The Witch of Maple Street

                                                          Chapter 1

                            It was a fairly chilly mid-autumn morning when Halloween 2025 came around and since it was a Friday,that meant that trick-or-treat festivities had to wait a bit, as the kids of America and the New York tristate area in particular, had to go off to another typical,humdrum day of school-work and lectures and my four towheaded,platinum-blonde sweethearts; Billy (aged 12), Holly Anne (aged 9), Timothy (aged 7), and Carol Anne (aged 4),were no different.Therefore,when my beautiful, vivacious,blushing bride;Gina,woke our four flaxen,ashen,shiny,silvery,platinum-blonde peanut-angel-cakes and our peanuts realized what day it was,they all were,not surprisingly, quite ecstatic to get up and get going with the day ahead (even if it took them all a minute or two to realize what day it was and the like).As per usual,that fine,cool,mid-autumn morning,Gina went in order of oldest to youngest when it came to waking our four stunningly gorgeous,precious,cherubic, towheaded,shiny,silvery,platinum-blonde peanuts.Therefore,the first one that Gina went to go painstakingly,systematically wake up was our first born;Little William,as she duteously,biddably stepped into his bedroom and started doing all the usual,systematic,methodical things that she does and sure enough;whatever she does usually works,as she usually gets our four sweet,adorable, beautiful,cherubic,little sweet-peas awake and this morning was no exception.Of course,some of the kids can be more difficult to wake than others;usually our oldest two tend to make more of a fuss and therefore make a big deal over being woken from a sound slumber than our youngest two and this particular mid-autumn morning was no exception,as Gina had to get quite physically with the shaking and quaking both Billy and Holly Anne from their sound slumber that particular morning,while Timmy and Carol Anne really didn't need much prodding to get them up-and-at-em as it were.
   
         "Come on,Holly Anne;it's time to get up and get ready to go to school",Gina authentically, prudently instructed,as she had to start earnestly,forcefully pressing her fingers into Holly Anne's right shoulder in order to get her to finally come around and sit up in her soft,warm,practical bed.

                                      

      "Awww man,do I really..................have to get up now?",Holly Anne then furiously,angrily, vehemently inquisitioned Gina,as she was quite slow to actually come around,toss the covers off herself and climb out of her soft,warm bed,even though she clearly knew that she really didn't have any other choice in the matter,as it were.

       "Yes,Holly Anne;time to get up and go have breakfast,come on"

        Holly Anne eventually did get up,but obviously it took some time before she did get up and then slowly,deliberately came downstairs with Gina and then sat down at the kitchen-table along with Billy and Timmy,who had since come downstairs and had since been served their breakfast and was therefore ravenously,savagely wolfing it down their adorable,little gullets.