Tonight You're Mine

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Cassidy

I needed to start over.

My job was great, but not really going anywhere. My ex got too clingy, too fast. My rent was outrageous, and I went no contact with my parents when they couldn't understand why I needed to run.

Shadowvale promised a new start. A new life. A town that has its own superstitions when it comes to Halloween, I was looking forward to the holiday… until things began to get weird.

I feel like I’m being followed. No one knows I’m here, but I can’t shake the sensation that someone is out there. Watching me. Like I’m being haunted or something.

It’s weird, but I chalk it up to the spooky season. Plus, there’s something about the diner where I’m working… it draws all types.

It drew him.

Johnny Gray. He showed up at breakfast, asked me out for lunch, and by dinner… I was his dinner. It’s a 

Halloween to remember, and if he seems both obsessed with and blasé over ‘tomorrow’, I decide to just live in the moment.

Too bad Johnny can’t.

Because my supposed one-night stand?

He died in 1953.

Johnny

When I died, I lost two things: the race, and my girl.

They say ghosts stick around because they have unfinished business. I guess I’m proof of that because I’m still here, still haunting Shadowvale, decades after I bit it.

Because of her. Because of my Cassie.

Only Cassie… she died the same night I did, after she made me promise to wait for her. But she didn’t do the same for me. She moved on.

I didn’t.

And then Cassidy walked right into my town and I knew she was what I’ve been waiting for. She’s my Cassie returned to me, and I won’t let this one get away.

Death can’t stop me. And Halloween? In Shadowvale, where the veil between worlds is flimsy as hell, I can become a Living myself for one day only.

This year, I plan to spend it with Cassidy. And when the night is over, I’ll have one question for her:

Will you still love me tomorrow?