A/N: Mcpooky: Nope ;P Close, though. It will have lights and a violinist.
Well, tomorrow's the big day! I know I should have cranked this out earlier, but a friend and I were chatting on DA for 2 hours and we lost track of things.
When 4 finished watching the latest episode of The Simpsons, she went into the bedroom to find 3 talking into her cell phone.
"…15 strings? No, I only need 5. 5, I said! We must have a bad connection. I'll move outside."
3 walked out the bedroom door, not noticing 4.
She spoke as she headed for the door. "So, you have 5 purple strings, 3 pink strings, and 2 blue strings? No, no, no, I said 2 blue strings. 2! T-W-O! Okay, good. And what about the cables? Excellent. The buttons? I said, THE BUTTONS!! Yes. Mmm-hmm. We'll pick 'em up, thanks. See you. Bye."
3 pressed a button and hung up, walked out the door, and got snow dumped on her head.
She shook it off with a huff, then peered up at where the snow had fallen.
Immediately, another pile of snow thumped onto her face. "What the--"
As 3 brushed it off her face, she heard laughing. "Awww--I'M GONNA KILL YOU GUYS!!" she yelled.
9's head appeared over the balcony, and he grinned, eyes narrowed in challenge. "Catch us if you can!" he crowed, and then he disappeared.
3 shook the last of the snow off and ran back into the house, right past 4.
"Hey, 3, who were you--" "Notimegonnakillthoseboys!" shouted 3 as she shot past, and then ran up some stairs.
4 glanced up at them, then shrugged. With 3, it was best if you didn't know what was going on.
Suddenly, 7 darted out from behind a pole, holding a…Nerf gun?
"Seen 6 anywhere?" she hissed, her eyes darting around the room. 4 shook her head slowly, and 7 swore under her breath and dashed upstairs.
"Wait!" called 4. "What's going on?"
But 7 ignored her and shot up the stairs. There were some loud thumps and a shout. "She's gaining! AAAH! 3, DON'T PUT THAT THER--AUGH *GURK* YAAH!!" "YOU-WILL-NEVER-DUMP-SNOW-ON-MY-HEAD-AGAIN!!"
4 raised an eyebrow as the screaming continued. "AAAA! NO, I WON'T!! *GASP* OW! TAKE-IT-OUT!!"
There was another screech, and 4 winced at the noise. "EEEEK!! AAAAAAH!" "7, YOU'RE IN ON THIS TOO?!" "Ummm…"
A loud crash echoed through the building. Then 7, 8, 9, and 6 all came tumbling down the stairs and fell in a large pile, covered in dust.
3 then sauntered down casually, and kicked them aside.
"Never underestimate the power of an angry 3" grunted 8, rubbing the back of his head where a bump had sprung up.
Eventually, everyone but 1 (who was on the computer, checking his stocks--big surprise) was sitting in easy chairs by the tree. There were already a bunch of presents under its branches (the treadmill that 6 had gotten for 8 dominated a corner of the room), and most of them were video game-shaped.
Suddenly 6 got out of his chair and rushed into the bedroom, muttering something like, "…streamers…"
He came back out with a bunch of different contraptions. He took the stairs up to the ceiling of the first floor and tried to hook up one of the weird-looking metal things.
"Ummm…6?"
"Yeah?" 6 replied, not looking down and struggling with the thing, trying to hang it from a little hook.
"What the hell are you doing?!"
Something slipped, and the contraption fell to the ground with a loud crash. 6 swore loudly. "^$#*!!"
He rushed down the stairs and picked it up, feeling it for any damages.
"Hmm, seems okay."
"No, seriously, 6, what are you doing?" asked 7, taking one of the other machine thingies. "What are these things?"
"These? Oh, I thought our house could be a bit more festive, so I bought these at a store. This one--" he nodded at the one he was holding "--shoots streamers, the one you're holding shoots confetti, that one over there is a snow machine, and the one next to it plays holiday music."
"What about that one?" 9 pointed at a round ball that was sitting on top of the snow machine.
6 grinned and headed back up the stairs. "That's a disco ball, dear 9, don't tell me you've never heard of one."
9 walked over to it and squinted at it, poked it, walked around it, and then poked it again. He jumped back and screamed, "IT MOVED!!"
Multiple people did facepalms.
6 tried to fit the streamer machine on the hook, but the hook was too small for the handle. "Crud" he complained. "Of course, there's a million hooks on the ceiling but the stairs was built closest to the one that is the freaking smallest one!!"
7 thought for a moment, then smirked. "Hold on, I've got an idea" she said, and ran into the bedroom. She came back out with a rope and a large plastic coat hanger. She went up the stairs and tied the rope to a banister on the side of the steps.
6 watched her as she eyed the other side of the room, then tied the rope like a lasso and swung it to reach a hook on the other side.
First try, 7 missed. She swore.
Second try, she missed again. She swore again.
Third try, she got really close…but missed. She swore loudly.
Fourth try…she hooked it! No, wait, it fell off. She jumped up and down and swore multiple times.
Fifth try…she hooked it. "Yesss!" she said with a grin, and then put the coat hanger on the rope, grabbed hold of the broad side, snatched 6s machine, and yelled, "Into the hands of fate!"
She kicked off from the stair rail and slid down the rope, to find herself at the other end of the building. She set the streamer machine on a hook, and turned it on. Streamers shot across the room, and everyone cheered as 7 stood on top of the machine and took a bow.
"Thank you, thank you very much ladies and gentlemen."
4 went over to the iHome and pressed a button. She smiled and punched the air. "This calls for some music!"
You 're always looking back running from the past
You 're always sweating me about the next big heart attack
You 're looking over your shoulder
Staring down the path
I'm falling down, falling down, falling down
7 slid across the rope, singing along to the song, as everyone else acted as the back voices.
It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off shake it off
We're all dying in the end
It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off shake it off
We're all dying in the end
She reached the stairs, and offered the hook to 6. He grabbed the confetti machine, and slid along the rope to the middle of the room, where he set it up and red, green, and white shot into the air and drifted to the ground.
Everyone cheered again, and they all ran to the stairs so that they could go too.
I terrify me images so horrible
To clear my thoughts I'd drill a hole into my skull
Clean up my brains and sweep them underneath the rug
I need them more then I needed any other drug
I'm falling down, falling down, falling down
9 went next, but you know how clumsy he is, and, well…
CRASH!!
…he slammed into the wall.
Luckily, 4 was below him and she caught the snow machine. "Oof!" she wheezed, and handed it over to 8, who was next to slide across as 9 had set the coat hanger back after falling 10 feet.
He's not hurt, don't worry. Well, aside from the usual.
It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off, shake it off
We're all dying in the end
It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off, shake it off
We're all dying in the end (we're all dying in the end)
Dying in the end
After 8 set the snow machine up and came back, it was 3s turn with the disco ball. She held it tight and went zipping to the last hook. She plugged it into an outlet, then she gave the 'OK' sign to 4, who flipped a switch.
I'm falling down, falling down, falling down
The disco ball turned on and the lights flashed all over the place. 4 then turned off the normal lights and turned on the Christmas lights that were strung on the tree and all over the house.
Everyone sang along to the last two choruses of the song.
It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off, shake it off
We're all dying in the end
It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off, shake it off
We're all dying in the end
Dying in the end
3 shot back to the stairs and then 9 got a brain flash. "Hey, guys! Group picture!" he shouted, grabbing a camera off the floor.
They all assembled themselves by height on the stairs. 7 ran into the computer room and pulled 1 out by his arm. His feet were skidding on the floor and he stammered irritably, "7, what are you doing? Huh--what the--? Gah!"
Soon everyone was on the stairs by height: 3 and 4 in the front, 5 and 6 above them, and after them, 8, 7, and 1.
9 held the camera up and pressed the button, then slipped around and stuck his own face in as it took the picture.
"HOOT!!" everyone yelled, and then 3 screamed, "TACKLE-GLOMPS!!"
She pounced on 4.
"OW, 3! What the heck?!" complained 4. 3 proceeded to give her a noogie.
"YOW!"
1 quietly snuck back to his computer.
Then everyone else took turns on the zipline.
About 30 minutes later, 8 thought for a moment and said, "Weren't we going to go see a movie?"
Everyone's ears shot up. "Right!" exclaimed 5. "What should we see?"
Geez, 5, haven't you learned your lesson with the arguing-over-movies night?
"Let's go see Avatar!"
"No, we've gotta watch Ninja Assassin!"
"I want to see Armored!"
"I'll go with anything."
"Me too."
"Same."
"Yeah."
5 looked at all of them. "So we've got three movies to choose from. Hang on a minute--"
He ran to the bedroom and came out with three marbles.
Why would he have marbles?
…don't ask me.
He laid them out on the floor. "If I pick the blue one, we'll watch Avatar. If I pick the black one, we'll watch Armored. If I pick the red one, we'll watch Ninja Assassin. We clear?"
Everyone nodded. "4, mix them up."
5 closed his eyes and 4 proceeded to mess around with the marbles.
"Done" she said after a few seconds, and 5 reached down, scrabbled on the carpet, and grabbed one. He opened his eyes. The red marble reflected the lights in his hand. "Okay, we're watching Ninja Assassin."
9 jumped up and cheered, "WOOHOO!!" Then he pointed at 8 and shouted gleefully, "In your FACE!"
"Hmmph" 8 grunted.
Everyone (yes, even 1) grabbed some money and called a few taxis to take them to the movie theater.
As it turns out, when they got there, they were all out of tickets, and the other two movies were done showing for the day.
"Well this sucks" complained 9, sitting on a curb. "Now what are we gonna do?"
"Take a taxi home, I guess" yawned 3. "Come on, guys."
On their way home, 9 was thinking.
I know, he was thinking?! Isn't that impossible?
End sarcasm.
Then he sat up and snapped his fingers together.
Once they got home, he ran into the bedroom and yelled, "EVERYONE WHO IS IN ON THE PRANK, GET IN HERE!!"
Outside the room, he heard "What prank?" and "It's nothing, it's nothing, COMING 9!!"
There was a loud slam and a large tumult of arguing as 4 dogs tried to push themselves through the doorway at once.
Eventually they all pushed their way through, and 3 slapped 9 on the head.
"OW!" he yelped, then glared at her. "What was that for?"
"That was your prize for subtlety" she said in a game show announcer voice.
8 and 7 snorted.
9 rubbed his head and muttered incoherently.
Then he straightened up and said, "5, go stand at the door."
He did so.
Then 9 dragged out something from under his bed. It was a giant metal outline of a heart.
7 assumed a WTF expression.
"Why the hell do you have that under your bed?"
"Uhh…"
9 was spared of having to answer because then 3 clapped her hands together. "Perfect! Now we can spin the pink lights around it."
She began pacing, thinking while she did so. "We could have them be sitting in it or over their heads or around them…"
"Around them" 8 decided. "When we light it up, they won't know what it is until they get up and look at it. Once they do, that'll be the cue to turn the music and the blue lights on. Once they look at each other, then we do the purple lights. Remember--only come out and cheer after they've had a chance to speak."
The others nodded. Then 3 sprung up with a yelp. "The lights! %$%#! I have to go pick them up! See you guys later!" She ran out of the house, grabbing some money to pay a taxi.
8 scratched the back of his head. "I have hardly ever heard 3 swear before."
Then 7's phone rang. The ringtone blared in the room.
We'll never stop, 'cause we're only getting better, we're not making this up, so just write another letter, I'll be fine, alive again another day, I'm not afraid to get--"Hello?"
7 turned to the others and whispered, "It's the hiring performers place."
She spoke into the phone, "Yes. Mmm-hmm. What? Oh, no we don't. Something…something French. Yes. No, actually we're playing a prank on two friends. Yeah. Heh. Okay, sounds good. Yup, 11:00 tomorrow night. Thanks, bye."
7 turned off her phone and grinned at the others.
"Tomorrow night will, officially, be the night our friends admit that they like each other…or else."
A/N: I'm sorry I couldn't fit any 4x6 in there, but there just wasn't any room.
7's ringtone is Bones Shatter by Hedley (which kind of fits the movie! What a coincidence!)
The ending was a little rushed, I know, but I've been under a lot of pressure. What with Christmas two days away, writing, and I have shopping to do, I've been pretty busy.
The song that played during the zipline scene was Falling Down by Atreyu.
Until next time, reviews are lovee,
Skye/Mija/10