BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Zoey's hand came out from under her blanket and slapped the snooze button on her alarm clock without opening her eyes.

Twenty minutes later.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Zoey rubbed her eyes with her hands and pinched the bridge of her nose in a vain attempt to wake herself up.

She turned on her side and opened her eyes.

Her gaze met that of a large toad.

She screamed.

"Alright! I'm up! I'm up!" Nicole exclaimed as she sat up quickly.

"Shut the hell up, Zoey!" Dana shouted angrily.

Zoey just kept screaming.

Over in the boys dorm Logan hit Michael to wake him up.

"Listen to that, guys."

Crowding to the window the three guys heard the distant screams of a certain Ms Zoey Brooks.

"Well, at least we know they're afraid of toads!" Michael hi-fived Logan.

Back to the girls.

Lola was awake now and she blinked a couple of times before asking in a slurry voice.

"What the heck's going on?"

"Take a look at this!"

Zoey picked up the toad, after first wrapping it in a towel; well, she didn't want warts, and shoved it into Lola's face.

She stared at it for a minute and then screamed and sat up so quickly that Zoey only just had time to dart out of the way.

"OW!" Lola shouted. She had momentarily forgotten that she was on the bottom bunk and had inevitably hit her head on the top one.

Zoey called a meeting once they had showered and changed. As she faced the other girls in her dorm her face was grim and in her hand was the toad.

"I don't think I need to look far to find the culprits of this little prank. Those boys will pay for scaring me like that."

"You're damn right they will!" Dana said cracking her knuckles in a rather menacing fashion.

"Thank you. Lola, can you design a few booby traps we can set up in their dorm at night and get Quinn to set up a boy detector so that we can know when they try to pull another stunt like that. Nicole, you're in charge of seeing the openings and weaknesses on the boys, things like an attention to another person and any secrets you can uncover about them. Dana and I will come up with pranks and fight with them. Any pranks they try to do to us we will shrug them off and show that they didn't affect us, even if they did. We mustn't show the boys that they can get to us easily."


At lunch that day they all sat together on the quad. Dana sat next to Zoey and noticed that her bag was wriggling a little. She shot Zoey a questioning look.

"Payback for the toad stunt." Zoey hissed into her ear, pointing at Logan subtly.

A little later.

"Keep him busy." Zoey winked at Dana and they got up at the same time and Dana walked sassily over to Logan and sat on his lap.

Everyone was so surprised that no one noticed Zoey take something out of her bag and make her way over to them.

They timed it so that as Zoey reached them Dana put her arms round Logan's neck and she subtly pulled the neck of his shirt back so that it hung open slightly and as Zoey walked past she slipped the toad down his shirt.

Dana got up from his lap and Zoey took her place.

"Feel that? Remember when you put frozen jello down my back? Well, I just put something worse down yours. Enjoy!"

And she got up and she and Dana linked arms and walked off.

They were on the other side of the quad before they heard his screams of fright mixed with a few swear words. Turning back to look at him they saw him hopping around trying to dislodge it and then he fell down the steps and into the fountain. He looked up and saw the two girls standing over him grinning broadly.

"Nice!" they said together in the same tone of voice as they turned away.