THE SPIDER'S WEB (Halloween Special)

It was a cold, clearautumn evening. My fiancé Michele and I were on our way home after visiting my parents for mom’s birthday. As we drove, our car's engine blew up and it stopped in the middle of the forest.

"Damn!" Michele had blurted out, while I jumped at the outburst. "Right in the middle of the forest we had to fucking stop!"

"Come on, don't swear!" I admonished him by slapping him on the right cheek. "Now let's call a tow truck and have my parents take us home."

«Excuse me, Carlotta ...» my boyfriend took a deep breath.

"In case, do you have a sleeping bag?"

“Yes, I always carry it around. But what a bummer, really…” he mumbled.

Unfortunately for us, the phone didn't pick up. This did nothing but agitate Michele - he had always been a hothead since his school days. I was trying to keep calm. There was a deathly silence in the forest, interrupted only by the bubular owls. While I was trying to

"What was it?" I turned to the sound of that noise, in total darkness.

"I didn't hear anything ..." Michele murmured.

Curious and frightened, I took my cell phone and turned on the flashlight. My heart almost stopped as soon as I saw the red creature that was illuminated by the light: «Michele! There is a giant spider! " I exclaimed terrified; I had always been afraid of spiders.

My boyfriend turned and was frightened: "Oh, Christ!"

"Get out of here!" I yelled with all the breath I had.

We started running through the forest, while the spider roared and started chasing us.

"Carlotta!" Michele retraced her steps to help me.

"Michele, I tripped over a root!" I sobbed.

"Now I'll free you!"

"No! Go away and seek help! "

"You don't go away without me, Carlottina! Come on!" she tried to lift me with all her strength.

Although his was a gesture of a true knight, without blemish and without fear, stopping to help me was her biggest mistake.

The spider caught up with us and, before we could do anything, blocked us with its web. Michele tried to free himself and scream for help, but the monster stopped his mouth with the web, like me after few seconds. After it finished its work, it grabbed us and dragged us into his cave, full of little spider mites - small in the sense that they were half the size of it. The spider mom - or the spider dad? I can't say for sure - he hung us from the ceiling of the cave and pinned our feet with another web to the ground.

We were trapped, without cell phones and we didn't know how to free ourselves. Michele squirmed like never, while I was still, not knowing exactly how to behave in a situation like that. One of the little spiders moved towards my boyfriend and began to "play" with him. He was moaning and I believe he was insulting the spider in all possible ways.

Time passed and Michele too had lost hope. Tears began to form in his eyes. I didn't know if we were going to survive, I began to seriously worry about my life. What was supposed to be a romantic evening had just turned into a real nightmare ...

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Halloween illustration, starring my OC Michele "Max" and Carlotta, here in the special - and quite extraordinary - guise of sweethearts who got into big trouble. In this version of the story, Michele does not have superpowers, otherwise he would have freed himself almost immediately (perhaps).

Happy Halloween everyone!

PS: Don't worry, Carlotta and Michele will survive and escape from the spider cave. I'm not so bad that I let my characters die... :)