Shawna had not really known what to
expect. It was the first "real" Halloween party she had ever been
allowed to attend. Her mother had always said that Christians should not
celebrate Halloween and even restricted the types of costumes she and Dougie
and Collin could wear for Halloween parties in their school classrooms. The
girls had convinced Shawna that they should all go as vampires, unanimously
voting her the most realistic looking vampire because of her height. At the
moment, however, she would have been happy to be wearing a clown or ballerina
costume—something her mother would approve of—and to be dunking for apples in
the safety of an elementary school classroom. Shawna felt anything but safe in
this ominous gathering tonight.
Although there seemed to be more
girls than boys, there were several mixed couples in attendance. Most seemed to
be of high school age or slightly older; many Shawna did not recognize. But
almost all had an "otherworldly" appearance about them, as if they
expected at any moment to be transported into another dimension. Shawna
suspected that much of what Terilyn referred to as the "spiritual
experiences" people might experience tonight could be directly linked to
the heavy smell of alcohol and marijuana that seemed to linger over many of the
partygoers—including the so-called adult chaperones.
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