2008 Cheaper by the Dozen Special
Chapter 3: Halloween 3 2005
The Comeback
The year before, and the year before that, Sarah had reigned over her little brothers, particularly Jake, Mike, Nigel, and Kyle. It was her, backed by her friends. Only that last year, in 2004, Sarah was caught by Tom and Kate, and yet she still got away with it. As usual, this Halloween, she was planning a bigger prank. But little did she know the kids were planning something of their own.
"We're not going trick-or-treating," Sarah announced.
"Why?" Kate asked suspiciously.
"Too old," Sarah said simply. "I bought candy for myself, and I'll have it here."
Kate shrugged a suit-yourself look, and walked away. Jake, Mike, Nigel, Kyle, Kim, and Jessica got themselves ready meanwhile. Or least, they thought Kim and Jessica were when they appeared in their pajamas. "We're staying with Sarah."
Tom didn't think much either, and ignored it. Only the four kids walked out. Sarah was left happily alone, and free to plot.
She ran up to Jake and Mike's room to lay her plan out. Kim and Jessica were behind her. The twins drew their plans out, and calculated for Sarah how things would turn out, and Sarah did what she was told without question. She had a bucket of soapy water with her, which she dumped all over the floor. Careful not to slip, sometimes in vein, she laid out paint-balloons in a pile, behind dirty sheets Kate left for cleaning.
"Sure this will work?"
Kim nodded, and they all left, confident this will indeed work.
At around seven, Jake and Mike and the twin came back, and they all went immediately up to Jake and Mike's shared room. Jake laid out an invisible string tied to the doorknob. The string, thanks to Nigel and Kyle, was tied to the top of the door, where, when closed, would provoke a small bucket full of white paint to fall.
"Now for action," Jake whispered. "Nigel, Kyle, you do your job. Mike, behind the door. Get ready."
All went to their respective positions. Nigel and Kyle ran out, slingshots in hands. From behind, while Sarah was playing video games, they shot her. She spun round. "WHAT?"
The twins ran off, Sarah on their tails. They dived into a closet on the side, just as Sarah emerged. She looked around, and spotted Jake and Mike's room, a large do-not-enter sign on. She smirked. This was a plot. Well, she wasn't going to fall for it. She walkec cautiously over, and opened the door. She walked in, looking around, "I'm gonna get you, you little freaks!"
Before she knew it, the door closed shut, and a bucket fell on her. She shrieked. Mike came from behind the door, and Jake jumped from his bed, "I noticed your soap on the floor, what, you think I'm"-
He jumped from the bed, landed on the slippery floor, and slipped, into Sarah, who fell into Mike. All three went slipping right into the closet filled with balloons. The impact caused all to pop, paint all over them. A spider fell from the top, and landed on Mike, "AAHHHHHH!"
"ACK!"
"HAH!"
Sarah had half-won, but she was gotten back too. "What the hell!"
"We got you!"
"I got you," Sarah argued back.
"We got you first," Mike smirked.
"Yeah, this year, wait till net year," Sarah said angrily. She got up, wiped her face, and climbed out of the closet. Jake got up, helped Mike up, and cleaned themselves too.
"I need a shower," Mike muttered.
"Me first," Jake said tiredly. "God, what the hell."
Nigel and Kyle ran in, breathlessly. "Guys, Sarah is planning to leave a water balloon under your sheets tonight."
"She doesn't leave us alone," Mike said angrily.
But Jake smirked. "Wait, I got a better idea."
And so he had. As Sarah got into bed, all cleaned up, her sheets exploded from under, and she was soaked once again, but this time with water. She fell out, to face a fake spider on the floor. "EEK!"
A note was attached to it: Gotcha
A/N: I know chapters are a bit rushed, but here it is. See ya on Christmas.
*Pranks clash when Jake and Mike fake death, and Sarah sets up trap in their shared room. A bar of soap, slip into closet full of clothes, when a spider is meant to jump on them. Jake and Mike plot invisible string by door, triggering a watter balloon to fall on her. Jake shoots her with slingshot from behind, snd both run into room. They get pranked, and Srah runs in to laugh, getting pranked. When she tries to get them back with a water balloon under their beds,, Nigel and Kyle forewarn them, and they strike first by switching balloons, and putting them under her sheet*
