14 year old SkySky's Halloween of ' 92 ( a work in progress )
14 year old Sky
Bookmark Greenday's > Time of Your Life QT music vid - for Netscape . Song's a good lead-in to this story .
----------Then came nigh the first Halloween since the sudden disappearance of their father early that summer , adding an especial spookiness to that time of year . The Anderson brood , 14 year old identical twins Sky and Jase ( short for Jason ) , and young sister Jackie ( with raven hued hair a gravely sweet mature scant four years old ) , that fall of '92 had felt a cool rippling in the air even though the fall that year was unusually warm in Los Angeles . It was the empty coolness inside . Mostly though the boys .
-----------Early on after the mysterious vanishing of their dad , Zack Anderson , for whom no word since had been breathed on the air that swirled through their lives , the twin boys had squabbled and competed with one another more furiously than ever before . One could say they were subconsciously vieing to be the new master of the household in the absense of their father , to be the one most favored by their remaining parent , their mom Gloria Anderson .
-----------Gloria , sensing the boys " at one another " those last months , and having just been handed a new work assignment by her employer L.A. World Magazine ( commonly referred to in jest as " la la world " by Glory ) to interview and profile the master of sinister none other than Steven Rex , Glory had decided to bring the boys with her to Maine during her planned couple month stay there , though she hadn't as yet told them the news . What she figured was that they needed a change in surroundings , a major distraction - and what with the haunting fall vistas of Maine , the master spookster , and Halloween time , all mixed into the same brew a hoo , that could well captivate the boys , provide an outlet for their hidden repressed fears , and bring them back together . Make them a forged united team engaged on this adventure into the macabre . From which journey , Glory thought they'd thus healthfully pass on through beyond - having expressed and flushed the hollows inside out of their system through this journey of exploration . As much as was possible , though always some achy empty spot she knew would linger in them the rest of all their lives .
-----------The magazine had more than just a feature article in mind , it'd been granted the right to write a book on the world renown author . And Glory had wraggled ( a story in of itself ! ) this prestigious job though this would be her first foray into novel writting . Not that she wasn't published , she'd written a book profiling her visionary , adventuresome whiz husband Zack David Anderson , and was working anew on a sequel of sorts leading up to and concerning his disappearance , and had even had a book of mystery-romance short stories published . Heck , she'd thought , the two projects seemed to fit together glove in hand . She even figured that Rex might be able to shed some light on Zack's inexplicable passage off into the seeming shadows of space and time and existence itself - that was how Sky described what it was like when Zack had walked by in-between the boys , pausing only to speak a moment his odd whinsome last words * to them [ * Sunman Prequel Comic Book One ] . Only to then resume his walk off into the ever vanishing distance beyond .
---------Three weeks before Halloween , couple of days before Glory would tell the boys of her plans to take them Maineside the next week , the boys were already discussing their own ideas for Halloween's night . The boys have biked on up to Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade shopping area on an idle Saturday to check out the Halloween wares , and the usual steady throng of bypassers on this merry bustling pedestrian throughfare , and urban park . Not to mention the cute girls out to bust their allowances and part-time work checks on the latest new look , for school and leisure , or to hang out at the coffee shops . After having locked their bikes , they'd browsed on foot several of the shops . Now paused on the sidewalk outside a shop window display of carved pumpkins , prop ghost and ghoul costumes , and silvery spider web coils and strands , oddly out of place amid the bright , hot , midafternoon sunshine outside , the boys converse.
Sky : Halloween , what say we be complete opposites this year ?
Jase : Done that before ..... . Haven't we !?
Sky : Yeah , but ... , not really .... . More like salt and vinegar , than really night and day !
Jase : Hah - spice off the same chip - look at it that way . Different yet .. , mucha asame , not .. opposite .
Sky : That's what I'm saying , hah .
Jase : Heard you bro ... . ( rueful testy Sky was first to propose this , he'd thought the same thing too )