Avery: DUDE! I LOVE CLOWNS!
Amanda: I thought u hated clowns Avey?
Olivia: 0.0 Yes, why DO you like clowns?
Avery: Cuz they scare the shit out of everyone else!
Amanda: ... i hate u avery...
Olivia: Must we remind you of Mr.Fluffels-Worth Amanda?
Amanda: NOOOOOOOOOO!
Avery: Yes, whoever thought ofe Mr.Flufflles-Worth, I LOVE YOU!
Disclaimer: No, we only own the ability to torture Cloud so shut up and deal with it!
Chapter 2 Gone Too Far
A few days after the birthday fiasco, Riku and Sora were coming over to help Avery and Amanda rig Clouds room. But first, they had to avoid the twins' little trap.
"Get me outta here!" Riku yelled, hanging onto the edge of the pit.
"There's snakes in here! There's one on my leg. Get it off, get it off!" came the faint cry from Sora, who was hanging for dear life onto Riku's ankle, his toes barely brushing the tips of the spikes. THUNK!
"What was that?" Amanda asked, watching from the living room window.
"I think it was Sora kicking the wall, trying to get the snake off of him." Avery responded. "We should probably get them out, but how?" She continued.
"We mi ght be able to pull Sora up, then Riku, but I don't know how we'll reach him." Amanda said.
They were finally able to pull the boys out of the pit without injury, and proceeded to Cloud's bedroom to continue with their planned prank. Riku planted a cutout of Sephiroth in the closet, while Sora rigged up a sheet ghost above the doorway. Avery hung a bucket of ice-cold water right above Cloud's bed, and Amanda filled Cloud's pillow with sunflowers and put plastic bugs under the covers. When they were finished, the boys asked what exactly the prank would do.
"When Cloud comes home, he'll flop onto the bed. When he realizes that there are bugs in his bed and sunflowers in his pillow, he'll jump off the bed and onto a trigger, which will open the closet doors. He'll see the cutout standing there, and take a step back. That will release the 'ghost' and he'll jump back onto the rollerblades, which will catapult him into the slingshot, which will then ricochet him back onto the bed. The force from that will release the bucket of water on him." Amanda elaborated.
"I swear you guys are the devil's spawn." Sora commented.
"Why thank you, Sora. That's a compliment, coming from you." Amanda said.
"You know what? You guys should hook up. You too, Avery and Riku." Came a voice from the doorway. " By the way, did you know that there's a pit in your walkway?" the voice turned out to be none other than Kairi, the twin's best friend, but she moved away.
"KAIRI! You're back!" Avery shouted.
"Kairi's here!" Amanda said, as she rushed across the room to smother Kairi in hugs, while Avery did the same.
"Would someone care to explain what the hell is going on here? Who is she? How does she know our names, and most important, what is wrong with her? I mean, what caused such brain damage as to think that we would hook up with them? Nothing against you guys, or anything, but you know what I mean." Sora asked, his face revealing that he really didn't expect answers.
"Well, I'm Kairi, and I used to live next door, where I assume you two guys now live. I know your names because the twins told me about you over the phone. Nothing is wrong with me, as far as I can tell, and I think that you guys should hook up with each other because you'd make cute couples." She explained.
"But that'd leave you out, Kairi, and we don't want that." Amanda argued.
"You know that it wouldn't bother me. Besides, who cares if I'm left out? You guys wouldn't notice if I were gone anyway."
"Don't say that! Of course we would! Why do you think that we made two new friends to make up for losing you? No one person has enough energy to replace you! Both of them together, and we still can't do as much as we used to. How long are you here for, anyway?" Avery said.
"Only for a week or two." Kairi said.
"Do you have anything planned for Cloud, Kairi? You've always had such good ideas." Amanda asked.
"Well, I had one idea, but you guys beat me to it." Kairi said
"You mean the slingshot?" Sora broke in.
"Yeah. That was originally my idea, but the twins adopted it, and made some modifications, it looks like." Kairi explained.
"What say you, Riku? It's almost like you're in shock. From Kairi appearing so suddenly?" Avery asked.
"Uhhh… I'll be fine, I think. I just can't believe that she managed to sneak up on us like that. No one has been able to do that, with the exception of…" Riku trailed off
"The twins, of course," Kairi finished for him, "They always were quiet, mischievous, and smart girls. No wonder you guys fell into their pit."
"The pit was supposed to be for Cloud, but, somehow, he saw it."
"My guess is that he was walking up the walk, and a gust of wind blew away some grass, and he saw the moonlight glinting off of one of the spikes, and was able to avoid it." Kairi hypothesized.
"But, why did he just leave it? I mean, he very well could've filled it up." Sora asked.
"Again, I'm just guessing, but maybe he was hoping that the twins would've forgotten it, and fallen in themselves."
"But, why would he do that? We haven't done anything that bad to him lately." Amanda said.
"Yeah, besides trying to impale him on spikes, trapping him in pits with snakes, and rigging his bedroom is just some of the most recent things you've done." Riku laughed.
"No, we haven't tried to impale him, just test his reflexes on grabbing onto the edge of things. You have no idea how many times he's been thrown off a cliff, and not been able to grab the edge of the cliff and save himself a trip to the hospital. So, in a weird way, we're helping him." Avery concluded.
"Yeah, and I'll believe that when Sora kisses Amanda. (No chance of that happening anytime soon, so I don't have to worry.) Besides, you, help someone, without entertainment motives?" Riku continued.
"Yeah, I see your point, but, Cloud's my brother, and I love him, and don't want to see him get hurt." Amanda and Avery said.
"I want to see Sora kiss Amanda too, but I also want to see irrefutable proof that Cloud really has such bad hand-eye coordination, and that you guys are just trying to help him." Kairi said, reminding everyone in the room that she was still there, in her own way.
"Hey, I really don't want to kiss Amanda, but I still want proof that you guys are trying to help Cloud. And, how does rigging his room help him improve his reaction?" Sora asked.
"It doesn't, we just want a laugh. Also to see his face when he sees the cutout of Sephiroth in the closet. That enough will be a fortune in E-Bay." Amanda said, an evil grin on her face.
"Are you seriously gonna tape this whole thing? If so, can we be the first to watch it before you sell it?" Kairi said.
"No, we're not gonna tape it. For one, it's too mean, and two, we don't have a video camera." Avery explained.
"Cloud's home." Kairi announced.
"Everybody, out! Head to Amanda's room! We'll just look like we got out a board game and act natural. No one say a word to him, except to welcome him home, and don't overdo it. The last time we did that, he was on to us immediately. Let's go." Avery instructed. Everyone bolted from Cloud's room, and pelted towards Amanda's room at top speed. They got there just as Cloud opened the front door.
"Hello? I'm home! Where are you guys? Avery, Amanda? Riku, Sora? I know that you're here." They heard him yell as he came up the stairs. The twins, Riku, Sora, and Kairi all listened intently as they heard Cloud shriek, which meant that he'd found the bugs and flowers.
"What the hell!" Horror mingled with surprise as Cloud discovered 'Sephiroth' in his closet, and the thud of him stepping back onto the rollerblades from the shock of the paper ghost swinging down from his doorway, followed by the snap of the released slingshot, and the sound of Cloud yelping as the ice-cold water hit his skin, whatever was exposed of it. The group of friends looked at each other with humor and laughter etched into their faces, but not daring to laugh out loud. Little did they know that this was the last that Riku, Sora, and Kairi would see of their twin friends for a LONG time.
"So, you thought that it'd be funny to watch me get scared out my wits to see Sephiroth in my closet? If he'd been real, he would have gotten you guys, and your friends, too. He's that merciless, especially to my family. I have to send you to Leon. You just went too far this time. I'm really sorry, but you have two days to say your goodbyes." Cloud said, after he sent Riku, Sora, and Kairi home.
Amanda: SOOOOOOO? How was it? Did you like how we got cloud? WE KICK A$$!
Olivia: You girls are bad you know that.
Amanda: That's what i just said.
Avery: Oh yeah, if anyone hasn't figured out, Olivia likes Cloudy!
Olivia: STOP CALLING HIM THAT! only i can call him that...
Avery & Amanda: 0.0? ...Okay...that was...strange...
Olivia: Any way please R&R pp!