Café Q

Chapter Fourteen

I dusted off my uniform and went straight to the employee lounge. That was a mistake. Rhett and Jemmie were both yelling about something. Mrs. Cheryl was getting annoyed by them. "Everyone pick sides," she said. They all started discussing something when they chose sides. "Zach, which truck do you think should carry 500 pounds of equipment?" Ray asked me.

I remembered both of the trucks. Jemmie's was old and rusty, Rhett's was shiny and knew. Jemmie should carry it since Rhett's truck is new and we would want it to keep it that way. "I think Jemmie should do it," I said. Fin gasped, "how dare you to hurt our precious Jem!" I put my hands up in defense. Winnie walked into the lounge and I knew she was in trouble. "Winnie you are on my side" Jemmie ordered her. Poor Winnie, she didn't even know what was happening.

"Let the prank war begin!" Mrs. Cheryl yelled.

This prank war was a bit of a standstill not a lot of people made their moves. The teams were also a bit strange. Winnie, Pike, Fin, Caspian, and Ember were on Jemmie's team. Me, Clifton, Toru, Nobuo, and Ray were on Rhett's side. Everyone was in this. The twins were actually on different sides. I'm positive that Ray just wanted to be away from Fin and Pike for a while. I can't believe that Winnie wasn't with Rhett, well, she was forced to be on Jemmie's.

Today actually felt like a normal day except Winnie was a bit hostile towards all of us. Nobody made a move, I expected Jemmie's team to go first since they have the best prankers. I know nothing about the kitchen and booth because I didn't step in that area once.

It was in the evening. Three more hours until we close. "Zach can you put up the menus, Clifton could you pick up the silverware on table five?" Winnie asked us politely. We did what she said and picked up the stuff. "Winnie, I can't let go of the silverware," Clifton said as he walked up to her. She was at the door waiting for customers. I tried to let go of the menus but they were also stuck with me.

"What did you do?" I asked her as I walked up to them. "I'm sorry, Jemmie made me do this" Winnie admitted.
"Winnie!?" We heard Rhett yell and rushed to the table he was at. The table that Rhett was cleaning was turning red and the towel he used pick. "Did you put red dye in this?" He asked her. It was hard to tell if he was mad or surprised. If he was mad then it would be new, I've never seen him angry before.

"I'm sorry, it made your job harder" Winnie apologized. She looked a little upset with pranking us. "I made you so mad, I'll quit" she continued.
"This is a prank war, you shouldn't apologize" Clifton sighed.
"And I'm not mad" Rhett smiled and hugged her. Then he squished her cheeks. Winnie gently touched her cheek and glared at Rhett. "You had red dye in your hand, didn't you?" Winnie asked
"Yep, I was going to put it on your hair but it was already red" Rhett chuckled. Clifton and I laughed along as Winnie left to wash her face. "Jemmie's team is ahead, so we better make our move" Rhett instructed us. "Also be sneaky about it, now back to work" he added.

It was time for my break so I went straight to the employee lounge. Nobuo and Toru were standing outside the lounge. "What are you guys going?" I asked them. "Shh, we are trying to prank Ember" Nobuo quickly covered my mouth. "Careful, opening the door," Toru said as he opened the door. There was a clicking sound. The three of us carefully walked into the employee lounge.

I looked around the lounge. Behind the door, there were two bottles and to the other side of the door was a giant container. "Don't touch the tables" Nobuo warned me. We went to the back of the room and checked to see if we were ready. "Let's do it," Toru said. "Ember! Hurry, crisis!" Nobuo yelled as loud as he could. I could hear running from the hallway.

Without hesitation, Ember swung the door open. The two bottles got activated one was a blow horn and the other was the silly string. Ember moved back away from the silly string and fell right into the container. She hung her head back and sighed. "Did I just got pranked?" She asked. "Yep, now get up," Nobuo told her. Ember grabbed the table to help her up. Instead of it helping her she fell right back down.

Nobuo burst out laughing, Toru went to Ember to help her out. I couldn't help be laugh myself. "That was good, but you have to clean all that up" Ember smirked. Silly string was on the ground and the tables have to be washed. "We can get Rhett to do that" Nobuo chuckled. "He's not going to be happy," Ember told him as she walked out of the room with the silly string still in her hair.

"Zach, you can go get Rhett," Nobuo said to me. I left the employee lounge to look for Rhett. He was nowhere in the dining room so I had to ask Clifton where he was.
"Have you seen Rhett?" I asked Clifton as he was setting up menus.
"No, I thought he was on his break," Clifton told me.
"He wasn't," I said.
"Hold on" Clifton held up a finger to my mouth. Then I heard it, someone was knocking but I don't know where. Clifton tried to follow the noise but it led to the supply closet unless someone was in the supply closet.

Clifton and I looked at each other suspiciously. Clifton slowly turned the doorknob and opened the door. We were both relieved that it was just Rhett tied up. "Rhett, what happened?" I asked as we tried to get the ropes off of him. They were pretty tight, someone strong must of did this. "It was Pike and Jemmie, they both got me," Rhett says as we helped him up.

Rhett told us the whole story. He heard some suspicious noise coming from the storage closet and went to go investigate. He walked in and tripped over fallen brooms and got tangled with the ropes that Pike and Jemmie set up. Then someone closed the door and he had to knock using his head. The story made no sense but we just went with it.

Winnie gave up on pranking people, Jemmie was destroying Rhett, and Nobuo was just goofing off and dragging Toru with him. The rest of the day seemed normal on a prank war. That's when we had to do the ceremony of who won. Everyone sat on their team's side. I already knew who won.

"Sorry, Rhett but you'll have to bring the equipment" Mrs. Cheryl looked down at Rhett. "I'll do it" Jemmie got up and grabbed her keys and backpack. "If you were going to do it then why did we even had this prank war?" Rhett asked her.
"I just want to prank people" Jemmie smirked as she walked out of the room. "That was still fun," Nobuo said.
"I destroyed you" Fin poked at Ray.
"I think it's the other way around" Ray replied.

I was changing out of my uniform with Nobuo and Rhett. "Ember was so easy to prank" Nobuo chuckled to himself. "I was surprised that Winnie pranked us" Rhett commented. "I know it sorta scared me" I put on my shirt and threw my dirty uniform in the basket. "Can we go to the grocery store tonight?" Nobuo asked me.
"You want more candy, don't you?" I asked him, he quickly nod to that response.
"Can I join? I want candy" Rhett asked.
"Fine, let's go to the grocery store" I gave in. Both of them cheered and I had to buy both of them candy.