Cherry and Atticus Visit Halloween Town

chapter 2

When the bus landed and made a random stop appear so mortals wouldn't be suspicious, Aggie came out of the bus with Cherry and Atticus as she floated down from the bus with her umbrella almost like Mary Poppins. Aggie was sure that Cherry would get along great with Marnie, her oldest granddaughter, who loved Halloween just as much as she did.

"Oh, come on." Aggie told her shaking bag.

Her bag simply shook as if saying it wouldn't come.

"Come on..." Aggie continued.

The bag still shook as it stayed where it was.

"Suit yourself," Aggie shrugged and looked to Cherry and Atticus. "Come with me, children."

"See ya." Atticus smirked at the bag.

The bag soon gave in and followed them down the street and floated into Aggie's hand. Aggie giggled and cooed as she picked up her bag and hugged it in her arms.

"Witches are weird..." Cherry rolled her eyes.

"Some witches." Atticus said.

"Ah, I hear you two are close with the Spellmans." Aggie smiled.

"You could say that," Atticus smiled back. "I can't remember where we were going, but it was raining one day and it was too dangerous to go anywhere, so Hilda and Zelda helped us and then we met Sabrina."

"It's true." Cherry said.

Aggie smirked as she decided to surprise and sneak up on her daughter as she came to the house with Cherry and Atticus as a redheaded woman was at the stove while a plate of cookies was at the table and a little girl looked away as she couldn't have any until after dinner, but then, one of the cookies seemed to float to her. The woman quickly snatched the cookie and hid it in her mouth.

The little girl tilted her head to her mother. "Were you just eating a cookie?"

'Busted.' Atticus thought to himself with a smirk.

"Grandma!" The little girl beamed.

"What're you doing here?" The girl's mother asked as Aggie came to hug her.

"Grandma! Grandma!" A preteen boy and a teenage girl soon ran into the room to see Aggie.

"Why aren't any of you out trick-or-treating or at any Halloween parties?" Cherry asked.

"We can't go," The teenage girl complained. "Mom won't let us, but she never tells us why."

"I don't mind staying in on Halloween." The boy replied.

"Um, Mother, who are your young friends?" The mother asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Aggie chuckled. "Gwen, these are Cherry and Atticus. Cherry is Mary Ruth's granddaughter."

"Ooh..." Aggie's daughter's eyes widened.

"Atticus is her guest," Aggie continued. "I hope you don't mind that they've come along."

"Of course not." Gwen said.

"I just love Halloween," Marnie beamed. "Nobody loves it as much as I do."

"Uh-oh," Atticus smirked toward Cherry. "You've got some competition."

"I don't care." Cherry rolled her eyes.

Atticus sighed as not even Halloween couldn't perk her up.

"Anyway, it's nice to meet you all." Cherry said.

"Sorry if she's cranky, she's a little mad that I forgot her birthday." Atticus told the others.

"Ooh, that's a bit rough..." The oldest girl winced.