Death #29:
The Sweetest Thing
By Tracy
The NKOTBSB tour was rolling into
Hershey, Pennsylvania and nobody was more excited than Nick to see a town that smelled
like melting chocolater when you drove in. He stepped off of the bus and took a
big whiff of the air, smiling. AJ walked by...puffing on a cigarette and
shaking his head in disapproval.
"Dude, I'm trying to smell it...Don't you
smell chocolate?" Nick asked in an annoyed tone.
"Whatever. We are touring the factory...come
on." AJ said. He put out his cigarette and the two of them walked towards
the factory while the others went to the amusement park with their families.
Nick felt his stomach growl and remembered he hadn't eaten all day. The smell
was torturing him.
"I'm soooo hungry." he said when he and
AJ were in like for the factory tour.
"They give samples at the end of the tour.
Relax." AJ laughed. They went into the factory, listening to the tour
guide explaining how they made chocolate. The tour was boring and all it did
was make Nick hungrier.
"We use these large vats to mix the melted
chocolate before it is poured into molds." the tour guide explained.
"This is lame." Nick mumbled as his
pocket began vibrating against his pocket.
"I'm....too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for
my shirt...so sexy it hurts..."
AJ laughed and shook his head, Nick turned
scarlet.
"What the fuck is that ringtone?" he
asked, cracking up.
"Lauren put it on, she thinks she's
hilarious." Nick admitted. He reached out and picked the phone out of his
pocket. AJ slapped him on the back and laughed....but the phone went flying out
of his hand.
"I'm a model...you know what I mean...and I
do a little turn on the catwalk..."
"SHIT. Look what you made me do, you
prick!" Nick shouted as his phone came to rest next to the vat of
chocolate.
"Sorry." AJ shrugged. His eyes widened
when he saw Nick climb over the railing. The rest of the people taking the tour
had already moved on, none of them seeing Nick's feat.
"I wouldn't do that if I-" AJ began, but
Nick had lost his footing. He screamed and with a deafening splash....his body
landed in the vat of chocolate. He almost choked on it but managed to swim to
the top, his face and clothes drenched from head to toe. He splashed in the
chocolate helplessly but was sucked under by the blender. Nobody heard his
screams silenced by the blade cutting him...slicing into his chocolate covered
skin.
Needless to say the tour was canceled and the
factory shut down temporarily. Lauren was devastated....she watched as police
brought out Nick's chocolate covered, mutilated body, crying into AJ's
shoulder.
"It's gonna be okay, Lauren." he
offered.
"He was such a sweet guy." she said as
she burst into a fresh round of tears.
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