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The Devil and Nick D.

One day Nick D., a small stocky man, was sitting on a bench not to far from his home. The sun started to set and Nick decides to start the fairly short walk back to his big mansion. To pass the boredom while walking to his house, Nick started to kick cans along side the rode. He wasn’t paying attention, not that he normally does, and he hit a bum that was sleeping in the gutter. Instead of apologizing like a proper gentleman would do Nick dove into a bush to avoid any confrontation. The bum woke up and yelled, “Hey I saw you.” Nick stood in shock and in a daze of confusion he just high-tails it out of there.

While running Nick accidentally bumped right into a tall fiendish looking man, the man looked right at Nick with his wretched red eyes and said, “You better watch were your going boy.” Nick stood there and said nothing.

“What’s your name boy,” said the mysterious man. Nick boldly and confidently let the words flow from his mouth.

“Nick,” he said, “what’s it to you?” It never occurred to Nick that he was face to face with the devil.

“How about I make a deal with you Nick,” said the devil.

“What kind of deal,” Nick asked with a heightened sense of curiosity.

“I am willing to offer you anything in the world, but in return I get your soul,” the devil replies while looking deep into the eyes of Nick as if he were looking into his soul. Nick thinking that this was just a big hoax agreed. The devil then pulled out a brief contract making Nick sign it, and just to mess with him Nick asked for a copy. The devil gave him the copy with a snarling look on his face. The Devil then said, “What will it be then: world domination, money, good looks,” the devil cracked a smile.

“None of those, I want the best danish in the world,” Nick replied with a smile on his face. The devil pulled a bag out from his black over coat and handed it to Nick while saying, “Once you finish this your soul will be mine.” Nick disregarded what he had said and started to walk home in the opposite direction that the devil was walking and took the first bite of the danish. As Nick rounded the corner he was about halfway home and halfway done with the danish and out of nowhere the devil appeared and said, “Remember your soul will be mine.”

Nick knew from there that this was no hoax. Nick ran all the way home and didn’t eat anymore of the sugary goodness that was the danish from hell. When he got there he panicked. Not knowing what to do, he remembered the contract he had and took it out and started reading it. About halfway through he noticed a loop hole, the contract read “whom ever eats the last bit of the danish must forfeit his/hers soul to the devil”. Nick then knew what to do. The next day Nick went to the very same spot where he saw the devil. Sure enough he was there. When Nick approached the devil said, “I’ve been expecting you.” Nick walked up to him with danish in hand and said, “I’ve got you beat.”

“You can’t beat me, I’m the devil,” said the devil. Nick replied with a smirk, “Yes I can.” Nick crumples up the danish and throws it into a crowd of birds and it gets devoured in a matter of seconds.

“Now you can’t get my soul,” said Nick. The devil just got angry and started to yell, “The contract says…” Nick interrupted and said, “The contract says the person who finishes the danish has to forfeit his soul, and since I didn’t finish it you don’t get my soul.” The devil just stood there with the strangest look on his face. It looked like he was about to kill somebody but knowing that he couldn’t do anything he just looked at Nick and turned around and returned to the bowels of hell never to be seen again. Nick just stood there thinking about what he accomplished and never forgot about his encounter with the devil.