It’s all fun and games until someone runs out of candy.

The annual Halloween in the Halls took place last Thursday the 26.

Halloween in the Halls proved to be a huge success for Bullitt East. The competition between grade levels was intense, each hall trying to outdo the others. The sophomore class ran into a bit of a wall when they started running out of candy before the halfway point.

Overall, the event was a huge success. It brought in money for the school and kids had a blast. Headmaster Laura Pierce was a big part in making the sophomore hall come alive. “It’s one of my favorite events. It’s exhausting but I love it,” said Pierce. She thought it was very successful, but said that that wasn’t unusual because it always is.

The competition began in houses when each house voted on their theme. Freshmen chose to have a game theme, with their hallway being decked out in all different kinds of video games and board games. Sophomores voted on Disney princesses for their theme. Their hallway was split into the different settings of many various princesses. Juniors chose Moana; their hallway was decorated like the beach. Finally, seniors were in charge of the Trolls section, where they all colored their hair and played the part of the many little trolls.

The fate of the competition between hallways was decided by votes of the attending children. The winner was unknown until the end of the school day Monday. The rankings were announced with freshmen taking the win with board games. Following behind them in second place were the juniors. Third place went to the sophomores, followed by the seniors in fourth.

While many are happy with the overall successful outcome, others recall the stress in the sophomore hallway that night. With a misunderstanding of directions, every single sophomore in the hall was giving out candy to every kid and it was going fast. The only people instructed to give out candy were the eight students with buckets. Once headmasters figured out the problem, there was a rush to fix it. Headmaster Jonathan Huether walked up and down the halls reminding students to only give one piece of candy in an effort to save it.

By 6:30 p.m., the sophomores were struggling with their limited amount of candy and some took matters into their own hands by repetitively sneaking candy out of the freshman hall. This upset some freshmen. “I guess it just made the freshmen mad because we were working a lot harder and longer than the other classes,” said freshman Emily Tinelli. For others, it didn’t bother them quite as much. “It didn’t really matter that they were taking it from us, we had a lot of candy and they needed it,” said freshman Lilly Echols.

The stealing of the freshmen candy didn’t last long. Huether was soon walking through the halls with candy bags for the sophomores to give out. “We weren’t stealing candy, we just had to get into the reserved candy, but it was okay because there was still some left even after it was over,” said Huether.