Cheryl's P.O.V

"Buzz" my phone went off.

I quickly checked it, of course it was from Brain telling me,"might as well surrender because you're never gonna pull this off Cher".

Puffff ya I was so going to give up on a prank contest when they're my speciality. I texted him,"ya right" and turned off my phone.

Cher was a nickname only he used for me and if anyone else did they were likely to get a punch in the face by both myself and Brian.

Brian is taking me on a special surprise date tonight since it's our one year anniversary and I was planning on telling him that I loved him for the first time since even though I've felt that way for a while now I couldn't pluck up the courage to tell him.

Anything else I could though because as cheesy as it sounds he is my best friend to.

I hadn't really dated anyone until Brian, (unless you count a blind date where I never spoke to again "dating someone") and as far as I knew he was the best boyfriend ever.

I would go to all of his football games and unlike other couples at our school, he would also come to my things as well, for example my gymnastics tournaments which he really is a good sport about standing in the stands cheering my name not minding that he's the only guy there other than some of the girls dad's.

We were different than most other high school couples, more real, and definitely longer lasting in comparison to any of my friends whose longest relationship lasted 1 month and a day.

We already had plans to go to the same university in 2 years that conveniently had an amazing football team as well as Language program for me to study to become a writer.

The special date we are going on tonight is also to celebrate my 16 birthday, of course me mam insisted if I get my real 16 birthday with Brian I have to have an official sweet sixteen the day after so that was are agreement.

While my home life was great, and easygoing dad (yet still protective when Brian first came into the picture), a mam with surprisingly great taste when it came to all things fashion and an adorable little 6 year old brother that just adored me Brian's home life was horrible.

He had 1 older brother who treats him like trash and throughs him around regularly as well as an abusive father that made me cringe every time I saw him.

I've begged and pleaded for Brian to call 911 or at least tell someone but he wouldn't saying it would only rile them up further and making me promise not to tell, promising to me in return that one day he would, when he didn't live in there house and when he knew I was safe enough from them.

There was a moment we had only a week ago where we sat by the fire at my house (when the rest of my family was gone) where he said in a quiet voice," Promise me".

"Promise you what?" I asked.

"That you'll never leave me, in any way shape or form" he answered, oh I thought he meant like his mam, who died when he was 8 years old, when they started abusing him.

"I promise"

I started to sit up and only realized that there wasn't enough room when I banged my head on the hard metal roof.

Yes, I am in the school's vent system (that's obviously not very good if they can't keep even one inexperienced pranking kid out of them).

Brian and I were on a two day and continuing prank contest that led him to have asked the bio teacher about testicles in front of everyone, fill the football teams helmets with shaving cream and prank call the schools principle (all my dares for him).

And the dares I had to do were; put up the most embarrassing picture of a teacher I could get and put it all over school, prank call his aunt who is a retired policewoman and now a lawyer, and the one I'm setting up right now which is to prank ; the schools meanest teacher ever who even came from a juvenile school!

The vents directly overlooked the door to the cafeteria which Mr.Z always came in through at 12:30 exactly and I planned on making his walk really slippery.

The mixture of various slippery things I made last night was on the floor in a puddle already and all I had to do was wait and watch the show.

Back at pixie hollow

Queen Clarion's P.O.V

I slowly and as gracefully as I could in this state walked back into mine and Milori's room with somewhat sad eyes.

Milori was already waiting outside the room waiting with hopeful eyes as I shook my head and mouthed 'no'.

I couldn't help but let a few tears escape my eyes while Milori held me in his arms before I went back to my afternoon duties trying to look as if nothing was wrong.

Back at Manchester

Cheryl's P.O.V.

This was it the big moment where I would win the contest and prank who everyone hates!

He walked right into it and as a bonus he was carrying a tray of food which he flipped and accidentally through while falling onto his back.

It was so hilarious I started having a laugh attack until looked right up to where I was and gave the most scary evil teacher face I've ever seen.

I quickly made an escape out the vent and went to find Brain so he could say I was with him the whole time but before I could the speaker went on.

"Cheryl McCarthy please report to the principles office this instant!" Mr.Z somewhat yelled.

Mercifully nobody was in the halls on the way to the principle's office so I could do the walk of shame alone.

As soon as I got in there I prepared myself for a long and loud lecture but what happened was not what I prepared for.

"let's take a walk" sneered with a smirk on his face.

I gave him a confused look but followed anyway when he led me to the music room.

"do you understand the seriousness of what you've done?" He asked rather calm.

"Is there something I did?" I asked sweetly.

He looked so pissed it was as if I hit him in the head with a crowbar!

"Clearly you need to think about what you've done" he said with a huge smirk on his face.

I was kinda confused and really scared now that he grabbed a lighter and container full of so sort of liquid.

I suddenly realized but it was a second to late because he already threw the container and turned on the lighter.

As it was about to be thrown into the container I tried to grab it and instead burnt my arm and sent it flying faster.

There was a loud noise and things flying everywhere, fire was all I could see, my last thought was 'I love you Brian' until everything went black.