Kirk, The Squeaky Bat

In the corridor of an apartment lived Kirk, a squeaky bat. Every day when the dusk starts to set in, Kirk will come out of her home and start to look for food. It will be a treat for her if a swarm of mosquitoes flies into the dark corners of the corridor. There are six houses in a row and the corridor will be dimly lit with a zero volt bulb. Usually, there will be no one in the corridor and it helped Kirk to fly independently and hunt till she felt her stomach is filled.

Kirk’s routine started to get disturbed with the setting of the Halloween season. Little kids from the apartment started to play in the corridor. They discussed plans to celebrate Halloween and also how to scare people in the apartment. Kirk silently listened to their plans and decided to work out a plan to scare those little kids.

Two days later all kids from the apartment dressed up in different Halloween costumes gathered near the front gate. Each little kid carried a Jack O lantern. Each light with a different carved shape from the pumpkin looked different. 

Kirk looked around. All the kids wearing masks started to light their lanterns. Peter, the little boy, who lived next doors, joined them wearing a mask like a bat.

‘Oh, that is cute. He looks like a bat.’ Kirk felt excited. Flapping her wings, she went out of the apartment to the nearby park. Kirk asked her friends who lived in the park to come with her. She explained to them her plan. 

When Kirk and her friends reached the apartment, the lights in the apartment went out. The little boys and girls standing near the gate with their lanterns shouted in a chorus, ‘Trick or Treat.’ 

“Treat, treat, treat.” The adults in the apartment replied in a chorus and gave their kids a bamboo basket full of goodies to eat.

“Oh, oh, oh.” The kids placed down their lanterns and started to dig into the bamboo basket.

Kirk signaled to her friends. Every bat entered the apartment and started to fly around the heads of the kids.

“Trick, trick, trick.” Kirk and her friends started to squeak around the kids. Kirk flew down to Peter and landed on his bat mask. Except for the light from the lantern, the placed looked dark. With whatever goodies they have picked up, the kids ran down the street screaming loudly. Kirk and her friends with a loud squeak followed the kids and made them run in different directions.