Chan-Mi loved halloween because it had become such a big thing over the years and it was just another reason to overdose the foster kids staying at her place with sugar and watch them all run around like cats on catnip. It was fun, and it seemed to be fun for them as well. If she let them do as they wished, they would learn that sugar wasn’t at all that great, and that their little teeth couldn’t handle it either. She basked in the idea that they would all come to her the next day saying she was right.
Of course, half of the time only one did. But she believed she would get them to learn the lessons she wished to teach them.
She headed out of the grocery store with batch one of five, huge bags of candy and chips, ready to be placed on her front porch when Halloween came around. She looked at her watch to see if she had time to head home before making her way to the clothing stores to collect her outfit. But in her movement she almost walked into someone, using her unnatural speed, she backed out of an almost collision and threw up the bags as if she had just surprised herself. “Look at me!” She laughed then. “Jeez, you’d think with my life experience I know to not get distracted by things like phones and watches. My apologies for giving you a minor heart attack, I know I gave myself one.” She offered a wink.