Disclaimer: Okay, if you haven't figured this out, I don't own Kaleido Star.


Chapter 9: Our Amazing Prank

Sora walked into the cafeteria. All of her friends were already there. Anna, Mia, Ken, and Rossetta were at their usual table. Rossetta waved her over.

"Hey, Sora." Anna said mischievously. Everyone else laughed. What was so funny?

"Um, hi Anna."

They all laughed again. "Okay, what is so funny?!" Sora shouted. She felt as if she weren't in on the joke.

"Nothing." Anna said keenly.

Sora opened her mouth to talk, but May burst out of the kitchen.

"Breakfast is ready!"

They all moaned as they saw chicken fried rice on the huge platter.

"May, can't we have something other than chicken fried rice?" Ken asked, disdainfully.

"What?! Why?! Chicken fried rice is healthy for you. The chicken is good in protein, while the rice provides the carbs that all of you need if you're going to practice for the next show!" May shot back.

"But May, we've had chicken fried rice every day this week and every other week. Besides, we just finished a show. We're on break right now!" Sora complained.

"Well, I don't care. You're going to eat this, and like it." May yelled out, stuffing their faces with spoonfuls of rice.

After they ate their "breakfast", the group split in two. Anna, Mia, Ken, and Rossetta went one way, while Sora headed back to her dorm.

She wanted to get in some extra needed sleep. Her eyes started to close, slowly, but surely, she was in a dream-like state. Just before, she was in full out sleep mode, she heard a knock on the door, and a note slid under the crack in the door.

Sora moaned and got up. She stretched for a bit and made her way to the door. Twisting the knob, she peeked out to see nobody there. Then, she bent down to pick up the white, piece of paper. On it, it said:

Sora,

Meet me at the park at 11am. I'll be waiting.

Love,

Leon.

Sora checked the clock, it was ten o'clock. She had an hour. Sora decided to ready herself and make herself look decent for him. She re-fixed her natural make up and brushed her hair.

Sora was waiting for the clock to struck 10:45. It took about 15 minutes to walk to the park. Finally, when it was about 10:43, she made herself get up and off of the chair she was sitting on, and made her way down to Leon.

She got there about five minutes early. Leon wasn't there yet so she decided to sit down on a bench. She waited, and waited, and waited, and...waited.

Why didn't he show up? Sora thought. She checked her watch. It was now 11:30. Leon had never been late for anything. In fact, he had always been at least 15 minutes earlier than the designated time.

What's going on? Sora thought to herself. She began to get anxious. Why hadn't he shown up? Finally, she saw someone from behind the tree. Sora stood up, thinking it was Leon, but it wasn't. It was Anna.

"Hi Sora, what are you doing here?"

"I'm just waiting for Leon. He said to be here at 11am." Sora replied.

Anna chuckled, "You realize it almost noon now, right?"

"Yes."

"I don't think he is going to show up." Anna said.

Sora stood up. She was furious. If he was going to write her a note, and then not even show up, now that is just rude.

Sora marched away. Once she was out of site, Anna started laughing.

"I can't believe she fell for it!" Anna said to herself.

Sora reached Leon's dorm. She knocked on it three times before he finally answered.

"Hello?" he said, the door wasn't fully open.

"Leon!" Sora shouted.

"What?!" Leon asked. He was confused. Why was she yelling at him.

"Why did you leave me at the park?!" She was furious now.

Leon backed away. "What do you mean?"

"Earlier today, you gave me a note that said to meet you at the park. You never showed up!"

"Okay, Sora, I think you got this all wrong. I never wrote you a note." Leon stepped back to the door to face her like a man.

"Oh, yea, explain this!" She held out a piece of paper.

Leon examined it. "Sora, this isn't my handwriting."

Sora stepped back. "It isn't?"

"No."

"Then, who could have-" Sora stopped. "Anna!" she said bitterly.

Leon stepped back inside. "Okay, well if you just came here to yell at me, I'd rather not stay."

"Wait, I need your help with something." Sora said grimly.

"I don't like that look." Leon commented.

Sora laughed, evilly. "Come on, follow me." She led him to her dorm. There, she told him of her evil plan.

"We are going to play a little prank on Anna." Sora said.

"Why? What has she ever done to us?" Leon asked.

"Do you really want me to tell you? Okay, well, there was that one time when she tried to make us kiss in that spin-the-bottle game, and then there was today, and also-"

"Okay, okay, I get. So what are we going to do?" Leon caved.

Sora laughed. "We're going to make her wear a dress."

"That's cruel and unusual...I like it." Leon said.

They both laughed. "Now to put our plan in action. We'll need the help of a few others to do so, though." Sora added.

Leon nodded. By the end of the day, they had Ken, May, Kalos, Sarah, Marion, and Rossetta. Everyone was in on the little prank. Sora lead the all with the plans.

"You do this. And you do this." She gave everyone jobs. "At 9 o'clock A.M. tomorrow, we will strike!"

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Tomorrow, 9 o'clock A.M...

"Hey Anna." Sora greeted as Anna sat down at the table. Everyone was already there. They made sure they were before Anna.

May jumped out of the kitchen right on que. "Breakfast is ready!" she yelled out.

Who knew she was a great actress? Well, they all moaned.

"Seriously, May, you have to stop cooking that stuff." Ken complained.

"Well, deal with it!" she shouted.

As they all ate, Sora was eyeing everyone. She was giving them an inner voice message that the plan was going accordingly.

All of a sudden, Sarah burst into the swing doors. "Hello, everyone!" she called out. "Guess what?"

"What?" everyone asked.

"Break is over. This is urgent. We need to do a show, now. Kalos said that we had to get enough money if we we're going to get some new props." she explained.

They all looked at her questionably. "I'm fine with that." Sora said.

Everyone else was too. "Okay, that's good, there is just one catch. You'll have to use some of the old costumes, but nobody will notice. I already have the roles that you'll be playing. This is a fictional story that I made up myself!" Sarah gleamed with excitement.

"Sora, you'll be the spunky young girl. I have the perfect costume for you. Oh, and Leon, you'll be the weird kid in school. You don't need a costume, you can just be yourself." Sarah laughed, as Leon frowned.

"Let's see, Anna, you'll be the popular one. You'll have to wear a dress if that's okay."

Anna freaked out. "A dress? Can't I be the funny one? You know I'm good at that. Please Sarah."

"I'm afraid not, Anna." Sarah said. "If you have any complaints, you'll have to ask Kalos."

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Kalos' Office...

Anna knocked on the door. She stepped inside to see Kalos sitting down on his seat, staring straight out the window.

"Boss, do you really think I have to wear a dress?" Anna complained.

"Sorry, Anna, it's only for the best. Kaleido Stage really needs this."

"How do we not have enough money? All of the shows are sold out." Anna said questionably.

Kalos sweatdropped behind the big, rolling chair. "Um, it's just not enough. We need one more show." he explained.

"Can I wear shorts under it?"

"No."

"But why not?!" Anna cried out.

"Anna, I'm hungry. Don't argue with me, you could lose your job." Kalos said as he walked out of the room. Once he closed the door behind him, Anna gave him a nasty look.

"How did it go?" Sarah asked in the hallway.

"Perfect." he replied.

"Yes, this might actually happen!" Sora whispered, enthusiastically.

Just then, Anna walked out of the office. "Oh, hi, you guys."

"Hey Anna. How did it go?" Sora asked even though she already knew the answer.

"I have to wear a dress."

"It's okay. I be you look good in one." Sora tried to cheer her up.

"Thanks."

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Day of Performance (Day when Anna has to wear dress)...

Sora looked around backstage. "Have you guys seen Anna?" she asked Ken and Rossetta.

They both nodded their heads 'no.' She thought Anna would be a no-show, but off the corner of her eye she could see a person in a dress running towards the dressing room.

"Gotcha." Sora said, as she started running toward it.

When she reached the dressing room, she saw Anna in the fluffiest, frilliest, girliest dress she had ever seen. Is was bubble gum pink with laces and sequences all over it. Little bows lined the edges while the puffy sleeves made it princess like.

Sora couldn't contain her laughter. She laughed like there was no other day to laugh.
"Oh, hi Anna."

"Very funny Sora." Anna said.

"I'm sorry." Sora said, she just couldn't help it. She looked so funny.

"I'm leaving."

"Wait." Sora called out. "I'm sorry, I'll stop."

"No you won't."

Sora stopped laughing. "See, I stopped."

"Whatever." She walked out of the small room and took her place for her entrance. Anna fumbled with her fingers, worried about what the audiences reaction would be. Which reminds her, I haven't seen the crowd.

"Let me go check." Anna said to herself. She peeked out the curtains backstage. What she saw was a surprise. Nobody was there. "What the-" Anna marched to her dressing room and quickly put some shorts and a shirt underneath the fluffy dress. She was going to give them a piece of what Anna Heart can really do.

As she stepped back out, everyone else was ready and in position. She wasn't supposed to make her entrance until the very end. That was when she was going to spring and get them back.

Her time to enter had finally arrived. As she stepped out onto the stage, she gave the camera her best fake shocked face. Everyone swung down and said "Gotcha!"

Anna just smiled. "No, got you!" She said, ripping the dress to shreds. Under it, she hid some water guns and started to squirt. The girls screamed while Leon was just standing there, not caring whether he were wet or not.

After the 'performance', Sora asked Anna how she found out.

"That's simple. All I did was look out to the audience. Oh wait, there was no audience because this was a prank. And you know what, it didn't work. Ha, I showed you, nobody can prank Anna Heart!" Anna said confidently.

"Oh yeah." Sora smiled. "Actually we did."

"No you didn't. You guys are like the 'Little Train That Could' but your more like 'The Little Train That Couldn't Prank Anna Heart." she said loudly.

"Are you sure about that?" Sora asked.

"What do you mean,'am I sure'? Of course, I'm sure."

"Okay, can you just smile into that camera, with that frilly dress on, and say that you are really stupid for falling for a simple prank." Sora laughed.

"Huh."

Sora pointed at the camera.

Anna gasped. "Oh my. How could I? What the? How? And You? And-"

"Hey, Anna, it's okay. At least there's one thing good out of this."

"Oh yeah. What would that be?"

"I'm submitting that tape to 'America's Funniest Videos' and first place get $10,000." Sora laughed.

Anna gasped. "You wouldn't."

"Oh, I already did." Sora laughed as she ran. Anna started to chase after her. "Sora, come back here!"


A/N: This was an extremely fun chapter to write. Finally, Anna gets pranked herself. Okay, well please review.