Well Enough Alone

Mom and Dad left Siobhan in charge on Halloween night. She had turned 16 in May, and her parents finally decided she could watch her brother alone for a few hours. Siobhan enthusiastically agreed. She was definitely old enough to babysit, and her parents were definitely not too old to go out to a Halloween party. Siobhan had even held it together when her parents entered the room in their “Mr. and Mrs. Dracula” costumes. The outfits were silly, but her parents looked happy, and as long as Siobhan didn’t have to be seen with them, that’s all that mattered.

She waved goodbye to them as they stepped out into the chill October air. Once the car was out of sight, Caerwyn entered the living room dressed in a classic “sheet ghost” costume. It was a low-effort job. The eye-holes were jagged and fraying as if the scissors went in without a plan. Siobhan wondered where he got the sheet – hopefully from somewhere it wouldn’t be missed