Prank Wars

Chapter six

      
  
           
        Getting rid of all the post-its from the car had proved to be a very difficult job. It had taken them the entire morning and by noon, they were a group of walking dead zombies.              
        “Oh God!  Please help me. Somebody get some food I’m hungry,” complained Vihaan. “Food coming right up,” declared Maahi. And in no time, they were hungrily digging into their food. “This is till date the best meal of my life!” Ayaan said licking his fingers .The rest of the day passed by uneventful.                
        “Guys get ready we have a bonfire now,” Vihaan declared. It was almost ten at night and they were all sitting in the lounge area.         “Yayyyyyy!” screamed Anushka enthusiastically.
        “Then what are we waiting for? Come on,”  said an over enthusiastic Aahana.                   
        The bonfire was set up on the lawn overlooking the villa. The sky was filled with infinite stars and the cold winter air was setting in. They hustled around the bonfire singing songs and dancing to their hearts' content. The night was filled with laughter and giggles, and brought back all the times they had enjoyed with each other.              
        The week passed in the wink of an eye, and as said, ‛All good things come to an end.’ So did this, and it was time for them to return. But they were now loaded with some of the best experiences and memories, that they would cherish forever.               
        Two days after they returned from the Goa trip, they all got a call at midnight saying that Ayaan was in an accident and he was hospitalized.                
        “What happened?” Aahana asked Sidharth as they drove to the hospital. They had all gotten up receiving that call and had in no time decided to go to the hospital. “..I don’t know exactly but the person on the call  sounded very grim. I just hope he’s safe and not that serious,” Sidharth consoled.                   
        In no time they pulled in the hospital parking lot and dashed inside. The receptionist guided them to a room on the third floor. The five of them burst into the room praying he was fine but what they saw, had their blood boiling. Ayaan was sitting on the hospital bed completely alright and busy eating chocolate.                  
        “Hey guys” he said.                     
        “What in the name of God do you think you are upto?” questioned Maahi threateningly                    
        “An eye for an eye,” he quoted. “Remember what you guys did to my beloved car? This was just a revenge.”                      
        “Revenge my foot. Do you have any idea how worried we were? You had no right to play this kind of prank on any of us!” Maahi said sternly.                        
        “Yeah mate, you shouldn’t have done this”  Vihaan said.                     
        “And how did you manage to do this?” Maahi questioned.                        
        “It was easy,  my mom being the head of this hospital. I asked my friend to place the call; and this room here is a store room!” he said with a hint of satisfaction.                     
        “But you had us so worried!”  Aahana said.                     
        “Guys, it was just a joke. Remember what you guys did to my car?” Ayaan defended.                        
        “But that was different !” Sidharth defended.                      
        Soon, they broke out into an argument and a huge fight was in the making. They started blaming each other for the pranks and what was the outcome.                        
        “Aahana, it was you who suggested playing this stupid pranks game,”  Maahi said accusingly.                      
        “I did; but it was supposed to be a no-harm game and that was why we had decided on some ground rules,” she defended.                        
        “Well , well, if you hadn’t gotten us into playing this game we wouldn’t have been fighting now,” Ayaan said.                
        “Oh! So now you wanna play the blame game?  Remember, I hadn’t forced you guys, we agreed on it together,” she said in a higher tone. She was about to snap now. Everyone knew it didn’t end well when someone accused her.                        
        “Oh please, you always get us into trouble!”,  Sidharth said.                      
        “That’s enough ! I’m getting out of here.”  Aahana turned on her heels and was soon running out of the hospital.                    
        After a lot more of arguing and accusing, the others parted ways. All of their heads were heavy with the heated argument.  The anger was so high that one could sense it from afar.