5 Costume Day

Five costume day ON WEDNESDAY, THE HALLOWEEN costume contest finally arrived. All the kids excitedly streamed into school in their costumes. The halls and classrooms were filled with witches, goblins, vampires, zombies, werewolves, mummies, cowboys, pirates, princesses, ghosts, ninjas, and animals of all types.

Harris clanked his way into school wearing his robot costume. Zeke came in behind him, displaying his true alien form in public for the first time since he arrived on Earth. As soon as Zeke entered the school, he could see kids pointing at him.

"It's a little scary but actually kind of fun to be out in public in my true form," Zeke whispered to Harris. "Don't worry," Harris said. "Just keep pretending that it's a costume. Nobody will suspect it's real." "Wow! That's the best alien costume I've ever seen," said a girl dressed like a zombie. "How are you floating like that?"

"Uh, there's hover technology built into the bottom of the costume, obviously!" said Harris. "You are so going to win the contest," said a boy dressed like lion. "Thank you. I think Harris has a cool costume, too," Zeke said, pointing two of his tentacles at Harris.

"Whoa, nice robot," said the lion, looking over Harris's costume. "That's really cool! Maybe you'll actually win the contest instead of him!" But not everyone was as impressed by Zeke's "costume." A third-grader named Jeremy Jenkins walked up to Zeke and Harris in the hall. He wore a detailed monster costume, complete with fangs, claws, bulging eyes, and shiny, purple fur.

"These are the best costumes you guys could get?" Jeremy sneered. "They look cheap and homemade! My parents bought me this awesome monster costume. It was the most expensive one in the store." Jeremy turned to Harris. "You look like a broken microwave," he said.