Prompt: (Scenario) Character A calls Character B over just to kill a spider

Word Count: 521

Kill The Spider

"LILY. COME QUICK!" James cried loudly, moving his feet up onto the couch and curling up into a ball.

Lily dropped the feather duster in her hand and rushed into the living room at the sound of her husband's terror.

"Where's the fire?" she asked, looking around the room to see what had caused him to cry out in fear.

"There's a great big hairy spider there," James said, pointing at the coffee table. "Kill it quick."

"Let me get this straight," Lily said, her eyes flitting from her fearful husband to the spider on the table. "You called me over to kill a spider, and a tiny one at that."

"What are you talking about?" James said. "It's huge. Kill it. Please."

"James, it's barely the size of small button," Lily told him. "It's not going to hurt you."

"Lily, kill now or there's no sex tonight," James threatened.

"I can live with that; the question is can you?" Lily laughed, raising her eyebrows at her husband.

"Lily, please, you know how I feel about these horrible creatures," James replied, pleading with his eyes for her to do something.

Lily rolled her eyes and sighed before turning around and walking to the kitchen.

"Lily, where are you going?" James asked, his eyes completely fixated on the spider crawling across the coffee table. "It's moving. It's going to jump on me."

"Oh don't be such a big baby," Lily said returning with a glass, and taking one of the coasters off the table. "I'm getting rid of the big bad spider for you. And spiders can't jump, you moron."

"But… but you're not killing it," James replied fearfully as Lily placed the glass over the spider. "What if it comes back?"

"Oh, relax. It won't come back," Lily laughed, pulling the glass towards her and placing the coaster under the glass, trapping the spider. "Would you open the window for me?"

James nodded his head and hurried towards the living room window, opening it as fast as he could.

"Throw it out," James said, moving as far away from the window as he could. "Maybe the fall will kill is since you won't do it for me."

"Are you trying to make me change my mind," Lily said, spinning around and starting to walk towards James. "You know I could just as easily put this spider on you."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please put the spider outside," James cried, running out of the room and locking himself in the bathroom where Lily couldn't get to him with the spider.

Lily rolled her eyes at her husband's behaviour, made her way towards the window and placed the spider outside.

Deciding to make herself a cup of coffee whist her husband was off being a big baby, Lily made her way towards the kitchen.

Just as she put the kettle on, she heard James yell, "LILY!"

"What?" she called back, equally as loud.

"There's a spider in the bath and it's huge," he shouted. "Come and kill it."

Lily sighed heavily. When would her husband finally deal with his irrational fear of spiders?