3 Ch3-Three Zombies

Chapter 3 Three Zombies The next day was October 31, my favorite day of the year. Do you know why October 31 is my favorite day of the year? I'm not going to tell you. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. Because it's Halloween, and that's my favorite holiday. Well, I guess my favorite holidays are my birthday and Christmas,

because I get presents. But on Halloween you get candy, which is almost as good as getting presents. Halloween is so great. Think about it, All you have to do is walk around in a silly costume and people give you free candy. What could be better than that? It's a whole holiday devoted to getting candy! Whoever thought up Halloween was a genius. If you ask me, that guy should get the No Bell Prize, (That's a prize they give out to celebrate the invention of the first bell.) Hey, all year long they tell us not to take candy from strangers, and then Halloween comes and you have to. What's up with that?

When I marched up the front steps to school, Mrs. Patty was standing in the hallway. She was dressed up like a witch. She had a long bent nose with a huge wart on it. How did that wart stay on? She must have glued it or something. It was gross. "I'll get your my pretty," she shrieked, waving her broomstick at this girl named Annette, "and your little dog, too!" "I don't even have a dog," Annette told her. The front steps were filled with kids dressed as SpongeBobs and Batmans and Oompa-Loompas and all kinds of other weird creatures. Michael was

wearing his peewee football uniform, and he had an ax sticking out of his helmet with fake blood running down the side. It was cool. "What are you supposed to be?" Mrs. Patty asked him. "I'm a football player," Michael said. "Why do you have an ax sticking out of your helmet?" "I'm a zombie football player." "Oohy that's scary!" said Mrs. Patty. Ryan was wearing his hockey uniform, and he had an ax sticking out of his helmet with fake blood running down the side. "Don't tell me," Mrs. Patty said to him.

"You're a zombie hockey player, right?" "How did you know?" asked Ryan. "Lucky guess," she said. "What are you supposed to be, AJ.?" I was dressed up like a penguin who was wearing a space helmet that had an ax sticking out of it and fake blood running down the side. Penguins are cool. "I'm a killer zombie penguin from outer space," I told her. "Ooh, that's very scary!" said Mrs. Patty "Be sure to come trick-or-treating at my house after school. I'm going to have more candy than anyone in town. My address is 176 Norman Road." "We'll be there!" I said.

We were putting our backpacks into our cubbies when little Miss I Know Everything and her equally annoying crybaby friend, Emily, came in. Andrea was dressed up like a ballerina, so of course Miss Show-off had to spin around on her