Returning Red

#28: Waging Wars.

don't miss me, you chose this

Isabella

"That was so much fun!" Maya cackled out loudly. I began laughing along with her as we walked through the corridors of the 6th floor, hand in hand. 

"Yes, I feel like a villain," I laugh and May joins my laughter. 

"Let's get this straight," May said turning to me with complete excitement. "We completely ruined their bachelorette party, we danced with male strippers in front of them, and we had the nerve to wear dresses like this while we did it." 

Okay, the way she said it now makes us look like extremely bad people, but trust me, Liam Davis deserved every bit of that disaster. If we record the pranks he has done on us from the very beginning, this is the least I could do in returning the favor from the victim's clan. 

"It wasn't that bad," I mostly told myself to reduce the small guilt that is building up in my chest. 

We turn to our room and May pulls out the keycard from her clutch. I unlock the door and we enter. As I try to find the key pouch for the key card, I reckon it's almost past midnight. 

"You know he'll get back at you right?" She asked as I struggled with the keycard. 

The keycard fit and the room lighted up. "Hey, think good," I ordered her as we slowly walked inside our room. 

It's Liam we were talking about. The one who plans the edge of cruelty when it comes to pranking. I do remember how he planned all the birthday explosions at 12 am. While most people wait for the clock to strike 12 on their birthdays, we feared it. Last three years of high school, he planned ridiculously insane things to explode at each of our 12 ams'. 

When I recall mine, he had set up close to fifty alarm tabs in every hidden corner of my room. Half went off with the Happy Birthday song while the other half went off with the car honk sound at the same freaking time. My room was on sound-fire and the whole lane of my house had neighbors complaining about this. And this carried on for exactly five minutes until he showed up and switched it off with one tap in his remote. 

Austin's birthday, he drugged Austin to pass out in the guest room while taking his sweet pleasure time in setting his plan into force. He had stuffed every item in Austin's room—pillow, bedding, chair, bean bag, and old stuffed dolls, with Jacob's dog's poop. He collected the poop for a while and used thick gloves to stuff it in those covers. Although, Austin nearly murdered him while we spent the remaining of his birthday cleaning the literal shit.

May is too fond of her books so he had wrapped all her books in plastic tapes. The Dark Knight was being re-screened in the CineStar Metropolis and Liam utilized the three hours we spent there as a distraction to cover each of May's 75 books in plastic tapes. He had Jason's help too because Jason Cody and Batman are like sunshine and Vampires. She was pissed off when she found out. She didn't speak to him for the next three days and he was completely okay with that. 

Liam Davis said and I quote, "There are two types of joy in this world. One is the real joy when something good happens to you. Second, when you annoy your favorite people. I live for the second kind of joy." 

And that got me included in his pranks. We became a team and once we started firing out prank bullets, I regretted not joining him before. We covered Cody's car in post-its for his birthday. Black Jaguar in neon pink, green, yellow, and orange post-its. It looked like Barbie's car and we were proud of our sight. Jason gouged his own eyes when he saw what we'd done. He went inside and came out with a baseball bat to chase us around the lane till 1:30 am.