It had started as one prank. Everyone just laughed. But that success led to another, which led to three more. Soon, no one dared to enter a room, eat anything edible or leave a belonging out in the open for fear of a prank being played.
The adults in the family claimed he would grow out of it. It was just a passing fad, nothing to worry over, everything would even out, Aunt Sibyl said.
Instead of fun, it became a need. He could not go a day without playing a prank of some kind on someone.
Douglass was addicted.