Chapter 16: Jaan, Panotty & Raffina: Butt of the Joke by warelander

The Hallways

''Hey, lookin' good, Raffina!''

''Hehe, no need to tell me what I already know!''

If there was one word to describe Raffina Fielding, it would be pride. An air of unrivaled confidence followed the alpha on her way through the halls of Primp High.

Little did she know that two figures were eagerly watching her every step, keeping themselves out of her point of view as to not give themselves away. These two being an all too familiar djinn girl and a certain young elf boy, the former of which also happened to carry a potted cactus with her.

''Just look at that snob. She really ticks me off just looking at her fake it.'' Panotty sneered, with a thinly veiled dislike for the older Fielding daughter coloring the tone of his voice.

''Hey, makes it all the more fun to put her off her high horse, right?'' Jaan pointed out, looking forward to what was about to ensue.

''True. That will show her to be awful to Harpy...again.''

''Well, we are always gonna be there for some payback.'' Jaan retorted, trying to hold back a snicker, she couldn't deny that there was a joy to be gotten out of messing with the pink-haired jerk.

''It's about time.'' She said while pulling out her walkie-talkie. ''Alright Draco, you can hand it over now.''

''If you say so. Still not sure why I had to wait, but you said it's fine.'' The dragon girl on the other end of the line responded, making her way to the school's janitor who was just about done mopping the floor close by.

''Ms. Kikimora! Here's a letter with some kind of message for you.'' She handed the letter over, the janitor eying it with curiosity.

''Ah, thanks, Draco, I'll look at what it says right away.'' With that simple answer, Draco was right off on her own way again, smiling to herself.

Kikimora
THE School Janitor

''I did a good thing. I think.'' She thought to herself all the while.

Kikimora opened the letter, curious as to what this was all about. Much to her surprise, it wasn't a message, but what appeared to be some kind of ad. Glancing over the advert she noticed something in a circle that almost made her jump for joy.

''A washing machine on sale! Maybe this will finally convince Akuma that we can get a new one without cutting into the budget too much!'' She said out loud in sheer joy.

'The one we have now is such a pain to use for twins' clothes, ever since someone vandalized it last semester. Oh please let this be what convinces him!'

Ecstatic, she was almost ready to rush off to Principal Akuma's office, but first she had to put her mob and bucket away, ever since the washing machine incident she wasn't allowed to leave any cleaning utensils unattended in open sight, just to prevent even more accidents.

Luckily for her, a certain snob was heading her way, who she could quickly ask for a favor.

''Raffina, good timing!''

''Huh? What is i-!'' The pinkhead was cut off by the janitor pushing her mob and bucket into her hands.

''Be a dear and bring those to the janitor's closet, I have to speak to the principal. Thanks, dear!''

''What! Wait a second!'' Raffina tried to protest, but it was no use, Kikimora had already ran off, too absorbed in her own thoughts to hear her anymore at all.

''Urgh. Fine, just don't expect me to like doing this.'' She pouted, playing into her nice girl rep was bound to come with things she didn't agree on wanting to do. Resigned and clearly annoyed, she decided to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.

Unbeknownst to her, Panotty and Jaan were still close by to watch their plan unfold, remaining completely unnoticed made the whole thing all the easier.

''Pfft! Man, that someone could get this childish over something like that.'' Jaan chuckled to herself, riling Raffina up never ceased to amuse her.

''I'm more amazed by how well this is working. If anything happened too late or someone didn't do as we expected the whole thing would be a bust.'' Panotty uttered in sheer amazement.

''Time management and studying behavioral patterns are the keys to advanced pranking.'' Being a genie helps too.''Now come on, it's almost time for the main act!'' Jaan urged, still keeping a good hold on her cactus as the two continued onward, still making sure to keep a good enough distance away from Raffina to avoid complications in their plan.

''Bleh. I can't believe she asked me to do this. I'm a Fielding! This is so beneath me, I'm the last person who should be forced into doing such a menial task!'' Raffina thought to herself in a spoiled fit of anger. But she is determined to keep her image of an upstanding student up, no matter what she perceived to be a cost.

Soon, though certainly not soon enough for the girl's liking, she reached the door leading to the janitor's closet.

''About time. Let's get this finally over wit-huh?'' Much to her surprise, the closet was completely empty and the ''secret'' door leading to Kikimora's closet had vanished, leaving behind only a wall, with only a lone button left on it.

''Huh. Did they do some renovating? I wonder what happened to the janitor's room then.'' Raffine mused to herself, putting the bucket and mop to the side to take a look inside.

This was Jaan's cue to sneak to the side of the door, her cactus still in hand, anticipating the final action for the climax of her prank to finally take place. Indeed, she took the bait and was currently inspecting the button.

''Maybe the room is behind this wall and this is some mechanism in place where the door used to be. Oddly fancy for this school, but whatever, I just want to be done with it.'' Raffina put the cleaning tools away.

As soon as she heard this, Jaan swiftly placed her cactus in a strategic manner, quietly turning herself into mist to safely flee back into hiding, to avoid a last-minute screw-up.

Indeed, Raffina pressed the button, not knowing that the door was indeed still behind the wall. Following an audible click of the button, the door behind forcefully swung open, causing the fake, but weighty enough wall to catch Raffina off-guard and cause her to lose her footing.

Her fall was slightly cushioned, but only due to her butt landing straight on the cactus below her, leading to a shriek loud enough to echo through the halls of the school.

Jaan and Panotty gave each other a high-five as they watched more and more students rushing to the side of the event, to see Raffina holding up a fake wall, while sitting on a cactus, the door to Kikimora's room being closed once more.

''My ***! Why always my ******* ***?!'' Raffina didn't even care about watching her language, this wasn't the first time she had experienced this kind of humiliation, it was like a curse to her.

The second a few peers got hold of the fake wall themselves, Raffina crawled out of the room as fast as she could, limbing her way to the nearest bathroom, much to the amusement/sympathy of many onlookers, including two certain pranksters (but for them it's just amusement).

''I'm tired of this! Someone has to know of a way to get rid of this curse!'' She thought to herself while making her leave, trying to ignore the stinging in her posterior that only got worse with every step.

''Hah! It's gonna take a while to plug those needles out of her butt!'' Panotty celebrated, more than a little pleased with the outcome of their plan.

''Glad we got the twins to help us with this. So much for her 'sensitive bottom' right?'' Jaan replied, quoting the last bit in a mocking manner.

''Yeah, surprised so many are still shocked at her swearing up a storm like that. Then again people buy into her nice girl stick so…''

''We don't at least, so she'll always get her just desserts!'' Jaan retorted, giving her smaller friend a fist bump.

As far as she was concerned justice had been served and there was no better way to do it in her eyes then a good old-fashioned bit of slapstick, wrapped in an elaborate prank.

Authors' Notes:

WARE: Two chapters from me in a timely manner? What is this madness? And who are those twins Jaan mentioned? All of this and more: soon enough.