Chance
Chance favors the prepared mind. Can the NIH team handle each other when an April Fools day prank-a-thon goes larger than life? Please review!
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Sydney's Note: Our second chapter and first prank, I have an idea, if you reply put down who you want to win, it will make things more interesting (GO GIRLS) lol, we just want to see where you stand. Not the best and funniest chapter, but don't worry it is almost like a pretext, the pranks will get better and so will the disgruntled responses from the pranked. ENJOY and tell us how you think we're doing in our writing as a team.
Coauthored by: Moon's Tear and Dr.Who4u!
Chapter 2: Girls 1 Guys 0
Eva Rossi leaned against the door frame, looking in on Natalie.
"I have an idea." Eva said excitedly.
Natalie looked up from the microscope and cocked her head to the side. She was looking at her thoughtfully, telling Eva she had no idea what was going on. Eva slapped her hand against the cold metal, "Come on, It's early, it's April Fools day. Will you help me?"
"Depends," Natalie said, placing the small test tube she held in her hand on the lab table. "What is this idea of yours?"
"It's a prank against our two favorite guys. I won't say anything else until you agree and we're in private." Eva said secretively.
Natalie bit her lip and once again looked thoughtful.
"Alright, I'll help. Whatever you have planned had better be worth it. I don't want to find myself on Stephen's bad side just because we decided to have a few laughs." Natalie said sternly.
Eva skipped with excitement and grabbed Natalie's arm.
"This will be awesome! I promise it'll be worth it." She said as she was pulling Natalie towards the coffee room.
"What gave you this idea?" Natalie asked, almost choking on her coffee.
She felt like coughing but in fear of calling attention to Eva and herself she didn't dare. Looking over Natalie's shoulder to see if anyone was walking by the room at that moment, Eva leaned forward.
"I don't know. I was looking at my mail and it hit me, well not literally but you get the picture." She said and leaned back, picking up her drink.
Natalie looked at her with disbelief.
"So you got this idea by looking at your mail? Do you know how much trouble we could get into? This is not just some small 'oh look I got you, ha ha' prank. This is big." Natalie said incredulously.
She did have to admit that she actually liked the idea and that it would be priceless to see the guys' faces when they pulled through with it, which they undoubtedly would. Natalie had already promised that she would help and so she was bound to that. Eva shrugged.
"That's why I asked for your help. We need to smooth out the rough edges on this, I can't do it alone." Eva said lightly.
She waved, making Natalie turn around. Frank was out in the hall looking at them with an odd expression. Waving back, he turned around and walked away.
"Do you think he heard anything?" Eva asked.
Natalie shook her head.
"No, he was too far way." She replied.
She looked down at her coffee and realized that she had been drinking it black. Sticking out her tongue in genuine disgust she got up to grab sugar. Sitting back down, she poured it in her coffee, that's when it came to her.
"I know what we could use!" Natalie exclaimed.
Eva jumped, nearly falling out of her chair.
"God! Don't do that." She reprimanded, took a deep breath and then smiled. "What can we use?"
Natalie smiled mischievously.
"Flour. Lots and lots of flour." Natalie announced.
The plan already seemed better. Grabbing their coffee, both ran out of the room. It was time to get started.
The plan was simple and the objective was to scare Stephen and Miles. Not by jumping out from behind something, but by sending them something that they could recognize immediately. Anthrax. Okay, so they weren't going to send them real anthrax. That's what the flour was for. Eva was to find the flour and Natalie was to get the envelopes, both were busy doing their respective tasks.
Eva sped walked towards the cafeteria. She had to hurry; Natalie would be waiting for her by the time she was done. When she entered it, Eva saw that the kitchen was empty. Good, it would make things a lot easier. Slipping up one of the many empty aisles, Eva made it there in seconds. Stepping onto the checkerboard floor Eva cringed, looking down she saw that there was now someone's old piece of gum on the bottom of her shoe. Gross! Putting her foot down on the ground, Eva tried to ignore the sticking feeling every time she took a step. That's when she found the flour. She let out a sigh of relief. As silly as it sounds, Eva had been fearing that there were guards stationed around it with an alarm. Silly, I told you. Running she grabbed it and continued out of the kitchen. Half way to her destination Eva ran into Frank. Looking at the flour he cleared his throat.
"Planning to cook something are we?" He asked.
Eva frowned. Oops, busted.
"Uh, yeah! I mean no! Crap!" Eva spat out.
Frank frowned.
"You're planning to cook crap?" He inquired confusedly.
Eva choked.
"No! Of course I'm not going to cook crap! Now if you'll excuse me… Hey! Give that back!" Eva ordered.
Frank had reached across and grabbed the sack, smiling.
"This wouldn't happen to be part of a certain prank for a certain day? Would it? Cause we all know that pulling pranks on people is bad." Frank said evasively.
He gave the bag back to her and winked, Eva was shocked, how did he know?
"How did you know?" She asked.
Frank smiled and walked away.
"I'm not telling. And don't worry, the secret's safe with me." Frank replied.
Eva cursed her unlucky meeting and continued to run down the hall, straight into Natalie who was running the other direction, envelopes in hand.
"Stephen. Miles. Coming!" She breathed, gasping for breath. "Run! Fast. NOW!"
Turning with the agility that Eva didn't know she had, Natalie grabbed Eva by the shirt and yanked her into the nearest room. The men's rest room.
"Nice one, Nat!" Eva commented looking around. "So this is what it really looks like in here?"
She was rewarded with a shush, Natalie had her ear to the door. Eva joined her.
"Great place to stick us, Nat!" Eva snickered.
"If you don't shut up I'll stick you in a urinal." Natalie growled.
There were footsteps, two sets, heading to where Eva and Natalie had just been standing. Eva now wanted to hug Natalie for her quick movement, even if it had inevitably led them into the no no room. She could hear muffled voices and more footsteps, both faded away. Taking a deep breath Natalie smiled at Eva.
"I've got the envelopes." She said happily, waving them in Eva's face.
"I can see. Now, how about getting out of here before someone has to use the restroom?" Eva suggested.
She did not want to caught in here, not at all.
"Good idea," Natalie muttered pulling open the door.
The hall was empty. Tiptoeing, Natalie made it over to the women's restroom, waving Eva over.
"What are you doing?" Eva whispered harshly, following her.
Did Natalie have to go the bathroom or something? And if she did, why was she making Eva come with her?
"Eva, this is the only place Stephen and Miles can't come, so there is a zero percent chance that we would be caught putting together a prank by them in there." Natalie explained and grabbed Eva's arm, yanking her in.
"I don't know," Eva muttered grudgingly. "What if they just so happen have to throw themselves into a room while running away from someone?"
Natalie rolled her eyes.
"What are the chances of that happening?" She asked.
"Seeing what we just did, pretty good," Eva reasoned.
Eva set down the flour and looked around. There was a shelf sticking out from the far wall. Eva had always wondered why that was in there, now she didn't question the fact and was just thankful. Grabbing the bag of flour she pointed to the shelf.
"Lets put it together over there, you've got a pen right?" Eva asked.
Natalie nodded and walked over, laying the envelopes out.
"Alright, we have to make this look like they were really mailed, that means we need a return address, and it's not going to be mine," Natalie said firmly.
She pulled out a pen and started writing Stephen's and Miles' names on the envelopes. Eva shook her head.
"I don't know. We're not using mine, either," Eva replied.
They stood there for a few minutes trying to figure it out. Natalie began to smile, taking her pen she wrote down a return address, Eva looked over and nearly started laughing, it was Stephen's.
"Why are you putting his down?" Eva inquired.
Natalie shook her head and shrugged.
"I don't know, just in case. Now they can't blame it on us. Write them a note, and put flour in the envelopes. I want to get this over with." Natalie reasoned.
Eva complied, writing down the notes and sticking them in the envelopes.
"Who's going to put them in their mail slots?" Eva asked.
The look Natalie gave her wasn't good.
"Fine, I'll do it. But only because I'm afraid of you," Eva said jokingly.
Both women laughed. Natalie grabbed the flour and tossed it into one of the stalls. She went inside, locked the door and crawled out under it. She took a piece of paper and wrote 'out of order' on it. She took tape and stuck the note to the door.
"Just in case," was her response to Eva's unasked question.
Sticking their heads out of the bathroom to make sure no on was walking down the hall, both women prepared themselves to run. Natalie went first, just in case they ran into their victims. They didn't and Eva made it safely to the mail room. Quickly so as not to get caught, Eva tossed the envelopes into the right slots and exited the room. Right as she made it to their hiding spot she heard Miles' voice.
"This will be great. Hey Stephen, look, we've got mail," Miles commented.
Natalie let out a sigh. That was close.
Natalie didn't know what was worse, actually preparing for the prank or the outcome. It had been funny watching Stephen and Miles' faces when they opened the envelopes. It had been even funnier to watch them freak out, but what they did next was not so fun.
They called the police.
Natalie had to stop herself from coming out with the truth. She had been expecting this. She knew something like this would happen. So why the heck was she so afraid of getting caught? Looking in on the room, Natalie saw what was happening. Eva leaned in next to her. Both women kept quiet.
"Sir, what did you say you found in your mail?" The policeman asked.
He didn't look too excited, not to mention the fact that he stood about ten feet away from both Stephen and Miles.
Stephen, who was still stupidly holding the envelope, decided to answer.
"I think it's anthrax." He deadpanned.
Miles swallowed hard, he looked like he was ready to wet himself. Eva tried not to laugh.
"You think it's anthrax?" The police officer said, not looking too convinced.
"Yes, we think it's anthrax." Stephen replied.
There was a demonic look in Stephen's eye. Natalie didn't know, but if it was there then maybe it was a good thing the police officer was standing so far away.
"We just don't know who sent it to us, and the letter that came with it is, well just read it." Stephen said as he thrust the piece of paper towards the officer.
"I'm not touching that! If it does really have anthrax on it I don't want to breath it in. Read it out loud." The cop instructed, freaking out.
Stephen looked at Miles.
"You heard him, read it out loud." Stephen ordered.
Miles looked at him funny.
"But he told you t-" Miles was cut off.
"JUST READ IT!" Stephen shouted.
Natalie held in a snort.
Miles took a few minutes unfolding the letter, he didn't look to enthusiastic about the whole reading aloud thing, but when you have a crazed blonde man next to you insisting that you do so, then maybe just maybe you would rather read then die.
"The note says… Well the note, it says. Umm…" Miles stammered.
"Miles," Stephen warned.
"Right! The note says 'Eat me!' That is what it says." Miles said lightly.
Miles took a deep breath and folded the paper back up.
The police officer looked at Stephen as if he had had a stroke of genius.
"What's the return address? Maybe if the sender was stupid enough to put down their own then we can catch them." The cop asked.
Stephen nodded and looked down at the envelope, then went as white as the flour in it.
"It's mine!" Stephen gasped.
Natalie didn't know but that sounded a lot like a squeak and this had to mean that Stephen was either mad or scared because he never squeaked.
Never.
The police officer looked at him suspiciously.
"How do I know that you aren't trying to start something? Maybe this is some kind of stupid prank!" The cop surmised.
That last word must have turned something on in both Miles' and Stephen's brains because they both looked out the door and directly at the girls. Natalie waved, with a smile, and Eva took the cue and mouthed 'April Fools.' Both men turned a few different shades of red, including some that neither woman had seen before.
"NATALIE! EVA! YOU'RE DEAD!" Stephen yelled.
Both Natalie and Eva ran down the hall laughing like maniacs.
The police officer looked at Stephen.
"Excuse me sir was that a threat? Because if it was I would have to write you up for it." The cop said sternly.
Stephen shook his head.
"No sir, that was a statement. Now excuse me while I go fire those two," Stephen supplied.
He ran out of the room leaving Miles with the police officer. Miles opened the letter again and smiled.
"Eat me! I get it!" Miles exclaimed.
To the police man's horror Miles stuck his finger in the Anthrax and tasted it. With a laugh that a madman would be proud of, Miles announced the crowning statement.
"It's flour!" He shouted.
Turning around he ran out of the room.
"STEPHEN WAIT FOR ME!" Miles called and chased the group down the hall.
The police officer was confused, but then again he didn't want to know.
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