Death #11:
It’s Not Cupid’s Arrow, Is It?
By Ritz
Nick was
getting bored strolling around the amusement park. He would have stayed in the
hotel room and slept the entire day, or better yet cuddle with his girlfriend,
Lauren. It was Brian’s idea to go and check out the small amusement park,
though Nick thought it was Baylee’s idea, just look at the boy’s huge smile.
Nick’s attention was caught by small show, a man
wearing a colorful vest was aiming at the apple on top of a woman’s head using
bows and arrow. A small crowd watching were clapping their hands
enthusiastically everytime the man cut the apple in two. He was happy that
finally, he saw something interesting.
“Dude, look at that shit.” Nick pointed at the
show that was a few meters away from them.
“Pretty amazing, huh?” AJ replied with a smile
“Not really, it’s interesting but not amazing.”
Nick shrugged his shoulder “They might be doing some sort of cheating, you
know, just what like people do in magic shows.”
“I don’t think so, you want to find that out
yourself?” AJ was grinning and his eyes were saying he was up for something
stupid.
“What the hell do you mean?”
“Try it out yourself,” AJ walked to the man with
colorful vest and whispered “Do you entertain volunteers?”
“What the fuck, AJ?” Nick whined when he heard his
friend’s question.
AJ’s face lit up when the man in the colorful vest
nodded. “Wanna try it, brave man?”
“No fucking way, Alex!”
“I knew you’d be scared.” AJ teased him as he was
making chicken sound and dancing.
“Fine! For how much? I ain’t gonna do this shit
for nothing.”
“Considering it’s a little dangerous,” AJ put his
right hand on his chin and pretended he was deeply thinking “Five hundred
bucks?”
“Fuck you! Bring it on.”
“Come on, you guys, the bravest man I know will
have something for us.” AJ yelled at the rest of the group.
“Now I am scared to ask what’s going on.” Howie
said
AJ was grinning when he told the group about the
bet they had but none of them seems to find the bet funny.
“I told you to stop doing those stupid bet of
yours.” Brian said before turning to Leighanne “Baby, you might want to take
Baylee to those games over there while I try to put some sense into these guys
mind.”
“Good luck with those two.” That was all Leighanne
could say before grabbing Baylee in the arm and led him to the games area
“James would love to be with Baylee at this
moment.” Leigh quickly grab her son from Howie and followed Leighanne
“Drama Queens.” Nick rolled his eyes while looking
at Leighanne and Leigh walked away from them.
“Is this actually safe?” Brian asked the man in
the colorful vest.
“He just have to be perfectly still while I’m
aiming the shot.”
“See? No worries, I know how to be perfectly
still. And that’s five hundred bucks, dude.” Nick smiled at AJ.
“I don’t think this is a good idea, though.” AJ
said with a small smile, suddenly he became nervous when he realize Nick was up
for it.
“Don’t you dare back out on me.” Nick pointed his
finger on AJ.
“Nickolas, I just heard what you are about to do.
Have you lost your mind?” Lauren asked as soon as she arrived. She was at the
rest room with Rochelle.
“Baby, no worries. I just have to be perfectly
still for a couple of seconds then I will have five hundred bucks. Who would
have thought this is my lucky day.” Nick pinched Lauren’s right cheek.
“I’ll just give you five hundred bucks, come on,
let’s get the hell out of here.”
“Baby, I don’t want your five hundred bucks, I
want AJ’s.” He smiled “I’ll take you shopping as soon as this is over. You
know, we have to spend AJ’s money at once.”
“NICK!” Howie, Brian and AJ said in unison when
Nick grabbed the apple from the man’s vest and walked towards the woman’s spot
in front.
“Brian, take a picture and upload it in twitter.”
Nick said while putting the apple on his head.
“Why me? No!”
“I’ll do it.” Howie said while pulling up his
phone from his pocket. He took one picture and started uploading it in twitter.
Look how stupid @nickcarter could be……
“Your caption must be interesting and not stupid,
Howard. And tell them I love them all.”
“What? Why would I say that? Get this over with,
and tweet that yourself.”
“I’m ready when you are.” Nick informed the man in
colorful vest
“Be perfectly still, don’t do anything that will
make me lose my focus.” He simply answered
“You got it.” Nick smiled as he prepared for his
position.
“NICK CARTER!!!!”
A group of young girls spotted the backstreet boys
in the amusement park, and lose their cool when they saw Nick. They screamed
his name as loud as they could when they saw him.
And Nick, who got pretty excited to hear some fans
calling his name and completely forgot he has to be perfectly still, shifted
his head to the right to look at the girls and wave at them.
The man in the colorful vest was about to release
his shot when he saw Nick shifted his head to the right. He started to
panicked. And the next thing he know the arrow landed on Nick’s ear and went
inside.
“What the fuck?” was Nick’s last words before he
collapsed in the ground.
Brian, Howie, AJ, Rochelle and Lauren looked down
on Nick’s lifeless body. None of them knew why he died immediately.
A vein that pop, maybe?
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