Yep, I got up really early to publish this for you guys! Well, actually, I got up really early to plant my pranks, then publish this. It's set during Shadow Kiss, but changed. After the attack, nobody was killed. Everything turned out okay and they went back to the Academy. Boring, I know, but it was just a one-shot idea I came up with.

My alarm buzzed and I rolled over groggily, slamming a hand down. I glanced at the clock. 5.30pm? Why was I waking up so early? As my tired mind cleared, I remembered the date. April 1st. My favourite day of the year. I sat up quickly, my fatigue completely erased, and slipped into some dark clothes. I felt an evil grin spread across my face. It was before curfew, but I didn't care. I had to do this. I snuck out and slipped out of the back door where Dimitri had taken me before the filed experience. It was where I had first seen Mason's ghost. I shivered and sprinted over to the Moroi dorms. Hiding behind the thick spruces that were all over campus, I avoided the guardians. I knew that tonight was Dimitri's patrol, which made everything easier for me. He could help me and, if he didn't, I had ways at getting back at him. Muahahaha.

Anyway, back to the Moroi dorms. I tiptoed up the stairs and along the corridor until I stood outside Lissa's door. She'd given me the spare key, as her 'trusted friend', and I unlocked it soundlessly. She slept in the bed on the right hand side. I still thought it was cruel that they'd kept her in the same room, even thought Natalie wasn't around. Never mind. I planted my traps quickly. I made my way to the bathroom and quickly decanted all her shampoo into a little bottle, which I hid in her cupboard. I then replaced it with some wash-in hair dye of exactly the same colour-teatree green. It would wash out after a day, but I was going to be in hysterics all of the rest of this day. I bit my lip against a giggle. I injected her soap with red food colouring and put salt on her toothbrush. As I came out of the bathroom, I could hear her breathing softly. Her platinum hair was spread across the pillow and the feelings in the bond were dimmed. I unset her alarm, gritting my teeth as I smothered the sound, and left her room. Opposite was Sparky's room. I tried to unlock his door, but had no luck. Never mind, I thought, I have other methods. As the doors to their rooms both opened inwards, I tied them together with some rope. I bound it really strong so that it would take a while to undo. It was going to cause madness! Sneaking back out, I scaled the walls of the dorms. Lissa's room was only one floor up, so I hoisted myself onto the window ledge and crept across. Sparky's window was open. Idiot, I thought. I slipped in silently and watched him. He was snoring! How did Lissa cope? I put sellotape over the lock on his door, so that he wouldn't open it, and shoved some cream on top of his alarm clock. I used some more of the food dye from Lissa's prank to pour in the loo, and then leapt out of the window and into the darkness of the night.

As I came closer to the guardian dorms, it got more difficult to avoid security. I tried to stick to the shadows. I found Dimitri's room easily. I hadn't been there much, but the lust charm was too ingrained in my mind to forget. After I'd located it, I chose another door. I could hear somebody inside through the keyhole. I pulled out the paper cups I'd hidden in the small rucksack on my bag and stapled 15 together and set them in a little line outside his bedroom door. I then poured some water from my bottle into each of the cups. They wouldn't be able to move them! I left the corridor and went back to my room. The rest of the plan occurred from here. I quickly found the note I'd prepared earlier, and then dialled Dimitri's phone. The only communication he took on his patrol was his walkie-talkie, and crossed my fingers that it wouldn't change tonight. After the insistent beeping ended and the automated voice came on, I breathed a sigh of relief. I informed the phone of my 'desires'. I hadn't been able to make the message too seriously, otherwise he would've gone beserk, but I did make it interesting, to say the least.

Suddenly, I realised I'd forgotten part of the plan. Dimitri's room! I hadn't done it! It was going to be difficult to do, considering he was out and coming back in later, but I had an idea. I sprinted off back to his room and scaled the wall, my heart pounding against my ribcage. I crept in the window and set up his 'wash stuff'. I didn't want to ruin his gorgeous appearance too much, so most of his pranks were just stupid things. I was just setting the last thing, when I heard a key twist in the door. I froze and my heart leapt into my throat. Crap. I left everything where it was, and made for the window. I jumped out just as Dimitri entered the room. I ran around the other side of the wall and panted, trying to be inconspicuous. A few moments later, I saw his head poke out and he called, "Hello?" No-one answered and he went back in, probably thinking he was a fool. I quick glanced at my watch told me it was 6.30pm. Maybe I could get half an hour's more sleep?

I woke up and the bond was still numb. I grinned to myself. After checking my room last night, I knew that nobody had played any tricks on me, but I might still have more to come. I would have to be wary. I brushed my teeth and got myself ready before heading down to the gym. Dimitri wasn't there. Of course he's not there! You pranked him! I thought to myself. I sat and leant against the wall for the next hour, wondering why it had taken him this long. The class was starting to file in when my feelings from the bond flared up. I decided I'd like to see this, so I delved into Lissa's head.

She was glaring at her alarm clock and swearing that she'd set it. Why hadn't it gone off? Suddenly she realised why she'd woken up. There was shouting coming from outside. She went to open the door, to find that she could only open it and reveal a crack of the corridor before something-a rope- stopped her. She could see Christian banging his door with rage from the other side, and Moroi kids trying to get through were either laughing hysterically or trying to untie it. HAHA! She fumbled with the knot but knew she couldn't do anything, so she gave up and went to get washed. She showered quickly and brushed her teeth before combing her hir out. She then put on her clothes. She was just about to add her make-up when she gasped. My hair is green! She thought. And then a message flickered through the bond. Rose...I'm so gonna get you for this. I sniggered. She squealed and then went back to trying to open the door. She bound up her hair and made some excuse about cold weather to wear a hat when she caught sight of Dimitri and Stan. Seems that they didn't get too held up. They finally undid the knot and Lissa went to lessons. I faded out of my head and waited for Stan to arrive. His face was bright red.

"Sorry I'm late," he huffed. "Some insolent student set a prank on me and some of the others." That set the class off talking. I talked with them, pretending I had no idea who had done it, whilst inside I was grinning. The rest of the day passed smoothly until lunchtime, when I caught Dimitri in the gym. I was about to walk straight back out when he caught me.

"Where were you this morning?" I asked him innocently.

"I was caught up. Do you want to know what happened?" He didn't give me a chance to answer, instead deciding to sit on the floor with me facing him. "I got back from my shift last night to find the window wide open. Somebody had obviously broken in. On my phone, there was a message. A rather...interesting message in some ways. The woman, who sounded extremely false, was telling me that 'Miss Dimitri Belikov needs to pick up her sofa worth $10,000 dollars from Argos tomorrow or face a fine'." I sniggered. Miss Dimitri Belikov. And I had just put the phone back down when there was a knock on my door. Can you guess who it was?" I shrugged, trying to keep my calm face on. "It was the Chinese delivery guy with enough food for ten people. Ten people." I bit my lip. "I set that aside and froze it, so now I will have Chinese food for dinner all week. I then started wondering why there was red food colouring in a bottle on my floor. Can you guess why?" I shook my head. "Neither can I. I was this close to figuring it out, when I heard a shout from down the hallway. I went out to see Guardian Alto standing outside his door, which was ringed in paper cups all stapled together and filled with water. It was okay for Stan to get in and out, but the cleaning trolley certainly couldn't. So, the rest of the guardians and I had to drink as much water from the cups as possible before we picked them up and moved them away. We were lying in the middle of the corridor, drinking from the floor." I shifted uncomfortably. "Just as we were done with that, I heard more shouts. Do you know where they were from?" He was using his patronising, I-know-it-was-you-don't-mess-with-the-Belikov tone.

"The Moroi dorms," I whispered, suddenly not feeling so badass.

"Yes, well done. And guess what! Lissa and Christian's doors were tied together with a skipping rope. It took five guardians to untie it." Cool! I had the strength of five guardians. "When we did, Lissa's hair was green! Christian was yelling about somebody sneaking in to use his bathroom and he was covered in cream. It was rather unusual. Do you have any idea who did it, Rose?" Those warm brown eyes bore deep into mine, threatening to melt my heart and make me cave. I refused to turn away, and steeled myself to look straight back at him.

"No. No idea at all."

"Well, whoever did it is going to be in back trouble." He got up and walked out as I swallowed audibly. Crap. I slipped into Lissa's head automatically. She was at lunch with Christian. He was looking at her and saying, "We need a plan."

"Yes. Yes we do," she murmured. His icy blue looked into hers, but it felt like he was looking at me. I shivered.

"Lissa, can you block your mind for a bit?" And then it went blank. Goddammit! I pounded the floor and stormed over to the lunch hall. However, when I got there, they were chatting normally with other Moroi. I slipped in beside them and joined the conversation.

I was wary all day. When Lissa offered me some chocolate, I checked to see if it was sabotaged or something. When Dimitri made me climb the wallbars, I kept looking back to see if he would let me fall. But nothing happened all day. Stupid idiot, Rose, I thought to myself, they love you too much to do anything to you. April Fool's Day is almost over. I let my guard down again and started hanging around freely like a normal person.

Later that day, I was in the gym. I'd left my bag here after practice so nobody else was around. Suddenly, I heard the floor creak. I froze, listening for further sounds. Somebody was breathing and coming closer. I knew Dimitri wouldn't be this obvious, so it was probably Lissa or Christian. Being Moroi, I would have to be careful with them, but I still didn't want anything happening to them. I made my way over to a mat and pretended to pick something up, 'oblivious' to what was going on behind me. I felt the breathing upon my neck and I whirled around, pinning the intruder to the mat.

"Hah! Caught you!" I yelled, until I looked down at my victim and it faded away. Kirova was glaring up at me, her beady eyes watching me carefully.

"Miss Hathaway, please can you let me go?" she choked out. I stood up, yanking her by the arm with me. "Could you explain what that was all about?"

"I thought that somebody was pranking me."

"Pranking you? No. I was actually coming here to talk to you about something but..."

"Miss Kirova, I'm-" I began, but she finished for me.

"-in detention." I frowned and went with her to her office. I heard noises behind me and saw a flash of blonde before I left.

Kirova had two guardians watching her office and, so help me, this shift was Dimitri's. I sighed as I plonked myself into the chair.

"What did you do?" he asked in a wary voice.

"I attacked Kirova." His eyes widened. "Not intentionally. I thought it was Lissa or Christian."

"Why would it be them?"

"Because they'd want to prank me."

"Why would they want to prank you?"

"Because it's April Fool's Day." A sly look came into his eyes.

"Oh, Roza, you always manage to fool yourself. You were so busy watching what other people were thinking about pranking you, that you didn't realise that you made a complete fool of yourself all day." He was grinning now, as I thought back to the day. I had been a bit of a fool, not eating chocolate and being antisocial. I looked down.

"Sorry, comrade," I mumbled. He laughed and drew me into a hug.

"Well, if it makes you feel better, they were pretty good pranks." I smiled into his chest.

"I know. Next time they'll be even better." Leaning against his chest, I could feel his heart pounding faster, and I wondered if that bugged him. His guardian face wouldn't tell me anything, but I held him tight anyway, knowing that I still owned the title of 'Prank Master'.

So, what did you think? I love April Fool's Day! I actually did most of these pranks on my friends and family, lol!