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“I have more money than you do from the Tooth Fairy.”
“Do you even have a job?”
“Your costume sucks.”
“Yeah, well,yourcostume sucks,” I fire back to the fifth Spider-Man in the room standing next to the unicorn, rolling my eyes that I’m getting snippy with a child.
“I think her costume is awesome!”
“Thank you.” I smile at the girl dressed as a minion. Grabbing a bag of Reese’s Cups off Kenny’s desk that hasn’t been opened yet, I walk right up to her. “It’s not a costume though. I don’t do costumes.”
And then I open up the bag of candy and dump the entire thing into her bucket, all while staring down the Spider-Man who insulted me.
Yeah, because this is natural behavior for a grown-ass adult.
“All right, kids!” Kenny claps his hands together, shouting from behind his desk to the twenty or so children in Halloween costumes filling the small sheriff’s station. “The next five can go on into the jail cell and see what it’s like to be a real criminal!”
The unicorn and Spider-Man finally walk away from me to change places with the handful of costumed kids who are currently moving back out of the cell.
Every Friday during the month of October, tourists with kids in town can take them around to all the businesses and go trick-or-treating. I absolutely love being on the schedule at the bar on Fridays so I can pass out candy in between waiting on customers, but I’m kind of glad I had today off. I’m clearly not in the mood to deal with anyone right now.
Tossing and turning the last few nights will do that to a person. I’ve become a walking nightmare. Ford has been suspiciously busy the last few days since movie night, and I’ve been trying not to take offense to it. Finally seeing him this morning at the Jav-A-Lantern was fine. We were fine. I should feel fine. I hugged him like always. Listened to him complain about something that annoyed him, like always. I even made a joke about how I was glad he was still alive after dealing with Penny and Ginger a few nights ago, to get him to crack a smile, like always.
But that comment suddenly made everythingnotfine. The sexual charge that’s been in the air ever since we kissed suddenly reached epic proportions as we stood there staring at each other, waiting for our coffee orders, until it felt like my skin was melting off.
In the blink of an eye, that stupid, teasing smirk was back on his face though, and he was suddenly holding a couple of fingers up in front of me, asking me how many I saw. He made some weird comment about wanting to check on my eyesight before grabbing his coffee from one of Callie’s baristas and walking out, saying he had to take care of something.
It’s fine. Everything is fine.
I’m really starting to hate that stupid word.
“This is a very exciting day for you guys to be trick-or-treating at the sheriff’s station!” Kenny announces. “This lady right here is the one and only Sidney Tanner, whose name you probably saw on the chair in the jail cell. Sidney spendsa lotof time in jail, because she’s a bad person who breaks the law. Don’t be like Sidney.”
All the kids stare at me with wide eyes, while I shoot Kenny an annoyed glance.
“Have you killed anyone?”
“Do you have a gun?”
“What’s it feel like to make someone bleed?”
“Jesus,” I mutter. “No, I’ve never killed anyone. That… that’s not something to be proud of.”
“That’s boring. You’re boring and not arealcriminal.”
“I’m not boring. I—”
“Are you seeing anyone?” a preteen dressed like a vampire steps closer to me with a smile entirely too mature for his painted face.
“Eew, no.” I grimace, taking a step back.
“I thought you and Ford were together?” Kenny asks in confusion.
“Who’s Ford? Is he a handsome prince? Can we see a picture?” a princess asks from the middle of the crowd.
My heart starts beating faster, and I have to wipe my sweaty palms off on my dress.
“No… I… no” is all I can mumble when an image of Ford riding a horse to storm the castle and rescue me gets stuck in my head and won’t go the hell away.
