HORROR COMEDY FICTION
The Blowhole He Fell Into
Emma and Nathan are your average university students and Emma feels the time is right to give Nathan the permanent boyfriend position in her life. But then he does something stupid. Very stupid.
Day 1
Nathan is an idiot and nothing is going to convince me otherwise.
First of all, he made me watch this Netflix movie which he swore was the best thing since frozen yogurt. Then after I complained, he told me my obsessive need to see horror movies or to read horror books is unhealthy.
On that, I strongly beg to differ. Horror movie fans are some of the sanest people on the planet. Of course, I can’t vouch for anyone else, but there’s an entire Youtube video on the topic so I’m sure it’s very true.
And now he is trying to convince me that if you drop things into a blowhole, they always come back.
Like seriously. First and foremost, it is statistically impossible for something of that nature to be true ten out of ten times. The sad part is, I don’t know if this is some theory he has conjured up himself or it’s something he’s heard from his conspiracy-theory-obsessed best friend. Which does kind of beg the question — do you trust a horror fan or a conspiracy nut?
Okay, now I’ve just got to turn off this Netflix movie. George Clooney is talking to a wolf, and he’s lost the girl he’s supposed to be protecting, and this is a sci-fi movie. Go figure.
“What were you saying exactly?” I asked sweetly as I snapped the laptop close.
“The blowhole,” Nathan says earnestly. “If you drop something in it — it always comes back!”
“You do know that if you were a scientist you can’t make claims you can’t back up with proof?” I ask him even more sweetly.
“You know what — we are going to test it out right now.”
“Like, right now — right now?” I am completely unenthusiastic about this whole idea.
“Yup.” He bounced to his feet and started hauling me upright too. “Come on Em! Let’s do this!”