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they were finally let loose.
    “Someone should tell these losers that they can buy pumpkins for twenty bucks on every corner in our neighborhood,” Massie said.
    “What? And ruin all their fun?” Alicia put her hand on her heart and shook her head to show she pitied her naive classmates.
    The second Heidi unlatched the wooden gate on the side of the wagon, the “losers” busted out like stampeding bulls.
    Claire and Layne held hands and laughed hysterically while they ran, moving as fast as their matching steel-toed hiking boots could take them, which wasn't very fast at all.
    Layne's friends Meena and Heather ran along beside them.
    Massie, Alicia, Dylan, and Kristen trailed behind. They had no interest in pumpkins, picking, or soil.
    “Wanna know what we're doing this year for Halloween?” Massie asked.
    “Hmmm, lemme guess,” Dylan said. “Trick-or-treating, eating fistfuls of candy, gaining five pounds, and then eating nothing but Slim Fast shakes for a week?”
    “Nope,” Massie said. “This year we're going to do something totally different.”
    “Ehmagod.” Alicia stopped dead in her tracks and turned to face Massie. Kristen and Dylan stopped too but weren't exactly sure why.
    “You're gonna beat Becca to the boy-girl party, aren't you?”
    Massie responded with a cocky half smile and a nod.
    Dylan and Kristen jumped up and down with excitement. And soon all four of them were bouncing together in a giddy huddle shouting, “Hello, weenie!” over and over again.
    “I can't wait to see the look on Becca's face when she hears the news,” Dylan said.
    “Why wait?” Massie said. “Let's tell her now.”
    Becca and Liz were only a few feet away. The two muscular gymnasts were surrounded by a group of girls who were cheering as they struggled to lift their massive pumpkin off the ground.
    Becca was dressed in one of her usual girly chiffon tops, which always looked out of place on her stocky physique. Her dirty blond shoulder-length hair hung flat and lifeless around her oval face. Massie and the rest of the Pretty Committee had once decided if it weren't for her piercing blue eyes, no one would look at her twice.
    Liz was a petite version of Becca, without the eyes. Hers were a dull shade of brown. People noticed Liz because she was constantly orange from her addiction to spray tanning.
    “I can't tell where that pumpkin ends and Liz begins,” Massie said.
    Alicia, Dylan, and Kristen cracked up as they tiptoed toward their targets so their heels wouldn't get stuck in the mud.
    “Hey, Becca,” Massie shouted.
    “Hey.” Becca took off her Kangol cap and fluffed up her hair. “Did you come to check out my pumpkin? It's so big, Farmer Randy went to get a wheelbarrow so we can get it on the wagon.”
    “No, I came over to tell you the meaning of life,” Massie said. Kristen, Dylan, and Alicia snickered.
    “What are you talking about?” Liz asked. “Nobody knows the meaning of life.”
    “Massie does.” Alicia sat down on Becca's pumpkin and kicked her leg back and forth, each time denting it a little more with the heel of her boot.
    “What are you doing?” Becca screeched. “Get off that.”
    “Puh-lease, I'm not even touching it.”
    The girls who had been watching Becca and Liz wrestle the pumpkin took a few steps back. They didn't want to get involved.
    “So, what is the meaning of life?” Liz asked.
    “I'm having a boy-girl party for Halloween,” Massie replied.
    “No way!” Becca screeched. She stomped her foot in the dirt. “That's not fair. That was
my
idea.”
    “THAT'S LIFE!” Massie, Kristen, Alicia, and Dylan shouted at the same time. They finished rubbing it in with a round of high fives.
    The girls on the sidelines giggled into their hands.
    Becca was stunned.
    “Do something,” Liz mouthed to her.
    But before Becca could do anything, there was a loud
pop
. Becca whipped her head around in search of the source.
    “Oops.” Alicia's big brown eyes were wide as she