What are you saying, Hank? Of course it was.
“I am tired,” he said. “Now I must go and sleep in my coffin.”
“Vlady, you don’t really sleep in a coffin.” I laughed.
“It belonged to my grandfather Boris,” Vlady said.
It occurred to me that I had never seen Vlady’s apartment. I was sure he didn’t really have a coffin there.
I mean, he couldn’t. Right?
Because there’s no such thing as a vampire.
Right?
These are just weird Halloween thoughts you’re having, Hank. Everyone knows there’s no such thing as vampires.
Right?
Absolutely right.
Right???????
We never got to trick-or-treating. But I’m telling you, what we got that night was sweeter than two hundred bags of Halloween sweets. The picture of Nick the Tick McKelty streaking out of our flat like his pants were on fire is a picture I’m going to hold in my mind for ever and ever. Even as I think of it right now, it makes me feel like I want to stand up and shout “Yes!” at the top of my lungs.
As a matter of fact, I think I will. Care to join me?
“YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!”
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First published in Great Britain as Hank Zipzer the World’s Greatest Underachiever: My Dog’s a Scaredy-Cat – a Halloween Tail (2009) by Walker Books Ltd,
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