First of all, thank you for all the beautiful reviews! They make me so happy, and all you other writers probably know how it feels to get reviews. Here's a little activity. Count how many reviews you give out, then tell me in your review at the end of the day. Let's see who can write the most reviews. I trust you guys not to lie. Actually I doubt anybody is going to do it anyway. Also tell me who you think should win the prank war. Whichever gender gets the most votes will be the winner in this story.
If you tell me through reviews, others can count how many each gender has, so feel free to PM me. That way, no one except I know who wins.
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The next morning, Patricia and Mara crept into the boy's bathroom.
"Eew." Mara moaned. "It's all gross in here."
"Stay strong Mars." Patricia said. "Now do you want to use paint or food coloring?"
"Why does almost every prank in this house involve paint?" Mara asked.
"I'll take that as paint." Patricia walked over to the drawers. Each boy had their own drawer. But unfortunately, the girls would have to guess which drawer belonged to who.
Mara opened the top left drawer. "This one's Alfie's." She stated.
"How do you know?" Patricia asked.
Mara pulled out a tooth brush. It was blue with green alien heads printed on. Patricia giggled. "Ok what color?"
"Green for aliens." Mara replied. Patricia took Alfie's shampoo and filled it with some green paint. Then she took a spoon. Using the back of the spoon, Patricia stirred the shampoo. Then she pulled open the bottom left drawer.
The girls peered in. "I'm guessing this is Jerome's" Patricia said. She pointed to some of the hair care products.
Mara giggled. "I feel like I'm spying on him or something."
"Don't worry. He does that all the time anyway."
"Can we do purple?" Mara asked. "It's his least favorite color, outside of pink, but I want to save pink for Fabian."
Patricia stirred in some purple paint.
Mara opened the top right drawer. "This is Eddie's. It says E. Sweet on his comb."
"Ooh, Eddie's drawer." Patricia pushed Mara aside and pulled something out of the drawer. "Oh my." Patricia giggled. "He keeps a picture of me in his bathroom drawer." Patricia showed Mara her yearbook photo.
Mara laughed and filled Eddie's shampoo with blue paint.
"Ok, last but not least is Fabes." Mara filled Fabian's shampoo with pink paint and the girls hurried out of the bathroom.
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Nina and Amber carried two tubs into the kitchen. Amber's tub consisted of a bunch of whoopee cushions. Nina carried pillows.
Amber place whoopee cushions on all of the boys' seats. Nina covered them with pillows. To be on the safe side, she placed pillows on the girls' seats too. That would help with suspicions.
Giggling, the two girls left the room.
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Joy was in charge of the last prank. She stifled a laugh. She was carrying a small bowl filled with nail polish. She had gone to the pharmacy, bought five bottles of mystic blue nail polish and dumped them all into a bowl.
Joy's first stop was the boy's bathroom. She could tell Patricia and Mara had been in there because the y had left smudges of paint in the sink. Sighing she scrubbed away the paint. Then she took the bar of soap the boys' used and dipped it in the bowl of nail polish. She rolled it around and then put it back. Hopefully it would dry before one of the boys came in.
Joy hurried to the kitchen, and did the same thing to the bar of soap there.
All the pranks were set.
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Jerome was the first one in the boys' bathroom that morning. He took his shampoo out of his drawer and got in the shower. After a few minutes, he massaged in the shampoo, then he washed it off.
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Fabian waited outside the bathroom door for Jerome to finish. He finally came out, and Fabian almost dropped his glass of water. He began to laugh. Jerome looked at him like he was crazy.
"What's wrong mate?" Jerome asked.
"Nothing, nothing. Just thinking of something that happened in grade school. That's all." Fabian pushed open the bathroom door and hurried in.
Jerome watched him go. Confused he ran a hand through his hair.
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Ten minutes later, Eddie waited for Fabian to finish taking a shower. When he came ou, Eddie stifled a laugh.
"It's not funny." Fabian cried. Unlike Jerome, Fabian had happened to glance at the mirror after his shower. His hair was bright pink.
"Do you think Alfie or Jerome did it?" Eddie asked.
"Not Jerome. His hair is purple. Maybe Alfie…" Fabian sighed and headed for his room. How could he face Nina like this? Unless she was the one who did it…. Being in Sibuna had taught Fabian to suspect everyone. Even your own girlfriend.
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Mara stifled a giggle as her boyfriend entered the dining room. All the girls had already taken their seats, and were waiting for the boys to come in.
"Trudy, do you have anything that gets rid of paint?" Jerome asked Trudy in the kitchen.
Trudy looked up from her magazine. He eyes grew to the size of watermelon. "Oh my, it's Mara all over."
The other three boys entered the room. Eddie was the first one to actually take a seat. Flarp.
"Excuse me." Eddie blushed.
The girls cracked up.
"That was a big one Mate." Jerome said as he took his own seat. Flarp.
"Not as big as that one, Jerry." Eddie answered.
"What's with all the gas?" Alfie sat down. Flarp.
Amber was practically rolling on the floor.
Fabian cautiously took a seat. Flarp.
"Why are there pillows?" Eddie asked.
"We just thought it would be more comfortable." Nina said innocently.
Alfie narrowed his eyes at the girls. He stood up and lifted up the pillow.
"A whoopee cushion? Who did this?" Alfie asked. He scanned the table.
"Who else finds it funny, that none of the girls are as gassy." Jerome muttered.
"Well we didn't have as much chili last night, as you pigs did." Patricia answered. The rest of the girls giggled.
Alfie sat back down. :Who finds it funny that all of the boys have colored hair, and the girls are fine?"
"Coincidence?" Joy suggested.
"We just wanted to get you guys back, and prove that we are not your pranking hamsters to practice on." Mara said.
"And we wanted to prove that we're better prankers than you." Patricia added.
Nina giggled. Alfie looked mad. "No one is better than me at pranks. No one…. except maybe Jerome…. but NO ONE!" With that, he stood up and stormed into the kitchen. Everyone heard the sink turn on and Alfie was heard cussing.
"Stupid soap isn't working."
The girls couldn't take it. They were in hysterics.
Jerome stood up very suddenly, causing the other boys to jump. "How's this. We have a real prank war. Let's see if the girls can pull better pranks than the guys." He said.
Amber stood up. "You're on. Oh, Nina cute shoes, where did you get them?"
"Amber." Joy hissed. Jerome rolled his eyes.
"Oh, yeah. Let's have a deadline of…a week."
"Hey no fair. You guys have an extra person." Alfie called out.
"They're going to need all the brains they can get, in order to beat us." Eddie smirked.
"Take that back slimeball." Patricia demanded.
Eddie grinned.
"Fabian, who did your hair? It looks terrible dyed pink like that." Amber said.
"Amber, focus. Patricia and Mara did that." Nina said.
"Oh, yeah. Silly me."
"You have the attention span of a flat iron." Patricia told Amber.
Nina sighed. "What if I don't want to play?"
Mara's face brightened. "I know, she can keep score."
"Yeah, I don't trust her to do that. She'll probably help you put and rig the tallies." Jerome said.
"Nina's mouth fell open in shock. "I would never do that!"
"And we thought Mara wouldn't either. Remember what happened last year." Amber said.
Nina nudged Amber. "Who's side are you on?"
Mara felt her vision blur. "I'm sorry I cheated for Mick. That was over a year ago. Don't bring back the memories." Mara cried. Jerome put an arm around his girlfriend.
"Sorry Mars." Amber said sincerely.
"Anyways, Nina you have to play. Trudy will keep score." Eddie said.
"Keep me out of this," Trudy called from the kitchen.
"How about Vera?" Alfie suggested.
"Keep me out too." Vera said from the living room. Sue was on the couch reading a magazine.
"Woah. How long has she been there?" Amber asked.
Joy's eyes widened as she took in Vera. "I don't know…"
"How about Poppy keeps score?" Jerome asked.
"We need someone who lives here." Fabian spoke up.
"Just let me do it." Nina said.
"No, we're not taking any chances!" Eddie said.
"Fine, guys keep track of their own score. Girls keep track of theirs. The tallies will be hung up on the fridge. Trudy will make sure no one rigs it." Joy said.
"Fine. Prank war starts… NOW!" Alfie hissed.
"It's on." Amber and Alfie shook hands.
"Girls, my room now!" Patricia shouted.
"Guys my room now!" Alfie screamed.
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Mara and Jerome lingered in the kitchen after everyone left.
"So how about we escape the prank war, and go out to dinner?" Jerome asked.
"I would like that." Mara smiled.
"Ok, six?"
"Make it six thirty." Mara grinned.
"Why?"
"I don't know. Just because."
"Fine." Jerome said. "We should get to our prank meeting…"
"Aagh, no one will miss us."
"Good." Jerome leaned in and kissed Mara.
