A/N: Hey guys. Thank you to all who reviewed and gave suggestions. A special thanks to HarryPotterRENThead for the initial idea for the prank in this chapter. I did change it a little bit but thank you for getting me started with a better idea! Here are internet cookies and shiny things for all of you as promised!
Maureen's phone buzzed. She drew it out of her pocket and flipped it open, regardless of the "No phones in school" rule. Maureen could see that Collins had been in a rush while he was typing, just from scanning the text message before her. He had abbreviated words which he hated to do.
Have 2 change time of prank. We 4got bout schedule change. Press da button 12.15 not 11.34.
Maureen frowned. Why did their class schedule change? And then she remembered about the pep rally that afternoon to start off the spring sport season. She quickly texted back a "k" and put her phone back in her pocket.
The night before, she and Collins had snuck back into school when it was opened for the band concert and he had somehow rewired the PA system. Now when Maureen chose to press the button on the black remote in her pocket the speakers would first blare a special message from their principal and then a well chosen song. And no matter what the office workers did, there was no way they could stop it.
Maureen fidgeted through the rest of class until she could talk to Collins only paying attention to one minute when her teacher decided to dance around the classroom to illustrate her point about prairie dogs. At which point Maureen laughed so hard she fell out of her chair. And then everyone looked at her like she belonged in a psycho ward. But she didn't mind.
The bell finnally rang and they spilled out of the classroom as fast as they could. Maureen caught up with Collins and asked why the time needed to be changed, even though there was a pep rally.
"Because Mo, the way the schedule is set up, the time we had arranged to pull the prank would be in the middle of when everyone is changing classes and no one would be able to hear our brilliance."
"Oh," Maureen said simply and they continued down the hallway.
At exactly 12:15 Maureen drew from her pocket a device that looked like an iPod but without a screen. There were an array of buttons that looked like they could do dangerous things and a cord coming out of the top with a small microphone attached to it.
Collins turned around from the seat directly in front of her and gave a slight nod. Maureen's finger hovered over the biggest button on the device for a moment and then taking a deep breath, she pushed it, and immediately slipped the device into her pocket so no one could see it.
The PA system crackled with static. The teacher stopped talking and all the students looked up towards the ceiling. "Please excuse the interruption," the principal's voice came through the speaker. "It is with great pleasure that I tell you we have conducted a research study proving that students learn better with music. We have decided to test this out this afternoon by playing music over the loud speakers. Please try your hardest to remain on task. Teachers, please allow the students some freedom with their creative expression when the music comes on. Thank you and have a good day." Their teacher stared at the ceiling. "Does that mean we have to let you dance and sing?" All the students nodded. "Oh boy," the teacher sighed before going back to talking about some stupid book.
No longer had she started talking than the loudspeakers crackled again and the sounds of horrible muzak blared through them.
Everyone in the class, including the teacher, let out a horrible sort of scream, and many of the kids dove under their desks shaking in fear.
Maureen and Collins grinned at each other. This was the plan. To make everyone suffer through some horrible music for a few minutes and then play…
The loop that they had the elevator muzak on came to an end. Heads peeped up over their desks.
"Is it over?" the boy next to Maureen asked. She nodded and looking relieved, he came out from under his desk.
Maureen let a few minutes go by and then with drew the remote again. This time she pressed a smaller, square button in the corner. The kind of button that looked as though it wouldn't do anything important.
The speakers crackled once again and everyone looked up with apprehension, worrying if it was going to be something worse than muzak.
But it wasn't. A very different kind of music began to blare out of the speakers. And then everyone got up and began to start dancing…
A/N: Haha. You will see what the song is next time. I have the next two chapters planned out so it will hopefully only take me a short amount of time to get them up. I'm also working on a few oneshot things so I'll try to finish them and get them up. Once again, I have an idea for the song that they should play, but it just doesn't quite fit somehow. So if you have any suggestions, please let me know. I think right now this will end up being around 5ish chapters. Let me know what you think.
