She used to wish on snowflakes for a man like him.

Glancing over, she thought, I wouldn’t mind Christmas mornings with you.

Giving her heart to him like a gift-wrapped present, she watched him open it.

Then realized that it was Halloween and he had been wearing a mask.

Lauren Layfield is a senior Multi-Platform Journalism major at Sam Houston State University. She is the former Assistant Campus Culture editor at The Houstonian, SHSU’s independent student newspaper.