How it Began

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"So where are we going?" Hal wonders as he follows the two of them.

"Promise you wont freak out?" Alice questions.

Hal holds up his hand. "Scout's honour."

Alice smiles. "To Mr. Appleby's office."

"What? Why are we going to his office? He's going to catch us."

"Right, I forgot this is your first time in detention." Alice says, pulling a bobby pin out of her hair. "He spends the detention period in the teachers lounge eating donuts, trust me, we're fine."

"Okay, if you insist."

"Just trust me, Hal." She pats his arm and damn, he feels like the wind has been knocked out of him.

"I do trust you." She smiles at that.

She picks the lock as FP watches the hall for anyone who could catch them. They hear a click and Alice turns the knob, letting the door open up. "And we're in."

"What are we going to do?"

"Vandalize his stuff obviously."

"But we can't vandalize-"

"Hal, remember, trust me. You can go back to the detention room if you want but he isn't going to come back in here until tomorrow. And besides, it's not like he'll incriminate you, you're a saint."

"Yeah Coopie, face it, you're just cursed with being a total angel. No one is going to think you did anything wrong, I don't even think people will believe you when you say you had detention."

Alice picks the lock on the principal's desk, roofing around inside before pulling out a pack of rubber bands. "Alright, we're rubber banding his office."

Hal raises an eyebrow. "What?"

"Well we can sticky note and rubber band his office. Cover his phone in rubber bands and call it tomorrow so he can't answer it, cover the walls in sticky notes."

"That's a bit extreme don't you think? It's going to be hell to clean up, especially the phone."

"Please, this is nothing. One time he gave us full weekend detention so we covered the floor of his office in mouse traps and glasses of water."

"He had to call the janitor as back up just to get to his desk." FP adds on as him and laugh hysterically.

"Damn, I didn't know you two were such pranksters."

"Well we're here a lot, have lots of time to think of fun ways to get him back."

And so the three of them work together to vandalize the principal's office, FP and Hal working together to wallpaper the wall in sticky notes and Alice covering the phone in rubber bands.

"You guys did good." She tells them with a proud smile.

"She's something else." Hal thinks to himself.

The three of them head back to the detention room, bolting out of the building as soon as they're told they can leave.

Hal can't remember ever feeling such a thrill in his life and he doesn't know if it's from the prank or the girl who came up with it. He has a strong suspicion it's the latter.