Chapter 4: April Fools – Part 1

A/N: Basically a little drabble of select April Fool's day moments shared between Ally and the West's (and Barry), and Chelsea from the year after Ally met Barry on. Hope you enjoy!

WEST RESIDENCE | April 1st, 2001 |

Ally's favorite holiday, other than Halloween, was April fool's day. Ally had officially been friends with Iris for a year and a half, and Barry for about a year now. She had been planning this particular prank for weeks on end.

She had gotten Joe to agree to let her in early to pull off this prank, in exchange for not being targeted by her in the future. So she had set up a gallon bucket full of glitter on top of Iris's bedroom's door so that it would spill the glitter all over her. And for Barry, she had put a whole layer of plastic wrap over his door. She was currently sitting on the couch in their living room with Iris's camera in front of her, when Joe walked out.

Joe gave the eleven year old a conspiratorial grin before opened his mouth and announce to the two sleepers, "Pancakes!"

Immediately, Iris shot out of her bed, running to the door and knocking the bucket over from the top of the door, and spilling its contents all over her hair, clothes and uncovered skin. "Daddy!" She yelped furiously, before she stomped down the stairs. As soon as she reached the bottom she saw he father and Ally both motioning for her to be quiet. "What?" She whisper hissed.

"Barry's got one too, we just need something that will make him run down here," Joe explained quietly.

Ally nodded in agreement, "Happy April Fool's by the way," Ally whispered, before she grabbed the camera sitting on the table and snapped a picture of her friend coated in the glitter.

Iris glared furiously at her friend as it clicked that the younger girl had planned it. She whisper shouted, "Ally!"

"Sorry, but Barry's set up for a prank too." Ally grinned, and Iris beamed, before she looked at Joe and declared,

"I know exactly how to get him moving," Iris giggled to herself, as Ally gave her a blank look, and Joe grinned in realization.

"Barry!" Joe shouted, "Ally's here!"

They all quieted down as they heard fumbling upstairs and the three conspirators grinned before they ran to a spot where they could watch his reaction at the bottom of the stairs, Iris snatching her camera from Ally and turning it on recording mode.

The recording light blinked on just in time to catch the door opening, and the boy running straight into the plastic wrap with a groan.

Ally snorted happily, as Joe and Iris doubled over with laughter.

Barry tore the plastic wrap down and ran down the stairs, glaring at who he thought the culprit was, "Iris!" He shouted.

"Wasn't me," Iris laughed out, making Barry's harsh gaze move to Joe.

Joe chuckled and shook his head, as Barry's eyes landed on Ally, his mouth open.

"Oh, You're gonna get it, Tinkerbelle." He threatened and Ally snickered.

"Bring it on Allen." She laughed again, and Barry thought to himself how he really liked hearing the sound of her laughter.

ROBERTS RESIDENCE | April 1st, 2002 |

The following year, Barry had a plan. He had coerced Libby to help him pull it off. He was going to give Ally a sticky shower, by placing a lifesaver in the girl's shower. It would cause the water to have the sticky residue, hence Ally would end up sticky.

However, Libby was loyal to her adopted sister, and she had told Ally about Barry's plan and they had planned a counter prank. She and Barry were waiting at the bottom of the steps, Libby holding a camcorder, which she would use to capture Barry's reaction.

Barry looked to Libby as they caught steps from the direction of the bathroom. He looked to his victim and was surprised by what he saw.

"Libby," Ally spoke shakily, before she walked towards Barry, "Barry," she moaned, "Why is my head bleeding?" she asked, pointing to the 'blood' smeared in her wet hair.

Barry spoke, "I didn't think it'd be that bad." He claimed, running to steady the now stumbling girl as Libby trained her camera on the pair.

"It's alright, it was a good prank, Barry," Ally complimented, before she grunted and allowed 'pain' to make her knees buckle.

"No." Barry latched on to her arm, his eyes watering as Ally's eyes seemed to droop. "I'm sorry Ally, I didn't mean for this to happen." He cried.

Ally's eyes fluttered before falling shut, "Then say that I'm the best pranker ever," she moaned, before she let her body slump to the ground.

"You're the best prankster ever," Barry agreed, and Ally's eyes opened as she beamed at him goofily.

"Gotcha!" She claimed, popping up to her feet at Barry's eyes opened in realization.

"But the blood?" He questioned, before he looked between the two girls.

"It's fake," Libby explained, and Barry's eyes widened.

"Ally," he half growled, making her squeak, before he got up and ran after her, chasing her around the house.

Finally, they stopped on either sides of the kitchen table, both panting. Ally and Barry danced around the table until Barry lunged for Ally and quickly started tickling her sides.

Libby found her sister being attacked, and joined in, she and Barry tickling the other girl into submission.

"I yield!" Ally yelped, her giggles coming to a slow stop as the pair retreated.

"Happy April fool's day." She snickered, making the other two laugh.

"Happy April fool's." Libby repeated, as Barry spoke,

"Happy April fool's, Ally." He smiled.

TURLINGTON RESIDENCE HALL CCU | April 1st, 2008 |

Ally had managed to keep Chelsea in the dark about her April fool's day schemes, so she had set up a prank for her roommate while she was sleeping involving Chelsea's closet.

Unfortunately for Ally, Chelsea was a prankster herself, having pulled off many pranks on her hometown friends, the Lance's, Tommy Merlyn, and the Queen family, including a couple live animals. Chelsea had deliberately taken Ally's books and put their covers on books in foreign languages.

It was in Ally's first class of the day, Forensic Analysis 102, at 9am, that she found this out by trying to read the text book. "What the heck?" she muttered, looking at the foreign words quizzically before her eyes narrowed at the back of Barry's head, he was seven rows ahead of her.

Seeing as it was impossible to get to him during class, Ally settled for waiting until the class let out.

Ally grabbed Barry's arm as they exited the classroom, and dragged him towards the wall. "Barry?" she questioned holding the Spanish text out to him.

"What is it?" he asked, having not recognized the significance.

"You know what it is, you did this!" Ally hissed,

"Not me." Barry told her, then chuckled, "but whoever it was is good." He declared, before he walked towards his next class and Ally's mouth fell open.

Meanwhile, Chelsea had just made the mistake of opening up her closet, and was instantly toppled by an avalanche of medium sized rubber balls. Chelsea held back a groan as she pushed her way out from the balls.

Ally had come back to the room and snickered at the sight. "Happy April fools, Chels." She announced as Chelsea sat up and asked,

"You did this?"

"Yup!" Ally replied, as her snickering came to a halt, "Speaking of awesome pranks, did you switch out my textbooks?"

"Yeah, good right?" Chelsea laughed, "But I like what you did with my closet." She grinned at her roommate.

Ally beamed at Chelsea before she conspiratorially leaned in, "Wanna watch what I set up for Barry?" She asked, and Chelsea's eyes lit up.

Barry was very confused, and becoming very infuriated with the three piece mariachi band that had legitimately been following him around campus since his second class. He turned back to find them still behind him.

"Just go away!" He groaned, but they played on, paying him no attention. Barry groaned once more, as the students around him in the hall snickered.

Ally and Chelsea laughed as they watched him.

As soon as Barry spotted them in the hallway, his eyes glinted and he took off after them, the band hot on his heels as he chased the two pranksters' allover campus.

A/N: End of this for now, might post second half tomorrow or later this weekend. Enjoy!

For those of you reading this 4/1, Happy April Fool's day!

Thanks for reading and feel free to request future scenes of any sort!