Diary of a Nerd King #2: The Complete 2nd Season - Episodes 1 to 8 (12 page)

I mean, zits are obviously pretty contagious, and everybody freaks out about them and doesn’t want anything to do with them, right?

Well, what if once word got out that Tabi had a zit, and she ended up on the zit face list, people started treating me the same way because she’s my sister and we live in the same house?

Like on TV where somebody catches one of those rare and incurable diseases, and they have to quarantine them, and everyone is scared to go anywhere near them, and they hunt down everyone who came in contact with them and quarantine them too!

They always end up sticking them in some space age looking room with airlocks like a space ship and people walking around in white marshmallow suits with oxygen tanks that make them sound like Darth Vader when they breath. 

That could be me!  All my work to hide my zit and not get on the zitface list could blow up in my face if I got stuck on the zitface list because of Tabi.  Guilt by sister’ation.  Like a new version of guilt by association.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it probably wasn’t such a good idea to tell everyone about Tabi’s zit and get her on the zit face list.  As satisfying as it might be, I realized I wouldn’t be smiling about it for very long if it got me on the list too! 

I think that might be what Mrs. Fizzerwinch means by irony.  Actually, I think that might actually be poetic justice AND irony, all at the same time. 

The school day flew by pretty quick.  Nothing really cool happened or anything. 

I walked Jordan home after school again, and then I headed over to Boogie’s to work on our YouTube show some more.

Saturday

I woke up at 3:52am this last night (or I guess it was technically this morning) in a cold sweat, and I’m not sure, but I think I might have screamed. 

You know when you wake up from a dream, and you’re not sure what is part of the dream and what is really happening now?  Well, that’s why I wasn’t sure if I screamed or not.  I could swear I had, but the dream I had was SO REAL that it was probably part of it.

And what a crazy wicked freaky scary dream!

There was this totally wicked scary looking demon or devil staring at me from the foot of my bed. 

It was just a head, no body, at least that’s all I could see, and the fact that it was just a head only added to the scariness of it. 

The head was red, and it was glowing, like it was on fire from inside.  The eyes actually had flames burning in them, and I could see them flicker and twist in the darkness as it stared at me.

I gotta tell ya, I’m not normally scared easily (don’t listen to what Tabi tells you), but this dream really freaked me out.  It was SO real, I almost got out of bed and checked underneath and around the other end to make sure it really had been a dream.

Actually, I did get out of bed and check, but I’ll deny it if this ever gets out.  I probably shouldn’t have even written that down.

I think it was like a whole hour or more before I fell back asleep again.  I kept closing my eyes, starting to drift off, and then I’d sit up in a panic expecting to see the demon head again. 

I never did see it again, at least that I remember.  They say you don’t remember most of your dreams, so maybe I did see it again.  Somehow I doubt it because I probably would’ve woke up again in a cold sweat, possibly screaming, possibly only screaming in my dream, and that didn’t happen.

When I did wake up, I remembered the whole thing VERY vividly, like every last detail of that dude was burned into the back of my eye balls.  Hopefully that’s not what happened and the memory fades away, or I’m going to have a really hard time getting to sleep tonight!

As I was heading downstairs for breakfast though, the whole dream thing gave me a wicked awesome idea!  I probably looked like a silly dough-head when I said good morning to Mom because I was smiling so much at the thought of it, but that’s OK because it’s going to be great!

Here’s the idea I had.  First a little background information though. Tabi will deny, but she still sleeps with a night-lite on in her room.  It’s plugged into the wall across from the end of her bed. 

My plan is to draw a wicked awesome picture of the demon head I saw in my dream and put it on the wall above where her night-lite is plugged in while she’s sleeping.  The nightlite will make the demon head look like it’s glowing, and if I do a really good job drawing flames in the eyes, it’ll probably even look like it’s eyes are on fire!

Once I have the drawing on the wall, I’ll wake her up by making some demon sounds or something.  I’ll do it quietly so she wakes up slowly and is a little groggy. 

And then Whammo!  The first thing she’ll see when she open her eyes is the glowing demon head from my dream!  She’ll probably scream her lungs out, and if I’m really lucky, maybe she’ll faint too!

Awesome eh!  I’m going to get started on the demon head drawing right away.  Maybe I’ll even see if I can borrow Boogie’s video camera to tape Tabi’s reaction.  Come to think of it, that would make an awesome video for our YouTube show!

Sunday

I’m almost done the demon head picture.  It looks wicked awesome if I do say so myself!

I can’t wait to see Tabi’s reaction when she sees it!  This could be one of the coolest pranks I’ve ever pulled on her.  It’ll certainly be way better than anything she’s ever done to me.

I took the picture over to Boogie’s with me this afternoon.  He thought it was great and said he wished he could be there to see the look on Tabi’s face when she wakes up and sees it.

Boogie was totally OK with me borrowing his video camera to tape the whole thing.  He even gave me a little crash course on all the best settings for how to shoot video in dimly lit situations (like Tabi’s room in the middle of the night).

He’s pretty pumped about it too and agrees with me that it could be one of our best videos on our YouTube show.