Okay, hope you enjoy chapter 2. Thanks to Soldier Heart for being my ever faithful beta reader. Please review to let me know what you think.

The next shift, Chet decided he would prank Karen again.

This time it was shaving cream in some cream puffs. Karen about died when she tasted the one that Chet had made specifically for her. Her face got red and she ran to the kitchen sink to spit the nasty cream puff out.

Karen was impressed that Chet had tried another prank so soon. However, she was glad that she could put her plan into action quickly.

"Chet, you know, this prank was not original. Come on, I did this to my teacher when I was in the 3rd grade. Why are your pranks non-original?" Karen asked, sucking down a coke to get the nasty taste of the cream puff out of her mouth.

"Non-original?! You've got to be kidding! I'm original," Chet paused to take a breath, then what Karen said hit him.

"You did this to your 3rd grade teacher?!"

"Yep, and I was in detention for about a week," Karen said grinning as she thought back to the memory.

"3rd grade? Boy you must have been a joy to teach," Captain Stanley said sarcastically, sipping on a cup of coffee.

"Oh, I was. I was a master prankster. Mom and dad couldn't stop me either," Karen replied.

"What was your best prank?" Johnny asked.

"The day I pranked the whole school. I was in 5th grade, actually, last day of school."

"What?! How could a 5th grader do that?" Chet asked, completely sucked into Karen's story.

"I got the principal on it. She came on the PA system and announced to the whole school that the board changed the rules and we were going to have to go to school through the summers from now on. The whole school went into a riot. Kids and teachers alike were upset. We let the school think it was true until about 5 minutes before the last bell rang. Then my principal got on the PA system and let them know that they had just been pranked, that it was the last day of school. I was in class when she came back on the PA and you could hear the cheering from every class. That was the best prank ever. By the way, it is now customary for the 5th grade class to pull a prank on the last day of school."

"Wow. I am impressed," Mike said, mock saluting Karen.

"Yeah it was fun. You know, I bet if I could do that, I could pull a prank on each an everyone of you and in one shift," Karen said, her eyes sparkling with excitement.

"I think I'll take you up on that bet. I don't think you could coordinate something like that," Chet said.

"I think you'll be surprised Chet. But if I win, I'd like to see you sing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" at the fireman's picnic in 3 weeks," Karen began.

Chet cut her off, " That's easy. Piece of cake."

"You didn't let me finish. You get to sing that in drag."

"What?! You've got to be kidding!"

"No, I'm not."

"Okay. But you have to do the dunking booth for me."

"I'll take you up on that."

Karen and Chet shook hands.

"This is going to be scary," Mike said standing and getting ready to cook lunch.

"Let the games begin," Karen said as she started to help Mike with lunch.

"I think I'm going to regret letting them start this prank war," Cap said to himself, sinking down in his seat. He was wishing he could take the next shift off.