Super by Matthew Cody

Author:Matthew Cody [Cody, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89979-9
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Halloween

It was Eric’s decision to declare mandatory trick-or-treating. There had been far too much moping and feeling sorry for themselves for his taste, especially by Eric himself, and therefore the Supers would go trick-or-treating together this Halloween, en masse. Shroud or no Shroud. No excuses. No passes.

As the weeks went by and Halloween approached, the trees around Mount Noble turned deep orange, like a swath of rust spreading across the mountainside. Mollie said they were getting too old for trick-or-treating, but Eric had his mind set on it. Most of the Supers had picked out their costumes already—Rohan would be a bug-eyed alien (which left him open to any number of Mollie’s jokes) and Eric would be, unsurprisingly, a superhero.

Daniel was torn. There was still no sign of Theo. He didn’t go to their school but instead attended a private academy over an hour away. The best Daniel could get out of Theo’s mom was that her husband and son were involved in some kind of business project together that was eating up all their time. Whether that was the truth or a convenient way for Theo to keep avoiding Daniel, it didn’t really matter.

After the disaster with Clay and Bud, Daniel dared not go back to the Old Quarry alone, but he didn’t want to put his friends in any more danger by asking them to accompany him. He was stuck. The trail had grown cold and he’d run out of clues.

As for spending Halloween with the Supers, he’d been put on Georgie duty for the evening, and his parents expected him to take the three-year-old out trick-or-treating anyway, but Daniel wasn’t sure if he was comfortable around all his friends at the same time. It would be the largest gathering of Supers since Louisa’s attack, and that made Daniel nervous. But in the end Eric was just too stubbornly persuasive, and the idea of spending the evening alone with Georgie (who was going dressed as a pink bunny, by the way) was too much for Daniel.

So he set about getting materials for his costume, and for the first time in months he stopped worrying every minute of the day about Shrouds and powers and nightmares and focused on something fun. He scoured the town for the perfect touches—the green deerstalker cap from the local thrift store, the garage-sale brown overcoat—and, of course, there was the long bowl-shaped pipe Daniel already had. For a couple of weeks he was able to be a kid again.

All he was missing was Sherlock’s trademark nose. Holmes’s nose was thin and hawklike, while Daniel’s was short and sort of button-shaped. But there was no changing that, and he thought he otherwise made a pretty impressive master detective, if a bit young for the role. He even worked up a few catchphrases in his best British accent. He’d tried to convince his mom to dress up Georgie as Watson—just stick a fake mustache on him and call it done—but she refused to glue facial hair of any kind on her younger child.

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