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Meanwhile, Gerry pulls up at Jim's party. The place already has a good
amount of young people lying on the lawn, bottles of beer here and there.
Gerry: Now remember, if the cops show up, hide on the roof. They'll
never find ya.
Jim: Dad!
Gerry: Now now, I used to be your age. I know the tricks. Now out you
go.
Jim was already in a hurry to get out, but the extra shove from his
dad sends him sprawling on the pavement.
Gerry: Catch you later! *screeeeeeech*
Gerry takes off faster than lightning, and Jim brushes himself off.
Jim: What's his problem?
Andrea, Caroline and Sharon stop in front of a big, gloomy looking house
called Black Manor, a huge house with big overhangs and creepy landscaping.
It was a very dark-looking house.
Andrea: What are we doing here, Sharon? I don't wanna go in there!
Sharon: But it's creepy! It'll be so much fun!
Caro: I dunno. There might be ghosts.
Sharon: There's no such thing as a ghost. Come on!
Andrea: I don't like your idea, Sharon!
The little Corr sisters stop on the porch, in front of the old front
door.
Sharon: I wonder if it's locked.
Sharon pulls on the door handle, tries turning it. The thing won't
move.
Andrea: Yay! It's locked! Now we can leave!
Sharon: Maybe there's a back door.
Sharon walks off the porch and starts going around the house. Caro
follows. Andrea fidgets and looks around. Her halo clinks around on her
head.
Andrea: Wait up!
Andrea runs over to her sisters. Sharon finds another door near the
back of the house, and tries the door. It shakes a bit.
Sharon: Maybe we could kick it down.
Caro: I wanna! I wanna!
Andrea: Pleeeeze can't we go back?
Sharon: Don't be a chicken. Bock bawwwwwwwk.
Andrea: I'm not a chicken!
Sharon: Yes you are!
Caroline kicks the door, then hops on one foot.
Caro: Owie! That hurt!! (begins to get tears in her eyes)
Sharon: Let me try. *kick* Ow!
Andrea looks at the door.
Andrea: Why don't we try this key hanging next to it?
Andrea grabs the key and uses it in the key hole. The door unlocks
and she opens it.
Andrea: I might be a chicken, but I'm a SMART chicken. (sticks out
her tongue)
The Corr sisters enter what looks like a kitchen. There are old cupboards
on the walls, a sink in the middle of an old wooden counter, a beyond-rotten
cabbage on the floor. It's as light as a leaf now.
Andrea: This place smells bad.
Sharon: Stop, I had to change you both while you were babies. This
is nothing.
Caro: Hehe and Jim got to change you. Hehehe
The sisters go further into the house, Sharon in front, Caroline in
the middle and Andrea bringing up the rear.
Andrea: What're we looking for in here, Sharon?
Sharon: Just looking around! It's a creepy house, it's Hallow's Eve.
Caro: You're looking for ghosts.
Sharon: Nuh-uh. There's no such thing as a ghost.
Andrea: Yes there is, like the one I saw in my closet last night!
Caro: That was your Angel outfit. The one you're wearing right now.
Andrea: Whoops... hehehe
They stop at a staircase.
Sharon: Ooh, I wanna go up there.
Caro: No... that looks too scary.
Sharon: Ok then, you two fraidy-cats can stay down here.
Sharon goes up the stairs. Caroline looks at Andrea.
Andrea: Great. Now we're alone.
Caro: Maybe there's a TV.
Andrea: How can you think of watching TV at a time like this?
Caro: Well, just wondering...
Andrea and Caroline wander into another room. Like every other room,
it's dark and dusty, with furniture covered by white sheets.
*cling clang clong clonk*
Andrea: Eep! What was that?
A cat walks into the room. Andrea looks in the doorway it came out
of and sees a piano.
Andrea: Oh, it's just a kitty. Come here, kitty!
The kitty walks back into the room it came from.
Andrea: Oh fine, be that way, Garfield.
Caroline hops up and down on the hollow wooden floor.
Caro: Hehe it sounds like a drum. *thump thump thump CRUNCH* Hey my
foot's stuck! Andrea!
Andrea goes over to Caro.
Andrea: What'd you do?
Caro: My foot broke through the floor! I can't get it out!
Andrea: Hehehe you're gonna get in trouble now.
Caro: Help me out!
Andrea: Now the spiders in the floor are gonna get ya.
Caro: EEEEK! Get me out of the floor, stupid!
Andrea pulls Caroline by the arms, sliding across the floor in her
little white shoes.
Andrea: You're too heavy! I can't pull you.
Caro: Keep trying.
Caroline stomps her other foot on the floor, trying to free herself.
It goes through.
Caro: Hey! I got the other stuck too! Sharon!
Andrea keeps pulling with all her strength, then lets go. Caroline
is still stuck.
Andrea: Hold on, I got an idea!
Caro: This better be good.
Andrea goes and takes a white sheet off of a piece of furniture, and
hands one end to Caroline.
Andrea: Okay, hold onto that.
Andrea begins pulling with the sheet. This time Caro begins moving.
Caro: It's working! Keep pulling!
Andrea pulls harder and harder, and finally Caroline pops out of the
hole and lands on her face.
Caro: Owie!
Andrea: Yay! You're out.
In the other room, they hear the piano again.
Cat: Meowwwww meow meow-how... meowwww meow meow-how... (with piano
backing)
Andrea: Hey, that sounded good!
Caroline and Andrea come stomping up the stairs.
Caro: Sharon, where are you?
Andrea: Shaaaaaronnn.... Shaaaaronnn...
Suddenly they hear chains dragging and a woman's voice wailing.
Andrea: I know that's you, Sharon, come out.
More dragging sounds could be heard, this time it was on the other
part of the house.
Caro: Sharon! Where are you?
Just then a door bursts open and someone in a sheet jumps out at them.
Sharon: Booga booga!
Caro and Andrea: EEEEK! *punch*
Sharon: Ow!
*punch* *kick* *biff* *thump*
Sharon: Stop it! Ow!!
Andrea: You cow! You scared me half to death!
Caro: I almost peed my pants... (crosses legs)
Meanwhile...
*crunch*
Jim rolls over on the rooftop of the house. He can still see flashing
lights and people yelling below.
Jim: This is not good. I should've stayed with the girls.
Jim looks over the side and drops over, landing on his feet.
Jim: Dum da da dum... (Indiana Jones)
Jim jumps over a fence, landing roughly, then brushes himself off.
Jim: Damn, and I didn't get to tell Cassie how I feel. What can I do
to make her love me? What can I do to make her care? What can I say to
make her feel this? What can I do to get her there? Hey, that's catchy...
Cop: You there! Stop!
Jim: Uh oh.
Jim takes off down an alley, the cops hot on his heels. He sees a chainlink
fence and starts to scale it. The cop jumps up and grabs his foot.
Cop: Aha! Down ya go!
Jim: No!
Jim reaches into his coat and drops a bottle of Guiness on the cop's
head. The cop falls down, knocked out.
Jim: That was close.
Jim climbs up the chainlink fence, which goes all the way up to another
roof. He walks along, and sees some shrubs which could probably catch his
fall.
Jim: Here goes... *crunch*
Jim lands softly in the bushes.
Old lady: You get outta my bushes, ya young hoodlum you!
Jim: Sorry! Nice bushes, by the way.
Old lady: *gasp*
She slams her front door. Jim crawls out of the bushes, and lands at
Cassie's feet.
Cassie: Jim? What are you doing in there?
Jim: Doing? Oh, nothing. Um I mean, well I was um, trying to get away
from the cops...
Cassie sighs.
Cassie: Parties like that are for losers. A boy like you shouldn't
be with that crowd.
She starts to walk away. Jim feels his chances slipping away again.
Jim: I find that I can't breathe, I can't sleep, when you're not around.
Cassie!
Cassie: Em, are you okay?
Jim snatches up a rose, not even caring that it's covered with many
lethal thorns.
Jim: Every day is a bluey-gray when you're not in town!
Cassie: Oh, how sweet! Ya know, you have a great voice.
Jim smiles.
Jim: Cassie, would it be absolutely any problem if perhaps we could
go on a date?
Cassie: Why, sure! I'd love to!
Jim: Great!.... ow.... rose... ow...
Cassie: Oh, let me help you with that!
Back to the sisters...
Andrea: So it was you.
Sharon: Yes. I sure had you two going. Hehehe.
Caro: Nice outfit though. I like the chains.
Sharon: Thanks. I'd come here when I'd ditch school and just hid some
of the stuff here.
Andrea: Well okay, you scared us tonight, you did what you wanted.
Now can we go?
*chain rattling*
Caro: Stop that! You know that sounds creepy whenever you do that.
Sharon: That wasn't me.
Andrea: Yeah huh.
Sharon: It wasn't, honest.
*piano sweep*
Cat: Meow meow, meow meow!!! (like Tutti Frutti)
All 3: Eeeeeeeek!!!!!!
The sisters all run out of the house screaming, Andrea getting her
halo caught and bending it.
Sharon: What the blazes was THAT?
Caro: Evil cat! Eeee!!!
Andrea: My darn halo is bent now.
Suddenly, the orange cat appears in the doorway.
Caro: Is it wearing sunglasses?
Sharon: What does it have in its mouth?
The cat walks up to them calmly, dropping three bags hanging from its
mouth. Then it runs back into the house.
Andrea: Okay, who else thinks this is really corny...?
Caro: Candy corn! Hehehe all right!
An hour or so later, Jim is jumping down the sidewalk.
Jim: Oh, this is a journal moment... oh yes! And it was so good...
Sharon and her sisters come up the sidewalk at the same time, their
trick-or-treat sacks filled with rocks, cans, and some assorted candy.
Sharon: Hi Jim.
Jim: No time to talk, no time!
Jim skips up the front walk, his sisters following, throws open the
front door and turns on the lights.
Jim: We're home.... DAD!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MOM??????
Jean: Eeeeeep!
Gerry: What're ya doin' home so damn early?! (grabs a blanket)
Jim: It's eleven!
Andrea: Mammy! What're ya doin with Daddy?
Caro: Daddy, your socks are on the ceiling fan.
Jean: Away with ya all! Upstairs! Stop staring, Jim!
The Corr siblings rush up the stairs. Caro's head is trailing.
Jean: Away with ya!
Caro hurries after her sisters. They all run into Sharon's room and
shut the door.
Sharon: I can't believe they still do that!
Caro: Hehe I know.
Andrea: They do that?
Sharon: That's right, she hasn't seen.
Andrea: Seen what?
Sharon: They did the same thing a while before you were born, Andy.
And Caro.
Caro: Yeah I saw.
Andrea: But you're only a year older than me, Caroline.
Caro: Well you were off reading one time, me and Sharon SAW.
Andrea stomps her feet.
Andrea: That's not fair!
Jim gets into his room and locks the door.
Jim: Ewwwwwwww!!!! Not AGAIN!!
Jim rubs his eyes and smacks himself in the face.
Jean and Gerry try finding their clothes.
Jean: Oh dear, they saw us. Oh my...
Gerry: Just stay calm. Make some tea. Just be calm. We don't have to
punish them for being home so late.
Jean: Why not?
Gerry: What they saw was punishment enough. Where are my socks again?
The End