Another one shot. Just to get in the spirit of Halloween which will be coming up in about a month.


It was a normal day for Gaz. She sat playing her favorite game on the sofa. Mindlessly tapping away for hours as she progressed through the levels. She rarely put it down for anything, if she could help it. So it made this one opportunity all the more rare.

Her brother stepped through the door. She knew it was her brother because no-one else lived there and their father never came home this early. "Hey Dib!" she shouted irately "Pizza is on the table".

"Okay Gaz." he answered, his voice lacking its normal charisma.

She raised her eyebrow. Dib was never this way. She set down the game and went into the kitchen to see Dib staring out the window into the front yard. His face was white, his expression dull. It was as if he had seen a ghost. "What's up with you?" she asked.

He seemed to come out of a shock, not realizing her presence in the kitchen. "What! Oh...nothing." he smiled "Just wondering about...the weather is all. Yeah, the weather. Seem like a storm is coming." his palms writhed. He was nervous, but for what reason, Gaz didn't know.

"Uh-huh, sure, the weather. Now tell me what it really is."

He riled with anger, "Look! It's none of your business, just leave me alone!" She was taken a back at his sudden aggressiveness. An aggressiveness he had never shown before. She stared at him for a brief moment after the outburst. "Gaz... I'm sorry. Just...It's been a long day."

"Okay..." she couldn't think of the words to say. She assumed her normal annoyed attitude and shrugged it off as nothing.

Later that night, she ascended the stairs to go to bed. She looked down the narrow hall-way. The door to Dib's room was on the right; it was shut. To the left, was the bathroom; it was also shut. But underneath the bathroom door she could see the light was on and she could hear water running Dib was taking a shower, she thought. As she passed the door heard from within the shower the humming of the tune of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider".

She gave the door a good bang, "You'd better not hum that all night." She then went into her room, undressed, and went to bed.

Later, she heard a noise which startled her awake. She listened closely from down the hall and could hear the same humming to the same tune. She shouted down the hall "Dib, stop the damn humming and go to bed!" She put a pillow over her head and went to bed.

Sometime later, she heard the humming again. This time she was even more agitated. "I'm not kidding Dib! Shut the hell up!" this time the humming didn't stop. She couldn't take anymore.

She got up from her bed, and went down the hall to Dib's room. She yanked open the door and the humming stopped. She went over to the bed and pulled back the covers and she screamed! There was blood everywhere, stained all over the covers all around Dib. But he had no head! His head was gone! And only his severed neck lay there in the bed. She felt her heart sink into her chest. "This can't be real! This can't be happening!" she cried.

Suddenly, the door closed behind her. She was so frightened she couldn't move, an the peel of maniacal laughter erupted from the corner. The voice crept up behind her, slowly humming the notes of that horrid child's song. It whispered into her ear "The Itsy Bitsy spider, went up the water spout..."

She cringed and horror. I'll close my eyes, she thought, and it'll be morning. It'll all be alright in the morning...


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