I'm so sorry for not updating in a while. So, to make up to my loyal readers. I give you a long chapter! And, it's random! In a funny way. This is definitely one of my favorite written pieces. The beginning may seem a little random but in the end, you'll realize why. If you don't, explanation's at the bottom. Read and review!

"So, Tess. What are you gonna do for the talent show?" Mitchie asked as she walked up to Tess' locker, along with Caitlyn.

"What do ya think?" Tess asked sarcastically but joking. "I'm gonna sing. Either a new song or Two Stars."

"Why not Too Cool? It's really good."

"Yeah, but I don't want to seem like a jerk. It just seems a little egotistical."

Tess shut her locker and started walking with Caitlyn and Mitchie to the cafeteria. They met up with Peggy on the way. The boys were all already there, including the Grays' bodyguard, and Shane and Barron were rapping and joking around. Sander was beat boxing along with them.

Ice cream sandwiches
Good on a hot summer's day
Give me an ice cream sandwich

"And I'll go my own way," Mitchie finished as she sat down next to her boyfriend. Barron and Sander high-fived with her. Shane just smiled and pecked her cheek. "You do realize that it's fall? And that summer is over already?"

"Yeah, but it goes with the rhyme," Shane said as casually leaned back in his chair. He leaned back a little too much and ended up falling back. In the process, Caitlyn was coming back with soup for her lunch, so when Shane fell back, he knocked down her soup but what everyone thought would happen, didn't.

Yeah, Caitlyn's soup fell out of her hands but it didn't land on Caitlyn or Shane. Instead, the soup fell on Kelly and her posse who were just walking by to their lunch table. All three if them gasped and glared at Shane and Caitlyn who just muttered, "Oops?" Caitlyn and Shane would be truly killed later but for now, they just went along with the laughter that as sweeping the cafeteria.

Shane decided to go with Mitchie and the others to see Tess' tour buses so Nate and Jason went home alone. When Shane came back with the others at 5, they saw Jason crying in the driveway and Nate trying to comfort him by hugging him, yet he looked annoyed as if this had happened many times before. Once Shane saw this, he immediately ran to his brothers.

"What's wrong? What happened? Why is Jason crying? Wait, where's Kenny?" Shane asked quickly as he ran up to them. The others quickly followed.

Nate let Peggy hug him while he stood up and whispered to Shane, "I knew it! I knew this would happen again!"

"No, again?" Shane whispered back. He groaned.

"Wait, what's goin' on?" Mitchie asked, also whispering.

"Jason lost Jake," Shane answered, fully understanding the common and repetitive situation. "Wait, you never answered my other question. Where's Kenny?"

"Well, I would have if you didn't ask so many questions," Nate snapped but quickly calmed down. "Anyway, he's in his tree house."

Mua-ha-ha ha-ha. I'm evil.

Kenny leaned back in his bean bag chair and kept his eye on the caged parrot. After watching Home Alone reruns, Kenny had developed an evil prankster side. His brothers' friends and girlfriends will never know what hit them when they start searching around their property. Kenny smirked as he looked down the window and listened in on their conversation.

This will be fun.

"Funny prank! Funny prank! Squawk!" Jake squawked.

Yes it will be.

The Plan

After two wet shirts later, Nate then Peggy's, Jason finally calmed down. "Will you guys help me find Jake?" he asked after sniffling.

Nate and Shane sighed knowing how many times they've done this but agreed nevertheless. The others agreed, too. "So, how 'bout we split into teams?" Shane suggested. Everyone agreed. "How 'bout, me and Mitchie, Nate and Caitlyn, and Tess with Barron and Sander?"

"Wait, what about Peggy and Jason? And Kenny, too," Tess asked. Shane looked at Nate, who pulled Tess to the side, along with Barron and Sander because they all knew that they would be wondering the same thing.

"Listen, Jason loses his pets all the time," Nate explained. "He always gets emotional over them disappearing. I think that we should just let him be and let Peggy comfort him. And that's also how some of them," Nate looked at Jason and then air quoted, "'ran away.'"

"You mean died right?"

"Ssh!" Shane shushed Tess. "Never say that word about his pets around him! He gets, freakier, than he usually is."

"And for Kenny," Nate continued, "I think it would be best if we didn't include him in this. This will be enough trouble."

"Oh, okay. So, you and Caitlyn check on Kenny and give him a fake excuse, then check the backyard. Tess, Sander, and Barron, you guys check the garage and then the basement. Mitchie and I will check around the house. Got it?" Everyone nodded. "Let's do this."

The others did as Shane and Nate said and let Jason and Peggy be. Currently, they were in the kitchen. Jason was crying over some waffles and Peggy was comforting him like they said.

"It's okay Jason, they'll find Jake," Peggy soothed.

"I hope so," Jason responded, still sniffling

Barron watched Tess as she looked inside the Grays' recycling bin. He gave her a quizzical look. "Why would a parrot be in a bin?" Sander looked up from where he was and thought the same thing.

"I don't know," Tess shrugged. "I don't know how parrots think. They could think that this is a birdhouse for all I care." Tess put back the lid and continued to look around the garage.

Kenny smirked as he watched unnoticed through a window outside of the garage. He checked out Barron and Sander and noticed that they were getting closer and closer to his sprawled out jump-rope. He jumped off the pot he was standing on and ran to a cracked area in the garage that was conveniently concealed. He went through it and hid behind an old washer. Kenny quickly grabbed the untied end of the jump-rope, the other tied to a pole, so it was hanging above ground.

Barron and Sander didn't notice it and actually fell over it. Kenny immediately ran out, stealthily, and grabbed his fishing pole. At the same time, Barron fell onto a scale, landing on one side so that the other went up, and it pied the back of his head. Sander also fell back but tried to catch himself by grabbing some hanging rope. Too bad it was another trap.

Kenny had gotten a bucket of worms and pineapple slices from a friend, whose cousin knew a guy, that knew a guy. So, when Sander grabbed the rope, he actually untied the knot it had and the bucket of worms and pineapple slices and it was completely dumped on his head.

Tess laughed as she walked towards the best friends in an attempt to help them but she didn't notice the toy cars and marbles scattered on the floor so she tripped on them. She actually fell back in a "kiddie pool" of gravy. Who honestly knows where Kenny gets this stuff? Anyway, once Kenny stifled his laughter, he used his fishing pole to lower a bucket of mashed potatoes and it poured all over her.

"What the hell!" Tess exclaimed. She was flaring and even though Barron and Sander were in the same situation as her, they were freaked out by her mood.

Kenny laughed as he ran away from the scene, proceeding to the next stage of his plan.

One team down, two more to go

Mitchie went to look in the music room while Shane chose to go up stairs. Bad move. The moment Shane stepped on the first stair, he didn't realize that he triggered something, so when he stepped on the fifth stair, his face was met with a paint can.

"AAAH!" Shane yelled as he fell down.

Mitchie could here him from where she was an immediately ran to him. "Shane, whoa!"

Mitchie stepped on a roller skate which made her skate towards Shane's dizzy body, before tripping on another jump rope Kenny set up. Kenny of course, was watching from his lookout and picked up his water gun. His water gun was filled with glue so when he aimed it at Mitchie and Shane, they were left in a sticky mess. To top it off, Kenny pulled a rope that let go of some mud.

Kenny laughed evilly, but quietly, as he ran away to his tree house to finish off his plan.

Two teams down, one more to go

Kenny was able to get to his tree house surprisingly before Nate and Caitlyn. They were making out in the driveway when everybody left. Nate decided to go up first since Kenny was his little brother. Kenny hid Jake and gave him some treats to keep him quiet.

"Hey K.G.," Nate greeted.

"Hi. Why did you send me up here?" Kenny asked going straight to the point.

"Wow, um, okay. Jason lost Jake."

"Another pet?"

"Yeah."

"More. More. Squawk!" Jake squawked.

"Dang it," Kenny muttered under his breath.

"What was that?" Nate asked, eyeing Kenny suspiciously.

"My tape recorder. See I knew that Jason was missing Jake but before he went missing, I was recording some things he said so that I could mess with you guys. I lost the tape recorder but I left it on so I could find it," Kenny answered not missing a beat.

"That's evil, but okay."

"You know what's more evil?" Kenny was smirking in an evil way, almost like Shane's dark way.

"What?"

"This." Kenny shoved Nate out of the entrance of his tree house. Caitlyn gasped as she saw this happen from down below.

"AAH!" Nate yelled as he fell. He thought he would break an arm or something. But Kenny knew better. That's why he had his tree house built in a certain place. Instead of falling on the ground or on one of the outdoor furniture pieces, Nate fell in the pool making him completely soaked. "That was really evil Kenny!"

"Ha. Tell that Shane. In fact, go check on your other teams," Kenny laughed as he locked the door to his tree house.

"What's he talking about?" Caitlyn asked as she helped Nate up.

"I don't know but by that laugh, it's not good," Nate said, glaring at the tree house door.

Mission completed.

After Caitlyn got Nate up, they immediately went inside the house to get Nate changed. As they got to the stair well, they saw the mess of Mitchie and Shane, both still knocked out.

"Crap. Kenny did this?" Nate asked no one in particular. He continued going up stairs but unnoticeably triggered another paint can since it him smack right in his face. Caitlyn stared at the pile of bodies, now including Nate's, and just decided to take care of this after checking on the other team.

When Caitlyn got to the garage, she thought she would see something like in the foyer. Instead, there was Barron, Sander, and Tess, all soaked since they used the hose to clean off what was on them. At first the three thought that she did this but after she brought them to the foyer to see the others, they immediately erased the thought.

"Whoa, what happened to you guys?" Jason asked as he walked into the foyer with Peggy. He was calm now.

"Kenny did this," Caitlyn said as she walked closer to the pile of bodies.

"What?" Everyone awake exclaimed.

"I'll explain later. Everyone help me bring them into the garage so we can hose them down," Caitlyn commanded as she started tugging on Nate's body with Peggy.

Once the cold water hit their bodies, Mitchie, Shane, and Nate immediately shot up but slipped on the water that was on the ground.

"Damn it Kenny!" Nate exclaimed. All eyes were on him. "KENNETH JAMES GRAY! GET YOUR BUTT OVER HERE!"

"No way, not Kenny. There's no way K.G. could have pulled something this evil off," Shane said in denial.

"Yeah, he did. Watch." Nate pointed to Kenny who was holding Jake on his shoulder.

"What's up Nate? Guys? Oh, you're awake now," Kenny said as he slowly backed away.

"I'm gonna kill you Kenny!" All three Gray brothers said as they ran after him.

They were running so much, that they didn't even notice that he fell in the pool. They followed in suit, but didn't realize till the gasped for breath.

"Jake!" Jason yelled as he got up for breath. Jake flew on top of Jason's head and squawked,

"Jake! Jake! Squawk!"

"Jake you're okay!" Jason tried to kiss Jake's feathery cheek but instead, Jake nipped his ear. "Ow!"

Everyone ran to them and laughed since they came just in time to see what Jake did. Mitchie was behind the whole group, but still saw what happened, deep in thought. She remembered earlier in the lunch room and thought about what happened to her and all of her friends, except for Kenny. Then it hit her.

"Karma sucks," Mitchie blurted out.

If no one understood what Mitchie meant, she means this: earlier at lunch, Caitlyn and Shane accidently spilled Caitlyn's soup on Kelly. Now Karma goes into effect, making Kenny evil, which made him set up those pranks for his brothers and friends. Karma sucks. Anyway, you know what to do. Review and stuff. Also, don't you find it weird when people say to push that purple button? Isn't it grey or something? Enough of my ranting, just review.

Ja ne.