pillowcase with candy. We were like a bunch of squirrels, gathering nuts so we would be able to make it through the winter.

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