A bit of a light and funny fluffy chapter. Hope you like it, it's a tiny bit longer than usual. :)

March 31st

"So are you read for tomorrow?" Miles asked Bass as they were getting ready to leave the bar. They had both had the evening off and decided to have a guy's night with a few other friends that they both worked with.

Bass put his jacket on as they headed for the door. "What's tomorrow?" he asked as he held the door for Miles to walk through.

Miles raised his brows. "April fools days man, don't tell me you don't know about Charlie and April fools day?" he said and chuckled when Bass furrowed his brow.

"What are you talking about?" Bass asked.

Miles leaned against the side of his car. "I talking about how she's crazy good, she always has one big prank and you never know who it's for or when it's coming because she gives nothing away." He said. "Plus she does a bunch of stupid ones throughout the day to throw you off."

Bass laughed. "Are you serious?" he asked. "What has she done?"

Miles shook his head slightly. "A couple years ago she came home for the weekend, we were all on our guard but she still got Rachel. She put honey in the shampoo, not just in Rachel's but in all the shampoo in the house. Rachel ended up late for work and I had to go to the store at six in the morning to buy her some new stuff. Her hair was a mess." He chuckled. "She washed it a dozen times but it was still sticky for days."

Bass raised his brows again. "Wow, she really did that to her mom?" he asked.

Miles nodded. "Yep, once, as one of her lesser pranks she snuck food coloring into my coffee while I was at work." He said and chuckled. "I walked around for about three hours with a blue mouth and had no idea."

Miles chuckled again. "Then there was the egg in Danny's car, that was gross. Vaseline on the door knobs. Shaving cream bombs with floss trip wire." He shook his head. "If that girl was born in a different time she would have been a great pioneer, she can make something out of anything."

Miles smiled when he saw the look on Bass' face. "Just be on the lookout, she's sneaky and she's smart. That's not a good combination for the rest of us." He shuddered dramatically "Especially if she gets Danny in on it with her." he shook his head. "They're like evil genius's, just like their mother."

Bass nodded his head, not looking forward to the next day. "Alright, thanks for the heads up." He said as he headed for his own car parked down the street.

Miles smiled to himself and pulled his phone out of his jacket pocket.

"The seeds of fear have been planted, he now knows all about your pranking history." Miles texted.

"Thanks old man, this is gonna be good. :)" Charlie texted back a minute later.

Miles chuckled as he got into the car. His niece really is an evil genius.

….

April 1st

Bass woke up to the smell of coffee and found Charlie in the kitchen a few minutes later buttering some toast.

"Hey babe, I'm making some breakfast. Well toast, do you want some, we have strawberry jam?" Charlie asked with a smile.

Bass remembered what Miles said the night before and was leery of eating anything that Charlie made, even more so than on a normal day. He shook his head. "No thanks, I'm not hungry this morning." He said. "I've actually gotta run into the shop for a little bit, I'll just grab some coffee and get going." He said.

Before he could get to the coffee pot, Charlie was there, pouring him a cup full. "Here you go, I could use a refill myself." She said as she handed him the cup.

Bass looked into the mug and gave it a sniff while her back was turned. It smelled ok, but did food coloring have a smell? He waited until he saw her take a sip from her own cup before he risked a drink for himself.

"Are you going to shower? Cause I was gonna start the dishwasher and I don't want to take your hot water?" Charlie said and Bass thought about honey shampoo and shook his head.

"No I'll just get dirty again at the garage, I'll just wait until later." He said, already planning on stopping to pick up a new bottle of shampoo, just to be on the safe side.

"Ok." Charlie said before pushing a button on the dishwasher door and turning the machine on.

Bass watched her as she smiled at him and headed for the living room. "I'm gonna go call mom, talk some wedding stuff before I go to work." She said, stopping to give him a kiss on the cheek. "I'll see you later." She said with a smile as she walked out of the room.

…..

Bass checked his car before getting in, the last thing he wanted, was to have to clean egg out of his seats.

A little later when he got to work he checked the door handles but found them clean, and no matter where he went he watched his step. He didn't know what it was going to be or where it was going to come from, but after what Miles said he knew she wouldn't let today go without getting him with something.

….

Later in the afternoon he met up with Miles for lunch. Seeing the bottle of shampoo in the front seat of his car, Miles smirked. "Did she get you with anything yet?" he asked his friend as Bass got out of the car.

"No not yet, that was just a precautionary." Bass said as he and Miles headed for the door of the deli where they frequently had lunch together.

As Bass walked ahead of him, Miles smirked and shook his head. This was going to be too easy.

…..

"Hey."

Bass jumped slightly and turned around when he heard Charlie's voice behind him. "Hey." He said as he smiled at her.

They were both home for the night now and he figured the safest place for him was outside, so he was tinkering around with his car for a little while just to stay on the safe side.

"Mom and Miles are coming over for dinner, Miles wants to use our grill, I guess he broke his again." She said.

Bass chuckled. "Geez, he should keep his hands off mine, that's the third one in the last year for him."

Charlie laughed. "Oh here, you've been out here a while I thought you might want this." She said as she handed him a bottle of beer.

Bass looked at it for a moment before taking it and offering her a smile. "Thanks." He said.

Charlie frowned slightly. "Are you alright, you've been acting weird today." She said.

Bass nodded as he cautiously took a sip from the bottle. "Yeah I'm fine." He said after he was sure the beer was fine to drink.

"Alright," Charlie said. "just don't stay out here too long, it's starting to get cold again." She said as she headed back to the house.

….

Bass and Miles stood on the back patio as Miles kept an eye on the grill.

"So she's still not done anything?" Miles asked. "At all?"

Bass shook his head. "No, nothing. She's just been nice all da-" He cut himself off. "Wait a minute." He said. "I've been on my guard all day, I even made a special trip to the store just for some shampoo that I didn't even need, and she's not done anything." Bass said.

As he was talking Miles slipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out his phone and sent a text to Charlie inside the house, letting her know her plan was all coming together.

"I've been freaking out all day, looking over my shoulder, searching my car before getting in it, testing my coffee for food coloring, and she hasn't done anything." Bass said.

Miles chuckled. "So what, do you think that was her prank? Keep you on your guard for nothing?" he asked.

Bass nodded. "Yeah, that has to be it right? She's expecting me to be worried about it all day but she's not actually going to do anything."

Miles shook his head. "I told you, evil genius."

Bass sighed as if a weight were lifted off of him and smiled. "I actually feel better now, do you want a beer? I want a beer." He said as he headed for the sliding glass door that lead into the house.

Miles nodded. "Yeah thanks." He said as he turned and watched his friend open the door. And then proceed to walk inside to where Charlie was waiting by the door with a pie pan filled with whipped cream that she then smashed into his face as Rachel recorded the whole thing on her cell phone.

Bass wiped a hand over his face to remove some of the cream and turned to Charlie who was busy laughing.

"April fools Sebastian." She said as she settled down.

Bass nodded. "So this was the plan all along? Have me worried all day, then figure out it was all for nothing, let my guard down all to get a pie pan to the face?"

Charlie nodded. "Yep pretty much." She said with a smile.

Bass chuckled. "That was a good one." he said as he took a step closer to her and reached out and pulled her to him, giving her a big kiss and smearing cream on her face.

Charlie was laughing again when he let her go, whipped cream all over her face as well now. "I couldn't have done it without Miles though, making sure you knew about my love of pranks." She said.

Bass turned to glare at Miles who stood just outside the door. "I hate you." He said, as he reached out and slid the door shut on his smiling face.

…

A few minutes later as Bass and Charlie stood in front of the sink and wiped the whipped cream off their faces Bass sighed. "If only you used your genius for god instead of evil." He said.

Charlie chuckled and reached out to swipe some cream from the end of his nose. "That my dear, is never going to happen."

The next chapter is going to be more serious, as another argument takes place. I haven't started writing it yet, but I'm planning it out in my head now, and that's always my first step :)

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