I was 22 years old attending a Halloween
party at my former best friend Nick's
house who died of the heroin overdose in
2013 before his death he would throw big
Halloween parties every year at his
house as his parents routinely flew to
New York every year to attend their own
friend's party he was always a big
Halloween freak so the whole house was
littered with truly horrifying props
that we all knew Nick spent way too much
money on he even put up giant walls of
cardboard and covered them with
wallpapers to create a haunted maze of
sorts I want to keep this story pg-13
rated so I'll skip the weed beer LSD and
sex and get right to the part where
things got bad I'll admit we weren't in
our right minds none of us were anyone
who came to Nick's parties knew what
went down me Nick and a few other guys
Vinny G Joey and Q were upstairs and
Nick's room smoking a bong when we heard
- steady loud bangs come from downstairs
Nick clumsily but panicking Lee rushed
to open the door and see what was going
on there were sounds of screaming of
both guys and girls I remember quite
clearly it sounded as if there were a
crowd of people screaming for their
lives down there we all called Nick to
come back in and shut the door even
under the influence of drugs we all knew
what was going on Nick ran back inside
and shut the door quickly but also
quietly locking it behind him he turned
to us and had on the facial expression
of someone who had just witnessed murder
what did you see what's going on we all
shouted at him he told us to hide before
anything else
we all knew why
from that point on we didn't ask
questions Nick hit the Lights and hid in
the closet with Joey while I hid under
the bed with Q and Vinny G hid in the
storage box we could hear the blasting
music from downstairs turn off followed
by a grown man screaming at everyone to
shut up one unfortunate girl let out a
