A.N.: This story happens some days after the episode "Patch me if you can", but it still has continuity with the other episodes.

Saturday, October 31, 2015. 05:35 PM.

It's been years since the last time the Thunderman twins were really excited with Halloween night. Since they turned 16, their attention was more focused on the things they're interested in, like parties and hanging out with their friends. For them, the days where they put on a costume to walk around Metroburg's houses asking for candies, were now in the past. Even after they came to Hiddenville. But for their little sister Chloe, things were very different.

This would be the first Halloween she could be part of, because with 4 years... well, 7 months old, the concept was completely new for her, and the idea of walking outside with a costume, receiving candies, was really exciting for her. She didn't have any problem about using the same disguise she used for Harris's birthday, actually she was very happy to use it again.

She's standing in front of the mirror looking at her Halloween costume, while Barb finishes the knot of the head scarf. After that, she hears that sweet little voice:

"Thank you, mommy." The little girl says with a big smile, as she watches her mom through the mirror.
"You welcome sweetheart. And once again, we're really sorry about your hair honey, but with the head scarf it's hardly noticeable." An embarrassed Barb says, putting her hands on her youngest daughter's head.
"It's okay baby, I like how it looks like." Chloe replies, as she poses like a runway model.

Barb couldn't help but smile after seeing her adorable girl dressed as a pirate. But there's still some things to do before the little hero could go out for candies through the neighborhood.

"So... have you decided yet?" Asks Barb.
"No, I don't think so." The little girl says crossing her arms, thoughtful.
"Okay but remember, you have until this afternoon at 6:00 PM." Her mother warned her.
"Yes mommy. Au revoir." Chloe replies, right before she teleported out of her room.

By that time, Chloe had everything ready for her first "trick or treat", well almost everything, she just needed one thing; a plastic pumpkin for the candies. So, thanks to her power, in a blink of an eye she appears in the middle of the living room. But the little girl wasn't expecting that Phoebe would be there, with a high concentration on T.V. watching a Channing Tatum movie, and when she sees her little sister appearing in front of her and saying her name, her reaction is priceless.

"Phoebe!" The girl exclaims raising her arms, very happy.
"Chloe! You scared me." The teenager replies, a little bit startled.
"Did you find it?" Chloe impatiently asks.
"Of course I did, here it is. It's the same pumpkin I used when I was a child and..." she stopped for a moment, "...and Max and I used to get along..." she was thinking deeply. Suddenly, she came back to reality and gave her the pumpkin.
"Thank you Phoebe." She says taking it, and right after she gives her a hug.
"You welcome. So... Have you decided yet?" Phoebe asks with a big smile.
"No." The little girl answers, a little doubtful.

It was very simple. Originally Billy and Nora were going to take Chloe to her first "trick or treat", but since they thought it would be very funny to use their powers to play a prank on Mrs. Wong, things changed drastically. That morning, the kids had a plan: Billy would be knocking at Mrs. Wong's door and run away with super speed over and over, and while she was distracted at the door, Nora would use her laser vision to melt the pumpkins in her garden.

It doesn't matter if the pizzeria owner had a well deserved prank, after she threw them a bag of flour from the second floor of her house, just because they asked her a ball that landed in her garden. And yet, Hank and Barb decided that the kids deserved a punishment, and that's why they should go with them to a reunion of their old friends from high school, which always turned out to be very boring. Billy and Nora couldn't refuse.

For that reason, the responsibility to take care of Chloe, laid on one of the twins, and even if they had their own plans for the night, none of them had any problem with canceling their dates, just to go with their little sister. But little did they know, they will be immersed into a little competition where Chloe would decide who must go with her. And since this Saturday morning, they were trying to convince her.

"Well you better decide soon because..." She tried to tell her that her time was running out, but suddenly she was interrupted by someone.
"...because it's getting late Chloe. Guess what I brought to help you complete your costume?" Says Max, as he walks from the kitchen.
"What?" Chloe asks very excited.
"A pirate patch!" An enthusiast Max says, right before he opens his hand to show her the gift.
"Yeah! A patch!" The girl celebrates.
"Max!" Phoebe yells a little scared, fearing the worst.
"Relax Pheebs, as if I were to give our little sister an evil patch." He replies with a sarcastic tone.
"So... who do you wanna go with?" The boy asks.

But Chloe still undecided. She loves her older siblings but it's very hard for her to decide and choose one of them. Phoebe always gives her good advices on how to use her powers, sometimes she plays with her, and she reads fairy tales for her before going to bed. On the other hand, Max finds very funny to tickle on her stomach, sometimes he lift her in the air by surprise, and every time she asks, he plays with her, no matter if he's occupied with his "evil chronicle".

Since Chloe's arrival, she has witnessed the twins fighting o pranking each other. And yeah, they used to do that frequently, but it was normal for her, even funny. But when she saw them together they seemed to be very kind, as good siblings. Nobody could say they can't stand each other. However, some days ago the little girl noticed something weird was going on with them.

As any child, the youngest Thunderman didn't like to see people fighting, and definitely, she didn't like to think their siblings could be mad for some reason, so at that very moment she came up with something to help them:

"Yes, I know who I'll go with." The little pirate says, while she puts the patch on her face.
"Who?" A curious Phoebe asks.
"First, promise me that you won't fight again." Chloe begged them, using that sweet tone of voice which Hank and Barb would never resist.

Her little sister's words caused a big sigh on Max, and without knowing what to say, he could only stare directly into Phoebe's eyes, waiting for her to talk.

"But... Max and I... we are not mad Chloe." Phoebe replies, and right after that, she shares a serious look with her twin, a look full of doubts.

But it wasn't enough for the girl, because no matter how much they try to say that, she feels like they're really mad. She couldn't understand why every time that Max entered in the kitchen and Phoebe was there eating or doing her homework, some minutes later, she stood up, pretended she was doing something in the kitchen and then she walked to her room. Also, she didn't know why every time that Max crossed in her path accidentally, he used to give her a smile, he lowered his eyes and then he slowly walked away from her.

"Promise!" Chloe insists.

The girl was still too young to understand, but there is some kind of tension between Max and Phoebe, a tension that nobody seemed to notice.

"Okay, I promise." Phoebe accepts, raising her right hand as a promise.
"Me too." Max seconds her, raising his hand too.

She wasn't wrong, now they spend so little time together, at least not as much as before. And it was weird, because they keep talking to each other like always, and as for everyone else, the things seemed normal. But the truth is, something has changed since that day. The day where the girl saw her older sister walking out of Max's lair, she was very angry and Chloe didn't know why. For her young eyes, she must have been arguing with Max. But when the teenager walked by the living room, her eyes were not reflecting angry, but sadness, disappointment. Chloe didn't try to talk to her because she left the house immediately. She assumed that Phoebe was very occupied with that thing she used to call "the green teens".

"I choose... both!" The girl enthusiastically yells.

The expression on the twin's faces was a poem; they never expected their little sister was going to take them both. But in the middle of this awkward moment, they could only share some stares that could say more than simple words can say. But actually, words weren't really necessary, because she just needed to have a deep stare directly into Max's eyes, to find the simple act of making a question, a difficult task:

"Are you... sure, Chloe?" She asks her, making a big effort to stop looking at her brother.
"Yes." The little girl answers without even thinking.
"Well, then I guess we..." Max tried to say.
"...have to go." Says Phoebe, perfectly matching what he was going to say. Almost as if she had guessed.

And then, Chloe takes Phoebe's hand with hers and she walks along with her to Max. No one would have known that Phoebe's heartbeats were getting considerably faster since she walked to him, so she didn't say anything, she could only see the little girl offering the plastic pumpkin to her brother, waiting for him to take it.

"You want me to take the pumpkin?" The teenager asks.
"Yes." She nodded smiling.

Max took it, and right before that, the girl takes Max's free hand, and she finally has one twin on her left, and the other on her right. As for Max and Phoebe, they couldn't help but look at each other being this close, and for some unknown reason, they're feeling something strange with the sudden situation they were being dragged by their innocent little sister.

"Let's go!" The mini-pirate says very excited.

Finally, the girl walks to the kitchen along with her siblings, ready to go out the neighborhood for her candies. But at the same time, Hank and Barb are walking down the stairs, and they could see Max and Phoebe at the distance. And it was just because of the kitchen's furniture, that Chloe's was completely out of their sight, and as they were so close from each other, Barb misread the situation, and she thought that her own twins were holding their hands as they walked. So, Barb runs very quick to enter the kitchen, saying their names.

"Phoebe... Max... What are you...?" Barb calls them, a little worried, making them stop very quickly, and they turned to face her.

However, when she's able to see Chloe between them, everything seems to have sense now.

"What?" The twins say at the same time.
"Nothing... Uhmm... Chloe, you know who's gonna go with you?" She asks more calm.
"Yes mommy, I'm taking Max and Phoebe." Chloe answers with a smile that was transferred to her mother's face.
"Really? Did they agree?" Hank asks entering the kitchen, not believing it.
"Of course, baby." The girl happily says.
"Well, your father and I are leaving too. But I'm really happy you decided to go with your little sister, together." Barb says, very proud of them.

Max and Phoebe haven't talked too much since a while, but they do notice something; their parents are wearing costumes for their reunion; Barb's using a pink dress and there's a bright golden crown on her head. Hank's using a coverall, with a red t-shirt and a cap of the same color. Yes, they're dressing as Mario Bross and Princess Peach. After they saw them closely, the twins could barely contain their laughs.

Luckily for them, at that very moment Billy ran down the stairs at super speed, and after he stopped completely, Nora descended from his back.

"Are you gonna take Billy and Nora with you guys?" Max asks, after he saw the kids.
"Sadly, yes." Nora replies, without too much encouragement.
"And with no costume! This is unfair, why can't we go out for candies like Max, Phoebe and Chloe?" Billy says, maybe even more bored than Nora.
"Because they didn't use their powers to annoy Mrs. Wong." Barb tells them with a serious voice.
"Not today..." Max says, lowering his voice.

Suddenly a cautious smile is drawn on Phoebe's face, but she had to low her eyes so nobody could notice.

"What?" Barb asks him, thinking she heard something suspicious.
"Nothing, never mind." Max quickly says to avoid her attention.

Barb decides to ignore her sixth sense for now, because after she sees her adorable younger daughter dressed as a pirate for her first Halloween, she decided to do the only thing a mother could do in a moment like this. It was now or never.

"Wait! Before you go, let me take a picture of Chloe. Don't move." Barb says, taking her cell phone out of her purse.

The twins got closer without leaving Chloe's hands, while Barb was holding her cell phone, ready to take the picture. In an instant, the screen is showing the picture with her little pirate in the middle of her older siblings, all of them with a big smile on their faces.

"Aw she looks adorable, Hank! Look!" Barb exclaims very excited, and giving the ex-superhero a big smile.
"You're right! we have to use it for her album." Hank tells her, just as excited as his wife. After that, he faces Max and Phoebe, "Well, we'll see you later. And remember; take care of your sisters Max." He says with a serious tone of voice.

Max didn't say anything, he just nodded to his father's commitment. And then, he walked to the main door, with Barb and the bored kids.

After that, he shares another subtle look with Phoebe, a look that was interrupted by an anxious Chloe, who was now pulling them to walk out of the kitchen's door. Finally, with her siblings getting along well, her pirate costume, her new patch and her pumpkin, she was ready for her first "trick or treat"

To be continued...