Warnings - Blood

Main Characters: Preston, Lachlan

(Based on the "Challenge" Prompt by SpicyKiwiWrites)

"Alright, let's get this started!" Lachlan yelled, clapping his hands together as he turned on the camera, before running to join Preston behind the kitchen counter. Preston flashed Lachlan a quick smile before turning back to the camera as he started his intro.

"Hey guys what's going on, Preston here today with Lachlan to present to you..." Preston started excitedly, gesturing to the blender sitting on the counter as he continued, "...the Smoothie Challenge!!!"

As Preston continued to describe the challenge to the camera, Lachlan dozed off a bit, his eyes wandering around the room.

Lachlan was visiting Preston's condo in Texas for a month, and he was trying to record as many videos with Preston as he could during the visit. Rob was staying with them too, and had joined in on most of their recordings. He had skipped out on this challenge however, volunteering to go shopping for food while Lachlan and Preston filmed the challenge. Rob claimed that he "hadn't recovered from the trauma of doing the Smoothie Challenge with Mitch yet."

"... and we're going to start off me making Lachlan's smoothie!"

Lachlan snapped back into attention, looking to his right to Preston, who was rubbing his hands together with a smug look on his face. Lachlan gulped as Preston turned to the cabinets behind him, yanking them open and beginning to look for ingredients to add to his evil concoction. Preston ended up with several boxes and bags when he closed the cabinet, and Lachlan watched, his blue eyes wide as Preston began to empty out their contents into the blender.

"Chocolate chips... orange soda... pickles...milk...Doritos... and jalapenos?!?!?" Lachlan yelled, Preston snickering as he put the last of the food in the blender. "Are you trying to kill be Preston??!?"

"Wait, there's one more secret ingredient!" Preston said, before slipping behind Lachlan and opening the fridge. It was only a moment before Preston found what he had been looking for.

Lachlan's face paled as Preston slipped around him again, opening the brown bag in his hands and pouring into the blender what looked like a flattened taco from it. "It's exactly what it looks like Lachlan," Preston said, before whispering something else. "I got this taco from Chipotle, like, two weeks ago."

Ignoring Lachlan's protests, Preston proceeded to put the top on the blender, struggling to get it to stay on the blender, which was crammed full of random food items. "Preston, are you sure that's safe? That top doesn't look very secure..." Lachlan asked worriedly.

"I'm sure its fine. You're probably just afraid to taste my amazingly disgusting smoothie!" Preston quipped, shrugging his shoulders.

"What?!?" Lachlan yelled, a tone of mock-anger in his voice. "Move over, I'll blend this thing myself!"

Not expecting him to actually respond, Lachlan tried to hide his surprise when Preston stepped away from the blender, gesturing for Lachlan to take over with a grin on his face. "Then go right ahead!"

"Fine." Lachlan murmured, stepping in front of the blender and looking at the buttons on the front of it, hoping that he didn't look confused as he tried to figure out which to press.

Max power would be a good idea, right? Lachlan thought to himself as he put his finger over the right-most button on the blender, trying to ignore Preston, who had raised an eyebrow with a curious expression on his face as he leaned against the counter. I mean, it would make sense... there's a lot of food in there, and some of it is pretty thick...

Lachlan nodded, and he pressed on the top of the blender, silently hoping that it wouldn't come flying off when he turned on the blender. Lachlan pressed the button, quickly backing up as the blender turned on.

Preston moved to stand next to Lachlan, both of them watching the blender as the machine made the horrible sound of grinding. Preston opened his mouth to say something before the blender started to shake, the blender making strange sounds as well. Preston and Lachlan gave each other worried looks, before returning their attention to the blender. The blender was beginning to tilt, and as it shook, Lachlan's eyes widened and he yelled "DUCK!!!", before he threw himself to the behind the cover of the counter with his hands covering his head.

It was a few moments before Lachlan heard a loud crashing sound, followed the sound of something slamming onto the floor. Lachlan heard a loud yell from Preston, but Lachlan didn't look up, keeping still on the floor.

It was a few moments before Lachlan took his hands off of his head, and he took a deep breath. Grabbing onto the top of the counter, Lachlan pulled himself off of the floor. He looked to the spot on the counter where the blender had been, only to see that it was gone. He spotted the cup part of the blender on the floor by the camera, the bottom part in the corner of the room. The half-blended smoothie was splattered all across the walls of the room, the camera and the kitchen being splattered as well.

Preston! Lachlan thought with a jolt. He had heard his friend yell when the blender exploded, and Lachlan was about to call out for him when he heard a yelp of pain from next to him, and Lachlan looked to see that Preston had fallen onto the floor next to him, some of the smoothie having splattered onto the front of his hoodie.

Preston was clutching his right shoulder, wincing in pain as he slowly got up from the floor.

"Preston!" Lachlan yelled worriedly, "Are you oka- OH MY GOD!!!"

"What?!?!" Preston yelled, a look of confusion and pain on his face as he looked at Lachlan with wide eyes.

"Dude! Your shoulder!"

"What do you mean my should-" Preston said, interrupting himself with a loud scream as he saw what had happened.

Lodged in Preston's shoulder, his collarbone to be exact, was the blade of the blender.

"The blade must have flown out when the blender fell!" Lachlan shouted, panic on his face. He was unable to look away from the blade, which was for sure at least an inch into Preston's collarbone.

Preston was panicking as well, trying not to move his shoulder. "This thing is stuck in my fudging shoulder and it hurts! Look how close this was to my neck! I almost died!"

"D-Do you want me to pull it out?!?" Lachlan said quickly, not knowing what to do.

"NO!" Preston yelled, jumping back from Lachlan with wide, scared eyes. "That's the last thing I want you to do! You'll end up making it worse! For fudge's sake, why did you put the blender on max?!!? What made you think that you think that was even remotely a good idea?!?!?"

"Me?!?" Lachlan said, offended. "You're the one who thought that it would be a good idea to fill that blender to the top!"

"T-that doesn't matter right now!" Preston stuttered, wincing again from the pain in his shoulder. "What are we going to do about the fudging blade in my shoulder?!?"

"I don't know! The hospital?"

"How would we explain this?!?"

"Again, do you want me to pull it out myself!??!"

Preston and Lachlan were screaming in panicked voices so loudly that they didn't notice the click of the front door unlocking, nor did they notice when Rob walked inside, carrying groceries, curious about the screaming coming from the kitchen.

They did notice when he passed out on the kitchen floor after seeing Preston's shoulder though.

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"I can't believe that you guys managed to do that..." Rob sighed, dragging a hand down his face after Lachlan had finished explaining what had happened.

After Rob had come to, and after yelling at Lachlan and Preston for a few minutes on how stupid they had been, he had driven them to the hospital's emergency room, and they were currently waiting in the lobby for Preston to come back out.

"Well-" Lachlan began, before being interrupted by the loud creaking of a door opening, and Preston walked out with a doctor.

The blade was out of Preston's shoulder, and Lachlan could see a bit of the bandages poking out from under his hoodie. He looked embarrassed as the doctor spoke, her voice monotone as she continued.

"Well, the cut didn't reach the bone of his collarbone, so it wasn't anything too serious. Just don't put too much pressure or stress onto your right shoulder Mr. Arsement, and you'll be fine in about a week."

Lachlan, Rob, and Preston murmured some apologies, and the doctor turned to walk away. But she stopped, turning back to them and adding, "And boys, please don't go around playing with anymore blenders."

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