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Prank War

I felt bad about what I had done to Julie, especially after I found out that she wouldn't be safe no matter what I did. I decided that no matter if she did protest, I would have to keep a special watch on her to make sure that she is safe. Maybe after this whole thing is over, I can explain to her what happened and she will give me a second chance. What I didn't realize was that the next day, all hell was going to break loose when Riley decided that it would be funny to steal that Wu kid's lunch.
"Hey little man." Riley teased and I could only shake my head in embarrassment. "Yesterday's lunch was pretty good. What do you got today?

Cole took the lunch and stuck his hand inside, pulling out the contents. "Chips," he threw them towards our other team members. "Some cookies." Cole threw those to a teammate as well, even though the kid was trying desperately to get his lunch back. Why can't Riley and Cole act their age? Riley shoved the kid as Cole finished searching through the brown paper bag. "Get out of here." Cole scolded the kid and the kid walked away, once again without a lunch.
Retaliation from the ducks came both quickly and swiftly. If I wasn't so disgusted by what they did I would have almost thought it was funny. "Oh come on my mommy made me brownies." Conway smiled as Cole too his "lunch". I could tell something was up, but I wasn't sure yet. Riley and Cole never noticed.

"Fresh warm ones." The bash brother duck joined in, smiling as well. I couldn't wait to see what stunt they were pulling. Whatever it is, Cole and Riley deserve it.

"Hey, it's too bad about your bash brother. I heard he was too scared to leave home." Riley taunted them about the teammate that had never shown up. I shook my head. I knew from personal experience that both of the bash brothers could kick both of their asses.
The present bash brother's face became serious as he defended the absent one. "Portman ain't scared of nothing."

Cole opened the bag and reach inside without looking. He pulled the contents out and I had to cover my mouth to keep from laughing. I knew immediately what was happening, but Riley and Cole still didn't have a clue. Cole brought it up to his nose and took a whiff of the "brownies." He looked back at the ducks confused. "What the hell kind of brownies are these?" He asked. The ducks smiled wider as he patted Cole on the chest. "I got to tell her to stop using the horse turds in the recipe." At that word the ducks took off. Cole threw the bag behind him and the chase was on. Since I was a member of the team, I felt that it was my duty to chase after them as well. I figured if I was the one who caught them, I could compliment them on the prank. We chased them out of the cafeteria, but of course, we got halted by Dean Buckley.

"Dean."
"Boys."
"Lovely day." I shook his hand as I headed past him. By the time we had gotten by the dean, we were too late, the ducks had already escaped and Riley had already formulated his plot for revenge.

"We'll get them back at the game tonight." Riley stated as we headed for the ice rink. "I know just how to make all of those damned ducks pay."

True to his word, Riley dragged Cole and I into the ducks locker room halfway through the third period. "Grab their clothes." He instructed.

"All of them?" Cole asked.

"Yes all of them." Riley stated.

"Why? What exactly are we going to do?"

"It's simple, we are going to put all of their clothes in the shower room and turn the showers on." Riley stated.

"But then, what will they wear back to their dorms?" Cole asked.

"That's the idea Cole. With any luck, they will have to walk back to their dorms in the buff." Riley stated. "Now you and Scooter do as I say while I leave those damn freshmen a message."

Cole and I did as Riley asked. I felt bad about doing; I mean the Ducks aren't that bad. I actually kind of like them, but then again, I have had the time to get to know them.

Once again retaliation for our actions came quickly. This time, however, it was sheer genius what they did to us. We walked into our locker room and were completely speechless at what we saw. The entire room was frozen solid. Cole stood in front of his locker, where his jacket hung. He tapped the jacket lightly with his stick and the jacket fell to the ground, crashing into a thousand pieces. He pointed his stick towards the wall behind us. We turned to look and I immediately saw the words, "Varsity Sucks Ice," written in shaving cream.

"Ducks," Riley said angrily as he punched his own frozen jacket, shattering it.

We ended up having new jackets by lunch the next day. It was Cole, surprisingly, who came up with the idea about the next prank of inviting the Ducks to dinner and having them pay. I thought it was brutal, and didn't really want to be a part of it, but of course, I ended up going along with it anyway. If nothing else, I knew that it would keep Julie safe for at least one night.

We invited the Ducks to the Minnesota club, and of course, acted like everything was okay. I ended up sitting next to Julie at the restaurant.

"So, I wanted to apologize again for breaking our date." I told her. "I really feel bad about it and I have sorted through everything and I would really like for us to go out on that date."

"I don't know Scooter, at least not after everything you put us through."

"That wasn't me. I mean it was me, but it was really Riley and Cole. I don't dislike any of you guys." I told her, flashing her my smile. "Please."

"I'll think about it."

Before I could reply Riley was tapping his fork against his glass, ready to recite his speech, also rehearsed. "On behalf of the Eden Hall Warrior Varsity state champion hockey team, I'd like to welcome the future state champs, the Eden Hall freshmen. Here, here."

Riley raised his glass to the air and we did so as well. "Here, here." We repeated.

"We're just glad you loaned us Banksie so we'll have a chance to beat you guys in the annual JV/Varsity showdown………" he paused as he smiled wide. My stomach knotted and I prayed that Julie wouldn't completely hate me after this was over. "Now, nobody move. We've got one last surprise……fellas." The rest of the Varsity members, including myself rose and headed for the door. Banks sat still for a moment before riley called after him.

"Banksie." Reluctantly, Adam rose from his seat and followed behind us. Poor kid. I knew a little about how he felt. The ducks were going to hate him after this, and Julie is going to hate me. "Don't worry we'll be right back." Riley smiled at them as we walked out and the cake was rolled into the room. I prayed to God that Julie would somehow forgive me for this and decide to go out with me.

Luck wasn't on my side that night and I knew it. The Ducks' revenge told me loud and clear that Julie wasn't about to forgive me.

I suppose that it was around midnight. I was sleeping peacefully in my dorm room, having a nice dream about Julie in a bikini. I felt my body burning with what I thought was desire. I realized when I awoke that it was far from that. "Aaaah," Riley and I both screamed as we jumped from the beds. My whole body was burning and I could see the little bugs crawling on my skin. In the hallway I could hear the shrill laughter coming from the ducks.

Riley and I danced around like a chicken, trying to get the ants off of us. "Get it off my back man………what the heck are these things man………Get 'em off, lets get out of here." Riley screamed as we headed for the door, only to find that it wouldn't open. Riley was still yelling at me as we pulled at the door. "Open it. Why aren't you opening? Open the door………Open it." Finally the door flew open, throwing Riley and I to the floor. "Lets get out of here."

Riley and I ran out into the hallway and were joined by the rest of our teammates. The ducks, including my sweet Julie, were laughing their heads off. I blushed as I looked at Julie, realizing that she was seeing me in my pink boxers.

"You think you're funny, huh? You think you're worth a damn? You're just white trash."

"Uh, who you calling white trash?" the colored kid asked.

"That's right; we'll take you anytime, anywhere." Conway challenged us and I knew that was a bad move.

Riley jumped at the thought, excepting the challenge. "Tomorrow, dawn………Lets get to the showers." We ran off towards the showers as the ducks continued to laugh.

We made it to the rink early the next morning. Banks was already there waiting for us. I was lucky his dad didn't ask too many questions when I called last night. The Ducks were already at the rink too. They were dressed in their own Duck jersey's from the goodwill games. Seeing them only brought back the memories I had about blowing the game for Iceland . I immediately spotted Julie and skated up to her. "Hey, we call it even?" I asked smiling, hoping that she could forgive me and we could still have a chance at a relationship someday.

"I hate ties. They're like kissing your brother." I shook my head as she climbed into the Ducks bench. I always hated that saying. I knew I should have picked something else to say. I skated down to my net and warmed up before the game started. I couldn't help but wonder why she wasn't starting. I came to the conclusion that Goldberg inserted himself in the net and because of it; the Ducks were going to get creamed. Actually, it's not a bad strategy. Make Riley think we can cream them now with Goldberg in net, then spring Julie in there in the official game and then cream us; it was kind of like what happened at the Goodwill games. If I had known how good she was at the games, I might have tried to go stick side instead of glove side.

I ended up being right. We creamed the ducks; or at least we were until the fight broke out. Orion ended up kicking us out of the rink so he could yell at the ducks. As we later found out, this resulted in Conway and Fulton leaving the Ducks.

I headed straight back to my dorm and for the first time in nearly a week, I had received another letter.

Scooter/Gunnar,

Don't worry. What I'm going to do to you is going to hurt a lot more then those fire aunts.

Please push the blue button and leave an inspiring review! I'm sorry I had to cram the entire prank war into one chapter, but it's not that important to the story, yet I couldn't just leave it out. I can't get to Gunnar's showdown with his stalkers, I mean stalker, until after the showdown.