Chapter 9 -
After hearing of Jessica's "well thought out, diabolical plan" for me in the girl's room; no seriously how did she come up with that? Stole the idea from Zoey 101? It was a stupid plan…sheesh
I realized that if I wouldn't do anything, than she would try and carry out her plan. Now, I wasn't worried that she'd succeed but I had a feeling it would be extremely annoying if she kept trying to make me her best friend.
Forget that- it was annoying the hell out of me now and I was planning on stopping it before it drove me mad.
The one problem though, was that I was no diabolical being myself. I didn't have an arsenal full of brilliant ideas on ways of payback. And I knew I couldn't confront her either; I was too much of a coward for that. So I decided on something else.
I decided it was time for plan B- Alice.
Now, you're probably wondering, what's Alice got to do with any of this? Well actually it's quite simple. See, anyone who knew Alice, knew that when it came to planning she was a mastermind; she always knew exactly how everything should be done so it would work flawlessly and just for that I needed her help.
She was all for it, apparently she hated anything to do with Lauren ever since some incident last year in which Lauren tried to get Jasper even though he was still dating Alice at the time. She failed of course, but Alice never really forgave her for that one…
Turns out- Alice also knew our friends better, being with them longer. According to Alice, Emmet was basically prank king and would have some great ideas for us. And besides, he would hate not having a part in any kind of prank.
So after a lot of thinking, pacing and nearly banging our head in the walls out of frustration, we finally came up with the perfect plan.
We decided to put it to action the next day at school, after all what use was a good prank without public humiliation? Hmmm….maybe there's still hope that I do have a diabolical mind! Naa…would be nice though.
We woke up extra early in the morning to get everything set up.
We were supposed to continue our usual morning routine so we wouldn't seem suspicious, but that was much easier said than done.
All during breakfast, I was giddy with anticipation and it showed– I think I was bouncing in my seat at some point. I don't normally approve of such immature ways of handling things, but I'm touchy when it comes to Edward.
And those bitches needed to be set in place. Especially Lauren.
So with that all settled, we headed off to our classes like every other morning.
We entered the classroom and waited patiently for the results of prank #1. You see, we decided pranking them once would be no-where near enough. So Alice, Emmet and I created an entire day full of pranks. Our very own early April Fools. Custom made for a few especially annoying girls…
Lauren finally came around mid lesson. I was relieved when I saw her; I was beginning to worry she'd decided not to show up at all.
The results of prank numero uno were evident the moment she entered.
This morning, we had emptied her shampoo bottle and filled it with color dye. Emmet claimed that to be extremely amateur so he added another step.
He quietly sneaked around in her room, collecting all the hats he could find and hiding them. Then, he pulled out of his "pranks bag" as he called it a very large -very red- sombrero and left it by her mirror.
So now, instead of wearing her long flat blond hair down like always, she was wearing a large red sombrero in which all her hair was stuffed in. She looked ridiculous and she knew it- it was evident in the way she tried to make herself go unnoticed. Quite the contrast from usual. Very nice change, if I do say so myself.
She managed to sit in her seat without the teacher noticing, but the moment he turned around he caught sight of her.
It was quite common for Lauren to be late or even just ditch so he didn't bother giving out a speech but it was obvious that the hat caught his eye and annoyed him. He must have thought she was laughing at him in a way.
"Ms. Mallory, you are aware that this school has a "no hats in classes" policy?" he asked in a an annoyed tone
"But Mr. Pattinson! I can't take this hat off!" Lauren whined
"And why is that?" he questioned, more annoyed now
"Because…umm because….cuz….I just can't!" she continued speaking in that incredibly whiny voice
"That's not a reason Ms. Mallory" he scoffed "Now please take off your lovely hat" he requested again
Surprisingly, Lauren acknowledged defeat and took the hat off. Only to reveal- extremely green hair.
Mr. Pattinson raised an eyebrow but said nothing. After all the school didn't have a hair dye policy.
The rest of the class seemed shocked, but couldn't say a thing. Lauren sank into her seat, clearly wishing to be invisible.
Part one of prank day: Complete
The next few classes continued with few surprises. My personal favorite was during gym, when Emmet somehow managed to sneak off and cut holes in the follower girls' change shirts. Holes right over the chest area.
So when they changed clothes after gym, more or less twenty girls found themselves with their bra's to visible to the world, it vaguely reminded me of teletubbies- only, hooker version. I sincerely hoped Rose wouldn't smack him too hard for that one.
But the best part by far for Lauren was at lunch. Apparently Lauren had been in the same school with Alice since kindergarten. This helped our plan immensely.
We went through old yearbooks until we found what we were looking for.
A picture.
Somehow Emmet had the picture enlarged to an enormous banner. One which we set up right above the outdoor cafeteria, where most of the student body spent lunch after classes.
We came with everyone else, as to not look suspicious. Luckily, we only had to wait for about 5 minutes before Lauren and the crew came along.
I could tell she arrived by a certain familiar high pitched shriek. Ah, this was epic.
On the banner was a picture of one very fat, pimply girl. Three guesses who was the girl?
Yes! You guessed correctly! Lauren, only before a few cosmetic surgeries…I always wondered where the plastic Barbie look came from.
I didn't have anything against her in that picture, she actually looked almost cute without the heavy make up and face changes. But I could tell it bothered Lauren. And that's really all I needed.
Beside the picture, to make things worse for Lauren we also added a current picture we took from her facebook profile. Just so no one would be confused as to who was in the picture, she did look very different after all.
On the banner it said- Before and After
The students were all mostly shocked, very few had known her and seen her at that point. But the best reactions came from the followers.
They stood there with their mouths agape, disbelieving their very eyes. It was very comical to watch, I could tell our gang got a kick out of everyone's reactions.
I knew this wouldn't stop Lauren, she didn't even know who was behind all of this. But still it was fun, letting out my steam at her and those annoying girls like that, and it was also a great bonding activity.
I hadn't known Emmet all that well before, he was more of a friend of a friend. But I truly enjoyed spending time with him and Alice. It was great fun, even if they were a bit of a hyper combination.
Only later that evening, lying in bed thinking of my day did I realize that, without me even noticing, a whole day had passed without having thought of being rich and getting special treatment from others even once. The first day, and hopefully not the last either.
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