Disclaimer: Once Upon a Time there was a girl named Cloudy. She did not own Dead Poets Society. The End.
Living Like A Dead Poet
Chapter 10: Horror Movie
Trying to Sleep After you've been Freaked out by a Horror Movie like a Dead Poet:
Zombie Island 3 hadn't sounded scary. Actually it hadn't even been that scary. At least not while they were watching it. But now that Neil was attempting to fall asleep on the floor of Cameron's cottage all that he could think of were undead masses coming up through the floor. "Todd! Todd!" Neil stage whispered at his back, "Tooooooooodd!"
Todd rolled over but didn't open his eyes which he had squeezed shut in an attempt to fall asleep. "What?"
"I can't sleep." Neil pouted flopping over onto his stomach and studying the wooden floor in front of his sleeping bag. It didn't seem very well build...like someone could get in with a good strong punch upwards. Neil panickedly scooted backwards a few feet.
Todd sighed and opened his eyes, turning his head so he could look over at Neil. "Good for you. Now will you let me sleep?"
"You weren't sleeping and you know it. You're freaked out by that movie too, admit it." Neil said rather loudly grinning at Todd who shushed him.
"Okay, so maybe it was a little bit creepy..." Neil nodded enthusiastically and gave him the hand gesture to continue.
"And? And? What else?"
Todd sighed and looked up at the ceiling, he had unleashed a monster. Just like in the movie when all those teens unearthed an ancient burial ground and awakened the bodies of the dead! On an island! (Though Todd was pretty sure they had filmed it on a peninsula.) "I was having trouble falling asleep." Todd finally admitted much to the glee of Neil who had flung himself over the two feet of exposed floor right on top of Todd and promptly fallen asleep.
Todd sighed again for what must have been the 3rd time in 5 minutes, he was wasting precious oxygen if there ever was a zombie apocylpse and they needed to be locked into Charlie's cottage. He was pondering the merits of the cottage as an anti-zombie zone when he suddenly found himself asleep.
Meanwhile In the Bathroom
Knox had barricaded himself in. Well by barricaded I mean he had locked the door and was now sitting with his back pressed against it with a plunger in hand. Those undead bastards were going to have to get through him if they wanted to get his brains. Though whether this train of thought came from the sleep deprivation or the cleaning chemicals under the sink we'll never know.
Meanwhile Down the Hall
Cameron was going crazy. Between Pitts rather cryptic message ("Don't think of the Blue Unicorn and it'll all be fine." What was the Blue Unicorn! He couldn't stop thinking about it!) and the moans coming from next door he was pretty sure he was living in a real life horror movie. Only this time things wouldn't be solved with a simple hack and slash with a chainsaw. Cameron rolled over and pulled his pillow over his ears turning to see Pitts fast asleep. Lucky bastard.
Meanwhile Next Door
"Ahhhhhhhh! Oh my God!" Charlie moaned hands fisting in the well worn sheets on the single bed which now had two inhabitants. "Meeeeeks, oh god!"
There was a banging on the wall from next door. "Shut up!" Cameron's voice came through muffled, but it was lost on Steven and Charlie who were rather preoccupied.
They were not however preoccupied with anything sexual. In fact Meeks was merely sitting on the end of the bed and rubbing Charlie's side in a way that was both comforting and unsympathetic as Charlie's stomach committed suicide.
"I told you you shouldn't have eaten a pack of pork rinds dipped in chocolate."
A.N. A weird ending to an even weirder chapter. But the moral of the story is don't eat a bag of chocolate covered pork rinds, even if Knox dares you.
-C