The night was as cold as the crippling loneliness Quincy felt nagging at her. She stared out the window at the cheerful trick or treaters skipping merrily down the street. Sitting in her cute little bunny costume feeling downright depressed.

She wished she could be one of them. She wished that she wasn't so forlorn. She wished that her wonderful dog, Tansas, would come back.

So much wishing.

Scratch. Scratch.

A sound like claws being dragged over wood caught her attention. Could it be? Did she dare to hope?

She unlocked the door and wrenched it open. Nothing. But wait...out of the gloom.

"Tansas!" She shouted gleefully wrapping her arms around him even as he smiled in a way he never had before with his long canines and mangy black fur.

She led him back inside. For some reason her parents jumped at the sight of him and were saying maybe it was best if he stayed outside.

They finally let him stay when Quincy began to cry.

What harm could it do?

When Quincy awoke the next morning she learned her puppy had figured out how to draw while he was gone. For some reason the pretty star in a circle Tansas had drawn with his claws on the floor frightened her parents.

That afternoon she became even more excited and showed her parents her dog spoke another language but that only caused her Mother to faint. Didn't they understand how wonderful her dog was? He'd learned new things while he was gone!

Her Dad told her it was a bad thing when dogs spoke Ancient Latin, but Quincy got mad at him for that.

At one point his eyes glowed red and Quincy laughed in delight, maybe he'd learned how to shoot lasers from his eyes like Superman!

They sat on the couch watching a movie and suddenly Tansas decided to have a pillow fight and destroyed all the pillows! That made Quincy laugh. But it made her parents very mad.

How come they didn't understand how awesome her dog was?

She fell asleep smiling with her dog lighting candles in her room like nightlights.

In the morning she had two identical Tansas! She cuddled them both as they bore her fanged grins. She colored pictures of stars with circles around them while the dogs went outside and played in the yard.

When they came back they were covered in red mud and she called them silly and made them go take baths outside before she let them back inside.

Her parents told her they were worried about her, but Quincy shrugged it off. She had her twin Tansas' now and that was all she needed. When her family left, her dogs protected her from the evil preacher man that came to take the dogs away. And when she got hungry, the dogs brought her strange fruit and she ate her fill.

All she needed was her wonderful dogs and all her wonderful dogs needed was her.