Author's Note: "We now interrupt our regularly scheduled program..."

All the rest of the chapters should be in the post-DD timeline, but this one is post-TT, pre-disbarrment.

Pearl

I always loved it when Mystic Maya would take trips with me to the city! We always got to go see Mr. Nick, which was super fun, even if I felt bad for stealing attention away from his special someone.

There was one time, though, when we were there on April 1st.

I woke up in Mystic Maya's a-part-ment one morning, ready to have a fun day with her and Mr. Nick. We were supposed to go to her favorite burger place, and I always loved getting to see Mr. Nick buy her lunch even though he didn't want to, because she was his special someone!

Anyway, when I went to breakfast that morning, I noticed that Mystic Maya was wearing a very pretty ring on her left hand. I was so excited, but I wanted to wait until I saw Mr. Nick before jumping to con-clue-sions.

After waiting forever, we finally went to lunch. The first thing I did was look at Mr. Nick's left hand, and there was a ring that looked kind of like Mystic Maya's! I was so excited that I burst out, "You're getting married?!"

"Yes!" They both said at the same time while smiling. I grinned and jumped around, I was so excited!

"I knew you were special someone's!" I kept jumping around until they said more.

"Pearly...I'm not getting married to Nick." Mystic Maya looked concerned, and I got very confused.

"Then why do you both have matching rings?"

"Oh, that's just a coincidence." Mr. Nick said. When he saw that I didn't understand, he added, "That means it was an accident; we didn't mean for them to be similar."

"Oh…" I stopped jumping. I was still unsure though. "Who are you marrying, then?" I asked sus-spicious-ly.

"I proposed to Iris yesterday. Our wedding is going to be in June." Mr. Nick smiled happily, but I was too shocked to say anything.

"Me and Mr. Edgeworth, or, well, Miles, are getting married in July." Mystic Maya smiled, too.

That's when I realized exactly what was going on. Mr. Nick was getting married to someone that was not his special someone! I got really angry, and I clenched my fists before running up to him and slapping him as hard as I could a bunch of times. Mystic Maya just stood by laughing very hard.

"Ow! Pearls! What's that for!?" Mr. Nick tried to run away but I followed and kept slapping him.

"Mystic Maya is your special someone! You can't marry anyone else!"

"Maya, help me! Ow!" Mystic Maya was bent over laughing. She shook her head. "I didn't realize it would be this painful when I agreed to this!"

I stopped hitting him. "When you agreed to what?"

"Ha ha...April Fool's!" Mystic Maya said through her giggles. "Me and Nick aren't really getting married to anyone!" Mr. Nick glared at her, and she laughed even harder.

"You're not?" I asked. Mr. Nick shook his head.

"Nope. April Fool's Day is a special day of the year when people play pranks on each other, because its funny." He smiled, but he looked like he was still in pain.

"What's a 'prank'?"

"It's a joke. Like if you called me and pretended to order a pizza to confuse me. Or if you put green dye in my shampoo. Our prank on you was we pretended we were getting married to other people."

"Oh." My face felt hot, and I wasn't sure how to react. "Um...I'm really sorry, Mr. Nick. I didn't know it was supposed to be funny."

He smiled and I felt a little better. "It's alright, Pearls. That's the point; sometimes the person doesn't know it's a prank until afterwards." I was still confused and embarrassed, but he gave me a hug and I knew it was okay.

"Don't be sorry, Pearly! That was hilarious!" Mystic Maya was still laughing. After a minute, Mr. Nick joined her. And then, so did I.

After a while, we stopped and got our lunch. Mr. Nick paid for Mystic Maya like always, and it made me happy. As we were leaving, Mr. Nick leaned down and whispered to me, "When you get home, put this around the sprayer on the sink." He handed me a rubber band and winked.

So, even though I felt bad for hurting Mr. Nick when he didn't deserve it, I still had a lot of fun that day.

Author's Note 2.0: I had fun with that one, even though I'm not sure if I wrote Pearl right. I think I may have underestimated her vocabulary. But oh well. :)

I made a reference to a certain Green-ix Wright story in there. If you didn't get it, you should go read AceFangirl's Unusual Punishment and its sequel! :D

No Ace Prankster here, but I couldn't resist the idea. ;D