One Direction One Shots

Prank Gone Wrong

One where Harry and Louis are in a prank war against Liam and Zayn. Niall decided not to join a side because he hates pranks. Then, a prank meant for Liam and/or Zayn, which was already kind of really mean, is put onto Niall.

NIALL POV:
The boys are doing one of those prank war things again. I think it's Harry and Louis against Liam and Zayn. I keep hearing them plotting pranks for each other all the time. Frankly, it's getting annoying. I can't wait until they're done with it.

HARRY POV:
Louis wants to do a prank on Liam and/or Zayn but I think it's a little dangerous. His plan is to stuff who ever shows up into a box, then put the box upside-down and open the lid. They'll fall into a pool and as soon as they get out, a clown will scare them. I think it's way too crazy for a harmless prank. Louis bought the clown suit already, but you can't see out of it! I think that makes the prank more dangerous but Louis says it'll be fine. I don't want to disagree with him. The plan is set up for Friday which is tomorrow. We have everything we need. Well, he has everything he needs.

One Day Later

NIALL POV:
It's Friday which is usually my favorite day of the week. Not today though. Today I have to run a whole bunch of errands for one of my friends. It'll take until the afternoon if I leave at 8:00 AM.

HARRY POV:
Louis is going to set up the prank in the afternoon, the best time to be outside. He'll invite them both outside and which ever one comes out first will be stuffed into a box. He'll put on the clown costume before turning the box upside down and causing the person to fall into the water. Then, he'll scare them with the clown costume.

Afternoon

NIALL POV:
I just finished the shopping and dropped it off. I open the door to our flat and hear Louis telling the boys to come swimming with him. They say five minutes and I decide to join them. I get dressed right away in my swimtrunks and Louis is already outside with Harry. I go out and am immediately shoved into a box. I scream.

I feel my claustrophobia kicking in. I can't breathe. I'm in a full blown panic attack. It try to kick my way out and even punch but it doesn't help. Now my hand really hurts. Suddenly, I'm turned upside down and the door opens, causing me to fall into the swimming pool. I only use my legs to fight out and am barely able to use my left hand to push myself out in the water. Then, a clown pops up in front of me. I scream again and stumble backwards causing me to fall back into the pool. This time I can't get out. I still feel like I can't breathe. Then, someone dives in to get me out of the pool. I gasp for breath. I see Liam above me.

"Niall! Ni! What the hell happened guys!?" Liam shouts to Louis.

"I-it was just a prank. We didn't know it was Niall and not Liam or Zayn."

I almost say it's fine but it's not. Well, I also still can't breathe from the panic attack. Zayn comes out.

"Niall!! Did he drown!? What happened?"

"P-p-panic-c a-a-tta-tta-ck-k."

"Shh, don't talk Niall. Zayn, Louis can explain everything later."

Harry sits me up and puts his body around me.

"Niall follow my breathing. In 1, 2, 3, out 1, 2, 3."

I copy him and my breathing returns to normal.

"W-why did Louis do that to me?" I ask slightly whimpering.

"I-I'm so sorry Niall. It was supposed to-"

"My hand..." I cut him off.

He stops talking and they all look at my hand. I do too. It's red and bleeding.

"Shit!" is what Liam says when he first sees it.

"What do I do? Should I call 911?" Zayn asks, not even bothering to ask how it happened.

"Yes!" Liam shouts.

I hear him on the phone.

"Niall how did it happen?"

"I was punching a box to get out because Louis trapped me and I'm claustrophobic."

I hear him tell the dispatcher what I just told him and he answered a few more questions for me. A few minutes later an ambulance came and told me I definitely broke my hand but they needed an X-ray to see how bad it was. After the X-ray, they wrapped it in a cast and we went home. We finally talked about the prank on the ride home.

"Why did you do that to me Louis?"

"I'm sorry Niall! It was supposed to be a prank. I would shove the person into a box, turn them upside-down, they'd fall in the pool, and they second they got out, I would jump at them in a clown suit."

"That's already pretty cruel Louis," Li says.

"I told him not to do it but he just didn't listen," Harry said.

"Wait, so can someone explain to me what happened to Niall? He's claustrophobic right?" Zayn asked.

Louis was about to speak but I interrupted him.

"He shoved me into the box and I got claustrophobic and I kicked and punched to get out but it didn't work. I had a panic attack because of that. My hands started to hurt after that too. Mostly my right hand. Then, I was turned upside down and fell into the pool. I used just my legs and got to the side. Then, I used just my left hand to push myself up. Then, Louis scared me with the clown costume and I stepped back and fell into the pool again. And then, I couldn't get up and Liam had to save me. And, and, yea."

Louis looked down, ashamed.

The next few days went fine and soon my hand was completely healed. I forgave Louis, and we went about our lives.

There's the chapter. I know I said I wouldn't update this much, but it's still the weekend which I said was pretty free. I only had/have like 2 hours of volleyball and two family gatherings and two dinners (that aren't at my home obviously) this whole weekend! Anyways, hope you liked it even though the ending was crap.

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