A/N: Yay! I'm finally getting my old fans back! Lol. Two new stories will be added pretty soon. One is just a one chapter short story. I will post up the third chapter for my fanfic Dark Time In Tortall real soon. I promise. Well enjoy reading the third chapter! And I sorta changed the original writing for this chapter.

Chapter 3: Pranks

Alanna was the first out of the group to arrive for Roger's class. She smiled sweetly as the three boys sat at the same table. Jon glanced at her wondering what evil plan she was thinking of. Raoul's mouth twitched. Gary shook his head as Roger walked in.

"Settle down settle down," he drawled. Alanna made a face. Se had never liked the duke. And it didn't help that he was Jonathan's cousin either. "Now for today we are going to-"

Alanna's thoughts drifted off. She muttered underneath her breath as a violet snake came out of nowhere. She silently directed the snake to Raoul. She watched as it slithered up his back.

"What the hell?!" He yelped, feeling the snake. Alanna's shoulders shook with silent laughter. Somehow she knew Raoul was kind of scared of snakes.

"Don't tell me you're scared of snakes are you Raoul?" She asked sweetly. He glared at her. The whole class was watching them.

"Was it you that created the snake?" He demanded. She grinned, twitching her fingers underneath the table. The snake vanished.

"What is going on?" Roger demanded, walking over to their table. The princess glared at him. "And don't you look at me like that Alanna," he snapped at her.

"And you can kiss-" Alanna stopped at the look on Jon's face. She grumbled the rest under her breath.

"You can see me after class," Roger told her. Alanna glowered until he walked off. Raoul placed a real snake on her shoulders. She gently stroked it, not afraid. After twenty minutes she glanced down at her paper. There was a drawing of Roger in a pretty sparkling pink dress and make-up with devil horns. She had written the following caption: "I'm pretty in pink. Don't make fun of me or I will hit you with my horns. "

To her the whole thing seemed funny. Jon took a sideway glance at the drawing and shook his head. He wondered why those two didn't get along. The look Alanna gave his cousin was pure loathing.

"Alanna?" Jon snapped his fingers in her face. She jerked out of her thoughts.

"What?"

"Class is over. And Roger wants to talk to you,"

She sighed and waited until everyone was out and then approached the desk.

"Your grace?" she said sarcastically.

Roger reached out and grabbed her wrist with his left hand. She gave him a look of pure hatred.

"Lemme go,"

"You had better behave from now on," he snarled. "Do you understand?"

"Yes," she replied through gritted teeth. He threw her away from him. She hit the ground hard.

"Then get out,"

"Whatever you say," Alanna told him. "Bastard," She muttered, walking out. As she closed the door Jon came walking up to her.

"Well?"

"He wanted to talk to me about my behavior," She was only telling half the truth.

"Ok," Jon didn't believe her. He'll ask questions later, she thought. They walked down to the hall for lunch. Gary took a peak around the corner. "She's coming," he told Raoul, who was dressed like Roger. He stifled his laughter. Hearing their voices he jumped in front of them.

"Hey Raoul," Alanna said carelessly. He scowled.

"Damn it. What the hell are you scared of?" He ask. Alanna only grinned at him and walked on. Raoul glanced at Jon.

"Spiders," the prince muttered a he passed.

"Ha!" Raoul gave a yelp of triumph. Finally it was payback time. I will get you back Alanna, he thought. For I have sources.

"Can you two give it a rest already?" Gary wanted to know. Raoul looked at him as if he was crazy. "Never mind. Forget I said that,"

Raoul stopped Jon before he entered the hall. "I need you to lure Alanna into the practice courts. I got the fake spider,"

The prince grinned and shook his head. "Sure," he walked into the dining room. Alanna was waiting for him.

"What did he want?"

"Nothing," he lied.

"Uh huh," the princess drawled. She didn't believe him.

"Actually I was wondering if you want to come to the practice courts when we get done,"

Alanna gave him a suspicious look.

"Yeah, I guess."

After lunch they went down to the practice courts. Raoul was in the shadows, waiting. Jon pretended to search for a wooden sword. He sneaked up behind Alanna and placed a medium size rubber spider on her shoulders. She thought she felt something on her right shoulder. The princess brushed it off and the spider fell in her hand. She glanced down it and yelped. The spider was thrown to the ground.

"Scared of spiders?" Raoul walked forward. Alanna wanted to kill him.

"I will kill you," she snarled.

"Now we are even. No more pranks alright?" Raoul held out his hand. Alanna hesitated then shook it. Hell no, she thought. I am not promising him that. Wait till Halloween.