Sad Story

|NOTHING IN PROMPTICULAR|

DAY 20

CONDITION: TEEN FICTION 

PROMPT:

 Nick was watching tv when the news anchor said, “Nick you really shouldn’t be watching tv. You need to go talk to Carol right now. Kill her.”

"NO! Get out of my head!" His roar shook the walls. 

Nick's breaths became heavier. Deeper. Even, Animalistic. His

fists morphed into jittering balls. He stared at the tv with a predator in his eyes...

"I am not going to do it!" Each word was coordinated with the hurling of the centre table into the TV's face.

Nick's knees gave out. A tear slithered down. Jaws and teeth clenched alike, he kept muttering "She doesn't deserve this! She doesn't deserve this!"

His ears picked up a subtle vibration. It was his phone. Nick's legs were jelly from the internal war he was fighting. But he was strong. He was winning...

"Hey Nick! Something's going down. It's your girl again..."

Nick felt a relapse coming. First the heavier breaths. Then the snarling. Then the pestering twitch. There wasn't much he could do. His heart had been broken. Into one too many pieces.

"Nick?" Again from the other end of the call.

"Yeah, Todd, I hear you."

"You sound like puke, you're cool?"

"You ruined my nap. I'll get you for that."

Todd chuckled, doing well to cloak his intensifying fear. Not just for Nick. For himself too. He wasn't sure where the Nick he knew was. This wasn't Nick. Yet, he understood.

"Carol's out at the park." Todd started

"Picking flowers?"

"Yes, out of a Brad's hair! He's handling your girl Nick. He's taking her."

"No..." Nick groaned as his twitching took over. 

"I...I am the one who will take her."

He snarled.

"Yo Nick, don't do anything stupid."

"Nick! Nick!!!"

Todd's yelling was useless. Nick picked his keys off the floor. He cared nothing about them as he flung the table to silence the TV.

...

Nick's Cadillac pulled up at the park. He knew exactly where Carol would be. They went there all the time. He got out of the car. Fists still clenched. With a demon in his eyes.

"Nick! Wait!" 

Todd cried from the coffee shop opposite the Park's entrance.

Nick didn't stop. He moved away calmly. With the aura of an overpowering beast.

"Nick what are you going to do?" Todd asked after he caught up.

Nick smirked, "You'll see."

"I'll come with you." Todd began, placing a hand on his buddy's shoulder.

"You're not going to like that." Nick hissed. "I can assure you."

...

The surfacing of Nick chased Brad away. Carol sat stiff in the grass. Nick saw through her smile. He always did.

"Need to talk to you." He started.

"Join me in the grass?" She asked, extending her hand.

He took it and pulled her up. "I brought the car. Let's go to the river."

...

The car charged down the path through the woods.

 

"Nick. Nick. Nick!!" She pounded his nearest shoulder. He was going too fast. Showing no signs of stopping. River straight ahead.

Nick neither turned nor said a word. His eyes were soulless.

Carol knew it was pointless. Her first attempt at unlatching the seatbelt failed. Then the next. Then the next.

"Nick?" She said. Tears snaking down her face. It had dawned on her.

"NICK!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

She attacked once more. Pounding his shoulder. Stabbing her window with her elbows. To no avail. A one-sided smile was his reaction...

"NICK! THE RIVER! THE RIVER!!"

Nick fixed his eyes on her face. The flood of tears had displaced her makeup.

"I...loved you..."

Off the Rocky ramp the car flew. 

The deed was done.

...

Nick surfaced from the water. Soaked. Arm bloodied with bits of glass stuck in his flesh. Eyes distant. One-sided smile.

"NICK!!!" Todd called. His fears propelled him to follow. His cautious driving made him lose them in the woods.

"Nick! Where is Carol?"

"She's in the car."

"Where's the car." 

"It's in the river." Nick answered again.

Todd froze.

"Oh, Todd, it wasn't all bad...at least I saw her off to the gates of hell. Right where she belongs."