A/N: I've been following the dmhgchallenge on LiveJournal for a while now (dmhgchallenge dot livejournal dot com). A prompt is put up once a month and there's a strict 100-word exactly limit. Occasionally I prepare more than one entry.
April 2012: Practical joke. Quite frankly, I was unhappy about this. I first wrote She Did Warn Him, then came up with Or Maybe Not. I asked to swap it at the last minute; then thanks Microsoft Word apparently I had 99 words instead of 100. I didn't see the mod's note telling me that my word count was wrong until too late, so she used She Did Warn Him instead. It's certainly not her fault, but meh :/
She Did Warn Him
"Hello, love," said Draco, straight-faced, as Hermione sat down to the dinner he had prepared.
Her eyebrow rose. "This dinner is for our anniversary, not April Fools', right?"
"Of course," he said, sounding injured.
"We've talked about how immature pranks are."
"Terribly juvenile."
"Good."
Absent-mindedly sipping from his glass, Draco watched as she began to cut her steak. The next second, his dinner burst into fireworks, singeing his eyebrows as he fell off his chair with a yell.
Hermione's smile was positively Slytherin as he choked on his Firewhisky.
"Switching Charm, love," was all she said. "I did warn you."
Or Maybe Not
"This is your fault," said Draco bitterly.
"It's a stupid day," retorted Ron.
"You're stupid people."
"Shut up," said Harry.
"I trusted you," said Draco even more bitterly.
"You can't tell us you're proposing to Hermione on April Fools' and not expect anything," said Ron.
"I did not expect you two to jump out screaming, 'April Fool!' right after she accepted!" snapped Draco. "And she didn't believe me when I said I was serious!"
"At least she kept the ring," said Harry.
"And our wands," said Ron gloomily.
They dangled helplessly midair.
"Think she'll let us down tomorrow?" asked Ron.