CHAPTER 5- PRANK PLANNING

Adele was the first one up, but she left long before the others even thought about waking. Angie was next followed by Leo, who quickly left. Raph was next. He came storming into the kitchen where Angie had been making breakfast.

"Alright, where is she?"

Angie's brow furrowed in confusion."Who?"

Raph frowned. "Adele! Where is she?"

It was Angie's turn to frown. "She's always the first one up. She likes to get to work early."

"Where's that?" He tried to not show his curiosity, but Angie saw through it.

"Nope. Not tellin. Apparently she wants to keep her business her business."

Raph rolled his eyes and muttered something under his breath before grapping a piece of toast and taking off.

The next arrivals were a bleary eyed Jessa and Donny. Angie smiled. She and Adele were early birds, while Jessa and Sarah were definitely night owls.

Angie smiled at Jessa. "Hey. Good to see you're finally up. The early bird gets the worm, or in this case, breakfast."

Jessa smiled sleepily. "But the second mouse gets the cheese, or in this case, doesn't have to cook breakfast herself."

Donny growled. "Angie, you are too perky for the morning."

Angie shrugged. "Adele was up before me, and Leo and Raph already left. Mikey and Sarah are still sleeping. You go ahead and eat and I'll go check on them.

Angie smiled when she saw Mikey and Sarah sprawled out in front of the video game console. The screen was still on.

She quietly shut the door. They'd wake up about lunch time, and probably devour whatever leftover pizza there was. Angie shrugged. It was time to go to work.

Jessa was groggily eating breakfast with Donny when Angie announced she was heading to work.

Jessa groaned as soon as she left. "Ugh. What time is it?" Donny glanced at his watch. "uh, 8ish…"

"No! ugh…I gotta go to work in an half hour."

Donny smiled. "I don't."

Jessa stuck out her tongue at him. After a while, Jessa seemed to wake up completely. She set her plate aside from breakfast and turned to Donny. "So, what's the plan today?"

Donny shrugged. "Nuthin much. I'm gonna work on my-er, our car."

Jessa smiled. "Cool. Have fun." Jessa packed her bag and set off.

Sarah got up about noon, before Mikey even dreamed about getting up. She worked from 1-4, depending on the day.

That day, the guys were the most bored they'd ever been.

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Despite their different work schedules, the girls got off work at roughly the same time. They met up at their usual meeting place: the café with the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. The bought a dozen super large cookies and headed for home, or at least the place where they were staying.

When they got down there, Leo, Donny, and Mikey were in the living room, lounging on the couch. Mikey perked up when he was the first to see them. "Hey! What's up?"

Sarah smirked. "The roof." She tossed him a cookie, which he ate greedily. "You ready for a rematch?"

Mikey grinned. "If you think you'll do any better."

Sarah snorted. "I was half asleep! Now that I'm loaded up on cookies, I'll beat you no prob."

Mikey rolled hiw eyes at they headed towards his room. "Riiiight…"

Donny laughed. "Those two are crazy." Jessa nodded her agreement as she handed him a cookie.
"Sweet!"

Jessa smiled. "Your welcome. I gotta go set up something on my computer. You wanna help?"

Donny nodded enthusiastically. "Sure."

Angie shyly handed a cookie to Leo. She was just trying to be nice. He didn't seem to want them around. "Thank you." He said gruffly. Angie said 'you're welcome.' Before heading to the kitchen. Adele followed Angie, carrying the rest of the cookies. Adele yawned.

"Jeez. That was a long day. Erik came by today, so I took him to lunch."

Angie laughed. "I bet Emily wasn't too happy about that."

Adele shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, well. She's always annoying. I just give her a reason."

Angie rolled her eyes. "What about Travis? Didn't he just get hired there? He seemed nice."

"Oh yes, he's really nice but a few fries short of a happy meal…" They laughed. Adele started making a snack. "Hey, Adele, aren't you gonna give Raph a cookie?"

Adele snorted. "Why should I?" Angie sighed.

"At least try to pretend that its possible to be civil with each other.!"

Adele rolled her eyes. "Fine." She got up to go and let out an exaggerated sigh. "but I just want you to know how painful this is…"

Angie didn't look up from her book. "Noted."

Adele walked around the corner and headed towards Raph's room. He was sitting at his desk. She tossed him the cookie which he easily caught. He frowned. "What's this for?"

Adele rolled her eyes. "Well, usually a person would eat it…"

He growled. "I know that. Why'd you give it to me?" He looked at her. "You didn't poison it, did you?"

"As brilliant as that would have been, no. I didn't think of it. But thanks for the idea. I'll remember it for later." When he still didn't eat it, Adele sighed. "It's just a cookie, I swear. We bought some for you guys as a sort of thank you. If you don't want it…"

Raph frowned. "I do… thanks."

The stood in awkward silence for a while. Remembering what Angi had said, Adele sighed. "Look. I know that we didn't exactly get off to the best start. I'm sorry. Sometimes I get a hot head."

Raph looked bewildered. "Um… ok. Is this the part where the universe ends?" Adele let out a small smile. "Haha. But seriously. I'm gonna be staying here for a while and I'd rather not have to kill you and get Mister Splinter mad at me."

Raph smirked. "As if I'd let you kill me, but I see your point, sorta."

Adele shrugged. "we don't have to be best friends, but at least a truce, right?"

Raph shrugged. "I dunno. It's been kinda fun hating you."

Adele gave another exaggerated sigh. "Well I suppose you can still hate me a little bit…"

"Good." Raph went back to work and Adele sat on her cot to read.

Mikey and Sarah were sprawled across his room, bored to tears. Sarah sighed. "Isn't there anything we can do?"

Mikey frowned, thinking. Sarah gasped. "I just had the most brilliant plan ever!"

Mikey looked at her questioningly. "What?"

"A prank! Oh, I haven't played one on the guys in forever!"

Mikey nodded. "What did you have in mind?" Sarah grinned. "Here's what we'll do…"

Mikey listened as Sarah filled him in on her scheme. He gave suggestions and she agreed with most of them. When they were finally finished they had finished planning the perfect prank. With an evil smile, Sarah turned to Mikey. "Shall we?"

He nodded and they left to put their plan into action.