Death #13:
Scared to Death
By Tracy
"This is gonna be so good."
"I don't know about
this, AJ. It's lame, it won't scare him. He's not a kid anymore." Brian
said hesitantly.
"It will teach
him not to prank us all the time....it's harmless." AJ said. He had grown
tired of the pranks Nick had played on them over the years....countless times
he had gotten them, but now it was payback time. AJ and Howie had come up with
their revenge and gotten Brian to help although he was reluctant to do so.
"I'm telling
you he won't fall for it, Jay. Nick is not afraid of anything, he loves gore and
stuff." Brian insisted. AJ had invited Nick over to his hotel room to
watch Arachnophobia, an old movie but still a classic.
"Dude...why
this movie? It's not even scary. I mean, when I was a kid it was. Don't you
have anything else to watch?" Nick scoffed when the movie started. Brian
was on the other couch across from AJ, who was smiling.
"I don't like
this movie." Brian said when the spiders were crawling out of the drains
in the bathroom. He squirmed uncomfortably in his seat and Nick laughed.
"This is so
stupid."
"Nick, you
sure you're not afraid of spiders?" AJ asked, raising an eyebrow at him.
Nick shook his head and laughed, laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.
"No way,
dude." he scoffed. AJ tugged at a string near the couch and Nick's
laughter was replaced by high pitched, girlish screams when a lifelike spider
landed on his face. He fell back, shouting in muffled tones as AJ laughed.
Howie appeared with a video camera, taping it all as he smiled in approval.
"Get this
fucking thing off me!" Nick yelled. Even Brian started laughing but the
mood changed when they saw Nick begin to cough.
"Nick, are you
okay?" Brian asked while AJ and Howie still laughed. Nick had managed to
push the large rubber spider off of himself but he was clutching his chest and
wheezing. The laughter stopped and now it was time to panic.
"Fucking
christ. Only Carter would choke on a spider." AJ commented as Brian
tried to help Nick. Howie was already on the phone with the paramedics, running
his hand through his hair as the situation escalated.
"I don't think
he choked on the spider." Howie said in a hollow voice.
"Nick....come
on, talk to me. What's wrong?" Brian asked as Nick gasped for breath, his
eyes full of fear.
"....latex...."
was all he could manage to get out.
"AJ what is
that spider made of?" Brian asked, looking at the rubber tarantula on the
ground next to Nick, who was grabbing at his own throat.
"Latex I
think, I had to order it online. Why?" AJ asked. Their eyes went wide when
they saw Nick fall over, his face turning blue.
"AJ this is
all your fucking fault!" Brian shouted. The paramedics came but by the
time they had reached the hospital it was already too late. Nick had died on
the gurney in the ambulance...he lay motionless as they removed his body. His
skin was an ugly blue color....none of the guys could believe the doctor when
they told them.
"AJ why didn't
you check if there was latex in that thing before you came up with this stupid
idea?" Brian asked. All AJ could do was look at the ground. It was just a
harmless prank....it was just a harmless prank. That was what he kept telling
himself, and that was what he believed.
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