What is halloween without trick and treat? Since I stumble upon the term since the day I know, I never had the chance to forgot the feeling it brought me. Was it satisfying?

Perhaps the horrored it brought me.

I cannot say for sure but it gives me the feeling of being alive. So I thought to be brave and do the trick and treat with the one so dare to my heart.

Inside though I know there's something unique to the Halloween. It was the time to forget the matter of hiding the fear and doubt, and just do have the time to face everything.

So I thought I have to make a move and face the consequence of loving continuously a man that will never mine...

With my sibling in far and distance, I head my way to our one and only sacred place. With the one I can able to do what I want, stared at him the whole time may possible. And I know he wouldn't thought it was strange. I told him once that staring at him was a therapeutic in some unknown cases. He knows I love to observe and heal through the process.

He was the one who suggest that I can do so only for him.

"You sure on this, brother?" I hear my sister horrored voice behind me. Her friend, which also my friend, giggled beside her. Stating that this sister of mine was no way to tells the difference between certainty and determination. And what determination can do to change a person's overall disposition.

Upon arrival at the sacred place, I able to see the setting of the sun. Looking down, graveyard noticeably surround the town. For instance it was creepy to even imagine. But everyone thought it was exciting and fun. They even expected something bizarre to show up as if everything was set up to do just that. Though the question I hardly to answer was, who design the graveyard as if it been there for ages?

It was so good foundation of Halloween that everyone, even my sister don't sleep the day before this day out of excitement.

Not to mention I kind of asleep cause of overthinking of this night. It should come handy, right?

"Everything's set," my sister soft whisper teleported me to reality. I nodded as they disappeared to the distance. I walk faster than usual when the darkness surround the place. Though it only takes a second and as a shadow of moon bring light to my way to the top, yet the breeze of winds shivered me.

I am freezing, yet a smile broke out when I notice him waiting for my arrival. He sat silently at the wooden chair, staring at me with his deep alluring eyes. That moment I felt the world slow down, and I able to determine that something in his stares that so deep that I couldn't able to see the deepest.

"Hey," I tap his shoulder and he seems startled that his eyes widened and gasped to see me in front of him. "You fine?" I ask and everything seems out of the context when he look away. Was he preparing for something?

I deeply curious and I couldn't stop myself from staring intently at his paled face. But looking at him, I was like lose in everything and just wanted nothing but to stare at him.

Yet I feel something is odd. The presence he gives off was something from my expectation. I scan around for the trace and feels of Halloween Eves but heck, there's nothing!

"They think it's good to celebrate the Halloween this time of year," his voice horrified as he look down to the graveyard that looks like a wave that trying to reach the town.

"Wasn't we suppose to celebrate it...?" I find it hard to understand him and I thrilled off when he looking so worried but unable to voice out what. I gulped and look away, the first time ever. "I thought you like this, sir..."

Was I wrong?

"That's no possible," he dismiss my thought with his usual alluring eyes. Though this time it was filled with horror, as if I said something far from what suppose to be.

He sigh to find I look away and starting to doubt to everything. He look to the height of sky that paint in a bloody moonlight, and I able to look back to him while he do that.

"There's something you never know, sir," he tells me with his usual soft voice, one that I able to sigh in relief. Though it tainted with mysterious and horror for what he worried about, atleast I know he was someone I thought he was.

"You scare me just now, sir," I said with my heart boom and drum to no end. I have been waiting to the Halloween Eve so his words just now and reaction brought me doubt upon myself. So I think this night was a failure?

"I think I have to go?" I didn't notice my voice become shaky and filled with pain. That's in itself brought me embarassment inside and I wouldn't want him think and realize that I am.

And perhaps I have to leave than doubting to everything, and may lead to badly thought of his unusual behavior of this night as something so selfish in itself. This time I thought I'll abandon the idea of enjoying the night, I guess?

But the idea of scaring this man that I device for a month to better understand him will be of any use. My shoulder lay down to the thought. Though the idea is one thing, his participation is everything!

So what's the feeling he just brought upon that surprise me? I did gasp, try to shiver and let him know I am horror and that he did a good job on scaring me.

Only if his words just now was to attract me for what he planning to do in this Halloween Eve.

But I feel it....

I always feel the truthfulness in his voice. His worry shattered all of my plan with him. This far from some sort of romance, I know, but to share the same horror and fear was my kind of dream the moment I abandon the thought to be with him romantically.

We are just to treat each other professionally. So what's wrong of Halloween that he suddenly despise?

*
I did said to leave, yet he didn't stop me to doing so. That in itself gives me idea he was no way of trying to trick-or-treat with me. Not even bother to say goodbye as I disappear in his very eyes. Though I clearly saw him for the last time, looking down to the graveyard that seems like a wave that goes up in a moment that passes.

"We're leaving?" My sister was so shock and horror when she realize I heading the way home. I saw her with Nathan, our childhood friend that has a look of curiousity in his eyes. He clothed with bloody robbed while there's a bladed fang peeking out to scare the heck out of everyone may stumble upon!

I nodded to my sister that just trying to dress with her unusual witchy attire. The way she dress with blood spattered in her clothes made it possible to think she just battled to death with ferocious being. Or was she bitten by Nathan, the vampire?

I kind of forget the disappointment in me as we trail the way home. My sister insist to scare out of the man that just broke my heart. She thought I confess or something, and I don't dare to corrected her as the thought of him still bothered me.

Was I do the right thing and leaving him in that states?

I look back to the tip of the hill and find it hard to think clearly. There's something inside me thinking that he got enough of me. He really unusual this time and I couldn't risk to ask the reason. What if it was because he try to abandon me?

That's the horror I wouldn't dare to feel with him. That will break me for good than realizing he have no way of placing me especially and only at the deepest of his heart. He's a religious person and I know what they believe than anyone else.

"It's a 'gabi ng lagim'!" My sister hysterically jump in the couch when we just got to home. She referring to the episodes of one of a longest program in telivision, the 'night of spooky' episodes. Nathan look scornly on her and she glared stabbingly at him. "What? Scared to bone again?"

The night so peaceful that was unusual in any ways. Yet I didn't pondered to the deepest. My vision blurry the moment I enter my room, leaving the two behind with their usual cat-dog fight. I didn't notice I fell asleep, and even see the deepest of my fear that drown me and wrecked my heart into pieces!

"No!" I scream, my hands in the air as if to hold something that forcefully drag far from me. My eyes widened when I fully gotten my consciousness and able to hear a words that I unable to gasp.

"You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave" the voice filled my head and I weaken drastically.

"Aria," I called out the name of my sister. "If it's you, stop...Ugh!" I curse when my head wrack to the extent of exploding. I shut my eyes and cover my head with my tremble hands. "Aria..."

Just as I felt the voice was bearable I able to open my eyes. Yet the voice exist, as if the words that uttered was a warning of a system that brought from who-knows-where.

I don't know what the force that shook me and my head to face the open window. There, the person I was calling this whole time staring at the height of the sky. She doesn't response and just proceeded as if she doesn't hear a thing.

"Aria!"

She shivered and able to realize my voice. The frustration and horror there was one thing, but the pain I barely concealed determine her response. She face the direction of my room that stop me from tells her to stop this trick!

Heck, her eyes close that I able to see just as she turn her back to journey the darkness and silence. And it doesn't seem like she notice my shock and how the world stop rotating.

Yet the tremble of my heart incite me to move and leave the fear behind. The sickness in my head continued but the fear in my heart overwhelm the voice to silent for the moment. And here I thought I can check out but the voice tells me for the last time that I can never leave!

What's that supposed to mean?

Just as I open the door, everything's filled with desolation. I shut the door when a basket of eggs flow to hit to my face. Someone just throw it away the moment I open the door, his voice wrecked in hatred to the poor thing that hatch the moment it reach the floor.

And even if I wanted to stay at the comfort of home, I open the door once again and leave the horrified creatures that fangs so pointed as its bloody one eye glared to the deepest of my soul. The desolated place was no more and I able to go out and shut the door with a bang.

"What...the heck is happening?" The darkness glowing so blinfully, blend to my eyes that can only widened in shock to the wreckage sight. I thought my eyes see nothing but nonsense. I shut my eyes while my heart boom to no end. "This is a part of the trick...right?"

The door behind me destroyed and the force that never felt before overwhelm me. I felt the woods pierce through my skin and I moan to the pain that brought upon.

Everything's seem to still as I slowly lifted my head. And there the horrified being eyed the pitiful existence, yet I don't seem to realize the breathing of my heart that so disappointment to everything.

"You never surpass the fear that trully manifested inside me," I says that howled the horrified existence. I turn my back and unable to see through the tip of the hills. But the fear arise to the unprecedented height.

What's happening?

It's the only I can ask along with the painful possibility.

The possibility of the hill replaced by the mountain of grave!

*

I once overheard him whisper while I'm asleep, his voice soft but unusual gunt, "It height to the sacred of my sanctuary, though everyone, including you, thought it was fun that hardly gray. Though I wish caution envelop you, but I'll never ask for things you don't want to. I may shiver, my soul may dance in fear, but know I'll never leave you, sir."

I can feel his breath warm me, deeply shaken to imagine how close he was with me. Yet I fail to ask what's wrong and what's with his mystyerious gaze that weaken me even in my sleep.

"Though when it's embrace," he continued and I can feel his sincerity that fell my heart to the deepest of fear of not wanting to grab the opportunity, "think it's usual cries of night. I'm with you, through all the blinding absence of light."

The very moment I remind of the words he whispered in my sleep, the shock in me have never been so creep. The wreckage hill, the mountain of grave that replace the sacredness of the place, and his sanctuary was no more for to gaze.

Was it's usual cries of night?

I cease to doubt and think the possibility that I'm certain about.

He's with me!

On what and where exactly, I have the feeling that the graveyard may have the answer. It was design...

Wait, who was it again that design it? Yeah, it appear out of nowhere!

I lost in the dark as I left the house. The door wrecked and the horrified creature strangely look at me as if I am some sort of a mystery.

Haven't they know they are the one that horrible?

That question brought me to the deepest of my thought. I am idiot if I still think that there's a possibility that this is a trick design for Holloween Eve.

Just as I look up, I know that no one can replace the sky even they want it to appear spooky for the sake of holiday. Not even the graveyard that as if a ravaging wave that was on the verge of high tide.

They approach the tip of the hill, wreck the trail and trick I design with my sister...

And speaking to the witch, I notice Nathan in the far distance waking her up from her deep nightmare. I want to approach them and ask what happen, yet a force bind me and rooted me to the ground.

"What.." I gasped to find the soil becoming shallow and my heart race to never speed before. Not even when that horrified creatures broke the door and the piercing of woods that cut and wounded my flesh. So what's with this soil that my heart couldn't rest?

The horrified voice of my sister and Nathan hear in the distance and my fear couldn't hide anymore. It tool me and drag me down at the deepest of the ground.

I was helpless to even breath and asking for air when the last thing I saw was their horrified faces accompanied by their voices as they drag in the snap of a moment to the highest part of the mountain of grave...