KAPPA IV Memoir - Mr. Almanzar

By: Deseree

It all started the day before Halloween. I went upstairs to my aunt’s house. I asked “what is Ruby going to be for Halloween?”Then she answered “oh Ruby is going to be a witch and you”. I replied “I don’t think I'm going trick-or-treating”. Then both my cousins came running to me. “Tutti Tutti!” They screamed. Then they jumped on my legs. They felt like barnacles. We all ran to their room and started to play hide and go seek. After that I said good bye and ran downstairs and fell fast asleep.

      The next day I went to school feeling sad. I thought why my mom doesn’t let me go trick-or-treating. Then two girls came up to me and asked “what are you going to be for Halloween?” I answered (I actually lied) “I don’t know maybe a grandma.”

       After school I went to my mom and whispered next to her “can I go trick-or-treating?” She stood quiet. Then she answered “yes go with Daisy” I zoomed out of the door and knocked on my aunts door and guess what I was a grandma. My aunt gave me some of her clothes. Then I asked my cousin Rachelle “are you going to be a grandma too!” Then she replied “yup just like you!”  But instead we were mostly different. She had a tight bun I had a grandma bun. I had dangling earrings she had clip on. Ruby had a mole with hair. She even wore my stockings.

        We were all ready to go. “ moo ha ha ha ”Ruby laughed. Then I shouted out lets go. We ran down the stairs. Then my cousin yelled “ I bet you Im going to get mad candy!” I yelled back everybody is going to get mad candy duh!”

        We walked from 171st to 181st. “ OMG” I yelled. So much people. We got to a certain store where a man had a big bucket of candy. My little cousin and I took candy when the man wasn’t looking. We were laughing so hard. And we yelled “ yo Rachelle we took mad candy.”

        We walked one block until we saw people taking pictures with Dora or something of that sort. My cousin Ruby loves cartoons. So she stayed there and didn’t know we left. We went to Dunkin Donuts until my aunt yelled, “Ruby what kind of doughnut you want?” She didn’t answer. Then I yelled “ Ruby, yo where is Ruby?” My tears were burning my eyes. I ran outside and kept shouting “Ruby, Ruby!” Then people came to my aunt and asked “you want me to call the police? How tall is she? Then my other cousin ran to the crowd of people and saw her. She was pouring buckets of tears. Everyone went to hug her. We went straight home. We took a bath played a little, shared our candy and fell fast asleep. It is important to stick together because you can get lost, maybe even killed.