username + number :: skabeebo 803580
kalon name :: Pie
prompt :: Every year on Halloween, Pie and his friends celebrated by going out to trick or treat and hit every house in town. Although most houses were delightful and had people who were just as excited to give out candy as Pie and his friends were to receive it, there was one house on the old dirt road in which lived an old man named Sam who was sour about the participation of older kids in Halloween. He was under the impression that only little kids could enjoy such a “childish” holiday. Old Man Sam ruined Pie’s Halloween every single year. So this year, Pie decided that he would trick the old man to teach him a lesson.
It was an annual occurrence that Old Man Sam would throw salt at the older kids to get them to go away. Nobody knew why the old man did this, but it seemed to work, because it turns out, children don’t like being covered in salt. To trick Old Man Sam, Pie decided to dress up as a slug that Halloween, and when the old man grabbed his handful of salt to throw at Pie, he threw himself on the floor and began to writhe, throwing globs of sticky slime all over his porch. “Ahh!! You’re hurting me!! How could you!? This will be on your record for life! You’ll go to prison for this!!” shouted Pie, in agony. Old Man Sam was alarmed, he didn’t intend to hurt a child, only make him go away! “Oh no! What do I do!?” he panicked.
Pie reached one hand up, coughing and sputtering. “There is no saving me! You’ve done your worst.. This never would have happened if you didn’t hate us older kids so much!” and then, Pie’s hand fell to the ground, and he stuck out his tongue and closed his eyes. Pie the slug was gone, or at least pretending to be. Old Man Sam began to weep, asking for forgiveness for throwing salt at the older kids, and promising he would never do it again.
Pie opened one eye, looking at the old man. “Do you really promise that?” he asked. Old Man Sam realized that Pie hadn’t actually died. “Oh thank goodness, you’re alive! Yes, yes, I really do promise, just never ever scare me like that again!”
Pie jumped to his feet, smiling at Old Man Sam. “I promise I won’t! Just be a little nicer, would ya?” And with that, he took his candy bar and wandered down the street to collect candy from all the next houses. Pie’s Halloween was perfect that year, and rumor has it Old Man Sam never threw salt at another child again.
