April fools and athletic pants
Bob was dumb and wore jeans. Sam was smart and wore athletic pants. One day Bob thought he would try to wear something comfortable so he put on the pair of sweatpants his mom had bought him but he never wore. He decided that he could never go back to wearing those itchy tight pieces of fabric called jeans. There was one problem, he only had one pair of athletic pants and it was the middle of the Coronavirus outbreak so all the shops were closed and Amazon’s 2 day shipping was 2 week shipping now. He called Sam and asked if he could borrow some pants. Sam did not know that Bob wore athletic pants now so he got Bob the pairs of jeans his mom had got him that had been sitting in the back corner of his closet. When Bob picked up the pants from Sam he was outraged that they were jeans and buried them in the neighbors flower garden. The next day, the neighbor (Ms. Plekentine) came to water her tulips only to unearth four pairs of jeans.“It was probably that little twerp Sam next door” She muttered. No more than a minute later she was pounding on her neighbor’s door. It was the unexpecting Sam who answered the door. “You little rat, you scumbag why did you think it would be funny to bury four pairs of jeans in and old ladies tulip garden huh?” Ms. Pekentine yelled, glaring at him.
“I didn’t do it I swear,” Sam plead
“Ya right you lil’ snitch,”
“Please I didn’t do it my mom will ground me for the rest of the month and I won’t be able to play the new season of Captive X”
“I won’t be able to play the new season of Captive X,” Ms. Plekentine repeated sarcastically “Your video games that’s all you kids care about these days. Well guess what when I was growing up all we had was black and white TV”
“You're that old?” Sam inquired
“Ya you'll' twerp”
Then Sam’s mom came to the door and asked “what’s all this about.”
“Hah, what’s all this about” Ms. Plekentine said shortly “Your little animal thought it would be a good prank to bury his jeans in my garden.”
“Well” his mom said hotly “You're grounded for the week and you need to help Ms. Plekentine with her garden.”
“But” Sam said hopelessly
“You will do what I say” his mother said
The next day Sam got up early to go help Ms. Plekentine trim her roses. At about half past nine Sam asked “can I get a drink?”
Ms. Plekentines response was “Speak when spoken to” Then she lit a cigar and watched Sam work scowling every second.
An hour later he told her that “smoking is bad for you.”
And she responded by saying“Ask me if I care”
Meanwhile, Bob was struggling to find overnight shipping that didn’t cost $500 finally he found some two day shipping from Under Armor That was only $36.99. Now all he had to do was what he thought was a simple task; convincing his mom to pay $300 dollars for 8 pairs of pants. He came up to his mom and asked “Can you enter your credit card number here and then enter the verification ID that should pop up on your phone?”
His mom asked “why”
Bob’s reply was “to buy me new pants”
“You already have like 10 pairs of jeans.”
“Ya but there jeans,”
“How much do they cost?”
“Just $300” Bob replied
“How many pairs is that”
“Eight”
“That’s outrageous” his mom told him
“You buy like $80 dresses” Bob said hopefully
“Ya but they don’t get holes in them the first day I wear them”
Before they could say any more there came an obnoxious sound from Bob’s bedroom It sounded like someone whispering “I like to move it” into a megaphone.
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“What did I tell you about that ring tone?'' his mom said.
“That it’s your favorite,” Bob replied sarcastically.
Bob answered the phone it was Sam
“Did you bury the jeans I gave you in my neighbor's flower garden”
“Oooooppppps” Bob answered
“You just made me do three hour of work for my least favorite person and now I won’t be able to play the new season of Captive X on opening day,” Sam yelled into the phone.
“Sorry I wear sweatpants now” Bob replied in a squeaky tone.
“Ya, well you can’t have any of mine,” Sam replied shortly and hung up.
Then Bob had an idea, he set an alarm for 2:00 am and when he went to bed he awoke to a loud beeping then he remembered his plan he snuck into his mom's room and took her credit card and silently typed the digits. But there was a flaw in his plan and that was his downfall, he had forgotten about the verification pin. His mom was awakened by the sound of an incoming text. She got up, yawned and thought about who would be texting at this hour. She read it, it said “to confirm your purchase please enter these digits: 33549678122” She then checked for her credit card and it was gone. She went downstairs to cancel her card but she was surprised to find Bob sitting at the coffee table.
“You stole my credit card what are you buy” his mom inquired angrily
“Just 8 pairs of $50 pants” Bob said, fear in his voice
“Guess what Bob you're grounded” His mom said in an angry whisper “now off to bed.”
The next morning Bob had another idea, tomorrow was April fools and he could go prank Sam’s neighbor. And he knew who he would blame it on, the school bully he lived in the same neighborhood as Sam. He had also intentionally ran into an old lady and that had been in the headlines so almost everyone knew about him. He called Sam and asked him if he wanted to prank Ms. Plekentine. At first he was reluctant but when Bob told him the plan he got excited. They just needed one more person to set up a cookie stand.
“My sitters would be perfect for that job” Sam said.
Bob told his mom that he was working on a science project with Sam, his mom didn’t believe him considering their school was online but took him to Sam’s house anyway.
First they made sponges covered in frosting (brownies) Then Oreos that had frosting taken out, replaced with a combination of mayo and toothpaste. Mia, Sam’s sister, began to set up the sweet stand right in front of Ms. Plekentine’s home.
(Ms. Plekentine’s house)
Ms. Plekentine couldn't resist anything sweet, so she cantered out of her house with a bottle of beer and ordered 2 packs of Oreos and 3 brownies. While she was doing this Sam and Bob slipped into her house equipped with Duct tape, black spray paint, glue, googly eyes, laser pointers, string, a paint can, prank slime, clear plastic wrap, packing peanuts, green food dye, sticky notes, scissors, and a Sharpy. The first room to the left was the bathroom where they plastic wrapped the toilet. Then dumped slime in the sink and all over the floor. They then proceeded to the kitchen where they glued googly eyes over the microwave and spray painted her entire kitchen black. After that they dyed all the food in her pantry and refrigerator green. Next was the dining room were they drenched her chandelier in black paint and then used the two laser pointers to make red eyes and left a note saying I’m watching you then they hurried into the next room where there was a window facing the sweet stand where they saw Ms. Plekentine walking back to her house. They had to finish quickly orelse the the old scumbag might find them. Silently Bob opened the paint can and leaned it on the door leading out of the dining room so that when you opened the door the paint can would fall on you. The next room awaiting a terrible fate was the living room. Bob covered the room with packing peanuts while Sam set a tripwire and if Sam’s estimation was right she would fall right into a puddle of glue. After that, they went to the bedroom where they Duct taped her sheets to her bed and hid all her clothes under her bed after painting them with nail polish. Just then they heard a shriek from the bathroom.“We should probably go,” Bob whispered to Sam.
“Ya” Sam agreed.
“I know you're in here you little rat” Ms. Plekentine Cried.
“Let’s finish this room and then we should go” Bob muttered to Sam
Bob set Ms. Plekentine’s alarm for 2:30 am while Sam covered her toilet in plastic wrap. After that Bob found a pack of zip ties and attached one to a fan blade so that it made a clicking noise when it was turned on. Meanwhile, Sam wrote love Jeff (Jeff was the school bully) on a sticky note and stuck it to her mirror. They heard another scream. Quickly Sam taped the sharpie to the bottom of her drawer so that it wouldn’t close. “I’m going to prank her toilet paper but I need the tape,” Bob said slightly too loudly.
“I hear you, you little brat.” Ms. Plekentine yelled.
Hurriedly Sam threw the tape, Bob cut a piece and folded it so that it was sticky on both sides and put it under the first so that when it was pulled the paper would stick to itself.
Then they heard loud footsteps and then the door opened “uh oh” Bob said in a loud whisper.
“The closest,” Sam said in a worried voice. They hurried in and closed the door just in time.
But she heard the door close.
“I know you're in here,” Ms. Plekentine said.
Sam had an idea he made another trip wire but this time she would fall onto a strip of tape that would cover her eyes giving them just enough time to get a way. Bob cut the piece of tape she would fall onto then Sam made the trip wire. Sam and Bob hid behind a cabinet. Then Ms. Plekentine, armed with a broom fell right onto the piece of tape. Then Sam and Bob sprinted to the garage and covered her car with sticky notes after taping all of her doors to the body of the car so that they wouldn’t open. Sam opened the garage door and they dashed out of the house laughing.
After Ms. Plekentine took the tape of her face and she checked every room in her house for the person who had wrecked her home. In doing so she fell for every prank Bob and Sam had set. At first she thought it was Sam but when she went back to her room she read the note taped to her mirror it said “LOVE JEFF.” She remembered the news article from a few months ago and she knew that it must be the same Jeff.
Afterwards she went over to apologize for yelling at Sam for burying Jeans in her garden, she thought Jeff did that too.
Bob still had the problem of not having any sweatpants but Sam lent him some because he had been able to prank his least favorite person and get away with it.